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Hs an introdti^on toiyhat J^may have ito say upon
^ • this subject/I shall give'you a quotatibn from an
artical published a few months, ago in the ARENA. -
"Me8in^sm alias hypnotism, th^ latent
scientific^nsation of the hour, was a. few
years since deg.ounced by the scientific world*
in unmeasured tenns. No expressions of scorn-
ful contempt were strong enough to character-
ize those fearless torch-bearers of advanced
thought, whov after patiently, earnestly and
exhaustively investigating the alleged'^powefs
of Mesmer, pix)ved beyond the possibility ol a
^li^M th& genuinenesB of ., ite^Aesmernj^jr-
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They wBm charlatans, inupostors, or mentai
ly unsound/in the eyes, not only of the medi-
cal profession, but the scientific world, with
some few notable exceptions: The qharlta^
biy;. disposed among the great conservative
societies of Scientific thinkers were c(|nten;tto
regard those who believed in such "absurdi-
ties" as mesmerism as '^unduly credulous;" li-
able to be ''duped ; 'UnA, therefore, not ''s^e"
or "critical investigators."
Camille Flammkrion, the illustrious French
astronomer, in his recent remarkable novel
"Uranie," tells. us that fifteen years ago,
he communicated to several .physicians the
magnetic phenomena observed by himself in
the course of many experiments. One and all
denied most positively and absolutely the pos-
sibility of the facts related, but on meeting
one of these same physicitos at the Institute '
in Paris recently, he called his attention to'
his denial of the phenomena. "Oh!" replied
the physician, not without shrewdness, "then
it wad magnetisip, now it is hypnotism, and it
h we who study it;, that is a very different '
thing." The Astronomer wisely adds hj way'
iro deny n^P
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ing positively; let. us study %iet U8 examine;
the explanation will com^ later.**' A 4ru6
scientist will take cognizaiibe of the smallest
fabt and though the light that floats before
may appear a mere will-o'-tbewisp, he will
follow it until he demonstrates by carjef ul, im*
p^ial, and ex^iustive investigation whether
itrest^i^on the bed-rock of truth or ndt^re-
memberfng that the prejudices of^oary
thought aujd early training may blind him to
(SjBnsible appreciation of the true significance
of the problem that confronts him. > It is -not
more thaif five years since a, paper read on
"Hypnotism." in tlfe medical society of a lead-
ing American dty, was excluded from the tfe-
port of .the society's mecfting, on the ground
thatlfche subject was unscientific and absurd.
Less than a year ago,telepath3r was as much
an outcast in the scientific world as m^mer-
ism was after the celebrated !@ailey ooilimis*
sion pronounted it a "fwiud." Yet today M-"*
epathy, or thought transference, is as well^
established a scientific fact as hypnotism*
From present indications we are entering n
new field of scientificTdiscovery, or to be more
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are expressing a willingness to recogniKe phe-
^mena other than material, and to treat with
.^measure of respect the views and discover-
ies made by the patient hearlds of psychic^
tmths which have long been tabbooed as lit-'
tie worthy/the attention of the materialistic^
scientific investigator; whose eyes have been
accustomed to .rest on the ea^h, its rocks,
plants and animals, as the myths of bygone
days. The age of electrical invention has been
so marvelous that men have ceasM to wonder
at the inventive ingenuity of man. The age ,
of psychological discovery upon which we &b^^
now entering, if it be unrestricted and receive .
the careful and unbiased attention of our
best bmins, will, we believe, unfold a world
of truth, eclipsing in its startling character as
well as in its great utility, the greatest dis- '
coveries since the "manchild scierio© |ra8
bom," truths which will give to life a deeper
signifloano^raTricher meaning, a nobler im-
pulse, a grander ideal. "—Arena. , ' .
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[ANY are the theories advanced by the
public minds, and public pressv ^iScem-
ing the phenomenon of mind over miiid, and
mind Over matter; and it of ten seems strange
to the observer, who reads or listens to the
farious philosophies advanced, that there
Should be such a diversity of qpinion upon
what is claimed to be a scientific subject. If
there is a science to these phenomena^ then it
" iollows that there must be some solid founda-
tion upon which.we may build our philosophy, '
that will notadmit a contradiction! If WQ, will-
but carefully observe the phenomenon of Hyp
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produce It, we shall soon learn that it is based
upon the immutability of Nature's laws All
Nature is subject to the laws of attraction and
repulsion, or in other words, to positive and
negative force. These great powers of attrac-
tion and repulsion are not confined to what
may be termed the physical, tangible, or ex-
ternal forms of matter, but are also the ele-
ments which control the finer sentiments and
ethereahzed conditions of the unseen, intei:
r *ri»ifl!P''^*°'^ formations of Nature.
And, «W»»i«»'phy8icalworld,(throughthe re-
mtlon which exists between cause and effect)
these laws itay be manifested in a thousand,
wined forms; through th*. force of circum-
stalices or conditions; so to in the unseen or
mtellectnal realm, (thnmgji ignorance or de-
sign) the ^me gimt powek- in mind will be-
"ome the cause of evil or
•tion t^the conditions up
iBay be ptodnced . Hence, i
we are frequently warn*
which are said to arian -
hypnotism; and oft-times ai* told that It Is a
n*n««ons subject lor the nnhli« ♦^ »,..-w., s_
>f good, in propor-
m which an effect
lauseoflijlafact,
against U»'»' '>vite
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'\tmth'' looses nothing by examination, and
when thoroughly understood is never danger-
OU8 to those who possess it And if hypnotism
is based upcgi natural laws, it will never step
aside for our ignorance, or our knowledge, but
when conditions are provided results will fol-
low; and the great danger lies in our want of
an understanding of the ijonditions upon
which the phenomena of hypnotism rests.
Hence too miich cannot be knowQ jui||^ thif
subject; and it is this .thci^t ti^^as tg
spired me (as a practitioner) to wrife upon it.
Here let me attempt more fully td give yom
some of the conditions by which the phenom-
ena of hypnotism may be produced. One of
these conditions (and perhaps one that is more
frequently used than any otherj; is tiiat df
f acination ; in which an impression is pro-
duced upon the subject through the n^ of
one G^ another of the external senses. A var-
iety of TO^ods are used, by different opera-
tors, in order to bring about this same reemlt.
And so far as my experience goes', it makes but
little difference, what method may be used,
iie mind ofj^e subject; tiiere will be mi
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voluntary response of the body to the condi-
tions of the mind of the one hypnotized,
whether the impression made upon the con-
sciousness be the result ctf what we term
"imagination" or a demonstrable reaMty.
Among the many methods u^ed to bring about
this condition, are the pratice of fixing thok,
eyes of the subject on some shining object;
a number of colored bulls eye glasses; a piece
of shin[ug metal; counting the beating of the
pulse until you reach a given number, and
then count over again; looking into the ey^
of the operator with Jl steady gaze, or fiXtnlT'
the eyes of the subjects upon a particular
spot on the c^arpet with^t}^ suggestioti that^
they will feel a drawing toward the spot, or
that they will see the carpet rise etc.; all of
which are brought about by what we may term
Electrical Psychology or the power of si^ges-
tion.
To this condition of hyimotism belongs all
kinds qf charming by the eycp; such as for
instance the power of the sni^e over the bird
or frogj the snake-ch^mer ov^ Ibe snake,
the, turner ovey wild tieasts. t do n ot be^
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wild beasts and reptiles consists wholly In
the influence which the eye has upon them;
for we behold instances where there is a per-
fect control of the keeper over the most fero-
cious anjmal when the eye is not fastened
upon them at all; as, for i^l&nce, when the
keeper is training a lot of Oons or Tigers to
Jump over something he holds inhia hand,
and to pass around him and come to the front
again; oft-times one who is unwiUing to exer-
cise, (bfjing both stubborn aiid angry ,)erouche8
down behind the keeper and ferociously show-
ing his teeth, dares not to attack; for although
the eye of the keeper is not upon^him, ha is
held by another power than* merely the ^e
alone. This we shall explain more. fully un-
der another condition of hypnbtism. Not only
the. power of charming and controling ani-*
mals comes under the head of ffsoination, but
many other events which we behold in every
day life may be explained upon the same
principle; such as' persons watching the flow
of a stream of water become fascinated by its
playful friskings as it danceeover the rocks,
aud in a moment o f totojie i *-*f«— t flT^m
thiemseiv^ bending towards {fie~water, m(p
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in sdme instances actually drop into the
* stream..
I have no doubt that many of the so called
suicides at the "Falls of Niagra" have been
the result of the power of fascination. They
have been fascinated by the grandeur and
majesty ^f the stream, until they have act-
ually lost sight of everything but the onward
flow of the waters, and have been drawn by
this power until they have been impelled to
mingle with the same ; without any intention
or even a thought of cominiting suicide. I
remember one time seeing a friend of mine
standing upon a rock oy what is known as the
" Sister Islands ;" he was gazing upon the rap-
ids, and watching the spray as it rose and fell
I'^Dm the decent of waters over the rocks, when
shoi^ly, he began to bend toward the «i^eam ;
I quietly, yet hastily moved toward him,
caught him by the arm, and in a quiet tone
rf.TOice said, "Had we not better gof and
wim^lkfirm grasp held him from dropping in-
to the water. When he realized his situation,
he turned pal#with terror over his narrow ^-
ffie from death. He was not tired of life,
t if h e had fallen into t he stream and had
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gone over the falls, the natural verdict would
have« been that he comiliitted suicidie. In
narrating this experience I have frequently
found persons who have told me that they
had similar promptings as they have been
watching the waters at the Falls.
Another illustration of the power of fas-
cination may be observed where a person be-
comes so absorbed in readiijg a book as to be
indifferent to their surroundings, and regard-
less of what may be said to them. Others
^will manifest the same degree of concentra-
tion in the performance of some mechanical
device. Such person^ are always found to
have what is ternjed^by ptrenologists, large
concentration.
But some one Will ask,i8 a large development
of the organ of Concentration, or what Pbre^
nologists term "Continuity" the only neces-
sary brain development to become easily fas-
cinated ? And are all persons who have a
large development of Continuity equally sus-
ceptable to what is tfermed "Fascination?'' To
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without which no person becomes very strong-
ly fascinated ; yet a large deyelopmejit of
Continuity alone, is not sufficient to render us
susceptable. Nor are all those who hkve a
large development of this Organ in the brain
equally susceptable ^to the power of "fasci-
ation." /
A person's susceptability to the influence of
"fascination" (like 0yery other condition of
mmy) depends upon the Organic Quality as
well as the construction of the various parts
of the brain through which mind is manifest-
ed.
Fascination is invariably the result of sug-
gestion. The limit of suggestion is governed
by the conceptive and perceptive power of
the individual upon wliom an impression is
made : whether the impression made upon the
consciousness of the subject, comes through
the sense of Hearing, Seeing, Tasting, Feel-
ing or Smelling. ,.
There are three conditions of iaentallly
through which this pgymv of ;* fascination "
may be produced.
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ing.
Thibd:— That of Fear.
Either of the above conditions may be pro-
duced without the aid of any human opebatoe,
thus destroying the idea which is so prevalent
in the minds of people that to become a. sub-
ject to MESMEBI8M OF HYPNOTISM a persou must
necessarily be a little weak minded, dr become
subject to the electbic will poweb of the
MIND of the operator.
The illustrations already given with refer-
ence to the fascinating influence of the Cata-
racts at Niagara, or the absent mindedness of
, those who bectome so absorbed in reading etc.,,
are sufficient proof s that the power of "fae«5i-
nation" does not consist alone in the control
of one mind over another, or in the STkBi^GTH
or WEAKNESS of the WILL ; but rather, (as we
have said) upon the conceptive and percep-
ti^ power of the mind of the individual fas-
cinate^.
Other illustrations of the power of concen-
tration, and some which proves that all per-
sons ^e nof equfltly susceptable to the power
of fascination, m^ be obs^ed by enteri%
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dtion where all kinds of Mechanical
Tts and Natural .Produce are displayed. As
we entei: the Art Gallery, we behold some per-
sons (whose heads are well developed in the
region of Ideality and Sublimity) standing
fazing with admiration upon the beauty of
"shade, the harmony and proportion of parts,
the wonderful design and^e tninuteness and
construction of soitie ima^aiaty Landscape,
They seem to take no notice of anything else,
and to all appearances have but little desire
to look at anything beside the works of skill
displayed by the use of Brush and Pencil.
Others come crowding on, with less of the
sublime in their nature, looking upon the
^sme scenes of Art; only in a general way
do they behold its beautty, and pass on with-
out any seeming interest or appreciation. But
as we travel around to the^mechanical depart-
ment," we behold a similar fascination takes
place, with those who could find n<> enjoy-
ment in beholding the beauties of Art. They
are adapted in their natures to the heavier
branches of mechanics, and while they <^j\^ ^
in Nature or Art, their whole Souls seem-
'■'^■L.
TXS(
^
SCINATION,
2t
to eritei* in^ an irivestigation of the ad-'
justmetit of^art^ and mechanical devices,
ivhere Str.ength and thelnajesty of Form are
the chief manneatations. Others seem to bef-
come fascinated with the productions of the
7 >oiI etc. Thus we behold the variety 6f
h^ihanity and the different copditioiis of Ob-
jectiveJlfg;8cination" wfiich proves conclus-
lively that the powfer of fascination or of hyp-
• notism is no special gift of Nature or of God
to any particular person; but should rather
be considered Its an^^kiral phenomenon which
mamf est itself m ttiousands of instances
where there are no" pretensions at what i s
known as mesmerism whatever ; ^vei^ where
\ there is n© Hying operatorf except the force of
circumstances which surrounded the Individ-
ual who .becomes Psychologized. ^
Let me give yoii some other illusjfc^tions
which proves the f)owet of *^ persUasionT or
Reason from a Natural Standpoint, in the
, practical relations of every day life, which may
serve to disabuse our minds of the idea that
Hypnotism or Mesmerism is a supernatural
To begin, let me illustrate the involuntary
m
22i
V' ^^
FASCINATION.
^^sponse of the bo4y to the conditions of the
muid. Perhaps we cannot bring forth a more
striking illustration to show the force of this
position, and to place iVi^pon a natural basis,
than that of a molller with her child ; wha i
stroUjQ^ enough, and able so far as physi
ability is concerned, to walk alone, yet dare^
not venture. What are the circumstances
connected with this fact ? Why is it, the
child who has the physical ability, doer
not venture and w^k alone ? Is it because
there is no dispoimon ; no desire, no will
force? Nay! We see all these atribut^
manifested in the make up of the child;
but these powers are become subject to a per-
verted ;^ith or confidence^lpTlie Ihild's
faith has become perverted by thi mother,
throi^hi the force of circumst^jl^ij^roug
to bear upon its %ason. IijHvf t
mother endeavouring to inslili ^^ Se mind
i^^er child a belief inihe power of its own
^ce, she has been continually (through
knd language) reminding it of its
an^ireaki^ss. For f|ample-^-she
^M^
t^ld4n
until
domestic duties demand that she should drop
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PASqNATION.
23/
t<-'
the child and attend to other matters — sl^e
jplaces the child against a chair with a pa^
,ation : " don't let ga ! " for fear of fallitif *
pw the most positive idea that rests npon
the mind of the child though the force of
circumstances brought to bear upon: its rea-
son, is the idea (ft danger. And in response
to this idea the bp^y answers by Ibolding on
tenacious!^ to the chair, until ftnally a little;
dpg or kitten enters the room„m6ves ai:pund
and attracts the attention of the chlM^ nnttt
it looses its hold of the chair and changes its
position to watch thekitten— the little animal
passes out of the dpor leaving the child with
its back towards the chair; and when the
curiosity of ^ child has subsided, it re-
members the idea the mother gave, and in re-
^ponse drops dp w^pon the floor. Th» ^ no
response to will force — neither the roetbe^-
nor the child willed it should fall. It was
simply a response tP their ideas, and to their
faith or confidence. In confirmation of this
point let us look at them still further. ^The
father has leflfcis hom e ||| the morning for
^rs dMlylSusiirgrsT^ltf tlW^nKlther pouceives ;
how nice it would be if baby could walk by
■.-^«fe
T==nt-
i t-
'€'
ill
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FASCINATlONi
%'c
i '' i. ■ ^
the time Papa returned. Hence she stands
the child against the wall, goes bacl^ far en-
ough for it to take one step before the child
is able to reach her and fall into her arms,
n the full confidence of its accomplishment
herself, and from the position she holds to.
w^rd the child, she inspires confidenca jn the
mind of the child, until it take^ that step.
She ^changes her position, holds "on to her
confidence^ inspires the child with her own
ideas and the child takes two steps, and on,
ttntjl it walks across the room^ Now this in-
terchange of confidence (which the force of
^circumstances reveals to us) between the
mother and the child, does not die *du4 at
qi^ce, but grows stronger and becomes more
^ttled the of tener the phenomena of walk-
ing is produced, until the wonted excitement
and interest which accompany every new
phenomenal i^p lost, and , the walking of the
child becomes a natural consequence. But
while the mother is busying herself elsewhere
tofchild in the hall at the foot of the stairs,
desires to see what i-here is in the upper story ;
md in respo i
/established la its own ability, the child starts
FASCINATION.
25
and ' climbs step after step until it reach-
es neat the top, when the the mother comes
an4i realizing the dangerous position of the
child, she at once exclaims ; "My dear you
will fall!" The^child believes it and in re-
sponse come rolling down the steps. Hence
Ve discover clearly in this the involuntary
response of the body to the most positive
ideaaof themind, brought about by 'sugges-
tion.
Matter Destitute of Volition.
-'M^'
Investi^tion and experience has taught us
jbhat the physical, or what we call the Mat-
«rial-r-independent of what is known as mind
—is in and of itself destitute of Volition, and
that mind— whatever may be the component
elements which constitutes its existence — is
the life giving power which animates, con-
trols and to which* all the physical involun-
tarily responds. Hence from this posi-
tion and the illustrations we have already
given, we may very fully understand that-
-being
untary response"©!" Matter to the oonditloiis
^
•FASCINATION.
26
^fMladl^s a univereal principle dependent
only upon conditions ; irrespective of either
the knowledge or the m^ves of the^^p^rator.
or whether it be the force of circumstances. .
which provides the conditions. 1
Another illustration which proves the 1^-
voluntary response of the body to the oondi- ,
tions ofle Mind, and one which illustrates
what seems to be the power of the operator m
controlling the subjects upon the stage, when
the subject^through the suggestions of «!«
operatoi-becomes enable to ^ho da cane
penny, button or anything in their hand or
to k4 the hand closed or oi-ek it according
to their own Volition., Again some costly and
delica^plece of wABB-perhapa a^keep-sake
handed down from e^^^^'^'^'^'^^'.^Z
been brought into service upon the teWe oa
some special occasion ; when ^\^^^^^ ™ ;
moving the dishes has come, while the ser-
ZTl busily engaged in removing some
Ither articles.Lhild, in the fullest couMence
of assistance, snatohes up the v^L^^^one
and moves from the table toward the servant,
alizing the danger of the MlOMi"*-'-!— -^^
.J^
•^*.
'\
> A-
FASCINATIO^f.
^
"Darling, you will let that fall!" The fingers
of the child relax their hold—in response to
the ideas of the mind— and the article goes
> the floor, and the child gazes in aatonish-
ment at the results of the influence that has
been brought to bear upon its inability to hold
that which it had in its hand. Had the Ian-
guage used by the mother or servant been
suggestive of ability rather than inability .
confidence would have been established in
the mind of the child and the article would
not have been destroyed.
This involuntary response of thebodyof the
child to the conditions of mind— brought
about by suggestion— is similar and equally
as mysterious as the manifestations of response
displayed between the subject and operator
on the stage, or the private demonstration of
"Hypnotism," either for amusement or scien-
tific purposes. And it shows us clearly fhat
It is not an outside magnetic or arbitrary in-
influence brought to bear directly upon the
bodies of the subjects ; but simply the condi-
tions of their minds which calls forth a re-
sponse of bodily action in accordance with
eyftrjf othpir pheno me na of life .
I would that I could altogether disabiue
F< ^
#
m.
\f
»y
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28
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FASCINATION.
the minds of my eeaders of the idea of super-
liatural influences in the manifestation of
*^Hypnotism'' 6r "Mesmerism " ; that by so
doing you might become more positive, to
ward off the evils that naturally cluster
around all forms of superstition. I regard lo*
NOBANCBas the greatest DEVIL mankind has
ever had to encounter. And where this devil
Reigns' Supreme, Vice and Crime, Sin and
Death are the fruits of its Satanic Legislation.
A^Rormal Bemojnstration ojf
Physical Strength.
i£»
Let me give you another illustration, which
not only manifests tl^e r^ponse of body to
mind, but also illustrates 'th^ fact that under
mesmeric excitement, th^ manifestations of
physical power becomes more intensified.
Two men working in a quarry, when a scale
of rocks from the clef ted side fell down, and
a rock rested upon the limb of one of the men,
weighing about seven hundred pounds. The
partner who was free from the rock, looking
np disco vered another avalapche about rei^dy
to fall; hi9 ordinary pow^ <rf "
wm
*.
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FASCINATION.
29
v> ^joifined to aboujb three hundred pounds, but
I: in this moment of excitement, the oiily idea
; that occupied his mind with ;force, was that
. of danger and necessity —danger of being cov
ered with the second fall and necessity of re-
—_ 'moving the first— Hence without a momenl's
'consideration, of how much force was requir-
■> ^d to remove the rock, the body responded to
: the idea of necessity, and the rock was re-
jnoved, 1 his fully illustrates the principle,
upon which persons, whose minds are excited,
through the influence brought to bfear upon
. them in mesmerism, manifests greater strength
and accomplishes more than seems possible
under ordinary circumstances.
In the year 1867, when lecturing in the
city of Reading, Pa., U,S.A., I was requested
by a few of the leading citizens of a town
failed Bowmansville— a distance of about 14
miles from Readii%— to go out and give them
. ,. A lecture and exhibition of Mesmerism. I
complied with the request, and after the lee- '
%re, succeeded in mesmerizing several per-
; sons ; when one large man — probably weigh-*
: ing between two h undred afid fifty and three
WMried pounds came forward, and in a
hi'^.
1* >-
FASCINATION.
30
very positivemanner seated himself iipon one
of the seats upon the platform, with the re-
mark: "We have had enough of this Iom ^
TOOLEKtlifyou^an mesmerize anyone, mes- '
merize me." 1 3aw at once that «ie man was
not only a sceptic, but evidently was m ^
very positive state of mind to fight against
me' To 'atteitipt to mesmermize him under
such ciffcuAistances was altogether out of the
question. I could only take a mokent to de-x
cide what to do, or the balance of t^^ even-
ing was destined to be a failure. I had wi.tH
me a very small boy-about eleven or twelve
years of age, very delicate both in organiza-
tion and health, whom I was treating for
- nervous debility. Instead of attempting to
do anything with the sceptic myself, 1 im-
mediately appealed to the boy, staging, that
the man was on fire; ?ind un ess he put
him out of the room we should all be burned^
Without a moments hesitation, or thought ol
• the size of the man, or the 4imit of his own
- .trength, the boy Jumped behind the sceptic,
hoisted him from his seat and began mnning
giolo toward the door. I called
»■■
m'Mm
to someoM to opep tbe-door, which was done
Ww^T
FASCI J ^ON."^ ,3,,
theman was outside, The boy bein« so siox7
through the room. After the excitement had
somewhat subsided and the man again c^e
into the room I invited him to the ZtW
that^BOT has not got that powW." I couTd
not have conceived of abetter test to conXce
the sceptic of the truthfulness of the pSn
^menon. It was the excitement of the mtd
whilhl ^ "^^ ""' \' ^y respondS^
S wha^f • rf " "^^ *^^ 'i^'nonstrations
resDonstT T ^^7''''^ '^'^^S^^ are but a
-whetW^ ''''^ whenthe mind is excited
wheth^ the conditions of excitement are
imaginary or real-there will be an inSluT'
when th ^ '' ''*' '^"*y *« ^^ individual
when there ,s no consciousness, .everything
mder th« ""T '°''''''^'^ re^-whethef
11^' l^l'f'T^_ » f "Hypnotfi^" or other.
f^ weatonce aisbover that the
32
FASCINATION.
illU8tration8, of the strength of the boy un-
der the influence of mesmerism, and that of
the man in the quarry, under the excite-
ment of the falling rocks, are similar and
I ♦ y^qually natural, inasmuch as both demonstr-
^ ates a physical response to an idea of danger-
Suspension of Pain.
Another special feature in '^Hypnotism"
which comes under the head of ^'Fascinatioi|i*'
is that of the suspension of suffering. This
point of our subject is one that is exciting
more attention and creating more interest
among materialistic scientists than any other
branch of Hypnotic phenomena. It is not an
iincommon thing for a Hypnotist to so control
hjs subjects as to render them unconscious of
suffering ; while their teeth are being extract*
ed, a FiifGER or limb is being amputated or
any other surgical operaticp. perf oi:b^ upon
their bodies. Wherever th»phenomenonj;ake8
place without physicial contract tetween the
SUBJECT and opebatob, it is invariably done
through what we call suggestion ; which ren-
rtyf-tl ip Bub jec fa mt ffioi^ntly po i^*T
FASCINATION.
33
- tive either to balance the circulating fluids of
their own physical system, or caHs off their
attention from the conditions of their nerves,
^ and fascinates it upon some other subject, so
" as to be forgetful of their own ailments. As
an explanation, confirmation and illustration
of this part of our subject, I shaU introduce a
. few incidents which wiU undoubtedly meet
the expe^ences of almost everybody who
have either been the subjects to, or witnesses
cxd, the conditions of pain.
