Jose Silva was an electrical repairman who developed great interest for religion, psychology, and parapsychology. He spent much time learning about hypnosis, attempting to increase his children's IQ.

After experimenting and being convinced of his daughter's sudden clairvoyance, Jose decided to learn more about the development of psychic abilities. In 1944, Jose began developing his method, formerly known as Silva Mind Control, using it on his family members and friends, before launching it commercially in the 1966s.

Silva has done a large amount of research on the brain, based on Robert Sperry's split-brain theory, to improve his method. However, because scientists have been modifying the subject since Sperry, modern studies have proven most of Silva's beliefs about the brain to be incorrect.

Nonetheless, even though Jose Silva's beliefs about the brain were proven incorrect, somehow his method has still been useful to many. In that case, it is concluded that Silva probably connected on Sperry's split-brain theory after the Silva Method had been developed. The simplified explanation to why Silva's method produced effective results is that he is training left-brain minds to think with their right brain as well.

Jose Silva was born in 1914 from poor Mexican immigrant parents either in today's New Laredo, in the Mexican State of Tamaulipas or in Laredo, Texas, on the American side of the Rio Grande. His father died during the turbulent years of the Mexican revolutionary war.

Jose Silva began at age six to support his family. Although he couldn't receive a formal education, he learned to read and write on his own - in both English and Spanish.

Instead of going to school, Silva earned money for his family by selling newspapers on the streets of Laredo, shining shoes, and doing odd jobs.

Jose Silva quickly developed entrepreneur skills. By the time he became a teenager, he hired youngsters to work with him, going door to door selling merchandise he had purchased in San Antonio. The youngsters were earning as much money after school as their parents earned working full-time, and young Jose was earning as much every day as the typical adult in Laredo earned in a week.

The claim that Mr Jose Silva was a completely uneducated person is not precise, for he received basic education indirectly from his own younger siblings whom, with his economic support, attended public schools in Laredo. Jose started to study electronics by reading technical books of correspondence courses in his free time. This distant self-education allowed him to become the owner of one of the first radio repair companies in the border. It is likely that he received a graduate certificate as an electronics technician as fruit of those studies.

This knowledge was proven to be a considerable factor in the build-up of the largest electronics repair company in southern Texas, in the 1940s. There is no evidence that he has ever pursued or achieved subsequent higher education in electronics or any other branch of science.

Jose Silva's career in electronics started to focus on the maintenance of communication equipment; after a long period of time it switched to the maintenance of biomedical appliances, wherewith he developed vital research skills.

Electronics and clinical hypnosis were the fields that allowed Jose to gradually enter into autodidactic research on the potentials of the human mind. In that area the contribution of Jose Silva in key aspects is considered as original; for instance: the development of a "scientific" method of mind training through meditation and visualization that induces thought at alpha frequency brain waves.

Silva method was first time offered to the public in the second half of the 1960s. Initially was only known by the people of Laredo and its surroundings. In 1966 word of his activities soon spread beyond Laredo where he was teaching his method to more than 100 people every week. Soon after, he was asked to teach groups who were willing to pay him for his knowledge.

Thus at the age of 52 Silva began the work that would make him famous throughout the world. In fact, he has been called the most famous Laredo resident of all time. After a couple of years of teaching the method throughout Texas, Silva began to train other instructors to do the same throughout the world.

In 1975 Jose Silva began his world famous career as lecturer to export his method internationally traveling to Mexico city.

He taught his first instructors in that country in seminars at the prestigious Association of Jesuit Alumni in the traditional neighborhood of St Maria La Rivera, home of many important figures of the intellectual life of the Mexican Capital. One of his first Mexican graduates was the physician Dr Ignacio Becerra, President of the Center.

In 1980, Silva met Burt Goldman, and in 1989, they co-wrote the book The Silva Mind Control Method of Mental Dynamics.

According with statistics published in the official website of the Silva method organization, The Program first taught to the public in 1966. At present, the method is being taught in over 30 languages in 111 countries, At last count, over 13 million people have graduated and benefited from the Program.

Jose served as Chairman of the Board of The Silva Method until his death in 1999. His legacy remains spread in the teaching activities of five different corporations that he founded and that are now managed by his children .

Currently, there are more than 1,000 licensed Silva Method Lecturers throughout the U.S. and in more than 100 foreign countries.

The technique aims to reach and sustain a state of mental functioning, called alpha state, where brainwave frequency is seven to fourteen Hz. Daydreaming and the transition to sleeping are alpha states.

José Silva, founder of the Silva Method, claimed to have developed a program that trained people use to enter certain brain states of enhanced awareness. He also claimed to have developed several systematic mental processes to use while in these states allowing a person to mentally project with a specific intent.

According to Silva, once the mind is projected, a person can allegedly view distant objects or locations and connect with higher intelligence for guidance. The information received by the projected mind is then said to be perceived as thoughts, images, feelings, smells, taste and sound by the mind. The information obtained in this manner can be acted upon to solve problems.

