History of Modern History of Modern Psychology: Lectures Delivered at ETH Zurich, Volume 1, 1933-1934 by Carl Jung

Author:Carl Jung
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

When she was placed in a bath in this [magnetic] state, extraordinary phenomena were exhibited—namely, that her limbs, breast, and the lower part of her person, possessed by a strange elasticity, involuntarily emerged from the water. Her attendants used every effort to submerge her body, but she could not be kept down; and had she at these times been thrown into a river, she would no more have sunk than a cork.

“This circumstance,” Kerner continues, “reminds us of the test applied to witches, who were often, doubtless, persons under magnetic conditions; and thus, contrary to ordinary law, floated on water.” 216 In Basel, for example, witches were thrown bound by their hands and legs from the Rhine bridge into the waters. Those who had not drowned upon reaching the suburb of St. Johann were certain to be regarded as witches! It makes no difference whether or not this holds true for the Seeress. The fact remains that she affected others in a way so that they believed such things to be true about her.

She also developed a strange sense of, or a particular sensitivity to, the properties of materials, particularly of stones and minerals, which exerted a certain influence on her, thus prompting Kerner to conduct numerous experiments. 217 What this faculty is we do not know. With regard to her visual faculty, too, Kerner observed strange, crystallomantic phenomena in her. Some people, when placed before a mirror or crystal ball, see things that are not there, that is, past, present, and future events; some are actually hypnotized by this. Crystal balls were one of the props employed by medieval sorcerers. They also served divinatory purposes 218 in China. What such people see, if anything at all, are of course processes from their own unconscious.

The Seeress also possessed this faculty when Kerner placed her under hypnosis. He describes one of his experiments thus:

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