Mesmerism Usually whenever one hears the term mesmerism one turns off, especially those associated with scientific and psychological fields of knowledge.
Mesmerism. The term comes from Mesmer, who rediscovered this magnetic force and its practical application toward the year 1775, at Vienna.
Mesmerism
From Franz Mesmer, a form of telepathic sending in which the data sent consists of suggestions backed by the insistent power of the sender.
Mesopaganism ...
Mesmerism.--The influence of personality.
Metaphysical Principle.--The Universal Creative Mind; as Spirit, It is conscious; as Law, It is subjective.
Metaphysics.--That which is beyond the known laws of physics.
Curative mesmerism, (in which, without putting the patient into the trance state at all, an effort is made to relieve his pain, to remove his disease, or to pour vitality into him by magnetic passes) stands on an entirely different footing; ...
In America, in the 1840s, a Swendenborgian wave of interest in the occult and spiritual realms combined with interests in Mesmerism as well as indigenous and Eastern ideas (like reincarnation) and led to the formation and rapid spread of Spiritualism.
Others will rush single-handed into the study of the Kabala, Psychism, Mesmerism, Spiritualism, or some form or another of Mysticism.
Coming at a time when Spiritualism and Mesmerism were all the rage, when Darwin's scientific discoveries had undermined the authority of the church, and a magical-occult revival was underway in France, the time was certainly propitious.
He assisted Mesmer in developing the theory of mesmerism, and in all probability was the actual discoverer of that science.
Western science began to investigate the phenomena in the 19th century, when subjects treated by mesmerism displayed clairvoyance and other psychic abilities.
Everything from Freemasonry to Mesmerism claimed its roots in the hoary antiquities of Egypt.
 See also: Spirit, World, Phenomena, Ritual, Spiritual
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