Spring 2005

History of Psychology

Dr. Forbes

Research Paper

Reaping the Whirlwind, Thundering Voices

And the Sowing of Souls on the Shelf of Positivism

Proposing a Paper Beyond the Vacuum of a Void

By

Gregory S Edwards
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A Theory Blending Mesmerism, Rasputin, and My “F” in Mystery

Question: Does it not take an act of illusion to transcend illusion?

To voice these largely latent Phenomena, I start with a look at Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer.
Then, I move forward in time and delve into the stigmatized character of Grigori
Rasputin, where I hammer out this experimental research in a jest of near Negativism.
And in conclusion, using my own personal experiences, I can realize parallels between
these two profound historical enigmas, the ongoing fruition of my self-understanding and
a synthesis, sending never ever ending synergies…beyond the stifling energy freeze.

Introduction

While reading The Homecoming, a journey back to “original bliss,” the Houston
author, John Bradshaw, stated: “You can’t heal what you can’t feel.” He also stated the
need to embrace pain in order to release it. Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815)
referred to this as entering the “crisis state.”i Today we know this as catharsis. His
mesmerism helped shape hypnosisii when suggestibility was realized, as well the potential
of forces embedded in the subconscious mind. I believe that his followers as well as the
spectrum of faith healers prompt manipulations of this life force when successful, even if
the mind-set change was imperfect. In another generation Grigori Rasputiniii seemed to
me to have been endowed with touchstone energy as well. The later said healer had to
face resistant forces that portrayed a social scenario in which his success was highlighted
by his ruthless assignation.

Both historic figures believed themselves to have been channels of a culturally vague yet
personally powerful force that endured unto death. They would most likely now be
stigma labeled as having extreme features of “magical thinking.” Shifting into present
time and personally relating to my own parallel endowment, I can intuit these dilemmas
as they merge into mine. I cannot not know the ‘ism.”

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In the end I supplement my own documentations of stigma and many stumbling stones
secondary to an abnormal yet natural array of traits. As well, the other side of the coin, I
LIKE TO KEEP IT FLIPPING TO SHEAD LIGHT ON BOTH SIDES.

Part I

The first “faith” scientist I will site is Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815) who after
contemplating “animal magnetism” as vague information in high social circles circulated.
He connected magnetisms and electricity to potential healing utility and did the really
real eyebrow raising. He proposed that we all had related energies in our bodies at
various places. He stated that when these energies became misaligned, illness resulted.
He concluded that realignment was the cure and was a believer until death.

Originally he orally administered iron to the patient and then manipulated magnets over
the entranced ill believer. The iron induced a state similar to hypnosis, yet Dr Mesmer did
not realize the powers of suggestion while the patient was in this state of mesmerism.
What strikes me as peculiar is that several patients had compartmented the trance-like
memories, yet remembered the cross-influx of treatments.

Eyebrows were raised where he practiced in his native Vienna and he was eventually
ostracized from the medical community there. He went to Paris seeking a more open-
minded pool of patients to use this influence on. He thought himself to be gifted because
the probable psycho-somatic-based ill patients were often healed; and this soma-state
helped the patient block pain messages out which was very useful during surgery.

As he started thriving in practice in Paris, the local medical community again sought to
debunk his practice as “magical thinking,” even though the mortality rate of mesmerized
amputees was less than 5% compared to a death rate of 40 % while “biting the bullet.” As
he became popular he initialized a movement that was to be outlawed in one medical
institution. When the birth of drug-induced unconsciousness buzzed by the bone honing,

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the movement started fading, and the “Franklin Commission” found nothing solid to
support his claims. Mesmerism digressed into an entertainment act more than anything
else. Today we can still witness these very powerful effects through hypnosis.iv

Part II

Within a few years after Mesmer’s last day, Grigori Rasputin seemed to have tuned into
the same natural constant. He was born in Prokovskoe, Siberia on or about January 10,
1896 near the Tura River. The river would play a significant role in the development of
his life and later his demise. He had an older brother Dmitri who he had saved from
drowning in the Tura only to see him die afterwards from pneumonia. Strangely, his older
sister Maria did drown in the river secondary to an epileptic seizure in a separate incident.
The deaths of his siblings greatly affected the young illiterate holy monk. He would later
name his two children after them.

His father had been banned from his origin and sent to Siberia after an incident that had
labeled him a criminal. I found nothing on his mother. The setting for Grigori must have
been very challenging. He loved animals, especially horses. He even made up his own
horse language as a child. He had a very strong desire to serve God and be of aid and help
desperate and hurt people.

