Silva's Research
Jose began his investigations into parapsychology and mind control in 1944 in Laredo, Texas. A man with no formal education, he began to work with his own children to see if he could raise their IQ levels so that they would do better at school. After twenty-eight years of research and experimentation he developed the Silva Mind Control Method and taught the first formal class in Amarillo, Texas, in 1966. The Method has met with worldwide acclaim.
Silva's first accomplishments
Jose already knew that the mind generates electricity - he had read about experiments that revealed the Alpha rhythm early in this century. And he knew from his work in electronics that the ideal circuit is the one with the least resistance, or impedance, because it makes the greatest use of its electrical energy. Would the brain work more effectively too if its impedance were lowered? And can its impedance be lowered?
Research on ESP
One evening Jose's daughter had gone to her "level" (to use today's Mind Control terminology), and Jose was questioning her about her studies. As she answered each question, he framed the next in his mind. This was the usual procedure, and so far the session was no different from hundreds that had gone before. Suddenly, quietly, the routine was momentously changed. She answered a question her father had not yet asked. Then another. And another. She was reading his mind!
The beginning of the Silva Method
Silva: Our original research had as its purpose increasing the IQ of individuals, in particular, children, but when we discovered during our experiments that we were achieving deep levels of the mind and our subjects were able to anticipate our questions ? that is, they gave us answers before we presented the questions ? we knew that we were on the threshold of a whole new dimension of mind and man's control of his own mind.
The main focus of our Silva Mind Control Basic Lecture Series is to acquaint students with the potential of their whole person and how, by using more of their mind, they can slough off limiting ways of thinking and unproductive habits to become, as we are fond of saying, "the beautiful people that they are called to be."
The power of the mind depends on brain frequency
We were the first to prove that we could activate our mind at different brain frequencies. Scientists thought that was impossible. They thought the only way to produce alpha was in a state or reverie, non-thinking mind, a relaxed mind. We said "No", it is a learning process, one can learn to do it. "Prove it" they said. We went and proved it. They were surprised. They didn't know it could be done.