Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-24

through he can go out and hoe the
potato patch. You have taken away
the force of suggestion and It Is simply
his muscles working. But tell him he
can go out and play, and see the put
termilk fly.
On Suggestions
"You cannot suggest to the patient
that which Is absolutely against his be-
lief. You have got to convince him or
YOU cannot make It stick. His subjec-
tive mind never analyses, but draws
logical conclusions, but the objective
mind analyses to see IL Il is true or
false. Take a philosopher and place
him in a condition Of hypnosis and give
him a premise in philosophy which Is
absolutely false and he will draw from
IL a logical conclusion and will produce
philosophy which you will be almost
ready to accept.
II could show you a subject right
here In this section of the city upon
whom 1 can produce a perfect state OF
anesthesia so that can stick him fun
of pins and he will pull them out again
and tell you they do not hurt. Reports
come from France of subjects like this
one. upon whom surgical operations
have been performed. 1 cannot do this
with you because you are not
psychist. can run the pulse of sub
ject up or down. The subjective nina
is amenable to suggestion.
MANY think that nervous diseases
are imaginary Suppose you have been
overtaxed and have become a con-
firmed dyspeptic. Your stomach might
be all right; no pathological disease
could be found. That would be nervous
dyspepsia. Why do we have nervous
diseases? Take the most perfect loco
motive and place it upon perfect track
and open the safety valve and let the
steam blow off. The machinery is all
right, but it won't go, for 1t lacks the
force to propel it. We all have re-
serve power which is demonstrated in
the case of a sick patient who had
been in bed many weeks and had be-
come so weak that he had to be lifted
UP to be given a drink of water, but
Wnen leIC dlOIle anu lllG ilOuSt SoN6AiS
on fire he could run out, which demon
strated reserve force. You use up all
this reserve power and the machinery
will cease to run. Take the case of
woman who has always been in robust
health and she loses her only child.
She gradually breaks down, goes into
decline and becomes a nervous wreck.
AS another case will cite a healthy.
robust young girl, who is in love, or
imagines herself to be, with a young
fellow, and they have a breakup and
she becomes faded and pale and be-
comes a nervous wreck.
Local Case
"I will cite to you the case of wo-
man in Los Angeles which know per-
sonally. Some years ago there was
noted spiritualist come to Los Angeles
from Boston. 1t was a custom of his
to pass his hand over his eyes and walk
about among the audience. One night
he stopped in front of this woman and
said: 1 see a fair-haired boy, years
old. standing by your side. He says
you left him when very young and he
wishes to speak to you The result
was that she and her husband became
confirmed spiritualists. This woman
married young and after a short mar
ried life her husband died, shortly after
which she gave birth to a baby boy.
She left the child with her husbands
parents and went away to earn her
living, and later married again. They
exchanged letters and pictures, but
when the child was years old she re-
ceived the news of his DEATH After
this the spiritualist called the little fell
low up and she talked with him. Later
a spiritualist healer came here and she
had the spirit of the child called up to
tell her what to do to get well. She
did what he told her to do and she did
get well. About year after this the
woman came into my Office, one of the
happiest women living. She had re-
ceived word from friend that the old
people were so afraid she would take
the child from them that they sent the
news of his death. She later met her
boy, and they may be living yet in Los
Angeles for all know. She was cured
entirely by suggestion.
1.-The subjective mind is capable of
receiving telepathic communications.
Take the case of a man who has a
very dear brother in Minneapolis.
They are very devoted to each other
and the one in the east has a young
son. One night this boy is killed by
a street car, and the first thought Of
the bereaved father is that he wishes
to have his brother in California to
know of the accident and wishes for
his presence and sympathy. The next
day the brother here goes to me-
dium to consult her about mining mat
ters, and she tells him he has u
brother in Minneapolis and that the
brothers boy had been killed the night
before. She has simply read from his
subjective mind that which it con-
tained. I know of thousands of such
cases which 7 could verify