Principles of Psychological Practices and Their Effects on the Energy Field of the Mind

1. WHAT HAPPENS IN MESMERISM?

The Mind energy in the brain is dispersed by magnetic passes of the operator, to the lower parts of the body and the psychic centers; so its function there is as in sleep. The brain is depolarized by this distribution of energy, and is negative to all mental impressions and suggestions or the will of the operator. The mental forces are captured, like an army that is trapped, by withdrawing the vital supplies and imposing substitutions.

No matter how beneficial these treatments may seem to have been at times, they weaken the Mind from its self-expressing course or relation to its center. Besides this magnetic link, it makes the operator the positive pole and director of that person's forces, by mere audible suggestion or willful projection of a pattern which the mind accepts as its own creation, since it cannot distinguish the difference of forces in action.

Who wants to have his mind forces manipulated by someone else, because he does not have sense enough to concentrate and do it himself? Does dependence and mental indolence ever lead to self-mastery or self-reliance? Where is the liberty and free will in any such procedure? The Holy Bible states:

"Greater is he that controlleth himself than he that taketh a city"

"He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city." (Proverbs 16:32)

Yea, he that learns to concentrate and use his own mental energy wisely, has found the key to the universe; for all happiness and real achievement reside in our mind and its rhythmic balance with Nature and our own Soul. Whose job is it to keep this created Garden of Eden?

2. WHAT HAPPENS IN HYPNOTISM AND HOW DOES IT DIFFER FROM MESMERISM?

In this procedure, the trick is to get the undivided attention or trust, in order to capture the mind energy, so the suggestions are sunk into the mind and acted upon as though they were the person's own. Gazing at a moving or a bright object