A classic example of hypnotic suggestion is DANCING MANIA (choreomania), known in medieval Europe as St. Vitus Dance. Reductionist science has blamed St. Vitus's Dance on such things as ergot, despite the glossed-over fact that ergot poisoning causes convulsions and paralysis, not sustained and r... Read More

John Elliotson (1791-1868) was a prominent Mesmerist and a target of Britain's Medical Police State. Mesmerism puts the power in the hands of ordinary people, taking it out of the claws of government "experts." Mesmerism is stunningly faster than "the speed of science." Author Charles Dicke... Read More

At-OM's X-Phials #6 ("He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse, and rode madly off in all directions.") Overcoming death is overcoming what consensus reality calls "life as it is." Terence McKenna referred to death as the "black hole in biology." "Saturn Return gives you... Read More

Alfred Lebbeus Loomis. M.D. (A System of Practical Medicine, Vol. 4, 1898) wrote ... "A number of cases have been reported, mostly in the public press, in which it is alleged that persons have been buried in a state of trance. It is highly improbable that any such cases have actually occurred, bu... Read More

Miracles can often be explained rationally, but, just as often, they can't. Rev. Chauncy Hare Townshend (1798-1868) was conservative when it came to "miracles." Chauncy Hare Townshend (Facts in Mesmerism, with reasons for a dispassionate inquiry into it, 1840) wrote ... "For my own sake I s... Read More