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	Mesmerism - Pranism Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		Mesmer's fundamental idea was that there resides in man a power, an odic force or nerve energy, which can be projected by the will and directed either to heal and cure, or to harm and kill.
		Mesmerism, however, means the conscious or unconscious projection by a human being of this odic or vital nerve force or magnetic fluid.
		Mesmerism, purely as such, depends solely upon the inherent natures of the pranas, and is solely a transference of pranic energy from the operator to the subject.
	www.pranism.net /forum/showthread.php?t=80 (675 words)

	Mesmerism
		Mesmer conducted mesmerism as a healing technique based on the idea of animal magnetism, a concept according to which human body posses some sort of magnetic power and that heavenly bodies have influence on human health.
		Mesmer’s theory suggests that all animated bodies including man were affected by a magnetic force, which also mutually influenced the celestial bodies and earth, while the physician making suggestions and the client mesmerizes.
		Mesmer also applied the technique, with the explanation that there is a very subtle magnetic fluid flowing through everything, including the body of people, which sometimes gets disturbed and needs to be restored to its proper flow.
	www.about-hypnosis.com /mesmerism.html (638 words)

	Animal magnetism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mesmer chose the word "animal", for its root meaning (from latin animus = "breath") specifically to identify his force/power as a quality residing in the bodies of the animate beings:(humans and animals).
		Mesmer chose his term to clearly distinguish his variant of magnetic force from those which were referred to, at that time, as mineral magnetism, cosmic magnetism and planetary magnetisms.
		Mesmerism and hypnosis (as we now understand hypnosis) have nothing in common except their shared historical roots, and the experience of the mesmerized subject is significantly different from that of the hypnotized subject.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mesmerism (578 words)

	Mesmerism -A Theosophical Article by William Q. Judge
		When the hypnotic or mesmerized state is complete - and often when it is partial - there is an immediate paralyzing of the power of the body to throw its impressions, and thus modify the conceptions of the inner being.
		So it often happens with mesmerized subjects that the arms or legs are suddenly paralyzed without being directly operated on, or, as frequently, the sensation due to the fluid is felt first in the fore-arm, although the head was the only place touched.
		And all the mesmeric subjects we have are wholly untrained, in the sense that the word bears with with the school of ancient mesmerism of which I have been speaking.
	www.blavatsky.net /theosophy/judge/articles/mesmerism.htm (3903 words)

	Phrenology, Mesmerism, and Spiritualism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		Charles Dickens practiced mesmerism on his own wife(70).3 In 1838 approximately 170 of the 1,000 members of the newly formed phrenological societies were physicians and surgeons(29).4 As for the working class, spiritualism provided a way to deny the permanent separation caused by the massive numbers of deaths brought about by their miserable living conditions.
		Mesmer refined his theory by demonstrating that a mere pass of the hand over the afflicted body of a patient could produce the same response in the fluid as a magnet.
		Although mesmerism, through Elliotson, was most popular in England during the 1830's and 40's there is evidence to suggest that Victorians were not the first to be exposed to the concept of electricity that lay at the heart of Mesmer's theories.
	www.gober.net /victorian/reports/mesmersm.html (3999 words)

	TRN - Dec 1998 - Mesmerism Considered
		Mesmerism was the enlightened fad of the late 18th century.
		Like phrenology, mesmerism was a revolutionary "science" with thousands of converts; it promised to take mankind to the next level of human development; its practitioners promised adherents that each person would be able to achieve his or her desire.
		The overwhelming opinion of mesmerism, in spite of the attempts to resurrect it, was that it was deserving of scorn.
	www.reall.org /newsletter/v06/n10/mesmerism-considered.html (2037 words)

	Franz Mesmer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mesmer was born in the village of Iznang, on the shore of Lake Constance in Swabia, Germany.
		In January 1768 Mesmer married a wealthy widow and established himself as a physician in Vienna.
		Mesmer said that while Gassner was sincere in his beliefs, his cures were due to the fact that he possessed a high degree of animal magnetism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Franz_Mesmer (1582 words)

