Description
Book SynopsisIntends to demonstrate that hynotism is an essential aspect of our most significant relationships, an inherent dimension of love, religion, medicine, politics, and literature, a fundamental dynamic between lover and beloved, deity and votary, physician and patient, ruler and subject, and, indeed, reader and listener.
Trade Review"Whether or not you fall into a trance while reading this book, the intellectual delight that comes from allowing yourself to surrender to it is reward enough. As in all of his work, Siegel challenges us to examine the infinite aspects of subjective reality more deeply than we could alone. He does so with wit, scholarship, passionate engagement, and, most of all, humor." -Sheri Holman, author of Witches on the Road Tonight
Table of ContentsIN[TRO]DUCTION: Reading, Listening, and Hypnosis MAYAVATI'S SPELL: India, Stories, and Hypnosis Part One: For the Reader The Child's Story The Hypnographer's Story Part Two: For the Listener The Storyteller's Tale The Magician's Tale LE SOMMEIL LUCIDE: Religion, Sex, and Hypnosis Part One: For the Reader The Abbe's Story The Sculptor's Story The Psychiatrist's Story The Screenwriter's Story Part Two: For the Listener The Translator's Tale The Writer's Tale The Reader's Tale The Listener's Tale AN-ESTHETICS: Politics, Medicine, and Hypnosis Part One: For the Reader The Surgeon's Story The Anesthesiologist's Story Part Two: For the Listener The Patient's Tale The Mesmerist's Tale BIBLIOGRAPHY: History, Fiction, and Hypnosis
