Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-07-21
HYPNOTIC POWER.
An Eminent Authoress Quoted on that Mys-
terious Influence.
BY MRS. u. +. DENTON.

from the San Francisco Examiner,
written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, not
only forcihle but very sensible and
truthful writer. She never writes
upon a subject upon which she is not
we'll informed. like her writings so
we'll | never take up an Examiner
without looking to see if she has writ
ten and l always find new thoughts
and helps in the struggle of life.
Your correspondent, in suggesting a
punishment for the Olympia hypno-
tist," did not choose a very savory one
As the smell OF burning feathers els
just something awful" "don't yer
know" But / do not believe they
"overrate hypnotic power" as it is
getting to be SO extensively known,
and used even by children at the pres
ent time. l think the government
should stop the use of the mails for
the dissemination of such injurious
literature:
at is reported that Professor Hys-
slop contemplates establishing hyp-
motto hospital where patients will be
cured by hypnotic control.
at is to be hoped that no such in.
stitution will ever be allowed in our
land.
"No more horrible fate can befall q
human being than to lose control Of
his own will.
"That is exactly what must happen
to any one who is capable OF being
placed under hypnotic influence.
"On page 79 of Professor de Law
rence's work on hypnotism he says,
speaking Of q subject who has been
placed under control: He will for
ever afterward be your subject if you
understand your business in giving
posthypnotic suggestions
"This entire sheet could be filled
with quotations of authorities on this
subject, proving that hypnotism means
q resignation OF individual will to the
possession of another.
"Dr. Quackenbush Of Columbia Col
lege in his book, says: 'Hypnotism.
or hypnotic sleep, implies mind con-
dition in which the mental action and
will of q sensitive subject are under
the control of another"
Again he says: He is wholly SUBJ
ject to the will OF his hypnotist"; and
yet again: 4 know that l have been
given possession of that soul for such
time as may prescribe, TO do with it
what will
with testimony like this, and with
proofs such as all may obtain who are
observant, it would seem little less
than criminal to erect an institution
where weak -willed human beings were
made the playthings of stronger men.
talilies. Hypnotism is already used
by unscrupulous physicians, and many
wretched women can testify to that
fact.
"Many OF the monstrous and unac-
countsble crimes of the day might be
traced to the same cause. The public
exhibitions Of hypnotic power should
be stopped by law.
"What we want in this land is an
institution where the Development of
the human will is taught-not its sub.
jugation. Every child in the land
needs to learn that by the cultivation
Of his will-the God given power-he
can control his body and create his
own environment, and perform mira
cles Of good for himself and humanity
at large.
THOUGHT is A FORM OF ENERGY.
at is q power only just begun to
be understood.
"Let US beware that the knowledge
Of that power does not fall into tho
hands of the unscrupulous and the
vicious only.
"All these Schools and Colleges of
Hypnotism,' which are so widely ad.
vertised in the daily papers, should be
closed by law.
"They endanger public peace and
morality.
"a hospital Of that nature would
lead to the degeneracy of the city
where it was established.
"Once a human being relinquishes
his will to the control OF another, how
ever worthy, he is like the man who
leaves his basement door unlocked at
) night in order that some member OF
the family may enter without trouble,
and then goes to sleep.
Fortunate, indeed, is he if thieves
and inebriates do not make themselves
ct home in his drawing room before
morning. Let moral hypnotist con-
troll your will for medical purposes,
and when you least expect it your
mind will fall into the control OF some
vicious and immoral power, either
bodied or disembodied, which you have
not invited or wanted.
keep away from hypnotism.
keep control of your own mind
soul and will.
LEARN the power of your own con.
centrated thought and your own God
given will to cure you OF disease and
to give you what you want in life.
| 1--WE will be what we will to be-"