"Braidism" (named after Dr James Braid) was at some point a competing word for "mesmerize" (named after Franz Mesmer) etymonline.com/word/braid…
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TIL the term "mesmerizing" comes from Franz Mesmer, who claimed to have special "animal magnetism" allowing him to treat patients via magnetic force. He enjoyed massive popularity at the 18th century French court until being discredited in a study lead by then-American ambassador Benjamin Franklin. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra…
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TIL In 1774, Franz Mesmer produced an "artificial tide" in a patient, who suffered from hysteria, by having her swallow a preparation containing iron and then attaching magnets to various parts of her body. She reported feeling streams of a mysterious fluid running through her body. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/daviscommadaniel
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TIL the word mesmerize comes from the last name of 18th century German physician Franz Mesmer, who believed that all people and objects are pulled together by a strong magnetic force, later called mesmerism. indianapublicmedia.org/am…
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TIL that the word 'mesmerize' comes from the practices of Franz Mesmer, a 19th century doctor and hypnotist who's group treatment sessions would often devolve into orgies maximumfun.org/sawbones/s…
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ASMR The Peculiar (Hi)story of Franz Anton Mesmer and the Origin of Hypnosis (Mesmerism) [intentional] (whispered) (science) (psychology) youtu.be/WtxMhpNGbos
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TIL The word "Mesmerized" stems from a charlatan who operated in Paris in the late 1700's. Dr Franz Mesmer touted "universal magnetic fluid" existed in all animals and he claimed the ability to heal countless diseases through treatments with hypnotic and exotic elements. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra…
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TIL the word "mesmerize" comes from the name of Franz Anton Mesmer, an Austrian physician from the 1700s who is considered to be the father of modern hypnosis. historyofhypnosis.org/fra…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/danifrancuzrose
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TIL That the word "mesmerize" comes from Franz Mesmer, who is the theorist behind animal magnetism. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra…
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TIL The term Mesmer is named after Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815)

He was an Austrian physician who believed illness was caused by misaligned magnetic forces. He invented mesmerism in which he gave people heavy doses of iron and used magnets to control them. Eventually he was able to use just his hands, the first form of hypnotism.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/JaththeGod
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TIL That the word β€œmesmerize” is derived from the Austrian physician Franz Mesmer, who claimed to cure people of various ailments by putting them into a trance. psychcentral.com/blog/psy…
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TIL of Franz Mesmer (1735-1815) a doctor who used "animal magnetism" to cure patients. Many figured out he was a charlatan, but his ideas inspired Hyponosis... hence we get the word "mesmerizing." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra…
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TIL that the word "mesmerized" comes from the name of a famous French hypnotist named Franz Mesmer, whose work was investigated by a committee of prominent scientists, including Benjamin Franklin. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra…
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TIL The word 'Mesmerize' comes from German physician Franz Mesmer (1734-1835) who theorized Animal Magnetism - The presence of energetic transference between all objects & used it as a treatment for over 3000 patients each day. This theory laid the foundation of a practice we today know as HYPNOSIS. britannica.com/biography/…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/iamsingham
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TIL the word "mesmerize" comes from 18th century German physician Franz Mesmer, who used the sounds from Benjamin Franklin's glass armonica to induce "animal magnetism" in patients. "Animal magnetism" would later be renamed "hypnosis" by Scottish surgeon James Braid in 1841. glassarmonica.com/armonic…
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TIL that the word mesmerize was coined by Franz Anton Mesmer for his (false) theory of animal magnetism. maximumfun.org/sawbones/s…
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"Mesmerize" refers to Dr. Franz Mesmer, from the 16th century, known for his theories on "animal magnetism", and curing patients by rubbing different areas of their bodies. He was accused of fraudulence but his name remains associated with "enthrallment".
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TIL the word "mesmerize" comes from the works of the German physician Franz Mesmer, who would cure patients of their ailments by basically staring into their eyes, pressing his hand into their abdomen for long periods of time, and finally playing the glass harmonica. wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_…
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TIL the word "mesmerize" comes from the name of a German physician and hypnotist named Franz Mesmer who developed the theory of animal magnetism and used it as a healing practice. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra…
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TIL the word "mesmerized" refers to the work of Franz Friedrich Anton Mesmer (b.1734-d.1815). He also introduced the term, "animal magnetism" and is credited with discovering hypnosis. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2…
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TIL the word "mesmerize" comes from Franz Mesmer, a physician who treated patients by sitting close enough to them to touch knees and making fixed eye contact. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra…
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TIL the term "mesmerized" comes from Franz Mesmer, who attempted to cure hysteria using hypnosis en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra…
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TIL "Mesmerize" comes from French mesmΓ©risme, named for Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815), an Austrian physician who developed a theory of animal magnetism and a mysterious body fluid which allows one person to hypnotize another etymonline.com/index.php?…
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TIL the word "mesmerize" comes from Franz Mesmer, credited as being one of the fathers of modern day hypnosis and psychotherapy pbs.org/benfranklin/l3_in…
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TIL the word "mesmerize" comes from the German doctor Franz Mesmer, who claimed to heal people with magnets by exploiting animal magnetism. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra…
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TIL that the word "mesmerize" comes from Franz Mesmer , a famous physician from the 18th century en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra…
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TIL that the word 'mesmerised' comes from Franz Mesmer who developed a theory that animals created an invisible force that could have physical effects. He named it 'animal magnetism'. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ani…
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Class Origin: Franz Anton Mesmer