Without a normal predisposition, Grigori alarmed his native villagers by his near constant
inability to stay out of trouble with the local authorities. He was said to have the traits of
a hell raiser: drinking, stealing, and loving a passion for many women. Various vague
stories stress his temperament in an odd dichotomy. He most likely did drink and do
normal juvenile activities. He most likely did many kind things as well. I believe that he
was so emotionally empowered that after he was introduced to the sect of Khlystyv at the
age of thirty-three he became quite a fence shaker. I believe that his said terribleness may
have been the counterpart to his said greatness. He was known as a Russian mystic,
called Father Grigori, man of the people, Holy Monk, divine healer, seer, poet…

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He had gained high regard from the Tsar and Tsaritsa who beheld him as more divine
than the head of the Orthodox Church. No one knew that Grigori was keeping their only
son alive, and for that reason the void of the mysterious associations perhaps fired feeble
minded rumors creating insanity based on anger, fear and jealously. Sinister agents in
high places started plotting to create a conspiracy against him saying that he was the
undercover “Devil emissary!” Adversely, a few powerful conspirators called him the
Antichrist (http://www.eurohistory.com/Rasputin.html) using his “false profit” powers
behind the scenes to make “sex toys” of the Empress and her two daughters. She held
true to a prophecy said by her son’s physician, unable to help the hemophiliac, “that God
would send you a new friend to help and protect you.” The stage was set for Rasputin
who had been told while he worked in the field by the “Holy Mother” to help the fate of
Russia.

Grigori encountered challenging Religious egos. He had been at variance with resistance
as his stigmata. After he caught the secret teachings of the sect he left all of his
attachments, including his wife and children, behind and went into a near by cellar
lamenting to God for forgiveness, help and understanding. The villagers were concerned
and when anyone would descend into the cellar they were “changed” and would come out
obviously serene such that al witnesses could tell. His message and healing testimonies
were spread all about with no concern for the Orthodox Church. The most powerful
“dead letter” servant of the default Orthodox Church, emboldened to see this perceived
pretence of a Holy Man, came and descended into the cellar chamber unannounced! He
came out of the cellar shocked to the bone! It took him time to get back home where he
finally recomposed himself with a hideous reaction formation as his delusion conclusion.
He said that: “Nothing could have descended upon him with such a thundering voice but
the “Antichrist!

People were largely very fond of him yet some who were perhaps superststious thought
him to be a threat, especially since he was highly regarded by some elitists. He was
known as “the man of the people,” a Holy Man! …Who was conducive to healing people
in their “dark night of the soul” kind of state. He was first recognized when he detected
who stole a horse at five years of age. He was said to have refrained from stealing

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because he had thought that others could tell if he had done such. Rasputin was largely
believed to have had a “calming effect” on frightened, yet sincere people. The culture
generally respected and accepted him, openly sharing his sounds of deliverance.

He felt called through some kind of a spiritual experience to go to St. Petersburg and
deliver the key hemophiliac son of Russian Royalty. That he did and they came to depend
on him to keep the lineage alive.

There does seem to have been an “‘evil-like” character in the anomie mix, of carpet roller
morbid madness tricks. He was Prince Felix who was related to the Russian Royalty
(http://www.alexanderpalace.org/palace/Felix.html) and was the chief agent in an
ineffective poisoning through food and drink offerings. After much grim determination, a
numerous array of attempts had been tried. The panic climaxed and finally closed after
Grigori was wrapped in burlap with UNSPEAKABLE WOUNDS endured on that day of
his murder. Conspirators spread numerous rabidly rationalized rumors apparently linked
to any common youthful following as the fall folly in the name of infantile superstition,
panic for power and thus paranoia.vi Many, if not all involved, were shot for their part in
the murder.

Part III

Today, I must say that I have been in a state of muse in merging the commonalities.
Having multiple undeniable personal experiences beyond known science, without
measure, yet ever tangible, I realize invisible forces, or some form of electro-magnetisms,
including vortexes (see attached, The Visit) likened to the Biblical description as “tongues
of fire and the sound of doves.” I have had much revealed to me. Wanting to share my
experience, the APA classified those un-measurable heightened sensory perceptions as
“magical thinking” to my detriment and eventual institutionalized me (see attached,
Subject: Medical Malpractice). I feel that the rejection has had ties with religiosity. At
present the scientific community can measure to some extent, these electro-magnetic
waves in certain frequencies, yet there is so much more to realize when we awaken
within our body conduction for these energy oscillations. Thus I present a ”method to my

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madness” as if mesmerism had evolved into a fuller fruition, or perhaps remembered
from the dawn of time. As well I present my double-sided experience of what I see and
have come to understand. It seems there is no greatness in the human experience without
some encounter with terrible reactivity.

Using a synchronized form of physical rhythm modulation united with sound frequencies,
I hypothesize, that we can experience a near-collective “homecoming” while gathering
our gifts—the things we can become by letting go but were never given near no
permission nor direction for such. To get through the initial “crisis state,” I hope to ease
the freeze and bring the “I Am” in us back with us, as US, yet in a more complete voice.
Any emotion-based enmeshment that has taken various parts of our endowed
consciousness away has had its eon. We can now, now be. The question is: Does it take
an act of illusion to transcend illusion?

