#animal magnetism

[jgroffdaily]

More photos of Jonathan at the ‘Animal Magnetism’ presentation last Tuesday at Joe’s Pub, posted on Instagram by @adamboggsmcdonald and @saharmilani.

#jonathan groff #animal magnetism #Joe’s Pub

[importantkidspyfarm]

Whatever he's doing needs to be studied so we can learn how to stop it. What gives him the right! 😩😈

#barry keoghan #saltburn #saltburn 2023 #oliver quick #animal magnetism #soul snatcher #soul piercing #raw animal magnetism

[memryloss]

Animal Magnetism あにまる・まぐねてぃずむ (♡)

#animal magnetism #webcore #animecore #90s anime #partial #vintage anime

[avoyagetoarcturus]

Friederike Hauffe, the Seeress of Prevorst and Dr. Justinus Kerner for Folktale Week on Instagram: Day Four: Sleep. ☄️ Mrs. Hauffe (1801-1829) was a German mystic and "sleep-waker" who could see the future, communicate with ghosts and spirits, see the time of people's deaths, and sense magnetic fields. She lived in the house of Dr. Justinus Kerner as a patient for an unknown chronic illness for three years while he wrote a book about her visions and attempted to scientifically study ghosts, clairvoyance, and the afterlife.

#folktaleweek #folktale week #folktaleweek2023 #folktale week 2023 #die seherin von prevorst #justinus kerner #animal magnetism #the seeress of prevorst #parapsychology #wurttemburg #swabia #germany #sumi ink #illustration #history #mythedit #mythology #mythologyedit #historicwomendaily #german folklore #aeolian harp #die nervenstimmer #art

[vintage-tigre]

#aesthetic #vintage #stickers #jungle girl #old school cool #style #animal print #wild girl #tigress #animal magnetism

[doggirlsotd]

Today’s dog girl of the day is Pochi from Animal Magnetism: Pochi No Daisuki!

#pochi #dog girls otd #canine #animal magnetism #animal magnetism pochi no daisuki #animecore #cw suggestive

[elizabethswitch]

May 5

"As the evening fell it began to get very cold, and the growing twilight seemed to merge into one dark mistiness the gloom of the trees, oak, beech, and pine, though in the valleys which ran deep in the spurs of the hills, as we ascended through the Pass, the dark firs stood out here and there against the background of late-lying snow. Sometimes, as the road was cut throught the pine wood that seemed in the darkness to be closing in upon us, great masses of greyness, which here and there bestrewed the trees, produced a peculiarly weird and solemn effect, which carries on the thoughts and grim fancies engendered earlier in the evening, when the falling sunset threw into strange relief the ghost- like clouds which among the Carpathians seem to wind ceaselessly through the valleys." (Harker)

June 24

"I thought I would watch for the Count's return, and for a long time sat doggedly at the window.Then I began to notice that there were some quaint little specks floating in the rays of the moonlight. They were like the tiniest grains of dust, and they whirled round and gathered in clusters in a nebulous sort of way. I watched them with a sense of soothing, and a sort of calm stole over me. I leaned back in the embrasure in a more comfortable position, so that I could enjoy more fully the aerial gamboling.

Something made me start up, a low, piteous howling of dogs somewhere far below in the valley, which was hidden from my sight. Louder it seemed to ring in my ears, and the floating motes of dust to take new shapes to the sound as they danced in the moonlight. I felt myself struggling to awake to some call of my instincts; nay, my very soul was struggling, and my half-remembered sensibilities were striving to answer the call. I was becoming hypnotised! Quicker and quicker danced the dust; the moonbeams seemed to quiver as they went by me into the mass of gloom beyond. More and more they gathered till they seemed to take dim phantom shapes. And then I started, broad awake and in full possession of my senses, and ran screaming from the place. The phantom shapes, which were becoming gradually materialised from the moonbeams, were those of the three ghostly women to whom I was doomed. (Harker)

1 August

"Two days of fog, and not a sail sighted. Had hoped to be able to signal for help or get in somewhere. Not having power to work sails, have to run before wind. Dare not lower, as could not raise them again. We seem to be drifting to some terrible doom. Mate now more demoralised than either of men. His stronger nature seems to have worked inwardly against himself. Men are beyond fear, working stolidly and patiently, with minds made up to worst. They are Russian, he Roumanian." (Log of the Demeter)

#Dracula Daily #mist is not mist #particle vamp #fixed post #mesmerism #animal magnetism

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front and back cover of animal magnetism gengashuu +α

#my uploads #animal magnetism #animal magnetism pochi no daisuke #animal magnetism: pochi's beloved #animal magnetism pochi no daisuki

[nordleuchten]

La Fayette on Animal Magnetism and Mesmerism

The Marquis de La Fayette has always been interest in science and how scientific discoveries could better everyday life. Despite this interest, or maybe because of it, La Fayette found himself in contact with scientific theories that sound rather strange to the modern ear. One of these was Animal Magnetism, also known as Mesmerism.