Some years ago when lecturing in the city
of Harrisburg, Pa., I was sitting in the parlor
of one of the Hotels in conversation with a
friend, when a young lady entered and took a
seat across the room, opposite where we were
sitting. I noticed she had something tied
around her face and was evidently suffering
«reat pain. I poUtely asked her the nature
of her distress, when she replied that she was
euffering from "severe tooth ache." I asked
her if I should stop it. She naturally asked
me ''by what m^ns I would do it." I told
her "by magnetism," With tliis remark I
ttto se f rom^ ™y^j t o move towa rd her, when
TCan excitedlnanner she exclaimed ; "You
* .1',
.{J
34
FASCflNATlON
\
&T^,^Tot S(?ymour, the mesmerist ! keep away
frpm^ Bxe i, 1/ woul^ rattier have the tooth ache
than have j<m jie^r me.!! I was satisfied th^t^
the suggestion had dpne its wprk,' and that
froin the posiiiiv^ con^itio^ of her mind there
was B9. further consciousness of pain. I^^t
<W5e toj^ my ^eat with the remark : ^*youi^
p«.in. has- left your She hesitated a moment,'
suckedher tooth, *hen-^in astonishment— ex-,
claimed "It has stopped aching. How did
ypu do it?", : 1 told her th^t I did it by jpjes-
inerism.. The -truth was, the positive c^jl-,
tio^' of her own mind called forth such a rush
of electricity to the nerves of the face, that it ,
removed all .the obstructions of the nervous
circulation, t)alanced the positive and nega-
tive conditions of the nerves, and both cause
andEFFECTof YtQo^hache'Vw^^at on.ce rje-i
moved.;- ■•,■,»■■ ^ -■:*,.: . . j' .''■■ -V.'-'. "V^ ■- .-' r
' Take • another illustration of removing
•\tooth ache" and one which perhaps is more
likely to come under the. notice of people in
general. After considerable hesitation,.a very
sensitive or nervous person makes up their,
mind to go to the Dentist to; get a* tooth ex
\'^.
* .4
tractid:; while on the way, the thoughts of
r
'k I
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N
y*
"\
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MSCINATIGN.
35 * H
EXTRACTING the tooth is Hp^rr^ost in the
mind, and if they^have ever been4o aaDen^
tist before and experienced a great degree of
pain, ^ey nataraxiji^dweli upon tlie lEbagittary
pain of extracting the next ; the thoughts of
the pain of extracting^the tooth beccftn^s mbi^
positive in their mil
tooth, already iendured : consequently, .„„
nerve respond to the: most* pdsitiv^ictea 6i.
the mind, which isr. the' njBAii pain, tfie
tei^ pain in the too|;h is li>6t in the prosp^t
of one thkt is greaterl Thiis we find a great ^
inany persdnfl turn bdck when near the Den-
tists door, because their heairts fail them to
liave a *'to6th" pulled when it does not act^^
This fully illustrates the fact that our s^n- •
sations are the result of our consciousness and
that there is no pain where there is no con-
consciousness.
■ ■ t ' ' ' ■ ' • «< ■
It is recorded of the great Statesman, Hen-
ry Clay, on one occasion, when very much in-
disposed, and rather unable to speak, a gen-
^lemgnon the floor, in the house of Congress,
made a severe and personal attack upon him.
. Jfj. C la y wlhsperedto^JtJgentleman w ho iaa t
next him, and said : "I must answer him, but
/
f '
.^lii
36
,11
III.
Magnetic influence*
1 1 ii
Bttt some one will aak ; Is there no mag-
» aulsect except that which ia produtoed by
1 "
I beg of yon not to let me speak over half a
hour." Mr. Clay commenced, and was soon
on wing soaring higher and higher in hijs sub^^
lime eloquence, and pouring ;forth language
like the thunderbolts of heaven, lii the defence
of his own manhood. He became fascinated
with the subject of of his own defence, until
he fully forgot his indisposition. His half
^our expired, aiid the gentleman by his side
pulled his coat, but "Clay" paid no attention
to the signal. He kicked his limbs but it
made no impression. He ran a pin several
times half its length into the calves of his legti.
Clay heeded it not; spoke two hours, sank
exhausted into his seat, and rebuked the
other gentleman for n<^ stopping him. He ,
had felt nothing. The concentration of
mind had called the electricity of his system
to the brain, and he threw it off by mental
^fbrt, and in proportion as sensation was
called to the brain the limbs were robbed. ^
■t" '■
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*>« •SdHUtpst.
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MAGNETIC INFLUENCE.
— ' 1
57
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suggestion or Fascination ? To which I an-
;, swer, it is rational to Believe there is a Mag.
netism existing between the bodies of maij-
kind, w^ch may have either a beneficial or
a damaging eflfect opon our health, acc<»d-
ing to the condiiiom which are^roduced or
tiie natures of the individUls who are
brought in contact with each other. As an
Illustration of this point we might consider
that, all nature is governed by the laws of
attraction and reptOgUm, cfr in other words, by
a^sitive and mgdtive forces. These subtle
forces or laws in nature which we caU altrao,
ttm and r^uhion, are governed by the a««%
—or sameness-oF the lack of aMmty-^
sameness— which exists between %hat maf
be termed the combination ^f atoms or md-
eciiles which goes to make up organic struc-
tore. Where this affimty—or sameness— ex-
ists between the different particles of -matter,
pere is what we term the law of attraction,
or what may be termed the disposition to
wute or blend together. Where there isTio
ggy» «»»ti Pg be tween the nature of the
i"w^ole8 W matter, tbeoKi is wh»t
may be termed the law of repuUim, which
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38 ' MAGNETIC INFLUENCK. ■
whi^k r,'?^ Z *'' ^^^y *»»« harmony
Fhich wduM dthemisetak* place. If then
. 5.b0 true, that thi8 law of; a«rdc^io^ and ,..
^« W 18 umviersal through all the kingdoms
and that like attracts like ; then we think
■we are prepared to give a rational solution
of the truth QLwhat mky be termed Animal
Magnetism. As we examine the mag^ aM
steel we at once discoverthat there is a siin-
Uarifcy m their nature ; in. consequence of
which, when brought into close eonnection-
«o fer as the positive and negative forces are ^
: concerned- the two be^me one; diflfering
only m pow«- or force, in proportion-to the
?« w fZ '''^° '"'liv'duality. Fow what
le true of the wfl^nei and steel, is also true-
from the sameness of their natur&^of two tod-
ies. And what is true, of the 6oi^ in this
netism of the m,«d. Hence by the ta^ingZ
^ f^nfs or ^y the association 0/ the mi Js of
^ mdiyidtiab, we reach the same result as
when a combination is produced i^ anv de-
partment of Nature.- Where this eaJnS,
or ff #m / y e xi s t s , tho ro » ill b« j a Mending^
\\
\r if
»<:i
. *1
/
mi
/
1
M AGI4ETIC INFLUENGE .
,. 39
i^pes whicli; has> tenden^^to biiild ^
vital%;burwhere there 18 no oMnitu-
when bodies are brought togethet-there
will be a disturbing influence, which has a
tendency to >e?,ef:eaclyjther. As a proof of
this positipn^howoftenhave jrou found thes6c-
• »etl of p^rpops-of whomyou know but little
TrW be, so rejMilsive.ta your feelings, that you
ha,ye no^disposition to associate. Others
T^j^^^ witb theS A soothing influence
th^t. draws you closer to their side. I con-
tend that, all these involuntary likes a.n6. dis-
hkesare but the results of the animal magHet-
tsm that we are constantly throwing (^ ft,)m
our bodies, by which-although seeminglv
imperceptable to our internal senses-the
dog can scent his master, and determine tlte
^course which he pursues. ..
■^ .This lajy^ of magrUtim is a viery important
X^ v^ <^P«?deredi fori be^ieye many of
the^.wftrn^tias that afflict humanity are
largely due to a want of anHnderstandin*
of Its prinqiples, and the right' appUcatioh. of
the. same. I, believe that if^hiV law of wa</-
it^tJMnyrM more ftilly undCTOtooH nnri uj.tLi
upon, there would be far greater Wmony in
'^-masm
40 MAGNETIC INFLUENCE.
1 1
^ ^ I "^1 I mill
the domestie circle: the health of parents
and children mijBrht often be preserved, where
now sickness and discord so frequently pre-
vails. For i^ as we have said— and as all
noMre seems to preve-this lafv of magnetism
exists mttie humqn organism; then when
two bodies are brought into obntact with
^h other, the weak must naturaUy draw
from the strong until both have become
equal. And so long as this equality exists
there will be perfect harmony between indi-
viduals, because of the reciprocation which
exists m their nature. But if through the
activity of either the intellect or the vropensi.
«*f «°® should gain the advantage of the
other m magnetic attraction, the chances are
that— through the law of development, or
what has been teamed the "survival of the
fltt^t"-the stronger wiU- rob the weaker
nntil one becomes robust and healthy, while
the other grows weaker and weaker day by
day. This frequently occurs with children
sleeping together, also between husband and
wife. I am acquainted with a lady whom I
conscientiously believe has innocently caused
the dwrth of t h ree Iftsbanda, by t h i s la w of -
■f >1>
i«.<
#
T"
f.JgHf
MAGNETIC INFLUENCE.
41
magnetic attraction. When first married she
f-as fast wasting away with Consumption ;
she iiiarried a husband with a good degree
of Vital Temperament ; in a year or two in-
stead of the wife sinking with Consumption
the husband was the afflicted subject, and
the wife grew strong and healthy. lo
a few years the husband died of Consumption
and after his death- during the widowhood
of this lady— she again showed signs of Con-
sumption. She married the second, a man
of good healthy appearance, and again her-
self grew healthy. But to the astonishment
of everybody that knew them, the second
husband grew Consumptive and died. And
so of the third. And now in her old age the
same lady is said to be sinking fast of Con-
sumption. I have no other solution to this
phenomenon, but that through magnetic at-
fraction this lady has lived and enjoyed phy*
sical strength for so njany years, simply on
what she has drawn from her husbands.
And in proportion as she has drawn upcm tfae
Vitality of her husband— having no power of
supply in herself— the e xpenditure of vitality
:.. 1-^1. ™„-^ uiM tiie iii^ii^ of th6 htti
i;
I "•
f,'N',
,rir
42 MAfaNETIC INFLUENCE.
^
W.,,
band could support. As a consequence, when
the fires of his vitality had become exhaust-
ed, the embers naturally died out. Hence I
hold that it is not always wise that eveii
husband and wife should sleep together, nor
that children— whose temperament does not
harmonize— should be compelled to sleep in
the same bed. By the sanie law it is wrong*
.. I^^^the young^o sleep with old persons. I
' r|^.?«.®^^P* ^^^*^^ same bed with persons,
'•'^'^ 1^^^ *^^ morning I have got up seeming^
^ . J|#mc^e tired than when I went to bed. At
^:^:fi0r- times with diffetsent persons, I have '
-^ awake tw^^^^ theni^ht in pleas,
#t conversation, and have got up in the
morning without scarcely realising that I
had been to sleep at allj yet have felt perfectly
rested and refreshed. ♦
Now, having brought forth these argu^^
ments "which I have yno doubt accord with
similar experiences qf your own; we shall
be better prepared to understand the ration-
ality of magnetic healing. And in endeavour-
ing to make dear this parfeof our subject, we
mig ht ask : t^hat is health, a%d what %$ dii^
erne} To which we anawei*: Health is m
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even balance of the forces between body and
mind ; and disease is a want of balance be-
tween these forces ; or in other words, health
is the harmonious distribution or circulation
of the the blood and nerve fluid in the nerves,
veins and arteries. There is, so to speak, a
state of commerce or bank account going (m
between our mental and physical natures.
Und when theHlialance is such that the men-
tal can draw upon the physical; or the physi-
cal can draw upon the mental, without over-
taxation of either, man will be. found in a
hesclthy condition. But the moment either
of these forces are exhausted, there" will be a
mental bankruptcy, and the whole nervous
system gets disordered, as a result of which
nervous prostration, or feverish excitement is
manifested. And hence this want of balance
brings with it the need of help. As force is
produced by combina^tion of positive atoms,
-—which in Tiervovs prostration in the patient
have become exhausted,^— the businees of the
practicing . physicians is to endeavour to
ascertain and administer to the necessities of
in valids, aaoh compounds an In themw elvfjHi
contain these positive elements which the
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nature of the patient requires, and thus to
stimulate the physical that the mental ijiay
again draw upon it that amount of vital
stamina; which it- requires to produce a san-
^ guine condition. In the case of fevers, etc.;
the skilful physician endeavours to adminis-"
ter into the stomach of the patient, a compound
conjposed of negative atoms ; designed to abt
sorb the surpltife positive atoms of the system
. ^-^which in themselves are feverish, stimulat-
ing or exciting— and through 1;he aid of 4i^
gestion, physics, or the Ikw of evaporation to
can^ them off, until the system again assum-
■^s-its normal cenditibn of balance. And now
having glanced at the natural influence of
medicine, I think we may be better prepared
toupder^tand the .reasonableness of the pro-
c^ and influence of magnetic healing, or what
has been known as the paying on of hands.
For, if it is a universal law, that where there
is an affinity, the negative -#111 absorb the
pos^^ untilboth are equal, it must be con-
ceded that tills law of attraction exists be-
tween the physical and mental forces of <wr
p ^yifl fi and iffiat- b e iti^f iiTntigii fL
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administering to, or drawing from, each others
forces. And a^ nervous prostration is a nega-
tive condition beneath the normal, by the
laying W of hands a person in a normal,
liealthy condition is capable of communicat-
Irig to the necessity of t^Le weak. For the
negative condition ^^ the patient wJU as nat-
urally draw from the strong, as the loadstone
draws from the magnet, until both become
dqually charged., A:Btl as fevers are a positive
condition of the system '^beyond the normal,"
the normal conditio?! of the healer, will, by
the laying on of the hands,^sorb thaae pos-
itive atoms, until the fever of the patient
becomes abated. As a proof pi this the
magnetic healer often finds himse(lf or herself
prostrated after treating the Weak : and ex-
cited or feverish after treating a feverish
j^{)atient.
As -pother illustration of the influence of
I maghetism I might cite a case which took
place right here in the City of ToroiOio, on
the 14th day of Dec., 1888, Dr. J. Hunter
Em ory, %ho lives .noty a t 14 Gar^toa street,
TBTttid^peWMs Office to try ah pxperimenl
upon a gentleman by the name of Charles-
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Armstrong, who lived at 247 Spadina Ave.
The operation to be performed was the ampu-
tation of a finger. I went to the Doctor's
office at the time appointed, was introduced,
to the patient, and the object of my presence
was made known. Mr. Armstrong stated
that he objected to taking Ether, and ^sls
willing that I should try my power of mag-
netizing the arm ; but at the same time he
said hB had bu^ tittle confidence in my success,
as he had been tried by several professional
mesmerists, and had never been controlled.
I told him, •*! did not intend to mesmerize
him, but simply intended to so control the
circulation of the blood and nerve fluid, as to
prevent his suffering." When he had seated'
himself in the chair, and the Doctor was
ready; commencing with the fingers of my
right hand at the end of his fingers, in the
fullest assurance of mind that the blood in his
hand would recede back into his arm, as t
drew my hand back over it ; I moved
slowly backward, until I had drawn ^y hand
clear back over his arm to the shoulder, when
I told the Doctor that I was ready. I then
placod m y ri gh t ha nd upon th e patient's
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, forehead, with my left hand just back'of the
v;hand that waa being qut. The finger was
.,^ taken off, and tjie patient was conscious of all
- that was going oti during the operation. But
according to his own testimony — not only
**^iven to those who were present on the oc-
* casion, but also beforie the Canadian Institute,
on the 2^nd of the same month— he did not
feel the slightest sensation of pain during the
entire amputation, nor in sewing up the flesh,
until the last stitch was being put in, which
■r\ took place after I had withdrawn my influence
from him. Nor was there a loss of more than
from about six to eight drops of blood, during
the ten or fifteen minutes that must have ex-
pired in sewing up the wound.
Anothee Case of Pabti al Paralysis.— One
- morning m the fall of 1888 Mr. Saul, of No.
10 Buchanan Street, called on me to go and
f see a lady at No. 12 Maplewood Ave.. When
I got there, I found her suffering with Rheu-
matic pains in the arm and shoulder. One of
her arms was partially paralized, so much so
thiat she hadnot been able toraisait above her
eight<
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and commenced rubbing her arm straight
down from her shoulder, ,tipon the naked
skin. In about ten minutes 4ft€}r I ^tered
the house she was able to rai^ her hand to
the top of her head, and put "it back to the
back of her neck, and has had the use of her
arm ever since.
Thus we have suflScient evidence from
what we call the Natural events of life to
prove to us that* there is in the Human Or-
ganism an element or principle which we
call magnetism, by which we may influence
or eflfect one another. And if the principle
be. established ; then the possibihties will de-
pend only upon the development of con-
ditions. And when the conditions are pro-
vided— whether on the Stage, in the BoTnestie
Circle, the Chamber of Commerce, or the
Eotise of Prayer, the effect will always follow
the cause, and good or evil will Ijp the results.
But as I am simply trying in this part of
our work to give you the rational of the
phenomona of "Hypnotism" and endeavoring
to disabuse your mind^ of the superriatur at
idea connected with it, I shall somewhat
leave the subject of magnetic infi^i^ff t^
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dwell upon it more ftiUy in another part of
our work, under the head of ''Modes of Over-
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But while I believe in the influence of wa^-
netism—as I believe in the influence of medi-
cine^l am strongly led to the conclusion that
m vme cases out of ten—to say the least—
-^^s^ere the Hypnotist and patient believes the
power used in removing pain or curing dis-
ease is that of magnetism : it is nothing more
• or less than the result of suggestiops made
upon tJie consciousness of the subjects.
I believe the impressions of our conscious-
ness may have a greater influence upon our
bodies, than either the influence of medicine
or the magnetism of an operator. And where
there is reciprocation, or— confidence— es-
tablished between the subject and operator,
there will be a more rapid response of the
body to the conditons of health— provided in
the mind— than can reasonably b expected by
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This response of body to the impressions of
mind apply more especially to nervous disease
than to mganic troubles. Although my ex-
perience and perusals have led me to conclude
that organic troubles may also be brought
under the control of the mind, and that even
vsrhere there is, a magnetic influence brought
to bear upon the patient throil^h the law of
affinity in mattf.^* ; the positive conditions of
the mind of the operatoi* as well as the
'^Faith" of the p^,tient have a beneficial effect
For when the mind is positive — which is the
condition of confiden,ce — the electric forces
of the body are more active ; hence the mag-
netism of tfce bodyJ)ecomes more powerfully
directed. ^
The doctrine of confidence— to which we
often give the '^j^e ''Faith"— is beautifully
illustrated in what is termed the miracles of
Jesus Christ, spoken Of in the Bible, {see Marh
5 ch. 25th verse)^ where a woman "whiohjiad
an issue of blood twelve y^rs, and had suffer-
ed many things of many physicians, and had
spent all she had, but was nothing better,
but rather grew wors^ when she had heard
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ed his garment, for she said : "If I may touch
biit his clothes I shall be whole, "and straight-
forward the fountain of her blood dried up,
and she felt in her body that she was healed
of that plague. And Jesus turning to her,
said: "daughter, 4by faith has made thee
whole?"
This is but a sample /of the many works of
Jesus, spoken of in the Gospels, yet sufficient
to show the response of matter to the im-
pressions or faith- of the mind. But some
one will say that Jesus was Divine, and the
reason this woman was healed in this extra-
ordinary way, was, because >she had faith in
his Divine power. But we) must consider
that if Jesus was Divine-^nd such we be-
lieve Sim to have been-^till, he did not
attribute the curing of the woman to the
influence of His Divine power, but rather to
her faith. And in all that Jesus did. He has
left us an example that we should tread in
His steps. And .said, that greater things
than He did, shall men do if they believe.
Hence He has not only 'given us ^ under-
stand that /g^^A— or confidenee^js requ ired
on the part > of the patient, but also
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on the part of the operator. ^
Many instances are on record of this phen-
omenon, where persons have made their
complaints a subject qf prayer to God, and
in answer to their /a/^^ in grayer, have
been restored to health. But I will cite one
or two where the confidence or faith has seem-
ingly not been directed to God ; but rather
has been placed entirelyrin the ability or
power of the tnd^netic healer. In Pittsburg,
Pa., in, the month of January^, 18^4, an, a^
lady x;ame to m§— after listening to one of
my lectures, on the subject of ^ychology—.
who had been troubled for ye^y&-with Rheu-
matism in her right arm, jjlrf^^ould not lift
it to her head; She tdlpTme sh^ had not
been able to raise her l^jsifldto put on her own :
bonnet, oi; to comb Jker hair, for several
X^^i but stated §iha believed I could lielp
j0f^§ind in response to her confidence, 1
told her to visit me at my rooms, which she
did. After ma|iing a few passes over her
arm, she raised it to her head and moved it
K)und as *horfgh nothing had ever been
wrong with it When I was in Pittsburg in
188?^»be4old mo she had never suffoi:od f
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hlfematism in that armf afterwards. The
Wy *s name is Mr^. Douthitt.
Another lady in Wilmington, Del, inthi ,
winter of 1876, by the name of Longbottom
—who lived at East Seventh Street— had been
troubled with Sciatica, knA had suffered for
years. For full six months before I went
there she had not the use of one of her legs,
f visited her on Thursday evening, stroked
the limb with my hand a few times, and on
the following Saturday she was well ; walked,*
and^didher own marketing, several squares
away*^ At another time J wastin Chicago,
aiid on my way home to Philadelphia, I was
to stop over at Pittsburg to lecture. When
I gopio the hotel in Pittsburg I found a tele-
(/m^fe waiting for me, which stated that my
wife wcmvery sick^SLUd the^ it was necessary
f(fr me to hasten home at once. I at once, can-
celled my engagement, and took the evening
train for Philadelphia. When I got home I
found her so weak— the reeillt of Hemorrhages
---that she was unable to raise in the bed.
No sooner had I got into the room than she
said, "Now I shall get welll'\ I laid my
iiandrnpoa her imd sh^ at once declared 8fi»
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felt strong. In a few minutes she was fast
asleep. And only tbreo and a half hours
after I entered the house she got up, went to
the dining room, ate her breakfast with the ,
^ rest of the family, and did not go back to bed
again until the evening, when she seemed
quite well. I attribute her mart;eZows recov-
ery to the confidence or faith which she had
in mj power to, help hei;, and not in the pow-
er itself. And I contend" that a similar de-
gree of confidence to that which performs a
cmcy will act as a preventive to ward ojff dis-
ease. Hence, if we would ward off the influ-
ence of diseases before they have made a deep
. impression u^Yi our natures, we must meet
the positive with the positive ; that is to say,
we must make up our minds positively and
. firmly, that we .will repel its influence ;* and
in proportipn as mind is superior to matter^ so
will the positive conditions of the one overcome
and control the other. So long as .we remain
positive, there is but little danger of our con-
tracting disease ot any kind ; but when we
become fearful of our surroundings, we are
then in a. negative state, and are susceptible
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tion : Some loathsome, and dreaded disease
breaks out in a community ; it enters a dwell-
ing where there are four or five persons in a
family ; the majority of its members are afraid
^f the disease!, aiid are > in a negative state ;
hence when the virus of the disease begins to
be emitted, those who are the most sensitive
—because the most fearful and negative — are
^Upressed with this virus and are smitten
UPRh the disease. The Nurse, Doctor, and—
in case of death — ti^ Undertaker, have to
come in closer proximity with the disease so
far as external conditions are concerned;
yet neither of them contracts it. And
why ? Simply because theii^ minds are so posi-
tive as to be proof against it. So far as its
contagious influence is concerned — apart from
these positive and negative conditions of the
mind — there must be moye danger 6f the Doc-
tot', Nurse, ^nd Undertaker, than of the diff-
erent members of the family ; because of
their immediate contact with the disease.
This positiori i*»true with Small Pox, and of
Epidemic Fevers, Colds and diseases in gen-
eraL Instill further proof of thitf position, I
irill cite a case iTi my own family, where the
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positive cond|ion of the mind not only dem^
onstrated its power to w^rd off diseases, but ,
actually repelled and expelled the disease
that had already fastened itself upon his
Ijody. My son, then a boy of about nine^
years of age, having travelled with me, dur-
■ one <jf my lecturing tours, in listening to my
teachings had gojton a fair idea of the prin-,.
ciples inyoivedi He w^s taken with thie?
*- Measels, and when they were about fully de-
. veloped, s^id to his mother : "^^Ma, 1 don't lifee
: these thiiigs about me."^ ^is mother i^aid :x
♦^Well Charley, you will-have to bear /with
U, until they are gone; aftd you get well"
iQharley said/M I don't think so ! Don't you
•^ know wHat papa says, "that -af you make up
your mind to do a thing, and are positive
that you are right, it will be so!" Now, I
think if I wei^ to take 1^ ^ash-tub, and go
out under the hydrant and wash these things
off, i will be well." His mother tried to per- -
^ suade him of the danger of taking cold, but
he ttill persisted ; when his mother told him
ithB wtt«iJ wash jUiem off to tak^some warm
water and do it: m fh^ h^th-r^-^^^ : but Thar
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until his persisteBce oyer©ame his mother,
and she con^fented. Being the fall of the
year the weather was very cold, still he
went out and washed the measles oflP His
mother rubbed- him down-quite dry, iand in a
little while after, he said : ^'Jj ow I feel better!**
The next day he went to play as though
nothing had happened. There seems tQ be
no J3ther solution of this phenomenon, save
thai the positive condition of the mind bal*
ancfed the circulation of th^ blood and nerve i
flui(^, so as to exper the influence of disease
fron| within fhe system, and repelled the
influence of tibe w-eather, and the chilling
VA-impiression of thfe water from withfout. Ihia
- was done in response to the positive impres*
sioml of the miTid pf the boy upon his owii
^ hody. It is also possible that the positive
. coftdfi^tow of the- win^ of the wa^'we^ic ^aZar •
^ ^hall produce similar effects upon the body -
i^of a patient^ By the same condition of mind
controlling the electric forces of the nervous
iystem it is possible'to suspend senii».ti(m —
r or feeling — so that ah amputation may to
performed upon a patient without the mnm
V of pain^^rH^fforingi-^? m^^
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where paris of the nervous system have
come paralyzed, to impart strength and action
to the ^arts, that must otherwise lie compari-
tively dead and useless. And this too, in
cases where the patients themselves h^ve
had but littl? or iiO\ confidence in the power
of magnetism, save a mere vntlingness to try
the experiment, which renders them passive.
by being free from prejudice. ^z <
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Hypf)ott£6ci tNroui;h Pear!.
w.; Let me give you other illustraticmi^ which .
not only display the response of our bodies
jto the positive conditions of the mind where
wonfidefnce is established; but also to the
negative conditions of fear. And to show
still farther that '^Hypnotism" does not nec-
essarily depend upon the positive conditions
of the mind of one person over another I
n^ht give a few illustrations where the
conditions of fear, brought about by the
forc^ of circumstances^ hypAotizes persons as
successfully as any living operator.
