Podcasts about Franz Mesmer

Join me as I take a deep dive into the life and legacy of Franz Mesmer, the man who invented a strange and mysterious healing method that would inspire modern hypnosis and change the world forever. In the 18th century, Mesmer's daring, radical experiments with "animal magnetism" quickly catapulted him to the status of a celebrity, then plunged him into scandal. Was Mesmer a visionary ahead of his time, or simply a talented showman? Listen, and decide for yourself -- and prepare to be Mesmerized! Contact: BarryPirro@Yahoo.com Website: ConnecticutGhostHunter.com

Magnet (kr Magnetis lithos 'Magnesia kivi') ehk püsimagnet on keha, mis on püsivalt magneetunud ka siis, kui välist magnetvälja ei ole. Magnetid on ferromagnetilised kehad ja mõningad taevakehad (näiteks Maa ja Päike), mikromagnetid on elementaarosakesed ja nende süsteemid (aatomid, molekulid), millel on magnetmoment. Esimesed magnetid, mida õpiti tundma, on looduses leiduvad rauaühendid. Nüüdisajal valmistatakse magneteid peamiselt kõvadest ferromagneetikutest. Pehmeid ferromagneetikuid kasutatakse südamikena elektromagnetites; nende magneetumust saab muuta, muutes mähise voolutugevust. Magnetite ja elektromagnetite peamised rakendused on kompassid, elektrimõõteriistad, telefonid, valjuhääldid, helisalvestusseadmed, arvutite mäluseadmed, magnetilised elektronläätsed, elektrigeneraatorid ja -mootorid, elementaarosakeste kiirendid – võib lugeda Eesti Entsüklopeedia 6. köitest.Franz Mesmer (1734–1815) [1] oli saksa astroloog ja arst, kes sai tuntuks animaalmagnetismi hüpoteesiga – inimese väidetava võimega mõjutada teisi organisme oma magnetvälja abil. Selle teooria pinnal töötas Mesmer välja oma ravimeetodid ning oli nende rakendamisel vähemalt avalikkuse silmis märkimisväärselt edukas. "1784. aastal kirjeldas tunnistaja, et Mesmeril ei olnud vastuvõtul kunagi vähem kui 200 patsienti," kirjutab Vikipeedia [2]. Teaduslik establishment suhtus Mesmerisse skeptiliselt ning 1784. aastal kutsus kuningas tema teooria ja praktika paikapidavuse kontrollimiseks kokku komisjoni, kuhu kuulusid tolleaegse teaduse silmapaistvamaid esindajad: astronoom Jean Sylvain Bailly, keemik Antoine Lavosier, arst Joseph-Ignace Guillotin ja Ameerika saadik Prantsusmaal Benjamin Franklin. Komisjon ei toetanud animaalse magnetismi teooriat ja seletas patsientide paranemist nende "kujutlusvõimega".Tähenduse teejuhtide 242. vestlusringis rääkisime Mesmeri ja magnetismi erinevatest kokkupuutepunktidest füüsik Jaak Kikka ja füüsikaõpetajast semiootiku Mihkel Kunnusega. See duo oli stuudios kolmandat korda. Kahel eelmisel korral – "Otsatu potentsiaal" [3] ja "Absurdne loodus" [4] – rääkisime kvantfüüsikast.Head uudistamist!Hardo——————————————————[1] • Mesmer - Trailer [1] https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_M...[2] • 92. Jaak Kikas ja Mihkel Kunnus, "Ots... [3] • 176. Jaak Kikas ja Mihkel Kunnus, "Ab... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

KIB 451 – Mesmerized in Babylon Kingdom Intelligence Briefing   The matrix of control in Babylon is based on the Greek god Hypnos and the work of the 18th-century Mason, Franz Mesmer.   Electronic versions of mesmerization were developed by the Nazis and later expanded by the techno-elite.   We have them in every home, in our pockets, and in purses.  Anything with an electronic screen can serve their purposes.  It is time to break the spell, be set free, and move in Kingdom power against the machinations of Babylon!   Dr. Michael K. Lake is the Chancellor and Founder of Biblical Life College and Seminary. He is the scholar-in-residence for the Strategic Remnant Learning Center – Biblical Life Assembly.  Dr. Lake is the author of the best-selling books “The Shinar Directive:  Preparing the Way for the Son of Perdition,” “The Sheeriyth Imperative:  Empowering the Remnant to Overcome the Gates of Hell,” “The Kingdom Priesthood: Preparing and Equipping the Remnant Priesthood for the Last Days,” and “The Kingdom Warrior: Full-Spectrum Spiritual Warfare 1.”  He is a popular speaker at national Christian conferences and is a frequent guest on many Christian TV and radio/podcast programs in North America.    Mary Lou Lake has worked side-by-side with her husband in ministry for over 40 years and is the author of the book “What Witches Don't Want Christians to Know – Expanded Edition.” 

En este episodio exploramos la hipnosis y el mesmerismo, dos técnicas relacionadas pero distintas. La hipnosis, una herramienta terapéutica moderna, se compara con el mesmerismo de Franz Mesmer, una práctica del siglo XVIII basada en un "fluido magnético" para curar. Aquí postulamos a una como madre de la otra.

For our last episode in this series David is joined by Helen Lewis to discuss Mesmerism – aka animal magnetism – an eighteenth-century method of hypnosis for which great medical benefits were claimed. Was its originator, Franz Mesmer, a charlatan or a healer? Was his movement science or religion or something in between? And what can it tell us about twenty-first century phenomena from online social contagion to hypnotherapy? To get two bonus Bad Ideas episodes – on Email and VAR – sign up now to PPF+, where you will also get all our past and future bonus episodes plus ad-free listening www.ppfieas.com Coming next: The Great Political Fictions resumes with Middlemarch, the greatest of them all. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Explores the wealth of evidence for the reality of the biofield• Describes how energy therapies are now gaining acceptance due to irrefutable proof of their effectiveness for clinical conditions from PTSD to phantom limb pain• Examines the power of group energetics and team chemistry in sports and in society• Explains how megalithic sacred sites are aligned with Earth's subtle energies and explores the energetics of crop circles and global consciousnessExamining the wealth of evidence supporting the reality of the human biofield, Eric Leskowitz, M.D., explores the role of life energy in healing therapies and outlines its many manifestations at the individual, group, and global levels. He shows how energy therapies have been taboo in the West, from the French Royal Academy's suppression of Franz Mesmer's animal magnetism, to the FDA's persecution of Wilhelm Reich and his orgone box therapy, to Wikipedia's biased coverage of energy psychology. He then reveals irrefutable evidence for the clinical benefits of energy-based therapies and describes the obstacles he faced in his own attempts to bring these holistic approaches into the world of academic medicine.The author's detailed exploration of phantom limb pain shows that this phenomenon is not a psychosomatic creation of the brain but is a tangible energetic structure: the human biofield in action. Exploring group energetics and team chemistry, he looks at how group situations— a concert, a meditation retreat, a sporting event—create their own energetic power. He shares the results of his innovative computer measurements during Red Sox baseball games, proving that group energies can be detected when fans become entrained in resonance to the larger field. He explores how Stonehenge and other megaliths were built in alignment with Earth's own energy meridians, and he proposes that the mysterious phenomenon of crop circles may be emerging in harmony with Earth's subtle energies.Blending hard science with ancient healing wisdom, the author reveals how we can all thrive together by remembering our shared energetic roots and our undeniable interconnectedness through the global web of life energy and consciousness itself.Eric Leskowitz, M.D., is a retired Harvard Medical School-affiliated psychiatrist who practiced pain management for more than 25 years at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston. He has published more than 50 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and is the author/editor of four books. His documentary about group energies and sports, The Joy of Sox, aired nationally on PBS in 2012. He lives in western Massachusetts.https://themysteryoflifeenergy.com/Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/earth-ancients--2790919/support.

Prepare to have your mind stretched through time as we unravel the captivating tapestry of hypnosis's history and evolution. My co-host Matt Fox and I, charting a course from the enigmatic origins of ancient practices to the polished methodologies of contemporary hypnotherapists, promise an audio odyssey that will leave you spellbound. We pay homage to the likes of Franz Mesmer and his theatrical animal magnetism, dissect the pioneering medical innovations of John Elliotson, and discuss the eye fixation technique introduced by James Braid. You'll also hear about Sigmund Freud's flirtation with hypnosis and how it shaped his future work, and the indelible influence of Milton Erickson, whose indirect techniques revolutionized therapeutic approaches.This episode is a treasure trove for the curious minds seeking to grasp the profound transitions hypnosis has undergone. Listen closely as we share tales of James Esdale's ground-breaking pain management in surgeries and Emile Coué's mantra that continues to echo through the corridors of self-help. You'll understand why Freud—or Ziggy, as we affectionately refer to him—abandoned hypnosis and how Uncle Milti's subtle strategies contrasted with Freud's intensive psychoanalysis, setting the stage for modern hypnotherapy. Join us, and together we'll trace the fingerprints that these giants of hypnosis have left on the world, and speculate on where this mesmerizing practice might lead us next.FIND ME:My Website: https://motorcityhypnotist.com/podcastMy social media links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/motorcityhypnotist/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCjjLNcNvSYzfeX0uHqe3gATwitter: https://twitter.com/motorcityhypnoInstagram: motorcityhypnoFREE HYPNOSIS GUIDEhttps://detroithypnotist.convertri.com/podcast-free-hypnosis-guidePlease also subscribe to the show and leave a review.(Stay with me as later in the podcast, I'll be giving away a free gift to all listeners!)Change your thinking, change your life!Laugh hard, run fast, be kind. David R. Wright MA, LPC, CHTThe Motor City Hypnotist

Embark with me, David Wright, on an enthralling expedition through the vast and mystical realm of hypnosis, where myths of ancient gods and the wisdom of historic influencers converge to reveal the secrets of the mind. Our episode unwraps the enigmatic history of this psychological phenomenon, right from its beginnings in the temples of Egypt and Greece to the mesmerizing advancements in the science behind it. As we traverse through time, I'll share tales of the mythical gods Hypnos and Somnus, whose very names have inspired the terminology we use today, and introduce you to the early pioneers like Wong Tai and Avicenna, who distinguished hypnosis from mere sleep with their groundbreaking insights.Fast forward to the present, and we'll explore the contributions of the late Richard Lewis, whose passing we mourn and whose legacy in entertainment we celebrate. Losing myself in the narratives of our past, I reflect on personal anecdotes and offer homage to the father of modern hypnosis, Franz Mesmer, and the predecessors who have lit the way for today's hypnotic practices. So, if your curiosity is piqued by the thought of delving into the mind's most profound mysteries, this episode promises a journey filled with discovery, nostalgia, and a touch of the human experience that connects us all.FIND ME:My Website: https://motorcityhypnotist.com/podcastMy social media links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/motorcityhypnotist/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCjjLNcNvSYzfeX0uHqe3gATwitter: https://twitter.com/motorcityhypnoInstagram: motorcityhypnoFREE HYPNOSIS GUIDEhttps://detroithypnotist.convertri.com/podcast-free-hypnosis-guidePlease also subscribe to the show and leave a review.(Stay with me as later in the podcast, I'll be giving away a free gift to all listeners!)Change your thinking, change your life!Laugh hard, run fast, be kind. David R. Wright MA, LPC, CHTThe Motor City Hypnotist

Hypnosis. You've seen it in movies, cartoons, and maybe even on stage! But is it real? And if so, what is it? Join Molly and co-host Jasmine as they uncover the truth about hypnosis and its power to heal. They'll hear from pediatrician and hypnosis expert, Dr. Daniel Kohen, about what it is and isn't (spoiler alert – it isn't mind control!). They'll also chat with 13-year-old Joshua who uses hypnosis to overcome anxiety! Plus, a special appearance from the ghost of Franz Mesmer, a famous practitioner and the man behind the word mesmerizing. Entranced? Stick around for a new and puzzling mystery sound!Do you have your Smarty Pass yet?? Get yours today for just $4/month (or $36/year) and get bonus episodes every month, and ad-free versions of every episode of Brains On, Smash Boom Best, Moment of Um, and Forever Ago. Visit www.smartypass.org to get your Smarty Pass today!____________This episode was sponsored bySitka Seafood Market - Use promo code Molly35 to receive $35 off your first order. Indeed - Use promo code brainson to receive a $75 sponsored job credit

Recording in progress... please excuse any technical difficulties in episode 338, including Christine being in an entirely different outfit at one point during her story. This week Em takes us on a hypnotizing journey into the world of the subconscious with the story of Franz Mesmer, the father of mesmerizing. Then Christine brings us the mysterious and tragic case of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, that disappeared with barely a trace on its regularly scheduled route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. And don't tell Reddit how intoxicated Christine was at the Taylor Swift concert... and that's why we drink!

