:*w ..." A *bv p V4* Ei ^ Jr. 'fr ^ ^°- \ v ... * ,/x J .>v .* „■> 'oV* / ** v % ?*■'■ i fe \/ ••»:• %«*♦ .78S&-. ^./ .-ate-. **^ .-jsMai-. %.y : S\ %^ m . v .+ ,V ^ o p ,x >" 3 - . o > ^^ : V** lV^ PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION IN HYPNOTISM AND SUGGESTION BY HERBERT L. FLINT Flint & Flint, Publishers Chicago , 111 . Electrotyped , Printed and Bound By The Laurance Press Co. , Cedar Rapids , la . TMfc LibRARV OF iRESS, Rcmlvtd MAY 20 1903 CopyngM CLASS * t.K.y XXo. No. COPY ^3 u. COPYRIGHTED Entered According to Act of Congress, in the year 1903. . . . By Herbert L. Flint. (All rights reserved.) It is understood the purchaser of this work will keep these instructions strictly private. Any person making copies of them will be held amen, able to the law. * HYPNOTISM AND ^SX/CiCiESXIOTN Herbert kFLiNT CONTENTS. Hypnotism Explained. Pages 1 to 15. Hypnotic Hallucinations. Pages 16 to 27. Hypnotism Scientifically Reviewed. Pages 27 to 36. The Science of Hypnotism. Pages 36 to 50. Dangers of Hypnotism. Pages 51 to 57. The Diet of the Hypnotist. Pages 57 to 66. Fraudulent and Genuine Hypnotists. Pages 66 to 75. How to Awaken your Subjects. Pages 76 to 78. The Palling Forward Test. Pages 79 to 81. The Falling Backward Test. Pages 81 to 84. First Method. Pages 84 to 86. Second Method. Pages 86 to 88. Third Method. Pages 88 to 90. Fastening the Hands Together. Pages 90 to 93. Gripping the Hands. Pages 93 to 95. How to Stiffen your Subject's Arm. Pages 95--Q6. How to Stiffen your Subject's Leg. Pages Q6---Q7. How to Prevent your Subject Speaking his Name. Pages 97 — 98. How to Keep your Subject from Getting up from a Chair. Pages 98-— 09. ^ HYPNOTISM AND ^VGGESTIO^S Herbert k Flint. How to Keep your Subject from Sitting Down, '9 — - 100. Pages How to Keep your Subject from Throwing a Stick Down. Pages 100--101. How to Prevent your Subject from Jumping over a Stick. Pages 101 to 103. How to Frevent your Subject from Taking his Fingers off his Nose. Pages 103---104. How to Prevent your Subject Closing his Mouth. Pages 104--105. Cannot Stop Hands Moving. Pages 105--106. Cannot Stop Hands Rolling. Pages 106 to 109. Cataleptic Tests. Pages 109 to 114. Anesthesia. Pages 114 to 116. The Dividing Line between Physical and Mental Work. Page 117. The Butterfly Test. Pages 117 to 119. Presenting the Flea Test. Pages 119 to 121. (, The Nose Bleeding Test. Pages 121 to 123. The Molasses Test. Pages 123 to 125. Turning Coat Inside Out. Pages 125 to 127. Sneezing Test. Pages 127 to 129. The Hoat and Cold Effect. Pages 129 to 131. The Fishing Test. Pages 131 to 134, 3^PMcric\L Instruction HYPNOTISM A>JD SVGGESTI02S Herdert'L: Flint. Baby Test. The Horse Race Pages 134 to 137. Pages 137 to 141. How to Make an Orator out of your Subject. 141 to 145. How to Change tht Identity of your Subject. 145 to 149. Pages Pages Miss Mary Jones---The Actress--A Finished Impression. Pages 149 to 154. To my Pupils. Page 154--155. Post Hypnotic Suggestions. Pages 155 to 159. For the Salesman. Pages 159 to 161. How to Awaken a Subject who has been hypnotized by Another. Pages 161---162. The Instantaneous Method. Pages 162 to 164. Voice. Pages 164---165. A Hypnotist's Eyes. Pages 165 to 167. A Few Practical Suggestions. Pages 167 to 173. My Final Suggestions. Page 173. Vocabulary of Scientific Terms used in this Volume, and Other Works on the Subject of Hypnotism. Pages I to XV. PMCriCALlNSTRUCnON HYPlSOriSM ANT) «VGGESTI02S Herbert k Flint. HYPNOTISM EXPLAINED. What is hypnotism? The linguist will tell you that it is derived from a Greek word meaning "sleep," but with its etymology we have no concern. It is now used to de- scribe a class of phenomena that has had many and various names. For a long time it went under the name of "mesmerism." Later it was called "electro- biology." It was next announced as "animal magnet- ism. " After that it was known as "human magnetism." And now everyone gives it a title to suit himself, ranging from "psychology" to "Christian Science." Ever since the dawn of civilization man has felt that there exists a class of phenomena that traverses all laws, that sets at defiance time and space--the laws of gravity and the laws of thought. In the infancy of the race man fell upon his face in fear and called it "demonology , " "sorcery," "witchcraft," and "the work of the powers of dark- ness. » To propitiate this--to him--dread power, man offered up his best and dearest, and mothers cast their babes into the arms of fiery Molochs, hoping in PractkalInstruction HYFlSOriSM AND ^XyCiCiESTIOTS Herbert k Flint. agony of soul and with brains crazed by awful fear, that by such acts they could soften the flinty heart of this unknown but terrible horror. The early Greeks discovered that by rubbing amber againot a woolen surface, it attracted bit* of lint. The ancient Greeks knew nothing of natural law. If the water ran in the purling brook, it was because some god forced it along, and the gurgling murmur was the laughter of the Naiads hidden in the stream. If the branches of a tree waved, tossed by the wind, it was because some Dryad stirred the foliage. When, therefore, they saw this phenomenon of the amber, they said: "There is a god hidden in the wax," and they called the new deity "Elektron." Modern science has taken the name of the god for the whole phenomena. Thus, today we no longer call it a god, but "frictional electricity." We do not know, indeed, what this mysterious force is, still we harness it to our street cars ; we make it the willing slave of man to carry his messages over loity mountains and under deep seas; we freight it with human thought and make it outstrip the boast 2 ^RACTICALlNSTRUCrHW * HYPlNariSM AND ^VGGESTIO^S Hubert \ Flint. of Puck: "I'll put a girdle around the earth in f ©rty minutes . " In like manner, we are little by little un- raveling the tangled thread of human experience. We are beginning to understand some of the laws that are characterized by the name of "hypnotism." Literally speaking, the word is a misnomer; for while it means sleep, it applies to a condition of preternatural wakefulness, in which the subject exhibits the most astounding feats of memory; can recall events that in his waking moments he has forgotten;' can undertake and successfully execute the most difficult physical exploits; can have burning needles thrust into his flesh without suffering pain; can be suspended in the air, rigid, and apparently lifeless; can support great weights; can have immense rocks broken upon his breast, and endure all these things without detriment. It is therefore evidently a mistake to call a condition of such uncommon mental activity, sleep. One is almost tempted to say that the usual condition of man is more nearly asleep, and that the hypnotic state, one wide awake and responsive. PM(TIGVLlNSTRIICri^rfc> AND «VGGESTI02S Herbert h. Flint. I cannot do better than to recall to your minds an experiment that is quite familiar. If you hold a fowl on the bare floor so that the point of its bill touches the board, and then with a piece of chalk mark its beak, extending the mark along the floor, the bird will remain with its beak fixed upon the chalk line. You may remove your hand, but the bird will maintain its position until it falls over unconscious and asleep. When you arouse it, it will run about with loud cacklings and every demonstration of astonishment and bewilder- ment . This experiment is easily tried. What have you done? You have hypnotized the fowl. To still further develop this idea, let us con- sider man. He is a machine- -not a simple machine, but com- plex; and this complexity itself is dual--that is he is two persons—halves. Almost all of his organs are double. He has two eyes, two ears, two legs, two hands, two nostrils, and two brains. Each person is really three in one. You see Richard walking down the street. There Practical Instruction HYPNOTISM * AND 5VGGESTI02S Herbert' k Flint. YOU MUST! is an objective Richard and a subjective Richard. A Richard on the right side and a Richard on the left as it were. And then there is the real Richard, who is the joint product of the other two. Now, it is absolutely possible to make an impression on Richard' s subjective side of which Richard 's objective side shall be unconscious. And yet that impression may in time effect the real Richard, the combined product of the two that constitute his personality. For while Richard's objective side hears only with his ears and sees only with his visual organs, and reasons and reflects with his brain, his sub- jective side can hear without ears, see without eyes, recall things that his objective side has long since forgotten, and from false premises make strange but logical deductions. Richard is not only dual in his construction, but, as musicians say, he is tuned to a certain key. To illustrate: In a room containing a number of pianos in harmony, if you strike the "A" string in one of them, the "A" string in all of the other instruments responds at once. Or, place a guitar in a corner, with no one touching it. The moment you PRACTICYL INSTRUCTION HYPNOTISM AMD SVGGESTIOTS Herbert^. Flint. sound the scale and utter a note on which any string is keyed, that string will instantly respond, and in no hesitating way, but resonant, full and clear. So the hypnotist finds the note on which the sub- jective side of the person is attuned, and by playing upon it awakens into activity emot ions and sensibili- ties that otherwise would have remained dormant, unusea and even unsuspected. Let us go a step farther. When we stretch a string between two stationary rests and vibrate it, we produce a sound. When it vibrates thirty- four times to the second, it utters the lowest bass note. That is, this is the lowest that the human ear rec- ognizes. It is claimed that there are noises lower in vibration than this. Whales, for instance, com- municate with each other at a distance of two or three miles, so it is thought that they utter a note which they can hear but which is too low for the human ear. As we increase these vibrations the sound rises through the bass into the baritone, then into the tenor, then into the contralto, and lastly into the soprano-the test of whose excellence is the number 6 Mcricftl^sTRUcnoN HYPNOTISM AND 5VGGESTI02S HEKBERl'kFLIOT. of vibrations which can be produced. C sharp re - quires 5,500 vibrations to the second. A Patti is able to make these vibrations greater in number and clearer than an ordinary singer, and she, in turn, is excelled by Ellen Beach Yaw, who, by a peculiar construction of the throat, or rather of the uvula, is able to increase these vibrations some thousands more than Patti, and thus give utter- ance to a clear note far above that of any singer of ancient or modern times. Above the efforts of the human voice came the notes of birds and then the strident, vibratory sounds emitted by insects. Singularly enough, those insects capable of producing the greatest number of vibrations to the second, are the ones whose sounding apparatus resembles our violin-drum. Some human ears cannot hear these sounds. Many individuals never hear the note of the Cicada, whose drumming noise can be heard by others at a long distance. Many people have to listen intently before they can recognize the voice of the cricket. Above all of these sounds, probably, come a great many others that are strangers to the human ear. PRACriCALlNSTRUCriON HYPNOTISM A>03 «VGGESTIOiS Herbert L.Flint. Now, when the vibrations increase, let us say, for illustration, to 400,000 to the second-- it is really far more than that— we find color and the red ray. As we increase the vibrations we go through all of the colors in the prism, until we end with 700,000 to the second, when we reach violet. With increased vibrations we get the heat ray, and then the chemical ray, and with still more vibrations, we find what science now calls the "X" rays--that is, the unknown rays. All of these exercise a most potent influence upon the human system. I am using figures here, solely as illustra- tions, for were I to give you what some scientists claim is the true number of vibrations to the sec- ond, you might be incredulous. For the purposes of comparison, however, these will answer. We advance along this line, increasing the yibrations steadily, until we reach a million vi- brations to the second, and then we get electric- ity. We advance still further, and, obtaining a million and a half to the second, we get LIFE. Still we have one step to ascend, and that is th« * HYPNOTISM ANT) «VGGESTI02S Herbert k Flint greater the number of vibrations to the second, the higher the form of life, and the greater the men- tality. The experiments of the "Salpetriere" school, in France, in this direction are marvelous. They took ignorant Breton women, increased their vibrations by hypnotic suggestion, and made brilliant conversa- tionalists of them, but after keeping them in this state for two months and then restoring them to their normal condition, it was found that they had lived years in that time. They had exhausted their vital- ity, so that whereas they entered the hypnotic state young women, they emerged from it and soon developed the decrepitude of persons of sixty. The government then interfered, and now no experiments of the kind can be undertaken in France, unless under the direc- tion of the recognized authorities, for they rightly judge that it is unsafe to commit these experiments to inexperienced hands. It will therefore be seen that the hypnotist simply dominates the vibrations of his subject, if I may so expess it, and by his own will power makes his personal vibrations sharp and full, accompanying the & exercise with all the force which gesture and voice can add to it. One of a low order of intellect --an idiot or a fool--cannot be thus influenced, for his vibrations are few and low. He lacks responsiveness. An insane person may be influenced, because while hie vibrations are irregular, they are full and high, and once under the control of the hypnotist, they are amenable, and the work is highly beneficial, for it tends to reduce them to regularity once more. A hypnotist requires persons who are strongly developed in the qualities termed Imitation, Venera- tion, Sublimity, Ideality, and especially Imagina- tion; for these require rapid vibrations. Then, if the will power of the subject be intense, he readily places himself under the direction of the hypnotist, and is responsive to his suggestions. The subjective side begins to assert itself, and the objective subsides into quiescence. The subject is therefore not asleep, but keenly responsive. The hypnotic gestures are simply to set the current of vibrations in motion, and so the hypnotic hears and obeys the suggestion of the hypnotist, regardless of all antagonistic efforts. 10 PracticalInstruction HYPisibrisM AND SVGGESTIO^ Hefberi I/. Flint. Hypnotism may be made a beneficent agency. It may advance one to a higher plane, so that when he emerges he no longer responds to the coarse' impulses that formerly actuated him. He is, for a time, at least, as invulnerable as was Achilles when his mother, Thetis, dipped him in the sea. In base hands it may be made base, but properly mastered and exercised, it is one of the greatest boons vouchsafed to man. It may elevate him above low desires and sensuous thoughts. It may purify his mind and purge his brain. It may take him by the hand, and without deleterious drugs, or by weakening his brain, lift him to a seat among the angels and gods; or in the hands of the unscrupulous, it may warp the intellect, dwarf the mind, enfeeble the will, and awaken from their sleeping chambers passions that should be suffered to remain dormant and undisturbed. I am in full accord with those authorities who claim that every human being, excepting those vio- lently insane or idiotic, is susceptible to the law of hypnosis. I say this, however, with one qualifi- cation; not every one is a natural hypnotist; not 11 PRACriCALlNSTRIJCriON HYPNOTISM jXNH «VGGESTIO^ Herbert U Flint. every one can be easily hypnotised. This power mny, however, be developed by persistent effort and in- defatigable perseverance. The chief requisite is self-control. The operator must possess mental equi- poise, for before he can command others he must obtain the mastery over himself. Joined to this must be an INEXHAUSTABLE FUND OP FA m IENCE, and the power of concentrating the mind upon a single object. This last is by no means the least requisite, .as it demands uncommon ability for its full development. Possessed of these qualifications, the operator may hope for success. To induce hypnotism, I begin by friendly con- versation to place my patient in a condition of ab- solute calmness and quiescence. I also try to win his confidence by appealing to his own volitional effort to aid me in obtaining the desired end. I impress upon him that hypnosis in his condition is a benign agency, and far from subjugating his mental- ity, it becomes intensified to so great an extent as to act as a remedial agent. Having assured myself that he is in a passive condition, I suggest to him, either with or without 12 passes, that after looking intently at an object for a few moments, he will experience a feeling of lassi- tude. I steadily gaze at his eyes, and in a monotonous tone I continue to suggest the various stages of sleep, repeating each sentence several times. As, for in- stance: "You are getting sleepy. Your breathing is heavy. Your muscles are relaxing. Your whole body is relaxed." I raise his arm, holding it in a hori- zontal position for a second or two, and suggest to him that it is getting heavier and heavier. I let go of his hand and his arm falls to his side. "Your eyes (I continue) feel tired and sleepy. They are fast closing," repeating in a soothing tone the words, "Sleepy, sleepy, sleep." Then, in a self-assertive tone, I emphasize the suggestion by saying in an un- hesitating and posi tj ve voice , "Sleep. You are asleep." I do not, however, use this method with all pa- tients. It is an error to state, as some specialists do, that from their formula there can be no devia- tion; because, as no two minds are cons tituted alike , so they cannot be effected alike. While one will yield by intense will exerted through my eyes, an- other may, by the same means, become fretful, timid, IS \\ 11 1 Pmcticyl Instruction HYPNOTISM AND «VGGESTI02N Herbert!/. Flint. nervous and more wakeful than he was before. The same rule applies to gesture, tones of the voice and magnetic passes. That which has a soothing and lulling effect on one, may have an opposite effect upon another. There can be no unvarying rule appli- cable to all patients. The means must be left to the judgment of the operator, who by a long course of psychological training should be able to judge what measures are necessary to obtain control of his subject. Just as in drugs, one person may take a dose without injury that will kill another, so in hypnosis one person can be put into a deep sleep by means which would be totally ineffectual in another, and even then the mental states differ with each in- dividual -- that which in one induces a gentle slumber may plunge his neighbor into a cataleptic state. Nature always acts in accordance with the inflex- ible laws of compensation. If one lung be hepatized, the other enlarges and does double duty. If one kid- ney be removed, the other takes upon itself the work of the two. So, if sight and hearing be obliterated, as in the blind and deaf, the sense of touch is so marvelously developed as to take the place of the 14 MaiCALlNSTRUCTION^ IN \C Y0U hypnotism ^"^ ANT) «VGGESTI02S Herbert 1/. Flint. other two senses. This is vividly exemplified in hypnosis. The optic nerve is a process of the brain. When, by a bright light or by long continued fixity of gaze I have overpowered that nerve and par- tially paralyzed it, I have temporarily obliterated and obscured one of the senses. The next sense through which impressions reach the brain is hearing, by means of the auditory nerve. This is now quickened and stimulated, in order to supply the deficiency created by the quiescence of the optic nerve. The hearing is therefore readily responsive to every suggestion that is made, while the rest of the brain is abnormally active. Old memories long stored in the cells of the gray matter come forth, but they obey, not the calm judgment of the reasoning powers, but the suggestions of the operator sent along the keenly sensitive auditory nerve. In this condition the auditory nerve, like a photographic plate, is so super - sensitive that it seizes upon the slightest suggestion of the operator with whom it is en rap- port, dominates the will, and reasoning intelligence, and sends through all the avenues of the body direc- tions to obey its new master . This is "Hypnotism." 15 PracticvlInstruction HYPISOTISM AND ^SVGGESTIOiS Herbert k Flint. HYPNOTIC HALLUCINATIONS. When we study the phenomena of hypnosis, we find that they may be separated into three divisions. To be concise I will call these divisions: First--The Physical. Second--The Mental. Third--The Psychical. Let us consider the first. In the physical con- dition the subject is made to feel that his muscular system is dominated by the suggestion of the operator. The action of his will is temporarily suspended. He knows where he is and what he is doing. He is told, for instance, that he cannot open his hands. He instantly feels that his hands are closed and will not obey his will; yet another subject in the same condition will experience the sensation of opening his hands, but finding that his will power is dormant, makes no resistance. The first subject makes the effo~t. He thinks that he is exerting all of his force to pull his hands apart, but what he is really doing is forcing them together, tighter and tighter. He is thus obey- ing the counter suggestion, instead of his own im- 16 PbacticalInstru(tion HYPISOTISM AJSUD «VGGESTI02S Herbert I/. Flint. pulse. Try as long as he may, his hands remain locked, and he is unable to obey the suggestion of his own mind, because his muscular action is domi- nated by the will of the operator. This condition may continue until it overmas- ters his physical force, the muscles become rigid, and a state of catalepsy is induced. In this state the most extraordinary phenomena appear. When the physical forces are in the most violent agitation; when the action is most intense and vigorous; when the subject, having been told that he is an acrobat, is turning handsprings and somersaults, the heart betrays hardly the least excitement. It beats as calmly and regularly as if he were at ease in his chair, the respiration is normal, and he shows that the exertions which he is making are done in accordance with a command outside of himself; when, if he were undertaking these exer- tions in response to his own volition, it would send the blood bounding through his veins and make his heart beat like the blows of a trip-hammer. In the cataleptic state, the subject is able to maintain a weight of hundreds of pounds, supported 17 <^PR^ICVLlNSTRIiamrfc> HYPNOTISM yWD «VGGESTIOiS By Herbert k Flint. only at the neck and ankles. Such weight it is almost a physical impossibility to sustain in the normal state, but in the cataleptic condition it is easily borne, and there are no injurious results. It is now held that Hypnosis is the most satis- factory of all anesthetics; that in this condi- tion some of the most important surgical operations may safely be undertaken. If a delicate woman can, in the cataleptic state, supported only at her neck, shoulders and ankles, carry a weight of nearly a thousand pounds, it stands to reason that she could endure the shock of a sur- gical operation, no matter how severe. Not all physical tests, you must bear in mind, are cataleptic; some are automatic. In this condi- tion the subject finds that his muscles, once in motion, continue without effort on his part, and he is unable to control them. If he is told to rotate his hands, and he does so, he twirls his thumbs or he stammers hopelessly. We now come to the second division -- the Mental-_ wherein we deal with hallucination. To make myself clearly understood on this point, 18 2551 j& PMcrioa,lNSTRuaioN "" ^ HYPNOTISM * AND «VGGESTI02S Herbert I/. Flint. YOU MUST! let us suppose that we have before us a class of six, ranging from one who is only slightly affected to the best possible sensitive. We will deal with them as if they were on a race track, each one driving a horse. The suggestion is made, accordingly, in the following manner: "Now think of a race track. Think of what a fine horse you are driving. Look around. See the people gathered to witness the race." I intensify this suggestion by emphatic repeti- tion. The idea thus given, the results begin to be apparent. The first will feel a sensation of having the reins in his hands. He will fancy he is driving something, he knows not what. He holds the reins and looks ahead of him with a puzzled air, as of a man in a fog, or one half asleep. His brain is misty. He has a vague idea of something, but no clear concep- tion. The second subject feels the reins and knows he is in a vehicle. He drives and experiences the shock of moving wheels. He begins to enter somewhat into the spirit of the affair, and to take an interest in his work. The reins are to him a reality, and he looks at them and grasps them firmly in his hands. 