SVENGALI COMES TO LIFE.
Psychic Circles Elated
GERMAN HYPNOTIST’S EXTRAORDINARY CLAIM.
United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright (Received March 1, 5.5 p.m.) BERLIN, February 28.
A sensation has been caused in psychic circles, by the announcement of a Svongali, named Dr. Leo. Thoma, who put a man into a trance at a distance of 12,000 miles, by means of a gramophone record. Dr. Thoma, who is a hypnotic expert, was asked by an Australian colleague to help in treating an Australian farmer, who was suffering from acute melancholia. Dr. Thoma conceived the idea of recording his words on a record, which were spoken as if the farmer had been in a Berlin consulting room. Five records were made and destroyed before Dr. Thoma was satisfied that the modulation and resonance of his voice was properly reproduced. He then sent the record with a life-sized portrait of himself to Australia, and the patient was instructed to gaze into the eyes of the portrait and persuade himself that he was listening to Dr. Thoma’s actual voice. Dr. Thoma waited for two months, and has now received a cable that the farmer was cured. The gramophone eliminated the complex which was in the form of depression. Dr. Thoma believes the experiment is the beginning of a new form of mechanised treatment for nervous diseases.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18815, 2 March 1931, Page 7
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