Facts in Mesmerism, With Reasons for a Dispassionate Inquiry Into It

Klappentext A passionate defence of Mesmerism! a highly controversial topic when it was first published in 1840. Zusammenfassung A passionate defence of Mesmerism! a kind of hypnosis based on the theory of animal magnetism! first published in 1840 by one of its most prominent nineteenth-century practitioners! a friend of Dickens. Townshend includes eye-witness accounts of hypnotic experiments! both from the subject's and the Mesmeriser's viewpoint. Inhaltsverzeichnis Book I. Review of the causes that have made mesmerism unpopular, and which render it a subject difficult to be treated; Book II. 1. Mesmeric somnambulism, or more properly, sleepwaking; 2. Showing the claims of mesmeric sleepwaking to be considered a peculiar condition of man; 3. Showing certain of the physical and metaphysical conditions of mesmeric sleepwaking; Book III. 1. Conformity of mesmerism with our general experience; 2. On the mesmeric consciousness; 3. On mesmeric sensation; 4. On the medium of mesmeric sensation; Book IV. The mesmeric medium; Supplement; Errata.

Product details

• Authors: Chauncy Hare Townshend
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.02.2011
• EAN: 9781108025898
• ISBN: 978-1-108-02589-8
• No. of pages: 598
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Spiritualism and Esoteric Knowledge
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; History of Ideas, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Spiritualism, HISTORY / Social History, Spiritualism