MIND READING MANUAL - Practical course in 12 lessons (translated) E-Book

Erik Jan Hanussen

• Herausgeber: anna ruggieri
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

Beschreibung

- This edition is unique;
- The translation is completely original and was carried out for the Ale. Mar. SAS;
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Hanussen, integrating his natural talent with a psychological-scientific culture, clearly expounds methods, techniques and tricks including telepathy, hypnosis, dowsing and dowsing. He reveals all his knowledge of ideomotor movements and their use to pick up those subtle signals that each individual unconsciously emits; combined with a profound knowledge of the psyche, these movements make it possible, so to speak, to "read" the thoughts of others. Hanussen himself, following the indications suggested here, held a practical course with five students from different professional backgrounds: a lawyer, an actor, an industrialist, a doctor and a worker.

Leseprobe

Index of contents

INTRODUCTION

I LESSON - What is telepathy? Overview of the history of mind reading, its evolution and literature.

II LESSON - Reading the muscles

III LESSON - Experiment and testing

IV LESSON - Logic of questions

V LESSON - Preliminary exercises

VI LESSON - Telepathic mail

VII LESSON - The pin experiment

VIII LESSON - Action experiments and their solution through manual contact

IX LESSON - Guessing numbers, letters, figures, cards, drawings, etc.

X LESSON - Reproducing figures, letters and thought drawings without any aid

XI LESSON - Telepathy with contact through a wire, double tests etc. and mind reading without physical contact

XII LESSON - Evening with the public

APPENDIX

False telepaths and their tricks

Erik Jan Hanussen

MIND READING MANUAL

Practical course in 12 lessons

English translation and 2021 edition by Ale. Mar.

All rights reserved

INTRODUCTION

This book was finished in April 1919, the first of four volumes, of which the remaining three (on telepathy, hypnosis, and dowsing) have unfortunately been lost.

One hundred years ago, therefore, Hermann Steinschneider, alias Erik Jan Hanussen, after making a name for himself as a telepath, published this manual, in which he meticulously explains in 12 lessons the techniques for learning to read thoughts, because these are techniques.

Not only has no similar work been published to date, but, as Hanussen points out in the opening pages of his book, even now people still confuse mind reading with telepathy, not to mention the various phenomena produced by hypnotic suggestion.

During his short life - he was born in Vienna on 2 June 1889 and died in Berlin in March 1933 on Hitler's orders - Erik Jan Hanussen achieved a high degree of virtuosity as a stage artist, as he was and always wanted to remain.

As well as being a highly acclaimed star, Hanussen also possessed extraordinary mediumistic gifts from his childhood, making him one of the greatest clairvoyants of our time.

Telepathy and dowsing were no less congenial to him than the use of hypnotic suggestion with which he used to amaze the crowds, and this book shows how, at the age of thirty, although he had only done a few years of primary school, Hanussen had succeeded in integrating his natural talents with a solid base of historical and scientific erudition. His language, too, shows a remarkable intelligence and versatility (Hanussen was self-taught and became fluent in seven languages).

Hanussen's main aim in this volume is to introduce a more complex discourse on telepathy proper, hypnosis and dowsing. He does so by revealing all that he knows about ideomotor movements and their use in order to pick up those subtle signals that each individual unconsciously emits and which, combined with a profound knowledge of the psyche of the audience, allow the experimenter to apparently read the thoughts of his medium without having to resort to tricks or deception.

Before writing this work, the author held a practical course with five students from five different professional backgrounds: an industrialist, an actor, a lawyer, a doctor and a worker.

All of them successfully completed the course and passed the fire test in a specially arranged evening.

This proved once and for all that, with will and perseverance, anyone can learn those things that even today are often shrouded in magic and mystery.

In the following 12 lessons the reader will learn all the necessary information and practice to sustain an entire evening of experiments, while developing the psychological acumen that is the basis of genuine telepathic sensitivity.

I LESSON - What is telepathy? Overview of the history of mind reading, its evolution and literature.

We have little time to talk, and the road that you and I want to travel together is long and tiring. But precisely for this reason, since we now have a long way to go, side by side, it seems appropriate to me to address to you first of all an invitation: put out your hand! Put out your hand without hesitation or second thoughts!

