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S P E C I A L R E P O R T H O W D I S C O V E R E D ��� ����� ������ AXONS FIRING. SO THIS IS WHAT THEY MEAN BY BRAIN POWER W I T H A N O V E R V I E W O F 1 S I L V A M E T H O D R E S E A R C H A SPECIAL REPORT FROM SILVA INTERNATIONAL ABOUT THE SILVA METHOD AND THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY O N T H E C O V E R The tangled circuitry you see on the cover represents a few of the billions of nerve cells that are firing away at any given moment inside your noggin. The “sparks” of light show the spikes of electrical activity that travel nerve cells, hauling bits of information between different parts of the brain. Believe it or not, what you see here is a tiny fraction of the total number of cells found in the brain. The empty spaces between neurons are but a mirage-—in reality, they are packed with other cells. We g rabbed this image from an animation developed by researchers at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. The work contributed to the planetarium show "Gray Matters: The Brain Movie," which debuted in 1999. Image courtesy Greg Hood, John Burkardt & Greg Foss, of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. ©COPYRIGHT 2004 BY SILVA INTERNATIONAL, INC., ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. FOR INFORMATION, CONTACT SILVA INTERNATIONAL HEADQUARTERS · P.O. BOX 2249 1407 CALLE DEL NORTE · LAREDO · TEXAS 78044-2249 TELS: 1-800-545-6463 OR 956-722-6391 · EMAIL: [email protected] WWW.SILVAMETHOD.COM 2 3 HOW SCIENCE DISCOVERED SILVA Dr. West was impressed. Even though he had visited the laboratories of Dr. J.B. Rhine at Duke The Lone Pioneer University on two occasions, he said that he had never seen so much valid scientific work done on ESP. science that José Silva has named A VERY SUCCESSFUL VISIT In the beginning, José “psychorientology.” Silva was alone in his That led to an A SCIENTIST TAKES A PEEK research. Even his wife invitation by Paula was skeptical and cautious Dr. West for The first scientist who came to until she eventually saw the benefits Silva to come Laredo, Texas, to investigate the in the work he was doing with their to Plainview research that Silva was doing was children. and present a Dr. J.W. Hahn, director of the Mind lecture to the Science Foundation in San Antonio, A few friends in Laredo became psychology Texas. Through Dr. Hahn, many interested and listened to his ideas students at the more scientists became interested Dr. N.E. West and helped him when he asked college. them to, but many more were in the pioneering research into the mind and human potential. suspicious and even hostile. The visit was so successful that Dr. West told his friend Dord Fitz, an art Mind Science Foundation was Eventually Silva’s work attracted professor in nearby Amarillo, that founded by oil millionaire Tom Slick the attention of one scientist, he should invite Silva to come speak Sr. It was Mr. Slick who asked Dr. who became a close friend and to his art students. When several Hahn to check out Silva’s work. He associate, and who brought the of the art students expressed took back a very favorable report. research findings to the attention of an interest in learning Silva’s techniques, Fitz suggested that Silva come teach a class in Amarillo. More than 80 students attended LECTURING that first Silva Method course. Even TOGETHER are before they had finished their Dr. J.Wilfred training, they were telling Silva that Hahn, left, and their relatives and friends were José Silva, at the also interested, so Silva scheduled Silva Method another class. two-week Ultimate Seminar The Silva Method continued to in Laredo, Texas. grow by word of mouth until today it is being offered in more than 100 countries worldwide, in 29 different languages—and millions of people many other scientists. In fact. Dr. Hahn took the first step have benefited. that led to the Silva Method being This pioneering research, taught to the public for the very first Meanwhile, while Silva was overcoming many obstacles and time. Here’s how it happened: impressing students and artists challenges, has provided José Silva with his findings, Dr. Hahn was with many wonderful memories of After Dr. Hahn’s visit to Laredo, arranging for a visit to the leading the people and events that helped he called Dr. N.E. West, the head parapsychology laboratory in the us to take the first step into the of the Department of Psychology world: The Mind Science Foundation second phase of human evolution at Wayland Baptist University in Laboratory in Los Angeles, on the planet by succeeding with Plainview, Texas, and arranged California. metaphysics. for him to visit Laredo and inspect Silva’s