The transmission
The Teachers
1,020 who carried the discovery — across Hermetic, Vedic, Sufi, mystic, scientific, and modern streams. Start with the essential few, or browse by family and tradition.
1,020 teachers · 42 traditions
18 teachers
Mesmerism & Animal Magnetism
Franz Anton Mesmer
Animal magnetism / universal fluid
1734-1815
Mesmerism & Animal Magnetism
Armand-Marie-Jacques de Chastenet, Marquis de Puységur
Artificial somnambulism (lucid trance)
1751-1825
Mesmerism & Animal Magnetism
James Braid
Hypnotism via visual fixation
1795-1860
Mesmerism & Animal Magnetism
Ambroise-Auguste Liébeault
The country doctor who recast mesmeric trance as ordinary suggestion and founded clinical hypnotherapy.
1823–1904
Mesmerism & Animal Magnetism
Jean-Martin Charcot
Clinical study of hypnosis and hysteria
1825-1893
Mesmerism & Animal Magnetism
Hippolyte Bernheim
Hypnosis as ordinary suggestibility
1840-1919
Mesmerism & Animal Magnetism
Charles Poyen
Animal magnetism brought to America
?-1844
Mesmerism & Animal Magnetism
Émile Coué
Conscious autosuggestion
1857-1926
Mesmerism & Animal Magnetism
Pierre Janet
Dissociation and the subconscious
1859-1947
Mesmerism & Animal Magnetism
Dave Elman
Rapid induction to deep trance in minutes (the Elman Induction)
1900-1967
Mesmerism & Animal Magnetism
Milton Erickson
Indirect / utilization hypnosis
1901-1980
Mesmerism & Animal Magnetism
Charles Tebbetts
Inner-conflict resolution by negotiating with subconscious 'parts'
1905-1992
Mesmerism & Animal Magnetism
Ormond McGill
The performance craft and full repertoire of hypnotic suggestion
1913-2005
Mesmerism & Animal Magnetism
Dick Sutphen
Reprogramming the mind through hypnosis, subliminal audio, and past-life regression
1937-2020
Mesmerism & Animal Magnetism
Marisa Peer
Reprogramming core beliefs around the message 'I am enough'
1957-
Mesmerism & Animal Magnetism
Paul McKenna
Hypnotic suggestion for self-change
1963-present
Mesmerism & Animal Magnetism
Joseph Clough
Belief change through freely distributed hypnosis audio at scale
contemporary
Mesmerism & Animal Magnetism
Steve G. Jones
Subconscious change through recorded, repeatable hypnosis scripts
contemporary