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heMvances to the edge of the curb-ston^sjid
standing there with the toes of his shoes
abouKthree inchfes out over, he shows no
signs of 4^;nger or of falling^ simply because
he Has confidence in his ability to stand : and
in the nei^ place, if he should tip over the
distance of the fall is so short that there is
no danger of being hurt. But suppose in-
? stead of standing upon the curb-stone he
should be requested to stand on the top of a
building^ three 'hundred fe^t high ; instead of
going forth and 8tandii% with his toes out
over the edge — :if there w^ no fence ground ^
It-^be would not be likely to venture within
ikfree feet of the brinji. Why? Simply be-
icause his co7i^(ie?ice has,. becoine destroyed by
Ithe idea of danger. Now, suppose there be
jin ircyr^ fence placed around the edge which
^ is strong enoujfh to protect his falling out ; he
^oes forth in confidence, and standing close
to the fence-although he may not touch it-he
vcan look over the precijpice without the slight-
gst fe^ of foMng,
# Again, let me give you another iHustration.
A man of sane mind — who is not lii^der the
iiiiwiiee of liquor-r-may waiku; hundi'ed
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yards over a thre©4nch rail, suspended three
inches above the floor ; but let the same rail
be suspended om hwndred feet ab6v5 the
floor, and the same mail dare not attempt to
walk it ; simply because the ^dea of danger
has again destroyed his confidence in his own
Ability. There is as much surface to walk
upon, jwrith the rail suspended one hundred
feet in the air, as when it was down within
three inches of the floor, and the law of ^ram-
^ tation is the same, but the difference lies in
'the confidence of miri^. Now place the rail
in another position, let one end of the rail be
placad upon, a burning ship in mid-oceanj
with the o1;her end placed upon a rock ; this
S9,me individual, who failed to walk it over
a chasm one hundred feet deep is on board'
the ship, and the rail furnishes the pnly
mean^ of escape. As the flames play round
him and the danger becomes more imminent
hf ^ervously views the path of escape, which
it appeared narrow and dangerous. As
feril of his situation advances, he knows
that to remain is death ; the ship shows signs
of sinking ; his pathway oLgjCH^Wi^ma Jcl^
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ger of travel is lost, and in confidence he
again enters upon the rail— as when within
three inches of the floor— and crosses over in
safety.
In the City of Johnstown, Pa., not long
after the great flood in the year 1889, during
an entertainment which was being held in the
Opera-Housd, a fire alarm was given. The
people in th^Opera-House, hearing the alarm,
at once became frightened ; there Being otily
one small enterance to the House, the excite-
ment created was such, that it was reported
that seventy persons lost their lives in the
struggle to get out, believing the Opera-House
was on fire, which was afterwards discovered
to be a false alarm. Thus we see the hypnotic
influence of fear in the yarious departments
of life. And when we compare these phen"
omena with the practice of hypn^otism cm the
stage, or ^IsewhA^, we shall learn that the
conditions are similar. How oftep have you
seen the hyjmotii^ declaiQ to his subjects that
the building is on fire, or that their clothes
are on fire, and in response the subjects b^-
In the year 18?6, while in the City of Wil-
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nTJ^fw"'- i**'^^^* ^ yo^°g -nan by the
name of Weldie, how to Mesmerize. The youn
man went to the M. E. Su^dat ScHooJ^e
next day and informed a companion^his
class, that heOcnew how to mesmo^at the
8ame time made a jestnre, wjkthe remark
your clothes are on fire !" The yonng man
to whom the remark was addressed proved to
«? Ifyf^^^fPtable subject. Just at this
time th9 Teacher entered the class and young
Weidie 8 attention was called away from his
companion the remark had done its work In
a few moments the young man had pulled off
his Coat, Vest and Collar, ^^^ in a moment or
two more would haye had his Shirt off, had not
Weldxe taken hold of him, and with the assia-
tence of^the Teacher taken him out of the
bundaySchool and aroused him to his normal
consciousness by positively telling him that
hf was "All Right." It is not hard to see the
Wan^y between this and the conditimi of
iZTx^fJ^ P**"" ^^ *»»« Opera-House,
and that which may be seen under many other
Zr*f °'"!, '" "^'- ^" «* ^^^'^ goes to
prove the ready response of matter to the con-
ditionof mind, and that the realities of l^e
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are b^t that which our conceptives o%percep-
twes can grasp or realize, whether the pictures
drawn are objective or subjective.
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But let us turn for a while from the sub-
ject of /«ar and confidence to that otimpres-
sions. This is ^a very important part of the
plisTwrmm of hypnotism; yet at the sameJame,
18 subject analogy, and may be seen in the
common experiences of mankind.
, It is reported of a well-known ^*fperan(*
■l^turer in the Dominion of Cana^ that at
one tune when riding on horse-back thromrh
one of the bye-roads-where a great deal of
crime was reported to have taken place-he
Mard a loud report which he supposed was '
Pie revolver of a would-be Assassin. He
spurred up his horse and rode as fast as pos-
sible; when, feeling something wet running
down his side, he conceived the idea that he
had been shot, and that his life-blood was
flowing from a wound in his side. As he
rode on he ima ginea hi m a olf sinking ft-o^^
the loss of blood; and^hen he got to his
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destination he wa^ so weak that he could
scarcely get off his horse. When he got into
the h^se and examined himself he found
that he had not lost any blood nor did he
hear the report of a pistol, but rather found
that hiis fears were produced by the bursting'
of a cork from a bottle of yeasty that he had
purchased for his mother, and placed in his
pocket, forgetting it was there. This gentle-
man was ^'hypnotized" by a botUe of yeast, ^
and probably had he much further to go, the
consequences would have proven fatal.
A test of hypnotic power through impression
was given at one time in France, where a
Criminal yhio was sentenced to be execut-
ed, was laid on a bed blind folded, ai^^^^ld
that he was to be bled to deaih. A Fi||fe/
water was placed by the side of the bed on ^
the floor, and through a contlivance, ^ rubber
tube was so arranged as^ to convey ^i^arm
water to a certain spot on the subject's arm,
without having him conscious of the fact, or
feeling the weight of the Tube. The Arm
Of the subject was pinched as thougji the sur-
geon had opened an artery. The water at
once was le t to drop upon the am and rtm_
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65
down over the tips of his fingers and drop in-
to the ^awQf water beneath. As the subject
< Jieard the dribbling and felt the warm water
he gradually grew weaker and weaker
through the imaginary loss of blood, md
di^ ^^ i;tcip^^is mental impressions,
v^^*^^^*^I^^W® ^P^ken only of thp,t part
^ ^^^P*Wr^ which is dem^strated
through thf'use of, our external senses. But
there is a deeper meaning and more fearful
Consequences connected with the subject of
hypnotism, than what has be^en hitherto de-
scribed. It i^ that part of\pur subject to
wjiieb Scientists have given the name of tele-
pathy, or thought transferrence, by which per-
sons niay be impressed independent of t^eiji
external senses. . .Mjm
Many proofs of this phenomenon ha ve came
under my notice. ' - ^
■I remember at one time h^m^ in the City
of Baltimore, Md., when I controlled a
young lady who responded so much to the
thoughts of my mind, thatVhat I tasted she
tasted, without being conscious of what I had
in my m cmth;-^ faj^^ ^^^^^
couldTdirect her-for she ^seated on the
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^ Impressions.
; plpjform, with h^ i/fe« toward, the audience
and lier back towards me; also having her"
»je» covfired with a bandage.^ I put some
»Mgarit, mymouth and l^d her If she tasted
anythmgr, to which shei-esponded "I taite ma.
ar^ rtmmediately put mnegar in my mouth,
«m the question : "Are you sure it is sumir?"
She made a peculiar face and spat as though
She had actually tasted the vinegar, and ex^
tflaim^: "Nof tt ifWVw^arP' I hBAmver
«w« the young lady before, and am posi-
tive she did not see or knoW what I was put-
ting in my mouth. " i ' ' '
Beflwe attempting fe g^ jf^tt thq^philos-
g^qy Of *"fe phenomenon let me call your at-
■Ptotion to a few suggestions elicited by Prof
James' circular, from the New Orleans Pi^
aj/une : "Jhe question is, can it be possible,
with no other means than^re ftirnishedby
the intellectual facultie8,f or persons distinct-
ly «eparated, to send or receive information
fh>m one to th« other? We do not hem
speak of the so^Ued messages alleged to
pass, thrpugfcH^Unifestations of self-styled
niediums. between t^ living and the Aad.
A J \ the pBrtte f t o the cori t mu ni ua t ima wb mm
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considemg are required to be alive at the
moment of the transmission of an imiifeg9i(m
,^ "T^ "^ ^ '^<^^ra, when engaged
In their business, havejuddenly heard ?he
Toj^eor^n the face of^L incLduafwJ:
^ aUhat time m a-more er less remote
locality ? Have you never seen a recognized
face suddenly.come .between you and^oS
work, and^^ with an expression bright and
joyous, or haggard and distressed, cSnveTa
message of happiness or mis^? a leJs
be a touch, or the sound of a voice. . A more
of r«n^^'^ ""^ "^ ^^'"^ ""' *»»« Particula«
Is w^iTJr^'*'*'*'"' showing ftlltheper.
sons who took paat in it. i~
^.In one form or another, we believe that
^mnypersonshave received suchimpresslons,
inor can we believe that they are all halluoi:
»hiT,'?^'°'°**^"''^^«"«' concerning thing,
which did not exist. Of course, people wUh
^onderfH thin^ where really' there mm
nothing, but it i, iu^^m, for mteTli^
j^noividuals who retain impifes
sions or splrit-
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ual images of transactions which occurred at
ai; particular moment; but in some distant
and, at the timii; inaccessible locality, and|
subsequently have all the particulars of the
vision qomfirmed as facts, to believe thJat"
there^was ^ly delusion or hallucination.
The whole thing, however mysterious, is,
some degree, at least intelligible if_we only
'«;Cqept the exis^ende (H the intellectual part
of us as a life, an entity, a power separate and
distinctly independent of the . body. The^
mind theti is not a f unctioh of the body, bui
it is something which has its own life and
laws as complete and distinct as are those of
' the bodily life. Wfe can illustrate it by elec-^
tricity, which is as the intellectual life, and
the dynamo, or the battery, which is th^ body. ^
Set the dynamo in motion and the electricity
manifesto itself, h^ if every dynamo were de^i
stroye^, or^there had never been one, electricity
would exisjb all the same, and it would, con-
tinue to flash in the sky and to burst with
^ thuhderings out of the clouds, as it has done
^ from the beginning; 1P^ earth and air and
iky are full of it.. A dynamo, or a galvanic
^^.
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Dmusrf, 18 merely a device to ma^e it matttfo*
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aible and obedient to use. v -
The human body is only a mechanical ap-
pliance to make mind manageable, and even
then it will sometiines defy control. How
often difting sleep will the mind leave the
bodyjaM*ro^.m Jtt^m^ not only through all
the countries on^he^lobe, but essay wander-
ings in regions so far beyond our experience
that w^[pan give them neither name nor local-
ity^ There are master n^ijads. One mind
controls lathers, and two minds may come into
such close s'l^mpathy that they can communi-
cate withou|i words. But we must first recog-
nize the existence of mind as a life a,nd power
apart frpin matter before we can understand
its laws and fupotions. Nobody believes tl
a machine creates electricity which did
previously exist, liet us understand that the
body does not create Jkhe mind that illumin-
ates it, but that the body is merely a machine
through which the intellect acts, and that mind
is no more dependent on its machine than is
the lightening, but that the one can project
ffii thoughts and da;rt its influence through
space aiid out of the clouds as can the other,
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IMPRESSIONS.
In CRTT^ing out the ideas suggested by
rPwf. Jame?, I contend tliat each individual
^ratn u a Battery. That the atmo^here cor.
respoq^g^ in its nature with tl^ nerve fluid
of the brain connects o«r mentality, as the
metaUc wires connect the diflferent electric
batteries by which the phenomenon otphysi-'
cal telegraphy is produced;. As a proof of the
position that there is a correspondence be- .
tween the nature- of the atmosphere siud our
mentality, welnay observe how the mind of '
man is affected by the changes in the condi-
tions of the^ atmosphere. A dark and doudy
, ^mosphere produce^ what is termed "a de-
presswn of spirits," while a bright and clear
atmosphere produces the sensation of cheerful.
Hess 1 also contend that if we will observe
similar conditions between mind with mind to
those wh^ch are observed in physical telegra-
phy, we m&y. proportionately produce the phe-
nomencto of mental telegraphy. Such will es^
tabhsh the principle upon which all mental
mpressuw may be received from one mind ta
another, whether thase impressions come to
us under the name of hypnotism, premonitions
datrvoyance. spiritualism «r - '
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> In sending a message from Toronto tb Mon-
treal-~or any other given point—the operator
at this ei<(d of the line may tap up<^n the hand-
les of the battery artistically, and send the
.^ ;electri<?ity coursing through the wires juntil
^It reaches the battery at the qther end, where
it was directed; but if the battery at the
-mpr end 19 in operation, sending a messagp^o
some other point, then, because of its af^itj
*— like the one here in Toronto— it is apon-
■y tive, and iipon the law that two positives re-
pel each other, the call from Toronto makes
no impression upon it. But if, on the other
hand, the battery ad the- oth^r end is a nega^
^tt;^— or inactive— then there ismimpres^im
made upon it by the call from this end, and
a cbmmttnioation Is opened^. Now thlQ
is prafctidtoy the case in meittal telegraphy,
Whenever the pind of a! man is engaged in
thought and tlpr brain Is active updS any
iiubject, ii i^in ^ positive Jl^diUon : aniMlroiil
that universal law of nature that two
tepel each other, it is incapable of pecdvii|
any iiftpr^sion from anothfar mind. But i
Hifl wilf>#f n# fbfi man ia fanctiye, ih t m ft i gr^
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mgative, and may be impressed by the miiid
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pf akofher^ individuaJI To illustraiie
inor^jeully,,and mJle i||0lear frim |lie ^^^i^
ine topose a case: WilfjS&i S^^i. ^Woi " ^
latrfsi
reaches "i
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cimmsi
l^ .f. . ft.. ^ \ • ■ ■
^ -m^^^^K^^i-^-^^ Smith's famUy,'' -;
P^^W 1^«|% is heard of tHIfeoyir
8mi^;f(KPlpb#lhntig whioll jaine Joh^nd
, WiUiams ha^^ g*own up, married and sllied >
* .^ch l^er, ind still retain a compan^-, ' ^
^^>A.8 tJlae elapsed, Swdth, also ha^g' '
dpmaped into manhpod— being free ii|p
the redaction of his parents— feels j, desire "
tio visit the place of his childhood, and min- -
|j|%once more with the companions of his
ytotji: One day he determines to put his de- * ' '
l»irein*Q execution, and starts oii-his Journey.
On reaching the^ place, his first inquiry is for
Jon^&and Williams ; and oh learning of their '
circumstances, and their place of residencJUte
(Smith) starts to m^ a callaipon th
determines t6 call fl^ iipon Jones, «p ao
happens that Williams is spending t^l^n-
lug a l J un » ^ house. As S inith dra
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the residence, his mind directed to the spot,
naturally i^volvs these questions : How does
Jones loolil What changes has twenty years
made in hts personal appearance? How Will
he receive me? and various other questions.
Jones and Williams, Just having finished a
conversation, upon some interesting subject,
> there is at this tiii||^a< passive moment, the
positive condition o^B^wmdqf Smith reaches
the negative condition of the mind of Jones^
and he immediately remarks : "By the way,
^wtlttder what has become of Smith! I
wonder if he has got married! I should
like to see him ! " and various other things
are expressed by Jones concerning Smith.
Suddenly the door-bell rings, and Smi^ in-
troduces hijrnselt "Why ! " says Jones "you
were the very last man we were speaking
about ! Only a few seconds ago I expressed
to our friend Williams, that I should like to
I see you i'^pter^^uck^r similar experiences
' ^': falls ior^e lot of almbs^t every individual
NofW, I ask, hoi^ fti^e we to account for this
phenomenon, except under the principle of
Clairvoyance? That thoughts are existing en-
titles, andthat mind is not dependent upon
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IMPRESSIONS.
'^e «xfem«Z senses wholly, for the reception of
thought, but rather for its manifestation,
rhe phenpmenonof Glair avoyance maybe
confirmed by a Variety <if experiences. How
frequently do we hear people talking of
what they call prenH)nitions,orpresentiments«
And bow often are these Vresentiments con-
firmed by testimony? All of which proves the
truth of Mental Telegraphy, that impressions
are made tipon thfe mind, independent of all ex-
ternal senses: Hence under- this head we
shall consider wh'at is known as Mind Bead-
^, Clairvoyant Fortune Telling, Diagnoring
,nuease, and some of the phenomena of Faith
Cure and Christian Science. .
Mind Reading and MusGie Reading.
^ In opening under the head of Mind Bead-
ing, I might remark that there is a great
deal that passes for Mind Reading, which is
not Mind Reading at J all. Such as persons
hiding something, ajtfd another— being blind-
folded—taking thep' hand and leading them
to the spot where the thing is hidden and
finding It. Or one person touching a certain
key of the piano^ and the one that is blind
/
^Hect
inking hoia onEFEand of the person
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75
whto touched it, and pimping their finger
Upoik the same key, without knowing over
wha^ part oft|ie Piano they are passing their
fingers. All this and similar phenomena
may be accounted for upon the basis of
Physicial or Muscular impression, \ As for in-
stance, a person having a keen sense of
Jouch, will detect the slightest pressure upon
the hand, as well as upon any- other part of
body, iken, taking into! consideration the
fcict that the b^y, morew less, moves invol-
untarily to the conditions of the Wind ; when
moving in the right direction^ the p^^K|n who
*had hid the article, or who is testing the so-
called Mind-Reader involuntarily manifests
m 2i)iUingness to move without any hesitation.
But when there is a motion in the^wrong
direction ; then by the same law of response,
bgfween Mind and Matter, th^^[P||an invol-
uhtary unwillingness to mo#<^, which, al-
though so feebly mj^fested, that by ordinary
persons it wpuld not be noticed at all ; yet
is sufficiently strong to be noticed by th^
nsitive feelings of those who have cultivat-^
gd this sense for that purpose. Now what I
^ call Mind Reading, is where there is an im-
kr
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pression made up^p't'ES consciousness of the
second mdividvial, when there is no Physical
contact. One of the best ^^hfl BiMlil i that
I have evervknown was P^Swnfwg
T^.^'^^Mf^ 0«1- in the winter of
In ^W^ o*' Mind-Reading was as
touows : .^gentleman or lady in the audi-
ence, migtt tell the person sitting next to
them sonjething^^nd then each of the parties
should k«ep th^r minds upoit that which
was told-without ever speaking aloud, so
that no on^ but tHe, two persons in communi-
tion should hear-ahd Prof. Brown would
ten them what it was whiclftjthe first person
Had said to the, secon^ an/th^ s^conrf hereon
should be the witnes%8^ the truth of the
phenomenon. And when, the conditions; of
keeping th^ word spok^in theffaiiilere
comp^ipd with, I never kRew.th^i^fesQ?
to fail m living a correct i8t^|fci^t «f what
had ^n said. . Akoth^r.genpyfc, whom I
consider^ good Mind Readei^ is Mr E W
Emersofi, of New Hampshir^a spiritualist--
!S?"^5_^T: ** '^'^«- *™e, at a Spirit-
emeny^Ma,. about 20 miles frorn^ phila-
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delphia. This man would stand on th# plat-
form, look around upon the audience, and
would give expression to some of the most
hidden secrets, in the experience of many of
those whom he had never seen before, and
,^ those who hpi never h^ard of him. I rem-
^ emh0r one instance, of ^s describing the
^ home of a lady who was an entire stranger
to him, and even went so ^r as to describe
what she had placed away in her Bureau
drawer, forsafe keeping, before leaving home,
^'his is what is termed Clairvoyance, and
.^although Mr. E., with thousands more be-
lieve that he does these things by the con-
trol of Spirits, lam satisfied to believe that
\it is purely Mind Reading. And the only
spirit which need take part ifi^pich phenom-
ena as I have d^cribed is t^^aJipirit of con-
sciousnass which is retained in the mind of
^ the woman who had concealed the article
^[K)ken of. And while as a believer in im-
moifelity I have no rational grounds to deny
• the possibility of "Spirit Communion," I be-
Uaveayeitf deal erf what i^ tPrTnAH fij^rif
Control IS but the Mind of one person discern-
mg the thoughts of another. For imtdkT^
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IMPRESSIONS.
' people going to a Clairvoyant— or Mind Read- '
er— usually have something in their minds
which they regard as a test : hence they keep
their minds upon that, which they resolve to
make a test, until their minds become inactive
to almost everything else. When they come
m sympathy with the mind of the Clairvoy-
ant, they at once throw the positive conditions #
Qi their mind upon the sensitive ; and th« -
Clairvoyant o^ Mind Reader, gives expres-
eion to what he or she may discern, as the
outgrowth of the positive conditions of the - ;
mind of the person who has made it a test.
Hence, in the case of the woman spoken of ; ,
when Mr. Emerson came in sympathy with
*«•, Ihave no doubt .taut that her mind at
, once returned to her home ; and in response
Mr. E., went with her, when he at once made /
the remark ; "I amgoing into your home I "
And as the mind of Tflie woman would natur-
ally think of the home, as she left it, so would
Mr. E. describe it as she saw it, and impressed \
It upon his consciousness. And when she
thought of what she had hidden in the Bur-
eau drawer, the mind of Mr. E, would as naj-
onjly torn to t he Bure au dra w «rr-Wid « h )-
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, scribe what she had hidden.
m„^'t* ^^fT '^^ *^* "^^"'^ ^ m^ diflfer from
many of the most conservatire minds in the
ranfcs of Spiritualism, as to the cause of the
phenomena, which they ascribe to Spirit con-
trol ; I am, n reason, bound to admit the phe-
nomenon Itself to be a truth. And further
more, when we take into consideration that
■ the great law of Chemistry, holds the various
Im^doms of matter into owe famUy relation.
sAti^; we may alsoleamthatthe lawof minder
P^johologj-ixolds the intellectual world into
2 great family Thus ^wherever mind ex-
ists It holds a relationship to every other mind
^as an existance in God's great Universe.
Hence If we believe man to be immortal ; we
must believe that his mentality liv^s, and
trom this relationship of Mind with Mind^
, through what we term the law of Psychology
n, I "^^ifestations that appear through
the positivy^negative forces of Mind, indi-
pendent of ifi^-external senses, under similar
^2^iW would seem possible to tmnspire
^r the change which death ha^ wrought
1^ om bodieH. h ad toke n p Uoe . Hence,
Mng this view of the subject of Spiritualism,
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we are npt justified in denying the possibility
of Spirit Communion, from a Psychological
stand-point. A^d again, if we deny this fe^ j
lationsfhip df mind under the Psychological .-/
law ; we at once by the same argument^ shut "^ jv
ourselves off from the unseen world entirdl^*; :?
And in so-doing, not onlyfrom the possibili^* ^
rrMi5dMMttttl5^ miih our departed trieM»; feiit ^
also from the ministrations of Angeltand Of ■ '
God. For I Jiold we have no other method of .» . .
communion with God, save through the- 1^6- ';
tivev^iid passive conditions- oiMii|iL^^^^^^J^
all our inspirations and answers to pfa^^,
n?ust come to us through this method, of whal • .^
/Xe term Meiital Tel'egrhphy or MehtaUmpres* i^
eions^ independent of what we call |ti© ejLter- ^ %1
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' ^her6*l8 ano|lier phase of hypnptiimi^Ydoli^
.has of t0n been demonstrated both in pirblio ? '
\ tod private exhibitions (vk,) JSomnambulism '
^ ^; BJiA Spmmlgqidsm — sleep walking and Bleejlt
ife,^^^ *not, aif uncommon thing for a ■
': - '^ .Hflypnotist" W» subjects ^tb 'i
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render them unconsoiousoi what is going on
aro«nd them, and even uncmsciom of ^heir
own actions, yst in this— what I may term
semt-comeioua v.state — semi-conBcious be-
, cau8ewn8ciou8 of what is said by the operator
—they at once comply with the directions of
the hypnotirer. -Thpjr wiU answer questions,
dehvera^dreis, go out intc^ the streets
and p?rforta f^ts of manual dexterity' and
, acrobatic agility such as in theirnormal state
, It would seem impotable tor them to accom-
plish. The ijiipressions made npon the min^^'
; while in this Jran'c^ condition remain mth
% some subjects long after being aroused to full
r ctmsciojisness, while with othws thejr conduct
\, 18 an entire 6ZdnA In .thdr experience. * .
