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I don't love you in the least. That is why I won't marry you. There's something that draws me to you against my will sometimes yes, I know that! But I hate it, and I'm afraid of it. It's not what I like in you, it's what I like least. It's something like hypnotism, I'm sure. I'm ashamed of it, because it is what has made me flirt with you. Yes, I have!
There was, however, a flow of perspiration, and the excitement continued fully half an hour, then gradually ceased. This paroxysm is the direct opposite of hypnotism, and it is singular that it has not been tried in Europe as well as clairvoyance.
Stecklin, the lawyer on Banneker's right. "Oh, yes; hypnotism too," said Ely Ives briskly, after twenty minutes of legerdemain. "Child's play." "Now, who suggested hypnotism?" murmured Stecklin in his limpid and confidential undertone, close to Banneker's ear. "You? I? No! No one, I think." So Banneker thought, and was the more interested in Ives's procedure.
Already a few here and there have guessed that the states we call hysteria and insanity, conditions of trance, hypnotism, and the like, are not too satisfactorily explained." He peered down at his companion. "If I could study your Self at close quarters for a few years," he added significantly, "and under various conditions, I might teach the world!"
He incorporated into his speech all the latest ideas then in vogue in the circle of his acquaintances, and what was then and is now received as the last word of scientific wisdom. He spoke of heredity, of innate criminality, of Lombroso, of Charcot, of evolution, of the struggle for existence, of hypnotism, of hypnotic suggestion, and of decadence.
He put the question straight to Ah Ben. The man passed his withered hand over his face thoughtfully as he answered: "Hypnotism, Mr. Henley, is a name that is used in the West for a condition that has been known in the East for thousands of years as the underlying principle of all phenomena." "And what is that condition?" Paul inquired. "Sympathetic vibration," answered the elder man.
Brett, this power of hypnotism, a power for healing in the hands of a good man, may become a terrible power for evil in the hands of a villain!" "But Telfer, to-day? He seems to have known nothing of Mayes, and he was not one of his regular creatures Mayes himself told me so." "About that I don't know.
To get at them, medical psychologists make use of hypnotism, automatic writing, crystal-gazing in short, of any method which will force an entrance into that higher time-world, whereby the forgotten past may become the present.
All his skimble-skamble talk about psychology and hypnotism, and that other rambling discourse of pirate caves and buccaneering cruises, made me feel sometimes as if I were about to form a partnership with Aladdin, or the King of the Golden Mountain.
He came back here nobody knows from where, and rented a house, the other side of Coconut Grove, and brought his yacht down to Miami Harbor. Almost right away, he seemed to gain the queerest influence over Milo. It was almost like hypnotism. And yet, I don't altogether wonder. He has an odd sort of fascination about him. Even when he is discussing his snakes." "His snakes?"
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