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Rick Collingwood Photo Gallery Rick placing flowers and a lighted candle on the burial monument of Franz Anton Mesmer on a crisp morning at Meersburg in Germany during November 2009. Franz Anton Mesmer was significantly the founding father of what became modern hypnosis. You can read more about Mesmer and the history of hypnosis here
Mesmerism Cured
Rick Collingwood on Sun, 2010-08-22 18:23Despite the negative findings of the commission into Mesmers claims about Animal Magnetism and an Etherial Fluid. The commission did not discredit or deny that Mesmerism could and had cured many diseases and other ailments.
It is not often mentioned that after the French Commissions finding against the existance of an invisable force or an etherial fluid; Mesmer accepted an invitation to visit and demonstrate Mesmerism to the Germany Academy of Sciences.
The German Academy of Sciences gave its support to Mesmerism and it was frequently practiced by many German Doctors.
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