	Trance and Trauma
		In the spirit of his dissertation, Mesmer set about trying to relate the periodicity of Fräulein Oesterlin's symptom manifestations to tidal fluctuations and, in the course of this effort, decided to see whether he could induce an artificial tide in his patient.
		In imitation of electrical theory, Mesmer thought of magnetic fluid as polarized, conductible, and able to be discharged and accumulated.
		Mesmer's fall was as meteoric as his rise.
	serendip.brynmawr.edu /Mind/Trance.html (2668 words)

	Animal magnetism Summary
		As Mesmer developed his theories further, he would suggest that magnets were useful in treating disease because disease was caused by a blockage in the flow of this energy, and magnets could exert an influence over this force.
		Mesmer also felt that it was possible to "charge" certain objects, such as trees, metal poles, and jars of water, with energy, and that patients could treat themselves by drinking the water or holding onto the objects for a length of time.
		mesmerism may today be regarded as nothing more than a footnote in the history of medicine, but in its day it proved to be a powerful philosophical force, and it opened several doors in our thinking about the functioning of the human body and the energy that animates it.
	www.bookrags.com /Animal_magnetism (1285 words)

	Mesmerism
		Part of Mesmer's theory was that all animated bodies including man were affected by a magnetic force which also mutually influenced the celestial bodies and earth.
		For instance a portion of Mesmer's theory, as previously mentioned, was that all animated bodies including man were affected by a magnetic force which also mutually influenced the celestial bodies and earth.
		This portion of mesmerism had been emphasized by astrology for centuries since it studies the positions and movements of astronomical or celestial bodies, especially the sun, moon, and planets, and their effect upon the life and events on earth.
	www.themystica.com /mystica/articles/m/mesmerism.html (1248 words)

	Secretary of Peace ~ Universal Peace ~ War is Mesmerism by Arthur Stilwell
		MESMERISM: Different dictionaries define it as the act of inducing an abnormal state of the nervous system, in which the thoughts and acts of the person or persons are controlled by others.
		They have public meetings, and men with languagitis, who are longing for a chance to air their vocabularies, hand out a wonderful flow of words about the nation's glory, the greatness of its heroes, and the victories of the past.
		Think of the awful discord produced by these mesmeric wars, w hen man is bent on stabbing, shooting or rending his brother; when men look upon each other as wild beasts.
	www.warismesmerism.com /war-is-mesmerism.html (1307 words)

	681
		A Viennese physician, Friedrich Anton Mesmer (1734-1815), discovered how to produce these cures which came to be known as "mesmerism." He thought that some electrical or magnetic principle permeated the universe.
		Mesmer believed that by using his own body as a magnet, he could cure neurotic patients.
		Mesmerism (or hypnotism) thus remained a pseudo-scientific field quite similar to that of phrenology -- both not quite new fields of science, yet later considered important areas in the understanding of psychological phenomenon.
	online.sfsu.edu /~psych601/unit8/681.htm (1272 words)

	mesmerism
		Mesmer plagiarized Hell's magnetic therapy and posited that it works because there is a very subtle magnetic fluid flowing through everything but which sometimes gets disturbed and needs to be restored to its proper flow.
		Hell, Mesmer theorized, was unblocking the flow of this magnetic fluid with his magnets.
		Mesmer did basically what today's hypnotists do in the showroom and the clinic, and what faith healers do in the circus tents and churches, only he did them together, making a great show out of his magnetic cures.
	skepdic.com /mesmer.html (928 words)

	Winter, Mesmerized, excerpt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		Mesmerism was portrayed as an expression of where strength and weakness, or superiority and inferiority, lay in society.
		Mesmerism, he suggested, showed that the brain had both the "positive and negative powers of electricity" because, "through the medium of the nerves, [it] has the power of attracting or repulsing." The blood, Merryweather continued, was capable of carrying electric charge.
		Mesmerized subjects, ventriloquists' dolls, and inanimate "human automata" were literally interchangeable on the popular stage, and mesmeric displays alternated with puppetry and ventriloquism in an evening's show.
	www.press.uchicago.edu /Misc/Chicago/902196.html (5252 words)

