Dennis R. Wier is the Executive Director of the Trance Research Foundation. He has spent more than 35 years practicing and teaching meditation, experiencing and studying hypnosis, addictions, magic and altered states of consciousness.
He has studied with Yogi Prem Varni of India, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Kalu Rinpoche, and others. He was the Secretary of the Ashtanga Yoga Ashram of Rishikesh from 1970-1980. He taught transcendental meditation for 13 years. He is the Founder of the Trance Institute in Switzerland and the Trance Research Foundation of California.
He is the author of the book, Trance: from magic to technology, published by Trans Media, Inc. in 1995. The book has been translated into German and was published in Germany. This book was used in seminars at the Goethe University in Frankfurt as well as at the University of Florida in Miami. Dennis has also written another book entitled The Way of Trance, published in 2007.
Dennis has given more than 25 radio and TV interviews on trance in over eight countries and published over a dozen articles on trance. He has given talks in Switzerland, England, Nederland, India and Germany.
He is always researching various meditation techniques, learning and applying the trance model to a variety of trance techniques, personal consultations (trance analysis) and continuing to write and promote his perspective on trance.
Dennis Wier’s Concept of the Will
See Selected Works below for links to notes on Dennis Wier’s books.
Selected Works
- Trance: from magic to technology ISBN 1888428392
- The Way of Trance ISBN 1888428104
External Links
- Trance Research Foundation
- Trance Research Foundation Book Store
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