The greatest discovery you'll ever make ...
...is the potential of your own Mind!   Dr. Jose Silva



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We provide training and research in guided imagery and directed meditation. To help you discover your own inner unlimited power and wisdom. It is a fun journey that can make your life easier and more successful. The prime tool for this is The Silva Method.

Dr. Aretoula Fullam with Dr. Jose Silva

The Silva Method of self-Mind Control, Dynamic Meditation and Psychospiritual Development In New Jersey.

Dear Friends,

Imagine that you have a being who is always with you, who is protecting you from everything that might harm you, who can guide you in all your decisions and relationships, who can tell you what to do and what to avoid, who knows what lies ahead, who knows all the answers, who can bring you prosperity and abundance, who can offer you the remedies to every illness you would ever experience, and who could heal your body and soul!

If it sounds like a myth, or too good to be true, then my friends it is time to stop suffering and become enlightened, like the 15 million of people (and more), around the world who have taken the Silva Method Course of self-Mind Control and Dynamic Meditation, and enjoy this unique experience I just described! In fact, this Guide is not anywhere outside yourself, it resides within you. This power is as close to you as the air you breath.

This is not mythical magic; this is real magic! This is not a miracle, because you will learn how to create this reality yourself and the magic will be real for you as it is real for all the 15 million Silva Method Graduates around the world.

This being is always within you, whether you know it or not. This place filled with infinite intelligence, this vast reservoir of knowledge and wisdom is taught in all spiritual traditions since the ancient times, and it is likened to a kingdom within, which is at hands!

But you do not have to isolate yourself for 50 or 60 or 70 years in the desert or in a monastery, away from your family, your friends, your job, away from everything you value. You do not have to go through sacrifices or any hardship. You can become an enlightened, clairvoyant and intuitive being in two days, by attending the Silva Method training in self-Mind Control, Dynamic Meditation and Psychospititual development. In two days you will have not only mastered how to communicate with Higher Intelligence but have an objective evidence for this subjective communication! If you do not leave the seminar room with what I just described, your simply return the course material and you receive your money back!

The Silva Method of New Jersey is now taught by the expert and licenced psychologist, Dr. Aretoula Fullam, who can guide you in two days or in private lessons to master the Silva Method tools as developed and taught for 60 years by the founder of the Silva Method, Dr. Jose Silva. Dr. Fullam studied under Dr. Jose Silva, and learned directly from him energy healing, clairvoyant functioning, psychic investigation and many more, which you can learn now, if you so desire.

Discover and use in controlled ways the universal language of the mind, the language that connects you with the Divine Spirit in you and everywhere in the Kosmos, the language that the Infinite, Invisible Intelligence understands and communicates with your! You can learn to communicate with Higher Intelligence, the Divine Spirit that permeates all things and beings as easy as you can use your imagination in controlled ways at a level of mind that you use only to sleep with.

For over 55 years, Dr. Jose Silva devoted his life and career to develop a method that every human being can learn and use to communicate psychically with Higher Intelligence and have a face-to-face experience with the Divine. Get guidance, support, answers, improve creativity, solve problems, enhance spirituality, create loving relationships and heal every aspect of your life including all forms of illnesses and diseases. Discover the genius you are, as every human being is infinitely intelligent. The Silva Method of self-Mind control is the world’s best course in psychospiritual development, mind development, spiritual healing, energy psychology, stress management, self improvement, kissing bad habits goodbye and embracing new constructive ones, reducing weight and never gain it back, stop smoking or any other legal or illegal drug easily and effortlessly. The Silva Method training is the only course that helped people who were on welfare to not only get off the welfare but find jobs and even become successful business leaders. The Silva Method of Mind Development and stress control is the only course who helped homeless to get off the streets and become homeowners and successful business entrepreneurs. The Silva Method of Dynamic meditation is the only method that teaches every human being without exception to develop their psychic and clairvoyant abilities that they use to sleep with, unleash their creativity and discover the genius that lies dormant within. The Silva Method is teaching you how to use your mind in unique ways that no school taught you and discover the storehouse of infinite intelligence and wisdom that is in you and is buried under the layers of ignorance and suffering. At the end of the two days you will walk out of the seminar room not only with the new knowledge but with practical tools that will produce results immediately. The Silva Method Course puts you in control of your own mind, your own life, your own health, your own success, your own fulfillment, your own happiness, your unique place in this wonderful world or ours.