You are getting sleepy, sleeeepy SleEeEeEEeeepy!!! No, not because you are listening to the Podcast. Rude! Because you are being HYPNOTISED! Which is a real thing... And IF you are being Hypnotized, it must be because you are a willing participant. Otherwise... You're probably just getting bored. Also, how did our Super Bowl Picks go, and What are our Gripes about Poker Face (on Peacock). 00:18- What do You Want to Learn About Today? 01:50- Why? 01:30- Super Bowl, and our picks, Recap 05:50- Poker Face peeve 08:20- Sources 08:30- What Hypnotherapy Is 09:20- Gotta Be Open to It 10:50- The Idea has been around for a Long time 11:10- Franz Mesmer & Animal Magnetism 12:30- James Braid (Coiner of the term Hypnotism) 12:50- Freud 13:45- The Most Important Part of Hypnosis 15:20- The Main Element 16:00- Post Hypnotic Suggestion 16:35- Post Hypnotic Amnesia 16:50- Hypnosis has been Officially Endorsed 17:00- It is Most Useful for... 17:55- It Has been Used in Surgery 20:45- How It Actually Works 21:50- What's Happening In Your Brain? 23:40- Skeptics and it's hard to Study 24:40- The Bad Parts (Memory) 25:20- Avoid Memory Recovery 25:35- 27 States have banned Hypnotic Influenced Testimony in Court 25:50- Ian Talks about a Movie (The Final Cut. 2004. Starring Robin Williams) 27:30- It Doesn't Work on Everyone 28:45- You Cannot be Made to do Anything Against Your Will 29:30- So That is Hypnotism 31:50- Oh Yea, UFO's./ Bye We hope you ALSO learned something, or were at least Entertained! IG- IanWantsToLearn Twitter- IanWantsToLearn email: Ianwantstolearn@gmail.com DISCLAIMER: We are not Experts. We do not claim to be. We use the internet, just like you! So between raising a child and working a Fulltime job Patrick does his best to teach Ian. So, you know, enjoy it, but maybe don't swear by it! Essentially: We Google so you don't have to. ENJOY!

Two buddies Science the great Magic-or-Not off in a gripping contest of wits, knowledge and candour. Introducing Michael Strange of Troubled Minds Radio and Troubled Minds News ( https://www.troubledminds.org ). Michael is a great host nice guy and Magic sceptic. So in this show I will explain what Magic is, the types, take us through the history and by the end hopefully we are able to state with a high degree of confidence, based on a substantial body of experimental evidence that; Real Magic does exist. And that it's poised to become a new frontier for Science. Follow here: Telegram Channel: https://t.me/+b6GFW6GFlctiZjQ8 Discord Server: https://discord.gg/p4D29bTp Twitter Feed: https://twitter.com/exiled_minds Wisdom.audio: https://wisdom.app/exiled_minds Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-2408044 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5EADN2Dya5AyD6bUyP9O1w Please Support: Help improve the show if you find anything of value, share, and subscribe plus you can donate here. Cash App: £Rohanno6 Paypal: https://paypal.me/exiledm?country.x=GB&locale.x=en_GBhttps://paypal.me/exiledm?country.x=GB&locale.x=en_GB Links: http://www.philosopher.eu/others-writings/a-j-ayer-what-i-saw-when-i-was-dead/ Michael Shermer https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-it-possible-to-measure-supernatural-or-paranormal-phenomena/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/anomalous-events-that-can-shake-one-s-skepticism-to-the-core/ https://news.gallup.com/poll/16915/three-four-americans-believe-paranormal.aspx https://www.journalguide.com/journals/preternature-critical-and-historical-studies-on-the-preternatural https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/492531.The_Greek_Magical_Papyri_in_Translation_Including_the_Demotic_Spells_Volume_1 https://www.helpage.org/blogs/natalie-idehen-23204/tackling-witchcraft-accusations-in-tanzania-724/ https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/05/opinion/the-persecution-of-witches-21st-century-style.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleusinian_Mysteries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kykeon https://jddtonline.info/index.php/jddt/article/view/4267#:~:text=Cow%20urine%20is%20a%20divine,the%20nitrogen%20content%20of%20the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Mesmer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermetic_Order_of_the_Golden_Dawn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Blavatsky http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,947229,00.html http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19871207,00.html http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,984737,00.html https://noetic.org/blog/moving-the-science-of-meditation-forward/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganzfeld_experiment https://uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/bbc-human-minds-link-to-quantum-physics-is-real/ https://www.wired.com/2010/11/feeling-the-future-is-precognition-possible/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/04/the-illusion-of-reality/479559/ https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/daniel-dunglas-home#William_Crookes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_of_Cupertino https://www.sheldrake.org/reactions/sir-john-maddox-book-for-burning --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/liam-martin31/message

Welcome back to A Podcask of Amontillado, where we delve into the dark, dreadful, and terrifying parts of the world. From a creepy doll, to a house in New England, to putting the Devil on trial, the investigation of these incidents made the reputations of two of the most famous figures in the world of the paranormal, Ed and Lorraine Warren. Their research, writings, speaking events and more not only raised awareness and interest in hunting down the supernatural, but lead to a thriving series of horror movies. Listen in as Erin & Gary are joined by Alex Matsuo from The Spooky Stuff to discuss the Spiritualism movement & origins of parapsychology, both the real and fictional versions of the Warrens & their investigations, why you don't want to disturb supernatural entities, how the movie Warrens are like Sam & Dean Winchester, ethics in ghost hunting, their issues with The Conjuring 2, how Catholic imagery can easily be used to horrific effect, America's obsession with hauntings, and what if a different Wilson was cast as Ed Warren. Emanuel Swedenborg, Franz Mesmer, The Fox Sisters, Peter Underwood, & Hans Holzer The Amityville Horror trailer. Ben Radford, professional skeptic, disucsses the Warrens. The Demonologist: The Extraordinary Career of Ed and Lorraine Warren by Gerald Brittle. The Conjuring trailer. House of Darkness House of Light by Andrea Perron. The Enfield poltergeist and The Enfield Haunting trailer. White With Red short film. Hostage to the Devil: The Possession and Exorcism of Five Contemporary Americans by Malachi Marti. Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey. Alex's books on Amazon. The fact that this episode was recorded on Lorraine's birthday, and is being released on Valentine's Day, is strictly a coincidence. We swear. Opening and closing music is "Softly Shall You Sleep," by Valentine Wolfe. Please follow us on TikTok, Twitter, Discord, and on Facebook! Contact us at apodcaskofamontillado@gmail.com! A Vino, Atrocitas.  

It seems like every other week there's a news report about how coffee will help you live longer or will shorten your life. There are similar reports about vitamins and water consumption and any number of other health-related studies. So why do we see so much conflicting information around scientific research in the media? In this episode of Choiceology with Katy Milkman, a look at the slippery problem of separating correlation from causation.You'll hear the fascinating story of Franz Mesmer and the apparently miraculous effects of what he dubbed animal magnetism. Author Mara Rockliff recounts the sway that Mesmer held over the Parisian public and how Benjamin Franklin transformed the scientific method in his quest to find the truth.Mara Rockliff has written several books for young readers, including the multiple award-winning Mesmerized: How Benjamin Franklin Solved a Mystery That Baffled All of France.Next, economics professor John List joins Katy to discuss the reasons why we confuse correlation and causation and explains the best practices for separating the two in the study of charitable giving, early childhood education, business, and policy.John List is the Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago and the chief economist at Walmart.  Choiceology is an original podcast from Charles Schwab. For more on the series, visit schwab.com/podcast.If you enjoy the show, please leave a rating or review on Apple Podcasts. Important DisclosuresAll expressions of opinion are subject to change without notice in reaction to shifting market conditions.The comments, views, and opinions expressed in the presentation are those of the speakers and do not necessarily represent the views of Charles Schwab. Data contained herein from third-party providers is obtained from what are considered reliable sources. However, its accuracy, completeness or reliability cannot be guaranteed.The policy analysis provided by the Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., does not constitute and should not be interpreted as an endorsement of any political party.Investing involves risk, including loss of principal.All corporate names are for illustrative purposes only and are not a recommendation, offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security.The book How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. (CS&Co.). Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. (CS&Co.) has not reviewed the book and makes no representations about its content.(1122-26TV)

Franz Mesmer was born in Swabia Germany on May 23rd,1734. He was a physician whose system of therapeutics theorized the existence of a natural energy transference occurring between all animated and inanimate objects to induce a special trance state for healing him/her of a physical ailment or to reconcile emotional or physical issues. In 1843 he proposed the term HYPNOSIS (derived from animal magnetism) which is called mesmerism today. The so-called ‘birth of modern hypnosis' has really been around since the beginning of time. Various performers adapted Dr Mesmer's methods into vaudeville acts that ranged from the magicians stage to formal scientific presentations. Once the depth of techniques used for naturally susceptible/vulnerable people was understood, it was then weaponized to obtain massive control over the unsuspecting population.Going from the stage to newspapers to our tv screens, the evolvement became more sophisticated and was used for hidden subliminal messages in advertising that began in the 1940s and subsequently morphed into monstrous proportions.Government three letter agencies well practiced in forms of brainwashing took full advantage of this by developing technological levels never seen before which resulted in modern mass hypnosis we experience every day. Join us on another journey down the rabbit hole. You will never be the same.SPONSORS:Become a Freedom First TV subscriber to get full access to all the recordings of the FFTV exclusive shows, as well as free registration for our online summits like the upcoming Root Out The RINOs one. Sign up today using the code CARL for 25% off at https://freedomfirst.tv/subscribe.Consider investing in gold to hedge against the tanking dollar. Go to https://ourgoldguy.com for more information, and let them know Carl Crew sent you.Start your day off with a cup of Freedom First Coffee, the only drink that actually tastes like freedom. Use code CARL for a 10% discount at https://freedomfirstcoffee.com.

In this week's show Deb and Samantha look at 2 people who helped pave the way for us. We start our with Chico Xavier who used his channeling abilities to spread the word about spiritism and practicing kindness. He was such an amazing medium and teacher that he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize twice. Then we look at the work of Franz Mesmer who introduced us to mesmirism which led to hypnotherapy. Thanks for listening! If you enjoy the show, please tell a friend, subscribe, rate and leave us a kind review. Don't forget to join our community on Facebook by searching Psychic Teachers.If you have a question or story to share with us, you can always message us on Facebook or send us an email at psychicteachers@gmail.com.For more information on us, check out our websites: debbowen.com and samanthafey.com. You can also find Samantha on Instagram @samanthaofey.To help support the show, go to audible.com/psychicteachers or text "psychicteachers" to 500-500.Have a great week. Be the Light!

