Elmer S. Prather

Elmer Sidney Prather (January 19, 1872 - September 14, 1877), also known as Professor Elmer Ellsworth Knowles, was an American author, lecturer, and mail-order peddler of correspondence courses and nostrums based on psychic and hypnotic powers, including his Knowles Radio-Hypnotic Crystal.

Affiliations

 * Modern Science Publishing Co. [New York] &mdash; during which time he promoted a curious South Pacific colony scheme
 * Metropolitan Institute of Science [New York]
 * National Institute of Sciences [London]
 * Progress League
 * Psycho Success Club [New York]

Selected Bibliography

 * Professor Elmer E. Knowles' Complete System of Personal Influence and Healing (Six Complete Branches) (National Institute of Sciences, 1899)
 * 1: Complete System of Personal Influence and Healing
 * 2: Personal Magnetism, Personal Influence
 * 3: Self Treatment and the Cure of Diseases and Habits by Employing the Radio-Hypnotic Crystal
 * 4: Magnetic Healing, Distance Healing, Treatment by Suggestion
 * 5: Reading of the Character, including the Science of Physiognomy, Phrenology, and Graphology
 * 6: Hindu and Oriental Methods of Hypnotism, Telepathy, Concentration, Magnetic Healing, Magic and Wonders of the East
 * Personal Power: Avenues to Its Acquisition (Progress League, 1919)