Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acquainted with miracles." Such affirmations as these, if made by one of Southern California's obscure wizards, might pass with scant attention. But they are the statements of Dr. Alexander. Cannon, M. D., Ph. D., M. A., K. C. A., D. P. M., Ch. B., F. R. G. S., F. R. S. M., one of the most extraordinary figures in British science. Bald, round-faced Dr. Cannon is co-author of respectable treatises on psychiatry and neurology, an active staff member of the London County Mental Hospital Service. A member in good standing of the British Medical Association...
...Cannon relates wonders in the East which make the notorious rope trick (an illusion, according to him, produced by mass hypnotism) seem like small potatoes. Examples...
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...