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Mesmersim & Magnetism
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man credited with the discovery of the mental state now called hypnosis
was Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer, a man so famous for his healing ability
the terms "mesmerizing" and "mesmerized" were coined
based on his work. Dr. Mesmer had ideas well ahead of his time and maybe
even ahead of this enlightened age. Dr. Mesmer believed that good health
was a result of the harmonious ebb and flow movement of a magnetic fluid
within the body, and that disease was the result of a blockage of this
fluid. He believed that since the heavenly bodies of the universe affected
areas of the earth (like the moon affects tidal movements of the ocean)
this universal influence must also affect the animals upon the earth.
This fluid he called 'Gravitas' or animal magnetism
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