The Silva Method Course of Dynamic Meditation, includes all the elements of mindfulness meditation as other methods such as Yoga, TM, Zen, Buddhism etc., and also what makes it unique and different from these other methods - dynamic meditation and self-mind control. In the 4-Units course, I will explain the mechanisms involved with the improved health and the healing process reported by those who practice the method.

A better understanding of the Silva Method training and its significance is coming and supported by research on the physiology of the brain, pioneered by the work of Rogger Sperry and extended by his colleagues. Their work has provided laboratory and clinical evidence for the existence of two distinct kinds of consciousness functioning separately but simultaneously within the brains of humans. This was rejected first as it came from clinical populations. But later research in temporarily anesthetizing the ipsilateral hemisphere while leaving the contralateral hemisphere largely unaffected in healthy people showed that the left hemisphere deals primarily with the objective physical world. This kind of consciousness deals with sequential, logic-dependent thinking activities such as mathematics and speech and the five senses, or Outer Conscious Levels. The other kind is associated with the right hemisphere and accounts for holistic and spontaneously creative, intuitive thinking, with an appreciation for spatiality, music and the arts, or Inner Conscious Levels.

At different eras scientists used various models, ranging from a hydraulic pump to a computer, in order to study the brain and understand how it works.

For the purpose of explaining the Silva Method which is teaching not only mindfulness meditation but also dynamic meditation, which are both processes involving turning one’s awareness inwardly, in the internal world, I am going to use a unique analogy. This analogy will best serve us in order to understand the shift from the outside physical world, to the inner mental world.

But what we mean by Mind? According to Dr. Silva mind is the reflective awareness of the human being. One needs to use mind to measure mind. Mind is the only adequate instrument of measuring itself. No instrument, no matter how advanced technologically is can detect mind! The genius of Dr. Jose Silva, developed a method with which not only mind can be detected at its most brilliant act, but its introspective function can be verified with an objective evidence and a witness. At the end of the Silva Method training, just before the graduation ceremony, every participant will have an objective evidence of his/her subjective experience as evidenced by an objectively verified introspective experience.

Let me now introduce the analogy. Imagine a submarine. Recall some of its characteristic features. It is usually a vehicle for carrying men. It has such adaptability that it can travel in or on water. It has a periscope that can be elevated above water for gathering information into its information processing center, when it is partially submerged. It also has sonar equipment for gathering information below the water’s surface, in case it must navigate while completely submerged. The personnel in the submarine simply tune into their environment by periscope or sonar, or both alternately, if they need information to solve problems, such as in navigating a course, etc. The instruments allow for versatility as need arises.

Well, the brain is similar to the submarine. The brain has senses that can pick up information from the environment. It can use its eyes, ears, nose, tongue and fingers to get information from the outside, surface environment the way the periscope picks up surface information from the submarine. Or it can use its sonar type equipment for picking up information only available at deeper levels under the surface. All the person on the submarine has to do is focus attention on the sonar scope. Intelligence is like the person seeking information. Intelligence may use the periscopic 5-senses if the desired information is above the surface or it may use the sonar-type equipment (the inner senses we experienced in our exercise before) to search out bits of information and patterns within the deep. Intelligence simply tunes its sensing mechanisms to the proper channels and gets the information it needs to solve the particular problem at hand. The mind is the sensor of the intelligence. It is to the intelligence as the periscope and sonar equipment are to the submarine.

Now that I have given this analogy let me explain what it means and how it applies to the body/brain/mind/spirit unit.

The left-hemisphere consciousness dominates most of our everyday living, and physical activities. It is objectively oriented, and usually associated with the generation of much Beta brain-wave activity. The sense that requires full beta activity is the eye sight for focusing; 85% of information from the physical world enters the brain through the eyes.

Right-hemisphere consciousness seems to be primarily subjective and finds its greatest expression in the arts and spirituality. It is generally accompanied by Alpha and Theta brain-wave activity or an altered state of consciousness.

The Alpha level of Conscious Awareness operates on different rules from the Beta Awareness. Here there are again five senses, known as Inner Senses, or collectively ESP. Dr. Silva used the term ESP to honor the acronym, but for this Method ESP means Effective Sensory Projection. This dimension is not bound by time or space as in the physical world.