19 PRACriCVLlNSTRIICTION HYPNOTISM j\NT> «VGGESTI02S Herbert h. Flint. The third subject sees not cnly the reins and the vehicle, but part of the horse. The spirit of the race enters into him, and as he sees the action of the part of the horse nearest him, he prepares for the contest, pulls sharply on the lines, and urges his animal forward. The fourth subject sees the whole animal, and as he feels that he is guiding it, he excites it both by whip and voice. He carefully manages it, speaks to it, watches its head and neck, and is wholly wrapped up in the animal. The fifth subject sees the horse, the vehicle and the road. He carefully guides the animal over the obstacles that he meets, urges him forward, seeks to control him, is fully conscious of horse, road and vehicle, but of nothing outside of them. He feels that he must make his animal do its best, and he exerts himself to the utmost. The sixth is the best subject. He sees the horse, the road, the vehicle, and his rivals. Whereas the others have been acting in a limited space, with con- stricted vision, the sixth subject sees everything and everybody. He incites his animal in order to win ao PMCTmlNSTRUCnO^rfe) HYPNOTISM AND «VGGESTI02S Hefberx h. Flint. YOU MUST! the race. He hears the band play, and the crowd huz- zahing. He feels the breeze fan his cheek, and he notes r.ow near his rivals are approaching. He sees the judges in the stand and he hears the crowd shout. Now they come down the home stretch. He braces his feet, leans far forward, and seizes the lines with a tighter grasp. His eye glitters with excitement. Faster and faster they come. He rises in his seat and lashes his horse. He shouts and yells in the mad fever of delirium and tears down the course. His rivals come by his side. He hears the panting of their horses; he sees their foam-flecked sides. Steady, now, and the race is won. With a rush and roar they fly up the track past the grand stand, up- up-up to the wire. Now, in a grand burst of speed, the bell rings and the victory is his. . This sixth and last subject has taken in all of the details. His fervid imagination has supplied them; not one is lacking. He sees every incident -- from the starter standing at the bell, to the peanut vender walking around the groups and crying his wares. Places and individuals are all perfectly delineated, down to the last item. He knows everything, he sees 21 ^ ractical Instruction HYPNOTISM AND ^SVGGESTIOTS Herbert k Flint. everything, and his spirits rise with the occasion. Something of this feeling he imparts to the other subjects, but they are wrapped more or less in their own personality. He escapes from it altogether. He is not hampered by time or space. He comprehends every- thing, is a part of everything, far more than in real life. We now come to the last division, which I call the Psychical. In this stage the subject is a part of the hyp- notist, as it were, but this condition is susceptible of certain degrees. What the hypnotist tastes, the subject tastes. What the hypnotist feels, the sub- ject feels. What the hypnotist thinks, the subject thinks, and this latter is "Telepathy," or thought transference. The subject and the hypnotist are thus united by an occult tie. This high degree of the psychical, as far as I have been able to determine, is indefinable and un- accountable. It is one of the mysteries of this--to us--new science. It is independent of time or space. I have reached this conclusion, that there is a limitation to material science, and it is only when 22 PMCTIC&lNSTRUCnoN HYPNOTISM ANT) «VGGESTIO]N Herbert h. Flint. we carefully study the laws of hypnosis, that we come near arriving at a correct understanding of phenomena that have puzzled the wisest and confound- ed the ignorant in all ages. Judged by this standard, how important it is that we bring to this quest not a flippant inquisi- tiveness, but honest and earnest inquiry. There is no fact in the broad domain of nature that should call forth a sneer. The operations of the human brain are so wonderfully mysterious that we may well pause and exclaim with the English bard, "What a piece of work is man!" It is only when we comprehend him in his dual nature, and note how each side acts for itself, and how it moves like an automaton, as if obeying the mandates of a higher power, that we comprehend how nearly right the old sages were when they denied that man is a free agent. A physician will appreciate it more strongly than the laity, that thought is the result of deter- mination of blood to the brain. Each cell of the gray matter is a complete individual in itself, having stored within its recesses, memory, reason, 23 (^PRMTICVLlNSTRUaiOAf HYPNOTISM AND SVGGESTlOiS Herbert v k Flint. will, force, or the power to control certain mus- cles of the body. All this is mechanically arranged, so that we may put our finger on a certain part of the brain and say: "This controls this muscle, and this controls that muscle." Just as we can go into a telegraph office and say: "This wire connects with Philadelphia; that with San Francisco, and the other with London. ■ But over and above all of this comes man himself--the Ego. He can direct his brain to operate certain muscles just as he pleases. He is ever re- sponsible for the manner in which they work. Pardon me if I elaborate this subject by pro- pounding one or two questions to you, my dear pupil,. Pray, tell me, how does thought act? Have you ever stopped to analyze its intricate operations? To be more explicit: A question is asked, a letter is to be answered, a brief is to be prepared, a jury is to be addressed. Now, note well, with lightning rapid- ity, the answer, the brief, or the address, is com- posed. But do you know in advance how the words will form themselves? I spoke a while ago of memory, as a function of the brain. Now, the old theory was that memory is a 24 PractiolInstruction HYHSOTISM ANT> «VGGESTIO^ Herbert L. Flint. mere mechanical arrangement of the atoms. You ex- perience a sensation, and a wave passes over your brain. If the sensation be repeated a number of times, it finally deepens into a crease. And when a wave passes over the brain, it falls into this crease, follows it, recalls the same sensation that made the crease, and that is memory. A man forgets on his objective side, but on his subjective side every crease remains distinct and perfect, and when the subjective side is called into action, it can easily evoke events and names and cir- cumstances that had long been forgotten by his ob- jective side. This is the theory of hypnotism, unconsciously advanced by the old teachers, and it is the only one that fully accounts for all the multifarious facts that have puzzled men of science. It explains the ravings of lunatics, and the visions of religious enthusiasts. It shows why Christian Science can one day perform cures that are beyond the reach of drugs and medicaments, and on the next fail in a case so simple that a child might have administered to it. As we progress in the study of these laws and 25 WILL! C PMaiGVLlNSTRUCTION HYF^GTISM NT) *S\7Gi< Herbert L. Flint. YOU MUST! STIOTS note how they envelop and enthrall the indi vidual-- how they enter into life and affect the student, the professor, the man of business, the commercial trav- eler, the actor, the author, the preacher, the child in the cradle, and the sage in his study--we shall begin to realize how important it is to unravel the skein and lay bare the whole clue. That which past ages ignorantly worshiped, we shall be able to use as the guide and friend of man. When we have fully solved this problem, when we have obtained a thorough knowledge of the laws that oper- ate upon the human intellect, we shall then be ready to understand those vast sociological questions that now with grisly front affright and appall the wisest thinkers. We shall then know why men forsake the country and crowd into cities; why they live in huge tenement houses swarming with human vermin; why cer- tain vices pervade certain classes and where civili- zation is highest and every appliance of wealth and luxury easiest to obtain, there vice flaunts and riots and holds high carnival. Heretofore society in every age has engendered the poison that has de- stroyed it. All other nations and peoples have gone 26 down into the dust-bin of ages. If this present era survive, it will be because it studies not only how to avoid the palpable errors of the past, but because it seeks to plunge beneath the surface, study the conditions that made these errors possible, and try to avoid them. The first requisite is to know what the laws are that unite us. Having found the bond that is to form the encircling zone of a common humanity, it will not be impossible to lift the individual to altitudes that lead to a perfect manhood. HYPNOTISM SCIENTIFICALLY REVIEWED. As you well know, the school of the Salpetriere, at Paris, regards hypnosis, hysteria, lethargy, catalepsy and somnambulism, as synonymous terms arising from a state of neurosis superinduced arti- ficially. In opposition to this view stands the Nancy school, of which I am a great advocate, with its famed exponents, Liebault and Bernheim, stoutly maintaining that suggestive therapeutics is simply persuasion obtained in most persons through somnol- ence. Some again are naturally possessed of a cer- 27 a PRACriC\LlNSTRUCTIO]Sf * HYPNOTISM A>JT> «VGGESTIOTS Herbert k Flint. tain psychic force, which may be intensified under suggestive treatment. Charcot distinguishes only three stages: Firs t -- Cata 1 epsy , which he produced in three different ways. First, by a loud noise, suddenly in- duced, such as the beating of a gong; second, by placing before the eyes a strong light; third, by fastening the gaze upon a brilliant object. This method is known as * ' Braidism. " In the cataleptic state the subject is immovable, fascinated. The eyes are set and fixed. The muscles are rigid. The reflexes are suspended. Complete analgesia is obtained. It is seen that there is an entire absence of muscular irritability. In this condition there is no change in sight or hearing, and by strong and repeated suggestions catalepsy may be caused. As we have noticed, the cataleptic can maintain the extended position of the body supported only at the extremities. Charcot's next division is that of lethargy. This condition is produced by fixation of the eyes upon a bright object. This stage resembles that of 28 <^toMTI(ALlNSTRU(IION HYPNOTISM AND «VGGESTI02S Herbert L. Flint. profound sleep. But while it is possible to produce complete analgesia of the skin and mucous membranes, sense activity is not always destroyed. The eye may be partially closed, but there is seen a slight vi- bration of the eyelids, and the tendon reflexes are markedly exaggerated. It should be remembered that the raison d'etre on which the followers of the Charcot system place the greatest importance is the neuro -muscular hyper - excitability, i. e., that pressure on a nerve causes the same functional reaction as the application of magnetic electric currents. The last division of the Salpetriere school is somnambulism -- which condition may be obtained by fixation, or, when the subject is in the cataleptic or lethargic state, by pressure on the crown of the head. The subject in this condition presents the ap- pearance of perfect sleep. The eyes are closed. It differs from the lethargic state, in this: While in lethargy there is neuro - muscular , in somnambulism there is cutaneous muscular superexci tabili ty . The sensibility of the cuticle is heightened, but there 29 I V II 1 * HYPNOTISM AND ^S^/GGESTIOZN Herbert h. Flint. is complete anesthesia. In this state the hypnotic is intensely susceptible to suggestion. The Sal- petriere school erroneously then concludes that hyp- notism is the product of hysteria. This has been satisfactorily disproved, first by the Nancy school, and their decision is now accepted by the scientific world. Forel, of Zurich, lays it down as a postulate that a sound brain, is, above all else, necessary for successful hypnosis -- the sounder the brain the easier the impression and the sooner the results. In hysterical patients, the brain is often by no means sound. For the same reason, he continues, it is difficult to treat insane persons by hypnotism. Bernheim divides hypnosis into nine distinct degrees - -from simple drowsiness up to pos t -hypnotic and retroactive hallucinations. But these divisions and sub-divisions are by no means final or arbitrary-- as they will largely depend upon the temperament and disposition and mentality of the subject. I have con- versed with most of the eminent authorities, and they all agree with me, that it is not always possible to determine where the first step begins and ends. *0 I have given this subject years of devoted study and research; in fact, I am not only an ardent be- liever in suggestive therapeutics, but a successful practitioner along that line, as well. While I am a professed adherent of the Nancy school, I maintain that these nine degrees are not ironclad, and some phenomena may be wanting. Some subjects will never attain to the higher degree ; others though somnambu- listic, may not show some of the lower phenomena. I also claim that a therapeutic effect may nevertheless be obtained, even in the lower degrees. In speaking of suggestive therapeutics, it may not be amiss to state that many ailments that have hitherto defied the skill of medical science are not only amenable, but readily yield to this beneficent agency. Forel, Moll, Bernheim, Liebault, Dessoir, Meacham, Kraft-Ebing, Vernon and others, agree that the following maladies come within the realm of sug- gestive treatment: All pains due to functional dis- orders (headache, gastritis, ovarian pain, rheumatic and neuralgic pain), insomnia, hysteria, dysmenor- rhea, somnambulism, unpleasant dreams, loss of appe- tite, alcoholism and morphinism, neurasthenic ail- 31 ^ PRAaiCVLlNSTRUamT^ HYPlSOriSM AND ^SVGGESTIOiS Herbert k Flint. ments, stammering, nervous ailments, disorders of sight, enur esisnoc turna , pruritus, perverted sexual feeling when not inherited; singing in the ears, prolonged cases of chorea, emotional neurosis, agraphobia -- writer ' s cramp , --deaf ness , indigestion, chronic constipation. For this last malady, hyp- nosis is an absolute specific, and it is in this domain that Christian Science effects its most re- markable cures. I have made many interesting and valuable exper- iments in the line of using hypnotism as a thera- peutic agent. One especially was demonstrated by me in inducing cataleptic sleep upon a nervous and somewhat hysterical woman of fragile form and deli- cate constitution, some four years ago. She was put in this sleep and placed under the care of a commit- tee, composed of local professional men, so that there could be no doubt in regard to the genuine- ness of the trance. The sleep was the deepest catalepsy. Whereas most subjects in this condition exhibit more or less restlessness, moving from side to side and tossing in fitful slumber, the woman, under my care, was 32 ^PfiACTKALlNSTRU(IION ^ HYPisarisM AND «VGGESTI02S Herbert h. Flint. perfectly calm and profoundly unconscious. Indeed, were it not for the regular respirations, it might have been mistaken for the sleep of death itself. Watchers were placed over her, and every means de- vised to make the test scientifically correct. The hypnosis involved all of the secretive and excretory organs of the body. For seventy-two hours was this' sleep maintained. At the end of this time, the woman was restored to her normal condition. T-he awakening was gentle and peaceful. She moved her arms once or twice, as children frequently do, when aroused. She opened her eyes and at the expiration of the suggested time she arose, and in a few moments recovered herself. In speaking to the committee of this most strange experiment, she said that she was wholly unconscious of the time she had spent in this sleep. Her only recollection was that of absolute rest, in no sense differing from natural repose. Most astonishing was the further fact, that, although she had been locked in this cataleptic sleep for seventy-two hours, she soon went to her home and retired at her usual hour, and slept soundly all night, as if she 33 m PMaiCALlNSTRUCTION * HYPNOTISM ^"^ Herdert 1/. Flint. «ST Mad been occupied with her daily avocations She has since frequently undergone this cataleptic trance, and the result is decidedly beneficial. Her nervousness has disappeared, and her appetite is so much better, that she is no longer afflicted with dys- pepsia. She has gained in weight, and from her former state of fragility, she has become a robust and healthy woman. She is now Mrs. Flint and recognized as the most successful Lady Hypnotist ever before the footlights. This is of the greatest importance therapeutically, for it shows that hypnosis can be used as a remedial agent for a large class of maladies that now baffle the practitioner's art. I am of the opinion that hysteria can in this manner be completely overcome. All those nervous ailments that require, (as a con- dition precedent,) absolute rest, can obtain it with- out regard to surroundings, for the rattle of rail- way trains and the shrieking of steam whistles, cannot be heard by the hypnotic patient. No outward disturbance interferes with the restful pose that may be obtained under the influence of this agency. The senses are locked in slumber; compared to which, 34 ? HYPNOTISM ANI> «VGGESTI02S Herbert h. Flint. the relief obtained by narcotics is feeble and in- significant, and there is in no case the wearisome relapse of the nervous tension that is a natural re- sult of the use of narcotics. When the patient awakens from the cataleptic sleep, every faculty of the body is endowed with new vigor and new life. There is no depression, no nervous exhaustion. The effect is to restore the body to normal activity and perfect health. In this respect hypnosis accom- plishes more than can be gained by the agency of drugs. It locks the faculties in a repose which is the highest ideal of rest, in which no extraneous aid is employed. The brain secures perfect freedom from care and anxiety, and there is no apprehension that it will eventually become an acquired habit, as there is when the brain is reduced to quiescence by means of sedatives. This shows the great value of hypnosis. It does not weaken the system. It does not leave deleterious traces in the brain. Those who have been subjected to cataleptic sleep seem better for it. This new fact in medical science promises to dispense with morphine, and with chloral, for the hypnotic sleep 35 RAaiCALlNSTRIIOTON , in \£* you HYPNOTISM **"»*" >WD ^VGGESTIOTS By Herbert L. Flint. does all which these drugs are able to accomplish, and that in a manner devoid of risk and free from all danger . I have been besieged with inquiries from some of the prominent physicians, who thus begin to real- ize the dawn of rich possibilities in this discovery. The best answer I can make is to point to the lady herself as an illustration of the perfect immunity that she enjoys, for although Mrs. Flint has been frequently subjected to the test, she is not only free from injurious effects, but her bodily health has steadily improved under the treatment. The list of maladies susceptible to hypnotic cures could be considerably extended or enlarged, but I have indicated sufficient for the purpose. THE SCIENCE OF HYPNOTISM. The universe is law. Whenever and wherever we meet with phenomena in this world, we may be certain that they are amenable to law. The same force that crystalizes the dew drop on the violet, holds worlds in place and regulates the movements of the vast order of suns. 86 PM(TIG^LlNSTRU0n^rfc> HYPNOTISM ANT) ^VGGESTIOIS Herbert h. Flint. Formerly, when man found something in nature for which he could not account, he attributed it either to a god or a devil, and he worshiped the force with blind and unreasoning faith, without stopping to carefully consider the origin of that which terri- fied him. If, then, there is a law that holds in its place and regulates the processions of the suns, there must be a law that fixes the scope and determines the operations of the mind and enables one brain to influence another, though seas roll between and the very antipodes separate them. This is the law of psychic phenomena. One reason why this law remains an occult science is, that men in this age have become so materialistic that they answer every new discovery along the border line of the mysterious, with a sneer, and, without stopping to ascertain the facts, deny them altogether. The great master of English literature aptly puts in the mouth of one of his characters in that wonderful tragedy filled with hypnotic suggestion-- Hamlet -- "There are more things in heaven and earth, 37 MCTIC\LlNSTRUCTI01\f , YOU S MUST! HYPisarisM * j\NT> ^VGGESTlOiS HerderI k Flint. Horatio, than are dreamed of in our philosophy." The towering geniuses, whose discoveries have lighted the beacon fires, by whose radiance the human race has reached the high altitude which it now occupies, met in their day and at the hands of their contemporaries the same derision and sneers with which occult science is now contending. Harvey, whose gigantic researches discovered the circulation of the blood; Jenner, whose wonderful revelations laid the foundations for the true theory of communi- cable disease; Pasteur, who gave to the world the theory of microbes - -all were forced to labor in secret, and to spend years in endeavoring to show their unbelieving countrymen that here were new facts, quite beyond the knowledge of their prede- cessors. So in philosophy, we find among the ages the names of great men who, with each period, laid down new laws for the instruction and guidance of the human mind. Such was Pythagoras; such were Plato and Socrates; Copernicus and Galileo, Newton and LaPlace. Each one enlarged the scope of the human intellect and gave the human mind larger flight and freer wing. 38 PRACTICALlNSTRUCriaN HYPlNOriSM ANT) 5VGGESTIOIS Herbert h. Flint In the light of the progress of the science of psychic force in the latter half of the nineteenth century, I would not insult the intelligence even of a superficial thinker by attempting to demonstrate that there is such a thing as hypnotism. I am often asked: "What good can hypnotism do?" "What woes will it alleviate?" "What wounds can it heal?" "On the contrary, is it not a fact, (some query,) that a patient frequently under hypnotic treatment loses his strength, his individuality, and finds his will gradually becoming weaker and more easily acted upon by those with whom he comes in con- tact?" In the light of psycological experiences such objections are convincingly overruled. It is an accepted fact that the highest exercise of the intel- lect is the cultivation of the thinking faculty. Each new experience broadens the soul and strengthens the development of the intellect, consequently, the ex- ercise of the hypnotic influence is to give new and valuable experience, and to fill the mind with emo- tions to which it was a stranger. The history of the science shows the more spirit- 39 W|V " ^ HYPNOTISM y\>03 «VGGEST102S By Herdert k Flint. ual and exalted the faculties of the mind, the more impressionable the subject. The grosser he is in fibre and construction, the less he is liable to exercise or receive this wonderful influence, so that instead of weakening the brain by frequent hypnoti- zations, the higher and purer it becomes in type. It is safe to say that it is hardly possible to make a person commit a crime, or any violation of law while under its influence to which his nature refuses to respond while in the normal state. One of the prerequisites of this subtle force is that it demands a mind free from all sensuality. The adepts in all ages have held, and still hold, that to attain the highest development, it is neces- sary to purify the body by frequent fasts, and by an uncompromising life of chastity; and that nothing deteriorates the mind so much as coarse sensuality especially in thought. The esoteric teachers have always maintained, that an evil thought exceeds in its debasing power an evil act. This is now corrob- orated by scientific invest igation--f or thought is the highest energy, hence the evil thought sears the soul deeper than the act itself. 