Hypnotism: Mesmerism, Suggestive Therapeutics & Magnetic Healing — L. W. de Laurence (1910)

Hypnotism by L. W. de Laurence is an extensive early twentieth-century manual devoted to hypnotic induction, mesmerism, mental suggestion, clairvoyance, post-hypnotic influence, self-induced hypnosis, fascination, magnetic healing, and related practices.

Physical edition: The Holographic Pagan Press edition is a handmade softcover book, not a hardcover.

Written for both beginners and advanced students, the book presents numerous historical methods for testing subjects and producing hypnotic states, including the celebrated table method, the Nancy method, the lock method, rotating-mirror techniques, cataleptic states, anaesthesia, telepathic experiments, and the therapeutic use of suggestion.

This Holographic Pagan Press edition has been newly restored and prepared for modern readers. Its extraordinary period cover has been reconstructed in full color on warm antique-ivory stock and presented in a handmade black tape-bound format.

Each physical copy is printed, assembled, and finished by hand.

This is a historical occult and psychological text. Its therapeutic claims reflect the period in which it was written and are not presented as modern medical advice.

This is a newly prepared Holographic Pagan Press edition and not an original antique copy.

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For the physical collector: choose the handmade Holographic Pagan Press edition — the restored book printed, assembled, and finished by hand. For immediate reading and research: choose the PDF edition. The PDF is the lower-entry-price reading format; the handmade edition is the physical HPP object intended for the shelf and collection.

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Title: Hypnotism: Magnetism, Mesmerism, Suggestive Therapeutics and Magnetic Healing
Author: L. W. de Laurence
Original publication: 1910
Original publisher: De Laurence, Scott & Co., Chicago
Original length: 188 pages
Format: Handmade physical book / PDF
Cover: Antique-ivory card stock with full-color printing
Binding: Black cloth tape-bound spine
Interior: Black-and-white
Edition publisher: Odd Enough Books / Holographic Pagan Press
Condition: Newly produced

Continue the de Laurence Library

Start with Practical Lessons in Hypnotism and Magnetism, then continue into The Sixth & Seventh Books of Moses. For clairvoyance and scrying, explore Crystal-Gazing and Spiritual Clairvoyance Behind the Veil. View the complete L. W. de Laurence collection.