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Many hypnotists can bring their subjects under their influence solely by having them gaze fixedly at some bright object like a mirror, or into a crystal sphere, for a few minutes or even seconds. A graphic illustration of the importance of muscular action in emotional states is the art of the actor.
But now we are taught and disciplined for years and years, and thereafter we read and read for all the time some strenuous, nerve-destroying business permits. Pedagogic hypnotists, pulpit and platform hypnotists, book-writing hypnotists, newspaper-writing hypnotists, are at us all. This sugar you are eating, they tell us, is ink, and forthwith we reject it with infinite disgust.
Indeed, the devils who were cast out must sometimes have been baffled hypnotists confronted by One who was stronger than they; the departing into the swine is much more intelligible on this hypothesis than on Dean Farrar's, of the swine's terror, which suppresses the "devils'" request. A story is told of Titus by the rabbis: he heard a gnawing sound at his brain; it caused him great pain.
Thrilling as are some of the stories of the apparitions of the living and the dead, they are less sensational than the suggestion made by hypnotists and psychical researchers of England and France, that each of us has a ghost inside him.
At the head of this chapter I have set a quotation from a leading article in The Times on the recent lectures of M. Coué. It is now eighteen years ago, treading in the footsteps of Frederic Myers, that I discussed with some of the chief medical hypnotists in London and Paris the phenomena of mental suggestion. It was known then that auto-suggestion is a force of tremendous power.
"A prominent politician ahem! suffering from overwork." He glanced at the breakfast and seated himself. "I have been awake for forty hours." "Eh dear!" said Mwres: "fancy that! You hypnotists have your work to do." The hypnotist helped himself to some attractive amber-coloured jelly. "I happen to be a good deal in request," he said modestly. "Heaven knows what we should do without you."
It is evident, if the hypnotists are right, that the human body is more like a tenement house than a single cell, and that the inmates love each other no more than the ordinary occupants of tenemented property. But how many are there of us within each skin who can say? Some Suggested Theories. Of theories to account for these strange phenomena there are enough and to spare.
It appears that valiant resistance can inflict this possession upon hypnotists as well as the horrors of a hard and disgusting victory do. Perhaps the Scin-laeca of Bulwer's "Harold," the apparition of Cerdic, haunted the imaginations of generations of magicians. These were possibly Celts; only one witch-rune on a Saxon sword was found; that was in the Isle of Wight.
In modern times some poor people, bothered by hypnotists, have been sent to lunatic asylums and have fallen victims of the greed, cruelty, and neglect that so often prevail there. One must give Dr. The "spirits" of spiritists are, of course, not impressive, if their somewhat startling amount of information be excepted. The language used by George Pelham is pure twaddle.
The advantage of society must be referred to a great extent to the stream of thought-transfer from hypnotists being checked and broken up; for the effect of this stream being made indirect or semi-direct, its dominating power is thereby greatly diminished. On the third visit of Miss Freer to B that lady notes that "the influence is evil and horrible.
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