40 PfiA(TI(XLlNSTRUairorfc> HYPNOTISM y\NT> «VGGESTI02S Herbert h. Flint. This, no doubt, is what Jesus meant when he said: "Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery; but I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart . " These teachings and acts are true of all the great teachers, from Buddha to Jesus; from Confucius to St. Francis, to Thoreau and Emerson. Now let us see what are the requisites in hypnosis . To be concise, I will say that there are three principal requisites indispensable. These are: Passivity, Responsiveness and Imagination. First of all, the mind must be in a passive con- dition to receive impressions. I say to a subject: "Close your eyes and think of nothing but sleep. This sleep is the strongest and most recuperative medicine I can give. Now think of sleep. You feel that you are drowsy. You are very sleepy. You are asleep." And I impress upon him that his own object- ive mind is experiencing these sensations. Having thus appealed to his passive state, I have no 41 vV, J HYPNOTISM AND -SX/GCiE:ST102S Herbert k Flint trouble in arousing his faculty of receptivity. His subjective mind becomes plastic and responsive to my every suggestion. The next requisite is imagination. If he possess this necessary faculty, I can, without excessive trouble, superinduce every phenomenon of hallucina- tion. And what is more amazing, after I have sug- gested the merest outline, he will of his own voli- tion supply the minute essentials and elaborate them to harmonize with his personality. If I tell him, for instance, that he is a soldier, he will instant- ly carry out in every minor matter the general im- pression that I have given him. When we enter the domain of this science, we find that it is not easy to define its limitations; for we are entering the border line of what has hitherto been an unknown land, around which the cob- webs of fear have gathered. Every physician knows that there are cases which no medical remedy will reach, because the evil has its origin not in the psysical structure, but in the functions of the mind. Formerly these maladies were treated by delusion. The physician gave the sufferer 42 PBACTIOULlNSTRUCnON HYPNOTISM AND «VGGESTIO]S Herbert h. Flint. harmless pellets or colored fluid, trusting to time to restore the patient to the normal balance. We now recognize that the cause of the trouble exists, and we treat it by operating directly upon the mind, without attempting to reach the disease through the aid of medicaments. Permit me to give you a case within my own recent experience- - one that puzzled and baffled the skill of the most eminent physicians of - - - - where I was giving entertainments. The patient was a lady belonging to the upper class. Her husband was world-famed as a statesman. On account of the high standing of the parties, the Gase was the more important. She had been ailing for over a year- - suffering from insomnia, nervous exhaustion and melancholy. No cause could be assigned, but she grew weaker and weaker, under the best care and attention. Her husband was distressed beyond expression, for he was ardently devoted to her. Finding the usual treatment futile, her physi- cians called me in consultation. I suggested hyp- notic treatment. I experienced no difficulty, while she was in that condition, in locating the trouble. She imagined that she had lost her husband's affec- 43 RACTICVLlNSTRTICTION HYraorisM \ND SVGGESTIOiS Herbert v k Flint. tion, and this long dwelt upon in secret, under- mined her health, weakened her physical powers, and shattered her nervous system. It did not take more than three treatments to totally obliterate that idea, and she is to-day one of the happiest women in . This only shows that many maladies which we call nervous debility, may be placed under the head of hallucinations, and be treated successfully by suggest ion. While writing on this subject I am reminded of a question asked me by a student in university some months ago. He was a young fellow, and with the warm fervor of youth he inquired: "Could not hyp- notism be utilized as a love-potion?" That simple question, however, opens up a new field in the psychology of affections. It is one of the important links in the chain of sociology, for out of it most of the unhappiness in domestic rela- tions ensues -- hence it ought not to be lightly brushed aside. If more attention were paid to this by people in general, there would be far less unhappiness, few- er divorces and much more felicity among persons who 44 sustain the marital relations with each other. For there is running through all Nature this law of affiliation. The two atoms of hydrogen seek their atom of oxygen, and a marriage is the result, but under certain conditions, such as the introduc- tion of the electric spark, there may be a divorce. The atom of carbon in like manner seeks its affinity, and in like manner it may be divorced or married by the sun-god. So Darwin noted that among all created beings the male pays court, or, as he says, pursues, the female. Out of this grew his doctrine of "Natural Selection," We now see that it is as true of rock and nomad as it is of the higher intelligences. A heart pulsating with love is aflame with sympathetic vibrations. The object of the choice may be indif- ferent—nay, at first, hostile—but he overcomes this feeling by the very eagerness and vehemence of the pursuit. It takes hold of every fibre of his brain, and if unsuccessful, it may recoil upon itself and destroy in a moment of madness the very being that set its love seal upon him. The whole theory of love and its manifestations offers the strongest illustration of the law of 46 _^PRA(TIC\LlNSTRUaiON WILL I &^ HiTOOTISM " .AND SVGGESTlOiN Herbert L. Flint. YOU MUST! hypnosis. How often do we see them deaf, dumb and blind to everything but the object of their passion. If she repel him, he will not heed her. He says to her: "You love ine. n She denies it, and he consoles himself with that old maxim, "When a girl s ays 'No', she means ' Yes ' . " What is this but the universal recognition of the workings of the principle that I have laid down? It holds in spite of time or place. What is more amusing than to see a newly married couple all eyes and attention to each other, but oblivious of every one else? The trouble is not that this spirit is carried too far, but because the man after marriage neg- lects to keep alive the flame of love by using the same means that won his wife. He grows cold and in- different. He neglects the little amenities and acts that once he found so delightful. A revulsion of feeling comes in her breast. Why I is this selfish fellow stained with tobacco, and lounging about the house in his shirt sleeves, the trim, dapper chap that made her so many promises before marriage? She reciprocates his aversion just as she did his affection. 46 PfiACTMLlNSTRUCnOISf HYPNOTISM AND SVGGESTI02N Herbert kFLEsrr ' Then she finds some one who supplies what he is lacking in deference and attention, and there is laid the ground work for separation, and all of the miseries that grow out of ill-assorted unions with which society teems and the newspapers are filled. Let us see whether it be possible to use the hypnotic power to so intense a degree as even to produce death. I, for one, while recognizing the salutary and beneficent power of this agency, am forced to admit that in the hands of the vicious and unscrupulous it may be so used as to weaken the nervous force and finally extinguish the vital spark. But why go so far? Mere suggestion, even with- out hypnotism, will in some temperaments produce nervous shocks resulting in physical ailments that ultimately will end in death. Medical science is beginning to recognize that there are certain maladies that have their origin solely in mental disturbances. It is familiarly known to every one that a sudden shock to the nerves--the receipt of disastrous news, fright, terror, fear or violent passion--will some- times result fatally. 47 ^r PRAaiCVLlNSTRTiaiON HYPISOTISM AND ^S^/GCiESTIOTN HERBERT kFLEVT. An old college experiment, which I presume you will recall, is about as good an illustration as I can give. There was in our class a young fellow who was excessively conceited in regard to his physical strength. He really was a modern Samson. One day it was agreed by a number of us to suggest to him that he was looking unusually pale. I met him coming down the stairs, and remarked: "Are you ill? You are so pale." "Never felt better in my life," was his rejoiner, and we both walked on. But by the time my confederates were through with their solicitude for his looks, our Sanson felt so W3ak and ill that he repaired to his room and to his bed. The negroes of the south know this, and on it is based what is known as "Voudooism. " If a colored man finds in his path a little ball of wool with a stick running through it, or a bunch of hair put in his shoe, or something of that kind, he will go straight to his hut. All of the medicine in the world will do him no good. He has been "Vou— dooed." The slang of the street has changed this in- to "Hoodooed . " The ancient superstition of the evil eye came 48 PMcrmlNSTRUcnoN HYFISOTISM ANT> «VGGESTIOM Herbert I/. Flint. from this idea. A person with an evil eye had the power to inflict disease, sickness and death upon whomsoever he cast it with malign intent. History is filled with accounts of men who sought to avenge the results of this infliction by slaugh- tering the ones who had, as they thought, cast them under the spell. The records of the world during the Middle Ages chronicle the wholesale massacre of thousands of people, sometimes of whole villages and districts, because they were supposed to be witches. The most absurd tales were told and believed, but we do not have to go to the Dark Ages to find examples of this sort. People are killed every day by some gossiping neighbor, who comes in and groans with the sick over their maladies. Every physician today knows the value of cheerful nurses, cheerful rooms, plenty of sunshine, and the right kind of conver- sation. This law of suggestion merges into occultism where the power is so highly developed that it en- ables the ascetic to lie locked in his grave for months without losing his vitality; to sustain the most horrible torture, not only without a groan, 49 HYPISOTISM j\NT> «VGGESTIOiS Herbert k Flint. but even with a smile of triumph. Herein is found the secret by which saints and ecstatics maintain their composure when they are undergoing agonies that are too frightful for the spectators to contem- plate. The same thing is shown by the Red Indian, and the reason is the same. If hypnotic suggestions will and do cause death, on the other hand they have time and again robbed the grave of its victim and re- stored life and health to many a poor, stricken soul. Hypnotism, I repeat, when highly developed, soars into the unexplored realm of the occult, where the psychic power is marked. Theosophy has made a study of it, and insists that each being is accompanied at all times by his astral body, which can be projected through space at any distance, time and accompani- ments of matter being dispensed with. These manifestations have a deep significance, and are well worth the study of the thoughtful, and the wise consideration of the mind that seeks to ex- plore the infinite, and who, like Bacon, can say: "I have taken all knowledge for my province." 50 I WILL! <^toACTIC^LlNSTRU(TIO]Sf * mr^orisM * AND «VGGESTI02S Herbert I/. Flint. YOU MUST! DANGERS OP HYPNOTISM. In studying the laws that control the human mind, by means of which hypnotism operates, we must remem- ber this fact: that the subject must concentrate his entire attention. I place him in a condition of receptivity. This faculty of concentration-- of completely absorbing the mind and fixing it upon one idea-- is one of the most difficult feats in the whole range of mental phenomena. To illustrate: How many can steadily place their minds upon the second hand of a watch and keep it there for fifteen seconds. Try it, and you will be astonished to find how persistently your thoughts will stray, and how, try as you may, they will wan- der from the subject. I venture the assertion that few, untrained, can continue it for ten seconds. My wife and myself have spent years in mastering this condition, until we can fix our minds upon a given object for three-quarters of an hour without allow- ing it to be diverted. You will readily see by this, that fixity of mental vision operates so as to control the mind of 61 u ^Practicvl Instruction Wl ' 11 ' * HYPISGTI5M * AND «VGGEST107N Herbert kFLiisjT. YOU MUST! the one operated upon. You suggest that he act in a ■ Ttain way- The first condition is that he place himself in a passive state, and then, by the very intensity of your determination, you unite his will with yours. Thus you both work in harmony. The strength of his will, in reducing his mind to obedi- ence, makes it all the easier for you, just as the best soldier is not the ignorant boor, but the man of education and training, who clearly understands an order and promptly executes it in form and spirit. The first requisite in a hypnotist is to train his own mind. He can never succeed in holding the attention of his subject, unless he is able, with- out wavering, to concentrate his will upon the ob- ject he wishes to influence. Another essential must be considered. The human mind is a delicately con- structed instrument, and it must not be dealt with harshly. You do not send a man with an axe to tune your piano. So no hypnotic experiment should be conducted by an unskilled person in the absence of an expert. It is much easier to induce the catalep- tic state than it is to recover from it. The last 62 PBACTMLlNSTRUCriON HYPNOTISM J\1S10> «VGGESTI02S Herbert h. Flint. thing that an expert hypnotist does is to remove from the brain all trace of abnormal condition, or of perversion. If this be not done, there is great danger. To illustrate: A physician in a city where I was performing watched carefully for several evenings the process of hypnotizing, and on his re- turn home, tried it on his boy, a bright lad of ten years. He told the boy to "walk lame." What he should have done was to make him walk with a stiff knee. There was, among the patients of the father, an old man with a bent and crooked leg, and the lad, on being told to "walk lame" instantly assumed the attitude and walk of the old cripple. The imitation was so perfect that it evoked shouts of laughter, and for half an hcur the father continued the exhibition, to the great amusement of his guests. Then, when he attempted to restore the boy to his normal condition, he found that he could not do it. He worked in vain, and finally he sent for me. I took the little fellow with me and worked daily with him for four weeks, before I was able to restore him to his previous state. Hypnotism is like the genie evoked by the fisher- man in the "Arabian Nights." It was easy for him to 53 HYHSCTISM * A7STD «VGGESTIO^ Herbert L.Fllnt. YOU MUST! remove the top of the casket, but when once the demon had escaped, all the powers of earth could not con- trol him, and he declared that his first act would be to kill his liberator, who had been foolish enough to set him free. So, the hypnotic power does evoke from the human organism strange phantoms and unheard of and mys- terious powers. Not in wantonness or malice should they be brought forth, but with careful study and under systematic guidance. The great forces of nature are kindly and obedient in the hands of the master; terrible and awful when they rage without control. Steam is a faithful slave, but a remorseless and cruel master. Fire is the most patient and willing of servants, but the most heartless and devastating of tyrants. Once escaped from its bonds, it rages without check, destroying, withering, consuming everything within its reach. All the great aids of civilization are in the same category. What greater force than elec- tricity? But see it in the lightning's stroke and the tornado's path, and how terrible. It propels a s'treet car with easy grace, but if it catches you in 54 MGMLlNSTRUCnoN HYPNOTISM AND 5VGGESTI02S Herberts Flint. its grasp, its touch is death, instantaneous and irrecoverable. So of the chemical agents. What can be conceived in the light of material force more horrible than nitro -glycerine? There it lies float- ing upon the surface, on oil, odorless, clear, inno- cent. Touch it with a match and it burns without noise and with no undue haste, but confine it, tor- ture it by concussion, and it leaps into life with the mad fury of a fiend, rending, tearing limb from limb, hurling apart whatever has been placed about it. The stoutest bars of steel, the greatest masses of rocks, it parts asunder with the strength of a Samson, and the vindictive passion of a demoniac. So of this great mental force. In proper hands it is wholly beneficent. It can be made to adminis- ter to human ailments, to banish disease, to purify and elevate the mind, lifting the soul to a higher plane, giving the intellect a wider field, and endow- ing it with a loftier purpose. But in hands unfit and untrained, it may be used to pervert all these high aims and noble impulses. It may be used ignor- antly, to weaken the mind, to enthrall the affec- tions, to distort the emotions, and to dwarf rather than to promote the growth of the soul. 65 PRACTICYLlNSTRUCnoN HYETSCTISM /\ND -SVGGESTlOiN By Herbert k Flint. It is related that in the Middle Ages, the prior of a monastery discovered that if he gave his monks a dose of a new drug, they would no longer grow drowsy over their matins. He reasoned that if he gave them a little and it was beneficial, a good deal would keep them from going to sleep altogether. So he more than doubled his usual dose, and the next morning he had no monks at all. They had all joined the great majority in the night, and he called his new drug, in sadness of heart, "Ant imonkery , " a name which we have preserved to this day in "Antimony." So of this hypnotic power. Men ignorant of its possibilities and its limitations, experiment with it. They find that they can use it, and they do so recklessly. They discover that, like the demon in one of Sir Walter Scott's novels, any one can arouse him, but it takes a mighty conjurer to put him at rest, and that they have been tampering with a force that they should have touched only cautiously and under direction. Herein lies the error of the Christian Scien- tists, They refuse to believe that this power has limitations. They say: "If Christian Science can 66 PMCTIC^LlNSTRU^^r^ IN \C HYPNOTISM * A3SVD «VGGESTI02S Hubert \ Flint. cure a case of nervous prostration, why can it not set a broken bone?" And they answer: "It can." Mrs. Eddy asks, with true sophistry: "Did Jesus say to His disciples: 'Dissect a man; go into the hospitals and study anatomy?'" The argument follows that, as he cured disease without doing this, therefore, it is unnecessary to do it. This is not the method of the patient inquirer after truth. Hypnotism has laws by which it is de- fined. It exists as one of the living, vital facts in the universe. It can be controlled in certain directions, and it is so controlled. It can, and does, operate to heal a large class of maladies. The Durpose of the true investigator is to discover the facts; to separate the true from the false, and to follow the path wherever the axe of progress blazes the way. He knows that every phase of human intellect must follow the lines as laid down by eternal and unvarying law. THE DIET OF THE HYPNOTIST. There is a German proverb that runs as follows: "Sage mir mit wem Du umghest, und ich sage Dir wer 57 ractkal Instruction HYPNOTISM AND «VGGESTIO^S Herbert l. Flint Du bist. (Tell me your companions, and I will tell you who you are)." The Sociologist paraphrases this truism, and says: "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are." People who live upon a meat diet are, as a rule, gross and heavy. Vigorous and self-assertive they may be, but rude and overbearing. The savage believes that if he eat the heart of 4 his foe, he thereby acquires the courage and valor that distinguished his antagonist; hence among these people cannibalism is a religious rite. To a great extent this theory is applicable to those who exces- sively indulge in animal food. The man who lives upon pork will insensibly acquire and exhibit many of the peculiarities of the swine, and the same law holds true with all animal flesh. The nations that have subsisted upon a vege- table diet have, on the contrary, always excelled in the higher intellectual pursuits-- music, sculpture, painting, poetry. Great epic poems that have shaped the world's thought, and given it its lasting ideals, were not produced by rapacious and gluttonous 58 ^ hypnotism Herbert I/. Flint. appetites. The