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SPECIAL REPORT HOW SCIENCE DISCOVERED the SILVA Method In the beginning, José Silva was J.W. Hahn, director of the Mind Science alone in his research. Even his wife Foundation in San Antonio, Texas. Paula was skeptical and cautious until Through Dr. Hahn, many more she eventually saw the benefits in the scientists became interested in the work he was doing with their children. pioneering research into the mind and human potential. A few friends in Laredo became interested and listened to his ideas Mind Science Foundation was founded and helped him when he asked them by oil millionaire Tom Slick Sr. It was to, but many more were suspicious Mr. Slick who asked Dr. Hahn to check and even hostile. out Silva’s work. He took back a very favorable report. In fact. Dr. Hahn took Eventually Silva’s work attracted the the first step that led to the Silva attention of one scientist, who Method being taught to the public for became a close the very first time. f r i e n d a n d Here’s how it happened: a s s o c i a t e , a n d who brought the After Dr. Hahn’s visit to research findings Laredo, he called Dr. to the attention of N.E. West, the head of m a n y o t h e r t h e D e p a r t m e n t o f scientists. This Psychology at Wayland p i o n e e r i n g Baptist University in r e s e a r c h , Plainview, Texas, and overcoming many arranged for him to visit o b s t a c l e s a n d L a r e d o a n d i n s p e c t challenges, has LECTURING TOGETHER are Dr. J.Wilfred Hahn, Silva’s findings. Dr. West left, and José Silva, at the Silva Method two-week p r o v i d e d J o s é Ultimate Seminar in Laredo, Texas was impressed. Even Silva with many though he had visited w o n d e r f u l the laboratories of Dr. memories of the people and events J.B. Rhine at Duke University on two that helped us to take the first step occasions, he said that he had never into the second phase of human seen so much valid scientific work evolution on the planet by succeeding done on ESP. with metaphysics. This is the story about how scientists A VERY SUCCESSFUL VISIT became aware of the new science that José Silva has named That led to an invitation by Dr. West “psychorientology. for Silva to come to Plainview and present a lecture to the psychology students at the college. A SCIENTIST TAKES A PEEK The visit was so successful that Dr. The first scientist who came to West told his friend Dord Fitz, an art Laredo, Texas, to investigate the professor in nearby Amarillo, that he research that Silva was doing was Dr. should invite Silva to come speak to his art students. When directors that Silva’s program was s e ve ra l o f t h e a r t valid, so he undertook a major survey. students expressed an interest in learning Detailed, comprehensive survey forms Silva’s techniques, Fitz were mailed to 10,000 Silva Method suggested that Silva graduates. More than 1,100 of them come teach a class in took the time to fill out the forms and Amarillo. return them, an unusually high percentage. The graduates seemed More than 80 students attended that eager to express their opinions. first Silva Method course. Even before they had finished their training, they The results were spectacular. Not only were telling Silva that their relatives were people receiving all of the and friends were also interested, so benefits they had sought when they Silva scheduled another class. first came to the course, they were benefiting in ways they had not The Silva Method continued to grow expected. They were correcting by word of mouth until today it is problems that they had not even being offered in more than 100 considered correcting by using the countries worldwide, in 29 different Silva Method techniques. languages—and millions of people have benefited. There was also a question about the graduates’ overall opinion of the Silva Meanwhile, while Silva was Method. Only half a dozen had any impressing students and artists with complaint, while the rest—99.6% of his findings, Dr. Hahn was arranging the graduates—were satisfied. for a visit to the leading parapsychology laboratory in the To validate the survey, Dr. Hahn world: The Mind Science Foundation conducted another survey. In this Laboratory in Los Angeles, California. one, he got responses from every person who attended a Silva Method It was here that Silva observed a Basic Lecture Series in Albuquerque, scientific project with a plant that New Mexico. convinced him that the human mind could alter matter just by thinking. The results in Albuquerque were the same as the results from the other survey, and every person was satisfied VERIFIED RESULTS with the course. Silva continued teaching, and Dr. Armed with proof that the Silva Hahn continued encouraging him. But Method works and that graduates were not everyone believed that such reporting outstanding benefits. Dr. trailblazing research and results were Hahn now approached other scientists coming out of Laredo, Texas. and encouraged them to investigate Silva’s work. Dr. Hahn needed to emonstrate to the He helped arrange with clinical Mind Science Foundation board of psychologist Dr. Puryear to hold a Silva could learn to control their brain waves. They also conducted a scientific experiment that involved Silva teaching his method to 20 of the students at the university. As usual, the results were successful. They were reported in the British scientific journal Neuropsychologia, Vol. 10, pages 307-312 and pages 467-469. NEW PROJECTS SUGGESTED ART PROFESSOR DORD FITZ, left, and José Silva are interviewed by an Amarillo, Texas television While visiting the Mind Science station in the art studio where the first Silva Method Foundation in Los Angeles, Dr. Hahn lectures were conducted. suggested three projects to Silva: 1. Investigate a Brazilian psychic surgeon by the name of Arrigo. Method class at the Trinity University campus in San Antonio. 2. To bring Uri Geller to the U.S. to study the energy that he used to Then Dr. Hahn approached the bend spoons. University of Texas Medical School in 3. To teach the Silva Method to 49 San Antonio. He arranged for Dr. Ph.D. geologists and petroleum Robert Barns, head of the Psychiatry engineers of the McCullough Oil Department, and Dr. Richard Corp. McKenzie, head of the Psychology Department, to invite Silva to present Before the project with Arrigo could be a lecture and demonstration of how to started, he died in an automobile control brain waves consciously. accident. Silva decided not to go to the expense of bringing Geller to the U.S. Students and professors were for research because he could not find impressed, because at that time, any useful application for the spoon scientists believed that brain waves bending ability. “If he could straighten were under autonomic control, and them out, it would be different,” Silva could not be altered by individuals. explained. “Our goal is to correct problems, not to cause them.” Later Dr. Hahn arranged with Dr. Fred Bremner, head of the Department of The 49 Ph.D.s with the oil company Psychology at Trinity University, to were given special training to see if test Silva and some of the people that they could use their minds to locate Silva had trained. undiscovered deposits of oil, using ESP. The oil company never released the For the first time, scientists verified in results of their efforts. At this time Dr. a scientific laboratory that people Hahn decided to leave the Mind Science Foundation and join Silva in Laredo.Dr. George DeSau conducted in the BLS, but reduce the time spent numerous studies of the changes that on the lecture material—the t a k e p l a c e i n explanations of p e o p l e a f t e r t h e v a r i o u s completing the concepts, and the S i l v a M e t h o d t i m e s p e n t training. convincing people t h a t t h e y c a n D r . D e S a u actually develop c o n d u c t e d the ability to take research on varied control of their groups of people, o w n l i v e s a n d from junior high d e v e l o p t h e i r and high school i n t u i t i o n a n d s t u d e n t s , t o psychic ability. alcoholics, welfare MIND SCIENCE FOUNDATION director J. Wilfred T h e r e a r e mothers, business Hahn, left, brought José Silva to the Los Angeles s p e c i a l i z e d executives, and branch of the Foundation to observe their research. presentations of others who learned the Basic Lecture the Silva Method. S e r i e s f o r corporations and for sales people, and One of Dr.