Mesmer - One-on-One
I am just not done. I cannot get him out of my system. He lingers on the brain as I sip another cup of coffee. He speaks sweet nothings during tea time, and though I try to move on, I just can’t. One might say I am mesmerized.
Mesmer is on the brain and will not leave until I have dug away at all the paths, so I hope you will indulge me in my little look back into history.
Like a faithful student to the art of hypnosis, procedure in the various ways hypnosis is handled is always something to ponder. Mesmer’s Animal Magnetism is no different. So, let us look at what he did on a one-on-one session.
Let us put this in terms of you. That is so much more personal. You would sit, facing him, your legs between his knees. You would feel the press of his hands around your hands- thumbs, actually, and he would stare deeply into your eyes. Intense. Then he would begin sweeping the air downward along your limbs, very close but not quite touching. Then he might press his thumbs directly upon your abdomen.
At this point, you might find yourself entranced, laughing (hey, he counted it), or even convulsing. There were even cases of vomiting. This Mesmer believed, was your magnetic fluid purging the impurities and realigning in harmony with the universe.
Source: The Bakken Library
May 7th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Sounds like Mesmer was a sexual predator. Was he?
May 8th, 2008 at 6:32 am
I don’t think he was. Even the so-called scandal with the young pianist (in which certain history says he had fallen in love with her) does not show any torridness on his part. He had a lot of theatrics in him and I suspect it had a lot to do with that. Otherwise, this description seems to have elements of non-spoken hypnosis, Reiki, and laying-on-of-hands.