Independent scientific studies have demonstrated that Alpha brain wave activity is associated with inner levels of mental activity, tranquility, rest, inspiration, creativity, accelerated healing, concentration, learning , memory, ESP and many other phenomena, while Theta brain waves are related to deeper levels of meditation. Participants in the Silva Method learn in just hours of mental exercises how to function at lower brain frequencies under self control and full awareness. Once participants learn to function at these altered frequencies with awareness they can sense information by means other than through the five physical senses. And this is the number one difference of the Silva Method training from the other methods of mindfulness meditation.

When intelligence needs information, it simply senses it through mind. Mind scans the layers of brain cells (Beta, Alpha, Theta, or Delta), and senses on brain cell impressions the information intelligence is seeking, as your ears encode my words.

At the end of the Silva Method Seminar you will be able to use your five physical senses (periscope) and your five mental senses (sonar) and function in a genius way never thought before. The five mental senses through the years were called collectively as ESP, but you will learn that there is nothing extra about ESP. Not only you will be in touch with this so misunderstood term, but you will have it at your service effectively. In the Silva Method, the term ESP is transformed to Effective Sensory Projection, where you learn in a day to project your intelligence anywhere information is and get it! When you do this just before graduation you will discover who you really are, and the unlimited potential of your own mind!

As we close the outer world information coming to our brain through the five senses, we shift naturally into these other frequencies, but because we are not trained to remain awake as we drift off to sleep we do not know how to use the Alpha level of awareness in the same way we use the beta level of awareness.

The Silva Method of self-mind control is dynamic meditation; it is a system by which participants can produce relaxation and control of their brain waves and use this controlled awareness to solve problems using guided imagery.

This claim was not accepted as people believed that when thought is activated the brain activity shifts back to the beta frequency. A series of experiments were conducted and this claim was tested in 1971 by Dr. F. J. Bremner at the Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. The results showed that indeed graduates of the course can control their brain waves and produce Alpha rhythm when they choose to do so.

This was determined in a study in which a group of twenty untrained medical students participated in an experiment in brain wave control. Half of the students were conditioned using Classical Conditioning. When the subjects heard a click it signaled that a strobe light would elicit an Alpha frequency response in the EEG. Indeed the click elicited the Alpha frequency pattern in the subjects’ EEG readout.

The other 10 subjects were trained with the method. Both groups showed EEG changes in the direction predicted: that is, both groups increased the percentage of Alpha frequency as measured by EEG. A follow-up study was done using subjects who were trained with the Silva Course. These subjects could start and stop Alpha frequency responses at will and could carry on a conversation while generating Alpha rhythm.

One further test was conducted using subjects trained by the method. These subjects had considerable experience in subjective communication or Effective Sensory Projection which is taught in the Silva Course for problem solving. While they engaged in an exercise of subjective communication their brain wave activity was monitored with an EEG recording. The EEG patterns of these subjects showed a high incidence of Alpha frequency during the exercise.

In various meditative disciplines such as TM, Yoga, etc., the word meditation has a specific meaning. It refers to a special level of mind or altered state of awareness. In these disciplines, reaching this level is an end in itself. This practice produces pleasant calmness and goes a long way toward relieving and preventing illnesses caused by tension, as countless studies have shown. But, this is passive meditation.

The Silva Method training goes far beyond this. It teaches the student to use this relaxed level of mind for solving problems, whatever their nature might be. This is dynamic meditation. The student learns to function with conscious awareness at the alpha brain wave frequency, known to be associated with deep relaxation, light sleep, dreaming and health.

People who take the Silva Method training, in 10 hours or so of mental exercises, learn not only to focus their attention and concentrate at the inner level of consciousness, but actively engage in thinking, visualization and imagination without falling asleep.

The mental exercises teach students a) to relax the mind and body, as other approaches do, and b) to go one step beyond that; to be mentally active and carry thought and conversation as in the objective world while they are at the relaxed level or the alpha brain activity.

The entire course consists of techniques for using the mind in beneficial ways. This is best understood with personal experience, as it is experiential in nature, in witnessing first hand the use of specific mental techniques in an alert relaxed state. The students learn to use imagination and visualization to communicate with biological intelligence (body and brain) and bring about changes they desire through cognitive restructuring at the alpha frequency of the brain.