The handshake you have given me, friend, counts as a mutual commitment and promise for what follows:

You will not just flip through this book, reading a page here and skipping a paragraph there; you will study the book lesson by lesson, gradually learning what it teaches you.

You will only start experimenting in public when I expressly allow you to do so in these pages; otherwise you will encounter unnecessary disappointment, become discouraged and lose confidence in yourself and your abilities.

From this beware and allow me to preserve you.

Through the study of this mind-reading manual you will be offered new possibilities in society, which you would never have thought of before; you will be welcomed with open arms, admired and encouraged to show your skills.

Please note, however, that this book is not intended to be an end in itself, but has been conceived as an in-depth treatment of the telepathic phenomenon, so that you can become familiar with the subject, to awaken your interest and to teach you to distinguish between mind reading and telepathy.

Mind-reading here is nothing more than a means to an end, just as it has always been for me in my lectures, which without it would never have aroused interest, enthusing a large circle of friends to the problem of telepathy proper.

Do not gloss over my words but read them carefully and think. Where I propose an experiment, do it immediately and repeat it patiently until you succeed.

It must succeed!

Remember: everything written here has been tried and tested and succeeds for everyone, unless they are a complete imbecile.

Only experiment with people who are sympathetic to you.

I promise not to conceal anything I know; to lead you on the path to success and not to omit or on the other hand to spend even a single word too much, in order to avoid unnecessarily testing your patience.

Take my advice: only pick up this book if and when you are in the right frame of mind to study.

Don't read it in the tram or while eating your meal. Prepare for reading as if you were going to school: with a fresh mind and at least one hour per lesson.

Let us begin.

Undoubtedly telepathy lends itself more than anything else to introducing demonstrations on stage, giving the operator the confidence and credibility needed to succeed in captivating audiences.

During my performances I wouldn't for anything in the world give up the amazing, entertaining and fascinating experiments in telepathy, so it is very important to me that my pupils first learn about this subject.

One moment, though!

First of all we must be able to discern mind-reading from telepathy. They are in fact two completely different things.

The distinction between these two concepts requires a whole chapter and must be carefully considered.

The current use of the term 'telepathy' to refer to 'mindreading' is inappropriate, for the simple reason that telepathy does not mean mindreading, but the transmission of feelings from one individual to another at an indeterminate distance, without the use of speech, signals or other natural means of communication, whereas mindreading, or rather 'sensing thoughts', involves for the most part the intervention of the somatic senses and can only be carried out at very short distances.

Since in this volume I intend to illustrate and teach only the art of mind-reading, we shall contemplate above all that which is essential to the practice, so that I shall refrain from giving in these pages an exact definition of the term "telepathy" as well as other detailed indications on the subject.

It is not surprising that the history of telepathy is closely related to that of mind reading, since the two terms were often confused with each other.

The difference between them is clear from the following definitions coined by the physician Dr. A. Moll of Berlin of telepathy and by Professor Wilhelm Preyer (Jena) of mind-reading.

Dr. A. Moli defines the word telepathy as follows:

"By telepathy is meant the transmission of thoughts, emotions, sensations, etc., from an individual A to an individual B, without B, however, being able to know A's thoughts through any of the conventional systems of perception."

In other words, telepathy is the acquisition of visual, acoustic and kinesthetic impressions from one individual to another, without them being registered through the eye, the ear or any other kind of sensory perception, and beyond all spatial and even temporal limits.

In a polemical stance against the experimental results of Professor Charles Richet, Professor Preyer in 1886 defined mind-reading as a knowledge of thought directions and movements due to a skilful exploitation of the ideomotor (involuntary) muscle movements resulting from very intense thought, which the expert operator uses during the course of his experiments, apparently guessing other people's thoughts.

All other interpretations of the two phenomena, such as those of Professors Forel, Du Prel, Schrenk-Notzing, Flammarion, Kiesewetter, Pilcz, Wagner-Jauregg, etc., are also based on these two definitions.

Both definitions are, however, far from new. Long before Preyer, Brow-h, Carpenter and Braid had already recognised the principle of ideomotor movements, and if a series of journalistic outpourings following my appearance recently made this fact a sensation, it is certainly not a great discovery.