Back in the late 18th and early 19th century, a German doctor named FRANZ MESMER had a far out theory about energy transference between animate and inanimate objects. He called it "animal magnetism." A Scottish doctor named JAMES BAIRD developed the idea and called it "nervous sleep" or "neuro-hypnotism," and later just "hypnosis." The word comes from the Greek hypnos for "sleep" and osis "to put to sleep." These days, thanks to the American Psychological Association, we have a formal definition of hypnosis as "a state of consciousness created by 'hypnotic induction' and characterized by relaxation, focused attention and increased suggestibility, with alterations in perception, sensation, emotion, thought or behavior." Others define it as psychological regression, dissociation, or an altered state of functioning. However you define it, hypnosis has a lot in common with ambient music, which also creates a relaxed state with focused attention. Whether it causes increased suggestibility and altered perception...well, that's up to you. On this transmission of Hearts of Space, electronic music for mental alteration, on a program called HYPNOTRONIC. Music is by ORCHESTRA SOLITAIRE, CHRONOTOPE PROJECT, THIERRY DAVID, HOWARD GIVENS & CRAIG PADILLA, A PRODUCE, PHILLIP WILKERSON, STEVE ROACH, and VIC HENNEGAN. [ view playlist ] [ view Flickr image gallery ] [ play 30 second MP3 promo ]

https://Masterfesto.comhttps://amzn.to/3dxWMj8https://www.facebook.com/masterfestoIn this episode, you will experience a light hypnosis session.  As a certified hypnotherapist, I am skilled and trained professionally to induce hypnosis in order to access the subconscious mind in an effort to increase motivation, identify, modify and change behavior. Let's look at the history of hypnosis. It goes all the way back to the   Hindus of ancient India who often took their sick to sleep temples to be cured by hypnotic suggestion. In the 18th century in the Western world, the work of Franz Mesmer was first to develop a consistent method for hypnosis. Mesmer liked to perform dressing up in a cloak and playing ethereal music, hence mesmerized. Inevitably, these magical trappings led to Mesmer's downfall. Nevertheless, the fact remained that hypnosis worked.In the 19th Century surgeons and physicians pioneered its use in the medical field. By the end of the century hypnosis was accepted as a valid clinical technique, studied and applied in universities and hospitals of the day. When hypnosis moved from Europe to America, Hypnosis became a popular phenomenon available to the layman, outside of the laboratory or clinic. Hypnosis has become increasingly practical, and regarded as a useful tool for easing psychological distress and bringing about profound change in a variety of situations. Hypnosis works by sending suggestions directly to subconscious, bypassing the critical filters of the Conscious Mind. The hypnotherapist and the client work together to create a pleasant state of hyper-suggestibility. Positive suggestions are given with an almost surgical precision, going directly to the subconscious that contains the old programs and life scripts that have been in the way of happiness, success and contentment with life. Support the show

Magic ritual and little understood areas of the human consciousness share big acreage on the paranormal farm, and the border fences have many gaps. The following individuals are recognized explorers of that realm. Franz Mesmer and Eliphas Levi are the subjects of this episode. Contact The Rat: thedesertrat3@yahoo.com Support the platform that houses this podcast: whenitwascool.com on Patreon Support Wrestling With The Dawg: dirtydawgmes on Patreon Stop killing each other.

Magic ritual and little understood areas of the human consciousness share big acreage on the paranormal farm, and the border fences gave many gaps. The following individuals are recognized explorers of that realm. Gerald Gardner, Franz Mesmer, and Eliphas Levi are the subjects of these episodes.

Welcome back, dear valued listener. In the third episode of em&m, the word mesmerising takes us on an exploration into the mesmerising man behind this marvellous word, Franz Mesmer, and how his animal magnetism helped bring spirituality to the masses. Also on the agenda, what could be worthy of taking pride and place on the wall alongside Mathieu's Madonna posters growing up? It's time to find out more about maps - ranging from the topographic to the anatomical. If you liked this episode please leave a review and SUBSCRIBE or  FOLLOW the podcast. Join in on the conversation over on our Instagram page! @mandemthepodcastThis podcast was brought to you by On Track Studio.www.ontrackstudio.com.au@on.track.studioFor advertising opportunities please email hello@ontrackstudio.com.au

Let's talk about modern spiritualism's founding fathers Emmanuel Swedenborg and Franz Mesmer. Who were they and what are they best known for? Well strap in as we get into a brief history of these two influential men's lives and their lasting legacies. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Have you ever considered being hypnotized or are you considering it in the near future? If so, then tonight's episode will give you some sound information to help you make that decision. Hypnosis is actually very old, ‘Hypno' is from the Greek word ‘to sleep', and it has had a number of different names, with the current name being derived from neuro-hypnosis, so named by Scottish Physician James Braid in 1841. If we go back a hundred years before Dr. Braid, we meet Franz Mesmer, a physician who discovered and worked with the ideas of energy and magnets, his work being named ‘animal magnetism'. Now Two Hundred years later, Hypnotism is used for a great many problems from anxiety, nervousness to depression and substance abuse. Contrary to a popular misconception, that hypnosis is a form of unconsciousness resembling sleep, research proves that when in hypnotic trance people are fully awake with focused attention and a corresponding decrease in their peripheral awareness. There is an increased response to suggestions. It is regulated through Hypnosis Guilds which not only certify practitioners but provide on-going education and research. Join us Thursday Feb 24 at 8 PM on Voice America, it will be a hypnotically mesmerizing interview.

Have you ever considered being hypnotized or are you considering it in the near future? If so, then tonight's episode will give you some sound information to help you make that decision. Hypnosis is actually very old, ‘Hypno' is from the Greek word ‘to sleep', and it has had a number of different names, with the current name being derived from neuro-hypnosis, so named by Scottish Physician James Braid in 1841. If we go back a hundred years before Dr. Braid, we meet Franz Mesmer, a physician who discovered and worked with the ideas of energy and magnets, his work being named ‘animal magnetism'. Now Two Hundred years later, Hypnotism is used for a great many problems from anxiety, nervousness to depression and substance abuse. Contrary to a popular misconception, that hypnosis is a form of unconsciousness resembling sleep, research proves that when in hypnotic trance people are fully awake with focused attention and a corresponding decrease in their peripheral awareness. There is an increased response to suggestions. It is regulated through Hypnosis Guilds which not only certify practitioners but provide on-going education and research. Join us Thursday Feb 24 at 8 PM on Voice America, it will be a hypnotically mesmerizing interview.

Mozart Bastien and Bastienne, K. 50/46bSheet MusicWolfgang Amadeus MozartVoice(s) and OrchestraBastien and BastienneBastien und Bastienne (Bastien and Bastienne), K. 50/46b is a one-act singspiel by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. One of Mozart's earliest operas, it was written in 1768, when he was only twelve years old. It was allegedly commissioned by Viennese physician Dr. Franz Mesmer (who himself would later be parodied in Così fan tutte) as a satire of the 'pastoral' genre then prevalent. The German libretto is by F. Weiskern, J.H. Müller and J.A. Schachtner, based on Les Amours de Bastien et Bastienne by Favart and de Guerville (fr). After its supposed premiere in Mesmer's garden theater (that is only corroborated by an unverified account of Nissen), it was not revived again until 1890. Although he was very young, Mozart already had excellent vocal writing skills and a knack for parody and whimsy which would reach full flower in his later works. Bastien und Bastienne is possibly the easiest to perform of Mozart's juvenile works.About this Piece

