Word: bernsteins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...compulsion to get inside people, to find out "just what makes them tick" is not a new thing. But The Search for Bridey Murphy has done the most successful job of exploring it since the Ouiji board. Besides tramping around inside a woman's consciousness, the energetic Mr. Bernstein also takes her on a trip "back across time and space...
...started back in 1952 when Morey Bernstein, a Colorado businessman, was giving a demonstration of hypnosis after a club dance. There he met a lively young brunette named Ruth Simmons who was "on the smallish side" and a good social dancer. She also, he soon discovered, had the "ability to enter an uncommonly deep trance while under hypnosis." Despite the objection of her husband Rex ("Look, I just want to sell insurance and be a regular guy; I don't want to be dubbed a crackpot or a screwball"), Bernstein convinced her to go on a trip through her prenatal...
Through hypnotism he learned that Ruth Simmons (1923- ) of Pueblo, Colorado was, in her previous life, Bridey Murphy (1798-1864) of Cork, Ireland. Before that she had died while still a baby in New Amsterdam--the thing has endless possibilities! After his hypnotic sessions with Miss Simmons, Bernstein was persuaded to write it all up. He has not done badly by the enterprise; in seven weeks The Search for Bridey Murphy has climbed to the top of The New York Times booklist...
...simple Irish lass named Bridey Murphy has now resolved the puzzle that so troubled Hamlet. Bridey died in Belfast in 1864, but in 1952 and '53 she came back from "the undiscover'd country" to tell a well-to-do Colorado businessman and amateur hypnotist named Morey Bernstein what it is like after death...
...Search for Bridey Murphy, Author Bernstein has nothing new to say about hypnosis or reincarnation. But his amateur zeal, and perhaps the need for something to take the place of the slipping Power of Positive Thinking, has made his sessions with Ruth Simmons one of the fastest-selling books in the U.S. today. Already more than 70,000 copies have been printed, and another 100,000 are coming from the presses. The movies have picked up the book for a rumored $50,000, and 30 newspapers have taken it for serialization. As might have been expected, Bridey is doing best...