The problem of telepathy is as old as time.

From Pythagoras to Plato, five hundred years before Christ, from the Arabian healer Avicenna to the scholastic philosopher Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth century, and again from Theophrastus Paracelsus to W. Maxwell and Dr. F.A. Mesmer; from Mesmer to Du Prel, Reichenbach, Flammarion, Richet, Myers, Benedikt and Schrenk-Notzing, as many as 30,000 volumes were written on the subject.

From the devotees of the occult sciences of antiquity, the sages, soothsayers, magicians and high priests to the alchemists, Rosicrucian Knights and initiates to the members of the Society for Psychical Research in London and Boston, with a hundred or so volumes to their credit, and those of the Telepathische Gesellschaft, there have been numerous associations that have included research into mental transmission in their programme or made it their main objective.

At the suggestion of W. F. H. Myers, psychologist and educational inspector at Cambridge, who in 1900 was president of the Soc. for Psych. Res. in 1900, the whole range of the phenomena of mental transmission was marked by the word "telepathy". In place of this expression the term "telesthesia" was repeatedly suggested. The person who transmits the thought to another is called the "agent"; the person who receives the message is the "recipient" or "medium". The process caused by the agent is called "action", the process that takes place in the mind of the recipient is called "perception".

The connection between the agent and the recipient is called a "relationship" or telepathic communication.

The French term 'mental suggestion' can only be adopted when a hypnotic suggestion is transmitted telepathically.

The word "muscle-reading" appears for the first time in Preyer's above-mentioned polemical paper; instead of it, as well as in place of the imprecise term "thought-reading", I usually use the expressions I have coined "thought-perception" or "thought-feeling", which illustrate the subject matter discussed here more specifically by the simple fact that the solutions to difficult experiments, especially if there is no direct contact with the medium, are never achieved exclusively through muscular movements, but rather must be perceived or felt through a certain impulse.

As I only intend to explain and introduce the phenomenon of thought-perception for the time being, I can limit myself to the above statements on telepathy, especially as I reserve the right to give a full description of it in the second part2 of my work.

It must be sufficient for us to be able to show by what has been said that the difference between telepathy, mental suggestion, clairvoyance (clairvoyance) and the art of thought-perception is all too clear, so that we may find ourselves in a position to confuse the one with the other, as has lately been the case with obvious frequency.

However distant the origins of telepathy may be, the history of thought perception only begins with the debut of the American spiritualist John R. Brown in 1876, and culminates with Stuart Cumberland and his passionate follower Karl Du Prel.

One day Chicago was plastered with huge posters on which a certain John Brown claimed to be able to guess the thoughts of any person just by touching them. During his many performances in Chicago, he actually demonstrated this. He found hidden objects, performed actions thought up by others and caused a huge stir across America because of a bet he made with a Chicago newspaper.

In recent times professional telepaths have tried so often to imitate this bet that I think it is worth describing it as it really happened originally.

John Brown had himself enclosed in a completely impenetrable sack and placed, thus packed, in a car. Through the sack he then made contact with the medium in charge of thought transmission, who sat behind him on the side of his head. Without touching Brown, the latter gave him his orders in thought. Although this was a very difficult task, Brown solved it perfectly within half an hour. The task was as follows: the telepath was to drive the car along a detailed route, through streets completely unknown to him, and stop in front of a certain house. In the attic of this house was a book hidden under a pile of junk. In this book Brown had to find a word on a certain page and underline it with a pencil. In order to do this, Brown first had to ask for a pair of scissors and have the sack cut off at the level of his right hand in order to carry out this action.

The success of the experiment was acclaimed on the front pages of all newspapers.

The way in which Brown discovered his faculties, and with them the perception of thought, is very interesting. Brown was interested in spiritualism, which was then very much in vogue in America, and tried to trace it back to its natural causes.

Turning tables in particular aroused his interest. After a series of experiments, he became convinced that the movements and beats were not caused by the intervention of astral beings, but by the will of the people who placed their hands on the table top. The tense state of expectation of the participants in the séance and their strong desire to see the phenomenon of the dancing table caused involuntary and unconscious muscular reflexes in their hands, which produced the movements and beats of the light three-footed table.