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They were the biggest names in spiritualism and they were also frauds. We share the sad history of The Fox Sisters on this episode of Unpleasant Dreams. -- Cassandra Harold is your host. EM Hilker is our principal writer and researcher with additional writing by Cassandra Harold. Jim Harold is our Executive Producer. Unpleasant Dreams is a production of Jim Harold Media. Sources & Further Reading: Abbot, Karen. “The Fox Sisters and the Rap on Spiritualism.” Smithsonianmag.com. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-fox-sisters-and-the-rap-on-spiritualism-99663697/ Retrieved 14 November 2020.  Buzzfeed Unsolved. “The Spiritual World of the Fox Sisters.” Youtube. 2 October 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPPgwh4yk2Q Lyttelton, George. Dialogues of the Dead. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/17667/17667-h/17667-h.htm Retrieved 14 November 2020.  Nickell, Joe. “A Skeleton's Tale” Skeptical Inquirer vol 32, no 4. https://skepticalinquirer.org/2008/07/a-skeletons-tale-the-origins-of-modern-spiritualism/ Retrieved 15 November 2020. O'Connell, Rebecca. “The Rise and Fall of Five Claimed Mediums.” MentalFloss. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/69973/rise-and-fall-5-claimed-mediums Retrieved 14 November 2020.  Stuart, Nancy Rubin. “The Fox Sisters: Spiritualism's Unlikely Founders.” Historynet. https://www.historynet.com/the-fox-sisters-spiritualisms-unlikely-founders.htm Retrieved 14 November 2020.  Wehrstein, KM and McLuhan, R. “Fox Sisters.” Psi Encyclopedia. https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/fox-sisters Retrieved 14 November 2020. You can find EM Hilker's full article that this podcast was based upon HERE and a transcript of the podcast version below: PODCAST TRANSCRIPT The Fox Sisters The spiritualism movement of the early-to-mid 1800s captured the hearts and minds of a great many people. Spiritualism was the belief that the spirits of the dead are not only able to communicate with us, but are eager to share their wisdom with the living world.  Spiritualism flourished at a time when Mesmerism was a growing interest on the heels of The Second Great Awakening. This was a fifty year period of religious revivalism, and a curious populace were seeking answers amid the confusion of the day.  The Spiritualism movement has given us modern-style seances and stage mediumship; it's what popularized commercial fortune telling. The term “seance” itself (introduced into the language sometime between 1795 and 1805) merely means a “sitting”, though the spiritual concept is older. George, First Baron Lyttleton, famously featured discussion with the deceased in his  1760's work of fiction, Dialogues of the Dead. Seances have been divided into four categories: religious, stage mediumship, leader-assisted, and informal social seances. Although, all of the proceedings are considered a part of the spiritualism movement. The Fox sisters are credited with launching the movement, but its origins stretch back further than that. Emmanuel Swedenborg, who lived more than a century earlier, experienced a divine revelation in which he learned that communication with the spirit world and with God is possible through a certain mental state. He felt that the body was simply a vessel for the soul, and that Hell and Heaven will attempt to influence mortals to do good or evil, though the mortal in question is free to choose their path as they wish. According to Swedenborg's beliefs, the path to Heaven or Hell is forged by your actions in life. These ideas would eventually lead to the formation of the New Church and the Swedenborgian Church in North America.  The other oft-credited influence on the spiritualism movement is Franz Mesmer, the founder of “animal magnetism” or mesmerism (more commonly known as hypnotism in the modern day). The original concept went far beyond simply putting someone into a trance –Mesmer believed animal magnetism could hold the cure for powerful healing; the trancework was only a small part of his theories. The concept of going into a trance, however, would be a tremendous influence in coming years for the spiritualism movement. The women known as “the Fox Sisters” are three of the seven Fox children: the youngest two were the core of the Fox Sisters: youngest daughter Catherine “Kate” Fox and her slightly older sister Margaretta (“Maggie”). When everything began, Kate and Maggie were in their early teens and their eldest sister, Leah, was an adult in her own home. Leah would eventually ‘manage' the girls, though not tour with them, and was really only a part of the action for a handful of years.  The girls would later say that they began this whole thing as a prank played on their credulous mother. That is certainly consistent with the evidence we have of the early days of mysterious rappings and knockings. In early 1848, the Fox family began to hear mysterious sounds in their house in Hydesville, New York.  The noises seemed to resemble footsteps or someone knocking. On March 31, 1848, Kate decided to try to “communicate” with it. They called the entity “Mr. Splitfoot,” and it frightened their mother terribly. Maggie took pity on her mother and tried to explain that it was meant as an April Fool's joke, but her mother would not believe it. The girls continued the “communication” in the home over weeks and months. Eventually, the family told their neighbours of these mysterious happenings, who told other people in turn, as neighbours do. It didn't take long before there was a hubbub surrounding the Fox household. In the following year, 1849, the girls were sent to Rochester, New York, to live with their siblings, to try to escape both the haunting and the attention of the curious. Despite this, the phenomenon followed them to their new homes. Leah supported their reputation as mediums, and introduced them to her friends, the Posts. Amy and Isaac Post were luminaries in the local mesmerism movement. They wanted to explore the girls' abilities and invited the Fox sisters to a small party in their home. The Posts planned to conduct a seance with the girls as part of the evening. The party and seance were successful, and it was here that the spirits conveniently mentioned that Leah also possessed the gift. The party was in fact such a success that the Posts rented a large room in Corinthian Hall and the Fox sisters showcased their abilities there.  The girls began holding regular seances for pay in New York, which were incredibly popular. Among the people attracted by these seances: were journalist and newspaper editor  William Cullen Bryant and abolitionist and women's rights activist Sojourner Truth.  Andrew Jackson Davis, known as the “Poughkeepsie Seer”, was impressed by the girls' abilities and lent them his support, and therefore credibility, as they became more and more well-known. With this traction, Maggie and Kate embarked on a tour of these shows in the area, while Leah stayed behind and worked as a medium in her own right. In 1851, Fox family member Mrs. Norman Culver confessed to being aware of the fraud, which was disclosed to her by Kate. This impacted their popularity very little, though critics began to guess at various ways that these girls could be perpetrating a hoax. Mrs. Culver alleged, and several critics correctly guessed, that the raps were produced by the girls “cracking” joints in their feet and knees. The spiritualism movement was entirely unaffected by the criticism of the Fox sisters, and both they and spiritualism continued to become more and more popular. The following year after Ms. Culver's confession, 17 year old Maggie met skeptic and Arctic explorer Elisha Kane (a-lai-sha).  Kane fell deeply in love with Maggie despite his beliefs that she was a fraud. Under his influence, she began to drift away from the spiritualist movement. Tragically Kane died in 1857, just shortly after a small informal wedding ceremony. Though the two considered themselves married, they allegedly lacked an actual marriage certificate. The actual legal status of Elisha and Maggie's marriage was unclear, the confusion around which resulted in Maggie being ousted from the will by Kane's family members. Perhaps related to Maggie's exclusion from the will, later that same year, the youngest two Fox sisters made an attempt at a prize offered by the Boston Courier to anyone who could prove the legitimacy of mediumship. The reward equaled $500 (roughly $14,150 in modern day American currency). On the whole, aside from this attempt, Maggie continued to reject spiritualism as she fell further and further into poverty. Kate continued on alone with her mediumship during this period, and  in 1871 moved to England to pursue spiritualist opportunities there. The following year, she married fellow spiritualist HD Jencken. They had two sons, and a seemingly happy life until Jencken died in 1881.  Each grieving deeply, both Maggie and Kate had begun to self-medicate with alcohol. By 1888, both women had become alcoholics. Leah, continuing to operate as a medium herself, grew concerned with Kate's alcoholism and her ability to care for her two sons. Word of this spread, and Kate's two sons were briefly taken from her, though restored to her care after intercession by Maggie. Maggie was already out of the spiritualism movement and had been for some time, and Kate was livid that her abilities as a mother had been questioned. Thus, on the 21st of October in 1888, perhaps partially in revenge against Leah, perhaps partially out of financial desperation, Kate and Maggie came forward.  The two were paid $1500 (roughly 41,000 USD today) by a reporter to confess their crime at the New York Academy of Music in front of 2,000 people. They also made a number of anti-spiritualist statements during this period, with Kate calling it “one of the greatest curses that the world has ever known.” In November of the following year, Maggie recanted her confession.  This was due to her own financial needs as a result of having drunk away her confession fee, and growing pressure from other spiritualists. Maggie attempted to practice spiritualism once again for whatever meagre work she could get, but  her reputation both as a spiritualist and as a skeptic was ruined in one fell swoop. She would spend her few remaining years in poverty, as would Kate. Leah predeceased Maggie and Kate, having died in 1890, not on speaking terms with either sister. The youngest two Fox sisters died within a year of one another in Brooklyn, New York (Maggie on the 8th of March in 1893 and Kate on the 3rd of July in 1892).  The Fox Sisters left us very little writing. Maggie did not publish her own work, but she did publish the love letters written to her by her husband, entitled The Love Life of Dr. Kane, giving us a small window into their lives. Leah published a book called The Missing Link in Modern Spiritualism, in which she outlined her career as a medium. Spiritualism continued on after the passing of the Fox sisters, and continues to this day. People still hold seances very similar to the Fox sisters', and people continue to occasionally hear rappings they attribute to the spirit world (correctly or otherwise). One only needs to look at virtually any television listing to find an assortment of ghost-hunting shows; and one can find a psychic willing to give you a reading in virtually any modern-day town. Bookshelves in your local bookstore are filled with books on finding your own psychic gifts, and many famous names have been associated with spiritualism: Arthur Conan Doyle, The Bangs sisters, Mina Crandon, Leonora Piper, and Harry Houdini (the latter admittedly as an enemy of spiritualism). As an odd sort of afternote, to the excitement of those who still believed in the legitimacy of the sisters, in 1904 it was said that a “body” had been discovered in the house that the girls had lived in, where they had claimed to be in contact with the spirit of a murdered peddler. No record has ever been found of the peddler they'd described, and the bones, of which there were only a few, turned out upon examination to be animal bones.

The peculiar tale of a young Spiritualist medium listlessly going about her day job as a personal shopper for a Parisian model/actress while awaiting a sign from her recently departed twin, ‘Personal Shopper' is an incredibly ambitious meditation on what it means to be alive in a contemporary haunted world. A languid ghost story interwoven through an erotically mundane day (plus a bonus sideline murder thrown into the background), “Personal Shopper” flirts with a full spectrum of different genres, while somehow avoiding falling into any of them by proverbial miles. Another polarizing film for audiences, PS is a challenging story-telling exercise, not only in its melding of different tones and devices, but also in its dedication to pull from and incorporate nearly two centuries of real-life history, philosophies, and perspectives from Spiritualist practice. From the bright abstract bursts of Hilma af Klint, to the lingering spirit guides of Swedenborg, and those double exposure apparitions, this film is overflowing with insider references—A working knowledge of which is fairly essential for truly appreciating the film for what it is: an exquisitely crafted insider love letter to a very specific outsider art. Deep dive topics for this one include: the abstract art of Hilma af Klint ; the Fox Sisters, Emmanuel Swedenborg, Franz Mesmer, and other Spiritualist superstars; the rise of Spiritualism during the Second Awakening in the “burnt over districts”; Helena Blavatsky and her “High Masters” Theosophy; the double exposure ghost and its roots in early spirit photography; that old vomiting-the-cheese-cloth ectoplasm trick; Victor Hugo's table tapping exploits on the Isle of Jersey; the importance of technology in the historical development of ghost-based beliefs, and why using your cell phone to send a text is really not all that different from talking to ghosts. Episode Safeword(s): “out of reach”

On this episode, Ginger talks about magnets, magnetism, and Franz Mesmer, a man kicked out of Paris for being a pervert. Actually, it was the fact that his medical practice mostly consisted of getting stoned and feeling up ladies, but you get the gist. Add in Marie Antoinette, Amadeus Mozart, and Ben Franklin, and you got a recipe of what we like to call: history is weirder and hornier than you thought. Featuring racist gremlin, Ben Shapiro, wandering uteri, and DJ's Tinder profile. Citations at thisfnguypod.com.

Hacia finales del siglo 19, la alta sociedad parisina cayó bajo el embrujo de un nuevo tratamiento médico, que había llegado de la mano de un médico alemán llamado Franz Mesmer y que aseguraba que podía manipular el "magnetismo animal", un fluido que estaba presente en todos los seres vivos. Los médicos franceses estaban muy preocupadas por lo que consideraban una charlatanería tremendamente lucrativa y convencieron al Rey para que examinara este procedimiento médico, estableciendo una comisión científica cuyo trabajo marcó el origen de los ensayos clínicos modernos  *** La Ciencia Pop cuenta con el auspicio de Biotecom,  empresa chilena especialista en Biología Molecular y que este mes está promocionando un sistema personal y de sobremesa llamado Kilobaser que permite sintetizar partidores y sondas para qPCR en solo dos horas. Para más información pueden visitar su página web www.biotecom.cl o escribir al correo electrónico  andres.araya@biotecom.cl. En Facebook e Instagram los encuentran como @Biotecom_spa ***Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/LaCienciaPop)BIOTECOM es Biología Molecular BIOTECOM es una empresa chilena que se especializa en productos e insumos de biología molecular

We're back, with season 4, about mental illness. We'll start this week in the 1770s, with Franz Mesmer, who "discovered" animal magnetism, and accidentally actually discovered hypnosis. Check out our website!E-mail me!Say hi on Facebook! Transcripts and Sources here! 

Bastien und Bastienne (Bastien and Bastienne), K. 50 (revised in 1964 to K. 46b) is a one-act singspiel, a comic opera, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Bastien und Bastienne was one of Mozart's earliest operas, written in 1768 when he was only twelve years old. It was allegedly commissioned by Viennese physician and 'magnetist' Dr. Franz Mesmer (who himself would later be parodied in Così fan tutte) as a satire of the 'pastoral' genre then prevalent, and specifically as a parody of the opera Le devin du village by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The German libretto is by Friedrich Wilhelm Weiskern, Johann Heinrich Friedrich Müller and Johann Andreas Schachtner, based on Les Amours de Bastien et Bastienne by Justine Favart and Harny de Guerville. After its supposed premiere in Mesmer's garden theater (that is only corroborated by an unverified account of Nissen), it was not revived again until 1890. It is not clear whether this piece was performed in Mozart's lifetime. The first known performance was on 2 October 1890 at Architektenhaus in Berlin.