•kA few weeks sihce^ while givingan exliibi-
tion in one of the public halU of tlm city I
• -COTitroUed a young lady who becam^ftncon-
.sciouaof what she was doing. I asked her if'
m had her pochet-book with her.- She %n-
8W^d '.'I have." I said, "will you'^t. me
,.' feeitt" She at once took out her pocket-book '
-mA shewed it.^ »& I'iard, *^hat fci not
,, jrours; it belongs 'to -Jhat lady bffck there!"*
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"The lady was an entire stranger to the one
hypnotized," yet the subject immediately
irent back and insisted upon her tafing the
pm^et-hook and returned to the stage without
;&; 1 flit once^roused the subject to conscious;
ness and asked "her if she had her pocket-
book in her pocket. She put her hand inta
her ^ket, looked sm-prised^ and said "J
Iiawik)t ! " I asked her if she knew where it
was : she said "I do not!" I told her that I
would give her five dollars if she would go
and get her pocket-ix)pt H^r mply was
' **I would like to get my pocket-boofe and \
would gladly ^t the five dollars, hut I do >
>mt know where to go and find it ! " I said,
**have you no recollection of giving it to any-
one ? " Her reply was, "I do not reniemt)er
anything about it ! " ^ I again put her into
the unconscious state' and told her to go at'
once and g^t her pocket-book She went dir-
ectly to the lady in the audience and askedl
her for her po(*^t-book.
Many instances of simil^^ character Save v
come under my notice in the practice of hyj^
notism. At one time while giving an exhi-
bition in the City of RftiLding^ Pa^^ t «An» ^
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man out to a baker shop to, Ma haf^
bread I told him that be >h(Juld net mind
what the proprietor of the store said to him
tout gtet the bread and brin^ it to me as soon
as possible. The man went to the 8tor«, took
the bread and Was walking ouT when the
proprietor noticed him, and not knowing thi
man was hypnotized he at once ran afte/ *
him^ callmg "stop thief but the suiject ran
too fast and got to the hall with the breadx
when m a minute afterwards the Baker came^
iTWhing to the door, but when he discovered
Bte man was hypnotized considered it a good
.io*e, The man who was hypnotized was a
very conscientious n>an,>nd probably could
not be induced to pe^om| such anact— under
any circumstances-whiW in his normal
stete. I simply gare the exhibition to show
the Po^ibilityefwhalm^t be done under
mu hyjmotic mfiueni^. ' i. >' • , . . , - '
.• Another instance of Sonmmbulism, arid '
toe which proves that the ideas conveyed to.'
•the mind of a suljeci may have a I^tirig^
impression upon hi^ consciousness :— At one
time while giving a parlor entertainment I
ffiaH« ft ^n..«„ ---n for ge t hia o w n idcu t ify
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and Mieve lie was some one else. The
young man's rightname was Boyer, But un^
^der the hallucination he supposed himself to v
be called Gibson. I told him th^ Botjer was i
sick and that at tiiro o'clock in the morning '
h.Q^(}ihson who in reality was Boyer— '
would be called upon to go for tlj^e doctor, v
When the entertainnient was over Boyer !
went home and went to bed. But exactly
f^ttwo o^lock, Ije got up in his sleep and
under the delusion that he was still Gibson,
dressed himself and went for the family
physician ; aroused him oiat of bed and told
him that Boyer w«W A^ry sick, and that htt
services were requested at once to the Boye^
residence. The physician realizing the fact f
that the young man talkjfig to him, was the
identical person whom he wai describing as "
being home in bed, supposed that there must
be something wrong, and ^nt to the home
of the Boyers and found the yctt|ng man in
bed fast asleep, and when he was aroused
from life sleep he had no reaollection of havv §
ing been for ty physician or of leaving his
bed from the Jbm time he had entered it,
which was before wi4»f^A^.
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, During his wafkef ul" niDments Mr. B. had
lost all consciousness of the impressions made
upon his memory while in the trance or hyp-
notic condition, but alskwnaa he became
again unconscious ^f hfe external surround-
ings bjr falling asleep, he at once became im-
pressed with the ideas which he had when in
a similar state— beingAypnotiz^d.-^Dr. Ham.
mond in his book, on insariity, cites a case
which is very similar to the one we have juat
given, although under very different circum-
stances ; ^'A servant while in a state of intex-
ication, caiTied a package with; wWch he Had
been entrusted to the wron^ house. Having
become sober, he could not remember the'
place, arid the package was supposed to br
lost : but after he got drunk again he remem-
bered the pkce/he went them and recovered
•the pneka^oT This is not nn urifrequerit
occurreiioeiii the experience of drunkards,
which goes to prove thatjOgiiyi^ie^ij^ a state
of somnambulism or hxi;^^^^? : or ^V^ other
*ord8 & state of fytsmiiffy w hie h m tiuUy
^ean« the same thijagi " - ^
Beatiti ls of Franrte; cites a ca t io which ^rovw
imat the impressions made upon the consci^^
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Impressions.
ness during the eomnanaJbulistic state may be
carried into the nonnal or wakeful state. He
said to Miss E., whom he had hypnotized
*'When you awake you will say to Mrs. A. I
^^^3^very much like to have some cherries!"
A wjlae jafter waking she went to her ^iend
It^^iind whispered something to her. ^^
Hid: ^t know what you whispered ; t^0
you tonged for ci^erries ! /'How do yoi^ know
that?" she said quite astonished. 6n the
following day s|je bought some cherries to
satisfy her violent longing for them."
One time at Rochester, N. Y. I hypnotized
u young man who was strongly accustomed to
the use of tobacco. I impressed him while, in
tbe hypnotic state, that tobacco would be dis-
tasteful to him when in his normal state. On
the next morning as was his custom, ^he
filled his pipe, and was about t^smoke •
,^ut when he had lit his tobacco and com-
ihenced, it was so distasteful to him that he
could not smoke, thus we see— and this m
imt one case out of ihany in my experienoe-i*
jthal thp imiM-^ssic^s made upon the mind <Jur
;Ii^ tte conscious or unconscious state may be
carried fro m ono t o t tic o thc r^ V
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the consciousness of subjects while ia^e
.hypnotic trance is, that where the impres!
Bions aremade so lasting afto be carried i2
effect, weeks, months, and sometimes for y^
afterwards. Dr. Bjornstrom in Ms woS^
hypnotism, published by the Humboldt ^ub^
tl^l^u''' **"*"**' * "^^ ''•«'" Bemhelm, in
wh ch he says, "Miss G., was given the suL
t?I\ I **"* *™^- Another day he
said to her:- "In six days in th6 nLht
be ween Thursday and Friday, you wmt«
the nurse come to your bed and pour ooW
water over your legs." On the following '
fViday, she loudly complained that the nurse
had poured cold water on her legs during the
nighfc The nurse was called, but naturaJ# -
denied ,t. He then said to the patient :_"«
was a (Imam, for you know how I make yoo
hav^dre«Qs; ttie nurse has done nothing"
-Sto emphatidqi, tteciared that it was u*.
*eam ; for she had cl^rly 8«en M, frft ^ .
water and become wet;/ " "
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duration. In Aiigest, B.^ said to the Somnam-
bulist S. formerly a sergeant : — *'What 4^y of
the first week iu October, will you be at leis-
ure?" On Wednesday '^—'' Well, on the first .
Wednesday of October,, you will go to Dr. Lie-
bault ; at his house you will meet the Presi-
dent of the Republic, who will give you a \
medal and a pension." — ^' I will go there." —
Upon waking he did not remember anything
of it. B., met Jiim several times and gave him
other sugge8tion84n the meantime, tout did not
^^Upeak any moi-e of this one. On the thiid of
October, sixty-three days after the suggestion
B., received from Liebault, .a letter with con-
tents as follows : " The sopanambulist S., was
ere vto-day at ten minutes before ^eleven.
Wpon entering, after he had bowed tp M. F.^ '
who was in his way, he turned to the left to
Bay library, bowd| respectfully in a direction
where there was nobody, uttered the word
**fixo©Ueiicy,*' stretched out his hand ai^
said >ir^'' I tiiank your Excellency!" I asked to
whom he talked— To the President of the Re-
pmWte*^-— Ko «&6"was there. Onc^ more he
turned in the same direction, bowed respect-
fnll y and went away. Those who saw him^
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asked m if the fnan was insane. I assured
them that he was as sane as they or I, but
that another person acted through him, '
In the year 1880, I was in Wmdsor Ont
where I had several times hypi^ized a ihan
% tfee name of F. On one t^casion I .ug-
psted that when he got home, and had gone
ta bed, h^ would be awakened bv a Jarge
White Horse that would enter his bed-room.
He went home, went to his bed atid about
three o'clock !» the morning he heard a noise,
whicli awakened him and to his astonishment
he saw a large White Horse in his bed room.
Of course the Horse soon vanisTi^d foom his
^J^, but it carrifes^t the idealhat in som-
^!SSIj?^^^^® is ^i^monstrated a conscious
«iPfflpjM#hich ig not dependent upon the ^x ;
temajl senses for its manifestations. > ' ^
This pha^e of hypnqt&m J^s its cmmter^
partSn wh^Daii^ be termed involuntary
pomi^ambuiism or the phenomenon of dream-
ing. 1 How freguentiy have, we known or
read ^f persons who ^arreK got up in their
sleep knd performed SQme difficult act or sol-
ved s^me difficujy)robIem, which^ in their
wfii^of|i ] m nmr^ MBioy find it vci v JiffiL-uU
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. made upon our cipnsciousness by the sugg-QS-
tion of another person under the influence of
what is known as the hypnotic conditions,
and those which ar6 forced upon us by the
circumstances surrounding us, are equally
natural and mysterious. .
Jos. Hodgson 149 Gerrard St. E., Toronto
Canada, vouches for the following :— When
about twelve yfears of age he was living with
his parents on a farm, one and a halt miles
North of the J|||age of Brooklin, Province
of Ontario; |M|night he went to his bed in
the usual m^jg^, but upon wakin]^ the next
morning was Mrprised to find himsqlf in a
different room and bed. He could not account
for it, nor did he know he had ch^g-^aTiU
he awoke. The following night, both remindv
ed of his previous night'g experience and re-
quested not to repeat it. ; But again he un-
counciously changed as he did the night be-
fore. The third night, his mother , gave
him special instructions to keep His own bed.
^^t again he was ou his way down stairs
repeating his previous experience when the ,
sound of his own nam earonsftrl him fn a a^^ f^
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he was on the bottom step of the stairs -he
■ at once turned around, went to his own bed
and has never been in a somnambulistic state
since In changin^gfrorn . one b^ to the
; other he had to ci^ a large iwm, come
down a' pair of stairs without a railing, cross
another room and enter another in which-
there were two beds. There were parties in
both beds, yet no one heard him enter the
room. - ^
;^ When a boy at school in the parish of St.
Clear, m tB5 County of Cornwall, Eng. I re^
member being punished by my school teach-
er tor not trying to solve a probleniin-arith-
-raetic, I had been taxing my brain over the
sum and felt my position very keenly I
had been working over the problem all the
former part of the week until Thursday
and I-tave no doubt my faculties which
applied to such work became very much in-
flamed,^ weni home the Thursday evening '
as usual (after receiving as on the previous
days of the week a severe chastisement from
:» rather brutal ma8ter)aiid workwj at mytaok
until bed time with but very poor results
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but to my astonishment in the morning after
having got up and dressed myself on taking
up my slate I found that my sum was worked
out and the answer stated correctly. The
sight called to my recollection the fact that
I had been dreaming of my sum, and corres-
ponded with whp^t I thought I had done in
any dream. 1 have no other solution to this
phenomenon but that in my sleep I had got
up and solved the problem and again went
back to bed unconscious of what I didl *
We might cite many more cases that have
come under our notice, as well as those which
have come to%B through public journals,
and the narrations of the experiences of
"- others with whom we have conversed : but
we think sufficient has been given to show
the truth of the position which we claim for
hypnotism :— Ihat it is based updn the same
law, and g(jverned by similar conditions as
all other phases orsomnambulisn^.
But there is another phase of hypnotism
which may be classed under the head of som-
nambuli^n— viz— that which Theosophists
would call the projectionj^f the Astrial body.
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S eili! '"''J^*' ^°/^ f«^ «^°»e time the sub-
ject either seem to be in a deep trance, or
, otherwisee commence to talk^of s^Wects
■which are entirely foreign to the knowC
ofth:«T"^ ™« -"*:tion oSrS
> . Jj **« «"''J««t « sometimes brought abouHv
t^Xr' ^°^°*'^«'* his im up^n his
Dack over his paaskge from the spot where li
d?ti?„?f H "'^J''^ *°** unoont«>lable con-
and desoHt """?' *•*" ««bject to travel out
pfacel^foS r°*'' r""'"^ h«ve either taken
and tn^n f* happening ^^the time:
and in some instances this phenomenon has
be^ carried to such an extent that it aW
borders on what may. be termed "P^^ZT"
The Preje^on of ci^cieuanew.
- ^ °°y 0P« dffl im d to o o ncuulnrte tbMr^ -=
mmds upon an ^xperienc; ;fTh;7,sroJ
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wished the subject jto go witlf them to a for-
eign land, and describe the l?ind or home of
their birt|i, it was quite likely that the sub-
ject would be able to give such information,
providing, the person who desires to make the
test keep their mind in a positive condition,
and commencing with the present city, go
back over the passage, taking up the differ-
ent stopping places consecutively and local-
ities which lie bfet ween the city of R., and the
place to be described." One gentleman in the
audience asked that, '%e travel with him to
^ * JSngland. I at once called my mind off the sub-
ject and being in a passive state Mr. B., beca^|M:
''subject to the control of th^ positive conditiOT^
of the mind of the other, I questioned the sub^
Ject as to the locality he was in, when^n answer
to my first question, he described Castle-Gar-
^ den N. Y. Again I asked him what he saw,
he answered, that he saw nothing but water
outside of the houpe in which he was staying.
* To my next question he described the docks
at Liverpool Eng. The gentlemnn whose
/mind was controlling the subject was instruct-
ed to nod his head if the answers given by the
. fiittbject were Iti AAo^rdft&ee with tk& ide&6 (^
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his mind nodded his head in the affirmative
that he was answering the conditions of his
mind in describing the, locality as he went
along. To my next question Mr. B., answered
that he was in a house describing the house
which proved that he warriow in the home of
the one who was controlling him. When they
^ had arrived at this point, I told the gentle-
_^man who was controlling the subject that he
^rshould not go over the" house promisoously,
^ but that commencing with one room at a time!
he might tMnk of the furniture and location
of the rooms in the house, and the subject
would describe them accurately. The experi-
• ment was tried arid proved successful, lifter
this the gentleman asked me if he should ask
questions, I answered he might, when he ask-
ed the names and number of his family, which
were answered correctly by the subject. He '
asked if all the faiiiily were well, when the*<^
answer came No! He asked who is sick?
Your brother J? Did. you not see him lying in
the room above. This the gentleman did not
accept and became rather provoked. I at
once d,e8ired him to let the subject to me, and
I liquid ask questions, and we would see what
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wouM become^of it. ^ asked the subject to
go up to the room «ttd listen to what was said
and report to me who was there. He made a
few steps away from me and tlien came back
and saidi-'There is a woman in the room^besid© .
the mother and sister, theI>oc£or i^also stand^:
ing by the bedside and feelingiihe pulse of ,
the young matfiwho is sick/ Vl said go back j*
to the room and listen to wHat {.he doctor iias •
to say, then com^ bacSr^fea let me kno^v^e
did so, ai^d stated that the Dr. said, he is sink-
ing fast. I again sent him to the room, and
in a fe# seconds he came back and said; the
doctor says he is dead. In a few minutes after-
wards he went back to the room and came
back with the report, that* they were putting
large pennies on the young man's eyes and
tying a cloth around his head and under his
chin. All this time the brother in the audi-
ence protested that it was a fraud. But Jiow-
ever we kept a record of the affair, and allow-
ing for the difference in the time between the
. two countries, we found by correspondence
that the young man described, was taken ill
and died very suddenly on the evening and
-bour in whic h t hk ioeance l ^iokr place.
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■^ This phenomenon h whatSpiritualists w^uld
call Clairvoyance : what Scientists wo„l/call
Telepathy, and ia a similar phenomenon tl tZ
which has come down to us from theXrL
times as lospimtion or Prophesy.
PremoRitlons.
Tna symposium of what he cills "real
ghost stories," Mr. Stead, the edifor ofX
European edition bf^the Review of/Reviews
prints two remarkable dream inclnts. Mr
Stead quotes among others a stoX from the
accumulations of the Society ofpsySical
Res^rch which "is full of the /rag foS
nation which attaches to the Jtn^^
de^h r"- T'^^'y wamedlf hfcomi«^
death struggling in vain to. den the ev^
Zi^ ""fu^ ^T^ ^**«^ andlltimately per-
: ishing withm the sight of tl^e to whom he
M. Fleet was third matfe on the saitin^
r^?Hr'''T«.^'^P'''^^*'r'«^ Adelaide fo?
London m 15i2Ai3 r\^^^i»Jt^ ^*
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mas morning, as the Persian Empire was pass-
ihg Cape Horn in il^eavy gaJe, he was ordered
with the rest of his watch to secure la^jt)oat
hanging in aavits over the side. ^ He and
another got into the boat, when a fearful sea
broke over the ship, washing them both out,
of the boat into the sea, where they were both
drowned. ^
The dream made such an impression upon
him that^e, was' most reluctant to join the
ship, but to overcame his scruples and sailed.
On Christi^^eve when they were near Cape
Horn, Cleary had a repetition of his dream,
exact in all particulars. He uttered a teri-
ble cry and kept niuttering, "I know it wiU
come true." X
On Christmas day exactly as he had forV,
seen, Cleary and the rest of the watch were
ordered to secure a boat hanging in the da-
vits, Cleary flatly refused. He said he re-
fused because he knew he ;would be drowned,
that all the circumstances of his ^jpeam had.
cSme true up to that moment and if he went
into that boat he would die: " He was taken
below to the captmn, and his refnsal todis-
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the.chief officer, f^Ve Douglas, the p6n to
m^ his name, deary suddenly looked at
him and exclaimed : " r wittgo to my duty
for now I know the other man itfmy dream "
He told Douglas, as they went von deck, of
hiadream. They got into the boat, and when
they were all making tight a heavy sea
struck the vessel with such forcfe that the
crew would have been washed overboard had
^they not clung to the mast. The boat was
, turnefloyer, and Douglas and Cleary were
flung into the sea. They swam for a little
time and then went do^wn.
. _, Here is another thrilling saite story Ijpar-
1% on the subject of apparitioMat the mo-
ment of death : »
A great gust of wind siezed the halfslack-
ened maintopsal and 'sent it fluttering into
fragments. At theyame moment the ship
reeled-nearly on her beam end8,^and, above
the howling of the gale, we heard « sudden
cry of despair. I was horrifled to see an ap-
prentice, J P__, sent whirling head-
long from the mast-head into the sea. Even
yet I oMi see'the look of agnoy stamped on
upturned face, and I can hear the very
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tones of his heartrending cry, "Oh ! Lucy,
Lucy," as he disappeared forever in the dark-
ness below^
lifter the storm abated, the captain made
a careful note of the exact time of the occur-
ence, ihe position of the ship and other par-
ticulars. ^JHe seemed struck at my mention
of the exclamation I had heard failing from
the poor fellow's lips ai^ he clutched in vain
at the yielding air.
"Ah,^ he said, that must have befen his
sister, V-— r~, to whom he was greatly attach-
The rest of the voyage passed without in-
cident, and as soon as the ship arrived §it
Liverpool I made my way to the train which
was to take me to Manchester.
I was walking freely along the platform,
when I saw the. face of an old gentleman,
who, with a young lady on his arm, was
ell^wing his way through the crowd. His
resemblance to our lost mate was so striking
that I stood and looked at him. The young
lady's eye's happened suddenly to meet mine.
Instantly she gave a violent start, uttered a
low 8CFeam,^nd^x e laimed, ^^ Oh, kKjk^^t^^
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the fac^of my dream !" stared at me aa if
fascinated Her companion gently rallied
her, and half led, half carried her to the
nearest waiting room. As he passed he beg-
ged me to come with them and h^n^ mei
his card.
When we were alone the old gentleman
explained th^t the sight 6f my face had re^
minded his daughter of a very peculiar and
unpleasant dreani, to which sh^ still persist-
ed in attaching Importance. He said, "At
the present momeht, indeed, we are on our
way to discover if the owpers of my son's fehip
have received any ne^ of its arri vaL*!
I said, **I am an apprentice on the C-
and have bi^ately left her- lying in the
harbor." 4
"The^," the young lady cried, "I must be
right. It must be true. TVas that man's
face r saw gazing at Mm as he fell, t saw'
Joe's ship in the midst of a fearful storm,%nd
him clinging to the slippery shrouds. A
bright flash seemed to pass before my^yes,
and I saw him falling backwards into the sea.
r saw y o ur fa ce in the momo n tary^^^^g^^iiRJ
I woke terrified to hear tba sound of my own
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name— 'Oh Lucy { Lucy i '—whispered ih my
ears.'' '■ ■'- -v .., ; ^w^- / ; '' .■
The expression of my face must Have con-,
veyed but too well the meaning of my silence*
-^ >'My Crod," eriea Mr.: , ''it i^^true then?
Ishedead?" / ,
I stsimm^t^d— "Too true, sir. Yes j every^
word of it ! I was beside him at the moment, •
and even tried to 3a ve him."
* On comLparing' notes we found that s{he
dreamed the very day, and allowing for thl
diference^ in longitude, even ^e very hour
when the accident occured !
When t left England I was quite young,
and my father, (whom .1 left behind) felt the
sepamtipn so keen^: that in three days after
Xleft he had to quit business, aHid seamed to
gradually sink boiieath a lodd of grief, until
J had reached this couptry and had time to
write him a letter ; and when my letter reach-
ed England and. was carried to my father, it
seemed as though he was^ wating to hear from
me before he died.^ The letter was read
to him, and when finished my father exclaim-
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t^is time-as. near as we could, compare the
difference between the two countrie&-I was
laying on my bed in my boarding phjce riot
_ teeljng well,, on accpunt of the chan^ of cli-
mate, water, etc.;— but at the same time I
r^- was conscious I was not asleep,— I saw" my
3 father as plain as I had ever seen hin^n my
Me; and I heard him say as distinctly asl
had ever heara him speak; "I am salisfied^
and saw hip sink back into his bed W die
-^ At this time I did not know th^t ihy father
was sick, I arose foom my bed, and went dowii
.stairs, and told ar^youhg. man who camefrom
'Englandwith mewhati had seen and heard.
The young man supposed I had been dtdam-
• .mg; which I could- not dispute, although l'
^was satisfied I wSs awake. The young man
remarked: " Yoiir father. was well when we
came away, ana I^can see no reason why he
sjiould be dead br even sick.'" I remaxkei}
that his saying was true, . I tried. to dismiss
tje subject ffx)m. my miad Kn^think no more ■■
of itr^- But in about three days afterwards I.
was again lying in tfe same condition, when
I had a vision mf. ipy fathfir's frineral. I oaw
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sa^ the Minister who officiated on the occa-
sion] saw where my father was buried even to
the spot of ground and many other pfeirticulars.
What made the matter more interesting to me
aft^rwavds, was the fact that my father was
buried in a new Cemetery, in a different par-
ish, froita that in which he !^ied ; and althd&gh
in, the skme parish with -my mother yet in a
different grave yard. The whole of which
was contrary to what I should have expected.
I again made known my vision to my friend,
tod although it seemed stra^ige to us both,
we still though it must be a dkusion. How-
ever, I made a note of what I saw in my vis-
ion, and in a week or two afterwards I re-
ceived a letter stating that my father wiEii
dead ; he died at the time. I saw him in
mjr vision, and his last words were, "I am
satisfied," in respoi;3©-*er my letter. Also
he was buried where I saw him and the
whole circumstance was as I had seen it in
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Quotations' froKOi CI«port» of ttie Psyolilo Kesearoli
Boplety, In London Bnirland,
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two years ago, in the morning, while I was
perfectiy wide awake, and looking at ^ lamp
burnmg on my washstand^Ha person aa
I thought, came into my rooin by mistake
and stopped, looking in«^ the looking glass
on that^ble. It represented Mr.-^— , by his
dress and weaj^g his hair long behind.
When I raised Wyself up in bed and called
out It gently san^ away downwards."
It appeared afterwards that the orignal of
the apparition died that morning. He was
a cousin of the gentleman and once Hy«d
with him eight years, though at the tiffie of
the apparition he was not in his mind, as he
lived several miles away. The figure was
visible nearly a mimfe.
; The reader might ask, "should I have seen
It had I been there?" The argument that
apparitions are produced by a transfer of
thought or impulse from one mind to another
allows the belief that an apparition may be
seen by any one who happens to be present^
This transfer of iinage may be made by a ^ir^
ect effort of the will, or, V no will effort is
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latent JtJapjpoTt conditio n
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Oiie Sunday night a friend, without hav-
ing given the slightest hint of his intention,
concentrated his mind for some ijainute^ on
the idea of appearing to two frieiids, three
miles away. When they next visited him
they said they ^'spent a strange Sunday
night," for they distinctly saw him in their
room at precisely the same- time, he, bent<1iis
will thither. /
This case is more eastlf believed than the
other case quoted, because the dying man
probably was noj then thiffkingof his cousin. .
Although in the sense of helplessness and
collapse that immediately proceeds faintness
and death, the idea of distant scenes and per-
sons is apt to recur in very vivid flashes.
Is an apparition or a fantasm an hallucina-
ticm of the sense of sight ? Is the appearance
of a figure or an image of a person, who is
dying at a distant place real or deceptive?
It is an hallucination.. It is not the hallucina-
tion of a diseased ihind, but one produced 'by
an unusual condition in some distant person.
Death wraiths and the like, ha ving their_
real cause outaide We precipient and thus
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conveying true information, are truthful
hallucinations; as deluding the senses of the
percipient they are no more than common,^^
every-day deceptions of a morbid or an ab-
normal mind. The judgement is not deluded
butthesiBnseis. Many persons suffering from
hallucinations know perfectly well that the
^figures seen by them were only phantasms
but they saw nevertheless. It is really less
difficult to understand the appearance of the
image of a person who is dying at some other
place, than it is to understand ordinary illu-
sions where no assignable condition is pres-
I ent. In the case of a death-wr^ith the con^.
nection between a particular rare effect and
a particular rare cause can be readily appre^
hended on the ground of telepathic impulse
or, in plainer words, mind speaking to mind.
