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Show PHENOMENON OF HYPNOTISM. During the last 20 years there have been no lack of professional exposi lions of the facts of hypnotism, yet mere remains a w lucspreau Deuel that hypnotic treatment Involves giving giv-ing up one's will or self-control into the keeping of the hypnotist, and many even believe that once this is effected he can exorcise his sway unseen un-seen and remote from the one-time subject of the treatment. It will interest many to learn, says Prof. Marcus Morton, what Is the real nature of the phenomenon of hypnotic hyp-notic suggestion by a practitioner and how far it may be applied to oneself. one-self. He says: "It is familiar to all of us that emo tions and sensations are under the control of our conscious will to a certain exlent, and that there is also within us an intellectual process resembling re-sembling in its effects and powers I our conscious reasoning and will, which has been variously called the unconscious reason, the BUD-CODSCiOUS and even (at least In Ireland) the un-( conscious consciousness. We may term it for shortness 'the uncon sclous.' "Now, the control over feelings and processes exerted by our conscious-heas conscious-heas is far weaker than that of the unconscious. If we have a bad attack at-tack of toothache and we will not to feel the pain it disappears in a moment mo-ment and then returns 10 times worse. But if a friend who inter-, ests us comes in for a chat we exert ex-ert ourselves to give him civil one pany and the pain goes of itself while he is there because our attention is on our conversation and away from the pain. The probability is that at ter his departure we shall find that the worst of the pain also departed "Now, If we can by any artifice engage en-gage or put to sleep the conscious part of ourselves and at the same time bj some device induce the un conscious part to work on a directed object, it would appear probable that we could obtain results in the direction direc-tion of our feelings and processes that would be otherwise unattainable. |