History

Our founder, Jose Silva, began researching what has become known world-wide as “The Silva Method” in 1944. In the time since then, over a half dozen courses or seminars have been developed which expound his findings.

From 1944 to 1953 Mr. Silva worked with his own children and achieved even more than his originals goals. Besides learning to relax, concentrate better and improving memory and grades, his research subjects also began developing the intuitive faculty. He was training clairvoyants.

Then in 1966 a group of people in Amarillo, Texas, who heard him speak about his research asked if he would share it with them, and thus the first commercial Basic Lecture Series was born.

By helping millions of peoples all over the world to learn how to live healthier, happier and more productive lives, Silva Mind Control International, Inc., has become the world’s leader in teaching the practical application to controlled Effective Sensory Projection (E.S.P).

This is the first guaranteed method known to be effective.

Jose Silva states:

“The discovery that human intelligence can learn to function with awareness at Alpha and Theta frequencies of the brain will go in history as the greatest discovery of man. This discovery has already started change our concepts of mind, psychology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, hypnoanalysis and the inner conscious.”

From 1953 to 1963 and covered a period during which the method was improved and an additional 39 clairvoyants were trained (or discovered, as Rhine would have it), still one-on-one techniques. He again attempted to have Dr. Rhine look at and, perhaps, take over and perfect what he had found. He was again rebuffed. It was during this period that he became convinced of the inadequacies, for his purposes, of yoga, hypnosis, training and self-hypnotic techniques.

From 1963 to 1966, during which he began training people in groups of 20 at a time and perfected his methodology for use in a classroom setting. It was also during this period that Jose offered all of his research and findings to his country via a letter to then President Lyndon B. Johnson. He received a kind letter of rejection, stating that they were not interested in educating individuals in these methods.

Jose Silva began in 1966 with the first class of 70 art students in Amarillo, Texas, and continues to this day.

Since then, Jose has introduced the many new seminars and training as he saw a need for them. Some were taught by him and others were taught by his closest confidants.