(For those interested in Mesmerism, one of the best histories of this practice - and how it was used by Freud and then fell into disrepute, and is now making a comeback in the form of EMDR and other anti-trauma therapies - is my book Walking Your Blues Away. The plot device of Bellamy’s novel is that the hero is “Mesmerized” - hypnotized - and the trance is so deep that he wakes up in the year 2000, his bodily functions having been so dramatically slowed that he’s still a young man in his twenties and in fine physical health (albeit a bit hungry and weak). But once I started reading Bellamy’s book, I had to suspend Brown’s: Bellamy’s book totally captured me, even though it was written more than 100 years ago. It positively inspired Bernie Sanders’ hero Eugene Debs, for example, Nader told me.Īt the time, I was also reading Dan Brown’s book, ”The Lost Symbol,” an excellent novel in the classic, formula-adventure-fiction of this century that’s so much fun to read. Ralph Nader told me about this novel, first published in 1888, and how it was one of the major inspirations for the Progressive movement of the late 19th century. This one is particularly well worth reading! In this Sunday excerpt space, in addition to publishing chapters of my own books, I occasionally slip in a review of someone else’s book.
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