New-York tribune., 1907-01-17
HYPNOTIC SUGGESTION
QU4CKENBOS LECTURES
Tells Of Parious Nervous Diseases
He Has Cured
tBy Telegraph to The Tribune

- Boston Jan -'--Professor John Duncan ouack
enbos' OF -New hofk. Formerly Of the Columbia Uni
versity FACULTY, delivered address to-nipbt o.,
,he Emmanuel Church. of which the 1a, r.. =
Worcester is the rector on the sub1ac. ..rbo
Philosophy and Therapeutic Value of Exn,o+t
Suggestion
About Two months ago there was started at the
Emmanuel Church a class for the treatment 90
nervous diseases by waking suggestion tn -
now numbers eight hundred members rb. a.
vsory committee consists of DR.. James Putnam
Professor James. of Harvard. and Professor o,,a,,
enbos- The latter told tonight also of the s+a+r
OF hypnotic suggestion from the Christian et.nd
point.
Leaders OF science" said Professor Ouackenboq
ARE oecoming conscious of a sUperphysical world
IN tls lhlelligeht age which no longer regards tho
susgesuohal procedure either as the plaything of
science the brand Of charlatanisn or n r,ara ;grs
fatuus Of Anticipates, but fully apnrebendir, +h
influence OF spirit over all expression through
physical organism. unquestioningly accents ns,-cbo-
logical therapeutics legitimate applicat,or =,
the healing art. this address reed NOT ~ -. U
duced with apology
Through suggestion. said Professor Ouacke,h,s
pain Is controllable. childbirth NAV be robbed of
its pangs and minor surgical operations have b.o
successfully and painlessly performed on hvpno-
tized subjects Even in cases where death Is T.,
eT1tabe the professor declared the passage from
this world into eternity may be rendered nairloss
an9 Aappy by wise suggestions earnestly offered
Professor Quackenbos's address was sub-divided
ss ioiio"s: with reference TO the nature of the
superior spiritual human self and the phiIosonbx,
of suggestion with reference 10 the nractico1 -
OF psycho-therapy in the treatment OF nbrsio.I
mental and moral disease: with reference to the re-
iation which exists between hypno- suggestion a.
2 means OF alleviating human suffering and tho
Christian faith.
How apt the words Of Cicero in the Tusculan
Disputauons." said the speaker. The soul dweus
In the body as in foreign land In the Hero
after each human complex will preserve its identity
in all that constitutes organic personality and
the spiritual garb with which it is invested sub
stantial recognizable-wil be adapted 10 exclusive
y cosmic life.
The higher translin1inal self is gifted with
spiritual perception, with supernormal powers of
apprehension and insight. with absolute command
over expression through bodily organism that is
practically boundless within .the limitations ~
physical possibility and moral right, with suscep-
ubility 10 impression by other human personalities
and kindred spiritual ntelligences with telepathtc
powers to impress these in turn. and with a meas
ure OF prescience that on occasion forecasts what
is 10 be. OF these unconscious agencies and forces
lew have any realization yet the secret Of superior
living consists in their translation into the earth
ilfe-in the transfer of knowledge, faith self
ideals. aspiration. creative power from
The transliminal TO the supralimnal sphere-from
the nature that is richly endowed the nature
that is starving for spiritual energy And this
may all and naturally be effected through auto or
hetero suggestion, which awakens ethico-spiritual
activities in the supraliminal life and suborii-
mates the lower tendencies of the carnal nature
when impaired by one who operates with the cour-
age of conviction"
Continuing. Professo. Quackenbos said:
Now, what IS suggestion? 1t is nothing but a
stTats htfrNard, heartfelt, dynamic appeal to the
mans being. II is vastly more Than good advice
which the sub-personaI mind is glad to accept. II
ing forth into overpowering action of the godlike
In the man-action that carries all before il in the
tendency TO deviation from the
NAL type physesl intellectual moral-even the OBJ;
rapport the peculiar lar harmGnious relationship is
the part of the suggestionist. with confidence in
his judgment, purity Of motive and power in
ality that can SO animate the creative imagination
d5P. IN sad and md @ blot out ut erin criminal
hate of hope and wanhope. OF doubt and trust-a
and respect mesmerisee quickly discovers the
hyPoc;lte IN an operator and well meaning soul
sensual self and spontaneously repel its advances
is providsntiaiiy limited Moral injury cannot be in
nicted through suggestlonai channels On the other
Suggestion. then is 20 be regarded as a means
Whereby the man in need is apprised of the eff
cheney within him, and when so enlightened is in
own salvation in his own objective life, without
conscious effort or constraint would lay special
emphasis on the fact that he is not constrained by
the Will OF the suggestionist. that he is not the
automatom either of God or man. He does what
ought TO be done of his own free impulse IN re-
Spouse TO inspiration rendered irresistible by its
be the ring upon which strung all the keys Of
our objective nature, but the will bends and breaks
before the force of impulse launched in the
IF truth and righteousness from the translimnal
plane of 81 ontaneous insight and command No
mans will Withstand snch impelling force pro
jected from his better. Godlike nature The secret
Of suggestion is TO stimulate that output of spr-
itual energy which overwnelms the antagonism Of
the will and automatically compels In the intelli-
gent creature adjustment 10 the law OF right
Thus the theory that one mans Will car be forcl-
bly, subjected TO another mans will either In
Of sleep hat his objective Will can. in act