Abstract
Franz Anton Mesmer with his epoch-making theory and practices suggests us that the situation in the cradle of clinical psychology and psychotherapy has something to contribute to the transpersonal psychology and psychiatry. When we attempt to go beyond the modern scheme of the mind, trying to learn from the past might seem anachronistic. But, the progress itself is an ideology specific to the modern times. Mesmer strides several border that separate the modern world from the pre-modern. The borders lie between matter/mind, space/ individual, religion/science, layman/professional, and conscious/unconscious. These almost limit the conditions making up the person in the modern world. Although his stride was an effect of his ignorance to the marks which appear obvious to us, his action shows us that there is no inevitable necessity to those borders and the way of thinking to draw the lines. Note that there is no proof of the direction of the time-not necessarily one dimensional and oneway, and we could find a leader among the people in the past.
