Usuario:Jondel/Jose Silva

José Silva (1914-1999) era un parapsychologista y autor "del método del silva" y "El Sistema de UltraMind del Silva ESPECIALMENTE" a ayudar a poblar aumento su índice de inteligencia, a desarrollar habilidades psíquicas, y a desarrollar la capacidad de curarse y otros que usaban a distancia las fuerzas desconocidas a la ciencia

El Principio

Jose fue llevado de agosto el 11 de 1914, en Laredo, Tejas. Cuando él era cuatro, su padre murió. Su madre pronto remarried, y él, su más vieja hermana, y un hermano más joven se movieron adentro con su abuela. Dos años más tarde él hizo el bread-winner de la familia, vendiendo los periódicos, los zapatos brillantes, y hacer trabajos impares. Por las tardes él miró a su hermana y hermano hacer su preparación, y le ayudaron a aprender leer y escribir. Él nunca ha ido a la escuela, excepto a enseñar. La subida de Jose de la pobreza comenzó un día en que él esperaba su vuelta en un barbershop. Él alcanzó para que algo lea. Qué él tomó era una lección de un curso de correspondencia en cómo reparar radios. Jose pedido para pedirlo prestado, pero el peluquero lo alquilaría solamente, y solamente a condición de que Jose terminan las examinaciones del curso de correspondencia en el nombre del peluquero. Cada semana Jose pagó un dólar, leyó la lección, y terminó la examinación.

José Silva (1914–1999) was a parapsychologist and author of "The Silva Method" and the "Silva UltraMind ESP System" to help people increase their IQ, develop psychic skills, and develop the ability to heal themselves and others remotely using forces unknown to science

[The Beginning]

Jose Silva was born on August 11, 1914, in Laredo, Texas. When he was four, his father died. His mother soon remarried, and he, his older sister, and younger brother moved in with their grandmother. Two years later he became the family bread-winner, selling newspapers, shining shoes, and doing odd jobs. In the evenings he watched his sister and brother do their homework, and they helped him learn to read and write.

He has never gone to school, except to teach.

Jose's rise from poverty began one day when he was waiting his turn in a barbershop. He reached for something to read. What he picked up was a lesson from a correspondence course on how to repair radios. Jose asked to borrow it, but the barber would only rent it, and only on the condition that Jose complete the correspondence course examinations in the barber's name. Each week Jose paid a dollar, read the lesson, and completed the examination.

Soon a diploma hung in the barbershop, while across town Jose, at the age of fifteen, began to repair radios. As the years passed, his repair business became one of the largest in the area, providing money for the education of his brother and sister, the wherewithal for him to marry, plus eventually some half-million dollars to finance the twenty years of research that led to his mind training systems.

The man who sparked Silva's research was a psychiatrist whose job was to ask questions of men being inducted into the Signal Corps during World War II.

"Do you wet your bed?" the Army psychiatrist asked. Jose was dumbfounded. "Do you like women?" Jose, the father of three, and destined one day to be the father of ten, was shocked.

Surely, he thought, the man knew more about the human mind than the barber knew about radios. Why such odd questions?

It was this perplexing moment that started Jose on an odyssey of scientific research that led to his becoming one of the most creative scholars of his age. Through their writings, Freud, Jung, and Adler became his early teachers.

The "odd" questions took on deeper meanings, and soon Jose was ready to ask a question of his own: Is it possible, using hypnosis, to improve a person's learning ability - in fact, to raise his I.Q.? In those days I.Q. was believed to be something we were born with, but Jose was not so sure.

The question had to wait while he studied advanced electronics to become an instructor in the Signal Corps. When he was discharged, with savings gone and $200 in his pocket, he began slowly to rebuild his radio repair business. At the same time he took on a part-time teaching job at Laredo Junior College where he supervised three other teachers and was charged with creating the school's electronics laboratories.

Five years later, with television on the scene, his repair business began to flourish and Jose called a halt to his teaching career. His business once again became the largest in town. His workdays ended about nine each night. He would have dinner, help put the children to bed, and when the house was quiet, study for about three hours. His studies led him further into hypnosis.

What he learned about hypnosis, plus what he knew about electronics, and some F's on his children's report cards brought him back to the question he had raised earlier - can learning ability, the I.Q., be improved through some kind of mental training?

Can Learning Ability Be Raised Through Mind Training?

Jose already knew that the mind generates electricity - he had read about experiments early in the century that revealed the Alpha brain wave rhythm. 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?

Jose began using hypnosis to quiet the minds of his children and he discovered what to many appeared to be a paradox. He found that the brain was more energetic when it was less active. At lower frequencies the brain received and stored more information. The crucial problem was to keep the mind alert at these frequencies, which are associated more with daydreaming and sleep than with practical activity.

Hypnosis permitted the receptivity Jose was looking for, but not the kind of independent thought that leads to reasoning things out so they can be understood. Having a head full of remembered facts is not enough; insight and understanding are necessary, too.

Jose soon abandoned hypnosis and began experimenting with mental training exercises to quiet the brain yet keep it more independently alert than in hypnosis. This, he reasoned, would lead to improved memory combined with understanding and hence to higher I.Q. scores.