Mesmer believed that mirrors affected animal magnetism as well as light and there was at least one mirror shaped focus in Guild Wars 1.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Mesmer

http://web.archive.org/web/20040710162753/http://www.unbf.ca/psychology/likely/readings/mesmer.htm

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TIL Franz Anton Mesmer is considered the father of modern hypnosis; the word mesmerize is derived from his name. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra…
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TIL that the word "mesmerize" originates from Franz Mesmer, a Viennese physician that thought that the position of the planets and their magnetism influenced Human health, and who used sulfuric acid and ivory wands to cure aristocrats of their ailments by disposing of them into the Earth. indianapublicmedia.org/am…
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[Lyric Suggestions] Franz Mesmer or James Braid vs Sigmund Freud

as explained in this post here.

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TIL the word 'mesmerise' has its origin in the name of a 18th century physician, Franz Anton Mesmer who treated patients with a force he termed "animal magnetism", that is, hypnotism. merriam-webster.com/dicti…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/expatriot_samurai
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TIL the word mesmerize refers to Franz Mesmer, a healer from Vienna, whose theories revolved around a common fluid among all animate and inanimate objects. Benjamin Franklin was appointed by King Louis XVI to investigate his claims. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/F…
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TIL the term "animal magnetism" was coined by Franz Mesmer to refer to a 'magnetic fluid' in the human body which could be used to magically heal ailments. The term was later replaced by "mesmerism". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ani…
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Franz Anton Mesmer (May 23, 1734 – March 5, 1815) was a German physician with an interest in astronomy, who theorised that there was a natural energetic transference that occurred between... wikiwand.com/en/Franz_Mes…
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Franz Mesmer the first hypnotist en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra…
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TIL that the term "mesmerizing" was coined by Austrian physician Franz Mesmer who revolutionized modern hypnosis historyofhypnosis.org/fra…
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TIL that Franz Mesmer stopped using magnets to treat patients once he realized that his own "animal magnetism" did the job just as well. answers.com/topic/franz-a…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/GameNWatch
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TIL that the word mesmerized comes from Franz Anton Mesmer, the first hypnotist. psychcentral.com/blog/arc…
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TIL the word mesmerize comes from Franz Anton Mesmer, a German physician who "discovered" animal magnetism ahp.apps01.yorku.ca/?p=87…
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TIL - Franz Mesmer invented "Mesmerism", the basis of Hypnosis. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra…
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My all time favorite movie Sunset Boulevard 1950. The cast, the gothic story, the Franz Waxman score! Gloria Swanson is mesmerizing as silent film star Norma Desmond. Her creepy dance down the staircase and final closeup fade out is just brilliant.
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Mesmerismus: VerrΓΌckte Idee, Betrug oder Ursprung der Hypnosetherapie? nationalgeographic.de/ges…
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2022 - 01 - 17

It’s 1AM. I woke up a few hours ago, but I’ll date this from when I started. I don’t think I want to write. I fell asleep thinking of what I could put together and went to dreamland empty handed. I didn’t bring back anything from there, as far as I can remember, either.