Animal Magnetism is a theory that was first published in 1779 by the German physician Franz Anton Mesmer. In short, proponents of this theory believe that all living things have a natural force and that there are magnetic fluids within the human body. They postulated a parallel between the magnetism in animals and in metals. This force and the fluids can be manipulated via different mechanism such as the lying on of hands. These manipulations can lead to positive effects like the curing of certain ailments or to harmful side effects like dizziness, heating of the body and seizures.

This is just a very superficial summary of Animal Magnetism for the sake of this post. The theory was very popular for a good one hundred years and is sometimes still used in the field of alternative medicine. Over the years different groups within the field of Animal Magnetism formed and these groups were characterized by (slightly) differencing theories, believes, practices, and varying terminologies. The theory was investigated by several of the leading scientific organizations of their day – with varying results.

Mesmer taught his theories to other people, his “disciples”, but kept the ultimate secrets to himself. La Fayette was one of his students and very, very enthusiastic about the whole matter. He wrote to George Washington on May 14, 1784:

A German doctor Called Mesmer Having Made the Greatest discovery Upon Magnetism Animal, He Has Instructed scholars, Among Whom Your Humble Servant is Called One of the Most Enthusiastic. I know as Much as Any Conjurer Ever did, which Remind's me of our old friend's at Fiskills Enterwiew with the devil that Made us laugh So Much at His House, and Before I Go, I will Get leave to let You into the Secret of Mesmer, which You May depend Upon, is a Grand philosophical discovery.

Idzerda Stanley J. et al., editors, Lafayette in the Age of the American Revolution: Selected Letters and Papers, 1776–1790, Volume 5, January 4, 1782‑December 29, 1785, Cornell University Press, 1983, p. 216.

Mesmer and his students gathered in the Rue de Coq Héron in Paris. In 1784 one of Mesmer’s students, Deslon, left the group to set up a rivaling group that did more or less the same as Mesmer’s group did. When the French King ordered a commission (of which Benjamin Franklin was a member) to investigate the claims made, Mesmer refused to appear in front of the committee and Deslon used this as his chance to present himself as the true expert on Animal Magnetism.

La Fayette certainly had opinions about this whole affair and wrote to Benjamin Franklin on May 20, 1784:

That Mesmer is the true preacher of Magnetism Animal, to Which By the Way He Has Been Much Helped By Your electric discoveries, is a truth which No Body Will deny. That Deslon Has treacherously Broken His faith, trampled Upon the Most Sacred Engagements is a More disputable. That While Mesmer Intended Acquiring a great glory and a great fortune, He Has not Been Such a fool as to Impart His Whole System to One Man who Might Claim a share in the Honour and Profit is also pretty Clear. That Baron de Breteuil, out of a private picque to Mesmer, Has Sent to Deslon, in order to know Mesmer'sdoctrine which does not Exist, and that what May Be known of the doctrine will Be Either Betraied By Deslon, or Stolen out By private Spies, are also pretty clear to Every Mind. Now, My dear Sir, instead of Helping to those transactions, don't You think the Commissaries, to whom the World Considers you as a president, Had Better Report. That What they Have Seen Gives them the idea of a Great discovery, But that Mesmer Being the Author of it, He is the fountain Head to which You Must Apply—that Sciences and letters are frighted a way By the Hand of despotism—But that, in order to Come to the whole truth, Commissaries Must plainly, and Oppenly Go to Mr. Mesmer, and in the Same way as other people, do, Be Regularly let By Him Into His whole System. Upon that I Have not Spoken to Mesmer. But I would Be Sorry to See a traitor triumph over an Honest man—and I am Sure You May Give a Good turn to the affair.

Idzerda Stanley J. et al., editors, Lafayette in the Age of the American Revolution: Selected Letters and Papers, 1776–1790, Volume 5, January 4, 1782‑December 29, 1785, Cornell University Press, 1983, p. 220-222.

La Fayette’s enthusiasm for Mesmer’s theories was not limited to a theoretical approach. He very much sought to implement Mesmer’s teaching in day-to-day life. On August 12, 1784, he gave a two-hour long speech about Animal Magnetism to the American Philosophical Society. Prior to that, on the ship that brought him to America, he tried to cure his seasickness with one of Mesmer’s methods. He wrote to his wife Adrienne on June 28, 1784:

As long as I stay quiet, I shall suffer only what my whole mental and physical being will always suffer at being confined. But when the Courier starts to move, I shall fortify myself with magnetism, camphor, and treacle tablets on an empty stomach, and drops of ether on a piece of sugar, all new remedies that I shall try and that will do nothing at all for me. In recommending that I embrace the mainmast, Mesmer did not know, and I forgot, that it is coated with tar up to a certain height, and hugging it is absolutely impossible without getting tarred from head to foot.

Idzerda Stanley J. et al., editors, Lafayette in the Age of the American Revolution: Selected Letters and Papers, 1776–1790, Volume 5, January 4, 1782‑December 29, 1785, Cornell University Press, 1983, p. 231.