	Look Me Square in the Eyes - How to Hypnotize and Mesmerize
		In mesmerism the fifth and sixth degrees previously referred to are frequently induced - in hypnotism never.
		In the mesmeric state the senses, as a rule, are temporarily suspended, the subject feels, tastes, or smells in sympathy with or through his mesmerizer; in the hypnotic state the senses are exalted, their power intensified, as already described.
		(Mesmerize no one without the presence of some one interested in the patient's welfare parents, relatives, guardians, or medical adviser.) Remove, if possible, all elements which are likely to arouse or excite the patient's mind.
	www.geocities.com /victoriancanada/hypnotize_mesmerize.html (1830 words)

	WLM History Review 2:2
		Popularized by Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815), mesmerism was an outgrowth of earlier studies on magnetism by William Gilbert (1540-1603).
		Mesmer developed his ideas during the last days of heroic medicine, an era of medical theories and practices based more on philosophical speculation than on scientific observation or testing.
		Mesmerism also reflects the belief of 19th century physicians that the nervous system dominates all aspects of body function.
	www.asahq.org /wlm/HistoryReview/vol2num2.html (359 words)

	mesmerism. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
		When the members of an audience sit mesmerized by a speaker, their reactions do not take the form of dancing, sleeping, or falling into convulsions.
		Mesmer, a visionary 18th-century physician, believed cures could be effected by having patients do things such as sit with their feet in a fountain of magnetized water while holding cables attached to magnetized trees.
		Mesmer then came to believe that magnetic powers resided in himself, and during highly fashionable curative sessions in Paris he caused his patients to have reactions ranging from sleeping or dancing to convulsions.
	www.bartleby.com /61/72/M0237200.html (230 words)

	nthposition online magazine: Hostile break-up, sinister reunion: Mesmerism & the Boob
		In Mesmer's case people had to touch the bucket's "antennas" to get the effect, in the same way you have to touch TV rabbit ears to get a clear picture.
		Mesmer's "animal magnetism" and Luigi Galvani's "animal electricity" were not only remarkably similar, but arose at the same time in the same part of the world.
		After the two "fluids" of mesmerism and electromagnetism had flowed their separate ways for a hundred years, a great confluence was about to take place.
	www.nthposition.com /hostilebreak-upsinister.php (2004 words)

	Dailey Rare Books Collections - Mesmerism & Mental Healing
		While Mesmer was driven from Paris, the aristocrat Puységur began developing the foundations of psychotherapy on the explicit basis of imagination and suggestion, confirming, in his eyes, the significance, not falseness, of Mesmer’s findings.
		Bergasse announces his split from Mesmer and the Society of Harmony, after his demands that the Society’s statutes be revised to allow public propagation of Mesmer’s theories resulted in his expulsion from the Society.
		Ennemoser was a strict proponent of Mesmer’s theories, and made the original suggestion that children should be mesmerized in their mothers wombs, as should trees in the fields.
	www.daileyrarebooks.com /mesmerism.htm (12885 words)

	Mesmer and Mesmerism
		Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815), a German physician who studied and first practiced in Vienna, developed a therapeutic system based on the idea that living bodies contain a magnetic fluid, and that by manipulating this fluid into a state of balance within the body, physical health could be restored.
		The French government and the medical establishment viewed Mesmer’s success and fame with skepticism and suspicion, so much so that in 1784 two commissions were appointed by King Louis XVI to investigate animal magnetism.
		It is largely a pictorial exhibit; viewers interested in reading further about Mesmer and mesmerism may click here to see a list of the works consulted in the preparation of this exhibit.
	www.thebakken.org /exhibits/mesmer (567 words)

	Poe on Mesmerism
		If Poe's poetry captured the growing idealization of the dead which lay close to the heart of Spiritualism's popular appeal, several of his short stories explored the popular fascination with mesmerism.
		"Mesmerism in Articulo Mortis," later retitled "THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. was originally published in 1845 and created something of a sensation.
		According to Fuller's Mesmerism and the American Cure of Souls (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982), Poe first encountered mesmerism by attending a lecture of Andrew Jackson Davis, one of the founders of Spiritualism.
	www.assumption.edu /AHC/PoeMesmerism.html (123 words)

