The retina and optic centers can be excited with eyes opened or closed. Company and conversation promote the former, and solitude and silence promote the latter. Some people hallucinate whenever they walk into a dark room. Alfred Binet (Animal Magnetism, 1894) wrote … "Suppose the idea... Read More

Hypnosis is a useful science, yet the power behind its drone is mesmerism (animal magnetism). Establishment science dumped the greater paradigm in favor of the lesser one. The lesser science of hypnosis is a part of the greater science of mesmerism and not the other way around. Albert Moll ... Read More

Just as the renown of mesmerism lessened it into the "science" of hypnotism, the renown of hypnotism lessened it further into suggestion and psycho-therapeutics, treating mostly psychological "diseases of the imagination" instead of psychosomatic "diseases caused by the imagination." Albert Moll ... Read More

The Nancy School gradually prevailed over the Paris School. Hypnosis and suggestion were intermingled with psychology, psychiatry, pedagogy, propaganda, eugenics, etc., to a greater or lesser degree. Albert Moll (Hypnotism: Including a Study of the Chief Points of Psycho-therapeutics and Occul... Read More

Keith Harary ("The trouble with HYPNOSIS. Whose power is it anyway?," Psychology Today, Mar.-Apr. 1992) wrote … "In all likelihood, hypnosis is a metaphor for selling our own intrinsic mental capabilities short. Hypnosis may be the ultimate psychic sales spiel — a way for us to disown powers ... Read More