| Show HYPNOTISM als A CURE dr os claims it re alieves all maladies 1 i OAK CHANGE AS WELL H confident alter several thon and experiments that can it Influence Say space so limitation to hypnotic contact by bis declarations made in a recent address delivered before the branch of the medico legal society that he had exerted a hypnotic influence apon an ambition young actress with the result that she attained a high rank la her profession dr john duncan professor emeritus at columbia university brought upon him belt a deluge ot criticism much of it unfavorable and some of it of an unpleasant nature says the new york herald to this dr says that he has become accustomed as a result of past experiences he asserts that in most instances criticism Is passed without a full of the circumstances dr waa discussing the nature of the communications received by professor james H hyslop of columbia university from mrs leonora E piper when he related his experience with the actress who submitted herself to his hypnotic influence in a statement made to the above mentioned paper mrs piper confessed her ignorance of the influences that were at work upon her when she entered what appeared to bo a trance state but she expressed the opinion that spirits were in no manner connected with tha phenomenon dr said that he spoke from experience derived from two thousand hypnotic patients these subjects eald dr explaining his methods sought my aid for almost every conceivable malady mental and moral some tor many for literary or dramatic inspiration I 1 have thus been brought into closest touch with the human soul practically liberated in the hypnotic slumber from its entanglement with a perishable body no injury has come to my mental or physical health as a result of unremitting work as a because I 1 get something back from my patients otherwise I 1 would be a nervous bankrupt hypnotic suggestion Is merely a summoning into of the true man there la nothing mysterious about it except to those who do not understand it Is a sudden overshadowing of character defects and mental weaknesses by a quick growth of moral energy in my experience I 1 have given hyp nolle assistance to students wishing to qualify for a rigid examination and to the equipment of talented women for authorship or the stage it was in this manner that I 1 prepared an actress within a year who gained immediate insight into her endowment she absorbed confidence in expression and she went before the footlights a consummate mistress of her art to be cur talked as I 1 have bald seven times throughout the winter after the climax of the play to achieve this result the lady in question was brought to a full realization of herself in her higher relationships lation ships and there came to me a spiritual indemnification for the energy expended hypnotism implies on the part of one personality an expenditure of spiritual energy which materializes as ethical activity in the personality that la inspired tho majority of hypnotist do perfunctory work not sounding the depths of the soul they seek to aid the hypnotist who Is in full rapport with his subject is often startled by hla own experiences As an instance an actress 1 was inspiring with confidence recently and preparing tor her part assured me a week after treatment that she had experienced a heui change in her disposition and her attitude aa regards the purity of the stage she would not entertain a proposition from a manager whose plays on the vulgar and her newly adopted ideals were BO exactly in conformity with my own that there could bo no question regarding their sources the almo has come when eoula may know of each other without too intermediary of the senses I 1 do not hesitate to say that we have within us an immaterial principle entirely independent of ase organs facca cast light upon the principles of telepathic communication brought into hypnotic contact can exchange convictions and feel inga the possibility that r 1 A tuch minds may communicate without reference to space limitations some years ago the late austin corban purchased acres of farm and wood land in sullivan county N n and stocked the estate liberally with game recently austin corban jr reported the presence of mountain lions and of lynx in the park by some mysterious power tho great cat that vanished from this region a century ogo became aware of the presence of deer and elk in clue mountain park in my work I 1 have at times felt myself thwarted by an intervening intelligence that opposed the strongest influence that I 1 could exert 0 a bright little girl of seven years was brought to me for treatment and though she at first submitted willingly to the influence there suddenly seemed to come between ua an influence which she felt as plainly as did I 1 and which she drove from her as though it were a tangible being she referred to it as satan natalie D another patient of mine passes dally from opa personality to another without appreciable cause in consequence of a nervous shock received in her eighth year her mind remained a childs mind while abo gradually developed into physical womanhood in one personality she repeats aloud the petitions of the prayer book being constantly interrupted by the other personality whom she styles miss D and peremptorily orders out of her presence emphatic gestures there Is no difference as regards suggestibility between natural bleed bleep and the so called hypnotic trance that being the case every boor of nat ural sleep Is prolific of opportunity for communication with those who have departed this life and wha knows that it does not take place |
