By John Wellsman
(John is a friend who lives in Arizona. He just shared the following thoughts with a friend who was feeling very oppressed with the mesmeric thought in politics, and I'm sharing it with you.)
Actually mesmerism itself isn't the real problem. The problem is our belief in the existence and power of mesmerism. Handle, negate, make nothing of that belief and we're home free! Not any reality of mesmerism but the suggestion that we can believe in mesmerism or other people mesmerizing anyone. That we can be made to believe in the reality of mesmerism.
If we're tempted to say, "But, but, but..." The question then becomes, do we really believe that God is All? If he is All-in-all as the Bible declares who, what, where is mesmerism or anyone (including ourselves) to believe in mesmerism. Many people get tied up in denying it as a reality but if we deny that we can be made to believe in mesmerism ourselves we shut it out of our own thought and it indeed becomes nothing to us. This won't be the whole of mesmerism for the world, but it will cease to trouble us individually.
Yes, it does require some repetition of thought and may seem to take some time and a leap of faith, but it can be done. The key I've found is to shut out those "But, but, but..." thoughts as soon as they present themselves (people told me that years ago and I didn't listen or understand what they were saying at first.) They're only suggestions after all. We need to stick with the refusal to believe we can believe a falsehood. That gets to the root of the problem.
You might want to consider Science and Health p. 102, lines 1-8:
"Animal magnetism has no scientific foundation, for God governs all that is real, harmonious and eternal, and His power is neither animal nor human. Its basis being a belief and this belief animal, in Science animal magnetism, mesmerism, or hypnotism is a mere negation, possessing neither intelligence, power, nor reality, and in sense it is an unreal concept of the so-called mortal mind."
(Mary Baker Eddy wrote this, for my viewers who are not familiar with the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.)
