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Speaker 1: What is mental fascination. Fascination means the act of fascinating

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or state of being fascinated. The word fascinate springs from

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the Latin word fastenar, meaning to enchant, be which charmed

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by eyes or tongue, captivate, attract, etc. The definition of

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the English word fascinate is as follows, to act upon

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by some powerful or irresistible influence. To influence by an

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irresistible charm, to allure or excite irresistibly or powerfully, to charm, captivate,

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or attract powerfully. To influence the imagination, reason, or will

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of another in an uncontrollable manner. To enchant, captivate, or

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allure powerfully or irresistibly. The above definition is condemned from

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a number of the best dictionaries and gives the cream

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of the idea embodied in the word. My definition. In

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this manual, I shall use the term mental fascination in

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the sense of the action of a mental force that

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powerfully influences the imagination, desire, or will of another. This

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is my own broad definition, which includes all the varied

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phenomena of personal magnetism, psychological influence, hypnotism, mesmerism, charming, et cetera,

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et cetera, all of which I hold to be but

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varying phases of phenomena of one force. These things are

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all a bit of the same piece, In spite of

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the claims to the contrary on the part of those

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who did not like the relationship. The nature of the force?

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What is the nature of the force which produces that

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which we call mental fascination, which latter I have defined

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as the action of a mental force that powerfully influences

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the imagination, desire, or will of another. Mental fascination is

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the manifestation? What is the nature of the mental force

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that powerfully influences? As you will see in some of

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the following chapters, there have been many theories advanced to

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account for this force, the theories varying from magnetic fluids

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to mere simple suggestions on the part of the influencing person.

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Nearly every writer on the subject has had his own

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pet theory. But although these theories varied and differed greatly,

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the effects produced were about the same, which naturally leads

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us to look for some common basic principle operating under

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all forms. Regardless of the many theories advanced by those

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producing the effects. It is the old story. Here, as elsewhere,

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a man finds that he is able to produce certain

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phenomena by certain methods. He works along practical lines for

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a time, endeavoring to perfect his methods and increase the

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variety and effectiveness of the phenomena. When he has advanced

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along these lines, he begins to look around him for

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a theory to fit the facts of the case. And

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here is where he usually makes his mistake. He evolves

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some fantastic theory which seems to him to account for

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the effects produced, and then he endeavors to fit the

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facts into the theory. If the facts will not so

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fit in well, so much worse for the facts, and

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he either discards the non conforming facts, or else ignores

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or denies them. This has been the course of theorists

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since the beginning. After a while, some man of a

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more scientific mind examines the recorded facts and discovers the

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true underlying principle and reckons the differing theories of the

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original theorists by a new synthesis which combines the true

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principles in all the other theories, discarding the pet hobbies

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or prejudices of the previous authorities. And so it is

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the case of mental fascination, as we shall see the

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underlying theory. I shalt not have much to say about

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theory in this book. I have explained the theory and

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principle underlying mental fascination in my larger book entitled The

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Secret of Mental Magic, of which this little manual is

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a side light. In that book, I have explained the

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underlying force beneath all forms of mental magic, and mental

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fascination is one of those forms. It is the universal

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mentative energy, of which and in which each individual mind

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is a center of activity. I have also explained that

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the mentative energy of each individual mind MI is and

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may be transmitted from one person to another by means

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of mentative currents or waves, and that these mentative currents

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and waves tend to induce in the minds of other

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persons the emotions or feelings existing in the mental states

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of the person sending out the waves or currents. The

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mental poles. I have also explained that there are two

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mental poles, known as the motive and emotive poles, respectively,

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which manifest will power and desire force respectively. Desire force

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acts in the direction of drawing, pulling, attracting, luring, coaxing, charming, etc.

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While willpower acts in the direction of compelling, forcing, driving, impelling, commanding, demanding, etc.

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Desire always draws its object towards its dens, while will

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always overpowers and compels its object, generally in the sense

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of driving it into action. In mental fascination, both desire

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force and will power are employed generally in combination. Desire

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force has been called the feminine phase of menative energy,

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and willpower the masculine, And in this as in everything else,

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the combination of those two qualities produces the most marked results.

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The student will be able to distinguish between the action

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of these two phases of the force as he reads

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the pages of this book in which instances of mental

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fascination are given. That is all that I shall have

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to say about theory in this book, except where the

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various points are brought out in illustrating the examples given,

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I must refer my students to My Secret of Mental

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Magic for details of theory and principle. The present book

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deals with the how rather than the why. Ey