When persons learn to function mentally at these inner level of consciousness memory is improved, and persons are better able to find solutions to their problems. From this altered state, they are able to direct their mind to do things they desire, and thus control of such habits as smoking, weight loss, alcohol drinking is made easier through visualization and imagination.

Continued practice at the relaxed level has an effect on the thought processes of everyday life as well. For example, persons learn to elicit feelings of relaxation anytime they want anywhere they are.

The most important thing is that participants learn to use this level of mind without any effort. They just sit in a relaxed chair with eyes closed during the mental exercises and they participate as they are relaxed at the alpha level. In addition to learning to think while in the state of relaxation, participants learn special techniques for habit control, problem solving, goal achievement, memorizing, health care, pain control, sleep and dream control and subjective communication for the detection and solution of problems.

Self-mind control is not hypnosis. Hypnosis is induction at the deeper Theta frequency. (1) The hypnotized subject usually answers questions only, depending on how much he has altered this level of consciousness. The Mind Control student answers and asks questions because they have learned to control their levels of awareness in the process of altering those levels of consciousness. (2) In hypnotic research, the more the subject goes in the direction of Delta sleep, the more he tends to forget. Of course he can be instructed to remember and he can remember spontaneously also, with repeated training exercises. In Mind Control Method, the more students function with controlled awareness in Alpha and eventually in Theta levels, the more they remember. Awareness wipes out forgetting. (3). In hypnotic investigation of deeply altered levels of awareness, the deeper the subject goes the more he surrenders controls and allows himself to be directed by an outside agent at Beta. In Mind Control Method, the more the student establishes points of reference at the Alpha-Theta levels and the Inner Conscious Levels of functioning, the more they assume self-control, even over their autonomic functioning. (4) Finally, results in hypnosis are inconsistent whereas in the Silva Method everybody goes through an exercise at the end of the course and knows that learning and functioning with controlled awareness at the alpha level is a fact.

In the Silva Method training, awareness is turned away from the outer objective world and towards the inner subjective world. With this fuller attention, trained persons are better able to direct their mind to do what they want it to. One can use this level of expanded awareness as need occurs, for example, relaxation, reflecting on experience, problem solving or engaging directly in ones health improvement. Once participants experience the results obtained from this level of consciousness, they never attempt to make important decisions or solve problems without using it. The reason is because they have access to more information not available to the physical senses.

Another large portion of the course is learning to repeat beneficial phrases to oneself while at this level of mind-body relaxation. This is thought to have a powerful effect. Positive thinking is very valuable, but positive thinking in the relaxed state is immeasurably more so. Positive thinking is not synonymous with being a Polyanna . Positive thinking simply means focusing attention on what one wants, rather than what one does not want. Participants learn to acknowledge the problem, know it is there, but then focus on the solution they want rather than what they do not want and reinforncle it with guided imagery.

The last part of the course deals with subjective communication or Effective Sensory Projection. Effective Sensory Projection is a common experience which everybody experiences who is taking the Silva Method course. It is an experiment that every person does at the conclusion of the training, as a proof that they can produce voluntary alpha waves and use inner level of consciousness or subjective mind to solve problems especially to improve their health. The success of an experiment is indicated by its replication. This experiment is replicated in every training course by every person who takes the training.

The Silva Method training is not psychotherapy. It can be used as tool in any psychotherapy, particularly if the therapist is familiar with the course especially helping the patient to participate in helping himself get better. It provides the patient with an enhanced ability to use the mind and apply himself to whatever therapy he is in.

Psychotics have been helped so dramatically (at least when the patients are in treatment and the psychiatrist understands the course). Dr. McKenzie insists that all his psychotic patients attend the course, while under his care and supervision.

The course was found to be safe and potentially beneficial for neurotics. It is safe and beneficial for the highly disturbed individual, when under the care of a psychiatrist familiar with the program. Both, clinical and objective psychological data show that the benefits far outweigh any negative effect.

Because of the dramatic improvement in most of the disturbed individuals, and because the training can be applied to large groups at once, it is an ancillary form of treatment in the hospital setting.
Dr. Simonton began with the idea that a patient’s attitude played a role in their response to any form of treatment and could influence the course of their disease. As he familiarized himself with the Silva Method Course, he found it to be an excellent tool to use in teaching his patients how to begin the interaction and become involved with their own health process. He found this to “be the most powerful single tool that he had to offer the patient emotionally.” The first thing taught in the course is to vanish fear. Then through the mental exercises and practice patients learn to participate in their recovery by changing their attitude and using the wisdom of their body to heal, as Hippocrates suggested thousands of years ago.