For me to give a demonstration I perhaps must “walk on eggshells” so to speak. Does this
sound like a delusion of grandeur? I certainly know what one is after being victimized by
international thieves (see attached letter, The success…). This would most likely bolster
the American Psychiatric Associations’ psycho-phobia, and would very potentially be a
suspect rationalization for their administration of a chemical lobotomy and then just one
more, then another.

Today I am unspeakably appreciative that frontal lobotomies are not practiced; I would
certainly be stigmatized by the social stratum dominating the mud that made the mold in
the name of a there and then god. I would not like to have been incarnated when green
wood was the kind passage where “hell” would not be so harsh; and when the inertia of
broken tongues and gods created in MAN’S image justified the most heinous act
conceivable.

Surely the superstitious are shaken by the shaft as I am what? An omni-path squared in a
paradoxical ploy, a double-edged sword able to heal and with an illusion of kill (see

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attached, Is This Discrimination?). No! There is no otherness beyond what reflects back
upon us in this is-ness made of I am-ness.
Conclusion

The last time I looked at my watch, It was not taboo to be scientific, and practically by
default, rejecting of things immeasurable. There are factors without constraints as we
know them that are based on our unique yet universal drive to find meaning in the human
experience. As Martin Luther King once stated, it is and always has been the minorities
that have initiated higher social platforms for humanity (see attached, Resume). Stages of
maturity are brought about by the friction through the merging of both facts and pseudo-
fiction…in the realm of social and spiritual domains. This does not mean that pseudo-
sciences equivocate into meaningless babble, nor visa versa. Those who have contributed
(even if they had not a clue what was happening) were or are those not bound in the
double-blind box called near “Positivism.” Do not get my wrong, there is no doubt that
empiricism has its value, it is priceless; but so do the multitudes throughout every time
and climb who have experienced phenomena beyond present day scientific justification…
we are all without measure, yet ever tangible. Everyone, believers as well as non-
believers, are ever contributing as we seek comfort, purpose and meaning in the human
experience, are ever contributing as we seek comfort, purpose and meaning in the human
experience.

My life experiences (see attached, letter from me) have shaped within me irreversible
convictions. I will share these realities that cannot not be, but you must sincerely ask and
be prepared to enter the “crisis state” ready and willing to clear out any dissonance
reflecting through any illness rooted in the soul frequency. There is perfect justice
reflecting through all that you do, all that you have, and all that you are. As the concept
of Jung’s collective unconsciousness sought fruition in the field of self-understanding so
must language lift one to seek in the end, as St. Frances put it, who is seeking.

This is a call for contributions as you each ask yourself: Am I confident enough to really
believe that our modern minds are playing with a full deck of cards enabling us to come
into harmony with that which always is, here and now? Think on this for a moment. What

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thrusts and gusts have snuffed out those seers of a broader spectrum? How many more
undercover chemical lobotomies are independent thinkers willing to risk in seeking that
which is beyond the invisible, beyond the resistant residues hidden in our every we? Who
feels a stronger need to remain rooted in the traditional vanity precursive to conditions in
our global village today? Creatures of habit we are and that is a good thing; yet there
comes a time when every domain becomes linked irrevocably; and clearly is seen, the
dogmatic dream.

Attached you will find my relative research as documented through unidentified E.M.
Wave manifestations and my parallel predisposition to rebel against what in turn rebelled
on me. My method of merging materials is in this format, as my test of resistance was not
resisted.

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References

Supplements Attached:

Resume with list of my opportunities and publications as a balance to my mind-

set terribleness.

Letters of predisposition and multiple ongoing goals that just might debunk my
failure zones.

The Visit, a personal account with electro-magnetic vortices and “remembrance.”

Please note: With the conditions I have created, this is my attempt to innovate
and propose a research paper. My research subject: Reflecting on self through
otherness, with whom I have found roots of validation in my experience and
believe to share some similar form of tangency or mode with these two historical
figures in focus. Everything is exactly the way it is supposed to be because
everything happened to conduce this event. Reject or select, I promise it is ok for
me to not innovate successfully and make null my earlier statement to you that “I
was going to pass your class.” In that pompous slip and overconfidence implied I
am grounded into a more humble mode. I am cool with your choice and accept
that it is absolutely up to you to discern, as you deem appropriate and in our best
academic interest. I decided that my web site project was my best resource
because it failed to get published and critiqued. With that likely loss, though not
my best, I turned the potential synergy struggle into a different kind of mess.

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i
http://www.themystica.com.mystica/articles/m/mesmerism.html
ii
http://www.skepdic.com/hypnosis.html
http://www.eurohistory.com/Rasputin.html
iii
http://www.skepdic.com/mesmer.html
iv
http://www.themystica.com.mystica/articles/r/Rasputin.html
v
http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/k/khlysty.htm
vi