Placebo treatments have been making people feel better for a long time. They've been working since long before Franz Mesmer was run out of 18th-century Vienna for "mesmerizing" a young pianist into regaining her eyesight, after all hope for a medical cure had been lost. Doctors have long dismissed the placebo effect as inferior to conventional medical treatments that sometimes fail where placebo works well, including in surgical procedures like arthroscopy, a popular procedure that relieves the pain of arthritic knees. The placebo effect is triggered not by a magic pill, but through a combination of expectation, hope, and the strength of the doctor-patient relationship. Placebo is real; it's on the rise in America, and technology is allowing researchers to link placebo with physiological and psychological changes and genetic predisposition that could change the way we treat illness. GUESTS: Gary Greenberg - Psychotherapist and the author of The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmasking of Psychiatry Ted Kaptchuk - Professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Director, Program of Placebo Studies and Therapeutic Encounter at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital Bruce Moseley - Orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine specialist, former team physician to the Houston Rockets, first to perform placebo surgery Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A follow up to our Franz Mesmer episode and the early stages of therapy

THE HISTORY OF HYPNOSIS SHOW NOTES In this episode of the Motor City Hypnotist Podcast I am going to talk about the history of hypnosis. How and where it began and it’s evolution over the years. And I’m also going to be giving listeners a FREE HYPNOSIS GUIDE! Stay tuned! INTRODUCTION What is up people? The Motor City Hypnotist Podcast is here in the Podcast Detroit Northville Studios. Thank you for joining me on this episode of the Motor City Hypnotist Podcast. With me is my producer Matt Fox. FIND ME: My Website: https://motorcityhypnotist.com/podcast My social media links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/motorcityhypnotist/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCjjLNcNvSYzfeX0uHqe3gA Twitter: https://twitter.com/motorcityhypno Instagram: motorcityhypno If you would like to contribute financially to the show, you can find me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/motorcityhypno?fan_landing=true FREE HYPNOSIS GUIDE https://detroithypnotist.convertri.com/podcast-free-hypnosis-guide Please also subscribe to the show and leave a review. Please also join me each week as I co-host the Psyched by MG podcast. (Stay with me as later in the podcast, I’ll be giving away a free gift to all listeners!) This episode of the Motor City Hypnotist Podcast is brought to you by Banner Season. Online marketing is saturated and people rarely open their emails. Are you in sales or does your business market to customers? How do you connect with family, friends, and clients? Banner Season takes your marketing into the “real world” by delivering kindness and thoughtfulness directly to your client’s physically. Imagine the excitement of your family, friends and customers as they receive personalized cards and gifts in their mailboxes. Go to bannerseason.com/fantastic and begin today to express kindness and make connections with others. https://bannerseason.com/FANTASTIC WINNER OF THE WEEK; Major League Baseball Sports fans rejoice! Baseball has returned! WINNER OF THE WEEK; Antonio, Amazon Driver https://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news/3876/Amazon-Driver-Delivers-Package-To-Man-With-Cancer-Returns-With-Card-And-Flowers TOPIC INTRODUCTION Today I am going to share with you the History of Hypnosis. When and where did hypnosis actually start and how has it evolved over the years to become what it is today? *The earliest references to hypnosis date back to ancient Egypt and Greece. *In Greek mythology, Hypnos is the god/personification of sleep. His name is the origin of the word hypnosis * the Roman equivalent is known as Somnus. (Somnambulist is a term for someone very susceptible to hypnosis. *Both cultures had religious centres where people came for help with their problems. *There are many references to trance and hypnosis in early writings. In 2600 BC the father of Chinese medicine, Wong Tai, wrote about techniques that involved incantations and passes of the hands. The Hindu Vedas written around 1500 BC mention hypnotic procedures. *Trance-like states occur in many shamanistic, druidic, voodoo, yogic and religious practices. *The modern father of Hypnosis was an Austrian physician, Franz Mesmer (1734 – 1815), from whose name the word ‘mesmerism’ is derived. (movie Mesmer starring Alan Rickman released in 1994). Mesmer was much maligned by the medical world of his day “Animal Magnetism” was coined by Mesmer. --the idea that diseases are the result of blockages in the flow of magnetic forces in the body. He believed he could store his animal magnetism in baths of iron filings and transfer it to patients with rods or by ‘mesmeric passes’. *Mesmer himself was very much a showman, conveying by his manner that something was going to happen to the patient. This form of indirect suggestion was very powerful (and is still used today). *Mesmer was also responsible for the popular image of the hypnotist as a man with magnetic eyes, a cape and goatee beard. *John Elliotson (1791 – 1868), a professor at London University,

This week we're talking about Franz Mesmer, the pioneer of Animal Magnetism.

Franz Anton Mesmer (/ˈmɛzmər/;[1] German: [ˈmɛsmɐ]; 23 May 1734 – 5 March 1815) was a German doctor with an interest in astronomy. He theorised the existence of a natural energy transference occurring between all animated and inanimate objects; this he called "animal magnetism", sometimes later referred to as mesmerism. (In modern times New Age spiritualists have revived a similar idea.[citation needed]) Mesmer's theory attracted a wide following between about 1780 and 1850, and continued to have some influence until the end of the 19th century.[2] In 1843 the Scottish doctor James Braid proposed the term "hypnosis" for a technique derived from animal magnetism; today the word "mesmerism" generally functions as a synonym of "hypnosis". --- Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you’d like to support the show on a per episode basis, you can find our Patreon page here.  Be sure to check our website for more details.  

Franz Anton Mesmer (/ˈmɛzmər/;[1] German: [ˈmɛsmɐ]; 23 May 1734 – 5 March 1815) was a German doctor with an interest in astronomy. He theorised the existence of a natural energy transference occurring between all animated and inanimate objects; this he called "animal magnetism", sometimes later referred to as mesmerism. (In modern times New Age spiritualists have revived a similar idea.[citation needed]) Mesmer's theory attracted a wide following between about 1780 and 1850, and continued to have some influence until the end of the 19th century.[2] In 1843 the Scottish doctor James Braid proposed the term "hypnosis" for a technique derived from animal magnetism; today the word "mesmerism" generally functions as a synonym of "hypnosis". --- Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you’d like to support the show on a per episode basis, you can find our Patreon page here.  Be sure to check our website for more details.  

The Horla by Guy de Maupassant Welcome to Episode 35 of the Classic Ghost Stories Podcast!What would really help me would be if you could think of one friend or acquaintance who would enjoy the Classic Ghost Stories Podcast and share it with them! If every listener is helpful enough to do this for me, then we would double the podcast every week! Imagine that! The StoryToday’s story is a famous French short-story by a prolific and highly regarded author: Guy de Maupassant. In fact, he was known as the father of the short story! Guy de MaupassantDe Maupassant was a famous French short-story writer born in France in 1850, who died aged only 42 in 1893 in Paris. He is buried in Montparnasse cemetery. De Maupassant was considered a master of the short story form and his first story, set in the Franco-Prussian War Boule de Suif (A Ball of Suiet) was published in 1880 and is a great story.  You may not know that the use of ‘de’ in front of the name (like von in German) indicates noble birth and De Maupassant’s mother urged his father to secure the right, from an ancestor, to so style himself. De Maupassant’s father was violent to his mother and the young lad was witness to this. His mother had the courage and support to separate from his father because of the violence and De Maupassant and his brother went with her. As this was the 1850s or so, this was very rare and very brave of his mother. At school, De Maupassant became friends with Gustave Flaubert. And he saved the life of the English poet Algenon Swinborne from drowning. As a profession, he was a newspaper editor and wrote fiction in his spare time.  The HorlaThe Horla was first published in 1887, and is set in 1867 near Rouen in Normandy, France. The narrator is obviously a gentleman — a man of leisure who comes to believe that he is haunted by a monster, which later reveals its name as ‘The Horla.’ This is a nonsense word pronounced in French without the H- (so why then include it, monsieur de Maupassant?) but which I have chosen to pronounce in English with an h. De Maupassant was said to suffer from a mental illness and I recognise the symptoms of anxiety he describes at the beginning but which has become so advanced so that it develops psychotic features — in this case the delusion of the invisible being. There are clear paranoid elements, in that he believes the Horla is a superior being come to replace mankind.  There is an example of the secondary rationality that you see in psychosis, where after the clearly irrational primary psychotic insight, in this case that he is possessed by the Horla, then rationality kicks in to explain how this could be so. In his case, he links it to a weird psychic vampire epidemic in Brazil and deduces he was infected when he saluted the Brazilian ship that went by on the Thames, before which he was fine.  The power of the the Horla is the same domination of will shown by Dr Parent who hyptonises his cousin Madam de Sable. It all makes perfect sense, but of course is delusional. He shows relatively little remorse for burning his servants alive, I must say, though it wouldn’t be out of the way in many cases of paranoid psychosis that he believed them in on it. Though in this story they clearly aren’t. So, the Horla probably draws on De Maupassant’s real experiences of being mentally ill, but fictionalised. It is possibly this reality that makes the story quite unnerving. I remember being very disturbed by it when I read it first in my teens. MesmerismMesmerism or Animal Magnetism was brought to public attention in the 18th Century by the German doctor Franz Mesmer. It was a fairly weird theory of magnetic fluid, but I’m sure future generations will consider our accepted theories as fairly nuts too. It was taken very seriously in its time and the Royal Academy of Medicine in Paris had a serious study of it in 1826 and they decided it was Support this podcast

• Diving deep into the unorthodox realm of Hypnotherapy! “Any satisfactory theory of hypnosis should also be a theory bearing on psychology at large" (Hilgard, 1991) Hypnosis is a human condition involving focused attention, reduced peripheral awareness, and an enhanced capacity to respond to suggestion. There are competing theories explaining hypnosis and related phenomena. Altered state theories see hypnosis as an altered state of mind or trance, marked by a level of awareness different from the ordinary state of consciousness. In contrast, nonstate theories see hypnosis as, variously, a type of placebo effect or what others see as a redefinition of an interaction with a therapist or form of imaginative role enactment. During hypnosis, a person is said to have heightened focus and concentration. Hypnotized subjects are said to show an increased response to suggestions. Hypnosis usually begins with a hypnotic induction involving a series of preliminary instructions and suggestion. The use of hypnotism for therapeutic purposes is referred to as "hypnotherapy", while its use as a form of entertainment for an audience is known as "stage hypnosis". Stage hypnosis is often performed by mentalists practicing the art form of mentalism. Hypnosis for pain management "is likely to decrease acute and chronic pain in most individuals. The use of hypnosis in other contexts, such as a form of therapy to retrieve and integrate early trauma, is controversial within the medical or psychological mainstream. Research indicates that hypnotizing an individual may aid the formation of false memories, and that hypnosis "does not help people recall events more accurately. The term "hypnosis" comes from the ancient Greek word ὑπνος hypnos, "sleep", and the suffix -ωσις -osis, or from ὑπνόω hypnoō, "put to sleep" (stem of aorist hypnōs-) and the suffix -is. The words "hypnosis" and "hypnotism" both derive from the term "neuro-hypnotism" (nervous sleep), all of which were coined by Étienne Félix d'Henin de Cuvillers in 1820. These words were popularized in English by the Scottish surgeon James Braid (to whom they are sometimes wrongly attributed) around 1841. Braid based his practice on that developed by Franz Mesmer and his followers (which was called "Mesmerism" or "animal magnetism"), but differed in his theory as to how the procedure worked! The hypnotized individual appears to heed only the communications of the hypnotist and typically responds in an uncritical, automatic fashion while ignoring all aspects of the environment other than those pointed out by the hypnotist. In a hypnotic state an individual tends to see, feel, smell, and otherwise perceive in accordance with the hypnotist's suggestions, even though these suggestions may be in apparent contradiction to the actual stimuli present in the environment. The effects of hypnosis are not limited to sensory change; even the subject's memory and awareness of self may be altered by suggestion, and the effects of the suggestions may be extended (posthypnotically) into the subject's subsequent waking activity. In Trance on Trial, a 1989 text directed at the legal profession, legal scholar Alan W. Scheflin and psychologist Jerrold Lee Shapiro observed that the "deeper" the hypnotism, the more likely a particular characteristic is to appear, and the greater extent to which it is manifested. Scheflin and Shapiro identified 20 separate characteristics that hypnotized subjects might display, "dissociation"; "detachment"; "suggestibility", "ideosensory activity"; "catalepsy"; "ideomotor responsiveness";"age regression"; "revivification"; "hypermnesia"; "[automatic or suggested] amnesia"; "posthypnotic responses"; "hypnotic analgesia and anesthesia"; "glove anesthesia"; "somnambulism"; "automatic writing"; "time distortion"; "release of inhibitions"; "change in capacity for volitional activity"; "trance logic"; and "effortless imagination! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/Omeeze/support

Paul Harris from Film Buff’s Forecast reviews “IT Chapter 2” and “Angry Birds”. John Doremus tells the story of “Franz Mesmer” in Ep 794 of The Passing Parade. Your calls on your favourite pencils (yes pencils). The Herald Sun’s Ian Royall gives us tomorrow’s news. Bruce’s piece is “Bazaar Joke”. Tony Moclair previews Australia Overnight. Producer: Mark Petkovic.

