The Power of Mesmerizing

When Mesmer was mesmerizing, the Swedish mystic and philosopher Emmanuel Swedenborg. He said that he could restore the balance by waving his hands over a person's body. This would cause a mesmerized hypnotic state thus the word. Sometimes when people were under his spell, they said they were visited by spirits from other dimensions. Nearly a century later, a man named Andrew Jackson Davis. Sounds like maybe a civil war, general, but he's not totally on the wrong side.