Brown identified these ideomotor reflexes and rightly deduced that they must also occur on other occasions, for example when someone is thinking hard in a certain direction etc. He began his experiments by looking for hidden objects and soon made so much money that he was able to retire to a country house and write a book about his discovery. He began his experiments by searching for hidden objects and soon made so much money that he could afford to retire to a country house and write a book about his discovery.

Brown was followed by Irving Bishop and Charles Stuart Cumberland who gave teleNtic demonstrations and as a representative of the fairer sex, Lucy de Gentry.

Above all, it was Stuart Cumberland, a merchant by trade whose real name was Garner, who took advantage of the favourable situation for telepathy at that time and became famous.

Like a triumphant winner, he was welcomed in the capitals of Europe, where he successfully displayed his skills at numerous courts and scholarly associations.

Stuart Cumberland was then by far the most exalted representative of the art of mind-reading. He was the first to perform the art of guessing actions, letters of the alphabet and numbers. Thanks to his extraordinary intelligence he became an eminent stage artist and a first-class lecturer. In Karl Du Prel, who headed the spiritist movement in Germany, Cumberland found an enthusiastic follower and supporter.

Unfortunately Du Prel exaggerated with his idealism, committing the same error from which most of the opponents of telepathy draw their arguments against it: he identified Cumberland's muscle reading with telepathy. Doubtless Cumberland, for reasons I shall explain later, was also a telepath, as indeed every experiment in time is carried out more or less equally by means of telepathy and muscle reading. But Cumberland himself probably did not even realise that he was also a telepath, having developed this faculty automatically and imperceptibly in the course of innumerable thought-reading experiments; so that he thought he was only demonstrating thought-reading, but nevertheless carried out most of his experiments with the aid of telepathy.

Unfortunately, Cumberland did not disdain to resort to a few tricks (see the last chapter) during his lectures, which greatly damaged his reputation.

In 1884 Cumberland came to Vienna, where he performed the famous experiment with Minister Pino and Countess Taaffe.

Cumberland had invited Pino to think of a certain person among those present in the crowded room. So he had his eyes blindfolded, took Pino by the hand and together with him walked very quickly across the room, stopping after a short search in front of Countess Taaffe. This easy experiment stunned the whole of Vienna.

Cumberland was succeeded by the Italian Bellini, whose telepathy demonstrations at the 'Ronacher' theatre won over a wide audience.

After Bellini, the matter stalled, until suddenly in Germany a certain Joe Labero from Munich made headlines and attracted a lot of interest as a telepath.

In 1913 Labero arrived in Vienna, and immediately after him it was Eugen de Rubini, a native of Briinn, who broke through with some formidable experiments after discovering his talent in the eccentric environment of the variety show.

In the midst of the war came the debut of Erik Jan Hanussen, and with it the beginning of the great telepath fashion in Vienna, which for two years now has been heating up hearts and minds, filling the pages of the newspapers and dividing public opinion into two rival camps, the believers and the sceptics.

30 April 1918' saw the huge hall of the great 'Wiener Konzerthaus' packed with a crowd of almost three thousand spectators.

In the court boxes the entire Imperial House of Austria was present, the gallery was occupied by an exclusive audience, in the stalls were almost all members of the Court Theatre and Opera House, and in the side rows were Vienna's most distinguished scientists and scholars.

Conrad von Mitzendorf and Boehm-Ermolli acted as mediums, the actor Reimers offered himself as presenter. So the Viennese waited curiously and warily for what they thought was bound to result in a huge scandal.

No one doubted that the evening would end in an unmitigated fiasco in the hall, which was deemed too large for such experiments.

Certainly, in the salons of the well-to-do Vienna, which had always been inclined towards mysticism, there had already been some discussion of spiritualism, there had also been some debate, not without fear of 'making a bad impression', about the nature of dowsing, and people were aware of the exploits of Stuart Cumberland.

But the fact of organising a fully fledged evening of experiments announced with posters in Vienna's largest theatre and in the spotlight was considered an affront that could only turn out to be a failure.

Here Hanussen refers to his first major public appearance during a short leave, which marked the beginning of his brilliant career.