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...offer would be safe because he was at sea, he was mistaken. Robert B. Greene, a Wall Street betting commissioner, in a radiogram to the Rex, took half the Democratic financier's bet for a client. Next a Republican who voted for Roosevelt in 1932, Le Grand Bouton Cannon of Tuxedo Park, N. Y., hastened to claim the other half of the Gerard bet on behalf of a syndicate of friends...
Since publication of these marvels in Powers That Be and The Invisible Influence, Dr. Cannon has enjoyed a voluminous correspondence with "businessmen and occultists, parsons and Indian colonels, doctors and judges, hard-headed lawyers, and women haunted by poltergeists...
This week Dr. Cannon published a thin volume called The Science of Hypnotism.* Since the author is a capable practitioner of hypnotism and uses it every day on London's sane and insane, U. S. psychiatrists were professionally interested, regardless of what they thought of his divagations into yogism, perfect numbers, symbolism of colors. Dr. Cannon discusses not only his own methods but those of such pioneers as Mesmer and Charcot, of such well-known hypnotists as Bernheim, Binet, Féré, Liebeault, Lloyd Tuckey. It is generally agreed among psychiatrists that hypnotism is of value in treating...
Hypnotist Cannon makes it abundantly clear that there is nothing mysterious or difficult about the technique. All that is necessary is for the subject to relax, drive all thought from his mind, fix his attention on some object (usually a bright light), listen to the operator's soothing suggestions of sleep. The hypnotic state resembles sleep except that the unconscious mind is in touch with the operator and can be swayed by his suggestions. Almost everybody, unless he is confident of being able to resist and does resist, can be hypnotized into the first "light" state; three persons...
...operator's right eye, and the operator stares fixedly at the subject's left eye, at the same time grasping his hands firmly. In a little while the operator's eye appears to shine brilliantly and the patient's expression becomes vacant. Dr. Cannon finds certain defects in this procedure: "If the patient is refractory and the hypnotist is tired, the hypnotist may be hypnotized by the patient. . . . The first sign of the hypnotism being reversed is very unpleasant...