AI Overview: "In his writings debunking spiritualism and alternative psychological phenomena — most notably in his book Hypnotism, Mesmerism, and the New Witchcraft (1893) — the British medical journalist Ernest Abraham Hart wrote about the phenomenon of hypnotizing chickens (cocks) with a chalk... Read More

According to Adano Ley (Swami Nitty-Gritty) ... "Aging comes from thinking that you have a soul. Thinking sets the degenerative action." "You don't HAVE a soul. You ARE soul. If this immortal soul is taken care of by a mortal body, I think you got a lousy deal." "Enlightenment is the actual... Read More

AI Overview: "Dr. Jules Charpignon (Louis Joseph Jules Charpignon) was a prominent 19th-century French physician and a major figure in the study and defense of animal magnetism, which is historically known as mesmerism. Based in Orléans, France, Dr. Charpignon was part of a wave of medical pract... Read More

AI Overview: "George Catlin famously claimed to have effectively 'charmed' or tamed wild buffalo calves using a well-known frontier method. "While he did not use modern clinical hypnosis, he described a psychological trick that achieved a hypnotic, bonding effect. In his famous 1841 book, Letters... Read More

AI Overview: "James Esdaile (1808-1859) was a Scottish surgeon and a pioneering figure in the history of general anaesthesia and mesmerism (hypnotism). "Educated at the University of Edinburgh, he served for twenty years with the East India Company in India, where he developed a method combining ... Read More