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The Silva Method, originally called Silva Mind Control, comprises a self-empowerment system to shape beliefs and augment personal success.
The technique involves reaching and sustaining a higher state of mental functioning, called Alpha state, where brainwave frequency is eight to thirteen Hz. The method also uses visualizations and affirmations. Advocates attest to healing, better attainment of goals, ESP and cure from addictions. Electroencephalography is the neurophysiologic measurement of the electrical activity of the brain by recording from electrodes placed on the scalp or, in special cases, on the cortex. ...
Electroencephalography is the neurophysiologic measurement of the electrical activity of the brain by recording from electrodes placed on the scalp or, in special cases, on the cortex. ...
The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the SI unit of frequency. ...
Extra-sensory perception, or ESP, is the name given to any ability to acquire information by means other than the five canonical senses (taste, sight, touch, smell, and hearing), or any other sense well-known to science (balance, proprioception, etc). ...
The method dates from the 1960s early work of José Silva, and features some views on brain sub-division and function, and their relationships with a higher consciousness that do not mesh with mainstream psychology, medicine and science. The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ...
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As part of the method Silva, founder of the Silva Method, developed a program that trained people to enter certain brain states of enhanced awareness. He developed several systematic mental processes to use while in these states allowing a person to mentally project with a specific intent. Once the mind is projected, a person can allegedly view distant objects or locations and connect with higher intelligence for guidance. The information received by the projected mind is then said to be perceived as thoughts, images, feelings, smells, taste and sound by the mind. The information obtained in this manner can be acted upon to solve problems. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...
J. B. Rhine, long-time parapsychology researcher at Duke University, coined the term, Extra-sensory perception (ESP). He thought that the psychic senses were an extra sense that only a few very special people had. Silva modified the phrase "Extra-sensory Perception" to "Effective Sensory Projection". Silva kept the same initials, ESP, but the revised meaning suggests that it is a more dynamic activity. Joseph Banks Rhine (September 29, 1895 - February 20, 1980) was a pioneer of parapsychology. ...
Parapsychology is the scientific study of the evidence of mental awareness or influence of external objects without interaction from known physical means. ...
Extra-sensory perception, or ESP, is the name given to any ability to acquire information by means other than the five canonical senses (taste, sight, touch, smell, and hearing), or any other sense well-known to science (balance, proprioception, etc). ...
A psychic is a person who claims or who is believed to possess extra-sensory abilities, including: Clairvoyance, Psychometry and Precognition. ...
In 1953, Silva believed he had trained his daughter to be psychic, and he introduced his training methods to Rhine with his daughter as proof. Rhine's response was that Silva's daughter was a natural psychic and he just hadn't noticed it before. Subsequently, Silva began working with another subject. This time, he tested his subject first to be sure he was not functioning as a psychic. Over the next ten years, Silva claimed to have trained thirty nine more subjects to be psychics. 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1953 calendar). ...
Another discovery claimed as successful is remote viewing. Rather than passively waiting for impressions to be perceived, a person projects him- or herself mentally and remotely views what is going on in a process similar to lucid dreaming. Remote viewing (RV) is a procedure developed by parapsychologists at the Stanford Research Institute to perform clairvoyance under controlled conditions. ...
Wikibooks has more about this subject: Lucid Dreaming Lucid dreaming is the conscious perception of ones state while dreaming, resulting in a much clearer (lucid) experience and usually enabling direct control over the content of the dream. ...
Alleged successes with his methods convinced Silva that everyone has such abilities and can be taught to develop them, and that it is not an extra sense at all, but a prior sense. Everything happens first in the mind, he reasoned, then happens in the body — a person mentally decides to pick up a glass of water and drink it, then does it physically.
The Silva Method is one of a number of therapeutic techniques sometimes grouped under the name Human potential movement. The Human Potential Movement came out of the social and intellectual milieu of the 1960s and was formed to promote the cultivation of extraordinary potential believed to be largely untapped in most people. ...
Claims of psychic abilities, remote viewing and healing have not been empirically proven.
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Extra-sensory perception, or ESP, is the name given to any ability to acquire information by means other than the five canonical senses (taste, sight, touch, smell, and hearing), or any other sense well-known to science (balance, proprioception, etc). ...
Visualization can refer to: Graphic Visualization as in any technique for creating images, diagrams, or animations to communicate any message. ...
Autosuggestion (or autogenous training) is a process by which an individual trains the subconscious mind to believe something, or systematically schematizes the persons own mental associations, usually for a given purpose. ...
Psychokinesis (literally mind-movement) or PK is the more commonly used term today for what in the past was known as telekinesis (literally distant-movement). It refers to the psi ability to influence the behavior of matter by mental intention (or possibly some other aspect of mental activity) alone. ...
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