The Silva Method teaches people to listen to and control parts of the mind-body that many Westerners have not yet learned to access. In this way, it is similar to a few advanced yogas. Silva also uses touch patterns to anchor mind states, in a manner similar to NLP, Anthony Robbins's teachings, and Japanese ninjitsu.

Skills Silva teaches include:

·Deep relaxation, including both body and mind

·Meditating immediately, with eyes closed or open

·Cure for insomnia--voluntary going-to-sleep in one minute

·Pain control--Silva practitioners are able to not mind intermediate pain, and can get cavities filled or receive colonoscopies without any anaesthetics

·Blood flow control, leading to primitive temperature control--"send heat" to hands or places in the body. At advanced levels, this can also be used to lessen blood flow to moderate cuts.

·Self-diagnosis of mental and emotional challenges

·Memory replay of past events (useful for finding dropped keys, etc.)

·Intuitive understanding of subconscious sides of self (useful for overcoming blockages)

·Intuitive understanding of subconscious sides of others

·Brainstorming and idea formation

·Energy level control

·Self-diagnosis of physical challenges

·Increasing healing rates in self, through visualization and laying-on of hands

·Increasing healing rates in others

·Increasing healing rates in others remotely

·Remote viewing

·Empathic Telepathy

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Take Action

If you want to succeed, then get into action

by Jose Silva

Success is not for the timid. It is for those who seek guidance, make decisions, and take decisive action.

Many people learn how to program very effectively, and often they are able to get those things that they program for. Yet they still find their lives limited and unfulfilled.

Other people are very creative, and come up with many excellent ideas, yet never seem to achieve very much, or make money from their ideas, or help anybody with those ideas.

You find all kinds of people. There are those who are excellent at research, at digging out the facts, yet they never determine what to do with those things that they learn.

Some people are so paralyzed by indecision that they literally become nervous wrecks.

To achieve success - and by success I mean whatever you determine success to be for you-- you must take appropriate action, for wishing does not make it so. Proper programming, coupled with appropriate action, makes things happen.

How to Proceed

Let's take it step by step.

First, seek guidance. You do this by entering your level, functioning in the subjective dimension where prayers are effective, where you can make contact with high intelligence. Consider your qualifications, what you like, the things you are good at. Then ask what you should do to serve, how you can help the Creator. Be aware of your strong points, but do not limit yourself; expect creative guidance.

Then clear your mind; expect an answer. Some people spend all their time asking and talking. You must be a good listener. The guidance will come. Then you are ready for the second step.

You decide how to fulfill your purpose in life. This involves both time at level, and action in the physical world. You must program for success, and you must also start doing something.

Some people want to wait until they are perfect before they are ready to fulfill their missions. This is a mistake. If you were perfect, you would not be here in this classroom called Earth. This is our training ground on-the-job training.

It is very important to learn all you can while you are here. And it is important to love, and to express your love, to other humans on this planet.

Learning how to interact better in relationships with other humans is something very important while we are here.

We have a choice about our relationships with others. We can compete, or we can cooperate. Throughout the world, many people are competing often with guns and bombs. It is important that we change this, and help bring peace to our planet.

(This was written in 1984.)

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Needs vs. wants

Always ask for what you need to help improve conditions on planet earth

by Jose Silva

When you need money, always remember whatever your needs are. You may want business, and business with others, which means that you must have planned already, what the money will be used for. Money is not just to be had, it is to be put to work.

So always consider that the benefits that are derived for more than just you, to begin with. If it is only Me, me, you don't care about anybody else, big question mark.

And whenever you ask, remember: Ask for no more than what you need, but do ask for no less than what you need. That's good enough.

What you need means, what plans do you have? Are they big plans, you need big something. If they are little plans, you need little something.

Q: If I want a Rolls Royce, will higher intelligence help me get one?

You are asking a good question.

He's asking for a Rolls Royce. This is in the possibility area.

But you see, we were not sent, we're not going to get help from the other side when we want something like this only for me.

But if I say, I want this vehicle, that we can use - we, not just me - because there is a need for something like this, and it's within the possibility area, and I don't have the means, I may then get the other side to help me.

Now the other side will only help me when I am asking for something that is needed to improve conditions on planet earth.

Like we said, they are not going to help me if I want another million dollars when I already have a million dollars, when I want a Rolls Royce when I have a Rolls Royce already. That I want a girlfriend when I already have a wife. Some people ask for something like this.

They are not going to help you. You are on your own. If you make a mistake, you are going to suffer for it, you are on your own. You don't get help from the other side.

You only get help from the other side when your intentions are that whatever you are doing is to help improve conditions on the planet for more than yourself, not just yourself.

If you only consider Me, me, you have to do it on your own. If it is for Us, then you get help, if whatever you do is going to help more than you.

The more you are going to help, the more help you get for it.

We always say, Don't ever ask for more than what you need, but do ask for no less than what you need.

So what your needs will be, depends on how big your plans are. That's what your needs will be.

(Transcribed from lectures presented by Jose Silva in 1995)