- » DBKSSJTD IN WHITE, FLOWING ROBES.
" The impulse, thought, impact, or whatever
name applies to the power of mind in a dying
person passing over to another at a distance,
takes, in the mind of that other, color, form,
or peculiarity, borrowed from the mind affact'
e<i. The samflfeoccurs In dreams where an im
pre8«i<wi receim when awake mingles" Itself
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> with all sorts of scenes and ideas in the mind
— • of the sleeper. Apparitions take shape fpom
the mind that sees them, and also from the
scenes around the mind.
When a ship was all under plain sail off
the pitch of Cape Horn, a seaman who had
started aloft to bend the fore top gallant fl ang
' his arms around the top gallant shrouds till
he was lowered t^ the deck. As he kept look-
ing to the windward a* the squall, suddenly
in the midst of it, he saw his sweetheart,
dressed in white, flowing robes, come flying
down toward him before the winc^ It was'
afrerwards proven that ^he died in Mgland
at that very time. In this case a sailor's mind
invested the transferred impression with its
own clothing of imagery. A lieut. -colonel
was sitting on'^a verandah one evening after
dinner, in India, when, all at once, in the .
middle of an ordinary conversation; he dis-
tinctly saw before him the form (tf an open
'■ coffin with a favorite lister lying m it appar-
v-.>ntly dead. He told what he saw, and all
looked upon it as a'joke. Walking home with
ao 6fficer he was told to midte j » aote of the
day and hour. Letters came th^re from Eng-
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land only every three months, alid the last
said his sister was well. Nearly three months
after this vision a letter was received an-
nouncing the sister's death on that vm^ day
m the morning. , Allowing for longitude the
i43orrespondence of time was practically exact.
The telepathic impression in this case con-
nect^ itself with the familiar image of a
V coflBn, because in the officer's mind, death and
a coffin were associated just as death and the
^ sea were con- joined in the sailor's mind.
,^| h IN HELI^HAX^F AN HOUR. ^
The late Dr. Pusey vouched for the truth
of the case of the two clergymen, called for
the purpose, A and B, who were seperated
from each other, and were great friends. One
afternoon A was in Ibis garden and saw the
igure of B approach, and hearcihim say '* I
ha'^ been in hell for half an hour because I
loved the praise of men more than the praise
"of Gbd." ■ r . / ■ ;«t-- ;*^
It was shown that B had actually died siid-
denly on that day, shortly before his appekr-
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igc i In A^fl m in d o f w ha t follo ws de at h mav
nave started into dream-like vividness when
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wprkB dressed as she had described. -
|4 Mend of mine, belonging to Edinburgh^
who has been in Florida, U. S. A., for some
years past, had run over for a holiday in the
summer of 1887, and happening to visit the
^rks he had formerly surveyed, had occ%
sioh to spend the evening at the above house.
It was on Saturda^y evening. Ihe conversa- -
tion .had been drifting somewhat toward
mesmerism or sitoilar topics, when this young
lady, without any warning whatever, went
off into what might be termed, the abnormal
condition of waking trance.
She proceeded to describe riiinutely what
was going on in thop^lorida plantations--^
much to Mr. S.'s amazement. Then she
passed from that to his father's house in
Edinburgh, the rooms and occupants of which
she detailed accurately. Then she con^
menced the relation of a fire which was taking?
place. It was in Newcastle **0 ! there are
two men killed I" she cried. Again, she pro-
ceeded to recite to Mr. S. the contents of some
letters she extracted from his pocket„ though
he did not remove the envelopes. Mr. S.,
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: ■ appertammg to the occult domah^ of natute
gravely assured me that at -this sta^e of the
^ proceedings his hair literally "stood on end "
Then her sister quietly suggested that the
supper was almost ready and almost immed-
..lately the change occurred which placed~
her once more ewmj>por< wit)i her physical
surronndingK ^
. Now one of the fore^ing i/ the fact that
the newspapers of the following Monday con-
tarns an account of a fire that took place at
Newcastle on Saturday night, and detailed
ine tact that -two men were killed" at it
Again, there was actually no apparent con-
nectmg Imk betweeirthe personalities of any
oae present and the town of Newcastle
Another remarkable circumstance is the case
and naturahiess with which she pas^ into
and out of this abnormal state, neither she
nor anyone else present, knowing anything
about the science or metaphysics of occult-
^ . ism. It would seem as if God does not de-
pend on the teachings of dogmatic ^theo^og-
laps for the eternal facts of nature.— Theoso-
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appreciation of man so "fearfully and wonder-
fully made," and an uplifting of hira upon a
higher plane ; that plane whereon he can be
recognized as only a '^little lower than the
angels." ^
Another very intei-esting; experience of this phenomena
was given through the columns of the Bbligio Philosoph-
ical Journal, a few weeks i^nce.
In the west of Scotland, amongst the Ajt-^
shire hills, lives an engineering inspector of
pure Highland descent. He and his family
are well known to me, as I was one of the
engineers connected with the works still un* ♦
der his charge. The youngest of his lhre6
daughters is normally healthy, merry and
witty. At times, however, she evinces un-
doubted psychic faculties of a high order;^
And it may be noted that she has all her li%
shown a strong aversion to meat--in fact,
she never eats meat at all. Her diet is simpl^i
and pure. On one occasion she informed an
Edinburgh, doctor, when in Ayrshire, that
on his return to Edinburgh he would be c§ll-^
ed upon to visit a person in Stockbridg© dis-
trict, and that he wotdd have to cross^STol^
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that fetockbndgre was not near his usual cir-
cuit to patients in Edinburgh, and before his
return to that city, a few days afterwards,
he ha<i foi^tten ^11 about it. But suddenly
- summoned to attend a patient, he found him-
• self crossing an old wooden bridge. In a
flash he remembered the prophecy, and sim-
ultaneously realized that he was in the very
' centre of the Stockbridge district.
This shows the possession of clairvoyant
: prescience by the young My in question,
and not mere thought-transference It is
scarcely necessary to add that she herself
knew no one in Stockbridge, and had really
no connecting link whatever to lead her to
such a statement except the presence of the
doctor at her father's house in Aryshire
. On another occasion she informed the
members of the family at breakfast that I
was on my way from Edinburgh to the works
a4)acent to her home, and that I had on a
^ey^check tweed suit. I had not had time
to mform her father of my intended visit to
the works, but j ye en ou gfe , w ithin th i ^
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the impact or impression from bis dying friend
arrived. •■ ■ i\' .*,,./■:.,;-' "'"' •. ■ ^>-.;,
These caaes, and they could be multiplied
to tiresomeness, illustrate the principle now
established as to the coloring giyen an appar-
ition by the mind affected i)y the person dy-
ing. There are those who for want of intelli-
gent study of psychic pheiiomena, mamain
that death- wraiths, apparitions or hallucina-
tions occur by chance at the moment of death,
that they are mere coincidences. The answer
to this is that in morbid hallucinations the
phantom is recognized by its countenance
while the dress and surroundings are |iot so
minutely observed as- if one says :
"I saw my father as I used to see him." It
was my mother as she appeared when alive."
While it is an image one could make out of
his own mind, it is al^ such a one as would
be transmitted from the mind of the dying
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. THE DBESS OF THE DEAD.'
There are many cases of death.wraiths
whei:e the dress is a very conspicuous feature
and attracts a large share of the attention
even where the percipient~was not awafe^r
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an0 faint ghe said she saw . horrifele vision '
W f!-Sf r^f ^"^ ^y^°^ *«» *e floor at
her teetllhe features, of the face were partly
. Wered by a cloth mantle but enough was
shown to convince her that the bod^r wi that
ofaprommeit Enrfieh kni'ght. The next
daj^^t.was leame(f^khe had been drowned
by the upsetting of a boaJ, and the b9d*-«6 >
afterwards entangled in a boat cloak
■These illustrations, exemplify the general
^^: *hf*Jy-->nedi4not yetCS-
^It -"""?!! ? lying'person traLmits
aa impression to the mind of some dist^\per.
son, consciously or nnconsfflousty, by virti^of
some sympathy or relation, more or less inti-
mate existing between the two.' Science is
merely on the threshold of ^this realm of in-
vestigation. Its exploration will doubtless
bring into Ajew, depths of human nature n6w
unRQown, a nd c a pa citioo now b u t Jlmly con-
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Moliere, a well known physician, to a repori^-^
er of the San Francisco Chronidei "I'm not
a superstitious , man, nor do I believe m
dreams, but for the third or forth time in fny
life I have witnessed a premonition. I got
aboard car No. 81 on the Sutter street line
at the ferry yesterday, to ride up to my office.
As usual, I walked to the formrd end of the
car,^ took a seat in ther corne^with my back
to the driver, and pulling a paper from my
pocket, was soon deeply engrossed in the^^
news. Suddeifily something said to me, ^go to
the Other pid of the car. ' Acting on impulse,
I changedrmy seat^ and so rapid were niy
movements that the other passengers in the
noticed them. Remember I wS sitting jn ^
firfet p&i^ with my back to the driver. I^!?*
paying no a^toitiba. to anything but my news*
paper, ahd'iplj&j^B^^ if I may so call
it, could ^^^pM^^^e 1^°^ *^^y outside in-
fluence,' sucl^^^elng ^proaching danger,
- but sir, I had hot been in my new seat more
than five Becojids when tHe tongue oTalSeav-
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As I said," continued the doctor "I am
dentai^ ^ •!'' connection with bther inci-
dents Ota similar nature qccurin« ia mv lift
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it was a bitter cold night, and when I entered "
the fendS^ in a C C°^ '"^ ^f* *^"
chnnc-Hi.! / *™® * gentleman
?he tf 1^:: ''** *'?*^ ^^'^^ ^^d «at Lside me.
and the din ™°« '^t '^ ^gh rate of speed, '
c^i^d S^shT ,""**' *^« heater in 'the
*^ rea not. Suddenly t^ae mmn tA .„ ^ ''
premonition of danger itiJPtSn ♦ ^ ^
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:^uld be in a bad,t)laoe. iVe would dertainly
i6 hurled, oh a yed hot jfcoi^;V At thi «feie ih-
stimt, and before my seat mate dbuld reply,
the iinpulse to grasp the end of the seat came
upon me, sb strong I could not resist it and
hardly had my fingers closed upon the rail of
the seat when there ^$me a crash and the cah \,
Wf^ere in was thrown violently froni the^-
track. T clung* to the seat, and my compan- "
ion, when thrown forward, narrowly toissed
. the stove. My jpositlon In the seat was stich,
that hatfl been pitched headlong ad he was 1
could not have nijssed the heater. A broken
rail caused the accident, but what caused me
to grasp the seat as I did I would like to know.
^Speaking of Dr. Moliere^s story to a sport-
ing man, the latter said: "Well, IVe hAd
the dame sort of experience once or twice in
my life. I'm superstitious. I admit it. Of
course fellows laugh at mfe, but for all tilftt I
believe I Ve got some sort of a guardian angel
that whispers to me when I'm in danger.
Maybe it's one of the wrong sort, for they do
*ay the devil takes care of his own ; but wrong
bertfcitt.
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One-time I was dt a race course and was up
gUte graad stand. I was broke and wanteJ
LtT" "•T ^™ ^^' '^y^- 'r'»«^ were nS
taaoy. on the stand ; k wasn't half flJJed, but
m^o^tof the place. I had not got. clear
dow. Ujestoirs when |J.e whole stSd S
^om. with a crash, and the fellow who was
a^^ug right next to ftawi^shed o^fof'u
tSrwV""'*''''^ ^y ^ '-^«« bean,
thilt smashed he whole row of seats we we.e
warl^l^H^f ,f 'T^^"'""**^*'''«'^« been
PM to me when. I go <p pul my money on the
W«.ng horse I'd be a millionajre in a mpnttu"
^J^'^^^.?^''^ ""^ "^«' o«t eight mifes
|ey with his wife m a light buggy to which
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overturning the rig and precipitating Clark^
into a patch of cactus by the side of the road.
^He was thrown with sudt force thaf 'his leg
was broken below the knee so that the large
bone pierced through the iMn, His face was
terribly lacerated by the cactus and some of
it penetrated four thickness of clothing and
lodged itself a half an inch into the flesh.
His wife was cjjtrried some distance further,
when she, too, was hurled into the cactus and
sustained several severe bruises in the face
and chest. Beyond a thorough shaking up
she was not badly injured. In the evening
Mr. Clark was called upon by a News reporter,
-who found him laughing and joking over the
mishap, although in intense pain. *^This
accident is a result of predestination," he said,
*for several people say they have dreamed
about this, and a fortune teller told my wife
before we were married that she should
marry a man who .would be all . battered up
by a horse. Mrs Hidgeway told me on the
road that she had dreamed of this and she
described the accident without having seenv
it. : Then when Dr. Clark, who is my cousin,
came in he said "CharUe I dreamed y<m
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broke your leg night before l.st," and then
we toid him about the other dreams." \ i
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A strange story is furnished from I>i,?
buque, Iowa, the truth of whith is vouchetl
for by the city officials. About ten
days ago Michaer Conley died; he was
discovered in an outhouse on the Jeftersoa
house premises. His body was taken to the
morgue and the old clothes he wore when
found were thrown aside. When his daugh "
ter in Chickasaw county heard of his death
she fell into a swoon. In her dreiyns she saw '
the clothes he wore when dying, and received
from him a message saying he had sewed up '
a roll of bills in his shirt. C »n recovering she
demanded that some one go to Dubuque and
get the clothes. To quiet her mind her bro-
ther visited the city, received the clothes
fh)m the coroner, and found the money sewed
on the shirt with a piece of her red dress ex-
actly as she had described, though she knew
nothing about the jstch dnr the money »r^^\\ '
after her father's A^th.-Conkecticm
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Hiss D^. aiid her fatlier who had. lately
^ ine to occupy an old JaQobeaA -house in
Scotland, which they rented, not kijowiug
all its history or content^ only thai it had
been occupied by some Jacobites at tSe tinao
of the Rebellion. . I /
Miss D., says that one night, sopn aftei:
settling into the' house, she had an alarming
dream, which gave her such a shoc^ that she
•woke tip with the fear of sopie terrible dan-
ger about the house, to which she felt all th^ '
inmates were exposed. With growing coBb^
sciousness, the details anc^ cause of dangS
faded from her mind, and she calmed herself,
as it was but a dream. <^ night or two later,
she woke up with th^^ame horrible dreai^
of m immediate ^atastl^oBh^ impending tf .
the house. Again she cali^^d herself, and
was able to rest till next mdri^ing, when i^he
told her horrible dream. '^ , '^
But a third night she had a similar dreamy
of horror and of immediate danger in the^
house, but on waking could liot recall what,
oi^~wh^erW ^^ tfaeiK>urce of dangler. 4kOttng
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to the moment?8 impulse and the third dream
she arose and called her father from his
^umb^ imploding hini to Ijelp I,er search
■f *rhey both forthwith went all over tile
ramt)lmg old, mansion, searching high and
^J^ Jill they came to an old lumber-iwm of
t Which they ^ere ignorant, where they per-
ceived a smell of smoge. Here they foSnd
some old wood on the floor was smouldering
and close by, under the same ceilinir were
CASKS 8towe4 away, wixich they quickly found
contain^ ora^wDEB. Ihey called up the
household ana quickly extinguished the
.smQuldering wood «re it burst into flames ^
and dragged away the casks with speed.'
By thisprpmpt search in consequence^
dream, the whole house was saved from
-explosion and conflagration,
•liS&fr^ ftM-^cts. Can anyone. explain
• a1 ^aterial events are foreseen and reveal-
. ed before they oqcur? Are they represented
on th^ atmosphere of the psychic world, and
seen thus by the clairvovant?— o T G in
Light, I^hdon. ^ " ' * "
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-The Doctor Cured a Woman of Violent Hjittrlci.
New York March 17.— Mrs. Mary Marcus,
;of Williamsburg; is a woman of very ner-
vous temperament anJi during the past few
years has develdpetf hysteria, which has
manifested itself in many ways, Recently
\8he became JbysteriQal and when Dr. Silas
0. Blaisdell arrived she was breathing at the
rate of 130 or'f4a times a minute and her
respiration was so violent that it could be
heard atll over the house. Her pulse was
normal, but her throat was more or less in-
flamed and the chest muscles, owing to the
violent strain placed upon them, were giving
her considerable pain. She found it impOs-
sible to articulate two consecutive words.
The physician, after examining her, came t<^.
the conclusion that the case was one of hy-
steria, pure and simplp. He applied the
remedies usually prescribed in such cases,
but found that they were useless, aad at last^
concluded tliat an appeal to her mentaUty
rather than to her bodHy beiijg #oirid be the"
only way of efl^ecting a cure. The physician
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h^avoic6 which would be fieani to advan-
S Ln •. ' '^'^''"" ^'t'' «^«° a sterner
nng than It possesses naturally
> in "^^^' °^°^" he said, '^top that breath-
;;i«a^,-t," gasped the patient.
«t'^if "! ^T" ^^^*^y *^« minutes to do
^ wr I*^** ^''^ physician, pixxJucinir his
Sous t^!!^"'°5''P"''^ ^°d ««" M«.
' S f? r f ""''^^"^ <*<■ '^inff better.
^ T^f the physician roSe to his feet and in
a nngmg voice asked for a poker Theim
, . ur?®"* * «'«*«'• to put in the flre*
w-fi-a-t a-r-« y-o-n ff-o-i-n-ir ^^ h^,?.. *
•Bkedtl^ sufferer betweefbi^L. '"''
' »* Rlaioin *^/ 8?'°* to do^ madam?" said Dr
•^ BlaisdeU with his eyes flashing. "Iam«»iW
to cauterize you from the napeofXeS
to your waist on both sidesof^^^Xr
'sa id t he dooto ',
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painful, but necessary. In the event of youp
submitting to it, well and good. If otherwise^
I shall U3e force." Then turning to the other
^ woman, he asked : ^'Is the poker cherry red?"
/ ^'It is," was the reply. ;
"Theii prepare for the operation," he said
to the patient, and dexterously turning her
on her face he drew down the bed-clothes and
toW the sister to hand him the poker before
it got cold. *
Believing him in earnest Mrs. Marcus*
fright got the better of her hysteria, and in
' a perfectly natural voice, accompanied by
normal breathiug, she begged the doctor not
to burn her. ,
'Dr. Blaisdell didi^'t relent so easily^ hot^
ever, anditwas not until after so many tears
a^nd prayers on the part of the patient that
he consented to put away tlie poker. •
'*I warn you, hpwever,? he said,^i;hat if I
^ hear of the return of»this nonsense of yours
I.shall cauterize you at all hazards. Yt)u can
check that breathing if you see fit. I am in
earnest."
Mjrs. Marcus h^^ not had a return of the
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PART SECOND.
In the first part (rf our work we bare de*
votM its pages principally to the narrations
of nhenomena. In ^art second we shall dwell
moje especially upon "the reason why" of
these phenomena. This we purpose doing by
a series of questions and answers similar to
whkt inay be done in our classes on psychol-
ogy. I t^e this method of writing upon the
subject, because I consider it the most simple
method of explaining the principles inyiolyedi
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«U6stie«8 Pertaining to 'thelnod^s
V OperatiRg.
count -k£^ ,1. ^"^ '^"^ '*?»»• «y««,
comtrfheir pulse, or iooTc at a disk, which i»
^^^es given to mbiects to lu^dZtZ
'm Wm- All -these different modes ' ^
;^r*ttng axe used to concentmte tl^^ J ■
thought ot being controlled by the operator
80 W as the eyes of the subject to^ conl
trowed are wandering from ol^ect to obS
flwf t'i'r "°**^' '"^'^ conditions it s
^^ys hard to get the control of theper^n.
to be mesmerized.
«***«, or by the same method of operhting ?
Aimrm, ~ ^Q\ An we have Btal
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18. thil(» are three conditions of MentSty
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through which influence of Mesmerism or
Hynotisra may be produced. Some persons
are easily influenced by the po\^r of concei^- ;
trating the mind upon an object, others are-
more easily controlled by expostulation or
reasoning upon the subject in which you de*;
sire them to become interested; while others^
can only be controlled through the propen-
sities of fear or plfishness. :y,.,.:-S-^.:^. t''--
Question. — Have you any n^ethoij ofMte7%
mining this difference in individuals without
having to try the various experiments? ' ,/
Answer, — Yes ? We can determine these
differences by a knowledge and observance of
Phrenological development ; persons who ar»
tft^ l^ost easily fascinated, are these in whoiB
the organ of Continuity — or Coi|centration—
is largely developed ; hence thereis a fuUnesa
in the back part of the head, rendering it in •
shape somewhat like the end of a Cocoa-Nut.
Those in whom the organ of CausalitJ^ Indi-
viduality and Comparison are largely de-
veloped, Which gives breadth and fullness to
the upper part of the hea(}, are those with
w:h!Q|] | | W Q, hi| v o tp oxp oetuMc, or rftaso a. t
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8^-who" are dontrolled through fear «r.p
aie 8tnall, and m whom the organs of Caut
persons of excitable temperament arf usua ll
oontrbUed through fear, w -^^ . J^®"*'*^
^nMer person a peculiar gift bestowed upon
the operator, or is if something wUch auC
sons can obtain t ^n au per-
\^Z^1^ '' "^ special gift of I^amre to
any particular person ; but should rather be
oons dered as a natural phenomenon which
5^ e^ itself in thousands of iJ^Z
wftere there are no pretentions' at what is
Sisror""'^"" ''^^>-= -^^
there is no living operator, except the force of
circumstances Which surround tl ii^i^dua,
who becomes Psychologized ; read pages l^fi
d^T^-^''' '' *^ ^^* ^^^ential con-
o^aer to become hypnotised?
AHswjg^onfldence, or faith to beliovo in
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^Whicli ai*e provided, Without thi« condition
oftcQnfidence on the part of the subject it ie
impossible to control the mind. And where
this confidence is established no effort is
necessary on th^fpart of an operaJtop other
than the mere suggestion of an idea whinK
demands a Iwdily responsti as in the case of
the two young men in the Sunday School
spoken of on yage 62. There are different
metiiods of Qstablisliing this confidence on the
part of the subject, in accordance with the ideas
which people have of its influence and power.
As for instance when a'^erson having no faith
in the phenomena at all or otherwise believe
it to be ^mply the influence of the strong
mind over the w^k, render themselves
positive against its influence, for fear of being
considei-ed weak-minded.
In such cases yoti can easily gain the con^
fldenM of people by simply stating that it is
not necessarily the influence of the strong
mind over the weak, but rather, the stronger
the mind the bettar subject a person wiU'
make; from the fact, that there is required a
Gonoeiilration of mind on th,e pari of the mUi-
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and that a^erson who^has concentration of
mind sufficient to make a good student, will
also proportionately inake a good subject for
typnotisii; Hence I often get the confidence
of those who would-^^her^ise be veiy obstin-
ate, when I thus appeal to their Intelligence.
For in proportion as they think it unmanly or
unwomanly to be considered weak minded
and would at the first, fight against the in-
fluence fo^ feat of being considered such,
under the influence of this new idea, that it
demonstrates intelligence to be able to become
controlled, they at once yietd their confidence
and render themselves passive in order to be-
come a susceptable subject ; even sometimes
when they have an idea that in order to be-
come mesmerijsed a persoii has got to lielleve
tha4; it can be done, which they have made up
theh- minds not to do. Hence, they often ask
the question can yon mesmerize or hypnotise
a person who does not believe in it. To such
I usually answer, that it is not a question of
whether they believe or disbelieve, for oft«
times those who are thejffrost sceptical are the
Wiiatt controlled. By «^^ph ^^ ^1,^^^ I up
mi their belief and render them negative.
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For they will consider that if it is not a ques-
tion of belief, and their confidence has noth-
ing to do with the ability to fight against yon,
then perhaps after all they are susceptable
subjects and hencegive you their confidence/
Thus you see while it is in reality a question
of confidence or faith, there are different
ways of gaining that confidence. ^
This position of confidence seems to do
away with the idea of absolute Will-Force on
the part of the operator by which he or she
controls the subject, and assumes the position
that the power which controls the body of the
subject IJ'es in the conditions of their own
mind. I'his is the true position so far as the
phenomena is based upon the influence of
suggestion. And the success of the operator
lies in his or her ability to establish confidence
in the Bubject: whether the, means used to
establish it i» that of J'ear, Persuasion or
Fascinatioil -• •
Question. — Does the confidence of the opera-
tor have any influence upon a subject ?
Anbwbb.— Yes f ' 1% proportion as our con
"fldenceiir anything ^im renders us earwealltr
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our undertakings, until that earnestness is felt
by those with whom we have to do or come in
contact 80 is it in Hypnotism, in proportion
*f7« have confidence in our ability to pro-
vide the conditions by which we get the con-
fldencp of the subject, will we become eamest-
Snd our earnestness will soon be felt by the
person upon whom we are operating. For in
proportion as we become earnest we become
positive, and we demonstrate our positiveness
.byour actions, thus the very action of our
bodies denotes our confidence, so much so that
■our gestures become natural, and there is a
steadiness in our movements and ga^e which
indicates thai we are master <rf the situation
Which commands control. '
QpB8TioN.-PrAa< U the princiimi: method
used by Hypnotists to control their subjects f
_ ANswEB—Suggestioni If we review the
different methods usediy the various Hypno-
Jiste from the days of Mesmer to the present
time we shall plainly see that this is the case.
