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But that which religions have claimed for their Founders or for their Saints--and what is sanctity but the genius of the ethical realm?--Psychology must claim for every form of spiritual indrawing, every form of spiritual response; for sleeping vision, for hyp
Read record →But it is certain, on the other hand, that with a large percentage of persons profound and prolonged sleep can be induced, in any bodily condition, by simple suggestion
Read record →Take first the degree of control over the voluntary muscles
Read record →Stevenson's volume, Across the Plains (already referred to in the last chapter), contains a description of the most successful dream-experiments thus far recorded
Read record →The permanent result of a dream, I say, is sometimes such as to show that the dream has not been a mere superficial confusion of past waking experiences, but has had an unexplained potency of its own,--drawn, like the potency of hypnotic suggestion, from some
Read record →vere pain under the left breast, thinks that the professor has burnt her in the night, and begs the sister to obtain a retreat for her in a convent, where she will be secure against such attacks
Read record →xplicable as this phenomenon has been to observers who have encountered it without the needed key, the independent observations of hundreds of physicians and hypnotists have united in affirming its reality
Read record →If all this be true, there are several points on which we may form expectations definite enough to suggest inquiry
Read record →A cognate anticipation to which our theory will point will be that dream-memory will occasionally be found to fill up gaps in waking memory, other than those due to hypnotic trance; such so-called "ecmnesic" periods, for instance, as sometimes succeed a violen
Read record →The same point, as we shall hereafter see, is illustrated by the phenomena of crystal-vision
Read record →the striking case of Professor Hilprecht where dream-intelligence is carried to its highest point
Read record →I will next refer to certain cases where the sleeper by clairvoyant vision discerns a scene of direct interest to a mind other than his own;--as the danger or death of some near friend
Read record →uce a sample of a certain class of dreams,--more interesting, perhaps, and certainly more perplexing than any;--but belonging to a category of phenomena which at present I can make no attempt to explain
Read record →n of a troubled dream, before the event was known, we have the actual notes written down by her, as she informed us, the day, or the day after, the news of the fatal accident arrived, solely for her own use, and unmistakably reflecting the incoherent impressiv
Read record →off his boot, which was beside him, dozed off and was very likely roused by the sound of the train; 76 sheep-trucks had passed without touching him, but some wooden projection, likely the step, had touched the right side of his head, bruised his right shoulder
Read record →Storie cannot regard the experience exactly as a dream, though she woke up from it
Read record →I have assumed that man is an organism informed or possessed by a soul
Read record →Such were the suggestions of the evidence as to dream and vision; such, I may add, will be seen to be the suggestions of spontaneous somnambulism, which has not yet fallen under our discussion
Read record →Let him take his stand at one of the modern centres of hypnotic practice,--in Professor Bernheim's hospital-ward, or Dr
Read record →steric; or concentrate attention, as it is concentrated for the somnambulist; or change the tastes and passions, as these are changed in alternating personalities; or (best of all) recover and fix something of that supernormal faculty of which we have caught f
Read record →The first name that must be mentioned is, of course, that of Mesmer himself
Read record →results which no one else has been able to produce; and the state which it induced appeared in his view to arrest and dissipate even maladies of which neither hypnotist nor patient had thought as capable of cure
Read record →a general consensus of hypnotic practice--threw aside more and more decisively the supposed "somatic signs" of Charcot,--the phenomena of neuro-muscular irritability and the like, which he regarded as the requisite proof of hypnosis;--until Bernheim boldly aff
Read record →"Hypnotic trance," says Bernheim, in effect, "is ordinary sleep; hypnotic suggestion is ordinary command
Read record →According to Bernheim we are all naturally suggestible, and what we want to effect through suggestion is increased suggestibility
Read record →It is doubtful, however, whether any of these sudden disablements should be classed as true hypnoses
Read record →There is no doubt that this sleep does in certain subjects follow instantly upon the pressure of certain spots,--constant for each subject, but different for one subject and for another;--and this without any conscious co-operation, or even foreknowledge, on t
Read record →Here, then, we come to an important conclusion which cannot well be denied, yet is seldom looked fully in the face
Read record →Self-suggestion, whatever this may really mean, is thus in most cases, whether avowedly or not, at the bottom of the effect produced
Read record →These schemes of self-suggestion, as I have termed them, constitute one of the most interesting parts of my subject, but space forbids that I should enter into a discussion of them here
Read record →Yet, important though these and similar experiments in self-suggestion may be, they do not solve our problem as to the ultimate origin and distribution of the faculty thus displayed
Read record →The hint which I have to offer here involves, I hope, something more than a mere change of appellation
Read record →As a general rule (though with numerous exceptions), the events of ordinary life are remembered in the trance, while the trance events are forgotten on waking, but tend to recur to the memory on rehypnotisation
Read record →We thus experience in ourselves a strange conflict between moral responsibility and molecular affinities;--the central will overborne by dumb unnumbered elements of our being
Read record →Even for the slave of morphia the same sudden freedom is sometimes achieved
Read record →Now the removal of shyness, or mauvaise honte, which hypnotic suggestion can effect, is in fact a purgation of memory,--inhibiting the recollection of previous failures, and setting free whatever group of aptitudes is for the moment required
Read record →There is a selection of ideas to which the hypnotic subject will attend, and there is a concentration upon the idea thus selected; but those ideas themselves may be both complex and constantly shifting, and indeed this is just one of the ways in which the hypn
Read record →(1) In the first place, it seems clear that when pain is inhibited in any but the most simple cases, a certain group of changes is produced whose nexus is psychological rather than physiological
Read record →Yet we possess (strangely enough) what seems direct evidence that the profoundest organic substratum of our being is by suggestion wholly freed from pain
Read record →The stratum of self whose business it is to correct the mechanical defect of the eye has in these instances done so amiss, and cannot set itself right
Read record →mentary state of our study of hypnotism is somewhat strangely illustrated by the fact that most of the experiments which show hyperæsthesia most delicately have been undertaken with a view of proving something else--namely, mesmeric rapport, or the mesmerisati
Read record →Let us now consider the evidence for heteræsthesia;--for the existence, that is to say, under hypnotic suggestion, of any form of sensibility decidedly different from those with which we are familiar
Read record →First, then, as to the effects of suggestion on the vaso-motor system
Read record →This delicate responsiveness of the vaso-motor system has given rise to some curious spontaneous phenomena, and has suggested some experiments, which are probably as yet in their infancy
Read record →the hypnotiser has coughed three times, the awakened subject, although knowing nothing of the order in his waking state, will be on the look-out for the coughs, amid all other disturbances, and will poke the fire at the fore-ordained signal.[82] Moreover, when
Read record →Other persons present endeavour to attract his attention in various ways
Read record →Another indication of the subliminal power at work to produce these hallucinations is their remarkable range--a range as wide, perhaps, as that over which therapeutic effects are obtainable by suggestion
Read record →Two main hypotheses have been put forward as a general explanation of such cases, neither of which seems to me quite satisfactory
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