The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-10-18

| SuUJtCOlNC uJuu CdiiS ~ ldUSuU lllCuu-
ory," and says, 1.-The evidence on this
point shows that the mind frequently
contains whole systems of knowledge
which though in our normal state
they have faded into absolute oblivion,
may, in certain abnormal states, as
madness, febrile delerium, SOmnam
bulism, catalepsy, ETC., flash out into
luminous consciousness"
SUBJECTIVE MIND CONTROLLED BY
SUGGESTION.
Notwithstanding the wonderful
powers Of the subjective mind and
especially it's memory which rises al
most to the degree of perfection, yet
in this life while in the trammels of
the flesh it is subordinate to, and con-
trolled by the objective mind, and is
therefore amenable to suggestion,
and herein lies the secret Of hypnO-
tism. Hypnotic phenomena and man
ifestations of subjective intelligence
subordinated by the objective mind.
1t may be by the mind Of the recipi-
ent himself and is then known as auto
suggestion, or it. may be, and more
often is the suggestion from some one
else, known in hypnotic parlance as
the operator.
To induce the hypnotic state, the
first thing for the operator to O,is'tO
secure the obeyance Of the objective
mind, and the more nearly perfect
| the ooeyance, the more wonderful will
be the manifestations of the hypnotic
condition. 1t is a well known fact
that to produce state OF hypnotism
the recipient must close his eyes, his
ears, and organs of the special senses,
and become as nearly oblIvioUs as pos
sible to the external world, then will
the subjective mind rise through the
threshold Of consciousness, and be-
come controlled by suggestion. He
| is now as it were in state OF SOM
nambulism, and in this state the sub
jective mind sees without organs of
| vision. 1t can be made apparently to
leave the body and travel to distant
lands; it also has the power to read
the thoughts of others, and the con-
tents of sealed envelopes and closed
books. In this state the subjective
| mind accepts every statement made
to it, no matter how absurd. The
writer of this paper once saw an intel
| ligent business man placed in a hyp-
MOTTO condition and the operator held
| a cane in front of him, and told him
| it was the presidents wife, and that
she wished to become acquainted
| with him; hiScface at once took Oh a
pleasing smile. and when, a moment
later, he was introduced to the cane,
he bowed very politely, extended his
hand, and shook hands with the ina
ginary presidents wife. To him this
was as real while in the subjective
state, as if the presidents wife had
actually been present.
You are all familiar with the eX-
hibitiOns of the stage, how the recipi-
ent will at the suggestion of the opera
tor, pick strawberries, walk lame, be-
come frightened at snakes, dogs, ETC.,
indeed he is wholly controlled by the
| suggestions of the operator, however
| absurd they may be. A singular fact
| is however, no matter how profound
the hypnotic state, the recipient will
not act upon suggestions that are ad-
verse to his moral nature; the moral
does not sleep. HypnOtism therefore
can play no part in crime. This was
very clearly shown in recent demon
straton in Minneapolis under the di-
rection of Dr. Suddeth, late dean of
the dental faculty of the State Uni
versity. Two persons, machinest
and newspaper circulator, who had
| studied hypnOtiSm, and could sue
ceSSfully use it on themselves to secure
sleep, were chosen as subjects. DR..
| Parkyn acted as demonstration. They
were easily put to sleep, and pin
thrust through portion of the skin
and flesh on the hand and arm pro-
duced no impression on them. They
were then brought to the sleeping,
| walking and talking state. and called
| aside into the corner, as though there
was something mysterious to unfold.
He impressed on them the fact that
they were all members of a gang, and
were out after the "Stuff." The news
paper circulator was told to engage a
certain man in conversation, and then
gObble his watch, and bring to the de-
| mOnStratOr. No amount of urging
could make him do it, He stood
speeches., and stubborn. Then the
other one was tried. He was more
talkative, but none the less obstinate,
and finally became very angry, and ac-
cused the demonstration of trying to
get him into trouble. Said he, 81 am
not in that business, you can do your
own stealing" At the same time the
OpSidUOl VI lCu w COlIllliu
other crimes, but in all he was en-
tirely unsuccessful. give this as an
illustration, because it is one near
home, and can be verified by seeing in
person, or writing to any of the in
structors of our own State University.
DR.. ii. l.. Flint, a well-known au-
thority on hypnotism, says that the
suggestion of crime is revolving to hu-
man nature; that the shock of revul-
sion will bring the subject out of the
hypnotic state. This was clearly de-
monstrated in the Edna Mabel Briggs
case of EauClaire, Wis 1t appears that
the girl was hypnotized for criminal
purposes, and while still in the hyp-
MOTTO state crime attempted. She
was wholly innocent of any criminal
completely. The revulsion of nature
therefore was so great that she i'm
mediately awakened to her objective
condition, and the crime was COM
mitted by violence.
Although the subjective mind is so
amenable to suggestion. yet those
suggestions must to large degree be
along the line of ones willingness to
perform them. The subjective mind
is incapable of controversial argu-
ment, and an adverse suggestion, or
an opposition to the hypnotized per-
son in the act, or acts, which he, or
she may be performing, or about to