Using self-mesmerism I felt overtaken on a cellular level by a serene form of concentration. I began to accumulate pages and finish my projects. By Ingrid Rojas Contreras One thing I knew as an ...

Mesmerism therapy according to an anonymous French painting dated between 1778 and 1784. The woman on the right is the famous pianist and composer Maria Theresia von Paradis. Credit: Wellcome Images / ...

And now a page from our “Sunday Morning” Almanac: March 5th, 1815, 202 years ago today … the day German-born Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer died at the age of 80. Mesmer believed he could harness a force he ...

Wearing gold slippers and a lavender silk robe, physician Franz Anton Mesmer moved slowly around the silent, dimly lit room while waving a metal wand. A baquet, a large oak tub of magnetized water, ...

Composer and multi-instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey is an idiosyncratic and restless explorer. An accomplished percussionist, he is known for blurring, if not completely erasing, the boundaries between ...

This short article provides another instance on the subject matter of mesmerism which we treated in some previous articles in The Ghanaian Times. It serves also as a commentary on Quran 2:261.