WoI.1. Mesmer saw his animal magnetism notion as scientific while
attributing an Austrian priest's exorcisms and cures to the priest's
high degree of animal magnetism.
WoI.2. I have no wish to follow Mesmer very far nor to suggest that Jesus and Mesmer had equivalent powers of "psychological suggestion."
WoI.3. I believe the pliant hypnotic subject may well have an unconscious infantile desire to shut off the perhaps self-flagellating "superego" or "higher mind."
WoI.2. I have no wish to follow Mesmer very far nor to suggest that Jesus and Mesmer had equivalent powers of "psychological suggestion."
WoI.3. I believe the pliant hypnotic subject may well have an unconscious infantile desire to shut off the perhaps self-flagellating "superego" or "higher mind."
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