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PSYCHIC INFLUENCE 213tised so easily. lf one believes in the hypnotiser and thinks hecan be hypnotised, he can rapidly come under his spell and operation.There is also another variety of hypnotism called the stagehypnotism in which the hypnotist hypnotises the whole audienceand shows several tricks. He puts a lady in a small tightbox in standing posture, ties her hands and closes the box andthen cuts the box with a saw. Afterwards he opens the brokenbox and the lady comes out without any injury. Afamous Fakirascended the platform in England with a red rope in his hand,threw it in the air and climbed up through the rope and thenvanished in the air. This is stage-hypnotism. This is the famous'rope-trick'of the Fakir. There was no impression in the plate ofa camera. This is a trick only after all. A hypnotist hypnotises aboy and places his head and feet over two chairs. He thenplaces a large weight over his body. The body does not bend.He asks the audience to clasp the fingers of both hands andmakes a strong current of electricity to pass. They all actuallyfeel the shock of the current. He first starts the current in hisown hands and thinks strongly that the current should pass tothe hands of others.Hypnotism is very beneficial in the correction of bad habitsof boys and in the treatment of hysteria and other nervous diseases.The opium habit and the drinking habit are also removed.The hypnotist should not misuse the power in wrongchannels. He will get a hopeless downfall. Wherever there ispower, there is side by side a chance for misuse. There aretemptations also. One has to be very careful.A hypnotist looks at the second-hand of a watch and thesecond-hand stops immediately. He asks a subject to look atthe second-hand of a watch and stops his thinking. His eyesbecomes listless. A hypnotist makes the body of a hypnotisedsubject to levitate and move in the air through a big iron ring.The hypnotised person is blindfolded. He is able to walk over arope that is distributed on the ground in quite azigzag manner.He is able to read the contents of a sealed letter and giveproper answers to questions. Here the unconscious mind of thesubject operates. He can see through an opaque wall. Marvel-