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Epilepsy Warning: Enchanted... (Original Post) MrScorpio Jan 2014 OP
More like mesmerized... Wounded Bear Jan 2014 #1
Mesmer panader0 Jan 2014 #2

panader0

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2. Mesmer
Sat Jan 4, 2014, 02:28 PM
Jan 2014

Franz Anton Mesmer (May 23, 1734 – March 5, 1815) sometimes incorrectly[citation needed] referred to as Friedrich Anton Mesmer, was a German physician with an interest in astronomy, who theorised that there was a natural energetic transference that occurred between all animated and inanimate objects that he called animal magnetism, sometimes later referred to as mesmerism. The theory attracted a wide following between about 1780 and 1850, and continued to have some influence until the end of the century.[1] In 1843 the Scottish physician James Braid proposed the term hypnosis for a technique derived from animal magnetism; today this is the usual meaning of mesmerism.

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