Is man a free agent? The law of suggestion, including hypnosis, what and why it is, and how to induce it, the law of nature, mind, heredity, etc

Loryea’s text explores suggestion, hypnosis, heredity, and human agency, asking whether people act freely or are shaped by mental and natural laws. It belongs to the wider New Thought and hypnotic literature that treated mind as a formative force, and readers will find speculative argument mixed with practical explanations.

James Hawthorne Loryea is an obscure author associated with esoteric and occult literature. I cannot confidently verify detailed biographical information, so I will note only that the name appears in connection with occult or related bibliographic materials.