Did you know that the great international mentalist and hypnotist Professor Fassman was from Sort?

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Did you know that the great international mentalist and hypnotist Professor Fassman was from Sort?

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  • Josep Mir Rocafort (Sort, 1909 - Barcelona, 1991) gained international fame as a mentalist and hypnotist under the stage name of Fassman. Given up as a lost case at birth and separated from his mother so that she would not see him die, he spent the first years of his life in an old mill, hidden away in a little known valley in the Catalan Pyrenees where he came into contact with ancestral traditions associated with wizards and healers. On his return to Sort (El Pallars Sobirà – Pyrenees), his infancy and adolescence were dominated by two contradictory influences: the perception of a reality that was different from that of the outside world and the repudiation of this reality by people who feared it and the Church which considered it Satanic.
     
    Josep Mir found a way out through the world of show business. In the guise of Fassman, he was successful on stage in both Spain and America. Fassman studied psychology and retired from the world of show business in the 1960s. He then set up the parapsychology institute that bears his name and dedicated the next 30 years of his life to psychotherapy, consultancy and giving courses. Fassman became famous as a heterodox psychotherapist who, when he considered it appropriate, used the traditional knowledge of the wizards and healers of his native mountains.
     
    Josep Mir Rocafort, Fassman, regularly returned to Sort (el Pallars Sobirà – Pyrenees) as if drawn back there by a magnet. In 1965 he perceived the existence of a centre of power in one of the mountains near the village and built a house there, to which he returned various times a year in order to rest and replenish his forces. That house now serves as a reminder of his life and work and helps cast a little light over his personal history. The biography of Josep Mir Rocafort, Professor Fassman, will be published in 2009, coinciding with the centenary of his birth in Sort.We would like to encourage you to come and discover el Pallars Sobirà: the land where one of the most important mentalists and hypnotists of the 20th century grew up.