Jn giving a (Ascription of the methods used
w » llf " ^^ "^ mo a t promino u t magUBU»ef9.1
•li*Il give you a few quotations from a pamp-
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Mesmer sat do wir opposite the person who
was to be mesmerized, grasped his hands, and
stared at his eyes. After ten or fifteen miii-
^ ntes he let go his hold and made slrokings
^v, with his hands at a distance of a few centi-
."Jm.^tres from the body of tlie medium, from the
.•iQjhf)! .the heaci slowly down ward, Jetting the
t'tip8^^Js|s fingers remain for a few moments
' on tge eyes, the chest, the pit of the stomach
and the -knees. This was repeated ten or fif-
';:t|Sfe.a;tim^8 ; if any effect appeared' the Seance
continued ; If not, the experiment was
riot renewed until another day. But as time
did not. allow the magnetizing of each person
sc^rately, and Mesmer besides maintained
that the magnetic fluid could aWbe stored
in various objects, he soon resorted to the
more convenient method of magnetizing in-
directly, through magnetized tables^ *'Bo-
quets," trees, flowers, magnetized water, etc.
Real mediums must feel a difference bet^J^n
magnetized water and ordinary water.
Through the for mer they fall asleep; thrmigh^
ibe b^ler they do not.
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The Indian magnetizers. of whom Dr.
Esdaile of Calcutta made use 10-1849—1850
proceeded thus : the medium, partly undress^
ej was put to bed on his back in a dark hall
The magnetizer placed himstlf at the head
^f the bed, leaned over the medium, bringing
hjs face almost in contact with the latter's
then staredat hirieyes. Onehandreetedon thb
pit of the medium's stomach, the other made
strokmgs, principally over the eyes. More-
over, he blew softly and frequently into the
nose, between the lips and the eyeballs '1 he
deepest silence prevailed during the entire
proceeding. , ■
Others.use only the method of fixing csich
other 8 eyes— as Teste and CnHerre.
^ Braid's method, widely known and used,
consists in letting the medium stare at a
shmmg object, a glass knob or some such
thing, which is held a couple of inches above
the root of the nose, so that the eyes are
obliged to take a position that makes them
converge strongly upward, by which the
™'!!"i^-"*^^ ^^ eyea get tired or the optic
nonro booomes over-Irritarea: arso it Is of
importance to concentnitethe attention upon
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the thought, that sleep may follow; This
method easily causes tears and headache. It
was used a great deal by the Danish mag-
netizer Hansen/ Ip ancient times, staring
at "mirrors, at the glistening surface of water
&c., was used. . , , : .
• The priest Fiipia's methods' belongs among
the purely psvchical . It consists in suddenly '
• f rightenin^the inattentive into sleep? He
used to rise suddenly, stretch his hands to-
ward those who were to be hypnotized, and
to cry out in a stern, commanding vqice:*
"Sleep ! "if four such attempts proved unsue-
.jcsasful, the subject was declared tc^l^e insus-
ceptible. This simple and convenietifmethod,
however, seldom succeeds, and whe"h it does,
it rarely causes any deep sleep and must be
sup^rted by other methods.
Lasegue has subdued refractory medlumi
by closing their eyelids with his fingers and
by gently pressing on their eyeballs.
, Charcot's school at La Sal^petiere has mod-
ified the Braid method, by placing pieOeS of ,
glass close to the bridge of the nose, by which
procedure the^convergeney of the eye is in-
c rcased a n d »l e ep cumeM liiore mpidl yrrT^r"
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blow on a gong or a pressure on some "HvtK
;nogemc or hysterogenic- zone-such as an
. ©vary, the top of the head, etc.- or aproach-
,,mgof ama^net wiUacton hysterical women
-OessmmiGi Vienna describes his method
~ m extenso thus : ^ ^ ^
: , "I choos^out, of the^company-a woman
having a pale and nervous appearance and
■ "Jreamyeyes ; I tell her that there is in mv
■ organism a strong evolution of electricity
.which enables m.e .to electrize persons who
are not too robust. As a proof of this 1 let
heir with both hands seize tw fingers of mv
right hand, and after a few seconds, I ask
whether she feels any thing. If ,^e is sus-
^^ptable to hypnotism, she usually answers
that she feels a crawling sensation, and later
8 numbness of the arms and upper part of
Jbe body. TB^n I say ; Hold my hand tight
-tight-^tighter stUl-well !•' Now 'you mn-
aot let go. my hand ." And the fact is thsft
•he can npt. By strokingB of my left hand
along her arms the muscular spasm increas-
es^ so that she can not let my hand go even
when aaked to do ho. Blowing on the hand s
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completely stops the spasm.
\'Bj this preliminary test J get a sure proof
that the person is susceptable to actual hyp-
notization, which is produced thus: I sit
down opposite her, make her close her eyes,
take her hands in mine so that the ^ur
thumbs are pressed against each other, tell
her to be quiet, and to yield unresistingly to
the first inclination to sleep. When she has
fallen to sleip— generally within ten or
twenty minutes— I incr^asie the sleep by some
strokings over her head and chest, and
try to induce her to talk ; this I easily achieve
by placing one hand on her head and taking
one of her hands in my other hand, while I.
—speaking towards the pit of her stomach-
ask : 'Do you hear me ?' which question must
often be repeated four or five times, before I
receive a very weak answer. Now is the
time to make further experimeats. At the
first attempt, however, one should stop here,
so as not to tire the patient. After twenty
minutes, at most she should be awalCfened,-^
which is done by the simple command:
^ Awake !' Yet she may first be asked if she
feels well, and be aooured that tift erawt ti^g
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she will feel entirely healthy and normal
If she herself prescribes some way in which
'■ S K ^'T *" *^ »^afeened, her wish should
" »^^ed If a simple onler does not suc-
ceed in Tvrakmg her, you may blow in her face
-or make reverse strokings; but violent means
such a* vigorous sh&king, sprinkling with
water, etc., should nevii^ be used ; nor should
strange persons be allowed to come in con-
tact, with her. If she still does not awake,
she may be allowed to sleep for ten or twenty
mmutes more, provided pulse and respiration
do not give cause for apprehension. Gener-
ally she awakes within that time of her own
accord." n ; ; " "
' t-Tf"^ investigation of the different
methods herein quoted, proves that the prin-
ciple foundation of every effect produced, is
that of suggestion; by means of which the
^rson hypnotized becomes subject to an
Woal, or otherwise a substantial influence
which brought about the desired efi-ect of the
hypnotize!-. According to the teachings of
Mesmer the effects were produced by means
°lA ™^^tic fluid, which
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This fluid he claimed to be so substantial
|th^t it Qould be stored in various objects,
c8uch as flowers, trees, water etc; and that
persons coming-in contact wrth these objecta
would realize the desired effect of the mag^
,^etizer as thcmgh they h&d come in personal
XJontaet ^ith him. - __ . . .^ .
Now while f do not deny the fact that we
ar^ constantly throwing off; a magnetism
which umst s6me what pregnate every porous
^ject we come in contact with; yet I do not
|)elieve the power w^ich was brought to bear
npon the minds of those who were induced to
sleep—which seems to be a fundamental
condition of Mesmert experiments— was the
Jesuit of the magnetic fluid, but rather the
su^^stions which were produced upcm the
consciousness of the subjects and the faith or
copfidencp which the subjects had in the in-
fluence or power of the magbetizer to do
what was suggested. , f
Pat us examine naore closely the foregoing
methods used by those who have been thf»
k^deys in the ranks of hypnbtizers.' Aa Mes-
mer grasped the hands of his subjects, g^zed
into thefa- eye q ^ o r mf^ i lp ^^ fp pf^a poq ft ^ ^km
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distance from their bodies; his whole method
was suggestive to the minds of his subjects
that an mfluence would be felt. And kcc6rd-
ing to their faith in the power of the opera-'
tor. made strong by the ideal suggested
through his manipulatiQns the results fol-
lowed No matter whether th6 method used
was that of staring at the eyes, stroking
J«th the hands or gazing upon flower^
^ or other objects which he was said to
have magnetized. So too with the Indian
magnetizers used by Dr. Ksdaile of Calcutta
The prevailing silence, the darkened hall
and reclining position were all suggestive of
sleei^ and were conducive to it by concen-
trating the mind upon it. None of which
are any more mysterious or wonderful than
Vie fact that when we go to ou/ beds at night
we become subjects to the same hypnotic
influence. < -'^
Why is it that some are more susceptable
to sleep than others, and that sometimes the
.same individual, is more susceptable than at
others? It is because it is harder for some
-Pe(^le tae^ cen jt rate their miuda t han others-
and when they have done so it is harder for
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^ them to change from one thing- to another.
Henpe such persons are apt to brood over
. things, and it takes a long time for any new
saggestion to fascinate itself upon their con-
' sciousness. AnS although the practice of
going to bed and closing the eyes are sug-
gestive of s^p, toihose whOsgatinot readily
give up eyeVother idea, sleep comes very
sparingly. And when a person who may be
considered a good sleeper i& troubled or
excited about anything else, the conditions
which ordinarily sugg;est8 the idea of sleep
seems to have but little or no effect upon him.
Thus we see it is the impression which the
conditions makes upion our consciousness and
not the conditions themselves which pro-
duces the hypno^ effect. Sleep under any
condition must be^a natural result and can
only be produced by calling off the conscious-
ness from all external objects ; and when
this condition is provided, whether by word
or deed, sleep will be the result. Hence in
operating for th^ purpose of putting a person
to sleep I make passes down over the eyelids
with the assertion "your eyes --w^ getting
heavy, y o u ayo booji ul ng Moi-e sl eepy, Mori:"
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sleepy still," until in a little whll^mZZ
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When he goes to bed at night, and the sleen
bemg ec^nally natural. ^1^^ .Xst/
.persons into the mesmeric sleep that then will
t never wake aaamt" r "
^ Answer.-! apprehend ho niore dan^ in
the mesmeric sleep than in what is teVmS the
natural slaep. That it is possible a perln
rdmir^Th^n^ °"* "' the'n,esmeric sTe p I
Xieept; S irt:j;'?,?~ '-'^
Mtoi,, * f^-' "* *"** '* '8 any more
other r « "T '° ^'^'^ ''"^ ««« th«'^ in the
other, I am not ready to accept. I know there
are ca.es on recoM where Aons^vrbZ
aroused, I have no doubt «of the truth of
otheL^wI h ' '"^ '"'•■^ ^''^'^ *•>« f««* that
others who have gone to sleep through other
T liDTrz. «^„ I , .. — "" t'ousciousness.
I have an uncle by the name of Mark BLAMKr,
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—who livfjd in a^yillage called St. Blkzey
Gate, in the County of Cornwall, England ;-—
I think it was in the year 1855, one Saturday-
afternoon, feeling a little wearied went to b^di
to get a little sleep before he went to prayer
■meeting in the evening ; failing to awake at
the appointed time some of the family tried
to arotise him, but to no effect. He slept on
^ until the i^^xt afternoon when he opened his
"^^ eyes,got up, dressed himself and ate his supper
^^ r in time for church on Sunday eveniiig instead
']■ of Saturday. When he fotind|that he had
slept so long he became some^ljiat alarmed.
; However he went to bec^ gg^unday niglrt,.
^ Went to sleep ^.ndnevejv^oke again. All
^.efforts to arotise him^re in vain; and on,;
the Wednesday f^llojvitig the Sunday hi*-'
breaching ceased: Tlie' question is; wiu^bgr
,^ |^3^§|f i^ed ? And^Bot what was the ^ea^0Tr^
- /Kb could not be restored to consciousness f
The answer is thei?e must have been some con-
stitutional defeat ; and if so in his case, and
many similaj that might be w^ioned, why
. not suppose that it is also conlitutional in
^^Qge who are put to sleep through mesmerism.
The law of sleep it ihe same t& all
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ever mav bA fK*» *v» .*i. j awaxe , what-
more difficulty in w^ninT' ^^"""^^o^^^
the platform i,S 7^7°» «««ne subjects on
*leeprthoa?h n"f f ^*'\'^'^ "«««"«« the
. PanvinirU^S **'°'"*'^^'^««>^aoco^..
'tUKr^K!^,Tf'-PP<>- That
over -notherlr iC:f ; :nd t.' ^'^
^^r.".!^^^^ ?^"ence of su^.
npon them. Suoh an influence ^ybJ
DIFFERENT MODES
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used by an operator to control a subject and
wher6 such an iaflueuce is used it is harder
for any one else tcf arouse them, especially
where the mind of the operator is in an oppo-
site direction. But the stories which are so
often published about one person hypnotizing
another and something happening to, the
operator, or tha operator going away and no
one .being ablp to arouse the sleeper has about
asjjiuch solid worth in it, las the testimony of
tli^yet unborn, in favor of some wonderful
remedy for the ills of humanity in the shape
of a ''patent medicine/' If the mind of the
operator controls the sleeper, which I believe
is of ten done, t^here can be no possible danger
in the practice that the same person cannot
arouse them, for it is only to reverse the de-
sire or intent of the mind and there is at once
|i counter influence. Should the operator die,
or Txm away, thus withdrawing his or her in-
fluence from the subject ; then any other per*'
son understanding the principles of psy^ol-
ogy may call the subject forth to <M>nscSou8-
ness/ 80 that in any citse the cry of tianger
is but an historical ''scale crow'* with nothing
isbi
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and rugu, ' SpeaUug c^ ihm In*
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pice at Sl^ronf ^^^'^t^^-'^ ^^^
T«n% child to theU of h^r nu^"%t
Se itl*'^ r ' ^-^ --""be tS
we mother was absent. The next d«v fv.!
It It was possible to. put the child to sW
Se £dTT-T "^"^ '^ «« would JhS
Jhe child, to which I answered "it was tT
M would wake up at eleven o'clock 2(1^
inihri vof ,v ^, . P^wer or mind over
r.Je'^s„^Le7*rs£'ff™ '»■>'-■■»-
made iinnn !k V .,^'^*^'^'i^he impression
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QuESTiON.-*^|fe there any other special feature
4hat may be observed in order to waTce a person
out of a trance except tliat of vnlling the siih-
ject to walce up at a given timey 6r saying ^^ All
Bight r * ' Wahe Up /** ' or whatever word the
operafor may he in the habit of usfing as a
mean^ of hringmg the subject to a state of nor-
^^ mal consciousness i}^ n^^ A ■ > ,"
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LNBWEB>— Yies ! A knowledge and use oiP »
the name of the subject, is a very important
•feature in calling a person out of k trance. ^
Hence as soon as I find I have a susceptable r
subject under nay control I ask them their
name so that iji ease pf tlieir going into a
trapce while under (|f)ntrol 1 ©an all the
more readily call theha out^of it; for the
name of a person is tb^ post familiar word
\fX the language they are conversant^with
and is a direcj.,appeal to their own person«rf- ,
ity. Thus in case of what is termed "Night-
Mar©^' or "bad dreams," the name will often
tbeoi out when nothing else will do it.
QtyBSTidlKT--^* «|fwi5 possible for pefsom who
are evih-dtsposed m do a great dual of harm
throu gh an u n derst anding uf HypiwtlHm, and
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vrjJwuldwe notpnta aftf to iU practice and
■ : ., ^r7^/ iJ^mbMcfrorA understaJingits prin-
■'A^^ "^^^ may be
.done through a knowledge.o^ its principles;
. eessful weapon with which to attack orever
' CZ!if ^"'^^^s eyil Of anykinA If
knowledge ,^power"-^nd8uch veacknowl-
' * i^/ to he-m the bands of, those who
^ —r? 1 ^''^ Pnnciples of hypnotism for
: ,0vd; then we assert that knowtedge may be
S^^.T^'^'^ ^"'- S^'d 31be handa
-\ , 9t those who are so disposed. ' ' - /
4.^ But that we biay show more ^injv
r whemn there is a liability of a kZled^
^,. of hypnotism being used for evil^urposea.
. TemustflrstclearlysetfortbitsporbiSS '
f inV^ZTt *^** ^' ^«^"*"°« *»»« think- ■
^tm^thispower^^b^ used in influencing
f^f™t^ff\— °«^^'' -And when the fear^
tul truth flashes across the mind or is indel-
bly stamped upon our cousciousness,-
through oft repftatAH rt.<»nffm6pa tLui i l
_^- 18 no «eemii^ Umit to this powerftil a^^
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of sin, but tKat vice arid siri of every descrip-
tion, even to the. extent of murder may be .
perpetrated under' its baneful influence ; all
the nobler instincts of man's moral nature
seems to rise in concert t^condemn i(S! Bilt :
amid the wail and woe. distress and fears of
the multitude, and the cries and condemnar
tions of the would be wise and. truly good ;
hypnotism 4s' becoming more powerful^d|
"its influence is felt more keenly in every
avenue of life to day than ever before in th^
history of the world. And why ? finalise
its principles are based upon the immutabit • .
ity of J^atures Laws, ^nd are governed by ^
the conditions of cause and effect. A nd never »
before did the world present such conditions
of hypnotic power as in the present age, ;
Our difl'erent modes of living; our present
system of govei-nment, political, social, moral,
religioas antl commercial, one and all adds
growing strength to its influence and de-
structive power. And the man or woman^
who stops to think, and^cfe,lmly investigates '
the conditions of society and the general ten-
dencies of the asre. has the advantaD'A pyer
^jBllOwbdngm/ ^
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J...K*®™P ■ *'' ^"PP'-ess the phenomena of
- W«^to day, either by J^cept oAj
. i l^'slaUo&Ms to me, like attempti Jto suZ
V .press the power of stea«x and to^iSf ^S
^ worl^w^h iron bands, whilst constaS^
'ii^S If' ^^ "^« g^aemting
strength and adding to its force : in a little
, . ^hile It will manifest itself a thotet^Sj
, ^fl^usand destructive in its tenS
- S^n,w^\r '"*°* '«' *« P«>^ide con-
ditions whereby *e tean prevent the m7 con
sequences Of hypnotis^,^f and in ordStol
w«ir,r'* "'^•i^'-«t™d its causes, and tWs
• we,8hall never do until its princioles £
-^^^,, from a part of our geniS edStS^^^
- -Ik ^T ^ ^^*^" ^"1^ hypnotism by th2
-Vho understand it, stands in the same S
education;, it 18 th6 most powerful when
'£oSitwh?r"^*''«"-^°- i*^^tS
tSZ?«I . ""T '"^^^ '■™'° the advan-
■ tSlr r^^^^y"^"^- Andwhenwe
liik nf K «"°«'f ^"H^" *h«t *he cause of the
. fvils of hypnotism fi^ not in its pow\ nor
'm-mufs use toMeof ^f An^ fF»o^4.i.^ ...
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ly upon the dispdeition of the mind of the in-
dividuals who practice it ; we shall learn
that what is needed most, is an improTT^ment
of the mind of the individual by whom it is
■practiced. -;■*',, -s ::;■,:; : ..r^.-',l'r
And when we consider the fact that its in-
fluenqe is felt and pawer is demonstrated;
where ever there is a tnind that thinks or a
brain that acts,/vre sjjklh learn the folly of
attempting to do away with the phenomena
of hypnotism. I see no reason why we
should attempt to put a stop ta th6 practice
of hypnotism simply beciause some per^ns
wilfully use it to accomplish an evil purpose ;
or even because some ^Ymn^ngnorantly have
rendered its influence injurious to others. 1%
accordance with tliia idea, you might assume
that it is right and proper that we shall deny
ourselves the privilege, and enact a law to
prevent all experiments in Chemistry, be-
muse some have ignora^ntly become victims
explosive combinations, and others have
fully taken the advantage of the ignorant
through a knowledge of chemistry and have
administered poision in the place of mediciiie
or food. If th e ovi la of hy pn ot i sm \ m s i m ply
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in a knowledge of its principles ; then we as-
sert that a knowledge of chemistry is equally
dangerous, and equally deserves our condem-
nation. And what is true of hypnotism and
chemistry in this particular is also true of all
arts and sciences ; for in all branches of in-
dustry science or art. a knowledge of the
principles involved renders it possible forlhe
, unworthy to Itake the advantage of the
i^orant : while a knowledge of the principles
involved qualifies us for the perception of
errors, and enables us more successfully to
contend against those who would become
Our adversaries.
• Thus whilst we cannot do otherwise than
admit that a great deal of harm may be done
through a khpwledge of conditions controlling
these phenomena of . hypnotism ; we mW
regard it as folly to attempt to suppress-it.
K or being a natural phenomenon, subject to
f>nditioii8, and these conditions the conse-
quent results of/human efforts in the great
common struggle for existence, its power
must necessai;^Iy be felt and its phenomena
be demonstrated for good or eml, so long .«
the aHnlTfltrnfi o^ n4^ f t^ « ^ ^ ^ ^ -^-^- -^^u_^
llie aspirations of f fie T^^^^n ^'callsfo^
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a response of bodily functions to do
bidding. - ' / ^ -" ^ .
Hence instead 0^ trying to snppreg^ther
an understanding/ OT a demonstp^wn \>t its
: phenomena I would advoc^i;i^^thorougli in-
vestigation of its principlfss as the surest and
only method of dealing with its power sue-
bessfully. , What would we say of a legislative
body, who m the face of the progress of the
Nineteenth Century, would seek to enact a law
to prevent the free use of the Printing Press f
' because the reputation of some innocent
office seeker in the unpolluted realms of poll
tics has been wilfully or maliciously blacken* '
M ? Qt who would endeavour to suppress the
free use of steam, because some evij designing
person or persons, having a prejudice against
a Railway Company, have blockaded the
track and caused great damage to life and
, property? Or the free use of electricity^
because some reckless, daring person has
ignorantly or wilfully, placed himself within
the circuit, and fallen a victim to its destruct-
ive power ? Would we not as a nation riie to
condemn such aii act? And would we no%
offer as a substitute, a study of the principles
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mvolyed ; that by an understanding of con-
ditions je might be better prepared to
temove the came of evU, whether the can^e be
tgmrame ov intent ; whilst at the same time
recognmng that through an understanding
of law, and mechanical devices, the principl^
involved in the uses of these agencies tend
toward the promotion of human happiness ;
would we not feel it to be our duty as well as
a privilege to do all that lies in our power to
hasten, the wheels of progress, by fostCTing
and dissemiiiating the truths, and offering
inducements to those who through an unde^
standing of Itm could provide better con-
ditions for the establishment of the samfe?
Such I contend should be our position in
relation tp those wonderful phenomena which
we call •' Hypnotism." We should study the^
Jaw controlling its phenomena, endeavour to
ascertain the conditions upon which it is
ba8ed,.that by a knowledge of these things
we may understendingly con^roZ the electric
forces of mimd as we control the winds and
waves of the Ocean or the liquid fluids of the
atmosphere, to promote the well being of-
B ociety in general. "
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In answer to the question ** May not a great '
deal of liarm be done through an understand-
ing of Hypnotism ? " We have only to refer
to the circumstances given on pages 81 and
82 — of the young lady with the pocket-book
and the man stealing a loaf of bread, — for
samples of what may Ibie done through the
influence of Hypnotism, by merely suggestion
alone. ;\". , : . ^. ^ ■ , ^ -,••.. -'" '''•■'
Then. — From the position which we have
taken on page 70 ; that the Brain is a Battery
and that thoughts can be transf^^rred from
one mind t© another without the use of the
physical senses, we may conceive of evi^g and
dangers of "Hypnotism" which «M^>A'
thousand times more to be dreadeH m&t^^:
any of the evils which may directly arise
from suggestion alone, or from ^hy public
erfiibitions. , . ^
' For if thoughts are transferable, and the de-
sires and purposes of one mind, may (through
this thought transference — ^b'e impressed upon
the consciousness of another, to such an extent
that the purposes of the first mind becomes
the purposes of the second, what a field of
crimo and Borrow opens ^befo r e o ur me nial
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vi8i6n, a8 a result of the l)owerfuI influence
of those whose cunninjf devices, evil puiposes
or licentious natures leads them to breathe
^ ot what we term "Telepathy"
invisible
?T^' ^Hl^**^^''* *" commit ^^r of
aarKnes*Mfep5 become instrume^s of Vice
wluch ^Tl criminal-in his^wa^Jy
na^e-dares not openly perform.
■ When I think of the many evils that may
,r-and undoubtedly does^Urise from this
^W r r*^ f ^IVnoiik power ; the feel-
l^^of my heart rise with ke conceptions of
mifid; uetil I ^em to stagger beneath the
thought of Its fearful consequences. Think
of the cruel vindictiv|p,irit of a min. who
having a quarrel with*^8 neighbor, silently
controlling some poor sensitive victim to burtf
down his barns and destroy his property •
1 ""^"^^^'^^e his life insured for a few
thousand Dollars, when the members of his
family to whom the insuAnce may fall, be-
coming so desirous forlts possession that thev
earnestly wish he would 6^ or ^hat some
desires of their mind? 80 prey upon his con-
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eciousness that he conceives air enemy is '
iiaantiiig him ; or the fears of* death so prey
upon him T that he becomes partrallV insane, v
and in a fit ©f melancholy ends his life.
Or in other cases where there is an Insur-
ance policy i^ favor ^ so^^e avaricioui| ^
individual, or whefe there iV ii^^large estate to /
befall an unworthy heir — through hjs hyp-
notic power-^the heir controles a subject to
murder the *' Testator/' that by such an act
he-^the heir^ — niay the s<5o|ier become the
possessor of wealth with which he can grati-
fy the desire{U)f his selfish nature ; irrespect-
ive of the sufferings of his benefactor, and
regardless of the consequences which befalls ,
^bi8 jmfortunate victim, who innocently payi .
the penalty of his crime upop the gallows. .;;
Where crimes are perjfetrated under 6uch
conditions, it is readiljf to be seen that 4he
persons who commit the crimes are but j^xr- "'
striiments in ^ hands of the Hypnotizer ;-
and hence the resgonsibility of the crime |
should be placSi upon the person designing 'M
the same, or rathe||ipon the one^^bpj^wi^ * *
the subiec tJPto comm ^the dfied ^ i,.