  • I want to finish reading the information hazard PDF.
  • I want to get further into this Hermetics book by Franz Bardon.
  • I would like to write something entertaining, and fun, that furthers my novel
  • I have to respond to the feedback I got on The Book yesterday.
  • I have to do my 3 5 minute meditations. I might extend them to 7 minutes today.

I have water ready. I can probably scrounge together one last bowl of weed. I can. I did.

I know waking up as the sun goes down is not the most traditionally healthy lifestyle, but if we lived 200 hundred years ago, I’d be the guy who sat in the tower and made sure wolves didn’t eat the townsfolk or their animals during the night.

I’m listening to Valium Aggelein. Thank you, Earo β€” it’s a little slower than the usual music I listen to. It’s different. Different is almost always good. This is the music that plays in the background as the cowboy leaves town with a forlorn look on his face, I imagine.

Radioactive sand. Occasional formations of glass form fulgurite tendrils that breach the surface of the desert.

I don’t know.

And there, the weed is gone. I even threw out the dust I might be desperate enough to try and collect, when the craving hits.

I’ve been thinking about the movie β€œThe Truman Show” β€” if you haven’t seen it you are missing out and I’m going to spoil it for you.

It once seemed like the strangest thing. It was so unreal and far from reality. Now we share our every waking thought for the world to hear. I wonder who watches, but never interferes. I feel a little like a circus performer. Stanley said something about entertainment being one of the most valuable things for human beings, and I think that might be true β€” one might, I might, say that ascension or progression is the most valuable thing but I’ve found…

Progress requires an end goal. I have short term goals, medium and long term β€” but the end goal?

I don’t know how much sense it makes to plan for the end of your life. If you have stake in the future, you might act in a way that helps the world, your ancestors, past your death β€” but if you don’t, if you are entirely contained within this single lifeβ€”

My brain breaks, and I cannot compute. The assumption is if you ar

... keep reading on reddit ➑

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Franz Schubert's "The Trout"...Absolutely mesmerizing youtube.com/watch?v=NF9Dr…
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Sunken Place

the Sunken Place is a trance-like, otherworldly state or a void where victims of hypnosis & MK Ultra mind control are trapped in when their bodies are taken over by a host. It’s like the mind trapped in another dimension or reality while the body is a shell in the present time. Also this method is used in conscious transfer where a conscious and mind is transferred from one body to another. They can also transfer brains and memories into new host unlocking the potential of retaining all of their host powers and skills, which grants them a variation of Immorality. Those who have their consciousness separated from their physical body may be unable to ever reunite with it. Hypnosis as an altered state of mind or trance, marked by a level of awareness different from the ordinary state of consciousness. During hypnosis, a person is said to have heightened focus and concentration and an increased response to suggestions. Hypnosis usually begins with a hypnotic induction involving a series of preliminary instructions and suggestions. The use of hypnosis for therapeutic purposes is referred to as "hypnotherapy", while its use as a form of entertainment for an audience is known as "stage hypnosis," a form of mentalism. This is what’s going on with today’s celebrities especially the rappers and pop stars. They are all under MK Uktra & Hypnosis. People have been entering into hypnotic-type trances for thousands of years. In many cultures and religions, it was regarded as a form of meditation. Modern-day hypnosis, however, started in the late 18th century and was made popular by Franz Mesmer, a German physician who became known as the father of 'modern hypnotism'. In fact, hypnosis used to be known as 'Mesmerism' as it was named after Mesmer. Mesmer held the opinion that hypnosis was a sort of mystical force that flows from the hypnotist to the person being hypnotised.

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Eponyms in the wild

Today I exchanged emails with someone whose last name is 'Mesmer' (source of the word 'Mesmerism', named after Franz Mesmer The Sketchy Hypnotist. What other last names that generated words have you encountered in real life?

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