muse celebrates, not the boar's head brought smoking in to the feast, but the vine- crowned cup filled with the golden wine. The orator, the actor, well knows the virtue of abstinence, and he postpones his repast until the work of his brain is accomplished. The effort of the imagination can have full play only when it is free. The gorged stomach overwhelms the brain; then the mind labors ineffectually to produce thoughts worthy of itself. So, after a too full meal, the sleep is broken and disturbed; the over-loaded stomach reacts upon the brain, not as an adjunct to elevate thought, but as a portent of evil conjuring up frightful dreams and awful catas trophies , that were long regarded as messages from the infernal regions sent by the furies to torment the wicked. The sages early learned the value of fasting as a means of spiritual exaltation. Moses laying down his dietary laws; Elijah'fed by the raven; Daniel, at the court of Persia, insisting upon the virtues of a frugal diet; Ezekiel preparing for his vision by solitary meditation; Jesus in the wilderness; Buddha in the jungle; St. Paul in Damascus; 69 BACTIGVLlMSTRUCriON hyhsgtism /\ND «VGGESTI02S By Herbert k Flint. Mohammed fasting upon the mountain until the angel Gabriel revealed the Divine Command; St. Stylites upon his pillar; Loyola upon his pallet--all these reach their high intellectual development by abstin- ence. Jesus himself said, in response to the ques- tion of His disciples, "Why could not we cast him out?" -- "This kind goeth not out but by prayer and fas ting. " It is written in the law that those who make shambles of their stomach, cannot hope to erect altars in their brain. Even among those nations that are distinguished as meat eaters, the controlling forces are the ascetics, the abstainers, the Newtons and the Wordsworths, the Arkwrights and the Watts. This law holds even among the animals. If we feed the dog exclusively on meat, he becomes savage and unmanageable, vicious and ungovernable. In Australia, during those terrible drouths that some- times are protracted over a period of years, it is necessary to feed mutton to the horses to preserve r hem alive. The horses learn to eat it, and became carnivorous, but they change their nature and are 60 Pbactic\l1nstructiom HYPNOTISM AND 5VGGESTIOIS Herbert k Flint. savage and uncontrollable; nor do they regain their natural disposition until they have been restored to their normal diet. A most remarkable instance of this can be seen in the G-oa, a parrot in New Zealand. Formerly it was inoffensive, for it lived on fruit. When the English settlers brought sheep into the island, it learned to eat their flesh, and it soon discovered that the kidneys were the choicest portion. It lost its quiet and domestic habit, and began to attack the living animals, alighting on their backs and eviscerating the unfortunate sheep until it reached the kidneys, which were the only part that it cared to eat. It is now the scourge of New Zealand, and is a predatory, ravenous bird, wary but bold, and the terror of the shepherd, its evil qualities being directly traceable to its carnivorous habits. It is well known that fasting produces visions, so that the ancient ascetics, like the Catholic Church to-day, impressed this upon the neophyte who desired to explore the mysteries of the inner temple and devote himself to the service of the Most High. The modern scientist will insist that the great 01 RACTICALtNSTRUCriON HYPNOTISM AND ^VGGESTIOiN Herbert k Flint intellectual development of our day has resulted in those wonderful inventions that are the glory of our civilization. These consist of improvement in two directions: First, in public buildings; next, in improved methods of transportation. In the first, ve cannot hope to equal the Pyramids of Egypt, that for strength, solidity, majesty, and grandeur over- shadow every other humam achievement. That of Cheops covers eleven acres of ground. It is four hundred and fifty feet in height, and Herodotus says that it took two hundred thousand men twenty years to construct it. Nor can we compare our greatest efforts with the great wall of China, built by the frenzied efforts of an entire people, to protect themselves from the Tartar hordes that preyed upon them from the North-- a wall that enabled twelve horsemen to ride abreast upon its top, and was a per- fect protection against predatory horsemen. Had the Europeans constructed a similiar wall along the shores of the Danube, and thus kept out the Huns and Lombards, the Goths and Vandals, the history of j.urope might have been changed. Nor can we rival + he luxury of the ancients. 62 PMOTCALlNSTRUCTIOlSf IN HYPNOTISM AND 5VGGESTI02S Herbert 'i/. Flint. What are the balls given by our "four hundred" com- pared to the feast of Heliogabalus , the suppers of Lucullus , and the banquets of Domitian? We must still remind ourselves of the caliphs of Bagdad, of the magnificence of Haroun al Raschid, and of the fountains of Cordova. Even in the line of graceful architecture, our builders must study the lines of the Parthenon, the columns of the Alhambra; while the world has never seen equaled the marble miniarets and the exquisite setting of the jewels in the Taj Mahal. We boast of our improved methods of locomotion, but we do not yet know how the ancients were enabled to transport such huge blocks of stone hundreds of miles, after quarrying them out of the solid rock. We do not understand how they could embody single stones thirteen feet square and sixty-nine feet long in their structures with apparently as much ease as we incorporate in our buildings an individual brick. Our highways do not equal in permanence and durability the Roman roads. We regard Hannibal's cutting his way through the Alps as a fiction, and Cleopatra's dissolving a pearl in vinegar as clever sleight-of- 63 PMCriCALlNSTRUCIIOlsr HYFISOTISM j\NT> «VGGESTIOiS m- Herbert k Flint. hand. It is only the recent demonstration of modern science that shows us that the story of Archimedes destroying the Roman fleet by means of concave mirrors, could be an accomplished fact; and that Appolonius may have understood the art of levitat.ion when he transported himself from Constantinople to Rome in a single day. The oriental has seen all this development, watched it rise, culminate, and fall, and he knows that instead of aiding the soul, it rather fetters it and clogs it-- embarrasses, and depresses, and hinders that high intellectuality that he regards as the true end and aim of existence. Better his simple diet of rice, water, figs, and dates, but with time to devote himself to the great questions of the soul, than to re-enact the weary round of piling up marble and granite, jasper and alabaster, to feed the vanity of man. The student who seeks to explore the occult, who would develop the full power of hypnotism, must heed these lessons, for there is contained within their depths the wisdom of the ancients. The full revelation of the mystic tie that binds man to man, 64 HYPNOTISM AMD «VGGESTI02S HbrbertI/. Flint, and connects with a subtle thread, intellect with intellect, and brain with brain, is not to be pursued through a body heavy with animal appetite and aflame with animal desires. The highest aspira- tion of hypnotism does not seek to control merely the physical movements of the subject, but to direct his thought and ennoble his pursuit. The work of exhibiting experiments upon the stage should not have this for its only purpose. "While such may make the unthinking laugh, it cannot but make the judicious grieve." It is because the study has been degraded to the level of farce comedy that its higher possibilities have been obscured, and its value as a therapeutic agent denied. The time has come when it must assert its claim, and its masters must insist upon the due recognition that its merits demand. Hypnotism is now in the debatable ground that every new discovery occupies before the public has accepted its claim and admitted its value. Such a period was imposed upon Copernicus; such was given to Jenner, to Harvey, to Goodyear, to Edison. As they confidently pointed to the future and awaited the result with unflinching patience, so we can as 65 C^PRACTIC\Ll>ISTRUai^rfc> HYPNOTISM * ANT) «VGGESTIO?S Herbert L. Flint. YOU MUST! confidently predict that future discoveries will base their inquiries into psychological law upon the rules that the hypnotist of to-day lays down; upon the methods that the experimenters of this age have predicted. FRAUDULENT AND GENUINE HYPNOTISTS. There are two classes of extremists in this world. The one blindly swallows everything; the other believes in nothing. The first, when shown the phenomenon connected with hypnotism, accepts it at once, and attributes it to spirits. If they be orthodox, they set it down as the work of evil spirits - -yea , even of the devil himself, who goes about in these latter days deceiving the very elect. If they are not inclined to orthodoxy, they attribute it to good spirits--to the ghosts of their friends and relatives who have gone before. Now, it is evident that these manifestations cannot be the work of the disembodied, because they can tell us nothing that we do not know--that is, nothing that is not either in the mind of the hypnotizer, or that has not previously been in the mind of the subject. eo MCTICALlNSTRUCnoN HYPNOTISM AND «VGGESTI02S Herbert h. Flint. For instance, if it were the work of spirits, they certainly would have the freedom of the globe, and they can easily pass anywhere on the surface of this planet. Yet, no medium or person under spirit con- trol has ever been able to present a map of the region about the North Pole. It might be supposed that such a task would be one of easy accomplishment, and yet no one has ever attempted it. When we con- sider that Dr. Kane, one of the early heroes of Arctic exploration, married one the Fox girls, who were the authors of the "Rochester Rappings," it would seem that such a task would be especially grate- ful to the spirits. We are, therefore, compelled to conclude, no matter how reluctantly, that these phenomena are connected with the personality of the subject, and exist because of the mental connection between himself and the operator, and are independent of disembodied spirits. Leaving then, this class of believers, we come to the class of skeptics-- those who pronounce the whole thing fraudulent. This sentiment receives an indorsement in some sort from many of the subjects themselves. Many of these say afterwards: "I knew 67 wanted to." In this they are perfectly truthful. It is one evidence of hypnotic power that they did not want to. All persons are not susceptible alike to this influence. Some obey with a feeling that they need not, but they comply with the wish of the operator. This is one of the first evidences of hypnotic force. The skeptics hearing them, maintain that all sujects are similarly affected, and so they refuse to believe in any. They imagine that every oase brought on the stage is the result of collusion between the parties. There are quacks in all professions. In medi- cine, we see the boastful practitioner, ignorant of the laws of hygiene, of anatomy, or of science, dealing out drugs and insisting that he alone pos- sesses the secret of compounding an elixir that shall restore to age the vigor of youth, and that shall banish disease as by a wave of the enchanter's wand. In law, we have the man who goes to first princi- ples, who sees beneath the rules of precedents the 08 lines which justice has established, and which cus- tom has sanctioned, and wisdom laid down. On the other hand, we have the pettifogger, who takes ad- vantage of every quibble, who seeks to cloud the dictum of courts, and to wrest from the plainest equity, rulings that shall enable him to rob his neighbor and thwart the purpose of the law. In mechanics, we have the scientific engineer carefully estimating the strength of his material, seeing that his foundation is broad and substantial, and not until this is properly constructed does he rear the superstructure which is to stand through all time, and like the Pyramids of Egypt, bid defiance to the storms of ages, because erec ted in accordance with scientific principles. On the other hand, the botch hastily builds on insecure foundations. His whole effort is to make a showy edifice. No sooner is it finished than it begins to settle. Huge cracks appear, the top falls, and the whole edifice is so insecure that it either tumbles by its own inherent weakness, or else it has to be torn down, in order to avoid involving precious lives in its collapse. So in the domain of hypnotism. There are classes 69 PRACTICALhlSTRUCriON HYPNOTISM AND 5VGGESTI02S By Herbert L. Flint. who find that these phenomena can be produced. They' carry them as far as their limited powers will admit, and then follow the maxim of old Lysander: "We must eke out the lion's skin by the fox's hide." They leave upon the stage any individual whose antics amuse the ignorant. After hypnotizing a subject they are either too ignorant or too indolent to continue their work to induce complete hypnosis. Working upon the credulity of sympathetic believers, they hint that hypnotism is really the work of intelligence from other worlds-- departed spirits who have gone before. Once entered upon this field, the descent is easy. We see materializations helped by human agency. We see spiritualists to-day posing as exposers to-morrow, and the result is that the whole body of professionals is regarded by the public as tricksters, frauds, and swindlers. All this results because people are not willing atiently to investigate the facts that are before them, but they so love the mysterious and super- natural that they try to account for everything by that means. The savage in Africa finds in the forest 70 PBA(TI(ALInSTRU(Im7^ HYPISOTISM ANT) ^VGGESTIO^ Herbert k Flint. a crooked stick, a stone of unusual shape, or even the bones of some animal. He takes it to his hut and calls it his fetich. He bows down before it and consults it. He knows within his own reason that it is but a stick, or rock, or stone, but he cowers and trembles before it as before a god. This feeling runs through all nations. Men are everywhere worshiping the fetiches of their own imaginations. They tremble before the creatures of their own fancy. They grow pale in contemplating deities that they themselves have made. Nay, before facts that they might unravel by the exercise of time and patience, they cower and shrink, affrighted. So we say to the world at large, this is not the course that we would have you pursue in the investi- gation of the phenomena that we present. We make no mystery. We resort to no device, we tolerate no chicanery, and ask for no concealment. Here are the facts. Carefully investigate, truthfully report, these are the only conditions that we ask. Slowly and little by little the laws that regulate hypno- tism are being discovered. The vast and complex machinery that dominates the human mind is be- 71 PracticvlInstruction hypnotism AND «VGGESTIOM Herbert k Flint. ginning to be understood; the rules by which we are to operate it are fast formulating. Just as the ablest engineer of forty years ago would be unable to run the locomotive of to-day without instruction, were he put in charge, so the child of to-day knows far more of psychology than the adult of former years. Knowledge has advanced and increased in all directions, but in none more than this, and yet we are only at the threshold of this wonderful maze. It was Newton who said he was like a child who was sitting at the seashore playing with pebbles, while the vast, unexplored ocean lay stretched before him. So all that we have yet learned or discovered of the laws of mind is but insignificant and trifling to that which will be. we have, by means of hypnotism, secured a glimpse through the outer door of a vast temple. Without is darkness and gloom, storm, and wind, and mist. Within is light and splendor, heavenly music, and the companionship of the gods. It is our privilege 'o ask you to enter and enjoy the delights of intellectual activity in full measure. By this means you shall solve secrets that have 72 PRACriC&lNSTRIJCriON HYPNOTISM AND «VGGESTI02S HEKDEKfl/. Flint. hitherto been locked from the gaze of men. The various phases of disease which man in his igno- rance has only been able to reach through the gross and material door of the stomach, you will solve by means of entrance to the soul. The unbalanced brain that now runs riot in the wild ravings of insanity, you will regulate as the skillful engineer regulates his engine-- will check its mad career, and, saving it from destruction, restore it to healthful action, and confine it to its normal and proper work. The neurotic maiden falling into melancholy and despair-- a prey to morbid fancies and the terrors of an imagination all aglow with fever-- you will change into the sweet and holy aspiration of a tender soul, a loving and sanctified being, the joy of the home circle, the crowning glory of the home life. And old age, crabbed, lonely, disappointed, joyless, the frosts deepened into the hypochondriac snows of winter, you will change into a serene and lofty resignation, bearing the fruition of years well spent, of that crown of glory which sees before it the reward of one who has fought a good fight, who has kept the faith, and, having entered upon the 73 third stage of life, is now ready for the final act, when the curtain is- rung down, and the last exit is made, with the plaudits of friends, the flowers, the myrtle crown. The student of hypnotism who seeks to ascertain the facts, and is not led astray by a desire to see always sensational results, has before him one of the grandest fields for research ever vouchsafed to man. Formerly the toilers in this domain were thought to have sold themselves to Satan, and they were rewarded by the fagot and the stake, the rack and the executioner's axe. Now, a willing world waits in anxiety to know what your verdict is to be, and stands ready to applaud every soul who brings to light one single fact which shall act as a guide to further knowledge. The first requisite is honesty between our- selves. The science of hypnotism has now so far advanced-- there are so many societies of psychical researoh-- that even the most skeptical must admit that the fundamental principles are well known, and are now admitted facts. 74 PMCTICALlNSTRUaiON HYPNOTISM ANT) 5VGGESTI02S Herbert h. Flint. Imperfectly as the subject is as yet under- stood, what vast progress has been made since that day when every nervous person was supposed to have a devil at his elbow, whispering in his ear the foul- est words and ideas: when every maniac was supposed to be inhabited by Satan himself, who had chosen the unhappy man's mortal body for his earthly habitation, and was rending him for his Satanic satisfaction; when every old woman was supposed to be a witch, who spent her time tormenting her neighbors, blasting their crops, maiming their cattle, changing babes in the cradle, diversions that alternated between periods when she was riding through the air on a broomstick or was attending the witches' Sabbath at the Brocken. When every scientific student, patiently toiling by the midnight lamp to coax from Nature her secrets that, rightly used, might bless the world, was supposed to have signed a compact with the devil, and sealed it with his blood, in order to arrive at knowledge which the Almighty had forbidden man to acquire. 75 1 WILL! ^Practigvl Instruction HYPlsbriSM * AND «VGGESTIOM Hejrdekt h. Flint. HOW TO AWAKEN YOUR SUBJECTS. Before trying to induce the condition for the first time on any person, always tell them no mat- ter what they may be thinking of or what they may be doing, or how deep asleep they may be, they can always hear your voice, and can always hear the words, "All right" "Wide awake" when spoken by you. You must have perfect confidence in yourself, and you will find it as a rule very easy to awaken your subjects. When you wish to awaken a subject from the hypnotic state, concentrate your mind on the thought of his awakening and snap your fingers and say, "All right" or "Wide awake" several times in a positive tone of voice and you will find that he will usually obey your command. It is not abso- lutely necessary to snap your fingers or clap your hands. The positive command "Right" "Right" "All right" or "Wide awake" will awaken your subject. Yet, it will do no harm to snap your fingers; I always do, as it usually helps one to be more posi- tive in their command by enforcing the command with a gesture as one speaks. Usually your subjects will awaken with more or less of a start. It is well 76 PBAcric^LlNSTRuai^r^ HYPWTISM YOU MUST! jMSFD «VGGESTI02S Herbert kFLBSfx. to say, "When I awaken you, you will find you never felt better in your life, and you will awaken just as quietly as you do from a natural sleep." It is pos- sible that your first command will not awaken him at once. Should this be so, it is because you have not spoken firmly enough and all you have to do is to repeat, more positively, the suggestion to "Wake up," "Wake up," "All right, I say," "All right, look me in the eyes," "Wide awake, I say. You are feeling all right, are you not?" in loud positive tones. Keep this up until he is thoroughly awake. Should you still have trouble, or find it still difficult to awaken him, take him by the shoulders and tell him to sit down and be quiet. Under no circumstances become frightened; for any uneasiness felt on your part will, as a rule, be felt by the subject. After he is seated, tell him he wants to awaken and to get ready to awaken, and when you count ten he will POSITIVELY wake up and feel all right. Now say, "You are awakening, you will awaken, READY-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10 WAKE UP, I SAY. WAKE UP." Keep on commanding him to awake, and say, "NOW - YOU - ARE - ALL - RIGHT . " It is a good policy for the operator to smile. When the sub- 77 PRACTIGYLlNSTRUCriON HYPISGTISM J\NT> «VGGESTIOiS By Herbert h. Flint. ject is awake, he will usually respond with a smile. The smile acts as a suggestion; the subject follows it. Only in extreme cases will it be necessary to resort to the following system: Take hold of him and make him lie down; tell him to close his eyes; then commence from his feet and make upward passes barely touching his clothes, bringing your hands off the top of his head with a loud spat, and say to him, "Now you are feeling all right. All right. Wide awake. Come wake up." Repeat that process a dozen times if you must. Be not afraid. Be positive and believe he will awaken; and talk to him in a most commanding voice. It is not necessary to throw water into his face, and apply batteries, etc. If the operator will carefully study this method, he can awaken any subject no mat- ter how difficult. Have no fear in this regard, for only once in a thousand times, will you find cases requiring treat- ment like the last mentioned. 