The exercises from which Silva's techniques evolved called for relaxed concentration and vivid mental visualization and ways of reaching lower levels. Once reached, these levels proved more effective than the fully awake level, the Beta level, in learning. The proof was in his children's sharply improved grades over a three-year period while he continued to improve his techniques.

Jose had now scored a new discovery - a very significant one, which other research, principally biofeedback, has since confirmed. He was the first person to prove that we can learn to function with awareness at the Alpha and Theta frequencies of the brain.

Another discovery, an equally astonishing one, was soon to come.

[Silva's Daughter Reads His Mind]

One evening Jose's daughter had gone to her "center" (to use today's Silva UltraMind 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, the routine was momentously changed.

Jose would frame the question in his mind first, before verbally asking the question. All of a sudden, his daughter answered the very question he was planning on asking - before he had a chance to verbally express the question.

She repeated this again and again. Jose would only frame the question in his mind and she would answer it. She was reading his mind.

This was in 1953, when ESP was becoming a respectable subject for scientific inquiry, largely through the published work of Dr. J. B. Rhine of Duke University. Jose wrote to Dr. Rhine to report that he had trained his daughter to practice ESP and received a disappointing answer. Dr. Rhine hinted that the girl might have been psychic to begin with. Without tests of the girl before the training, there was no way to tell.

Meanwhile, Jose's neighbors noticed that his children's schoolwork had remarkably improved. At the beginning of his experiments these highly religious people had been wary of his probing into the unknown. However, the success of a man working with his own children could not be ignored. Would Jose train their children too?

After the letter from Dr. Rhine, this was just what Jose needed. If what he had accomplished with one child could be accomplished with others, he would have chalked up the kind of repeatable experiments that are the basis to the scientific method.

Over the next ten years he trained 39 Laredo children, with even better results because he improved his techniques a little with each child.

He had developed the first method in history that can train anyone to use ESP, and he had thirty-nine repeatable experiments to prove it. Now to perfect the method.

Silva's Course Takes Shape

Within another three years, Jose developed the course of training which is now standard and as effective with adults as with children. Back then it took 40 to 48 hours. It has since been reduced to 18 to 20 hours through further refinement of technique.

So far it has been validated by some 1,000,000 experiments - the graduates of his course. This is a measure of repeatability that no open-minded scientist can ignore.

These long years of research were financed by Jose's growing electronics business. No university or foundation or government grants were available for such an unusual field of research.

With all this success, Jose did not become a celebrity, nor a guru or spiritual leader with followers or disciples. He was a plain man of simple ways, who spoke with the soft, almost lost accent of a Mexican-American. He was a powerfully built, stocky man with a kindly face that creases easily into a smile.

Anyone who asked Jose what success has meant to him was answered with a flood of success stories.

A few examples:

A woman wrote to the Boston Herald American begging for some way to help her husband, who was tormented by migraine headaches. The newspaper printed her letter, then another letter the next day from someone else, also pleading for a way to control such headaches.

A physician read these letters and wrote that she had had migraine headaches all her life. She had taken Jose Silva's course and had not had one since. "And would you believe it, the next introductory lecture was mobbed. Absolutely mobbed," said Jose.

Another physician, a prominent psychiatrist, advises all his patients to study Silva techniques because it gives them insights that in some cases would require two years of therapy to produce.

An entire marketing company was organized as a co-op by graduates who used what they learned in the Silva Mind Method to invent new products and devise ways of marketing them. In its third year, the company had eighteen products on the market.

An advertising man used to need about two months to create a campaign for new clients - about average in his field. Then after Silva training, the basic ideas come in twenty minutes and the rest of the work was done in two weeks.

Fourteen Chicago White Sox players took Silva's class. All their individual averages improved, most of them dramatically.

A husband of an overweight woman suggested she try the class because all her diets had failed. She agreed, provided he went too. She lost twenty pounds in six weeks; he stopped smoking.

A professor at a college of pharmacy teaches Silva techniques to his students. "Their grades are going up in all their courses, with less studying, and they're more relaxed. ... Everybody already knows how to use his or her imagination. I just get my students to practice it more."

The press also wrote about Silva's new program. The following extract from an April 16, 1972 New York Times article "Can Man Control His Mind" says it all.

"A recent study by Trinity University, San Antonio, Tex. would appear to indicate that graduates of Mind Control do attain a high degree of Alpha production. C. W. Post College, Greenvale, L. I., is planning to offer the course at its business school this fall and Canisius College will offer it in its Department of Religious Studies.

A visit to a Mind Control class in New York discloses more stockbrokers than bearded way outs and the dress style is closer to Brookes Brothers than to the East Village. A major New York company has sent all its top executives through the course and its president, a hard-headed businessman is seriously thinking of instituting an in-house training program for all employees. He refused to speak for the record, saying, "We think there is something there, but I don't want to alarm our stockbrokers at the moment."

Other businessmen are not so reluctant. Lee Epstein, a vice- president and art group supervisor at Doyle Dane Bernbach volunteered: "It opened the gates for me. It has re-energized me, made me more creative and yet more relaxed. I practice it every day and get better and better at my job and my life."

Although Jose smiled easily, when he heared people tell him "Jose, you've changed my life!" the smile fades a little and he would say, "No, I didn't do it. You did, with your own mind."

Jose passed away peacefully in February of 1999. The Silva UltraMind System was his final creation and was completed shortly before he departed.