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It will be remembered that for convenience' sake I have discussed the dynamogenic effect of suggestion first…

Date of account: Published 1903
Source: Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death
Reference: Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death · selected passage 181
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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It will be remembered that for convenience' sake I have discussed the dynamogenic effect of suggestion first upon the external senses, then upon the internal sensibility,--the mind's eye, the mind's ear, and the imagination generally;--and now I am turning to similar effects exercised upon that central power which reasons upon the ideas and images which external and internal senses supply, which chooses between them, and which reacts according to its choice. These are "highest-level centres," which I began by saying that the hypnotist could rarely hope to reach;--since those spontaneous somnambulisms which the hypnotic trance imitates and develops do so seldom reach them.

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