78 PRACnCALlNSTRlJCriON HYPNOTISM Herbert I/. Flint. THE "FALLING FORWARD" TEST. A very easy and simple test to accomplish is called the falling test. Have one of your subjects stand up with his feet close together, his heels touching, and with his arms hanging limp and care- lessly by his side. Then tell him to clasp his hands tightly and stiffen every muscle in his body, then to slowly relax all his muscles inclining forward as he does so. Then tell him to look directly at your eyes and to concentrate his mind on the idea of fall- ing forward; to think of nothing but the sensation of falling forward without any fear of falling; stat- ing at the same time that you will not let him fall or hurt himself. Make passes over his head, and from the back of his head draw the hands slowly forward over the temples, pressing lightly but firmly, and holding them still for a moment about an inch or so from the front of the head. Then slowly draw them forward directly in a line with his eyes and yours, that is, draw your hands forward very slowly in a straight line toward yourself, keeping your hands about twelve inches apart. Keep insisting on your subject concentrating his mind on the idea of falling 79 RACTICVLlNSTRUCIION HYPNOTISM J\NT> SVGGESTlOiS Herbert' k Flint. forward; and while you are thus engaged say to him in POSITIVE, even tones, "NOW- WHEN-I -DRAW-MY -HANDS - BACKWARDS- YOU -WILL -SLOWLY- PALL-FORWARDS. -KEEP- THINKING-OF-FALLING- FORWARD. - KEEP - THINKING - OF - FALLING- FORWARD. - KEEP - THINKING - OF -FALLING - FORWARD. I -AM- GOING - TO -DRAW - MY - HANDS - BACKWARDS, -AND NOW- YOU - WILL-FALL. YOU ARE - FALLING .- NOW - FALL. " As you say the last two words, "Now fall," slowly draw your hands over his temples, pressing lightly but firmly so as to, in a measure, assist in drawing him forwards. You must not only move your hands away but your whole body as well. If the subject saw your hands and your arms moving, and not your whole body, it would tend to break up the condition of fascination. Be sure to take a graceful and easy position on the start, with your right foot forward about eighteen inches from and in front of his two feet, thus enabling you to move your head and shoulders backward and away from the subject without changing the position of your feet, moving your whole position backward from the knees upward. With a little practice you can move a space of several feet. 80 PMOTCALlNSimjaMsT^ IN \C HYPNOTISM * AND «VGGESTI02S Herbert h. Flint. If he does not fall at the first effort keep your position and with a quick half - circular movement, put your hands back to where you had them, and then begin over again, drawing your hands towards you as though you were pulling a weight of a hundred pounds or so in order to draw him forward. You will find after several attempts the subject can hardly help falling forwards--he will unconsciously follow your hands, or rather make an effort to keep near your hands as if he thought he was falling backward in- stead of that you were drawing your hands away. Keep your eyes gazing steadily in his all the time. Don't forget to feel the suggestions as you give them. THE "FALLING BACKWARD" TEST. The falling backward test is another simple test an operator can use for finding out whether or not a person is susceptible to hypnotic influence. It should be used among the first tests, for it not only points out to the operator his easy subjects', but helps to convince the person affected, that he has been hypnotized. This renders the subject more susceptible to the further suggestions of the'ope- 81 PRACTKALlNSTRUCriON HYFISOTISM AND ^SVGGESTIOiS Herbert k Flint. rator and at the same time helps destroy his gen- erally erroneously preconceived ideas and fear of being hypnotized. It is among the easiest tests whereby you can tell whether or not your chances are good to influ- ence a person upon first trial. It does not neces- sarily say, however, that if a person does not give up to this test, that he cannot afterwards be in- fluenced. It is an easy and quick method of select- ing good sensitives. To give a sensitive a few minutes trial is not, however, a fair test by any means, and simply because a subject is not drawn backwards is not a sign by any means that he or she is altogether unsusceptible to hypnotic influence. POSITION. After having selected the subject for the falling backward test, ask him to stand up with his back towards you and with his feet together, his heels touching, his head up, and his hands hanging iimp at his sides, then tell him to clasp his hands tightly, stiffen every muscle in his body, then to slowly relax all his muscles, leaning backward as he does so and to close his eyes and look upwards while closed. To ascertain if he is doing so put your 82 hands on his shoulders and pull him back slightly. If he comes back easily he is doing as you direct; if he is standing with his limbs still stiff it is difficult to pull him back; he is not obeying your suggestions . After he is standing with his eyes closed and muscles relaxed put the palm of your left hand against the back of his head at the base of his brain and the palm of your right hand against his forehead, pushing his head against your left hand, at the same time ask him to rest his head upon your left hand, you standing at his right side. Then step behind your subject with your right foot pointing towards his feet and about eighteen inches away. Both hands touching his temples, slowly draw them backwards and off his temples, leaving his head just behind his ears, with a light but firm pressure. Now tell your subject to think of falling back- ward, to make up his mind he will and to repeat to himself the words, "I feel I am falling backward, I am falling backward, I will fall backwards," etc. Hold your hands still on his temples for ten seconds and then say in slow but positive tones, "When - I - 83 <^PRA(TICVLlNSTRTIOT®rfc> HYPJSDTI5M ^ AND «VGGESTIO^ HERDERi'k Flint. YOU MUST! draw -my - hands - from- your - temples - you - will - slowly -fall - backwards." Then draw your hands backwards so slowly at first that their motion is hardly perceptible. While you are withdrawing your hands still keep saying to the subject, "You are falling backwards -- you will fall backwards." Be sure to catch him when he falls. If he does not respond at first repeat the test. In making this test most persons remove their hands much too rapidly. The more slowly you remove your hands the more likely you are to induce the conditions. Your manner of speaking will also have much to do with your success. Do not speak loudly, but speak positively. Feel the conditions as you suggest them. Either one of the following three methods can be used in place of the Palling Forward or Falling Back- ward test: FIRST METHOD. Let your subject be seated in an easy chair, with all muscles relaxed; his hands upon his knees; his feet flat on the floor and about a foot apart. Tell him to look you intently in your eyes for a minute. Then tell him to close his eyes and while they are e4 closed to look upwards as though looking toward the ceiling, you standing directly in front of him. Let your left thumb cross your right thum and, with the fingers of both hands curved inward, bring your hands up to the subject's forehead. Let your first three fingers of the right hand rest lightly on the left temple of the subject, and the first three fingers of your left hand on his right temple, rest- ing lightly; then slowly bring your fingers off his temples to his shoulders and down his arms and off at his hands, pressing a little heavier on the hands. Lock your thumbs again and curve your fingers, as directed above, and with a half - circular motion, bring them back to his forehead, making that pass thirty or forty times. Say to him, "I want you to think of going to sleep. Now, make up your mind you want to go to sleep. Think of the desire of going to sleep. Sleepy! Sleepy!! Sleepy!!! Your eyelids are getting heavy. You are going to sleep. You will hear no noise, no sound but my voice. Breathe deeply; deeper still. Sleepy! Sleepy!! You are going to sleep. You are asleep. Sleep." Repeat those suggestions during the time you are 85 Practic\l^strtictm^> HYPNOTISM ** AND «VGGEST!OiS Herbert k Flint. YOU MUST! making the passes. Let your voice be low but firm. Feel the condition as you give the suggestions. Believe that he will go to sleep; that he must go to sleep. Watch him closely and, when you think he is asleep, desist. Then lift either of his hands up a foot or so and let it drop. If asleep, his hand will fall limply to his knee or side. After the conditions are induced, he is ready to receive any suggestions and to act on them. Remember the subject can always hear your voice no matter how deep asleep he appears to be. . SECOND METHOD. Have your subject seated in an easy chair in same position as First Method. Stand in front of him and a little to his right side; your right foot between his feet and your left foot at the outside of his right foot. Place the thumb of your right hand at the top of his forehead, above the bridge of his nose, your first, second and third fingers of your right hand resting lightly just above his temples; the thumb of your left hand on his right temple; the first, second and third fingers of the left hand at the base of his brain on the right side of his head. 86 PBACTMLlNSTRUCnoN HYPNOTISM AND «VGGESTI02S Herbert h. FLCSfT. Then have him look intently into your eyes for a minute or two. Then start and draw your right and left hand slowly off of his head, pressing lightly but firmly. Let the thumb of the' right hand leave his head at the bridge of his nose and the fingers of your right hand leave his head just below his left temple. Let the thumb of the left hand leave his head below the temple of the right side and the fingers of the left hand leave his head just behind his right ear, the pass being about 3 or 4 inches in contact with his head, drawing your hands about a foot away from the face of your subject. Repeat the pass thirty or forty times, telling your subject, "Your eyelids are getting heavy; they are feeling tired. You will find you want to close them. You are getting sleepy, sleepy." Then tell him to close his eyes and roll them upwards, and to keep looking upwards, and his eyelids will get so heavy he can't open them. After you have given him those sugges- tions a dozen times, tell him to shut his eyes tight- ly and to try and open them. When he makes the effort, grip his head firmly just as your fingers are about to leave his head, as though in a vise, and 87 HYPNOTISM AND *SVGOiE:.STIO:N HERDER! kFLCNfT. let him try to open his eyes. If you find they stick, then tell him to "try harder to open them." "They are fast. You can't." After. he has made an effort for 30 seconds, then you can remove your hands and let him continue trying for a minute or so. Then snap him out and repeat the test several times. He is then ready for other minor tests. These methods require practice, so the passes can be made gracefully and quickly. Nothing will disturb a subject so quickly and prevent him getting into a subjective state as a bungling operator. THIRD METHOD. Have your subject seated in an easy chair, both feet resting flat on the floor and drawn up to the chair and about a foot apart; his hands resting on his knees, all muscles in a relax condition. Stand in front of him with your right foot be- tween his feet, your left foot on the right side of his right foot; grasp his right hand in your right hand, place the thumb of your left hand just between his eyebrows, the first, second and third fingers spread about an inch apart resting on the top of his forehead. Ask him to look you intently in the eyes-- 88 PBAcricALlNSTRUcriaN HYPNOTISM AND 5VGGESTI02S HeeberiI/. Yum. then suggest to him as follows: "You will find your eyelids are getting heavy"-- "You desire to go to sleep" -- "You are feeling sleepy " , "sleepy", "sleepy," "sleepy." "Your eyelids are getting heavy," "Heavy," "Heavy." "Now think of going to sleep. Make up your mind you want to go to sleep and go to sleep." All this time you are looking straight into his eyes, bringing your body forward until your eyes are within six inches of his, and then back again until about three feet away. Keep repeating this movement of bringing your eyes to and from his during the time of repeating the suggestions for about three to five minutes. Then tell him to close his eyes and look up- wards while they are closed to where your fingers are touching his forehead. Now tell him to close his eyes tight - tighter . "You will find your eyelids are getting fast; they are fast and you can't open them; you may try but you can't. You can't open them. Try, try, try harder." Your fingers should press his forehead firmly, and when you give the suggestion "He can't open his eyes, try" press still harder with your fingers. 89 PRACTKALlNSTRIJCriON HYPNOTISM Herbert k Flint. Your voice for this test should be low, firm and positive, never speak loud for this test. This, to my idea, is one of the best methods to bring a person under control. All your movements must be slow and deliberate. If the eyelids of your subject should not become fastened after the first trial, repeat. After eyelids are fastened the usual sug- gestion of "right, all right," and the snap of your fingers will awaken him; then try him again and again until only the suggestion will be required on your part of --"Close your eyes, roll them upwards, and you can't open them--try." You will find your subject more responsive to the usual physical tests, after being developed by this method than any I know of. FASTENING THE HANDS TOGETHER. Do not, as a rule, make this test until you have been successful with the falling tests. For this test, you can select someone who falls forward and backward readily. Ask him to stand up with his feet together and to clasp his hands together, with the fingers crossed. Then ask him to push his hands very 90 PMCTICALlNSTRUCriON HYPNOTISM AND «VGGESTIO^ Herbert h. Flint. tightly together; to make his arms stiff and rigid, and to try and think he cannot take his hands apart, or better still, to have him repeat mentally the words, "My hands are fast, I can't get them apart. I know they are fast", &c . The subject must center his mind upon the fact of his hands becoming actually fastened together. You, standing in front of him, should now clasp your hands over those of the subject, and ask him to look you straight in the eyes. Tell the subject that he must not look away and, if he should attempt to do so, you should command him rather sharply to look into your eyes. You, mean- while, should look intently in the eyes of your sub- ject with an intense and steady gaze, never removing your gaze at any time -during the inducing of this test . Now say to the subject in a slow, positive tone, "You will find your hands are fast and tight to- gether, tighter, tighter, tight, and you will find you can't pull them apart. You can't open them. Try, if you like. Now try, try harder. I told you they were fast." Here you should remove your hands from those of the subject, so that it will give the 91 asa c^^ACTICALlNSTRUaiON 1 X in \£- YOU * HYPNOTISM < ^ MUSin ANT) «VGGESTI02S Herbert k Flint. subject an opportunity to attempt to pull his hands apart. While your hands are on those of the subject, you should move them around continually and firmly press the subject's hands together. Keep your eyes looking intently into his. During these suggestions and while he is trying to pull his hands apart, hold his gaze and don't let his eyes wander from yours to his hands. If you prefer, instead of pressing the sub- ject's hands, you may make passes down the subject's arms, commencing at the shoulders, firmly passing down the outside of his arms and off at the hands, pressing harder as your hands pass over his hands and repeating the operation until you feel ready to give the suggestions that the subject cannot pull his hands apart. You stand directly in front of your subject when making these passes, and don't forget to keep looking him in the eyes while you are doing so. After you take your hands from those of the sub- ject, you should still keep telling him he cantiot pull his hands apart, as the suggestion grows on his mind by repetition. 92 PfiACTICALlNSTRUCnoN HYPNOTISM ^^T) ^VGGESTIOiN HERBEKfk Flint. In giving the suggestions, you should speak in a slow, positive tone, "You will find your hands are fast together", and you must keep getting more posi- tive and throwing more energy in each subsequent suggestion until you reach the climax, when you tell the subject he cannot pull his hands apart. Don't forget to keep looking him steadily in the eyes all the time you are making the test. After the subject has tried hard to pull his hands apart and is unable to do so, you should snap your fingers and say very positively, "Right, all right. Wake up, wide awake; all right", and should repeat these suggestions several times until the influence is entirely removed. Try and feel the con- ditions you suggest. Use your will. GRIPPING THE HANDS. After succeeding in fastening your subject's hands together then try this test, but if you fail on the other test, it is useless to try this. Tell your subject to stand in front of you with his feet about a foot apart and to look you steadily in the eyes. Then tell him to bend his elbows and bring his hands 83 Practical Instruction HYPNOTISM * AND «VGGESTIOiN Herbert \ Flint. YOU MUST! up to atout the height of his shoulders, and then to grip both of his hands tightly. Then you take hold of his wrists, your right hand grasping his left wrist, your left hand grasping his right wrist, and grip them firmly. Then tell him to grip his hands just as tightly as he can, to make the muscles of his arms as stiff and rigid as possible; to look you steadily in the eyes and to think his hands are getting fast and that he cannot open them. . Tell him they are getting fast; to grip them tighter -- tight- er—and to think of his hands gripping so tight they wont open. Then say--"they are fast, you can't open them"--"you can't"-— "try if you like"--— "you can't". As you give the suggestion "you can't", grip his wrists tightly, looking as intently as possible in his eyes. Your voice full and positive and rather loud. Tell him to try try--try harder, he can't. After he has tried for a minute or two and cant open his hands, then remove your hands from his wrists, still holding his gaze with yours and let him try a minute or two longer to open his hands. Then say to hin in quick, sharp, positive tones: "Right, all right, all right I say." Be earnest and sincere. 04 Believe yourself that his hands are becoming fast, working right with him as you give the suggestions. HOW TO STIFFEN YOUR SUBJECT'S ARM. Have your subject stand in front of you. Tell him to hold his right arm out as far as he can, fingers extended; then have him close his hand and make his arm as stiff as he can; then take hold of his fist with your left hand and make a few passes with your right hand down the inside of his arm. Look him intently in the eyes, saying, "Think of your arm getting stiff; think you cannot bend it." "Your arm is getting stiff; it is stiff and you will find you cannot bend it." "Try if you like--you can- not." 'You see it is stiff--it is getting stiffer. Try and bend it. You cannot." "Try, --try harder." Let go of his fist, back away a few steps, still keep looking him intently in the eyes , until he has made several attempts to do so, when you can remove your gaze and let him continue the effort for a couple of minutes. The usual suggestion of "All right, you can bend your arm now," is enough to remove the im- pression. Sometimes your subject may feel as though 95 PmcticalInstruction HYPISOTISM A?4r> «VGGESTIOM By Herbert I/. Flint. he has a cramp in the arm. Then reverse the passes and quietly pat the arm, telling him, "It's all right now. You feel all right. You are all right." Make him move his arm around and clasp and unclasp his hand half a dozen times. HOW TO STIFFEN YOUR SUBJECT'S LEG. Have your subject stand up and bring his left leg forward and place his weight on that leg. Drop down on your right knee in front of him. Take hold of his right hand with your left hand. Have him look you straight in the eyes and think he cannot bend his leg. Now make a few downward passes over his left leg with your right hand, commencing about six inches above the knee and continuing down to the ankle. While making these passes say to your subject, "Think of your leg getting stiff." "You will find it is getting stiff." "Your leg is stiff. It is stiff--it is getting stiffer and you cannot bend it." "You will find when you try to walk, you will walk stiff legged." As you give the last suggestion, rise, --still keeping your gaze intently fixed on the 96 Mai(ALlNSTRU(IIO^f^> IN \C Y0U hypnotism ^ MUST! AND «VGGESTI02S By Herbert I/. Eliot. eyes of your subject. Keep hold of his hand and slowly back away. Then say, "As you follow me you will find your left leg is stiff," and he will likely walk stiff legged. After taking a few steps back- ward, let go of his hand and let him continue alone for a few steps. Then you can remove the suggestion by saying, "All right. Wake up. Your leg is all right." You may have to make the trial several times before inducing the condition. HOW TO PREVENT YOUR SUBJECT SPEAKING HIS NAME. Tell your subject to stand up. Stand at his right side, gripping his right hand in yours. Let your left hand rest on his left shoulder, gently press your thumb on his throat just above the "Adam's apple," then say, "Think of your tongue swelling in your mouth. You will find it is becoming thick and heavy. You will find you are tongue tied and cannot speak your name." Look intently in his eyes and tell him, "Now speak your name if you can. You can- not. Try." As you give him the final suggestion to try, grip his hand tightly and press more firmly on his throat with your left thumb, letting your left 97 hand rest quite heavily on his shoulder. Still keep looking intently in his eyes. After he has made several efforts to speak his name, you can remove your gaze and take your left hand away, still keep- ing hold of his right hand. After several efforts to speak his name, the usual suggestion of "Right, -- all right, --wide awake, --all right, -you can speak your name, --all right" will suffice to release the impression. HOW TO KEEP YOUR SUBJECT FROM GETTING UP FROM A CHAIR. Tell your subject to sit in a chair and place the palms of his hands on his knee caps and press down firmly . Stand in front of him; tell him to look into your eyes. Then lean over and let your hands rest rather heavily on his shoulders for thirty seconds or so. Pass your hands down over his arms and off at his hands several times--the pressure firmer as your hands pass off of his hands. Then tell him, "Your muscles are getting set. You feel as heavy as lead. You will find your knees are stiff and they will not straighten out." "Your hands are fast on your knees ©8 PbacticalInstruction HYPNOTISM A2SI> «VGGESTIOZS By Herbert k Flint. and you cannot get out of that chair." Keep looking him intently in the eyes, during these suggestions. Then continue, "You can try and you cannot get up." "Now try. Try harder. You cannot get up." As you give the last few suggestions, stand about five feet away, pointing directly at his eyes with your right hand, never letting his gaze wander from yours. This test is successful nine out of ten times. After he has tried for a few minutes, the impression can be removed by the usual suggestion of "All right, --wide awake, --your muscles are all right, --you can bend your knees, --get up now. " Sometimes in this test, it is advisable to have your subject close his eyes for a minute and say to him, "When you open your eyes, you will feel all right and can get up." HOW TO KEEP YOUR SUBJECT FROM SITTING DOWN. Have your subject stand up directly in front of a chair. You stand in front of him about three feet away. Drop down on your right