Hypnotism no Mystery.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2060, 19 September 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)

Hypnotism no Mystery.

Dr.. TumiiNfi, befona the New York Academy •of Anthropology, discoursing on involuntary life said : When the will surrenders its control, the involuntary life b9gins. Somnambulism and the trance are phases of it. It was really the true life. Hypnotism was a kind of involuntary life and produced by giving one's entire oonfidence to another of superior will power. If the human mastery is so perilous, so much the bettor reason for understanding it. People should open their eyes and look into it, and not turn skeptically away. If one soul oru pospens another at this day there can be no doubt of there having been in olden days a demon iacnl possession. There is no raystery about it— there is no need of mystery. Hypnotism has fallen into disrepute beoause it lias been praotised by mountebanks. What is Known asj panic is a tranco. This question of involuntaiy life is a matter of education. The first time a person is subject to the influence of anothct's will he may be aroused bsfore being entirely released by a mental action, the second time ho is more controllable, and the third or fourth time he is entirely so. Intensity of thought in one direction produoes vacuity of thought in another, and a trance may be artificially induced by anticipation. The helmsman dozing at his wheel is an illustration of involuntary life.— New York Tribune.