Dr. Silva said “The greatest discovery you will ever make is the potential of your own mind.”


1. Silva Mind Control 101, Controlled Relaxation (SMC101-CR). This first part of the training course offers participants the art of controlled relaxation. It teaches people to reach within seconds a level of enhanced awareness and ability to control vitality and energy for the body, as well as aid in the solution of problems without stress or strain. MC101CR offers much to individuals in whom increased efficiency, concentration, relaxation, self-control and learning capacity are important. It is invaluable to the busy man or woman of today who is constantly under stress. It promotes creativity. Eight hours of orientation and learning through experience of the mental exercises and ten or fifteen minutes a day of practice will make one proficient in achieving the objective of this lecture series. In MC101CR participants learn to function at the alpha brain wave level and experience the power of using both brain hemispheres instead of just one. (a) Relaxation Exercise: Learn to relax physically and mentally by freeing the muscles of stress caused by tension, including the spinal and involuntary systems, for better physical and mental health. (b) Sleep control: To go at will into normal, natural and healthy sleep, without the use of drugs. (c) To Awake Control: To awaken oneself naturally at any time without a clock, to enhance self-Mind Control. (d) Awake Control: To stay awake and end drowsiness when desired. (e) Dream Control: To generate, remember and understand dreams, for problem solving and for the enhancement of the self-Mind Control method. (f) Headache Control: To free oneself from suffering without the use of drugs.

2. Silva Mind Control 202, General Self Improvement (SMC202- GSI) This part of the lecture series makes use of the expanded levels of awareness acquired in MC101CR and makes them available to apply to specific problems. Expanded consciousness, improved image creation, and visualization are taught together with keys for the improvement of memory. Techniques are developed to provide greater control of physiological functions. Specific techniques are given for the control, development or elimination of habits; and methods are presented to aid in the solution of problems. (a) Mental Screen: For subjective communication, education, memory, clairvoyance and problem solving. (b) Memory Pegs: For improvement of visualization, imagination, clairvoyance and memory. (c) Three Fingers Technique: To increase concentration and recall, to improve examination performance, self-programming and subjective communication. To trigger alpha-wave functioning at will. (d) Mirror of the Mind: For effective problem solving. (e) Glove Anesthesia: To free oneself from suffering pain and for emergencies. (f) Glass of Water Technique: For subjective communication and problem solving. (g) Habit Control: For conquering such problems as weight and smoking when desired and for the maintenance of physical and metal health.

3. Silva Mind Control 303 Effective Sensory Projection (SMC303-ESP) In this part of the training course the ability to solve major problems and tap almost unbelievable faculties of mind due to the extension of controlled awareness into the subconscious is taught. The MC303ESP and MC404AESP parts of the lecture series use the knowledge and experience gained in MC101CR and MC202GSI to extend the participant’s awareness into these regions. Thus the subconscious is transformed into an inner conscious realm wherein techniques are developed which, through practice, will reward the participant with a superior intuitive sense: Effective Sensory Projection. Again eight hours of orientation and periods of practice will accomplish the objective of this lecture series. Participants learn to develop their clairvoyant abilities through a series of mental exercises.

4. Silva Mind Control 404 Applied Effective Sensory Projection (SMC404 – AESP). In the last part of the Silva Method training course participants learn to apply the natural clairvoyant abilities they developed. In a group setting they work existing problem cases through subjective communication (ESP with positive feedback). Such case-working convinces the participant of the tremendous powers humans’ intelligence is capable of tapping for problem solving.


S pirituality and intuition
I magination and visualization
L ove and empathy
V alues, vitality and optimism
A ttitude and goals


M agical reality
E xpect the best for everybody concerned
T ake responsible actions
H ealth, harmony and balance
O ne with the Source of everything
D iscover the seed of God in you!


Albert Einstein said about Physical Energy: E = M x C squared, where E = Physical Energy, M = Mass  - times C squared = Velocity squared.

Jose Silva said about Spiritual Energy: E = M x C squared, where E = Spiritual Energy, M = Mind - times C squared = Controls squared.

The Real Reality and the Truthful Truth When Applied Solves Problems!

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