occult medicine: Field that encompasses astrology, aura analysis, biorhythm, Christian Science, clairvoyant diagnosis, faith healing, Kirlian photography, medical graphology, mesmerism, palmistry, shamanism, TCM, and witchcraft.

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Biofield

The electro-magnetic field created by all living organisms. Referred to as "animal magnetism" by Franz von Mesmer, an Austrian physician who investigated and popularized energy healing in the late 18th century.

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Hypnosis:

(1) As used in this book, an altered state of consciousness within which the following can occur at will: increase in bodily and sensory control, in suggestibility, in ability to concentrate and eliminate distractions, and probably in psychic abilities as well.

(2) A useful word and tool for those who cannot conceive of nor practice real mesmerism.

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Abhichara abhicara (Sanskrit) (from abhi toward + the verbal root car to go, often used derogatorily as to act wrongly toward another, charm, enchant, possess)

Exorcising; employing a charm or spell, usually for malevolent purposes, causing death or disease; mesmeric powers used by sorcerers in India.

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Its purpose was to encourage scientific research into psychic or paranormal phenomena in order to establish their truth. Research was initially aimed at six areas: telepathy, mesmerism and similar phenomena, mediums, apparitions, physical phenomena associated with séances and, finally, the history of all these phenomena. The Society is run by a President and a Council of twenty people. The organisation is divided between London and Cambridge, the London headquarters were initially at 14 Dean's Yard. An American branch of the Society was for ...

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Society for Psychical Research, Society for Psychical Research - History, Society for Psychical Research - Today

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The roots of medicine by therapy lie in ancient societies even earlier than the Ancient Egyptians and Ancient Indians . Religious rituals were characterized by dancing, music, and masked peoples assuming new identities. In the nineteenth century,Healers like Abbe Faria and practitioners like Franz Anton Mesmer, James Braid, James Esdale,John Elliotson, Ambroise-Auguste Liébault, Emile Coue, and Jean-Martin Charcot met resistance from society and the medical community for their novel i ...

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Hypnotherapy, Hypnotherapy - History, Hypnotherapy - Relationship, Hypnotherapy - Techniques

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Tharana (Sanskrit). "Mesmerism", or rather self.induced trance or self-hypnotisation ; an action in India, which is of magical character and a kind of exorcism. Lit., "to brush or sweep away" (evil influences, tharnhan meaning a broom, and tharnhan, a duster); driving away the bad bhuts (bad aura and bad spirits) through the mesmeriser’s beneficent will.

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Chakra, or Chakra (Sanskrit). A spell. The disk of Vishnu, which served as a weapon; the wheel of the Zodiac, also the wheel of time, etc. With Vishnu, it was a symbol of divine authority. One of the sixty-five figures of the Sripada, or the mystic foot-print of Buddha which contains that number of symbolical figures. The Tchakra is used in mesmeric phenomena and other abnormal practices.

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Dactyli (Ancient Greek) From daktulos, "a finger". The name given to the Phrygian Hierophants of Kybele, who were regarded as the greatest magicians and exorcists. They were five or ten in number because of the five fingers on one hand that blessed, and the ten on both hands which evoke the gods. They also healed by manipulation or mesmerism.

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United States immigrant German grocer-boy named Otto Hanisch, Mendota, Illinois. According to Chicago newspapers, herding sheep, setting type, preaching prestidigitation, mesmerism, and spiritualism, contacts with the Mormon Church, then the "Christian Catholic Church in Zion" and then the cult of Brighouse, who claimed to be Christ returned. Finally he sets himself up in Chicago as a Persian Magus, teaching Yogi breathing exercises and sex-studies to the 'elegant society ladies of the pork- packing metropolis. ... ...

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Mazdaznan, Mazdaznan - Founder and development, Mazdaznan - Teaching, Mazdaznan - Literature

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Kulkarni Naturopathy: Ayurvedic form of naturopathy developed before 1930 by V.M. Kulkarni, a homeopath born in a village in northern India. It encompasses massage therapy, mesmerism, pranayama, psychotherapy, sunbathing, and yogic exercises and postures. Its principles include the following. (a) Use of contraceptives for birth control is a great offense against the Laws of Nature. (b) Masturbation (self abuse) is a suicidal habit and the worst offense against Nature. (c) Perpetrators of sodomy ultimately either go mad or become impotent. (d) Sugar is an unnatural and objectionable food.

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Last Island, Louisiana was a popular resort for people seeking to escape the humidity, illness, and insects of southern Louisiana. In the days leading up to August 10, vacationers noticed the sea churning and were mesmerized by intensity and forms of the waves. Rev. Robert McAllister, a survivor, later wrote "Each breaker extended to the right and left as far as the eye, straining its vision, could reach... We did not know then as we did afterwards that the voice of ...

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1856 Last Island Hurricane, 1856 Last Island Hurricane - Effects on Last Island, 1856 Last Island Hurricane - Effects elsewhere

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In 1997, Phillippe attended a party given for actress Reese Witherspoon's 21st birthday. Upon meeting Witherspoon, Phillippe was immediately mesmerized and spent all night talking to the young actress. The two began a long distance courtship by mail, e-mail, and telephone while Ryan was filming I Know What You Did Last Summer. When he returned to Los Angeles, the couple continued dating and became engaged in December of 1998. Phillippe and Witherspoon married in the summer of 1999, in a small ceremony on a plantation near North ...

