No, it isn’t. No more than concentrating on anything else is. It’s kind of sad that so few people read books anymore that it’s perceived as being like a trance. What about daydreaming or watching a movie or playing a video game? Are those trances or like drugs? I’d say those are at least as if not more escapist than reading a book.
No, it isn’t. No more than concentrating on anything else is. It’s kind of sad that so few people read books anymore that it’s perceived as being like a trance. What about daydreaming or watching a movie or playing a video game? Are those trances or like drugs? I’d say those are at least as if not more escapist than reading a book.
Ah, but it isn’t just concentration. It is (for many of us) prolonged, intense, daily concentration upon thoughts. Performed over years.
That is powerful and (because we are all embedded in it) invisible.