What do nicotine, the hoover and the silhouette have in common? They’re all eponyms. These are words named after a person. This week we’re celebrating the anonymous people who live on through language. Featuring Jules Léotard, Mr Mars, Amelia Bloomer, Franz Mesmer and Samuel Maverick. A Somethin’ Else production.Susie’s trio of words for the week is:Bumbershoot: a Victorian word for an umbrella.Chatoyant: of iridescent shimmering lustre, like a cat’s eye in the dark.Battology: needless and tiresome repetition in speaking and writing. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Mesmerism has had an outsize influence on medicine, despite the rapid rise and fall of its inventor Dr. Franz Mesmer and hostility from the medical establishment. This curious story covers the healing powers of magnets, secret societies in pre-Revolutionary France, fundamental questions about what makes someone alive, and one of the most fascinating medical investigations in history led by a dream team of Benjamin Franklin, Lavoisier, and Guillotine on behalf of King Louis XVI. Plus, a #AdamAnswers about the origin of the phrase “Code Blue.”   Sources: Damton R. Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1968.   Dyer R, Mesmerism, Ancient and Modern. Victorian Web. Franklin B et al, The Reports of the Royal Commission on Mesmer’s System of Animal Magnetism and other contemporary documents, James Lind Library, translated by Iml Donaldson. Retrieved online at https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/sites/default/files/files/the_royal_commission_on_animal_-_translated_by_iml_donaldson_1.pdf Lanska JT and Lanska DJ, Mesmer, Franz. Encyclopedia of the Neurological Sciences, 2014, pp 1106-1107. Lanska DJ and Lanksa JT, Franz Anton Mesmer and the Rise and Fall of Animal Magnetism: Dramatic Cures, Controversy, and Ultimately a Triumph for the Scientific Method. Brain, Mind and Medicine: Essays in Eighteenth-Century Neuroscience pp 301-320 “Mesmerism,” Boston Med Surg J 1837; 17:185-187 Normandin S, Visions of Vitalism: Medicine, Philosophy and the Soul in NineteenthCentury France, October 2005 Shermer, M, Testing the Claims of Mesmerism: The First Scientific Investigation of the Paranormal Ever Conducted. Skeptic, retrieved online at https://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/10-09-22/ Sollberg, G. Vitalism and Vital Force in Life Sciences – The Demise and Life of a Scientific Conception Weckowicz TE and Liebel-Weckowicz HP, 7 Nineteenth Century: Vitalist-Mechanist and Psychic-Somatic Controversies. Advances in Psychology, Volume 66, 1990, Pages 109-152   Youtube videos of the Armonica: Adagio for Glass Armonica, Mozart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkTUL7DjTow Rutgers video on history of Armonica: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdtLK9pAh5k

New Age is a term applied to a range of spiritual or religious beliefs and practices that developed in Western nations during the 1970s. Precise scholarly definitions of the New Age differ in their emphasis, largely as a result of its highly eclectic structure. Although analytically often considered to be religious, those involved in it typically prefer the designation of spiritual or Mind, Body, Spirit and rarely use the term "New Age" themselves. Many scholars of the subject refer to it as the New Age movement, although others contest this term and suggest that it is better seen as a milieu or zeitgeist. As a form of Western esotericism, the New Age drew heavily upon a number of older esoteric traditions, in particular those that emerged from the occultist current that developed in the eighteenth century. Such prominent occult influences include the work of Emanuel Swedenborg and Franz Mesmer, as well as the ideas of Spiritualism, New Thought, and Theosophy. A number of mid-twentieth century influences, such as the UFO religions of the 1950s, the Counterculture of the 1960s, and the Human Potential Movement, also exerted a strong influence on the early development of the New Age. The exact origins of the phenomenon remain contested, but there is general agreement that it developed in the 1970s, at which time it was centred largely in the United Kingdom. It expanded and grew largely in the 1980s and 1990s, in particular within the United States. By the start of the 21st century, the term "New Age" was increasingly rejected within this milieu, with some scholars arguing that the New Age phenomenon had ended. Despite its highly eclectic nature, a number of beliefs commonly found within the New Age have been identified. Theologically, the New Age typically adopts a belief in a holistic form of divinity that imbues all of the universe, including human beings themselves. There is thus a strong emphasis on the spiritual authority of the self. This is accompanied by a common belief in a wide variety of semi-divine non-human entities, such as angels and masters, with whom humans can communicate, particularly through the form of channeling. Typically viewing human history as being divided into a series of distinct ages, a common New Age belief is that whereas once humanity lived in an age of great technological advancement and spiritual wisdom, it has entered a period of spiritual degeneracy, which will be remedied through the establishment of a coming Age of Aquarius, from which the milieu gets its name. There is also a strong focus on healing, particularly using forms of alternative medicine, and an emphasis on a New Age "science" that seeks to unite science and spirituality. Centred primarily in Western countries, those involved in the New Age have been primarily from middle and upper-middle-class backgrounds. The degree to which New Agers are involved in the milieu varied considerably, from those who adopted a number of New Age ideas and practices to those who fully embraced and dedicated their lives to it. The New Age has generated criticism from established Christian organisations as well as modern Pagan and indigenous communities. From the 1990s onward, the New Age became the subject of research by academic scholars of religious studies.

New Age is a term applied to a range of spiritual or religious beliefs and practices that developed in Western nations during the 1970s. Precise scholarly definitions of the New Age differ in their emphasis, largely as a result of its highly eclectic structure. Although analytically often considered to be religious, those involved in it typically prefer the designation of spiritual or Mind, Body, Spirit and rarely use the term "New Age" themselves. Many scholars of the subject refer to it as the New Age movement, although others contest this term and suggest that it is better seen as a milieu or zeitgeist. As a form of Western esotericism, the New Age drew heavily upon a number of older esoteric traditions, in particular those that emerged from the occultist current that developed in the eighteenth century. Such prominent occult influences include the work of Emanuel Swedenborg and Franz Mesmer, as well as the ideas of Spiritualism, New Thought, and Theosophy. A number of mid-twentieth century influences, such as the UFO religions of the 1950s, the Counterculture of the 1960s, and the Human Potential Movement, also exerted a strong influence on the early development of the New Age. The exact origins of the phenomenon remain contested, but there is general agreement that it developed in the 1970s, at which time it was centred largely in the United Kingdom. It expanded and grew largely in the 1980s and 1990s, in particular within the United States. By the start of the 21st century, the term "New Age" was increasingly rejected within this milieu, with some scholars arguing that the New Age phenomenon had ended. Despite its highly eclectic nature, a number of beliefs commonly found within the New Age have been identified. Theologically, the New Age typically adopts a belief in a holistic form of divinity that imbues all of the universe, including human beings themselves. There is thus a strong emphasis on the spiritual authority of the self. This is accompanied by a common belief in a wide variety of semi-divine non-human entities, such as angels and masters, with whom humans can communicate, particularly through the form of channeling. Typically viewing human history as being divided into a series of distinct ages, a common New Age belief is that whereas once humanity lived in an age of great technological advancement and spiritual wisdom, it has entered a period of spiritual degeneracy, which will be remedied through the establishment of a coming Age of Aquarius, from which the milieu gets its name. There is also a strong focus on healing, particularly using forms of alternative medicine, and an emphasis on a New Age "science" that seeks to unite science and spirituality. Centred primarily in Western countries, those involved in the New Age have been primarily from middle and upper-middle-class backgrounds. The degree to which New Agers are involved in the milieu varied considerably, from those who adopted a number of New Age ideas and practices to those who fully embraced and dedicated their lives to it. The New Age has generated criticism from established Christian organisations as well as modern Pagan and indigenous communities. From the 1990s onward, the New Age became the subject of research by academic scholars of religious studies.

Y'all, we got real weird on you with this spooky Halloween episode talking about mad scientists. This one is a banger, both literally and figuratively (one of these guys blew himself up to death!) Jack Parsons vs Franz Mesmer.  Show notes at /historicallyhot.com/episodes/madscientists

We're revisiting a 2010 Halloween episode from Sarah and Katie. Today, Franz Mesmer is hailed as the father of hypnosis. His original pursuit was called mesmerism, but what exactly was it? How did it (supposedly) work? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Dr Franz Mesmer, the namesake of “mesmerisation”, believed that ill health was caused by a buildup of fluid in the human body. He also believed that some people (himself included) had the power to move that fluid out of the way with their mere concentration. Mesmer became incredibly popular in Europe in the late 18th […]

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Hypnosis has a long and controversial history, with its roots in animal magnetism or mesmerism, the theory developed by 18th Century German doctor Franz Mesmer. He believed he had discovered an invisible natural force possessed by all living things, and that he could channel this force for healing purposes. Popularity of hypnosis has since waxed and waned, but was largely denounced as quackery until the 20th Century, when it began to be studied scientifically. However it is only in the last twenty years or so that is has become incorporated into mainstream science and medicine. But is it a real phenomenon, asks listener Gratian from Poland; and Anton from Ireland wants to know how it works and what happens to people’s brains and bodies under hypnosis? CrowdScience speaks to Dr Quinton Deeley, consultant psychiatrist and senior lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, who has used it in practice for many years, and Dr Amir Raz, a magician-turned-neuroscientist who is shedding light on how hypnosis works. To see how hypnosis is being used clinically, CrowdScience visits the Berkeley Clinic in Glasgow, Scotland, to witness a hypnotised patient having a tooth extracted with very little anaesthesia. Meanwhile, presenter and self-confessed arachnophobe Nastaran Tavakoli-Far takes part in the Friendly Spider programme at London Zoo, an afternoon event that uses hypnotherapy and group therapy to ease or eliminate the fear of spiders. Presenter: Nastaran Tavakoli-Far Producer: Helena Selby (Image: A silver pocket watch swinging on a chain on a black background to hypnotize. Credit: Getty Images)

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Dr. Becky Winkler is a corporate psychologist who identifies and develops executive talent. She works with private equity, asset management and business clients throughout the world. She has led research on learning agility and predictors for executive success in collaboration with leading universities. Becky has conducted over a thousand executive-level assessments and coached numerous executives to breakthrough performance. It is the profound connection and meaningful perspectives she shares with others that inspires her work. Becky helps people more fully realize themselves - their talents, skills and aspirations - whether in her professional life traveling the globe or as board chair of a local chapter of a network of college-preparatory public charter schools serving students in educationally underserved communities. She graduated summa cum laude with degrees in psychology, women's studies and Chinese from the University of Georgia Honors Program. She earned an M.A and Ph.D. in industrial and organizational psychology from DePaul University. This episode is perfect for anyone interested in the art and science of assessing executive talent, and the trade-offs of a business consultancy life 'up in the air.' IN THIS EPISODE Becky explains her process for identifying and recommending talent to private equity and corporate clients. She shares the aspect of her work that is a constant playground. She discusses the five enabling elements of learning agility and the one disabling element that gets in our way. Becky assesses her own talents as a corporate psychologist. She responds to the question of whether she is like the fictional Wall Street psychologist and performance coach television character Wendy Rhoades. She talks about working with clients who are 'masters of the universe.' She shares how reading people professionally is very different than reading people personally. Becky reflects on her life growing up and the influence of her mother and father. She talks about the impact of losing loved ones and their presence in her life. She explains why she chose her fields of study and how she found her way to the work she does. Becky discusses the particular challenges and opportunities women executives havein their path to success. She shares the trade-offs of living life 'up in the air.'  Becky shares what happiness and success is for her. After the conversation, host Mark Peres adds a personal word that begins this way, "When I listen to Becky talk about animating talent, I'm reminded of the 18th century scientists Luigi Galvani and Franz Mesmer..."  