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Ryan Phillippe, Ryan Phillippe - Early life, Ryan Phillippe - Career, Ryan Phillippe - Private life, Ryan Phillippe - Selected filmography, Ryan Phillippe - Interviews

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X-FACTOR

Colin Wilson's term for the special energy or force beyond the four natural forces (electromagnetism, gravity, strong and weak nuclear forces). Various authorities call this occult power by different names; Mesmer's animal magnetism, Bulwer-Lytton's Vril, Crowley's Will, Freud's Libido, Jung's synchronicity, Reich's Orgone, etc.

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Hypnotherapy: First developed by Anton Mesmer (1734-1815), hypnotic techniques can induce everything from a light to a heavy hypnotic state to help a client overcome psychological or physical problems. From helping people to overcome a craving for cigarettes to managing chronic pain from an illness or accident, trained hypnotherapists work with a wide variety of problems.

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Animal Magnetism. While official science calls it a "supposed" agent, and utterly rejects its actuality, the teeming millions of antiquity and of the now living Asiatic nations, Occultists, Theosophists, Spiritualists, and Mystics of every kind and description proclaim it as a well established fact. Animal magnetism is a fluid, an emanation.

Some people can emit it for curative purposes through their eyes and the tips of their fingers, while the rest of all creatures, mankind, animals and even every inanimate object, emanate it either as an aura, or a varying light, and that whether consciously or not. When acted upon by Contact: with a patient or by the will of a human operator it is called "Mesmerism" (q.v.).

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Mesmer's patron the Marquis de Puysegur was able to "magnetize" an illiterate shepherd named Victor, who then spoke with a vastly greater intelligence. The career of nineteenth-century American seer Andrew Jackson Davis also has many points in common with Cayce's. "Medical clairvoyance" was apparently a familiar category from the Spiritualist movement. The origin of Cayce's trance activity is very similar to that of Davis sixty years earlier. In recent years Elder Porphyrios of Mount Athos was reported to possess a kind of clairvoyance which he called "spirit ...

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In Paris, he became a leader of one of the revolutionary battalions in 1795, taking command of one of the sections of the infamous 10 of the Vendémiaire, which attacked the French Convention, taking an active part in its fall. As a result, he established contacts with personalities like Chateaubriand, the Marquise of Coustine, and was also friend of Armand-Marc-Jacques Chastenet, Marquis of Puységur, (a disciple of Mesmer) to whom he dedicated his book on Causas do Sono Lúcid ...

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Abbé Faria, Abbé Faria - Origins, Abbé Faria - Lisbon, Abbé Faria - Participation In Conspiracy, Abbé Faria - France, Abbé Faria - Tributes, Abbé Faria - Quotes

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Vampirella - Vampirella. The extraterrestrial heroine is considered a vampire, since she needs blood to survive and has many of the typical vampiric powers, including increased strength and reflexes, shapeshifting into a bat, and a mesmeric stare. She is not prone to the group's traditional weaknesses, such as daylight, holy water, garlic, or crosses. She cannot, most importantly, transform others into vampires. She does not attack people to drink their blood, except occasionally when she herself is attack ...

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Vampirella, Vampirella - Characters, Vampirella - Vampirella, Vampirella - Conrad van Helsing, Vampirella - Adam van Helsing, Vampirella - Pendragon/Mordecai The Great, Vampirella - Madek and Magdalene, Vampirella - Lilith, Vampirella - Nuberus, Vampirella - Pantha, Vampirella - Bibliography, Vampirella - Warren Publishing, Vampirella - Harris Comics, Vampirella - Games, Vampirella - Film, Vampirella - External link

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Its use of language, alliteration, internal rhymes, and archaic vocabulary, enhances the Gothic tenor of the piece and has led to numerous parodies. It is best remembered for its varied and repeated key line, "Quoth the Raven: 'Nevermore.'" It has a metrical construction that is mesmeric in quality, shown in its famous opening lines: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly th ...

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The Raven, The Raven - Overview, The Raven - Interpretation, The Raven - Publication history, The Raven - Derived Works, The Raven - References to The Raven

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Johan Cruijff - As a player. Cruijff played successively for Ajax, FC Barcelona, Los Angeles Aztecs, Washington Diplomats, Levante Union Deportiva and Feyenoord. As a player, Cruijff was known for his technical ability: his mesmeric ball skill, speed and acceleration, the ability to change direction at will and his tactical insights make him one of the most gifted footballers of all time. He has been named as one of the best football players of his generation, alongside Franz Beckenbauer and Pelé, although he di ...

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Johan Cruijff, Johan Cruijff - Career, Johan Cruijff - As a player, Johan Cruijff - As a trainer, Johan Cruijff - Quotes, Johan Cruijff - By Cruijff himself, Johan Cruijff - About Cruijff

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Cagliostro. A famous Adept, whose real name is claimed (by his enemies) to have been Joseph Balsamo. He was a native of Palermo, and studied under some mysterious foreigner of whom little has been ascertained. His accepted history is too well known to need repetition, and his real history has never been told.

 His fate was that of every human being who proves that he knows more than do his fellow- creatures; he was "stoned to death" by persecutions, lies, and infamous accusations, and yet he was the friend and adviser of the highest and mightiest of every land he visited.

He was finally tried and sentenced in Rome as a heretic, and was said to have died during his confinement in a State prison.

(See " Mesmer".) Yet his end was not utterly undeserved, as he had been untrue to his vows in some respects, had fallen from his state of chastity and yielded to ambition and selfishness.

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