Hypnosis - Early Pioneers

JJ Gasner: Influential magnetist who wrote "material nature draws her forms through constant magnetism from above, and implores for them in favour of heaven; there is established a free and mutual intercourse, and the whole is contained in an individual.

Paraclesus: (1493-1541) Swiss born physician. Paracelsus was a researcher of energetics and sympathetic systems¹, and made the observation, that the imagination of man may produce healthy or morbid effects. That it could poison the essence of life and cause dis-ease or purify it after it had been made impure and restore our health. That our thoughts are simply magnetic emanations. He also thought that magnetism was either composed of a "subtle fluid" (aura) or that the subtle fluid was that through which magnetism was affected. He felt that man could manipulate this fluid through suggestion and imagination, rather like spiritual healing linking into the aura to effect change.

Emile Coue: Emile coined the phrase "Everyday in every way I'm feeling better and better" and cured more than 1000 cases of asthma in France between 1850 and 1870.

Valentine Greatlakes: Irish early magnetist from the pre-hypnosis era who was known to cure physical and mental ailments by magnetic stroking.

Anton Mesmer (1733-1815): Anton claimed that he had discovered and perfected the control of the energy field around humans which he termed animal magnetism. Mesmer believed that the energy was aligned to the planets through ethereal magnetic substance. He also believed that he could hold and transmit that energy to others - early Power Hypnosis? Mesmer developed a version of magnetic plates which he used to develop ways of healings and cures. He later disposed of the plates when witnessing JJ Gasner treating and healing patients using Stroking, without the use of plates. Following this Mesmer conceptualized correctly that the body possessed a magnetic field.

James Braid: (1795-1860), an English surgeon. He termed the phenomena as " Neuro hypnotism - a phenomenon that occasionally aroused involuntary sexualizing energies. He rejected animal magnetism and Mesmerism, but recognised that trance did have a therapeutic value. He originally thought that hypnosis was a form of nervous sleep and named his method "neuro-hypnotism" being later shortened to hypnotism, around 1842. He emphasised that it was more the patient's willing response than the hypnotist's power that made hypnosis so remarkable.

¹To the Renaissance thinkers, Magnetism was identified as a vital effluence radiating from every object in the universe, in a greater or lesser degree, and through which all objects might exercise a mutual influence on one another. The concept sympathetic system was formulated from this thought.

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