Summary:In this episode, Joseph teaches us about hypnosis and dispels the myths around its practice. What is hypnosis? Does it work? If I get hypnotized, am I still in control? Listen to find out the origins of hypnosis and how hypnotherapy can help those who struggle with smoking, alcoholism and phobias to name a few. Joseph also discusses the myths of hypnosis including whether or not you can control someone in a state of hypnosis and if one can get “stuck” in hypnosis.Time Stamped Show Notes:00:01 – Introduction to Mind Your Mind Podcast00:31 – Today’s topic: Hypnosis Part 100:35 – Send your questions toMind Your Mind00:46 – This will be the introduction on hypnosis01:05 – Part 2 will provide a demonstration of three Hypnosis Superscripts01:30 – Hypnotherapy has been around for hundreds of years01:37 –Dr. Franz Mesmermade hypnosis famouso01:51 – In his time, hypnosis was called animal magnetismo02:09 – He mastered this art and passed on his own development of hynosis02:28 – Many psychologists use hypnotherapy andDr. Sigmund Freudwas one who slowed down the growth of hypnotherapy03:19 – Hypnotherapy has been revitalized and used to effectively help clients with smoking, drug, alcoholism, fears, and phobias04:08 – “You could use hypnosis not as a cure, but a means of establishing a favorable climate in which to learn” – Milton H. Erickson04:27 – 4 Myths of Hypnotherapyo04:28 – #1 It doesn’t worko05:57 – #2 It works miracleso �� 06:19 – #3 You can control someone elseo07:14 – #4 You can get stuck in hypnosis08:03 – If you decide to go under hypnosis, always check the person’s credentials first08:14 – End of this week’s podcast!3 Key Points:Hypnosis is only effective when the one being hypnotized chooses to participate.Hypnosis cannot work miracles; but, it can create a more favorable climate to bring out that which is inside of you.One word of caution—check the credentials of the one that is hypnotizing you.Resources Mentioned:Dr. Franz Mesmer– the person who made hypnosis famousDr. Sigmund Freud– the person who made hypnotherapy growth slow

Thu, 15 Jun 2017 09:29:17 +0000 https://evidenzbasierte-pharmazie.podigee.io/42-sonderfolge-evidenz-geschichte-n-franz-mesmer-oder-der-einfluss-von-verblindung 912f17d3a6920a03705e3e881373338c Paris 1780. Der Arzt Franz Mesmer bittet die medizinische Fakultät darum, seine Heilmethode zu überprüfen: den animalischen Magnetismus, mit dem er schon große Erfolge gefeiert hat. Diese Angelegenheit bringt die medizinische Forschung ein ganzes Stück voran - wenn auch anders, als Mesmer es gedacht hat. Unsere Quellen Wikipedia-Einträge zu - Franz Mesmer (deutsch und englisch) - Animalischer Magnetismus Bericht der Königlichen Kommission (auf der Homepage des Royal College of Physicians of Edinborough) James Lind Library - Kaptchuk TJ (2011). A brief history of the evolution of methods to control observer biases in tests of treatments - Donaldson IML (2005). Mesmer’s 1780 proposal for a controlled trial to test his method of treatment using ‘Animal Magnetism’. - Huth EJ (2006). Benjamin Franklin’s (1706-1790), place in the history of medicine - Donaldson IML (2016). Antoine de Lavoisier’s role in designing a single-blind trial to assess whether ‘Animal Magnetism’ exists Testing Treatments: Faire Erfassung des Behandlungsergebnisses Herr HW. Franklin, Lavoisier, and Mesmer: origin of the controlled clinical trial. Urol Oncol. 2005 Sep-Oct;23(5):346-51. Medizin transparent: Magnete gegen Schmerz 42 full no Dr. Iris Hi

How do we knew when a body is truly dead? Modern science shows us that the body dies slowly, not all at once as we used to suppose. It takes time. The body is a rather vast and complex ecosystem of enzymes, processes and functions that rarely, if ever, stop all at once. With our modern sensors and advanced medical knowledge, we usually determine the moment of death as the time when the brain ceases to show any sign of activity. However, if the heart stops beating and breathing ceases, there's just no way that a body can function much longer. Today, an coroner always double-checks to makes sure the recently deceased is actually and fully gone, but in the past, not so long ago, we did not have the precise knowledge that we have today. What follows is a horrific example of what may have happened on a rather regular basis in the days before electricity. The thin line between life and death was often out of focus and those whose task it was to pronounce a person living to dead may have had a tough time getting it right all of the time. The Howe family was one of the oldest founding families in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Of note is their founding of the Wayside Inn at Sudbury, Massachusetts which was later lovingly restored by Henry Ford.  It is also famous for Elias Howe's invention of America's first lockstitch sewing machine in 1846. Such a family had established itself as memorable by the time they settled in Damariscotta, Maine  after the War of 1812 and began their strange association with the phenomenon of American Spiritualism that ushered in one of New England's saddest and possibly darkest burials. Colonel Joel Howe, the family patriarch and veteran of the War of 1812 had nine children, all curious, well-read and very interested in the new ideas of science and invention beginning to take hold in the popular imagination. Of particular interest are son Edwin and his little sister, Mary Howe.  Author Harold W. Castner who researched the legend for Yankee Magazine, actually interviewed people who were present and witnessed the events that passed in the Howe family home, fourteen people, in fact. Their stories corroborated the events described in local newspapers in the Newcastle and Damariscotta area at the time.   The Howe Family made their income from the stagecoach tavern known as the Howe House Inn. It was in that house that the family began their attempts at communication with the dead. This might sound like something out of a 1960s Hammer horror film, but the Spiritualist Movement in America was a bona fide religious organization that still exists today. It first appeared not far from Maine in the 'burned-over district" of upstate New York with the Fox sisters and their supposed communication with the dead. Devout spiritualists at the time were often protestants who were using the idea of a life beyond the physical form in which a person could still learn and grow and, to the great interest of the believers, could communicate from beyond the veil with the living. Fueled by the written works of Emanuel Swedenborg and Franz Mesmer,  spiritualists believed that there is not a single Heaven for all to enter, or even a single, solitary Hell. Instead, there was a hierarchy of both, much like  Dante's leveling of the Underworld in  his Inferno. Spiritualists ascribe to the idea that the spirits of the dead act as a kind of network of connections between God and his living world. Through the souls of the deceased, Spiritualists believed that they could commune with the Almighty.  In order to speak directly with the dead, one needed a medium, a gifted living person who could, through a kind of self-hypnosis, get themselves into a mental or spiritual state that was amenable to contacting the dead. Once that state of mind was achieved, the medium became the terminal in the network that connected both worlds. All you had to do was sit quietly and ask questions. If someone on the 'other end' was willing, the medium spoke or wrote your answer.  This practice still exists today, but in 1882, it was all the rage. In the forty years since its birth in New England, Spiritualism had grown into a recognized religious organization. Which brings us to young Mary Howe and her brothers and sisters, all living together under the same roof in Damariscotta. The family was gifted with the ardent belief in life after death coupled with a kind of ingenuity of invention that was the hallmark of a 19th century Yankee. Brothers Edwin and Lorenzo crafted a 'perpetual motion' machine and a way to counterfeit half dollars.   Mary devoted her intellectual hunger toward her faith and the family discovered that she had a strong gift as a medium. Her fame spread throughout the Spiritualist community and beyond. Like so many people who have attended a seance or had their palms read, many visitors to the Inn were simply curiosity seekers wondering what this spiritualist stuff was all about, but some were as devout as the Howes. What they discovered when they attended one of Mary's trance sessions might be a quiet conversation with a loved one, a long session of silence, or they might be treated to something quite theatrical. Once, convinced that she was graced with the gift of flight, Mary Howe jumped off the stairs, her arms spread wide like a bird wings, her mouth speaking in a strange, inhuman tongue. When she landed in a heap at the bottom of stairs with a broken ankle and a panoply of bruises and scrapes, it only served to increase her popularity as THE medium to visit if you wanted speak with Uncle Albert about where he buried his money. A witness to one of the Howe sessions was author Castner's own grandmother. Her question to Mary was a simple one: when would her relative return from his visit to New York. Mary's answer was mumbled and quiet, but she communicated, "I can see him clearly. I see many lights! Wait! He will not return! When all those lights appear, he will die!" According to Castner's grandmother, Mary's prediction came true. Her relative died of apparent heart failure as he witnessed the first nighttime illumination of the lights on the Brooklyn Bridge. One can only imagine how quickly that story spread throughout the community. Though Mary entertained many guests with her sessions, she also practiced another kind of spiritual connection with the world of the dead: she claimed that she could travel there. Her trances were deep, lasting much longer than any visitor could stay. Many mediums in the 1880s did not explain exactly what they were doing or how they achieved their mystical trances, but today we might classify these as self-hypnosis sessions or even as out-of-body experiences. They would need the help of others because their body would remain in an apparent state of sleep for long periods of time. During that time, they would fall into a deep sleep and then, into something deeper, sometimes for days. In order keep the spiritual journeyer's body warm, they practised a strange habit. Normally, the infrared energy created by a sleeping body can be easily captured by blankets and even on the coldest night, the body's own chemistry will keep itself warm. Not in the case of some of these mental journeyers, like Mary Howe. As she lay on her couch or bed, we never discover which, they would lovingly surround her with stones they had warmed on the stove. These stones maintained, they claimed, enough body heat to keep the medium's body preserved and ready for when he or she returned from their spiritual wanderings and could reinhabit the body. It was claimed by those attending the bodies that these medium were indeed still alive, even though no breath fogged a mirror and no heartbeat could be found. Such practitioners might be doubted if it weren't for our own modern understanding of both the coma state and the trances that various shamans enter in indigenous societies around the world. Mediums who practiced this deep type of trance almost always came out of them fully refreshed with no apparent harm to their physical body. If you waited long enough, they always woke up. Which makes the story of Mary Howe so mysterious. In 1882, in her house on Hodgdon Street, Mary entered one of her deep trances. This was a commonplace happening and her brother Edwin knew the routine. He would keep the stones warm and keep replacing them around her body until she awoke and told of her journeyings to the other realm. By this time, Mary's trances were an item of curiosity and many people visited the house to see her lying supine, her mind elsewhere. Edwin welcomed his neighbors and friends in to witness his sister thus. One can imagine the conversations, the cups of tea, and the convivial nature of the guests as they wondered about where she was and who she was visiting. Perhaps someone voiced the question, "What might happen if the spirit found itself astray and lost its way back to its earthly vessel?" People marveled when they visited after a week and still, she hadn't returned to her body. Edwin reassured everyone not to worry - that this was not unusual. But after two weeks had passed, someone must have asked the question, "Is she in a trance, or is the poor girl dead?" Dr. Robert Dixon was a man of science. He did not relish the idea of visiting the Howe household when the sheriff ordered him to make the determination. There were laws, as well as common sense, that dictated that a dead body was a source of disease and must be buried as quickly as possible. Funeral homes existed, but in 1882,  it was common practice to lay out the deceased body of your loved one in your own parlor so that friends might visit to say one last goodbye.  This is almost exactly the scene that the good doctor witnessed when he entered the Howe home. Edwin admitted Dr. Dixon and led him to the room in which the body of his sister lay in her trance. He explained to Dr. Dixon that the stones were arranged thusly to keep her body warm. Dixon did note that the body did not present as though rigor mortis had set in. The skin was supple and the flesh of her cheeks was both warm and flexible. Edwin assured the doctor not to worry. His sister was merely in a trance. The body had been lying in a warm room for two weeks and there was no smell of putrefaction evident.   Though she appeared to be alive, Dr. Dixon knew that all living people had two things in common: they breathed and their hearts beat. Neither was true for Mary Howe. Knowing that life did not inhabit a body that was neither pumping blood nor breathing, he had no choice but to pronounce her dead. Of course her brother protested. So did many in the town who were used to her strange trances. That evening, a deputation on three men entered the Howe household and transferred Mary's body into a coffin. Protesters waiting in the community determined that the authorities were about to bury a living woman. With the authority of the law behind the sheriff, there was little anyone could do. Dr. Dixon, the sheriff, and the undertaker began the process of burial. However, the owner of the Hillside Cemetery, Benjamin Metcalf, possibly refused permission to bury Mary in his ground. He was one of those in town who believed that she was possibly still in one of her trances  and he would not be a part of such a horrific misdeed. Glidden Cemetery in nearby Newcastle would have to serve as her final resting place, but once at the cemetery, no one could be found who was willing to dig the grave for the very same reason. With determination to finish this episode, the doctor, sheriff and undertaker rolled up their sleeves and grabbed the shovels. After the grave was dug, the undertaker's assistant began to realize the possibility of what was about to happen and he refused to help lower the coffin into the ground.  Realizing that they were going to receive no help from anyone else, the three men took it upon themselves to lower Mary into her final resting place. They did not mark her grave, again possibly because they did not want anyone from the community to undo their official work and retrieve her from the cold, cold ground. To this day, no one knows her true final resting place. Today, people are pronounced dead usually after all brain function ceases. The body can be kept alive in a state similar to Mary Howe's state in 1882. However, in 1882 Dr. Dixon might not have been able to determine without a shadow of a doubt that Mary might have been in a deep coma. In such cases, the heart beats very slowly and respiration is neither deep nor easily perceived. Is the comatose person aware? Can a comatose person reawaken after weeks or months. The answer is yes, if their body is being properly fed and if fluids are being administered. But in 1882, there was no way of keeping Mary hydrated or her body fed if she was in a deep coma, or what her brother referred to as a trance. Is it possible that Dr. Dixon and his two compatriots buried poor Mary Howe alive? One must assume that it is possible. In fact, when one considers the incidence of comas in the modern world and tries to determine the number of coma cases that must have occurred in the past, it is quite possible that a large number of comatose people were buried alive, given their incomplete knowledge of the condition. This is why some people chose tombs instead of graves and why some had strings attached to external bells so that, if a person awoke entombed, they could tug on the string and be 'saved by the bell.' Burial would be a faster death due to lack of oxygen.  Given Mary's supple flesh,  the lack of rigor mortis, the lack of the odor of death, and her previous trance experiences, it is not only possible that she was buried alive, but probable. In 1888, six years after the possible living burial of Mary Howe, the Fox sisters of upstate New York, whose interactions with the spirit of a dead peddler supposedly buried in their cellar started the Spiritualism movement in America, confessed in public on several occasions that they had made the whole thing up.  The movement did not lose any ground after their confession. True believers merely brushed them off. Years later, upon the renovation of the Howe Inn , various contrivances were found in the walls: wires with no discernable connection, pipes that led to or from no water source, and other devices whose function defied explanation. This discovery makes for a strong case that many of the trance sessions held by the Howe brothers and sisters were merely parlor tricks after all, perhaps with brother Edwin in an upstairs room moaning through a pipe that led to a hollow space in the wall, amplifying the voice of a long dead relative, strange and distant. As the days and weeks passed, members of the Newcastle community avoided passing the cemetery if they could. Children were frightened and held their breaths as they passed. One can imagine the quiet of an early evening when the sun bathed the darkening world with a fire in the western sky and the wind died down leaving a deep silence, that perhaps, if you listened carefully, you might hear the quietest of sounds and wonder, is that a moan or a cry? Has Mary Howe finally awakened from her trance?  