knee and make passes down the o.utside of his legs, commencing at his hips, passing off at his ankles, telling him at the 99 1 WILL! PMaiGYLlNSTRUCTION HYPNOTISM AND 5VGGESTIOIN Bv Herbert k Flint. same time,' "Your legs are getting stiff. Your hips are set. You cannot tend your knees." Keep repeat- ing those suggestions during the time you are making the downward passes. Then stand up and look directly in his eyes and tell him, "Think of your legs getting stiff", and "Think you cannot sit down." Be as intent as possible. Shake your finger in front of his eyes and say "You cannot sit down. You cannot. Try now and you cannot." As he makes the effort, become still firmer in your commands. Almost shout, "You cannot. You cannot. Try--Try-- Try harder." Keep those suggestions up all the time he is trying. At the snap of your fingers and the command "All right,-- all right-- you can," he will usually col- lapse and fall into the chair in a heap. HOW TO KEEP YOUR SUBJECT FROM THROWING A STICK DOWN. Have your subject stand in front of you. Hand him a cane or broom handle. Tell him to take hold of it. See that his hands are about eighteen inches apart. Take hold of his hands, your thumbs pressing the back of his hand--yjur right hand grasping his 100 left and your left, his right. Ask him to look into your eyes and to think of his hands getting fast to the stick. Tell him to grasp the stick as tight as he can. Then say, (as you are looking intently into his eyes) "Now, think you cannot let go of this stick. Your hands are fast to it and you cannot throw it down. ■ Grip his hands firmly. Lean towards him, hold- ing nis gaze and say, "You cannot throw that stick down. Try if you like, --you cannot." As you give the last suggestion, let go of his hands and back away from him, still holding his gaze. Tell him to throw it down if he can. After he has made several efforts, you can remove your gaze and let him con- tinue the effort for a minute or so. Watch out when you give the suggestion of "All right," "Now you can," etc., etc., as the stick may fly across the room, or bound from the floor, hitting some of the spectators or yourself. HOW TO PREVENT YOUR SUBJECT FROM JUMPING OVER A STICK. After you succeed in preventing your subject from throwing down the stick, then try him on this test: 101 j^ PmcticalInstructioN ^ll, ^ HYPNOTISM ^"^ AND «VGGESTI02S HEFDira h. Flint. Place the stick in the middle of the room. Then tell him to stand about a foot away from the stick with his feet about six inches apart. Tell him to place his arms at his side, to clench his fists and to make his legs as stiff as possible. Now stand about six feet away, directly in front of him, your right foot forward. Have him look you intently in the eyes for thirty seconds or so. Lean forward and say, "Now look into my eyes and don't look away, and think you are getting fast to the floor, and think you cannot jump on the stick. Make your legs stiff. Watch my eyes closely and you will find your feet stickfast to the floor, and you cannot jump over that stick. You cannot. Try if you like." "Try. Try. Try harder. I knew you could not." It is always advisable to continually repeat the suggestions "You cannot. Try, Try," while he is trying for the first minute, then you can remove your gaze and let him continue his efforts for a couple of minutes longer. The usual snap of the fingers and the suggestion "All right--wide awake, -- you can," will bring him out from the impression. Watch him closely as he is likely to fall forward, or 102 PMCTICALlNSTRUCTIOISf HYPNOTISM AND «VGGESTI02S Herbert!/. Flint. make a jump of three or four feet and may loo^ his balance. Be careful to see your subject never hurts himself. If he does, he loses confidence in you for other tests. HOW TO PREVENT YOUR SUBJECT FROM TAKING HIS FINGERS OFF HIS NOSE. You can have your subject seated or standing up as you prefer. Have him rest his left elbow in his right hand, and place the index finger of the left hand against his nose. You stand directly in front of him. Tell him to think of his right arm becoming stiff, also his left arm becoming stiff and his left elbow fastened in the palm of his right hand. Lean towards him and shake the index finger of your right hand in front of his eyes, looking him intently in the eyes, and say: "Now think of your finger becoming fastened to your nose", "Think of it being glued to your nose", "You will find it is fast to your nose," and "You cannot take it away". "Now watch my eyes closely and you may try to take your finger away"-- Try now--try, you cannot, try harder, pull it away 103 1 W II I I -^^aioLlNSTRuai^r^: ^ HYPNOTISM ^"^ AND -SVGGESTIOiS Herbert h. Flint. if vo-j can, ■ "You cannot , I knew you could' n't". After ho nas made the effort for thirty seconds or so, you can remove your gaze and stop the suggestions and let him try for a few minutes, as it is a very amusing test for the spectators. The usual suggestion of, "All right--Wake up all right, --Now you can", will suffice to remove the impression. "HOW TO PREVENT YOUR SUBJECT CLOSING HIS MOUTH". Have your subject stand in front of you. Tell him to relax all his muscles, and to close his eyes for a few minutes. Then tell him to look directly into your eyes, and to open his mouth as wide as he can. Then let the first three fingers of each hand rest on his temples, the right fingers touching his left temple, the left fingers touching his right temple. Make passes from his temple down his cheeks and off at his chin, pressing rather firmly, at the same time, saying, "Think of your mouth being wide open, think of your jaws becoming stiff, think of your jaws becoming set so that you cannot close your mouth". Keep looking him intently in the eyes and open your own mouth as wide as you can for thirty 104 seconds. Then continue the suggestions, at the same time, making the passes a little more rapid. "Your jaws are stiff and set, your mouth cannot be closed and you cannot close it; try to close it: you cannot; you cannot; try, try harder, try still harder." You can then remove your hands still holding his gaze for a minute. Then remove your gaze and let him con- tinue the effort for a minute or so. The usual snap of the fingers and the suggestion of, "Right, all right, you can close your mouth now", will allow the muscles to relax, and the mouth to close. CANNOT STOP HANDS MOVING,. Have your subject stand in front of you, bend- ing slightly forward. Have him extend his hands for- ward about six inches apart. Tell him to start his hands moving up and down--rather slowly at first. Have him look at his hands for 30 seconds, and to think of perpetual motion. Then have him look you in the eyes; lean slightly forward yourself, be as intent as possible. Then say to him "Move your hands faster. Keep moving them faster, still faster, faster, still faster." Your suggestions should be 105 ^ HYPNOTISM AND «VGGESTI02S Herbert h. Flint. rather loud, earnest and quick. Tell him, "Now think you cannot stop, they are moving in spite of you. You cannot stop them, try you cannot; try harder, stop them if you can." When your subject is thoroughly under that im- pression, his hands will go faster and faster. A minute or so is long enough to continue the test, as it is a hard one and the muscles will often cramp in the arm. You can remove your gaze from his at your final suggestion "stop them if you can." At the same time tell him to look at his hands. The usual suggestion of "All right- -right - -wide awake. Right you are," will suffice to release the impression. CANNOT STOP HANDS ROLLING. This test can be produced on the same lines as the preceding one. Have your subject stand up before you about four feet away, tell him to bend forward quite a little, and to let the muscles of his hands and wrists relax. Tell him to start re- volving his hands around one another quite slowly 106 PbactkalInstruction HYPNOTISM jXISHD «VGGESTIO?S 5x; Herbert k Flint and to think of perpetual motion. You may now lean forward yourself and start your hands revolving, about as fast as his are, then tell him to look into your eyes and to think of the fact that it is easier to keep his hands moving that way then to hold them still. You must now become as earnest as possible, look intently into his eyes; and start your own hands rolling a little faster. Now tell him to "Roll his hands faster, still faster, faster, faster, still faster." At the same time revolve your own hands still faster and faster, until you are rolling them about as fast as you can. Keep urging him to roll his as fast as you are yours, if not faster. Keep that up for a minute- -cont inually suggesting, "You will find you cannot stop rolling your hands--you cannot . " Etc. Etc. You may now let your left hand drop to your side and bring your right hand up in front of his face with a shaking motion, looking still more intently in his eyes and tell him "Now keep rolling your hands just as fast as you can, and you will find that you cannot atop rolling them." "Think of perpetual motion 107 Practice Instruction HYTOGTISM AND «VGGESTI02S HERDERfk Flint and you cannot stop those hands." "You may try if you like, the harder you try to stop them, the harder and faster they will roll." "Now try and stop them. Try, try harder, still harder." All this time you are looking intently into his eyes. Your right hand is flashing up and down in front of them. At your last suggestion "Harder, still harder," you may drop your right hand to your side, still holding his gaze and keeping up a line of suggestion in rather a loud positive voice. Let the words come out quick and sharp. "You see you cannot stop them. Try, try harder, try still harder to stop them." Then drop your gaze from his eyes to his hands and tell him to look at his own hands and not to take his eyes off them. Then continue. "Now stop them if you can." "Stop them I say." "You cannott You cannotl See you cannotl Try as long as you like and you cannot." You can let him continue his efforts for a minute or so, before giving the usual suggestion of "Right, all right." "Right you are." "You can stop ihem now." "All right, I sayl" The snap of your fingers will assist materially in regaining the attention of your subject. This is 108 PRA(TIC\LfrlSnttJCriON n^ v ■^MUST! HYPNOTISM AND SVGGESTI02S Herbert h. Flint. one of the hardest physical tests to produce and bring the subject to the right conditions and a good test to give to all your subjects. You may have to work on them 15 or 20 minutes, and then fail on three out of five. In this very active test, you want to enter into the spirit of it yourself, letting your whole mind be absorbed in the test so there will be great energy shown in all your gestures and movements . It is a test that will make your own muscles ache, and after testing a couple of subjects, you will feel as though you had done a hard day's work. Still use the test, because if a subject will carry the impression, it shows he is good for any prolonged physical test. I find it one of the best to use in testing to see whether a subject will carry sugges- tions or not. INDUCING THE CATALEPTIC STATE. Catalepsy has been my specialty and is one of the most interesting tests produced by suggestion and magnetism. It is a condition in which all the muscles of the body become more or less rigid. A 109 WILL! ^ HYPISOTISM * AND «VGGESTIO]N Herbert k Flint. YOU MUST! small child in this state, is capable of holding many times his own weight on his body while his ankles are resting upon the back of one chair, and his neck and shoulders upon the back of another. Before commencing this test, arrange two common kitchen chairs, having round backs, at about the right distance apart, the backs facing each other so that when the subject is placed across them, his ankles will rest on the back of one and his shoulders upon the back of the other. Place small cushions on the top of the backs of the chairs, so that the backs of the chairs will not bruise the subject while undergoing the test. Have a person sit upon each chair, so as to keep them from slipping, and to hold the subject in position on the chairs in order to prevent his falling off. When you have everything ready to induce cataleptsy have one of your best sensi- tives stand erect in front of you, heels together, and hands hanging limp at his sides. Have some one stand behind your subject to keep him from falling while you are inducing the state. Tell your subject to take a tight hold of his trousers and to think of every muscle in his body becoming as rigid and stiff 110 MCTKALl^STRUCriaM HYPNOTISM AND «VGGESTI02N Herbert k Fmjr. as a bar of iron. Tell him to look into your eyes. Now begin to give suggestions of rigidity; tell him that he will not fall over. Be sure to try and induce a line of thought on his part of becoming rigid before giving suggestions for the rigid state. After you see that he is becoming influenced, suggest as fol- lows:-- "Now don't be afraid. No harm will come to you. Your heart is beating normally and will beat normally . Now inhale deeply, keep inhaling deeply . Now stiffen up. Stand as erect as possible, throw your head back and you will find that all the muscles of your body are becoming rigid and stiff. Rigid, rigid. Inhale deeply. Grip your hands tighter. Still tighter." Then grip his left shoulder with your right hand and his right shoulder with your left hand; look him intently in the eyes a few seconds; tell him to look upwards; then to close his eyes and keep looking up- wards; then press downwards on his shoulders as heavily as you can for twenty or thirty seconds, con-^ tinuing the suggestions of becoming rigid and stiff. Then pass your hands rapidly down his shoulders over his arms and hands, continuing the pass down over the outside of his legs as far as his ankles with a 111 PracticalImstriiction HYPNOTISM Herbert h. Flint sudden downward pressure on his insteps and the sugestion of "Rigid" as you do so. Repeat that pass four or five times, then if the subject is not rigid snough, continue the suggestions until he is com- pletely rigid. It may require ten or fifteen minutes of hard work on the part of the operator to induce the condition. Then lift him carefully and place him on the backs of the chairs. After he is placed across the chairs have one of the assistants hold his shoulders and the other his ankles. One or more persons can sit or stand upon him for a few minutes. You should always be ready to give suggestions of "Rigid" and "stiff" in case the subject shows signs of bending or coming out of the condition. I have often placed five, six or seven subjects in this condition and having piled them up to repre- sent "The human wood pile," have stood upon the topmost, thus presenting a very interesting scene. A subject in a cataleptic state ought to be able to hold up 1000 pounds or so. Five hundred pounds is, however, a con- vincing test. Pour heavy men standing upon one subject, presents a good effect. ■The Rock Breaking" is an exciting and interest- US Pmctkm,Instru(iioM HYP1SDTISM ANT) 5VGGESTI07S HeebertI/. Flint, ing test. In order to successfully present this scene, secure a limestone rock weighing about 400 pounds, 32 inches long, 22 inches wide, 7 or 8 inches thick. After placing the subject in the necessary state, place some padding on his body and lay the rock on the padding so as to elevate the rock about one inch or so from the subject's body. Get a steady, strong man; one who is accustomed to wielding a sledge hammer, and have him deliver the blows, start- ing lightly, and increasing in force until the rock is broken. It may require eight or ten blows. It is always advisable to place a handkerchief over the subject's face. Have two assistants hold the subject on the chairs (as stated in presenting the cataletpic test)and four assistants to lift the rock on the body of the subject. The operator is standing at the back of the man holding the subject's shoulders, his arms over the man's shoulder, and holding on the rock, ready in an instant to throw the rock off the subject's body should anything go wrong, --say the rock slip- ping, or a chair, or one of the assistants failing to hold the subject in place. Always look after the 113 RACTIOVLlNSTRlJaiON HYPNOTISM AND «VGGESTI02S Herbert h. Flint. interest of your subject, first, last, and always, in tests of this kind, thus begetting confidence on his part towards the operator. Try and feel the suggestions as you give them. ANESTHESIA. Minor surgical operations may be performed with the greatest success while using suggestion as an anesthetic and no possible injury can result to the patient. Teeth may easily be extracted while the patient's jaw is locally anesthetized by suggestion. Anesthesia may be induced in any one part, or almost the entire body, at the will of the operator. After getting your subject in a receptive state ask him to look at the back of one of his wrists; to gaze at it steadily and to concentrate his thoughts on the fact of the wrist becoming numb. Be sure and enter into the spirit of the suggestion yourself. Then ask him to look into your eyes and say to him, "Now think a minute and you will find your wrist is becoming numb. You will find in a minute or two you have no feeling whatever in your wrist." Repeat these suggestions ialf a dozen times very slowly. Be firm and posi- 114 BACTKALlMrRlJCnON HYPNOTISM ANT) «VGGESTI02S Herbert h. Flint. tive in your tones, putting more emphasis on the words "no feeling" each time you give the suggestion. Rub the back of the wrist gently with your right hand, holding his hand in your left hand. Let the passes be backwards or away from the wrist. All this time keep looking intently into his eyes. Then you can say, "Now you feel your wrist getting numb. You have not a particle of feeling in it. All sense of feeling is going." (Of course you understand your subject is entirely conscious to surrounding conditions and all the rest of his body is more or less sensitive to feeling except that one wrist. You can, of course, treat any portion of the body in the same manner, or even the entire body, and have the subject conscious and wide awake.) When you think you have the subject's wrist perfectly anesthetized, you may lift up the loose flesh on the back of his wrist and say, "You cannot feel a thing in this wrist. It is numb. It has no feeling. You know you can't feel any pain in this wrist. I am positive you CAN'T feel any pain there." Now pick up the loose flesh between your thumb and finger letting your thumb nail cut into the skin pretty hard and say, "I know you CAN'T feel that, it 116 ^ HYF1SOTISM AND «VGGEST102S By Herbert k Flint. don't hurt. I am positive you CAN'T feel it. This will not hurt, it will not even bleed. You can't feel it now, can you? Most decidedly you CAN'T." If your subject should not answer, then say in the same even positive tone, "You CAN'T feel it, now can you? Tell me if you do." If he should say he can, simply repeat the suggestions with more force and posit iveness . Also repeat the passes. Then ask him again, and if he says he cannot feel it, you can take a steel hat pin, or a needle, and pass it through the piece of skin or flesh and he will not feel it, nor ought there to be any flow of blood. At the moment of passing the pin through the flesh you should not hesitate nor appear excited, but keep looking intently in his eyes, and push the pin through with- out any fear for it will not hurt him any more than it would if you run it through his coat sleeve. In withdrawing the hat pin do so quickly. Rub the finger* of the right hand over the puncture a few times, and there will be little or no mark to show where it had been. ue in \> YOU HYPNOTISM ^ TOr AND «VGGESTIOTS HERBERT I/.FLENJT. THE DIVIDING LINE BETWEEN PHYSICAL AND MENTAL WORK. You should thoroughly learn and understand how to produce the physical tests in Hypnotism before attempting any of the mental scenes. Every subject ought to be tried in all the physical tests in the order I have given them, before attempting the following scenes. Each test is a little harder than the preceding one. The result, your subject is gradU' ally worked up to the condition required to accept hallucinations. THE BUTTERFLY TEST. After having gone through all the physical tests, then you can test your subject for mental work. You will find that many of your subjects, whom you can control for physical tests, will not be susceptible to the mental work. The imagination of the subject now comes into play. The first mental test to give is the "Butterfly Test"; it is the easiest and the one in which you can note the conditions of your subject best. You must try to see and feel the same conditions and sensations yourself. Have your subject stand up, then stand in front and a little to the right of 1 17 11 J£\ f+ n i WILL! Practical Instruction HYPNOTISM * ANT) «VGGESTI02S Herdert'I/. Flint. him. Let your left hand rest on his right shoulder, lock him intently in the eyes for a few seconds, then tell him to close his eyes. Now give sugges- tions as follows: "I want you to try and bring a picture of a butterfly before your eyes; think of a butterfly, think of how it looks; now imagine you can see it." Repeat those suggestions a half dozen times. Then tell him to open his eyes and look at the ends of the fingers of your right hand, and to think of a butterfly resting on them. Make graceful sweeps of your hand through the air, bringing your hand to within a few inches of his eyes every few seconds. While making the sweeping motion of your hand, keep giving him suggestions. "See the butter- fly on my fingers; How pretty it is; it is the finest you ever saw; It is there; See it? It is gcing to leave my fingers and fly away-- there it goes". At the last suggestion, your hand is as far away as you can reach. Hold it still for an instant, then let it drop to your side. Let your left hand press rather heavily onhis right shoulder at the suggestion, "there it goes". You can then take your hand off of his shoulder. Keep watching his eyes intently all the 1 18 MCTKALlNSTRUCriON HYFlSOriSM AND «VGGESTI02S Herbert h. Flint, time you are giving the suggestions. You will be able to note the peculiar look which will come into his eyes as he commences to see the butterfly; the enlargement of the pupils, the peculiar rapt gaze. Then is the time to let the butterfly leave your fingers. You can let your subject follow the butter- fly with his gaze for a minute or so, then give the suggestion: "Now try and catch it if you like, it is flying around your head. There it g es along the floor." You will soon have him trying to get it. The usual suggestion of, "right, all right, wide awake", repeated half a dozen times, with the snap of your fingers, will bring your subject back to hia normal self. PRESENTING THE PLEA TEST. Have your subject seat himself and stand about five feet away from him. Tell him to relax all his muscles; have him close his eyes for a minute or so, and tell him to let his mind be as receptive as pos- sible and to try and think only of your suggestions. Tell him to think how a flea bites and how the bite itches, especially when bitten between the shoulders, 119 and to think how it irritates him. Continue the suggestion along this line, speaking in an earnest low tone of voice during the time your subjeot is seated with his eyes closed. Now try and feel the itching, biting sensation upon your own back; then commence to indicate by action and expression that you yourself have been bitten, and tell your subject to open his eyes and look at your eyes. Continue