New Age and neopagan religions in America

With Quimby the rhetoric of Holistic Medicine starts to sound like California Pop Culture. His method reached huge audiences through the self-help literature of the early 1900’s. At least half of my California friends beleive some form of Quimby-ism.

Mesmerists like Quimby are also interesting because this is the mileau that Sigmund Freud came out of.