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,-- .one peraon to even suggest ax0Me&t6
.another .vit\ such force Z tolmS an
the conseqUfeiH^^^. But«Vhen,-a8 we have
-*^oe similar results upon the conseio^suL"
and consequently call' forth a response of
S^^« .1?^ *° .««fry mtp effect She con-
,d4tign» of theiQind, when never a word is
Ztn' 1 °^\t"^«'^^ far more disastrous
resulte tkn that which may ever take
h^^^^^t s'^R^estion. , For if it
L™ ^ T *^ v"8^^*^ "^y ^^ transmitted
lp)w,mind\to mmd without the use of the
external sei^ses, then it foUowa that thouifhts
are substantial entities, jmd as such, are
.«;^e<^tocW .And, if this "be
iTHft then hl^e must aasimilate wit^ like
'S'th^ *'"•', '^T""' ^nity of thought!
«nln. the evil and good are developing a
wlent force wWh w^keth upon " the chil.
Sirn.Kl"*'*^'^"'" ^^"^ «« "the children
ot iight. v^Henpe, wheij a child is left to the '
nclination of its own desires, he will natnr.
,«11> gather ftyjm the intelledual atmosphere,"
m^t^mt^md ideas as win assimilate
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with the natural disposition df his mind.
Thus tf bom under' unfavorable circum-
Stances or with what may be termed a *'low
orgamc nature^" as a result of prenatal
<K)ndition8, or a consequence of the way ward-
im^ thi p^nts, theMBhild will attract-
through the chemistry of mind— those
thoughts that are evil, until the tejidencies
to evil doin^ becomes the strongest element
in its being, andrfrom the immutability of
natures laws there is neither the desire foh
i^or the least conception of righteousness,,
except so far as it may add to the interests
9I their own personality. Such persons are
more to be pitied than blamed I And when
we resort to cruel punishment of such
creatures, we invariably violate— to them-^
the law of justice in punishipg them for
doing that whicW:heir natures has led them
to beueve is right. And by such punish-
ments we invariably incite in such natures a
spirit (rf retaliation and hatredfor thosp w^o
to^ caused their suflfedng^ ;' ^ ; ^^^^
^ tfiit Again if there is a chettiistry & rt&d, '
and thoughts stand in the same relation to
l ht» development o f mi xid, t ha l^ the
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vtellf: "T^^ of the AlinemV
^ Sf of I °,""^^ kii^doms; what a
weigbt of moral •responabUitv seem to
gather around and pzlsritselfu^n^rcoi!
sciousnessk Eyery evU thoughVev^Ti
. pure desii-e, i« l^ell aa eve^ 'act JoS
draw thg Ime of criminaUti, between those
^tra'Telh'^, the action/and tZ^^Z
5SL?^7t?' *^*f ^t« upon them;
Whose susceptible natures are eveVreadv fA
;^ and^^innlate such SS^'
fShit n ""^ ''*''° ^" think or leamX
aency, yea ! More ttian this, are the v^rm
e^^ents of which Cdis^LSn ^f ^^
• thTtheV" ""'°^'^'**^«^«^'»«to me
,puni8hing the criming as though we h^
demneda^^^^^^^
n ot ward off the ronHflquonooo of i t a iuflu^
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milklmlikii^m^
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(hoxkgiit ihsii we (^n conceiYe, is poisoning
the intellectual atmoepheire, to be absorbed
by tho^e whose natures are adapted to
absorfTarid similate the sama Until In-
sanity, Drunkenness, Anarchy, Licentious-
ness, Bloodshed and Murder may be the
results of th^ chemical actioii of the impujre
thoughts and unguarded sentiments^ of those
who through fear of the consequences of the
law, or fronjiJa conception of right, based
only upon th^ results of physical phenomena,
wouJd never— outwardly — stoop to comioit
a crime.' |. ■ ;^; ^;:-':' '* ' '^ , , .',^
. Ho\\^|)ften have »we all felt a spirit of envy
or hatred ; a spirit of jealousy ; a spirit of
avarice, or of combativeness and destructive-
ne8g,come upon us with su6h force, that it
becomes hard for us to sUbdue our feelings
and act with proper decorum ? And when
*w% have examined ourselves we fin4 np
t^gible cause for such a spirit. ^ ]
To what can we attribute such feeHnfs^
except it be the result of unseen forces
working and fascinating itself upon
our consciousness? And where there is not
ftUffi^^^Ti^ fiftvftlnpmftnt of the moral and in-
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tellectual, Wthe nature of an ihdividiial to
ward si^ch feelings oflF, they assimilate'' with
; their propensities, until every day new
strength is added to. the evil nature of the
J ^ weak, bjsrwhiclj they become what maybe
7 'termed self^-hypnotized, and •commit acts of
violence for which— if we only underst<
• the §ilenti power working uix»n them^we
. .should never be severe in our dealii^with
... the poor unfortunates. Such philosophy of
•of n^md teaches us the importance of purity
of thought and fervency in prayer For if
■ the evil thoughts of the mind of one person
affects another, then it follows that the good
also affects one another. Hence by the
purity of our thoughts wle a^y build up a
force thi^ will act upon th^atures of the
.weak, until ^ by oft wpeated impressions,
there will b^ i^diSposition to yielrf to the
promptings of , the good, M there has^n to
that of evil ; until the mtellectual Wmo8-#
i phere in which we live, becomes pre^a^-
|.^ith thoughts that have a tendency to virtue
rather than to crime. And i{ our minds are
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■ away witB our J^ls fid Policy %ce.|
^ . breathing in th^ spiritlof purity, aid a
ing to^ lur jntellectil^ nilfices ttai
r
latmg to mir intellect tl
ancj^e-r Righteoi^sil^ anl^
pre^k aippg^ll^ty f ^itotil
hi8,<^|^i^a^^|,,.t|^^ unto hflajelf ^;
aM **Jwll|^ own disposi1|^4nd
th^atii^i^^piie^ Of his own miiid, wifi
b§>#oncl^4 .1^ deeds of righteousims to-
T^|rd liis^^fellawr^ien. Here we mayflearn
'e advaiit|ge8 of tiy^pnotisni in. that>§be-
iid^pi itj & law by w:lii<jh w^ may improve
the Conditions of soci^y, without having to
inflict* punishment upop those who are the
^ idctims of temptation. '
■\%^i» I believe this principle of Hypnotism
^tob^^the developing power of all our grek|
rmen'ind women. For instance, here is a
n»in who starts out as a Preacher; he is
vefy susceptible to Moral Impressions^nd,
' las a consequence, he soon reflects
of the leading mi|||s i>f his audi6i|uVAnd
from the combl™ intelligence, WHbh is
brought^^o bear upon him, he suiU ite iii
expresswk the intelligence ITanyt
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■Mvnd m h,8 audience. As a resuli his
l?ite^ledge and power is talked about in
othe> circles. Soon he is called to a larger
and more inteUigent Congregation. . In ^
little while he outgrows, (through mental
, • impression), the intelligence of that Congre-
gation And on and on, until his fame as a
Preacher becomes so widely known as to
have a National reputation; Now you see
that the combined intelligence of a nation is
looking to him as a leader and authority in
Theology. ^fVom a National reputation his
fame spreads out, until the whole civilized
world looks upon him as a Teacher, and are
eagerly watching for what he may say upon
. points ^of^ individual or general interest:
iflus, by «w concentration of their minds,
they are impVessing him with the most ad-
vanced thoug^tsrftad^ce he becomes the
leadm^^iHd^of the age/Wn the fact that
he IS the nucleus upon which the intelli-
gence of the Theological world ia centered,
fr „ f " true of a Preacher, is also true
«f a Politician. Afid what is true of a
Preacher, a nrf a. Foliticinn in nln.. i-.._ . r.
^c. H^ceby this^wer ^Hyp>tim
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or what may be _termed Telepathy, we de-
velop a Beecher to represent the phijosophi-
Qal, a Talma^e or a Spurgeon to; represent
the Emotional -in Theology ; and an Ingersol
ora Bradlaugh to represent the Sceptical
element among society. ^ Aiid thus th^
world moves on from ag^ to age ; these great
centres of thought giving forth sentiments
as the result of the combined intelligence of
the age in wfiich they live, that shall not be
grasped by the. great mass of mankind for
hundreds bf yfears afterwards. ^ i .
Thus we are constantly surrounded by
practicJal demonstrations of this hypnctio
power, in every avenue of life-* It is ^0
inspiring influence felt and enjoyed betweeii
the actor and his audience, when they come
in sympathy with each other. It is that sub*
lime sympathy which is felt by every publif
speaker, when he comes en-rapport with hi»
audience to such an extent, that he forgets
what he had intended to say upon a subject,
and so enters into the feelings and sentiments
of his audience, that he gives expression to
language and thoughts^ that perhaps never
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yond his normal powers of conception that
they may never be recalled.
;! Hypnotism and Grimed
; Question.— JFrow the position you have just
^e^ m qf the Qhemistry of thought > and its
L influence upon the minds of different individu-
als, would you not have us to infer, that man-
kind are but the creatures of Circumstances,
and therefore, morally irremonsihle for their
action^.
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ANswiB.— No P While it must |e admitted
that the psychic or ^unseen forces i|||ature
have, a powerful influence'^upon usFfet as
creatures of intelligence and reason we, have
amoral consciousness of what is right and
wrong, and all, have more or less the
ability to exercise what is known mipiM force
^ ^^ ^^ *^® ®^*^' l>y rendeHj^^rselves
poslKve against % influence. "^lEd if we
neglect to- use bur reason or to ekerci^ our
will and consequently^bmit the control of
^h reason and will to an evil influence until
'^^ become the victims of temptation, theti
are we morally responsible for the crimes we
commit, a nd as such should be condftmn.
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been overpowe||d by^jfene persuasion of an*
other person; dr for want of the advantag*^^
of knowledge^ the unseen foro^^evil (which
we may l-egard as '' the PlU^&^thi power
of the Ai|;^ have had such an indigence upon
us as to^^ ua^^^^^^^ i|^ b^t ser^
J vante or #aves, or in other words "^'creatures
of circi^Btances " and as such are not to be^^
considered morally responsible for our
actions. V- ' ^^^, j|, -^
Qvmnois,-~'Xf from the position you have
just t£km thmr^/great many of the crimes
commiied are dtue to the infiaeTtce of hypnotism ^^
; and that the one who p0^j^ms th^ act is but ^
an instrurn^nt inMs ^nds |P i^iAer, how*
are we to determimkwm is 1M real criminat:
and accordingly ptim^ the rigMpar^p,
, -/brawEB.^--Th€9?«^ iS no wiQr J^fet€3mi«f!i||f '
.the ciSpinal and of adinij^ijlto^^^ J^^
Inch cases,^ except the pwBes interested in
tryiM a oase are well verpd m a knowledge
^f Jp cpnditi^ns upon which the influence 0%
hy^oti^m maylfe brought tio bear upon the
person Who p<^fforms the act. When I read
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of the many crimes committed and ascribed to
hypnotism, and the ignorance displayed in
the evidence and arguments brought f oirth
lor and against, by those T^ho undertake U>
conyict or acquit the supposed criminal ; I
of times feel both amused and grieved at the
arrogance (t the woulcHa- wise,, %hom influ-
ence and power seem to have so blinded their
sense of justice and their consbiousSss of a
moral responsibility, that they dare over-look
tlie principles of truth and strive only to
gain a reputation of success or victory over
an opponent, even at the sacrifice of the life
of *the innocent. ^ - ^r
That it is possible to hypnotize a person at
a distance, and compel one to commit the
crune of murder, a hundrec^^ a thousand
miles away, when once 'the Hi^of communis
cation is established thro^ the law of
sympathy. I will admit, and when once a .
person is controlled by ^^ another— fi'om the
fact that experience always establishes con-
Adence—it is easier to control the second
time. Yet from the fact that in the phenom-
■gg<>gjglTelej >ath y or w h at mnj be l orm od
'' thought transference " to bontrol a subject.
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it is absolutely important that the mind of
;' the operator shall be constantly directed ta
the subject ; a,nd the moment there is change
lin the direction of thought in the mind of the
^^ operator, there is a corresponding change in
': the mind of the subject. Hence so long as
. the operator wills that the subject shall com-
< init a crime and keeps his or her mind upon
the performafnce of the deed, it is possible to
control the subject to commit the crime ; but
if anything interferes which breaks the spell
r by attracting the attention or changing the
7 purpose of the operator, that moment the
hypnotic influence of the operator upon the
; subject is lost ; andlf a crime is committed
■ it is then the result of the selfi8hnes§ or dis-
i. position of the one who performs the action.
Hence if we wo^y. determine the criminal-
\. ' ity of a person who is said to be hypnotized,
' we must first understand the relationship
which has existed between the pei^son said to
' : be hypnotized and the one j^o is said to be the
iiypnotizer ; and if be determined that the
person who committed the deecj has never
before been hy p notize^ but that in all the
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has done the dSn ^ u '°^ '1^'"*' ^^^
been his Thi^haL . ^"^^ ^'^""^ ^^ ^
performs the act ISnf; i***!. ^°« ^'^"^
**touffh it rtiflv K^ , "' ■ yP^owsm, even—
Hpon which thP^^?^ V "°^ ^'"'"^ "P«n '
realize theiriuSfiJ',"^^"^^ ^°^ *^«y
m.nn...^.\3"f,^^^«^»5mal condition.
•^"111,1 nry 10 wnal their natural disDOeftiVw^
sciousness of ri^i.* .^ , . , '^fP<««ti<Mi
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Mo, there is always a feeling of g^ijt or^u
shame manifested in their cotintenance.,..
And if th^y have don^ anything r^lly^
iwrrdng, they #ttr either seej: fo^
offer to compensate their Tv:rong-doing|'7!GK|'!*
otherwise will become indignant at the 00117^,
diict of the one whom they cpnsider to be^f;
' theguilty party, viz., the hy pnotizer. , Thes^^f
conditions a^d dei»onstriatioi:;i8. shouljl . b^ - ;
cai-efially observed in ascertaining: theguiltj.^.
parties^ \.. * ' ' , . V ^ " -. • ^ " ■-, \i'4^
But there js another, and still more import; ;
\ tant method of determining the guil|; or,.
't \ |pnocence of a criminajj who is sai^d ip ,|i%^, .^
^ \icommitted a •crime through the influence <^ •
Hypnotism.; especially ,where the per^pp^v^
^ , who perfojriii§4 ^^ deed claipis to hav^ no . ],
%^ knowledge (JfhaA^^^^ committed' the WW^r, ^C
f|f :their stp^tement is true— ^hich iei verjfi^
possible, for we frequently find persons, whjo^^^
"perform certain acts under the ijafluence qf .,,
hypnotism, Vhich tiey know nothing' #,..
when they ccme^ out of the hypnotic stated ,'
. ■ then it is only to put them into flie hypnotic ,,
state again
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^^rformance th^ tecond tinie, and with the.
'same degree of intensity or reluctance that
^lias characterized their <?onduct in commit-
ting the real murder. Ejpr it must be obser-
^^ "1^^^^ Wie second a^rii^ only an imaginary,
. ^^ VJ^^S-^^^ act wai contrak-y to their
desrr<th^re>ill. ^ ftijst be a degree of
Temonstrancd; to tHi p^ M tte sub}ect
; .whiofr'dftn only t)^ dv^rcbme by a positiye
i: ilk^mmmd frcm the/operato^, For an ilhisl?
V tration of this point see pages 81 to 89. *
From th6 Tia^uyc of the r^monstran<^&
V the pepon hypnotized, it kh be determin^^^
v.to'a great extent the disposition ^x\A nature .
t)f the individual. Iji the fit-st place, where r:
> there ii a good degree of Cdmbativeness and ^
Firmness fn the sUbjeoi "ih^ wlU kturaUy
v*^#^tenife»t«tf(fe(t^tH^ chri^^
, pW<id, in[ a . spirit of blfi^sition ta whatever f,^
' \^ ¥ W^^^^^^ to' b^ dolle. Sli^h a spirit of ^
;^ oppAsitibh, of itself, is not/diifccikt e^eii^e *J
7 .. of <h^ lMo6d% in« a*l*idter of i^ae 1^
;i hjl^litiotizM, eviitt When iftpppsed tb ^e per-*^
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; wrong t6 do ; m it m^ denihstrates the
^mbative nature of the individual, indepen-
dent of the motives of action. v
Under the mfluence of hypnotism I contetid
' that a person often acts more ^mtural than at
any other time. This is especially true, when
acting under the influence of suggestion. In
' ordinary life we are governed by practical
demohstration^ of conduct ; and w^ judge the
motives, by tl^e actions, of those with whom
we have to deal : but how frequently are-we
deceived as to the motives unde%ing the
conduct of individuals. As an illustration,
two children passing through an Orchard ; *
>, an apple has dropped from a tiee and one of
the children picks it up, when the other re-
monstrates against the act, saying; ** It is
wrong for you to pick up that apple as it
does not belong to" you/' The conscience
of the one who picked up the apple is smitten
and the apple is dropped, when the children
go on their way. In a littl* while afterward '
the one who hM reproved the other, goes" «
b»9k and picks up the apple and eats it. The
i^ act might be taken as an act of honesty ;-
but-ihe egco nd act proved the selfishneas of v
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ttefl«rt. Should the first act bS th^ only
one which came to light, the verdict wo^w
hav. beeil in favor of the hon^ty of onlwho
m reality was ft criminal. ''^
nS^lu! , ''^^'^^'<>^ anlndividual, who -*
under almost every other condition of life f '
seem to be in conduct. Tn confirmation of.
^tore crf^n individual may be demon, i,
h^^^^^'^^"^^ mentJimed, a somnam- - '
bah^ IS not an entirely dependent automat- V
- ^^^ '"'9 of the^jrescribed action He t '
«> proceed For insffence, the somnambuliat •'
« given a. g ass of water ; she is made toS
Uevethat ,t contain*poi«o£, she is told to '
poison a certain person Vith i^. She gets no '^ /
^^or^ Afterwards, ^hen shf^l^,
«» glass, she says of h« own accottl if —
instahce, it is summer ■ - *'«'™' "•
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^Pfdei-ed to ta]^ a handkerchief, out of ,a»^
^p^^rt.ppciiat, pretended that she was about
^to ,f a^i^t, staggered to , and f rq, »and fell on the
chosen victim, so th^t she could easily get. at .
,tlx^ hap^^H^rchiqf. Another, who had the
^mpcoi^mission, went up and asked: *'What
^ve y^ <Mi;i yo^r hand&l " jkud while the
yifetini w;as looking at ^her hands, the theft
was performc^d.
But si^cji blind obedience is not always
^Qund i^ th^ ^mnambulists. Sometimes they
are disobedient and make considerable resie-
' tance. The cause of this rests either with
IJijE) hypuotizer or with the patient. The
^utl^rity the fonpeE exerts over the latter
dQppn4B Pf^rtly on his^ersonality and the in-
fluenpe he^ener^lly exerts over his patient,
, partly upqn the decisian and severity with
^hicb ^% t^e time he has pronounced his
9^d^r. Iji this is done with hesitationTiiid too
Ifeiji^tiy, t]ti^ patient becomes hesitating and
ii^^solute, when it is to be. performed. But
%hd opppsition can also' depend on the diegree
9| fi^mp^ Jya il^ cfy^mi^ of the patientn^
tB^t^ iipon ^ (jjtui^ity. <^ tba, ordered aolkii, (
So mi;^ch qt bis own personality remains in
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the somnambulist, that his iniier nature, wlje^i
good and peaceabtej resists a prescribed crimfe.
Only a cataleptic individual te a machine, a'
blind tool, without- a wilj; the somiiambulisf "
Is a person whose opposition can often be
rather embarrassing to the Operator; E^'
from the different motive;'which thesbmnam^
buliflt . gives as. «; J reason for refusing to"
commit a crime^ 1;heir true character can be ^
understood. Order » theft, ajid mi ini^ '
answ^ : ** I da not wish tesi[(teal, I am no
thi^'^ whOTeaili;ani*W haively answers ;v
^*No, I might m se^^v 'A third makes
only slight objection and^ soon yields.'*
For instiancev ** €k) and stab thil ao<?torP— .
W% ? He hiMi^iftiot done^me ih^ harirf*t^*t-^
''^^it^ yon miiat ^^il order it ! ''— « W^^ ^
since 1 have to. I suppose! mustr*^Mi¥ake<i-^
edi she lool^ af liervictM witbWtrei^dtJ®*^
smile, goes # few ttmee armi^d hiitt( knd stid^'^
dertly^^jdashes ^iitrhiAi with the imaginary
dagger whichnha^. been. put into het handi^^^-
But the^saitttf v^mM^boxm^fW^^^ be
mailii to do
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Which she had composed about the doctor;
a third could uot be made to sign, a note for
one million, alfliough she signed notes for
8mi^r,8um8 without resistance,
.s^^cot's clinic furnishes the case of a
mambulist who was ordered to assasilaat©
■"^ge doctorbymeai^iof a slipof card^
_ b As soon as she a wx)ke, she assaulted'
he^ictim and stabbed the card-boarddaRirer
to the region df his heart. The doctor made
behave that he fell.-" But why have you
failed him ?."-With wild aspect, she answer-
ed : "He is an old pig! He had wiclfed
^designs «gamst me." .
We will quote a case which has been re-
produced in many French journals, the last
time m 1886, in the July number of the then-
new periodical Bet^ve VHypmtisme. The
Idea of this experiment was borrowed from
Jules Clareties' novel, Jean Mornis.
Under deep hypnosis the girl X. was or,
^ to sneak into Mr. P's: house the next
ay at a certain hour, and, with precautions
not ito be discovered, to steal a^^liBifietefc^
whioh was lying in a waitireU at • plao©-
mmately dPH<^rihfld, and tq oarr^ it.ut u Uuut>.
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ly home to the ma^etizer, so that no one
would notice that hp was in the plot. Under
•mo consideration was she alloyed to denounce
fr betray him. - The theft was punctually
teecuted on th^ following day, with tim
_ fijreatest canning: and caution, and thff
trinket was delivered. The same evening
tUe gfirl was again hypnotized by the Mr. F.
yry> owned the bracelet, who waa also a
m^gnetizer and in the conspiracy with the
first one; duringthe hypnosis the foUowinir
conyersatlon occurred :
"I have been robbed of a bracelet to^lay ;
you know who the thief is,"— "How can I
it I '•-.« Why so ? "-" Because I am sure you
knowthethief; tellhi8nameI''-,"Icannotf?»
— "fti I desire it ! '^"And I say that f
cannot,»-«you know that you have no will
/!^ ' ****'* " °°^y one— mine ; ob^ ! »—
(After a 8%ht resistance and evidently with
f?'*2rf5'*^ '* » it— "That cannot be'
JwwiW»i'^"Ye8, it is If-^^Jou fo^vd-
capable of such an action. Then you must
nave been forced to do it » "-j-'^yrg ; » « Y qu
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accord."—" Yes/'-^^ I do not believe you."
—" WelV it was not L**— " Who, then1> ^^^*- f
Vwill not tell. you! *%-*^ But J demand it.%?
: " Never 15— *■ I c^ you to. tell it I %-^
**That makes no diflfel-ence! I shall soon<^
yield up my life. T am sorry for you hav^
always been good to me ; but I sl^j[ifevfer
teiiit.^^-.-" '■ ^ ' :;■ ; i.^,:,.:2,;,.^^^^^
Further a^ttempts to induce her to dc5ifi^»
failed through her obstinacy, . which howr
ever would probably have been broken, if he
had persisted long enough. But he proceede(|
to another experiment during the same hyp-
nosis. > .
"I seek revenge on somebody ; **will you
help me!';— '* Willingly !"—>^ You know
thiit Mr. Z." (the first one who magnetize<|
the girt) *' is my ^nemy."— ^* I should thin£
rHI&l*^-*«-''Then you must denounce him. Am^
socmas you have awaked, you will write to
the jtistice of the peace, that you have been
.accused of stealing a bracelet, but that yoi|
are innocent ; that Mr. Z. is the guilty on%
and that you saw him commit the robbery.-
■—"But tiis is wro^g, as it was I who ^qle
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^IBut it is true; for you are much too
nest a girl to have stolen. It is not you.
^ you hear ? It is not iou. I say that it
18 not ypu."-(With confluence) *^ Of course
»_ Jto to ndtf t'*:-"!!!-. Z. is the thief ;
f«ta Haire seen him ! "—(Energetically) " Yes,"
I&aw him- it is he ;'^~" You will write to
the justice df the pfeace."-!-" Yes immediate
^; I must. denounce him." " :
' Immediately after her awaking, fully con-
vinced of the correctness of the accusation,
she wrote and sealed a letter to the justice
of the peace, put a^tamp on it, and was just
going to mail it, \^n she was a^^in hypno-
tized, in order to prevent this. l$'he letter
read as follows : ■ ; , ^
^^tJ6^T^raiisTicE o*' th#Peacb :
" I accomplish a duty. Thislnorning at
(m# o'clock, a bracelet was stolen from Mr
, For a' momentnl was. accused of it, but
uijustly ; I swear to it.;^ I am entirely ip. '
npcent. :. The tWe^J must inentloa ^
because r 9»wiiall--4s' Mr. Z. (his full name
>^veQ)> It wf|B|)Yie ftsfotlowH - he snoakod
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through the small entrance on du Four
street arid he stofe pcp of Mrs. F/s bracelets,
which^ wft« lying in a wardrobe near the
-window — ^I saw it. Then he put it into his
pocket and went away^ I swear that it is
as I have stated. He alone is the thief and
1 laaii: ready to testify to this before the
court; : N,l^,
The letter Was not dictated, but composed
by the girl herself. When she had awoke,
she had forgotten the whole story; but
nothing ivoii^tehave been easi^ than t<|
order her <jM|tt ^^^ sleeps to appear on a
certain day 4 w'^^^r — even long afterwards
— before a court, and to swear to whatever
she had been ordered to testify* V__^^^,_
Question.-— J/" as you have suggested on
page 70 ^ the Atmosphere is the conductor of
Mental Impressions, then can we by the positive
and negative forces of Mi/nd Telegraph to one
another as far as the Atmosphere extend f Or
does distance have any effect upon the influence
of Mind? ■■-'.