Placebo treatments have been making people feel better for a long time. They've been working since long before Franz Mesmer was run out of 18th-century Vienna for "mesmerizing" a young pianist into regaining her eyesight, after all hope for a medical cure had been lost. Doctors have long dismissed the placebo effect as inferior to conventional medical treatments that sometimes fail where placebo works well, including in surgical procedures like arthroscopy, a popular procedure that relieves the pain of arthritic knees. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Placebo treatments have been making people feel better for a long time. They've been working since long before Franz Mesmer was run out of 18th-century Vienna for "mesmerizing" a young pianist into regaining her eyesight, after all hope for a medical cure had been lost. Doctors have long dismissed the placebo effect as inferior to conventional medical treatments that sometimes fail where placebo works well, including in surgical procedures like arthroscopy, a popular procedure that relieves the pain of arthritic knees. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A query letter from SlushPile Hell, the blog of a curmudgeonly literary agent, reads, "Have you ever wished you had represented the author of the Holy Bible and placed it with a publisher?" Erm, sure. The exclamation Fiddlesticks!, meaning "a trifle" or "something insignificant or absurd," goes back to the time of Shakespeare. It endures in part because it's fun to say.Dorothy Parker, known for her acerbic wit, was once described as a stiletto made of sugar.What do you say when you're in a restroom and someone knocks on the door? Many people answer Ocupado!, which has made its way from bilingual signage--including old airline seat cards from the 1960's--to common speech.Our Quiz Guy John Chaneski struts his stuff with a Miss Word beauty pageant for words beginning with mis-.All's, as in the common clause all's you have to do, isn't grammatically incorrect.  It's a valid contraction of the archaic construction all as.Another cocksure query letter received by the book agent at SlushPile Hell includes the line: "The writing is final, and I do not want it changed." Okay, then.The idiom dead on, meaning "precisely," might sound morbid, but it makes sense. It's a reference to the fact that death is certain and absolute.When someone's standing in front of the TV, do you shout, "Move over!" or something more creative? How about Your daddy weren't no glass maker, or You make a better door than a window.Messing and gauming, meaning "dawdling and getting intro trouble," comes from gaum, a term for something sticky and smeary like axle grease or mud. A baby with schmutz all over his face is all gaumed up.Oliver Goldsmith said of the lexicographer Samuel Johnson that there's no use arguing with him, because "when his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it."The term mesmerize, meaning to attract strongly or hold spellbound, comes from Franz Mesmer, the German doctor who purported to heal people by righting their internal magnetic forces.Insure and ensure mean two different things now, but back when the U.S. Constitution was penned, they were interchangeable. Hence the line in the preamble to insure domestic tranquility.Another overly optimistic query to the book agent at SlushPile Hell reads in part: "My dog has written a book on how to be a success." Gelett Burgess famously wrote I never saw a purple cow, but plenty of folks know a purple cow to be a grape soda float.There's a proper noun out there that rhymes with orange, and it's The Blorenge, a hill in Wales.Catawampus, meaning "askew," can be spelled at least 15 different ways. It likely derives from the English word cater, meaning "diagonal. "J.B. Priestley once described George Bernard Shaw as being so peevish, he refused to admire the Grand Canyon because "he was jealous of it."This episode was hosted by Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett.....Support for A Way with Words comes from Common Ground, the new word game for nimble and knowledgeable minds. More information about how language lovers can find Common Ground at commongroundthegame.com.--A Way with Words is funded by its listeners: http://waywordradio.org/donateGet your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time:Email: words@waywordradio.orgPhone: United States and Canada toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673London +44 20 7193 2113Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771Donate: http://waywordradio.org/donateSite: http://waywordradio.org/Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/Skype: skype://waywordradio Copyright 2015, Wayword LLC.

This week on "A Way with Words": Sure, it's scary to send your writing to a literary agent. But pity the poor agent who must wade through hundreds of terrible query letters a week! One of them shares excerpts from those hilariously bad query letters on a blog called SlushPile Hell. And get ready for some colorful conversation: Purple cows do exist--only they're made with grape soda and ice cream. And yes, Virginia, there IS an English word that rhymes with "orange"!  Plus, catawampus, mesmerize, all's I'm saying, plus messing and gauming.FULL DETAILSA query letter from SlushPile Hell, the blog of a curmudgeonly literary agent, reads, "Have you ever wished you had represented the author of the Holy Bible and placed it with a publisher?" Erm, sure. The exclamation Fiddlesticks!, meaning "a trifle" or "something insignificant or absurd," goes back to the time of Shakespeare. It endures in part because it's fun to say.Dorothy Parker, known for her acerbic wit, was once described as a stiletto made of sugar.What do you say when you're in a restroom and someone knocks on the door? Many people answer Ocupado!, which has made its way from bilingual signage--including old airline seat cards from the 1960's--to common speech.Our Quiz Guy John Chaneski struts his stuff with a Miss Word beauty pageant for words beginning with mis-.All's, as in the common clause all's you have to do, isn't grammatically incorrect.  It's a valid contraction of the archaic construction all as.Another cocksure query letter received by the book agent at SlushPile Hell includes the line: "The writing is final, and I do not want it changed." Okay, then.The idiom dead on, meaning "precisely," might sound morbid, but it makes sense. It's a reference to the fact that death is certain and absolute.When someone's standing in front of the TV, do you shout, "Move over!" or something more creative? How about Your daddy weren't no glass maker, or You make a better door than a window.Messing and gauming, meaning "dawdling and getting intro trouble," comes from gaum, a term for something sticky and smeary like axle grease or mud. A baby with schmutz all over his face is all gaumed up.Oliver Goldsmith said of the lexicographer Samuel Johnson that there's no use arguing with him, because "when his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it."The term mesmerize, meaning to attract strongly or hold spellbound, comes from Franz Mesmer, the German doctor who purported to heal people by righting their internal magnetic forces.Insure and ensure mean two different things now, but back when the U.S. Constitution was penned, they were interchangeable. Hence the line in the preamble to insure domestic tranquility.Another overly optimistic query to the book agent at SlushPile Hell reads in part: "My dog has written a book on how to be a success." Gelett Burgess famously wrote I never saw a purple cow, but plenty of folks know a purple cow to be a grape soda float.There's a proper noun out there that rhymes with orange, and it's The Blorenge, a hill in Wales.Catawampus, meaning "askew," can be spelled at least 15 different ways. It likely derives from the English word cater, meaning "diagonal. "J.B. Priestley once described George Bernard Shaw as being so peevish, he refused to admire the Grand Canyon because "he was jealous of it."This episode was hosted by Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett.....Support for A Way with Words comes from National University, which invites you to change your future today. More at http://www.nu.edu/.--A Way with Words is funded by its listeners: http://waywordradio.org/donateGet your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time:Email: words@waywordradio.orgPhone: United States and Canada toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673London +44 20 7193 2113Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771Donate: http://waywordradio.org/donateSite: http://waywordradio.org/Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/Skype: skype://waywordradio Copyright 2013, Wayword LLC.

This week, we celebrate April Fools' Day with a little medical trickery. First, we learn about Franz Mesmer's questionable 18th-century cures. Next we hear how fooling the brain is sometimes the only way to get accurate scientific results. SHOW CLOCK 00:00 Opening Credits 00:31 Introduction 01:08 Mesmerism 05:06 Modern Placebos: A Necessary Hoax? 10:27 Closing Credits CREDITS Special thanks to Michal Meyer and Josh Kurz for researching this show. Additional credits available at chemheritage.org/distillations.

Today, Franz Mesmer is hailed as the father of hypnosis. His original pursuit was called mesmerism, but what exactly was it? How did it (supposedly) work? Listen in as Sarah and Katie explore the strange theories of Franz Mesmer. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers