How can you not want this little pamphlet? even before we open it, the cover is giving us everything a hypnotist could want! Lightning bolts from the eyes, sinister hand gestures, dominion over beautiful women!
From what I've found on the internet, this booklet was sold for years, probably from the backs of comic books, for decades, and it went through various publishers, including the Johnson Smith Company, which was famous for novelties of every sort.
The author, L.E. Young (Lou Ella Young), is also the author of the much more voluminous "The Science of Hypnotism". That book was first published in 1899, but has been reprinted for nearly a century by various publishers. I think much of this material is taken form that book, but some of it seems to be different, perhaps newer. I have not been able to find any biographical information for the author.
In a series of brief lessons, the author will give you direction for experiments in hypnotic induction, mesmerism, increasing trance depth, post hypnotic suggestions to cure problems, psychic influence, and how to protect from it, self-hypnosis, and more! That's a lot of stuff for a little book!
For a beginner, the instruction isn't very thorough, but it's clear enough that if someone really found enough volunteers to work with, might become a competent hypnotist. It's fun to look at the techniques offered, which include both Mesmerism and James Braid-style hypnosis. and even offers suggestions form putting on a stage show and finding other ways to make money with hypnosis. It's a very earnestly written little booklet that offered it's buyers a lit for the money, and you may find some pearls of inspiration in it as well.
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