Answsb. — So far as I can understand, the
-Mind48^ot limit e d in its influe n ce , or flight
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by wl^t is known as (distance. Distance is
a geographical measurement ; ^ but so far as
J can understand, Mind and Thought has no
geography that can be measured by physical
laws. If there is ^ obstruction to the
power of Mind throlfh the distance of space,
—from the relation of the Spiritual to the
Material—the interference would be so small
that we could not perceive it with our phy-
sical senses. Hence, so far as the demon-
-strations of Mind are concerned, to our phy-
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Home^hen Telepathy mill come into mare
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municate business transactions, etc.,— the
Mental Telegraph wHl be used. This naay
seefe an ejttravagant idea; at present^ but we
are gradually growing into such conditions.
WhiBn we take into consideration the vast
importance that is attached to the psychiit
impressions whic|i ^cinate themselves upoH
our consciousness, in all the delations of life ;
we learn how rapidly, thotigh silently, this
phenomenon , is growing in strength and
power, and assuming a leading position as A
means 4^ communicating thought. How,
littfe importtoce is attached to the words thak
are spoken to-day, compared with the impress
twm that is made upon our minds, 1^ some
unconscious power* A stranger 'meets u«h
'*and in mournful tones, a tale of woe unfolfi."
His words fall upon our ears, but behind
these sorrowful tones, there is a secret power, .
. whio^ says in language far more true thai^
what his words describe ; Beware ! For be^
hind that haggard face a villian or a traifor
stands f And thougfh we may stifle these
imprei^sions, and yield to the words spoken';
we often flb^d the truth ot what we feel.
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take to be evidence, of the truth of Tele^'
pathy. And when properly understood, by
the leaders of Society will prove an impor.
tant factor, as a means of communiimtion
and investigation Qfe facts and incidents in
QtuE^XSow ^0 mu account for iliese
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AifswBB.— I contend that our thoughts are
more positive than language. And not only
more posi ti v©„ but more truthful. And while
the Traitor or the Villian, may try to deceive '
08 with, his wordsi bifliself, knowing his de-
<)eption and the object he has in view in try.
ing to deceive us ; he projects the inward con-
sciousness of his own evil designs ; and whilst '
m; a passive state, listening to his tale of woe,
by the positive and negative forces of mind
bac^ af all that is said, we are impressed with
the true idea. *
QvmTKm.— that benefit may we expect to
derive from a more univerial developafent and
J>ractice 0/ thw phenoaetwn }
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positive and negative forces of mind, we can
read tl^ thoughts of one another, and there]by
derive the truth from impression, without the
possibility of being deceived by the words
that are spoken ; then shall we be enabled to
prevent all the crimes and miseries that now
arise, as the result of deception. For not
having to depend upon the external senses
for the evidence, but entering into the secret
working of Ihe Minds of one another, there
will be no possibility o^ deception. The very
thougM of deceit,' as well as that of justice,
will make its impression upon the mind of
9,nother. '^^fj^ there will be no necessity for
so many winPsses in onr Courts. of Justice^"^
Persons whose Minds have been cultured to
receive the truth, will receive the right im-
pression from the mind of the individual on
trial, whether innocent or guilty, and there
will need be no furUier evidence. •
And not only might it be made valuable
thus ; but suppose a Bobber is about to enter
a dwelling or store; his mind devises his plans,
before they at« put into execution. Now,
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Should be at this time in a |fes8ive state ; the
positive intentions of the Mind of the bvrglar
would at once be impressed upon th.e sensi-
tive mind of the owner or friend^ and ttie
crime might be prevented. How often have
we heard and read, of premonitions and
warnings, Which have put people on their
guard and thus presented crimes ? And in
many instances, where crimes have not been
pi^evented, because • the impression has not
been Sufficiently heeded; there has been an
anxious troubling or forboding, whicfe, if
properly understood and heeded — would
have prevented it.
A Jeweler, in the City of Toronto, Ont.
whose store was robbed, told me that for two
or three days.before it happened, he had fore-
bodings of what was going to take place. He
became so troubled^ about the matter, that it
hautited him in his dreams. On th^ night
of the robberyjftbe said to his partner, that
he felt there was something going to happen ;
Hind that night they took particular pains to
festen up the store. He asked me how I
wmM account for such a warning. After
learning from him that the burgulars first
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totered his home, went into his bedroom, and
and took the keys out of his pocket, with
which they entered Oie stofe, my answer
was that whoever the robbers might be,
there is sufficient evidence to prove that it
was 8omeone\who had been watching his
movements, and had been planning how to
enter his home and bedroom ; and that their
minds were sufficiently active, to impress Ma
mind; hence the forebodings; which if
properly heeded, would^liaiire saved his loss.
Read pages 116 to J19. Many instances of a
similar nature, are happening every day/^
which goes to prove the advantages of a
more universal practice of Telepathy.
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power, or condition of mind by wliich that
which has no existence can be ^oietold. I
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their mediums,— have foret<btd events which
did not take place for years afterwards. Yet
I cannot bel eve but'that the event must have
had an exislfenoe, in Mentality, if, not in the
Physical, at the tim-e the Clairvoyant or Med-
uim spoke wh^t would seem to be a prophecy
To jllnstrate what I mean, and make it so
that It pay be tinderstood, we will suppose a
; #«a8e ; a wealthy father, in Germany, or some
other part of the World, who has a family •
he 18 getting old ; not having made provisioM
• for the distribution of his property, returiiAig
home from his place of business one day feel-
lug very much indisposed; and rembering that
«ge 18 growing on him, he determines that he
Will make his Will and provide for the futute
of his family. He sits down and goes over
in his mind, what he will give to John,
Martha; Thomas and the rest of the fainily
Now suppose, at this time, John is in Toronto ;
and' is at a spiritualist Seance, or in the pres-
^^ «*.,what may be termed a Clairvoyant
/rom the sympathy which exists between
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be in sympathy-^mtellectually— with the
Father ; henct^ the Clairvoyant would say, "J
see an old man," and begin to describe the
Father, making a Will : hence would be apt to
say, "I hear him say, ^I will give so much
property to John, so n^uch to Martha, and so
much to Thomas ;' " and thus go' on, to des-
cribe the Will, as the old man goes over his
intentioE^ in his own mind. !Now you see,
this Will woilld have an existence, in Mental-
ity. And, according to the latest conclusions
in Mental ^Jipience ; from the positive and
negative forces-of Mind and the relation of
the Atmosphere, would travel out until it had
reached every person connected in the Men-
tal transaction; hence jJohn witli the rest.'
,,But John's mind being more positive at the
limp than the mind of the CMrvoyant, the
impression was made upon the mind of the
Clairvoyant. Now suppose, that on the next
mornings instead of going to draw up the
Will as he had determined, the old gentle-
mBJa'ieels better. He goes to his place of bus-
inee® neglects to make his Will, and perhaps
doee not feel the samft jnHifl noHU.inTi f^y ^ yf^nt
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he had determined a ^year before. Now you
see, the Will had an existence in Mentality,
one year before it had a Physical existence.
And, as it is^ the Mental Imp^^fsions which
the Clairvoyant more especially-deals with, it
was an easy matter for this Will to be describ-
ed.^ And thus it became a prophecy, so far
as its Physical existence was concerned. ^In
no other sense, can I believe the Future to be
f ortold. I might give you other illustrations ;
such as for instance, a person in England de-
termining to write you a letter; that letter
exists in Mentality. Now suppose, at the
time the person thinks of writing, you are in
syinl^thy with a Clairvoyant; by*, the same
law of Mind which we have described, the
letter may be impressed upon the mind of the
Clairvoyant in all its details ; consequently
the Clairvoyant says; 'Tou a^e going to
receive a letter, which will bring you certain
hews." In a week or two afterwards yoii
receive the letter, containing the information
which the Clairvoyant had described. Hence
again thBre is a seeming-prophecy. And thus
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Clairvoyants, which aire based upon the posi-
tive and negative conditions of mind. >r
Perhaps there is no part of hypnotism which
is more sought after, or more perverted, than
that part of the phenomena which we call
Fortune-telling, And it is astonishing what
credence is attached to the sayings of those
who are sensitive enough to reflect" the mindaj
of othersii* Men and wome^^^ufho seem to be"
rational on almost every thing else and who.
would scorn to be accounted superstitious,
will pay from twenty-five cents to ten dollars,
to get what they claim to be the advice of a
Clairvoyant on matters of Business or Mar-
riage : and will work hard to bring about the
fulfilment^f their prophesies. For instance
a business man ab6ut to . enter into partner-
ship with another whom he regards as a shrewd
Financier, is rather suspicious ad to whether
he should sign certain papers, and almost
thinks it is best not to do so. He goes to a
Clairvoyant and pays for a consultation.
When the Clairvoyant gets in sympathy with
his mind, she says "I see certain papers which
a person holds ready for you to sign I You
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bolder of these papers, for I see him schem-
ing to accomplish bis own -fends, aad I am
afraid if you sign „the. papers you will finally
repent It. Do not sign them!"- The man
takes the advise of^the Clairvoyant and ac-
cordinglyjefuseU t^ sign the papers. In so
doing he may do right or he may do wrong.
But in either.case, he had paid his money to
get his own advicie, and not the advice of
another ; for there is nothing giv€sn elcept the
resjilt of what was in the -mind of the' person
seeking the advice before or at the time he
went to get his Fortune told.: . And even if
the sayings of the Mtune-tellerahoxxld come
true, it is jjQore because^ the pereon'receving ■
the advice has confiJience in her sayings and
hM worked hard to accomplish its fulfilment
To Illustrate this pbint, we will suppose a
young lady goes to one of th^e sensitives to
get her fortune told with .reference to Mar-
nage: One young man is paying: attention
to her regularly, and another desires her com-
pany. The youn^r lady rathei;' likes "the
appearance^of the one who d^eshercom-
p a ny, more than the l eg t uai' Bflro;. We wi l l
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the regular one has J31ue, the Clairvoyant
when cojming in sympathy with the tnind of
the young lady says, *^I see t^ young me.n,
oneTis dark and thepthfjr light ; one has dark'
• eyes and the other blue ; the blue eyed young ■
man loves ^ou v§ry much, butvthe d^i^ eyed
man is the one you seem tp think most off*
The young lady thinks the blue eyed young
man is the inosi relidble although she likes
the appearance of the dark eyed one best.
—The Clairvoyant says in response to sueh
a belief of the young fady-- The blue eyed
■man is more faithful and would md^ke the
best husband., At once the mind of the
young lady is made up to stick JX)thB blue
eyed youn^ man, and in response the fo^une-
teller says "you will marry the blue eyed
young man. " The yoiing lady - asks ; ^^Can
yrn tell me his name ?" >;i^hen herself think-
ing of his name, she impresses it lipon the
mind of the sensitive who in responi^saysl
l^isname is , givfng expression to his
correct name as a response to what is pass-
ing through the mind oflhe ycmn^lady.
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*Aimw^]kr-^5very animal is snsceptable to the
positive conditions of the mind of jtnan. As •
a proof of this position; we see people who .
'i are naturally afraid of dogs; almost eyery
dog they:^ come aci^oss iseems to realize their
fear^'and as a consequence bark or run ^t
them. Yet another perso^, who seems to
' have no 'fear of dpgs,^ may pass by in perfect
quietnossi. Now "^ to make this still more
plain, we will suppose a nian ownes a s^y^
age dog which will scarg^ly allow astrah^er
,^ to come into the yard. Jsm are afraid of the
. dog, iut being in need of a gCK^^watch^dq^,^ ^
you buy it fi^om its niaster f-aM althou^ <
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when it belonged > to another person,— and
because (^ your fear you stood in a negative
relation to the dog, — yet ^en you bacame
its owner you at once begajiU to educate your
mind" to a positive condition, that you were
going to make the dog obey you.ai8 its mas-
t©r, I^j)roportioi]i as you become confident^
the dog Decomes negativei until by the deteis
minatio>n of your will you have made the dog
afraid^ of ffouy and consequently, do your bi^
itxg. Thus you have Psychologized the dog.
This is the power by .which jbhe keeper tames
ttielion or Tiger, fThe power is not so
much in the eye ! It is in the Mind of the
Tamer ! I am awai?e that the Keeper will
tJHot venture to go in or oUt of tl|e cage of
wild animals with hif back^toward the beasts;
because he has educated himself to the be-
lief that the Animals are afraid of the glaace
pf his eye. But when we take into consider-
|||<wp, the . fact, that the keeper who dare
iitvtlil^ b^ back upon the Animals when
entering W returning from the c^tge, will
stand up and hold out a stick for the animals
to jump Qveri and command them to p^iw be-
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animals are very angry and unwilling to4o
so— we must conclude that it is liot so much
th^Eye, as the possitive conditon of the
Mind, which controlls the Lion or the Tiger.
If the confidence of the Keeper should be'
come destroyed, his power over the animals
would also be destroyed, and the beast
would turn upon him and rend him. Thus
we may learn that by rendering ounselves
^sitive, from the supremacy of our intellect,
; we become masters of the animal kingdom! '
I Hence the p^er by which we subdues one
another and the animals below us, does not so
j much consist in the glance of the eye or the
size of our phyical statures, qa i« the con-
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won il^j^rfd^
Aksweb.— Yes I I consider that as much
precaution should be used in the praoWce of
Hypnotism s^ in the practice of Medicine,
and there should be a statute law provided
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understand its philosophy ; the relative Tenif
peraments of those upon whom they would
practice^ ^,nd from the combination of their
temperametits the probable consequences of
the conditioiiftT which' they would provide.
For as I have remarked on pape 151, that a
great deal of . harm may be done through a
knowledge of the principles and conditions
of hypnotism ; I contend that stiHl greater
harm may be done by the ignorant practice
of its principles. *, t ^ - d
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practice of Hypnotism to the Medical Fratern-
ity exclucively ? . . *' . *'i*4 '
Answer. — ^No! I do not think the medical
fraternity should any more be invested with
a power that may be used for evil, and be ex-
empet from penality due tp crime, than any
other persons. It must be admitted, that the
medical faculty should better understand
the subject of hypnotism than the great mass
of mankind, whose attention is turned is other
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many in the medical fraternity who have
given the subject of Mind a great deal of
attention ; there are others who are so desti-
tute of knowledge in this direction, that they
even deny the possibility of hypnotism. In
the hands of such persons hypnotism could
be nothing more or less than an experiment,
and its practice would be as dangerous as it
would be among the ignorant outside of the
medical fraternity, 1 do not believe in invest-
' Ing the ignorant with authority, either in, or
out of the medical fraternity. I believe that
Individztality should st&ud upon its merits,
«.nd there shfould be no law anywhere which
l^otect the classes. If we would enact a law
to protect the sensitive and to prevent the
crimes that may arise from the jSractice of
^ypnotigin ; we should malffe it binding upon
pi0 Individual who practice it, that he or she
—as the case may be— who would praptic^ it,
be well versed in the literature that fias been '
written upon the subject ; and that they are
conversant with the facts that are gathered
from the practice o f
has been demonstrated under the name of
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Electro-Biology, Electro Psychology or Hyp-
notism. Whether it has been done iji the
name of Man, God or the DeviL And in ad-
dition to ^ knowledge of its principles and tf
itg' conditions, no one should be lillowed to
practice it except for moral purposes. And
wherever this law is violated, it should be con-
sidered a crime and punished accordingly.
Whether done in the name of religion, in the
namie of politics, under the prc^ction granted^
the medical fratermttf or any other organiza*
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tear tojt^m^vah of religion f \,^
Answbb. — ^I hold the law of Biinfl to be the
same under whatever name It may be known,
or whatevei: may be the motives which
prompts us to action. The same power which
is denjonptrated upon the stage for the amuse-
ment of the masses, when otherwise directed,
may be used as a means of salvation from sin
andAvice in every direction. We find in the
gentle fannings of the breeze and the refresh-
ing showery that imf irts life and beayt y to
tpe opening flowers^spring, lies hidden the
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iio^ling winds and peltic^ storms of winter ;
and all that is necessary to produce the dif-
ferent results is a change in the conditions of
the atm<?9phere. Similar condition will pro-
du<5^ sitailar effects while the law conteolling
eacl^ may be the same.
The conditions necessary to get up a Re-
Fival^of Religion in the, church, ia, that the
members of the church become united in the
belief that a Revival will take place. Hence
the first thing done is |o (|iil the church
together for special prayer ; th^t by so
mug each member may be brought to feel
and believe that God will send, them a Iftevi-
]f^. , And when this is done, they have for-
med a. positive battery. Next, sinners are in-
vited to the Altar, and when one volunteers
4io go forward, the concentration of the entire
i^ijJery,— with its confidence,— is brought to
; bear upon that individual, until he or she be-
comes magnetized with its influence, and be-
con^esA, susceptible subject to the Positive
,«QnditJons of their faith. The stronger the
faith of the church, apd the more Positive
th e pporat ors. w ho le«ii i n m.m R evivals, the i
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i^ the case in Hypnotic Exhibitions, — ^if the
operator lacks confidence^ and the sympathy.^
of the congregation is iiot with the leaders^'
their success will be smalL ^^gain, not only ^
; in the conditions of getting up a Revival, do
;we see the manifestations of Hypnotism in
ireligious excitements, but also in the fact that
these Revivals are always brought about by .
iin appeal to the External Senses. Hence the
tone of the v^ice, the nature of the expression,,
and the language used, are all important f ac»
tors in securing Revivals of Religioi^* Ah!
But you say Revivals of Religion are the
. direct operations of the Spirit of Goa. Ad mit-
ting this to be true ; nevertheless we find, as
an agent for the manifestation of that Divine
Spirit, a good Revivalist consists m<^re in the
excitability of his nature, and the Magnetic
influence he carries with him, than in his
lability to preach, or his capacity for reason-
■ ing upon the merits of the Gospel, r
"^ Another fact is noticable in revivals of
religion—as in political excitements and the
practice of Hypnotism in general — Those wh^
are th<^ea6ieBt excited are persons who possess
±a. great deal of the emotional in their iiature-;^
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or those who are subject to hysteria. The
cool calculating philosophical minds are sel-
dom brought to a saving knowledge of the
truth, through any of these undue excite*
ments in religious matters; nor are they
demonstrative in any other department of life.
And when we take into consideration the
^ fact that the most emotional among society,
' are the best subjects— although they are often
the most intelligent — and that what is true in
Hypnotism on the stage and in the domestic
circle, either for public or priviate amusement,
or in the medical clynic, is also true in Revi-
vals of Religion ; we can readily see that the
kw controlling both, is the ^aine. And that
as much judgemeut and caution is needed to
guapd the evils of hypnotism in the one direc-
tion,- as in the other. And while I believe in
religion and would do alj in my power to en-
hance the true Gospel of Christ; I would As
much condemn the undue practice of Hypno-
tism (upon the emotional nature of an individ-
ual) in the name of religion, as on the stage.
And I hold that, no Revivalist (having no other
previous knowledge of FsychoTogylhan that
which, has been gathered from the lowest con-
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ditions of vice and drunkeness— shauld be
allowed to practice simply because he does it
iK^ the liame of religion; oft-times setting
people crazey, with the imaginative pictures
drawn of the fearful hell which he deserves;
but from which he has been saved by the
Gyaceof God. I hold that such preaching,
slider such conditions \^ ' hy;pnotic j, and oft^ :
times result in crime by the undue exciteiiient
of those whose natures are stsceptable to its
influence. ^ ; -^
QuESTiONr — Under the head of ' 'Impressions'*
page 83^ you have ciUd instances which proves
that the impressions made upon the do^scious-
ness of u subject while under the hypnotic in-
fluence, may he carried into the normal state.
Would you consider it possible to improve the
mental conditions of a person through the in-
fluence of hypnotism so as to be of a lasting
benefit through life T \ • , '
AirswEB.— Yes ! I hojd that every organ
of mind,— like the organs or muscles of the
body— may beimprov^ through exercise.
And as our mental ability, depends upon the
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power of retention ; and our consciousness
and ^power oT retention, depends upon the de-
velopment of brain power : the exercise of
the brain or any part thereof developes its
strength and power! In a normal state the
consciousness is devided by external sur-
roundings ; but under the. influence of /i^i?-
notism, th^s consciousness of flie person hyp-
notiaed becomes centerea w^Ji^ one subject,
with a greater degree of intensity than seems
Possible in the normal state; henc* the de-
velopment of any special faculty may be pre-
cipitated. These conditions and l^w of the
development of the weaker faculties of the
brain, may be us^d lo strengthen the '^Mem-
ory ;" to develop the power of ^'Oratory ;" to
overcome the conditions of >ansanity" or to
improve the conditions of Health, in either
body or brain. But there is one thought
here, which should not be overlooked ; that
is the fact that the conditions of develop-
ment, if over-wrought, has a tendency to in-
flame and consequently injure thie organs
that are brought into action. Hence if this
developing ' ' "
the organs of the brain, that are already too
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CONDITIONS OF
Strongly developed, in proportion to their 's
counteracting faculties of the mind, thei*e V
.will be a greater development of these factil- 7^
ties ; and consequently a still greater uneve-.
ness of balance until the result will b^ that
of ^'Insanity." This is what we have refer-' -
red to under the head of Revivals of 'Religion.
, And when such conditions ^re provided it is
not a q^stion of knowledge ; but rather tbe-v
d^mons^tions of the" immutabilitv^ of na-
tures laws. Hence we regard tTifs principle *
in hypnotism, to be the cause of all insanity,
and the greatest danger to society. And be-
cause of such possibilities I deem the^pr^e^ -
tice dangerous in the hands of any, and all- !
persons, who have not studied th^ scienx5e of ,
Human-Nature from a Phrenological and»'
Psycholoigical as well as a Physiological p
standpoint. And only such as have naade Sk i
special study of the subject of .Hypnotism^ W
from the standpoint giyen above^can pos-*, -
sibly be competent to- practice. And aa
there is as much ignorance of the subject of
phrenology and psychology or the philoso- '
phy of mind, often displ|iyed. among mem^
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any other classjftf intelligent .beiiigs ; I hold
that it is an injustice toithe intelligence of
thoge who would investigate its principles,
and practice its^ phenomena for -the noblest
-^purposes, noAo be allowed such privileges?
'simply bej^ause . they haVe not received a
Jjicense^ sanction^ by the intelligence and'
Authority of those yho neither believed or
understood its principles. Many of whom
have openly denied it9 phenomena alto-
gether. • - '
; Hyi)notismwhetherbrought about by Sug-
gestion or by Impression is a result of the
conditions of mm J and not of the 6oe^^. ^he
practicerbf-lfiedicine with 'very few excep-
tions haVe been directe^to the body, while
^ the disuses of the mind and the causes of it^
^ inequalii^ies have : been sadly neglected.
Hence whil^ the practice of Hypnotism may '
be of grb^^portance to the profession in
the practice of Surgery and the administrar
tion^ of relief fr^, suffering in many^ways,
yet, to grant a license td those whose know-
ledge have been cotifined to the study of
Anatomy and the relation of medicine to
--^sea s% w4thou#-^trJaow ledge of the ^K Jwerr^
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as well as the possibilities and liabilities of
suggestion upon the consciousness of the mind,',
and its relation to the saniifi^^tmsanity. of
an individual through th^#p^fc of
the intellect ; is to me lik^ WM'tinff a license
to a class of men to^^jdjpiice electricity upon
the bodies of their fi^^inen. for the mere
purpose of ^ curiosity or experiment ; and to
exempt them from punishment,— no matter
what damage may be done through igno-
rance of conditions,— so long as they ar^
>sted in the inechanical art of coni^tructing
a Battery and know the rielation of the fluids
to the metals of which it is composed. *;
Nay ! like electriciey — where ever fouiid^---i
mind depends only upon instrumentality for
itBmanifestatidjn of external sense > And the
man or ^^^^^who simply understands the
jXJonstmcti ^^ Mtie i||t|-ufiQint, and bow to
repair th^mmSf^ whicn may be done to aliy
part jof the machinery, is not always a trust-
worthy person to deal with its .subtle cpndi-
tions. The electrician finds -that there are
other elementaries to be studied than that of
mere instrumen tality. So towith Hypnotisip.
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prove it to be a scietice of itself. Which as
yet forms no part oijiie pracfice^of merficine..
And consequently It isv subject iipon which
the Medical Fraternity as a class^ are as ig>
norant as the cWg^^ and the Clergy as the -
intelligent part of fie 4ayity. Hence all '
rights, restrictions arid pnvileges in this, as
in everything else, shwld be made in the
interest of the mrfm^^^%nd nbt of the^cZa^.^,..
QiiBSTioN.— mZZ you kmkly gm^us your
-p^ildsophy of the dream r^mrded on pag^l22 |-
4^KswER.-~There are two . thec^ier which ^
may be given in answer to this inquiry ; One
is that given by the spiritualist^ who would
claim that a. Guardian Angel or disembodied
Spirit saw the ^smouldering wood 'ah4 the
eminent dange*no which the family *were
^exposed, and by the pow;er or influence of •
iQind,' the Spirit psychologized the dreamer
with an impression of evil. Upcm the l^lief
jn Immortality, and the possibility of spirit
Gommunio^^which is the basis of our bhrist-
lan faith- thi^ is riot altogether an irra-
tional idea. But the re is still another
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Ego or Psychic, <>ft-times leave the body; and
though held by a magnetic cord, it may
wander around and visit places and tpi^^
cognizance of events, and even hold coi!|^^^ :
with. persons whom we may ft^ver ^^i*^
in physical form, or recognize them witno^
external senses. Upon this hypoth*^'^'*' . *
may suppose that the psychic oi Miss D.,
went on aA exploring expedition around the
premises, while her external senses were at
rest ; and the sights seen by her ^eht^,! sen-
ses or psychic powers were of such an alarjpa^f:
ing nature, that it left an impression upon,
the external consciousness ; which was in-
definitely felt; when her entire external sen-
ses became aclivCi Both of these theories
are prj^bably within the relm of psychic phe-
nomena. Hence I must leave the subject with
you to determine for |^(mirsQlyes which you
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