It appears to me, that the general conclusions established by Mesmer ’ s practice, with respect to the physical effects of the principle of imagination [...] are incomparably more curious than if he had actually demonstrated the existence of his boasted science " animal magnetism ": nor can I see any good reason why a physician, who admits the efficacy of the moral psychological agents employed by Mesmer, should, in the exercise of his profession, scruple to copy whatever processes are necessary for subjecting them to his command, any more than that he should hesitate about employing a new physical agent, such as electricity or galvanism.

At the very last moment he appears to change his mind and has to be dragged to the electric chair ( whether his cries are genuine or done only to fulfill Jerry's favor is left to the viewer's imagination ).

The name refers to the way one who has realized mahāmudrā ( that is, one who has succeeded in the practices of mahāmudrā ) experiences reality: mudra refers to the fact that each phenomenon appears vividly, and maha refers to the fact that it is beyond concept, imagination, and projection.

This appears intended not to evoke an even remotely possible future, but rather a past imagination of that future, or a reembracing of the futuristic vision of Googie architecture.

There appears to be no limit on what worlds they can cross into like this, including worlds that exist only in a person's imagination ( although they cannot use it to travel within a world-for this, we are assured, they have " feets ").

Much of the work appears to be derived from Gildas's 6th century polemic The Ruin of Britain, Bede's 8th century Ecclesiastical History of the English People, the 9th century History of the Britons ascribed to Nennius, the 10th century Welsh Annals, medieval Welsh genealogies ( such as the Harleian Genealogies ) and king-lists, the poems of Taliesin, the Welsh tale Culhwch and Olwen, and some of the medieval Welsh Saint's Lives, expanded and turned into a continuous narrative by Geoffrey's own imagination.

* The Crystal Shard ( 1988 ) — First look at Artemis Entreri, he only appears at the very end, but it leaves much to the imagination.

We do not know his first name, only his initial: G. Although he appears thirteen times in the immortal adventures of Sherlock Holmes, nothing is known of the life outside the Yard of the detective whom Dr. Watson described unflatteringly as sallow, rat-faced, and dark-eyed and whom Holmes saw as quick and energetic but wholly conventional, lacking in imagination, and normally out of his depth — the best of a bad lot who had reached the top in the CID by bulldog tenacity.

A distinct copy derived from Caprica Six residing in Baltar's head since the destruction of the colonies, " Head Six " appears as a figment of his imagination, invisible to everyone else.

While Six can physically interact with Baltar in his imagination, she also appears able to physically affect him in the real world — for example, in the episode " Escape Velocity ", Head Six is shown lifting Baltar from the floor to a standing position after he endured repeated blows from a Galactica marine.

In tracing this line of continuity from the Lord ’ s Table to the Communion Table, a prayer traditionally ascribed to Hippolytus ( c215 ), Bishop of Rome, called the Apostolic Tradition, captured the imagination of contemporary liturgists and now appears in the modern liturgical books of different churches both Roman Catholic and Protestant.

As you start to watch, the Sandman shows stick-like movement and start to perform creepy jumps around the boys bed, the boy appears isolated as well as you realise that he is toying with the boys imagination.

Yurick's island " exists " only as bogus entries in various banking and geographic databases ; when searched for in these databases, the island appears to exist in many dimensions, including map coordinates and convincing satellite photos, but it is entirely virtual-a figment of digital imagination.

According to the director, the four are introduced with accompanying characterisation: Ringo wanders aimlessly around Liverpool, at one point claiming that he has no imagination ; John appears with literary fanfare, as Frankenstein's monster who drinks a potion and turns into himself ; George appears in a surreal, Sitar-themed area that plays on his championing of transcendental meditation ; and Paul appears as a " modern Mozart ".

He first appears in Episode 12 in Wisdom's memory / imagination as a baby.

The reader also gathers the impression that the height of the poet's imagination is not in proportion with the depth of his piety — there often appears in him something naive, almost homely, as when Mary expresses her pleasure in the Magi and calls attention to their utility for the impending Flight into Egypt.

Kenichiro died before the series begins and appears only in his photograph and Sanshiro's imagination.

The idea of a Peace Corps has captured the imagination of a great many people.

