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easily attained, and, to say the least, is quite as useful, if moneymaking and tests are the objects sought to be gained.
In ail mesmeric experiments, individual or collective, very few become, at first trial, true hypnotic subjects; and some can never be, owing to peculiarities of organization. The matter can be tested in a variety of ways, — as, for instance, the usual ‘* passes ” may be reversed. Or the doubtful subject may look steadily at a speck on the wall for six minutes. If drowsy at the end of that time, and the eyeballs have a tendency to roll up, the person 7s a subject, and all that is required is patience. Or breathe rapidly, forcibly, for ninety seconds. If it makes you dizzy, you are a subject, and can enter the somnambulic state in any one of a dozen ways. This same operation, often repeated, is almost certain to produce coma; and if done while lying down, in connection with the horse-shoe magnet operation, will prove successful in enabling the person to see without eyes. In all cases the room should be quite dark. (N.B.— All magnetic, odyllic, and mesmeric processes are twenty times oftener productive of srand results if conducted in a dark chamber, than in one lighted artificially, or by the sun. Next to a thoroughly dark room, moonlight is best, and starlight better still.) If, at the end of a few minutes, sparks, flashes, streaks of quick and lingering light are seen, or phosphor clouds float before the face, then one of two things is immediately probable. First, that the party by continuance and repetition can be clairvoyant; or, second, if not too scary, these clouds and sparks may resolve themselves into beatified forms of friends long gone, but unlost.
Forty-eight out of fifty mesmeric experiments fail because the operator wastes, not saves, diffuses, instead of focalizes, the mesmeric force that streams from the eye and fingers. Rutes.— Subject and operator must be of opposite sex, temperament, complexion, size, stature, hair, eyes, build, and so on throughout, in order to bring about the best results, without reference to all the tall about positive and negative, which is mostly nonsense; for I have known a sweet miss only six years old, to thoroughly and effectively mesmerize her great burly uncle, —a man capable of knocking a bull down with one stroke of his ponderous fist, and who was one of the roughest sea-tyrants that ever trod a quarter deck, and yet the little lady rendered him not only helpless, but
easily attained, and, to say the least, is quite as useful, if moneymaking and tests are the objects sought to be gained.
In ail mesmeric experiments, individual or collective, very few become, at first trial, true hypnotic subjects; and some can never be, owing to peculiarities of organization. The matter can be tested in a variety of ways, — as, for instance, the usual ‘* passes ” may be reversed. Or the doubtful subject may look steadily at a speck on the wall for six minutes. If drowsy at the end of that time, and the eyeballs have a tendency to roll up, the person 7s a subject, and all that is required is patience. Or breathe rapidly, forcibly, for ninety seconds. If it makes you dizzy, you are a subject, and can enter the somnambulic state in any one of a dozen ways. This same operation, often repeated, is almost certain to produce coma; and if done while lying down, in connection with the horse-shoe magnet operation, will prove successful in enabling the person to see without eyes. In all cases the room should be quite dark. (N.B.— All magnetic, odyllic, and mesmeric processes are twenty times oftener productive of srand results if conducted in a dark chamber, than in one lighted artificially, or by the sun. Next to a thoroughly dark room, moonlight is best, and starlight better still.) If, at the end of a few minutes, sparks, flashes, streaks of quick and lingering light are seen, or phosphor clouds float before the face, then one of two things is immediately probable. First, that the party by continuance and repetition can be clairvoyant; or, second, if not too scary, these clouds and sparks may resolve themselves into beatified forms of friends long gone, but unlost.
Forty-eight out of fifty mesmeric experiments fail because the operator wastes, not saves, diffuses, instead of focalizes, the mesmeric force that streams from the eye and fingers. Rutes.— Subject and operator must be of opposite sex, temperament, complexion, size, stature, hair, eyes, build, and so on throughout, in order to bring about the best results, without reference to all the tall about positive and negative, which is mostly nonsense; for I have known a sweet miss only six years old, to thoroughly and effectively mesmerize her great burly uncle, —a man capable of knocking a bull down with one stroke of his ponderous fist, and who was one of the roughest sea-tyrants that ever trod a quarter deck, and yet the little lady rendered him not only helpless, but
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