	TRN - Mar 1999 - Dr. Kreider Speaks Out Part 3: On Mesmerism
		Mesmer proposed that these magnetic forces could be directed and used to cure physical ailments and diseases.
		Mesmerism also taught that this influence was unconfined, and enabled the mesmerist to raise the mind of the patient "to the most exalted condition, and… position."
		In their ecstasies, their hysteric attacks, their spasms, Mesmer, the high-priest, fancifully dressed, but in the height of fashion, with his youthful acolytes, endeavored to sooth and calm the agitation of their enchanting patients by all means that mesmerism could devise.
	www.reall.org /newsletter/v07/n03/kreider-speaks-3.html (1746 words)

	Mesmerism in the Organon
		is essentially a continuation of the Mesmeric processthrough detection of a quantifiable and hence measurable levelof vitality in tissues and organs with the capacity to also makeadjustments in the same.
		In such cases a mere gentle mesmeric pass and the frequent application, for a short time, of the hand of a well-intentioned person to the part that is particularly affected, produce the harmonious uniform distribution of the vital force throughout the organism, and therewith rest, sleep and recovery.
		The mesmeric impinging action is naturally the main thing in this procedure, which may not be exaggerated with those who still suffer from emotional [Gem¸t] irritability.
	www.heilkunst.com /goethean/mesmerism.html (974 words)

	vickipedia: ANIMAL MAGNETISM, MESMERISM, or HYPNOTISM
		In 1841 he went to a mesmeric seance, which seemed to him a mere triumph of imposture over credulity; but returning on another occasion to watch the details more narrowly, he was struck to find that the patient was really unable to keep his eyes open.
		After some reflection, he concluded that by continuous staring, the eyes with their nerve centers became fatigued, and the balance of the nervous system was thus destroyed.
		He thus proved the absolute dependence of the mesmeric phenomena upon the physiological condition of the patient, not on that of the operator ; and found that he had henceforth to deal with a new order of cerebral states, henceforth to be classed with those of sleep, somnambulism, and insanity.
	vickipedia.livejournal.com /6151.html (1299 words)

	Charles Dickens Gad's Hill Place - Mesmerism
		Despite his many accomplishments Elliotson was forced to resign his teaching position in 1839 because of a scandal regarding mesmerism.
		Despite the controversy Dickens was a believer in mesmerism.
		Initially he mesmerized family and friends just for fun or to help with minor illnesses.
	www.perryweb.com /Dickens/life_mesmer.shtml (340 words)

	"Tharana" or Mesmerism (on mantras)
		He asks whether the effect is due to mesmerism or the Mantra.
		We cannot call their effect "mesmerism" - since the curative agency in that is an animal aura, force, or fluid in one person, by means of which a peculiar action is set up in the physical system of another - whether without or with direct contact.
		We confess, we do not see, how anything of that kind - we mean a nervous fluid or force - can be said to reside in a mantram, even as a potentiality, since a mantram is simply a recitation of certain verses held sacred among the Hindus.
	www.katinkahesselink.net /health/mesmer.htm (813 words)

	Amazon.com: mesmerism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France by Robert Darnton (Paperback - Oct 1986)
		Mesmerism: The Discovery of Animal Magnetism (1779); A New Translation by Franz Anton Mesmer and Joseph Bouleur (Paperback - Nov 1997)
		Mesmerism, spiritualism, &c: Historically & scientifically considered, being two lectures delivered at the London Institution, with preface and appendix by William Benjamin Carpenter (Unknown Binding - 1889)
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=mesmerism&tag=lexico&index=blended&link_code=qs&page=1 (539 words)

	Carpenter's "Mesmerism, Spiritualism, &c., Historically and Scientifically Considered," by Alfred Russel Wallace
		Dr. Carpenter persistently denies that there is any adequate evidence of the personal influence of the mesmeriser on the patient independent of the patient's knowledge and expectation, and he believes himself to be very strong in the cases he adduces, in which this power has been tested and failed.
		Carpenter also occupies his readers' attention with accounts of hearsay stories which have turned out exaggerated or incorrect, and lays great stress on the "disposition to overlook sources of fallacy," and to be "imposed on by cunning cheats" which this shows.
		The magnenometer is a delicate pendulum which, when its support is touched by certain persons, vibrates in a definite direction, the direction changing on the motion suddenly stopping when different substances are touched at the same time by the operator.
	www.wku.edu /~smithch/wallace/S270.htm (9236 words)

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