Mesmerism and Christian Science - A Short History of Mental Healing

Klappentext Published in 1909! Mesmerism and Christian Science explores the relationship between science and spiritualism through history. Zusammenfassung A history driven by interests in psychical research! this book traces Victorian spiritualist movements from origins in the work of the eighteenth-century Austrian physician Friedrich Mesmer. Starting from Mesmer's Animal Magnetism! Podmore discusses spiritualism! theosophy! and Christian Science! and provides a biography of important individuals in these movements. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Healing by fluid; 2. The magnetic system; 3. The first French commission; 4. The discovery of Somnambulism; 5. Healing by suggestion; 6. Later French commissions; 7. Mesmerism in England; 8. The fluidic theory; 9. Clairvoyance; 10. Spiritualism in France; 11. Spiritualism in Germany; 12. The coming of the prophets; 13. Thomas Lake Harris; 14. The rise of mental-healing; 15. Mary Baker Eddy; 16. Christian science; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Frank Podmore, Podmore Frank
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.05.2011
• EAN: 9781108072465
• ISBN: 978-1-108-07246-5
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Spiritualism and Esoteric Knowledge
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Parapsychology, fringe sciences; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; History of Ideas, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Spiritualism, HISTORY / Social History, Spiritualism, PSYCHOLOGY / Experimental Psychology, RELIGION / Psychology of Religion, Parapsychological studies, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Psychic Phenomena / General