Morris tribune., 1902-01-04
HYPNOT ISM AS A CURE.
pr. Quackenbos Claims t Re
lieves Ali Maladies.
GAN CHANGE NATURES AS WE'LL.

sand Experiments That Nothing
Can Withstand Its InAuence-says
Space Is No Limitation to Hypnotic
Contact.
BY his declarations made in a recent
/ address delivered before the ply cholog-
zeal branch of the Medico- Legal society
that he had exerted a hypnotic fnfin-
ence upon an ambition young actress,
with the result that she attained a high
rank in her profession, DR.. John Dun
can Quackenboss professor emeritus at
Columbia university, brought upon him
self deluge Of criticism, much Of it
| unfavorable and some Of it. of an un-
| pleasant nature, says the New York
Herald. To this DR.. Quackenbos says
that he has become accustomed as a
result of past experiences. He asserts
that in most instances criticism is pass
ed without a full understanding of the
circumstances.
| DR.. Quackenbos was discussing the
nature Of the communications received
llby Professor James III. Hyslop Of Co
lumbia university from Mrs. Leonora
e. Piper when he related his expert
ence with the actress who submitted
herself to his hypnotic influence. In
statement made to the above men
toned paper Mrs Piper confessed her
ignorance Of the influences that We're
at work upon her when she entered
what appeared to be a trance state, but
she expressed the opinion that spirits
were in no manner connected with the
phenomenon. DR.. Quackenbos said that
he spoke from experience derived from
two thousand hypnotic patients. 8
'These subjects" said DR.. Quacken-
Dos, explaining his methods. sought
my aid for almost every conceivable
malady, mental and moral; some for
ethico-spiritual. many for literary or
dramatic inspiration. | have thus been
brought into closest touch with the hui
man soul practically liberated in the
hypnotic slumber from it's entangle-
ment with a perishable body. No in
fury has come to my mental or physical
health as q result of unremitting work
as a suggestionist because get some
thing back from my patients; otherwise
would be nervous bankrupt.
t.Hypnotic suggestion is merely a
Summoning into ascendency of the true
man. There is nothing mysterious about
1t except to those who do not under
t. n a of
character defects and mental weakness
as by quick growth of moral energy,
s'In my experience have given hyp-
notic assistance to students wishing to
qualify for rigid examination and to
The equipment Of talented women for
authorship or the stage. It was in this
manner that prepared an actress
within a year who gained immediate
insight into her endowment she alb
sorbed confidence in expression, and
she went before the footlights con-
summate mistress Of her art, to be cur
tanned, as have said, seven times
throughout the winter after the climax
of the play. To achieve this result the
lady in question was brought to a full
realization of herself in her higher re-
lationships, and there came to me a
spiritual naturalization for the energy
expended.
"Hypnotism implies on the part OF
one personality an expenditure Of spir-
itual energy which materializes as eth
ical activity in the personality that Is
inspired The majority of hypnotists
do perfunctory work, not sounding the
depths of the soul they seek to aid.
The hypnotist who is IN full rapport
with his subject is often startled by
his own experiences.
"As an instance, an actress whom
was inspiring with confidence recently
and preparing for her part assured me
q week after treatment that she had
experienced a remarkable change in her
and her attitude as regards
the purity of the stage. She would not !
proposition from a manager
whose plays verged on the vulgar, and
her newly adopted ideals were SO ex-s
actly in conformity with my own that
there could be no question regarding
their sources.
1.-THE time has come when souls may
know of each other without the inter !
mediary Of the senses. | do not hest |
tate to say that we have within us an
principle entirely independ- /
ent, of sense organs, These facts cast
light upon the principles of telepathic
Minds brought into I
hypnotic contact can exchange /
thoughts. ideas. convictions and feel +
ngs which suggest the possibility that |
such minds may communicate without I
reference to space limitations.
Some years ago the late Austin
Corbin purchased $4,000 acres of farm
and wood land in Sullivan county, N.
H., and stocked the estate literally
with game. Recently Austin Corbin,
IT., reported the presence Of mountain
ions and of lynx in the park. By some
mysterious power the great cat that
vanished from this region a century
ago became aware of the presence of
aeer and elk in Blue Mountain park.
In my work have at times felt my
self thWarted by an intervening intelli-