the action and expres- sion on yourself, step forward, lean over your subject, let your left hand rest on the back of his right shoulderblade and press the index finger of that hand between the shoulder blades with a trembling motion; then say to him and mean it: "There is wher* it has bitten you ; "--"Fee 1 it itch you ; " --"Right there ; "--"My, how it itches ;" --"You oannot keep still it itches you so;"--"You will want to rub your back and scratch it." All this time you are moving your own shoulders as though a flea was biting you. You must be as intent as possible. As soon as he commences to wriggle a little, become still more intense, and keep up a running fir« of suggestions along the line of the above. After 120 the impression has taken effect, you can remove your gaze and stop your suggestions. A good subject will grow more intense in this scene, so keep watching him because he is liable to remove his coat, vest and often his shirt and under- shirt in his search for the flea. Never attempt this scene until you have tried him thoroughly with phys- ical tests and proved him to be a good subject in them. It is a good test with which to follow "The Butterfly Test. » Be very careful to thoroughly remove the impres- sion by the usual formula of "Right, all right, wide- awake, right I say," etc., etc. A subject will often retain the impression of that flea bite for several hours, so watch him carefully. THE NOSE BLEEDING TEST. Have your subject stand up in front of you, bending slightly forward, with his head dropped slightly forward; then tell him to close his eyes and to think of the last time his nose ever bled, and to think of the tickling sensation of the blood run- ning down his face; then tell him to look at your eyes. 121 HA(TIC\LlNSTRU «VGGESTIO]N Herbert k Flint stroking him. Call attention to the horse's head, and how it is checked up. Tell him--"The horse is a little restless," etc. Now show him the reins as though you were holding them. Then hand them towards him, saying: "Here, take hold of these reins, you want to drive him. You are already seated in the sulky. Tou want to drive this horse in the coming race; you do! Isn't he a beauty? Be careful as he is a little hard mouthed. You had better pat him, an: speak to him as you take the reins. Here, take them. " During your suggestions, your subject ought to have followed your gestures with his eyes, and the impression grown on him until by this time he can see the horse in its entirety. Call attention to the roughness of the ground, and to the other drivers and horses around him. Show him the race track, the judges' stand, the Grand Stand. Tell him all about starting, and to listen for the bell. If accustomed to driving, he may place the reins under him, grasp the whip you hand him, talk to his horse and argue with you about him. Perhaps start in a conversation with the other drivers around him upon the merits and 1S9 PMCTIC\LlN5TRU(TI0]S[ HYPNOTISM AND «VGGESTIO?S Herbert k Flint. demerits of their respective horses, etc. Now pass behind your subject and lean over him, still direct- ing his attention to his hors a , getting just as earn- est as you can, and as excited as though you were one of the spectators of an exciting horse race. Then continue your suggestions something like this: "Look out 1 Look out! Get ready; they are going to start. Keep your horse steady. Watch out for the horses on both sides of you. There goes the belli You are all off. You want to win this race." etc. Keep up a line of suggestions, telling him about reaching the quarter, the half, the three quarter mile pole. Make him whip his horse and yell at him. You can let your hands rest on his shoulders while giving him these suggestions, and intensify him in the excite- ment he feels, as in this scene you ought to work him up to the highest pitch of excitement, and he will accept any suggestions you give him in the way of turning out for any horse ahead of him in trying to pass one of the others. For the finish you can bring in two horses nose and nose, and create quite a lit- tle excitement between your subject and one of the audience, by telling him he is one of the other 140 HAcncALlNSTmjcnoisf HYPNOTISM ANT) «VGGESTI02N Herbert I/. Flint drivers, and he says his horse has beaten yours, etc. , etc. Get him to appeal to the judge for a decision, and many times you will get a splendid plea from your subject in trying to win the judge over to his side. This scene can be run from ten to twenty minutes, and every moment of it interesting to all the specta- tors. A half dozen snaps of your fingers, and the usual suggestions of--"Right! All right! Right you are 1 Wake up I Wake up! All right I All right, I say," will generally bring your man back to his normal state. HOW TO MAKE AN ORATOR OUT OF YOUR SUBJECT. Have your subject seat himself with his hands resting on his knees. Ask him--"Are you a Democrat or Republican?" After he has replied, tell him to close his eyes, and to think of any stump speakers he ever heard. Think of the gestures they used, es- pecially when they got warmed up to their topic. To think of what a grand thing it is to be able to speak and move a vast audience. Why, the aim of your life is to be a good speaker, etc., etc., etc. After giving suggestions along this line for a Ml PracticvlInstrtioton HYPNOTISM AND SVGGESTlOiS Herbert I/. Flint, minute, then if he said he is a Democrat, say to him--" Why, you have been a stump speaker for years past, advocating every plank in the Democratic plat- form. You are known all over the State as one of the most forcible talkers among the Democratic speakers. You love to talk, you love to argue. You would rather address an audience upon your favorite subject of the Democratic party, being the Working- man's party, the friend of the down-trodden workman" e tc . , etc., e tc . During this time you are standing in front of your subject putting just as much earnestness in your voice as possible. Continue a lot of suggestions along that line, or any other line connected with the Democratic party that you wish him to talk upon. After being sure y'our subject is thoroughly impressed with your suggestions, say to him--"Open your eyes, and look at me." Then say--" My, vhat a broad shoul- dered, deep chested man you are." When giving this last suggestion, stand erect yourself, and throw your own shoulders back, all the time looking in- tently in his eyes. Now make a sweep of your right hand as though showing him an audience in front of 142 PracticalInstruction HYHSbriSM A?^T) «VGGESTIO]N Herbert k Flint. him, and continue — " See that vast audience there — the Hall is completely filled, not a chair in the house vacant, and they all came to hear you talk." A sug- gestion of that kind appeals more or less to the vanity of any speaker, and as your subject has by this time taken on the condition suggested to him, it appeals to his vanity, and that part will help you to bring forth the Orator. Continue--" There are as many ladies as gentlemen present, and half of them Republicans, the other half Democrats. Now you want to win those Republicans over to your way of think- ing, and you will. You will find you can talk just as fast as you can think. Go ahead now, don't keep them waiting any longer, the chairman has introduced you. Start right in there, with 'Ladies and Gentlemen*" Etc. By this time you should be very intense and earnest your self . Lean towards your subject, let your left hand rest on his right shoulder and gently pull him forward toward the supposed audience, or toward the audience if giving an entertainment. If he is a Democrat, don't try and induce him to talk on the Republican side first. After he gets interested in his subject, he will 148 PRACTICE INSTRUCTION HYRSOTISM AND SVGGESTIOTS HERDERXkFLBMT. continue for quite a while. I have often had a young man continue an address for eight or ten minutes. You can stop him in the midst of his talk by calling his attention to you and look him intently in the eyes, and pass your right hand in front of his face half a dozen times, and say to him--" Why, what is the matter with you? What are you talking about? You are not a Democrat. You are a Republican, and you came here to address this audience on the Republican Plat- form, and all the planks on that platform. There, start right ahead quick, talk to them sir. Thats right, go ahead and tell them all about your party. The grand old party," He will likely look at you in a dazed manner for a minute, perhaps argue the point, but after he has once started upon the last suggestion, he is more earnest, emphatic and forceible than ever, because with every different impression you give your subject (and getting him to change from one thing to another without awakening him from the preceding impression,) he loses his knowledge of his own identity and accepts each change more earnestly. The result, he becomes deeper and deeper under the impression of your sug— 144 PMCTICALlNSTRUCriON HYPNOTISM ANT> «VGGESTI02S HEKBERX L.FLUNJT gestions, especially if you have worked earnestly with him in inducing the changes. You will be sur- prised at the results you will obtain at the flow of language, the arguments, the wit, etc., etc. This test never fails to entertain all spectators. It is also a good thing for the training of your subject mentally. It may require a dozen suggestions of "Right, all right, wide awake, wake up, wide awake I say-- Wake up, wide awake," and the snapping of your fin- gers before he is thoroughly aroused from the con- dition induced and brought back to his normal state. HOW TO CHANGE THE INDENTITY OF YOUR SUBJECT. In making this effort upon your subject, pick the one who has readily responded to all the pre- ceding tests and especially one who has shown himself a deep subj ect . Have your subject seat himself, with his feet apart, his hands clasped, with all his muscles relaxed . Stand in front and to the right side of him. Now you must try and induce a state of deep sleep. 145 ^ HYPlSOriSM * A? «VGGESTIOTS Herbert k Flint. tfida awake 1 Wake uo! Wake up I say!" and the snapping of your fingers will brine your subject, back from dream-land. FOR THE SALESMAN. The secret of success in the art of selling r-eds, and in any business is your ability to give -csitive and impressive suggestions without arousing antagonism in the mind of your prospective purchaser. The practise you have had in testing your sub- jects as per instructions in former lessons will ma- terially aid you in being able to give the sugges- tions required. In trying to sell any article to £ ny person never ask him if he wants to buy it, al- ways give the suggestions as follows: "You want that, (naming the article) don't you?" Put your emphasis upon the first part of the question. Make of your question what a lawyer would call a leading question. Never say, "Do you want to buy this?" Try to force i the answer in the affirmative before you ask him "If he wants it. " During the tips ycu are in the pres- ence of your customer, always ke°p yourself in a pos- itive state, both m a mental and p.i ysical way. 159 ^F" ractical Instruction HYPNOTISM AND SVGGESTIOM By HERBERT kFLEN[T. Never sit down in a relaxed condition, because if you do, your mind will unconsciously take on the con- ditions of your muscular system. Always look your customer directly in the eyes with an earnest, inter- ested expression. Don't try to outstare him. During the entire time you are talking to your man, use every bit of will power you have got in feeling the impressions, He wants to buy. He will buy. He must buy. Keep at all times before you the suggestions, I will! You must! Have faith in yourself. Believe that you are just as good as any man living and in fact, a little better. Believe your time is just as valuable as any man's and especially as valuable as your customer's. Force yourself to believe that your goods are better than your competitors'. Never have a doubt as to the ultimate outcome of your selling him a bill of goods. After having talked upon the merits of a certain line of goods, the suggestion from you to him, as you have your order book out and pencil in hand, "How many did you say?" If you have an idea of about how many he ought to have, then force the question as follows: "How many did you say? Five dozen? etc., etc." Then take up another article. 160 PbactiolInstruciioN HYPNOTISM .AND 5VGGESTIOIS Herbert k Flemt. Keep his mind upon one article at a time. Finish each order for each article before taking up another line. Do not try to sell your man in his store; there are likely to be too many interruptions, which will draw his mind away from your suggestions and you will have to start all over again. Get him alone in your room at the hotel; the chances are two to one in favor of selling him a big bill of goods there. If you have to sell a man in his store, and should find him busy, call again, call half a dozen times or un- til you find him at leisure and ready to give you his undivided attention. Never be in too great a hurry, take your time, let every suggestion have a chance to impress itself upon his mind. HOW TO AWAKEN A SUBJECT WHO HAS BEEN HYPNOTIZED BY ANOTHER. As a rule, a person who has been hypnotized by another operator can be awakened by the process you generally use; just as though you had brought about the cond i t i ons yourself. If he should not respond to the awakening process, then go through the pro- cess of hypnotizing him as in the methods ,-- Is t , 2nd 161 RACTICYLlNSTRUCriGM HYPNOTISM J\NT> «VGGESTIOiN Hejrderx k Flint. fc, and 3rd. Use about tenor fifteen minutes time. Then test him to see if he will respond to your sug- gestions readily. Tell him to open his eyes and look at you. Then to close his eyes again. Repeat this test several times. Then tell him ,-- "You want to go to sleep, you will go to sleep, you must go to sleep. Now think of going to sleep. Sleepy, sleepy, sleep, deep asleep. You will find as you are sleeping, you are dreaming of the desire of awakening. You want to awaken, you are waking up, all right, wide awake." Be confident in your suggestions, do not speak too loud. Be intense and mean what you say. In nine times out of ten, you will be able to bring him back to his normal condition. You can follow, if you like, the latter part of the process of "How to awaken your subjects." THE INSTANTANEOUS METHOD. Many people who are teaching hypnotism profess to teach an "Instantaneous Method," whereby you may hypnotize any person "quick as a flash of lightning. It cannot be done in the sense of which they wish to imply. In all the years of experience I have had, 162 PRACTICALlNSTRUCriON HYPNOTISM AND «VGGESTI02S Herbert*!/. Flint. testing on an average 5,000 people a year, I have failed to discover any such method. If such a "sure" method could be taught, I would be willing to give every dollar I am worth, and one-half of my profits for the next five years, to know how. I have often done so during one of my enter- tainments. The reason, the persons gazing at the work I was doing and hearing the suggestions I was giving to my subjects have thereby had their minds centered upon the work and a condition of self hyp- nosis was induced, the man unconsciously accepting my suggestions along with my subjects; and a quick, sharp, earnest suggestion on my part would cause them to leave their seats and enter into the scene along with the rest of my subjects. In "The Balloon Scene" and the "Base Ball Scene," I have of ten brought in from two to four out- siders whom I never saw before until that minute. I simply added to the impression they had already un- consciously accepted by my suggestions along the line they were thinking of. You will often find while you are testing your subjects in a room full of company, many will unconsciously follow the sugges- 163 RACTIC\LlNSTRUCTION HYPisbrisM A7STD SVGGESTI02S Herbert k Flint. tions you are giving your subjects. You can turn to them, and in an instant carry out the scene with them; though in testing them afterwards by the first method, you will often find they may not respond to your suggestions. This is the only way whereby "instantaneous" hypnosis may be induced upon any person who has never been developed into a subject. VOICE. You must cultivate an even, low, smooth and pleasing tone of voice. Your suggestions should be spoken in a positive, earnest and, as a rule, low tone. Your tone of voice is quite as important in trying to induce hypnosis as the line of suggestions you use. Practice a line of suggestions on a number of your friends, having them listen with their eyes closed and let them tell you what tone of voice af- fects them most. You should pitch your voice low, rather than high. There is no force or power in a high pitched voice. Try to speak with force and effect in as nearly normal tones as possible. Let your art i culat ion be of the clearest and best; speak 164 pleasingly. Be natural ; do not try to imitate the tones of others. To bring about hypnotic results, you must be natural and fully sincere, and every ef- fort will demand your earnest and complete sincerity. It is by your positive, earnest and absolute over- whelming sincerity in suggestion that you overcome your subjects; with them to be convinced is to be overcome. While you are practicing sincerity in tone and manner, recall the voices of those who moved you most. Study the voice of the earnest and forcible speaker on the platform, in the pulpit, before the bar or in private life. Study the earnest, sincere and pleasing voice of the successful merchant and expert salesman. You can learn of these. A HYPNOTIST'S EYES. You must cultivate the art of looking long and steadily into the eyes of your subject without a change of facial expression. You must do it; there is more in a look than you realize. You can culti- vate your eyes so you can use them to suggest with. A change of expression , a turn of your eyes while trying to impress a suggestion on a subject will turn 166 PRACriGVLlNSTRUCriON HYPNOTISM AND «VGGESTIO]S Herbert k Flint. his attention from what you say to the hidden mean- ing of the look which has flitted across your face. A good subject is, as a rule, very sensitive. Do not smile, be earnest; try and cultivate an expression of seriousness; a careless use of the eyes will prove a handicap to you. You must culti- vate a firm, steady, though not rude gaze. What can you or any person do with a restless, roving, blink- ing and shrinking eye? In studying the use of your eyes, I want you to look steadily and earnestly into the eyes of all with whom you speak. Look your friends in the eyes while passing. When you meet a person with a hand shake, look directly into his eyes. Don't forget , look into the eyes. There is quite a difference between a passing glance, in which you just notice the expres- sion or the color of the eyes, and looking direct into the eyes of a person. So always look into the eyes. You must cultivate this look and make it a habit; outside of assisting you in produc ing hypnosis , it is of practical use in every day life. As you practice this, notice the effect you have upon your friends and others you meet, and also the feeling of power it 166 PRA(TIC\LlNSTRUaiO]S[ HYPNOTISM AND «VGGESTI02N Herbert!/. Flint. gives to you. You will soon learn to sober any face by a glance. This power of the eye, every person ought to cultivate who wishes to make a success of hypno- tism, and in fact you must possess it. Don't forget your eyes assist you in making your suggestions. The eye of the hypnotist is an instrument with which he may warn, threaten, command or rebuke. The chief charm of many a plain face is the eye. A good eye, thoroughly under the command of the hypnotist, will help to beautify the homeliest face and you can charm every one with whom you have to do; so cultivate the use of your eyes. A FEW PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS. Be careful in working a subject into a mental scene and do not say, "When I awaken you;" almost every beginner unconsciously falls into this habit. Always say "Now when I tell you to open your eyes," because if you say to him "When I awaken you" your subject may accept the suggestion and awaken; but the suggestion "When I tell you to open your eyes," leaves your subject in the condition you have induced when he does open his eyes at your command, and ready to receive and act upon your suggestions. 16' WIT I <^PRACTI(ALlNSTRUaiO]Sf . ^ HYPNOTISM AND «VGGESTIOiS Herbert h. Flint. You will find a tendency to increased refinement in your subject when in a hypnotized state, even the most depraved being elevated in sentiment; and I have often had upon the stage many young men who, in their normal state, rip in an oath or two in every few sen- tences they utter, yet no matter how coarse their usual language, they seldom, if ever, utter an oath while hypnotized. Many women who seemed to have be- come lost to all shame in their normal state, when in a hypnotized state have refused to accept a sugges- tion or allow an immodest action. Your suggestions will vary with the experiment you try to induce. Always remember the first step is to secure the attention of your subject by having him gaze into your eyes before commencing any test. Get into the habit of doing this. You will find in the experiments I have out- lined, I continually say "Feel the conditions ; " and every effort should be made on your part to exper- ience the same sensations you are trying to induce your subject to accept. If you cannot feel the con- ditions, then try and manifest an outward appearanc 168 ^ HYPNOTISM AND «VGGESTI02S HEKDERTk Flint. at least of experiencing the sensations. Imitation is a great factor in a good subject's make-up. Understand hypnosis does not work miracles. It does, though, intensify the natural powers of a sub- ject, according to the principles I have laid down. I found many subjects whom I have repeatedly used have finally attained such a power of self- hypnosis, that I had to discontinue using them. They became what is termed "independent sensitives," and became valueless to experiment with. Do not forget that the expected always takes place, to you and to your subject. You will find your regular subjects will uncon sciously copy your actions, attitudes, etc. After your subjects have been repeatedly hypno tized and put into the sleep state, they acquire a craving for it. You will find from practical experience the be- lief by so many that only weak minded individuals are alone, or especially susceptible to hypnotic in- 169 McrmlNSTRucnoN HYPNOTISM ANX> «VGGESTIOiN Herbert k Flint. fluence, not to be well founded. You may manage to bring such under control, but they will prove unsat- isfactory as subjects. They will not be able to hold an impression and let it grow on them. Moral defects in character in most cases are amendable to suggestion, especially post hypnotic suggestion. You will find it much easier to induce your sub- ject to believe an object is something else than what i t really is, --like showing your subject a man and telling your subject it is a pretty girl. I can make a subject believe a green baize is a strawberry patch much readier than I could show him a cow upon tie stage. You must always remember this, especially in trying to induce illusions with subjects who are not in a deep state. As a general thing my subjects feel much strong- er and refreshed after an evening ' s per formance , than before they came upon the stage. You will find you can rarely hypnotize a person who has a low, retreating forehead, with a bullet- 170 MCTIOLlNSTRUCnaM HYPNOTISM A2N03 «VGGESTI02S Herbert \ Flint. shaped head, widest between the ears, and little deep set foxy eyes, especially if they have what is called the organ of self-esteem largely developed. A person who has a brutal nature is never a good subject. The first sense that is effected in your sub- ject is the sense of feeling; the next taste; then smell, then sight; hearing is the hardest. It is easier to get your subject to feel sticky molasses- on his hands than it is to get him to taste that molasses, and easier to get him to taste it than it is to get him to smell it, and much easier to get him to smell it than to get him to see it on his hands. Women are in no more danger from a hypnotist than from any other man in possession of strong per- sonal magnetism; in fact not as much, as his art can- not be practiced in secret. His ability is known to others, and you will find him a man possessed of in- telligence enough to realize his actions and motives; his surroundings are closely watched. This fact alone would compel himto exercise his powers for the benefit of his fellow men and not for the benefit of his personal gratification. 