Scientific Suggestion: The Secret of Success — L. H. Anderson (1909)

Scientific Suggestion: The Secret of Success—Hypnotism, Its Uses and Abuses is L. H. Anderson’s wide-ranging study of suggestion, hypnotic influence, mental discipline, and the practical direction of thought.

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

Originally published in 1909, the work belongs to the formative period in which hypnotism, mesmerism, mental science, and popular psychology frequently overlapped. Anderson examines focused attention, verbal suggestion, personal influence, self-command, and the constructive and destructive uses of directed mental action.

The book is especially revealing as a record of the transition from nineteenth-century magnetic traditions toward the language of suggestion, psychology, personal development, and mental efficiency.

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Title: Scientific Suggestion: The Secret of Success—Hypnotism, Its Uses and Abuses
Author: L. H. Anderson
Original publication: 1909
Original publisher: The National Institute, Masonic Temple, Chicago
Format: Handmade physical book / PDF
Physical dimensions: 8.5 × 11 inches
Cover: Bright white card stock with black and antique-gold printing
Binding: Black cloth tape-bound spine
Interior: Black-and-white
Edition publisher: Odd Enough Books / Holographic Pagan Press
Edition design: C.K. Lee
Condition: Newly produced

Historical Note

The text reflects the psychological theories, hypnotic practices, and mental-science vocabulary of the early twentieth century and is presented as a historical document of those traditions.

Continue the Anderson Library

Continue with Ancient Magic, Magnetism and Psychic Forces, How to Hypnotize, The Key to Mental and Physical Power, and Marvels of Magnetism. View the complete L. H. Anderson collection.