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Compare Alcohol Rehab Choices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alcohol Rehab)
Mon Aug 22 17:29:29 2016
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 17:17:26 -0400
From: "Alcohol Rehab" <alcohol.rehab@yourinvitation.stream>
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nbsp; </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p align=3D"left"><span id=
=3D"content">I say that these - which are the laws of mesmerism in its gene=
ral features - it would be supererogation to demonstrate ; nor shall I infl=
ict upon my readers so needless a demonstration ; to-day. My purpose at pre=
sent is a very different one indeed. I am impelled, even in the teeth of a =
world of prejudice, to detail without comment the very remarkable substance=
of a colloquy, occurring between a sleep-waker and myself. I had been long=
in the habit of mesmerizing the person in question, (Mr. Vankirk,) and the=
usual acute susceptibility and exaltation of the mesmeric perception had s=
upervened. For many months he had been laboring under confirmed phthisis, t=
he more distressing effects of which had been relieved by my manipulations =
; and on the night of Wednesday, the fifteenth instant, I was summoned to h=
is bedside. The invalid was suffering with acute pain in the region of the =
heart, and breathed with great difficulty, having all the ordinary symptoms=
of asthma. In spasms such as these he had usually found relief from the ap=
plication of mustard to the nervous centres, but to-night this had been att=
empted in vain. As I entered his room he greeted me with a cheerful smile, =
and although evidently in much bodily pain, appeared to be, mentally, quite=
at ease. " I sent for you to-night," he said, " not so much=
to administer to my bodily ailment, as to satisfy me concerning certain ps=
ychal impressions which, of late, have occasioned me much anxiety and surpr=
ise. I need not tell you how sceptical I have hitherto been on the topic of=
the soul' s immortality. I cannot deny that there has always existed, as i=
f in that very soul which I have been denying, a vague half-sentiment of it=
s own existence. But this half-sentiment at no time amounted to conviction.=
With it my reason had nothing to do. All attempts at logical inquiry resul=
ted, indeed, in leaving me more sceptical than before. I had been advised t=
o study Cousin. I studied him in his own works as well as in those of his E=
uropean and American echoes. The ' Charles Elwood' of Mr. Brownson, for exa=
mple, was placed in my hands. I read it with profound attention. Throughout=
I found it logical, but the portions which were not _merely_ logical were =
unhappily the initial arguments of the disbelieving hero of the book. In hi=
s summing up it seemed evident to me that the reasoner had not even succeed=
ed in convincing himself. His end had plainly forgotten his beginning, like=
the government of Trinculo. In short, I was not long in perceiving that if=
man is to be intellectually convinced of his own immortality, he will neve=
r be so convinced by the mere abstractions which have been so long the fash=
ion of the moralists of England, of France, and of Germany. Abstractions ma=
y amuse and exercise, but take no hold on the mind. Here upon earth, at lea=
st, philosophy, I am persuaded, will always in vain call upon us to look up=
on qualities as things. The will may assent - the soul - the intellect, nev=
er. " I repeat, then, that I only half felt, and never intellectually =
believed. But latterly there has been a certain deepening of the feeling, u=
ntil it has come so nearly to resemble the acquiescence of reason, that I f=
ind it difficult to distinguish between the two. I am enabled, too, plainly=
to trace this effect to the mesmeric influence. I cannot better explain my=
meaning than by the hypothesis that the mesmeric exaltation enables me to =
perceive a train of ratiocination which, in my abnormal existence, convince=
s, but which, in full accordance with the mesmeric phenomena, does not exte=
nd, except through its _effect_, into my normal condition. In sleep-waking,=
the reasoning and its conclusion - the cause and its effect - are present =
together. In my natural state, the cause vanishing, the effect only, and pe=
rhaps only partially, remains. " These considerations have led me to t=
hink that some good results might ensue from a series of well-directed ques=
tions propounded to me while mesmerized. You have often observed the profou=
nd self-cognizance evinced by the sleep-waker - the extensive knowledge he =
displays upon all points relating to the mesmeric condition itself ; and fr=
om this self-cognizance may be deduced hints for the proper conduct of a ca=
techism." I consented of course to make this experiment. A few passes =
threw Mr. Vankirk into the mesmeric sleep. His breathing became immediately=
more easy, and he seemed to suffer no physical uneasiness. The following c=
onversation then ensued: - V. in the dialogue representing the patient, and=
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