Transference – Sexual Current

This is an excerpt from one of the posts on our Facebook group on animal magnetism, transference and sexual current. Visit https://www.facebook.com/groups/104573319590760/ for more information.

The term ‘Animal Magnetism’ has in the past also been applied to the sexual current between two people. While doing this kind of healing work, does that sexual current manifest between practitioner and client? I’m sure that a high level of personal integrity is part of the practice, so one would not abuse such a reaction. I’m just curious if such a reaction does occur during the session.

This kind of thing is always going to crop up as a possibility in the mind of observers , and maybe even in the minds of certain practitioners ; however in actual practice the whole self is focused on ‘a different level’ so to speak , yes of course the highest level of personal integrity is needed , and of course the purpose of the session is sacrosanct . Without doubt these techniques could be used between willing participants ‘in private work’ to great effect for issues relating to sexual concerns and amplification of certain sexual energies . The mis-application of these techniques in situations that are meant to be professional is obviously to be condemned , and therefore is no different to any other profession .

I know that during Mesmer’s work with vats, there were often “convulsions” that have been likened to spontaneous orgasms. Watching the video, it was clear that the rapport between you and the woman you were working with deepened quite a bit during the session. I was curious whether that connection was subjectively perceived as similar to the sexual current. Thank you for clarifying what actually was occurring from your point of view.

When you study Mesmer’s writings the vats (Baquttes) were a ruse, they were used to try to justify where the ethereal fluid (magnetism) was actually coming from as it would not, and was not, accepted that it could be a human to human transmission. I have studied Mesmer’s work for over a decade and there is a lot of confusion and nonsense written about him and what he did. It is well summed up by Lorenz Oken (1779-1851) who said “When the man who, as much as or more than Galvani, has given wonderful and mysterious demonstrations of the phenomena he has discovered, dies in neglect, an immeasurable benefit is lost to mankind”. The driving forces that make a great Mesmerist/Magnetist are passion and belief. Not all of the estatic cartharsis’s that happened at the Vats were spontaneous orgasms, in fact it was no more so that what occurs during traditional hypnosis, meaning very few. There were also padded rooms where patients would be taken and left to experience the physical effects of the release of their imbalance. Please do not confuse Alan Rickman’s portrayal of Mesmer in the film Mesmer as all truth, in fact historically and factually it was very poorly researched, but the period costumes etc were excellent.