171 "know how" of putting a suggestion, and a knowledge of when to make it, that gives one person power over another. You will find as you be come well versed in suggestion, a subject will fall asleep or otherwise obey a command; while one timid and ignorant of his power, even though giving the same suggestions, will produce no result whatever. It is the neglect and abuse of this power that is to be condemned, not its use; for we all employ it whether we know it or not. You can never put an end to hypnotic influence until man passes away, so why not (my dear pupil) possess the knowledge of the power within you? Don't forget and try to hurry too much when testing your subject for the first few times; give him plenty of time to grasp the suggestions. Con- tinually repeat your suggestions. By watching your subject closely you can usually tell what sugges- tions are taking effect and what tone of voice is affecting him. The hypnotist must be firm without being noisy; this will also apply to all classes and conditions of 172 PRACriC\LlNSTRU(TION HYPISOTISM ANT> «VGGESTIOM Herbert k Flint- men. Noise and bluster are as a rule indicative of weakness . You must not forget with those you continually hypnotize, that your own thoughts, your mental state, your hopes or fears, your confidence, your dread, your sweetness or your hatred will be reproduced to a greater or less extent. Unconscious acceptance of those conditions will always take wlace. "Like Mas- ter, like man" becomes a fact with the hypnotist and his subject . MY FINAL SUGGESTION. As you study and experiment with the knowledge I have tried to impart to you, it will make you real- ize the fact that suggestion sways and rules the world. It is as old as God. It is without beginning or end. It is stronger than environment, for envi- ronment is both its child'and its servant. It is far mightier than heredity for the traits of heredity are simply its products. It rules and controls by the cradle of childhood, and always dictates terms to manhood and womanhood near and afar off. Its potency is never lost. It is life-giving: it is death sending. 173 PfiACTICALlNSTRlJCnON HYPNOTISM ANI> «VGGESTI02S 5y Herbert h. Flint. VOCABULARY OF SCIENTIFIC TERMS USED IN THIS VOLUME AND OTHER WORKS ON THE SUBJECT OF HYPNOTISM. Abalienat ion--Physical or mental decay. Abiosis- -Death. Ableps ia— Blindness -want of sight. Abnormal— Contrary to the natural law or customary order . Acardiohemia--A lack of blood in the heart. Acatamathesia— (1) A morbid blunting of the percep- tions. (2) Inability to comprehend speech. Acataphasia—Inabili ty to utter a complete sentence. Accentuation— Increased distinctness. Acesia-Reco very ; cure. Acri tochromacy-. Color blindness. Acroanes thes ia-Anes thes ia of the extremities. Acr omania-Incurable insanity. Acrophobia - -A morbid dread of heights. Acrot ism--An absence or weakness of the pulse. Adynamia— A deficiency or loss of vital power. Af ter-images-Continued retinal sensations after with- drawal of the object. After-sensation— A sensation lasting longer than the stimulus . Agnea— A loss of perceptive power, from disease. Agoraphobia- -A morbid dread of crossing open spaces. Agraphia--A nervous loss of power of expressing ideas in writing. Algesia - -Extreme sensitiveness to pain. Alieni sm--The science of mental disorders. Allopathy--01d style medicine, based on the use of remedies producing symptoms opposed to those of RACTICALlNSTRUCTIOlS/ HYPNOTISM AND SVGGESTIOiS HEJRDEKr'k Flint. the disease . Alusia-Hallucinat ion ; Mental misconception. Ambiopia- - Vi s ion with both eyes. Amnes ia - - Loss of memory, such as occurs generally on awaking from hypnotic sleep, when the subject remembers nothing said or done by him or to him during hypnos i s. Anaemia. -Po ver t y or deficiency of blood, causing gen- eral weakness of the system. Anaesthesia or Anas thes ia- Diminu t i on or loss of the physical sense of feeling. Analgesia—Insensibility to physical pain. Anamnestic -Recalling to mind; remembering. Anar thr ia--An inability to articulate distinctly; stammering . Anatomy--(l) The structure of an organized body. (2) The science or art of di ssec t i on . Andranana toiry -- Human dissection. Andrology - -The science of man. Anthropology-- " " " Aperient--A gentle, purgative medicine. Aphonia-Loss of voice. Apoplexy— Los ? of consciousness due to rupture of a blood vessel in the brain; or some other cere- bral shock. Appercep t i on - - The conscious reception of a sensory impression. Aprosexia-An inability to fix the attention. Apsychia— A loss of consciousness. Arhy thmia--An irregularity of the heart's action. Asemasia--Inabili t y to express by words or signs. Asemia--An inability to comprehend by words or signs. Ataxia, Locomo t or- - Inabi 1 i ty to command over one's movements; more particularly over the movement II WILL! HYPNOTISM AND «VGGESTI02S Herbert L. Flint. of the legs, due to brain or spinal disorder. Auto-Hypnosis-- Hypnotic state induced spontaneously, especially in people who have been frequently hypnotized by others. Automati sm- - Th>> state of the hypnotic subject who obeys suggestion. Automat ism-- A condition in which actions are per- formed without consciousness or intention. Autosuggestion -- Suggest ion self-induced withcut > external influence. Avascularize - - To render bloodless. Balbuties--Stammering ; imperfect pronunciation. Balneology--The science of baths and bathing. Balneotherapy-- The treatment of disease by baths; water cure. Baryecoia--Dullness of hearing; deafness. Barylal ia--Thickness of speech. Basophobia-- Inabil i ty to walk or stand erect. Bathophobia - - A morbid fear of great heights. Biodynamics - - The science of the vital forces. Biology--The science of life and living things. Bionomy--The science of the laws of life. Biostat ics- - The physics and mechanics of living bodies. Biot ic - -Per taining to life; vital. Biotics--The science of vital functions and manifes- tations. Bi sferious --Having two beats. Blinking--An involuntary winking. Braidism- -First name given to hypnotism; from Dr. James Braid. Cac es thesia-- A morbid sensation. Cacophonia-An altered state of the voice. Ill Cacothymia--A disordered state of the mind. Cadaver. -The dead body; a corpse. Cadaverous-Resembling a dead body. Caldarium--A hot bath. Cali s thenics--A system of light gymnastics. Callosity--A hardened spot on the skin. Cardioinhibi tor y--Cont rolling the heart's action. Cardiology--The science of the heart. Carnivorous-Flesh-eating. Carot ic--Producing sleep or stupor. Carotid--The principal artery of the neck. Carus--The last degree of come; aomplete insensibil- ity. Cardi ograph--An instrument devised to note automati- cally by curve on a sheet of paper, the move- ments of the heart. Catalepsy--A neurosis associated with loss of will and muscular rigidity, without alteration of the circulation --a stage which can be induced in hypnotic subjects. Cataphasia - - A disturbance of speech in which there is a constant repetition of the same word or words. Cathode- -The negative pole of an electric current. Cenesthesia- - Hysteric loss of consciousness of ident i ty . Cephalology - - The science of cranial measurements. Cerebral- - Relating to the brain. Cerebrology -The science of the brain. Cheirospasm - - Wr i ter s • cramp. Chemistry- -The science of the molecular and atomic structure of bodies. Chorea--The St. Vitus dance, a peculiar nervous trouble, Chromophose - - A sub jec tive sensation of color. IV PMCTIOLlNSTRUCnON HYPISOTISM Herbert k. Fllnt. Chronic --Long continued; the reverse of acute. Cicatr ix - -The scar or mark of a wound. Circumpolari zat ion— The rotation of a ray of polar- ized light, as shown in hypnotizing by the Luy ' s mirror . Clairvoyance.-A supposed mesmeric state of mind or body (or both) that allows the subject to see through opaque objects, through space, through time past and present. Clinic - -Bedside instruction. Coma-An abnormally deep sleep; stupor. Cornea— The transparent interior part of the eyeball Consciousness - -The state of being aware of the na- ture of one's physical, mental and moral doings Consciousness, Double—A condition in which the sub- ject seems to be divided into two beings, one under the suggestive influence of the operator the other in full possession of personal will. Contraction, or Contrac ture- - A permanent or tempor- ary shortening of a muscle. Credivi ty-Excessive credulity developed in the sub- ject through hypnosis. Cutaneous— Pertaining to, or affecting the skin. Cuticle— The epidermis or scorf skin. Darwi:iism--The theory of desoent by evolution. Dehypnot i zat ion--The process of awakening the sub- ject from any of the hypnotic states. Delirium- -Mental abberration due to disease. Delusion--A false judgment of objective things. Deontology - -The science of duty; ethics. Dermenchysi s--Hypodermip injection. Diagnose, To— To determine the symptoms of any physi cal or mental state. Diencephalon--The brain or middle brain. PrmtigvlInstruoion HYETSOTISM A>TO SVGGESTIO^ Herder! h. Flint. Dipsomania--An uncontrollable desire for spirituous liquors . Dynamia--Vi tal strength or energy. Dynamics -The science of moving force. Dysbulia-- The impairment of will power. Dysecoia- -Subnormal acuteness of hearing, Dyslogia--An inability to reason. Dysmimic--An inability to imitate. Dysphemia --Stammering. Echokinesia--Spasmodic imitation of gestures. Echolalia--The automatic repetition by a subject of words uttered within his hearing. Eclectic—Choosing ; selecting; a certain class of physicians . Ecstasy--A trance-like, exalted state. Electrostatics --The science of static electricity. Energy--The power or force of the organism. Epidermis - -The outer layer of the skin. Epilepsy--A nervous disease with loss of conscious- ness and tonic and clonic convulsions. Erotoc ism--A morbid exaggeration of love. Erotomania -- Insanity from sexual passion. Ero topathy--Per verted sexual instinct. Ethnology -- The science of the races of man. Exteriorization- -A mental process by which a mere idea is transformed into a hallucination of the object thought of. Faradi zation- - The stimulation of a nerve by induced electrical current. Fascination- - An intermediate hypnotic state, between the cataleptic and the somnambulistic stage, partaking of the character is tics of both. Flint Disease- - Chalicosis. VI PMCTICALlNSTRUaiON HYPlSGnSM AND «VGGESTI02S Herbert h. Flint. Force--That which produces or arrests motion. Galvanism—A form of electricity induced by chemic reac tion. Graphospasm- -Writers ' cramp. Gymnast icL— Systematic bodily exercise. Hemorrhage - -A flow of blood from blood-vessels. Hallucinat ion-A belief in an unreality; the illusory perception of some external thing or happening that does not exist or take place at the time. Hasheesh-An intoxicating preparation from Indian hemp, which, either smoked or drunk in an infu- sion gives curious dreams or hallucinations. Hemi -Anaesthesia .- Anaes thesia (which see) extending only over one side of the body. Hemi-Hypnosi s --Hypnosis (which see) extending only over one side of the body. Hemiplegia- Paralysis affecting only one side of the body . Hibernat ion- - The faculty or habit of certain animals to pass the cold season in a state of torpidity and absolute immobility, akin to lethargy. nomoepathy -- A medical system in which the remedies used -in very minute doses -are said to produce effects similar to the symptoms of the diseases under treatment # Opposed to Allopathy. Hyperamia- - Excess of blood. Hyperaesthesia--A morbidly excessive sensibility; opposed to Anaesthesia. Hyperexc i tabili ty--An abnormal degree of excitabil- ity, or excitability produced by the slightest cause. Hypermnesia- -Extremely precise memory. Hypnos i s- -The peculiar mental and physical state produced by hypnotism; both words, however, are used one for the other. Hypnogenic Zones--The points on the body which, being VII pressed, are known to help induce hypnosis. Hypnoscope- - An instrument to test the degree of hypnotizability. Hypnot ism--The ensemble of the methods by which hyp- nosis is obtained; also used in the meaning of hypnosis; also this particular branch of the study of psycho physiology. Hypnoti zation--The act of inducing hypnosis. Hypnot i zability-- The susceptibility of certain per- sons to hypnotic influence. Hypnotist, Hypno ti zer --The operator in the induction of hypnosi s . Hysteria--A functional neurosis with abnormal sensa- tions, emotions or paroxysms. Hystero-Epilepsy .-A form of epilepsy that includes many features of hysteria. Hys terocatalepsy- -Hysteria associated with catalepsy. lama tology -- The science of remedies. Iateria-- Therapeutics. IatraMptics — Treatment by friction and ointment. Iatrochemis try— Therapeutic chemistry. IatVo technics- -The art of healing. Ideation--The process of forming ideas. Ideophrenia- -Insanity with marked perversion of ideas. Idiocy--A condition of extreme mental deficiency. Idiosyncrasy--Individual peculiarity. Idiot--A person with defective mental development. Illusion--A false perception of an external object. Image--A picture of an object to the eye and mind. Imagination- -The picture making power of the mind. Imbecile --Feeble in mind. Immedicable --Incurable. Index--The first finger. VIII BACTIttLlNSTRUCTION HYFISOTISM ANT) «VGGESTI02S Herbert h. Flint Inhibition— A restraint or interference in the exer- cise of the free will of the subject, due to suggestion, forbidding him to do certain things. Inner vat i on- -A discharge of nervous force; the function of the nervous system. Insane - -Diseased in mind. Crazy. Insensible - -Wi thout the sense of feeling. Insomnia-Inability to sleep. Insusceptibility -Immunity; a want of susceptibility. Intellect — The mind or the reasoning power. Intensity--A high degree of power or activity. Invalid--One who is not well. Involuntary -- Independent of the will. Jugu lat ion -- The swift arrest of disease by thera- peut i cs . Jumping Disease --Neurosis marked by jumping move- ments . Jurisprudence, Medical--The interrelations of legal and medical science. Kathode- -The nega t i ve "pole of a galvanic battery. Kinemat i cs - - The science of moving bodies. Kinesipathy - -The gymnastic treatment of disease. Klept cmania- -A morbid desire to steal. ( Kneippism-Trea tment of disease by walking barefooted in the morning dew. Labiomancy —The faculty of comprehending speech by ooservation of the lips. Laboratory-- A place for experimental work. Lagophthalmus - - An inability to close the eyes. Lethargy--A condition of drowsiness. Life--The power by which an organism exists and exer- cises its functions. The per iod between birth and death. IX PMaic\LlMSTRuamr^> HYPisiarisM * 7VNT) ^VGGESTIOIS Herbert L. Flint. Lymphatism- -The lymphatic temperament. Magnet, Nat ural--The lodestone. Magnet, Electro--An artificial magnet, owing its attractive power to an electric current passing through it. Magnetic Force--The power of attraction of the natural magnet or electro-magnet. The same word is used by mesmerizers to indicate the power they clain to dispose of. Magnetic Passes-- Certain movements of the hands of the mesmerizer, the purpose of which is either to mesmer i ze or t o demesmer i ze a subject. Magnet i zer- The same as mesmerizer or mesmerist. Magnetism, Animal -The peculiar force or fluid said by the mesmerizers to emanate from the operator and penetrate the subject, Mental Agency— The power of mind over body; claimed by the School of Nancy to be the basis of all hypnotic manifestations. Mesmerizer, or Mesmerist --An operator in magnetizing or mesmeri zing. Mesmerism--Same as magnetism (which see.) Me talloscopy--The art of determining the influence of metallic surfaces upon the human system. Me tallo-Therapeut ics- -The external use of metals in the treatment of diseases; is closely related to hypnotism. Morphinism; Morphinomania - - The use of sulphate of morphia, or in other forms, degenerating into an inveterate habit. My oli t is -- Inflammation of the spinal cord. Neuralgia--A local, sharp, nervous pain. Neurasthenia-Nervous debility. Nosography - -A description of disease. Obs te t r ics--The science and practice of midwifery. M 0d"--("A11 penetrating," in Sanskrit.) The mysterious PRACTMLlNSTRUCnaM HYPISPTISM ANT> «VGGESTI02N By Herbert k Flint. "fluid" believed by certain mesmerists to be the same as animal magnetism; also called "vital fluid." Paralysis--A local impairment of the normal power of the nervous system; sometimes general. Paraplogia- -Paralysis of the lower limbs. Passes, Magnetic or Mesmeri c - -(See Magnet ic Passes . ) Pathology- - The science of diseases; also the ensemble of the symptoms of a disease. Physical Agents - -Means to induce hypnosis which are not of a mental or suggestive character. Physiology -- The science of the functions of living things . Polarit y - - The fact of having two poles, a positive and a negative one. Polarization- -The acquisition of polarity (which see.) Psychic - -Per taining to the human mind. Psy chology--The philosophy of the human mind. Psy cho-Phy s iology - -The science of the functions of the human mind in their connection with the functions of the body, and vice-versa. "Rapport"--A French word used in connection with the word en (in) and referring to the state wherein a subject can be hypnotized only by one particu- lar operator, or, once in the hypnotic sleep, is suggestible only through one person. Rigidity- Peculiar stiffness noticed in the catalep- tic stage of hypnosis. Sense-Delusions - -Same as hallucinations (which see.) Sense Stimulus, or St imulat i on-An appeal to one of the five senses, often with the object of weary- ing it and thus inducing hypnosis. Sensibility, Elec t i ve--The peculiar condition of a subject in the hypnotic sleep, who only obeys the suggestion of one particular person, gener- ally the hypnotizer. (See Rapport.) Simulation--In hypnotic matters, the voluntary or XI PRAaiCALlNSTRIJCriON HYHSOTISM AND «VGGESTIOiS Herbert k Flint. involuntary attempt on the part of the subject to present certain phenomena, which, in reality, are not induced by hypnosis or suggestion. Sleep, Na tural--Opposed to hypnotic sleep. Sleep, Hypnotic--The same as hypnosis (which see.) Somnambulism, Indif f erent— Cond i t ion of a subject who does not need to enter the. hypnotic sler-p, or to obey suggestions; that the operator be one particular individual and no other. Somnambulism, Natural--A state of spontaneous som- nambulism. Opposed to hypnotic, or induced somnambulism (which see.) Somnambulism, Induced--The lightest stage in Luys* diagram of the hypnotic sleep. Sphygmograph An instrument to indicate by lines automatically traced on a strip of paper, the changes in the regularity of the pulse beats. Stages, Hy pno t ic--They are four in number, according to Charcot and Luys. Beg inning wi th the deepest, they are named respectively: Hypo-Lethargic, Lethargic, Cataleptic and Somnambulistic. Suggest ion--In the study of hypnotic phenomena, the word is said to apply to the temporary control obtained over the subject's will. Suggestion, Inter -Hy pno t i c--This is suggest i on opera- ting during hypnosis. Suggestion, Pos t-Hypno t i c-- Thi s is suggestion oper- ating after hypnosis is over and the subject is awake . Telepathy- -Another word for "mind reading." The communication of one mind with another without the usual means of gesture, speech or writing. Therapeutic- -Having a curative value. Therapeutics- - The art of treating disease. Transference -- In the study of hypnotic phenomena, this word refers to the transfer of certain pyhsical symptoms from one side of the bojy to the other, or even from the subject to another XII person. Transfix. -To pierce through and through. Transf usion-A transfer of blood into the veins. The transfer of liquid from one vessel to another, especially the introduction of blood from another body into a vessel of the body. Transic -- Relating to a trance. Transmission-- The transfer of a disease. Transplantation. -The operation of grafting. Transposition-- An interchange of position. Trauma--A wound; an injury. Traumatology -■ The science of wounds. Treatment -- The methods employed in effecting a cure. Tremble--To quiver; to be affected with quick, vibratory movements. Tremulous - - Trembling. Triakaidekaphobia- - Insane dread of the number thir- teen. Trial--The act of testing. T. -Number of lenses for testing the refraction of the eye. T. -frame, a spectacle frame for holding trial- 1 enses . T. - lenses, lenses used in testing vision. Trismus--A spasm of the muscles of mastication; lock- jaw. Trisplanchnic-- The descriptive name of the sympa- thetic nerve. Tristimania- -Melancholia. Thophology--The science of nutrition. Typhlology - - The science of blindness. Umbilicus-The navel; the round, depressed cicatrix in median line of abdomen. Unconsc iousness-The state of being without sensibil- ity. Undulation- -A wave ; a fluctuation. XIII PBACTICALteTRUCriON HYPNOTISM AND < SVGGESTIOTS Herbert k Flint. Uni versi ty --A collection of colleges under one acad- emic government. Uvula— The conic membranous appendix hanging from the free edge of the palate. Vacuum—A space exhausted of air. Vale tudinarian--An invalid. Vapor s-Lowness of spirits; hysteria. Var iat ion- -Deviat i on from a given type. Vegetarian-One whose diet is mainly vegetable. Vege tat ive - -Having the power of growth. Vein--A vessel returning the blood to the heart. Vertebra--A bony segment of the spinal column. Vertebrarium-- The spinal column. Vertex--The crown or top of the head. Vert igo--Giddiness ; dizziness. Vesania--Unsoundness of mind. Ve ter inary--Pertaining to domestic animals. Vir ile.-Per taining to manhood; manly, strong. Vi rili ty--The condition of mature manhood. Visual—Pertaining to vision. Vita- -Life. Vital-Pertaining to life. V. -Capacity. See capacity. V. -Signs, respiration, pulse and temperature. Vitality--1. The vital principle of life. 2. Strength. Vitodynamic- -Relating to vital force. Vi visec t ion--Scient if ic dissection of or experieen- tation upon living animals. Vocal - -Pertaining to the voice. Voice--A sound produced by the vibration of th« vocal bands . Volition--The will to act. Voltaic- -Pertaining to galvanic electricity. XIV <^Kctical1nstruMm- w 7 ,^-V. \ w ^ ^ V* .' ./\ V °v ^ ' ••■' *<■ /, • ' * v ^o. 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