Hypnosis - where, when and how it originated is unknown. In ancient Egypt, China, India, and Greece there were, for more than a thousand years, a tradition of healing shrines dedicated to what the Greeks knew as the god of Asclpius. For the ancient peoples it was evident that it was possible for man to influence the mind and body of another.
Hippocrates (460-377 BC) known as the “father of medicine” concluded that dread and fear, sleeplessness and anxieties as well as deeds which are contrary to habit, all derive from the brain. Here was the seat of disease and the centre which controlled the entire body.
Another great Greek physician Galen of Pergamum (129-199) conceived of the notion of some ethereal fluid as the bridge between the mind and the body, so that physical ailments could derive from mental problems and physical or organic illness could cause mental disturbance, through the flow of this fluid.
In the sixteenth century the Swiss physician Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim better known as Paracelsus (1493- 1541) revolutionized medical theories held at the time. He developed the idea that heavenly bodies could affect humans and disease. A hundred years later, a German scholar, Athanasius
Hippocrates (460-377 BC) known as the “father of medicine” concluded that dread and fear, sleeplessness and anxieties as well as deeds which are contrary to habit, all derive from the brain. Here was the seat of disease and the centre which controlled the entire body.
Another great Greek physician Galen of Pergamum (129-199) conceived of the notion of some ethereal fluid as the bridge between the mind and the body, so that physical ailments could derive from mental problems and physical or organic illness could cause mental disturbance, through the flow of this fluid.
In the sixteenth century the Swiss physician Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim better known as Paracelsus (1493- 1541) revolutionized medical theories held at the time. He developed the idea that heavenly bodies could affect humans and disease. A hundred years later, a German scholar, Athanasius
Kirchir, proposed that some natural power which he called animal magnetism was also involved. The British philosopher and scientist Sir Isaac Newton, also believed in animal magnetism, and by virtue of his authority established considerable authenticity for the idea.
No comments:
Post a Comment