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Facts in Mesmerism, with Reasons for a Dispassionate Inquiry into It (Paperback): Chauncy Hare Townshend

Facts in Mesmerism, with Reasons for a Dispassionate Inquiry into It (Paperback)

Chauncy Hare Townshend

Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Spiritualism and Esoteric Knowledge

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Chauncy Hare Townshend (1798 1868), poet and collector, was a well-connected friend of Robert Southey and Charles Dickens. He became fascinated with Mesmerism while in Germany and went on to popularise it in England. This book, first published in 1840, was his passionate defence of Mesmerism. Developed in the late eighteenth century by Franz Mesmer, Mesmerism was a kind of hypnosis based on the theory of animal magnetism. With its spiritual associations and uncanny effects, it was an extremely controversial topic in the nineteenth century and its practitioners were widely considered fraudsters. Townshend describes in detail the mental states Mesmerism induces, which he identifies as similar to a state of sleepwalking. Perhaps most fascinating are the eye-witness accounts describing experiments carried out by Townshend on the continent, in which he hypnotised his subjects into feeling his own sensations and knowing things they could not know.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Spiritualism and Esoteric Knowledge
Release date: February 2011
First published: November 2010
Authors: Chauncy Hare Townshend
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 34mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 598
ISBN-13: 978-1-108-02589-8
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Alternative belief systems > Contemporary non-Christian & para-Christian cults & sects > Spiritualism
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Alternative belief systems > Contemporary non-Christian & para-Christian cults & sects > Spiritualism
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LSN: 1-108-02589-7
Barcode: 9781108025898

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