The stress on “animal”
Humans have a pro-biological prejudice, and this is reflected in our theory of nature.
More accurately, humans have a pro-local (pro-egoic) prejudice. We are self-centered, and the inclusiveness (and so the abstractness) of our concern moves outwards from the body in discrete steps. Might as well include a bit of glossary text here:
The First Dynamic is SELF (urge to survive as body-ego).
The Second Dynamic is CREATIVITY (urge to survive through sex).
The Third Dynamic is GROUP SURVIVAL (urge to survive as team).
The Fourth Dynamic is SPECIES (urge to survive as humanity).
The Fifth Dynamic is LIFE FORMS (urge to survive as biological process).
The Sixth Dynamic is the PHYSICAL UNIVERSE (urge to survive as matter-energy).
The Seventh Dynamic is the SPIRITUAL DYNAMIC (urge to survive as generic consciousness).
The Eighth Dynamic is the urge toward existence as INFINITY (source and ground of the multiverse)
4D (humanity) thinks it is more precious than 5D (life generally). With the segregation of animal-magnetic fluid, we have the more attenuated prejudice of 5D (biological matter) over 6D (matter generally).
Animal magnetism says to previous medical magnetism, “No! I am more than mineral-magnetic!” The insistence on a vital fluid is a rejection of the notion that life is properly physical (blind and inert, for Descartes). “The stuff that I (as consciousness) rest on is special to life. Self rests on animal-fluid, not plant-fluid or (gah!) mineral-fluid!”
Now, if animal fluid is concentrated and directed only by animals, then animal magnetic therapy should rely on other souls—rather than magnets—as the instruments of its fluid pushing technique.
One soul pushing on another, through hands, or through will alone. In either case, you get the oxytocin because one soul is hugging another.
Western psychotherapy begins with the stress on animal in animal magnetism.