Husserl proposed a radical new phenomenological way of looking at objects by examining how we, in our many ways of being intentionally directed toward them, actually " constitute " them ( to be distinguished from materially creating objects or objects merely being figments of the imagination ); in the Phenomenological standpoint, the object ceases to be something simply " external " and ceases to be seen as providing indicators about what it is, and becomes a grouping of perceptual and functional aspects that imply one another under the idea of a particular object or " type ".

These images, such as of his canonical Mandelbrot set pictured in Figure 1 captured the popular imagination ; many of them were based on recursion, leading to the popular meaning of the term " fractal ".

The Nazi Party ’ s use of torchlight parades, brass bands, massed choirs, and similar techniques caught the imagination of many voters, particularly young people.

The poem's emphasis on imagination as subject of a poem, on the contrasts within the paradisal setting, and its discussion of the role of poet as either being blessed or cursed by imagination, has influenced many works, including Alfred Tennyson's " Palace of Art " and William Butler Yeats's Byzantium based poems.

Among the many practical functions of imagination are the ability to project possible futures ( or histories ), to " see " things from another's perspective, and to change the way something is perceived, including to make decisions to respond to, or enact, what is imagined.

Self-expressive in many ways, verbalization, inspiration and keen imagination, artistic gifts, accurate impressions and insights, never-ending optimism, happy and fun-loving, enjoys life fully.

In many places in his Historia Regum Britanniae Geoffrey mixes British legend and his own imagination ; it is intriguing that he connects Ambrosius Aurelianus with this prehistoric monument as there is place-name evidence to connect Ambrosius with nearby Amesbury.

On the one hand, the Zohar was lauded by many rabbis because it opposed religious formalism, stimulated one's imagination and emotions, and for many people helped reinvigorate the experience of prayer.

The first courses were built with little imagination ; many consisting of only a straight bar fence and a water jump.

The association with Cockney and the East End in the public imagination may be due to many people assuming that Bow Bells are to be found in the district of Bow, rather than the lesser known St Mary-le-Bow church.

Nonetheless, Walter Isard's first book in 1956, Location and Space Economy, apparently captured the imagination of many, and his third, Methods of Regional Analysis, published in 1960, only sealed his position as the father of the field.

He is still often pictured on Christmas cards and house and garden decorations as the little man of Jenny Nyström's imagination, often with a horse or cat, or riding on a goat or in a sled pulled by a goat, and for many people the idea of the farm tomte still lives on, if only in the imagination and literature.

Despite these criticisms, the novel still captured the imagination of many Americans.

Dawson wrote many novels but was always regarded solely as an entertainer in the public imagination, and this saddened him.

The many marvels of richness and magic it contained captured the imagination of Europeans, and it was translated into numerous languages, including Hebrew.

Buechner's combination of literary style with approachable, universally applicable subject matter has, to many of his fans, revolutionized contemporary Christian literature: " In my view, Buechner is doing a distinctively new thing on the literary scene, writing novels that are theologically exciting without becoming propaganda, and doing theology with artistic style and imagination.

His message engaged the culture with authenticity and conviction, and his imagination articulated the disconnectedness felt by so many people in the aftermath of the 1960s.

Stories of Jewish men and German women having sex were staples of Der Stürmer but many were creations of Streicher ’ s imagination, derived from little fact, or random occurrences.

Firing the imagination of struggling families, many with low-paying inner city jobs and an aimless future, the book described a way to seek out a good agrarian lifestyle and graphically detailed his own family's experiences and accomplishments at homesteading in Suffern.

Rides from this fair captured imagination of the visitors and of amusement parks around the world, such as the first steel Ferris wheel, which was found in many other amusement areas, such as the Prater by 1896.

The poet, in Coleridge's system, is able to move from the world of understanding, where men normally are, and enter into the world of the imagination through poetry.

As a whole, the poem is connected to Coleridge's belief in a secondary Imagination that can lead a poet into a world of imagination, and the poem is both a description of that world and a description of how the poet enters the world.

In evaluating Coleridge's poetry, it can readily be seen and accepted that for the poems of high imagination his reputation is eternally made.

If the Porlock interruption was a fiction, it would parallel the famous " letter from a friend " that interrupts Chapter XIII of Coleridge's Biographia Literaria just as he was beginning a hundred-page exposition of the nature of the imagination.

Mimesis, or imitation, as he referred to it, was a crucial concept for Samuel Taylor Coleridge's theory of the imagination.