The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-10-18
A HYPNOTIC SPELL
fingered Over the Proceedings OF
the Social Science Club Last
Evening
DrS. Andrews and hielscher Read
Interesting and Able Papers
on Hypnotism.
Which Were Followed by interest
ing Hypnotic Operations by
DIR. hieischer.

club Tuesday was a most interest
ing and instructive one, and
thoroughly enjoyed by all present
The members Of tie club invited d
number of their trieLds who gladly
responded, and there were nearly one
hundred present, including large
number of ladies. DR.. Andrews read
very interesting paper, which we
give in full below. The paper by Dr.
Hielscher was equally interesting, but
as time and space forbids our giving
1T today, we will p"blIsh it tomorrow
The discussion was entered into with
much interest and covered the field
quite generally several of the speakers
urging their points with good deal
of earnestness. The operations by DR..
Hielscher were fine and proved most
interesting feature of the evening.
Following is DR.. Andrews paper:
We cannot rightly understand mod
ern hypnotism without first under
stand the principles which underlie
the science, for a science it is, or at
least is fast taking its place among
the established sciences OF the world.
| shall not attempt to give detini-
tion of hypnotism, but rather will try
to explain some OF the principles, and
you can frame your own definition,
indeed | will endeavor to do what no
hypnotiSt can do, that is to reason in
ductively.
My first proposition is this, that
man like the Great Creator in whose
image he is made, is a trinity; he is
made up of a body and dual mind,
mans mind therefore, is dual in char
acter. This idea is not altogether
modern either. That man is trim
ity made up of body, soul and spirit
was recognized by the ancient Greeks.
Plato said, "That man is trinity OF
soul, soul body, and earth body" the
the salt, sulphur and mercury of the
ancient alchemiStS vaguely refers to
this same trinity of man. Sweden
borg tells us that there are three ma
lures or degrees of man, the natural,
the spiritual, and the celestial.
The corner stone of hypnOtiSm rests
on the duality of mans mind and
when it is established that man has a
dual mind, then will all the hidden
mysteries of mesmeriSm, spiritism and
allied ismS vanish as the dewdrop I'M
der the burning rays of July sun.
For convenience of description we
will call the one mind subjective, and
other objective The subjective mind
of man is his soul, its capabilities are
wonderful, but limited SO long as it is
associated with the objective mind.
The objective mind is that part OF
the man endowed with reason, judg-
ment, and memory; it can reason both
by Induction and deduction, by analy-
sis and SyntheSiS; it can operate only
Gin and through the gray matter of
the cerebral nemispheres; when they
die it dies; when they are diseased it
is likewise diseased, and it's operations
are active in proportion to Integrity,
healthfulness and activity of the cells
of the gray matter of the brain.
The objective mind takes cOgiZance
of the objective world. Its media of
observation is the five senses. 1t min
listers to mans physical wants. OBJ
jective memory has an absolute local
iZation in the gray matter OF the
brain, and therefore if portions of
the brain, as for example the center
of hearing, or the center of taste, etc.
be destroyed, then the objective mind
to that extent is destroyed, for it is
well demonstrated fact that the
brain has it's centers of mental local
iZatiOn.
Mans other mind, the subjective,
which is the human soul, is likewise
endowed with reason and memory,
but it's reasoning powers are limited;
it is incapable OF inductive reasoning:
it can only reason from premises; It's
reasoning is syllogistic, but very
striking characteristic OF the subjec-
tive mind is it's prodigious memory.
Facts recorded upon the tablets of
the subjective mind are inetfaceable.
Memory in the subjective mind is an
inherent power; it is not dependent
upon healthy brain tissue for it's func-
tiOns. Abnormal conditions of the
brain are often productive of the most
striking exhibitions of the subjective
memory. 1t is not at all unusual in
typhoid fever, or some other disease
affecting the brain, for the patient to
talk coherently about something that
happened in childhood, or many
years before, or repeat verses
learned in childhood that have
long since been forgotten by the OBJ
iectiye memory. / repeat then, that
the subjective mind is not dependent
upon brain tissue, for the exercising
of it's functions. tits itself an organ
lied entity possessing Independent
powers and functions. 1t is capable
of sustaining an existence indepen-
IDENTIFY of the body. The power of
subjective entity is the most poten-
tial power in nature when intelligent
ly directed the most beneficent. 1t
is the seat of the emotions, and the
repository of memory.
The power of the subjective mind
grows strongeras the body approaches
death. and the nearer the body ap-
proaches that state, the stronger be-
come the demonstrations of these
powers, and as almost absolute mem
DRY is striking attribute of the sub
jective mind, it is then that the indi-
vidual life passes before the soul or
the subjective mind like panorama,
and the deeds done in the mortal body
pass before the individual in rapid re-
view. OF course it does not often
happen that the individual survives
death, and is able to reproduce the
panorama, but it sometimes happens,
and this is strikingly illustrated in a
case of drowning when the drowning
man is resusitated after he has almost