findings. It was here that Silva observed a This is the story about how scientific project with a plant that scientists became aware of the new 2 3 To validate the survey, Dr. Hahn conducted another ART PROFESSOR survey. In this one, he got DORD FITZ, left, responses from every person and José Silva are who attended a Silva Method interviewed by Basic Lecture Series in an Amarillo, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Texas television station in the The results in Albuquerque art studio where were the same as the results the first Silva from the other survey, and Method lectures every person was satisfied were conducted. with the course. See charts on pages 14-19. Armed with proof that the Silva Method works and that graduates were reporting outstanding benefits. Dr. Hahn now approached other scientists and encouraged MIND SCIENCE them to investigate Silva’s FOUNDATION work. director J. Wilfred Hahn, He helped arrange with left, brought clinical psychologist Dr. José Silva to Puryear to hold a Silva Method the Los Angeles class at the Trinity University branch of the campus in San Antonio. Foundation to observe their Then Dr. Hahn approached the research. University of Texas Medical School in San Antonio. He arranged for Dr. Robert Barns, head of the Psychiatry convinced him that the human mind high percentage. The graduates Department, and Dr. Richard could alter matter just by thinking. seemed eager to express their McKenzie, head of the Psychology opinions. Department, to invite Silva to VERIFIED RESULTS present a lecture and demonstration The results were spectacular. Not of how to control brain waves Silva continued teaching, and Dr. only were people receiving all of consciously. Hahn continued encouraging him. the benefits they had sought when But not everyone believed that such they first came to the course, they Students and professors were trailblazing research and results were benefiting in ways they had impressed, because at that time, were coming out of Laredo, Texas. not expected. They were correcting scientists believed that brain waves problems that they had not even were under autonomic control, and Dr. Hahn needed to demonstrate to considered correcting by using the could not be altered by individuals. the Mind Science Foundation board Silva Method techniques. of directors that Silva’s program Later Dr. Hahn arranged with was valid, so he undertook a major There was also a question about Dr. Fred Bremner, head of the survey. the graduates’ overall opinion Department of Psychology at Trinity of the Silva Method. Only half a University, to test Silva and some of Detailed, comprehensive survey dozen had any complaint, while the the people that Silva had trained. forms were mailed to 10,000 Silva rest—99.6% of the graduates—were Method graduates. More than 1,100 satisfied. of them took the time to fill out the forms and return them, an unusually For the first time, scientists verified 4 5 HOW SCIENCE DISCOVERED SILVA Researchers Learn about Findings in a scientific laboratory that people and join Silva in Laredo. PRESENTATION TO SCIENTISTS could learn to control their brain waves. Dr. George DeSau conducted The three scientists, now on the numerous studies of the changes Silva International staff. Dr. Hahn, They also conducted a scientific that take place in people after Dr. DeSau, and Dr. McKenzie, were experiment that involved Silva completing the Silva Method instrumental in arranging for 40 teaching his method to 20 of the training. scientists from all over the United students at the university. As States to meet Silva in Houston, usual, the results were successful. Dr. DeSau conducted research on Texas, so that he could explain to They were reported in the British varied groups of people, from junior them what he had done and what scientific journal Neuropsychologia, high and high school students, his future plans were. Those in Vol. 10, pages 307-312 and pages to alcoholics, welfare mothers, attendance were: 467-469. business executives, and others who ∙Rev. Marzel Allard, S.J., Montreal, NEW PROJECTS SUGGESTED SCIENTISTS While visiting the Mind Science VERIFIED that Foundation in Los Angeles, Dr. Hahn people trained suggested three projects to Silva: by Silva could alter brainwave 1. Investigate a Brazilian psychic frequency at surgeon by the name of Arrigo. will, as demon- strated at the 2. To bring Uri Geller to the U.S. to University of study the energy that he used to Texas medical bend spoons. School in San Antonio. 3. To teach the Silva Method to 49 Ph.D. geologists and petroleum engineers of the McCullough Oil Corp. learned the Silva Method. Quebec Before the project with Arrigo could ∙V.A. Benignus, Ph.D., Univ.