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Updated: May 27, 2025
It is perfectly possible that there are instances of thought-transference in cases of somnambulism, epilepsy, trance. I do not positively deny it, though I am very doubtful. Mediums and clairvoyants are a sickly lot, as a rule. But I bet you anything, a healthy man in perfectly normal conditions is not to be influenced by the tricks of mesmerists.
In her contributions to the Journal during those years she frequently took up Animal Magnetism; she tells her followers over and over again that she will denounce it, and that she will not be silenced. For several years there was a regular department in the Journal with the caption "Animal Magnetism," but the crimes which were charged to mesmerists were by no means confined to this department.
This last covers the phenomena of ordinary mesmeric exhibitions at which travelling mesmerists "control" persons before audiences and make them obey their commands. While other scientists properly deny that these three stages are really distinct, they may yet be taken as representing extreme instances of the phenomena, and serve as points of departure for further description.
With these facts in view, the alleged experiences of the older mesmerists appear by no means impossible.
"He said as I understood that the telegraphic despatch proved to him that it had been taken out here." "What an idiot you are!" ejaculated Roland. "How could a despatch tell him who took it, or who did not? unless it was a despatch from those spirit-rappers mesmerists, or whatever they call themselves. They profess to show you who your grandmother was, if you don't know!"
Then his mind reverted to the strange sensations which he had experienced beneath those human eyes after being trapped into the padded chamber, and a shiver of repulsion ran over him. Was he a captive in the hands of, and at the mercy of, a gang of conjurers and mesmerists? The thought was horrible to him.
I have more respect for the old witch-finders than for the Eugenists, who go about persecuting the fool of the family; because the witch-finders, according to their own conviction, ran a risk. Witches were not the feeble-minded, but the strong-minded the evil mesmerists, the rulers of the elements.
We know how the mesmerists would account for this phenomenon of hygienic introvision and clairvoyance. But here, there is no mesmerizer, unless the patient can be supposed to mesmerize herself.
By perfectly concentrated Meditation on the form of the body, by arresting the body's perceptibility, and by inhibiting the eye's power of sight, there comes the power to make the body invisible. There are many instances of the exercise of this power, by mesmerists, hypnotists and the like; and we may simply call it an instance of the power of suggestion.
But lately things have come to my knowledge which made me doubtful as to facts. I may have been duped I believe I have been: I am justified, therefore, in turning the tables." "If you turn tables," broke in the Major, who was grumbling to himself at the very idea of having any pepper in his nature "Goad, if you turn tables, mind you, you must do it better than the mesmerists.
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