La Fayette was very interested in visiting a settlement of Shaker (a religious group) while in America since he believed that some of the Shaker’s practices were very similar to those of Animal Magnetism. One of his travel companions, Barbé de Marbois’s, notes in his journal:

We had heard a great deal about the American Shakers. For the three years that that sect had been growing in America, we had all wanted to see their principal settlement, which was not far from our route; and in addition to ordinary motives of curiosity, M. le Marquis de Lafayette wished to examine at firsthand phenomena that seemed very similar to those associated with Mesmer, with whom he studied. It was a Sunday. We left for Niskayuna, the place of their assembly. It is difficult to reach this village, which is in the middle of the woods, and we were obliged to go to see them on foot. At great distance we heard a slow, melancholy, but rather melodious music. All the voices were singing in unison or in octaves, and the effect was rather pleasing at a distance. We found the Shakers in the midst of their religious devotions … M. le Marquis de Lafayette, one of Dr. Mesmer’s adepts, wanted to try out animal magnetism on one of them. While he was magnetizing him with all his power, the poor man told us his story: “One day I fell from my wagon,” he told us. “I injured my leg very badly. A kind man came to my aid while I was unconscious. When I awoke, I found myself healed. I experienced a complete change in my sentiments and beliefs. I renounced the world and its ways. I followed those of these perfect men, and from that moment, I have been infinitely happy.” This chosen one was a person of extreme simplicity, and while M. le Marquis de Lafayette was trying without success the effects of magnetism on all his poles, one of the old men—uneasy about what might result from it—came to us. He asked whether we were acting in the name of a good spirit or of an evil spirit. "Assuredly," said M. le Marquis de Lafayette, "it is in the name of a good spirit." Once he had made this avowal, you can well imagine that the Shaker pressed us hard. He even tried to persuade us to become his proselytes, and we were unable to shake him off until we left Niskayuna to continue our voyage …

Idzerda Stanley J. et al., editors, Lafayette in the Age of the American Revolution: Selected Letters and Papers, 1776–1790, Volume 5, January 4, 1782‑December 29, 1785, Cornell University Press, 1983, p. 245.

With time and other things to occupy himself with, La Fayette’s interest faded. But as far as I can tell, it never completely left him. By the time of his death in 1834, the theory was still popular.

#marquis de lafayette #la fayette #french history #american history #history #letter #george washington #benjamin franklin #adrienne de noailles #adrienne de la fayette #franz anton mesmer #animal magnetism #mesmerism #1779 #1782 #shakers #barbé de marbois

[blackros78]

#scorpions #animal magnetism #1980 #hard rock #classic rock #live performance #video #houston #texas #1980s #Youtube

[jgroffdaily]

@itsellenwinter “does this make me gaaaay? YES” 🧲🌈✨

thank you everyone who made this past week so special. I could puke (i won’t). literal dream come true to sing / play / discover with my heroes who are also my collaborators wtf.

our new show took its first baby steps. thank you friends who made it out to our little share. thank you @joespub for making it possible. thank you @machellovesyou for directing n elevating this beyond wildest imagination. thank you @always.dignity for slaaaying on the keys and being my music right hand (hire her she is brilliant). thank you @stormthomasmusicals & @a_sarr for making this music fkn ALIVE with your skills and taste and smarts.

thank you @therealkuhoo @benlross @tsebiyah @saharmilani @benlanghorst & @adamboggsmcdonald for your incredible talent and insticts. jaw is bruised from hitting the floor so many times while you sang.

and thank you #jonathangroff & @kellytieger & @litpic for being in the creative trenches with me, for laughing and learning and just being geniuses.

see ya soon, ya filthy animals 😘

📸 @dapingluo

#jonathan groff #Ellen Winter #chris littler #animal magnetism

[heartbreak-sandwich]

⭐️ for whichever fic you wanna talk about :3

ahhhhh thank you sm for this :3💕

In this essay, I will talk about Animal Magnetism. ❤️‍🔥

AM was the first fic I ever wrote with the intention of posting for people to read. It was originally just an SFW bossy lifeguard Billy blurb, which became part one. All it took was one single stranger commenting, asking ever so politely for a part two, and I was STOKED to make one. So I made a part two, and then I figured we should get some more tension going and then reward ourselves at the very end with some genuine, hot, heavy smut, and I did just that. From a blurb to a five-part series all due to the kindness of a stranger who took the time to leave a comment.

All of this just to say, that fic will always be my baby, and I still go back and read it to this day, and if you're wondering if you should comment on the fic that you liked or want to see more of with encouragement and nice words, the answer is always yes. Our readers inspire us to keep writing a lot of the time. 💕

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[clangandclatter]

Scorpions - Animal Magnetism (March 31, 1980)

#Scorpions #Animal Magnetism #album #album anniversary #this day in music

[dweeeeeb]

Motivational Music in the Morning ... #Testament, #AnimalMagnetism ... from #TheDarkRootsOfEarth [Official Audio Track] (2012) #MMitM1

#youtube #MMitM1 #Testament #Animal Magnetism #The Dark Roots of Earth #Official #Audio Track #2012

[freshkingdomenemy]

#animal #animal magic #spellcasting #animal magnetism #my spells #enhance your spells

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animal magnetism cd-rom

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