Jose Silva speak­ing at a Sem­i­nar in Laredo

We’re shar­ing with you more words of wis­dom from Jose Silva. Can you imag­ine ever hav­ing been lucky enough to share a deep and mean­ing­ful con­ver­sa­tion with Jose Silva? Most peo­ple  weren’t lucky enough to expe­ri­ence this and so sadly for peo­ple dis­cov­er­ing Silva for the first time will never see the great man in action. 

Ed Bernd Jr. was one of the lucky ones , here’s a glimpse of his Jose Silva encounter.

The fol­low­ing is an exact, unedited tran­script of a con­ver­sa­tion with Jose Silva, con­ducted dur­ing a con­fer­ence in Mr. Silva’s office in Laredo. Silva Newslet­ter edi­tor Ed Bernd Jr. had been wait­ing for an oppor­tu­nity when Mr. Silva was obvi­ously func­tion­ing cre­atively and clair­voy­antly, and was “tun­ing in” to get answers and information.

     The phys­i­cal signs included a sort of “far away” look, eyes turned upward and towards the left, and eye­lids flut­ter­ing from time to time. The tone of voice was soft and thought­ful, the words flow­ing out smoothly and mak­ing a lot of sense. When all of these signs were noticed, the inter­viewer asked:

Q: Stop and think for just a moment if you would: Exactly what kind of men­tal process were you going through when you were giv­ing me that answer?

Silva: When­ever I need to find the answer, I am accus­tomed to get­ting a feel­ing, to remem­ber a feel­ing I get to enhance my abil­ity to get infor­ma­tion. I am famil­iar with this feel­ing because of prac­tice and experience.

     For instance, when I was work­ing with Harry McK­night to develop a glos­sary of terms in the Grad­u­ate Sem­i­nar man­ual, I would get into a state of con­cen­tra­tion and an idea would come, in many and dif­fer­ent ways, many descrip­tions for one word, many kinds of mean­ings for the same sit­u­a­tions. When I would come out, it would not always make the same kind of sense that it made within. So I always try to go with it as I sense it, and if it con­tin­ues to make sense at the outer lev­els, then I’d go with it. (Note: Through­out this inter­view, he con­tin­ued to show the same phys­i­o­log­i­cal signs of “tun­ing in” as the signs that prompted the question.)

Q: You said a “feel­ing.” Is it like a phys­i­cal feel­ing?

Silva: It is like an emo­tional feel­ing more than any­thing else. Kind of a men­tal thing. You can not explain it. It is not phys­i­cal. It is a feel­ing you get through expe­ri­ence, of hav­ing come up with infor­ma­tion suc­cess­fully before, and you have detected that feel­ing when that took place.

     I notice on this book that I’m writ­ing now, that I get stuck some­times and don’t know where to go from that place. Then I con­cen­trate and imme­di­ately the doors are opened and I start off writ­ing again, with more information.

Q: What do you mean “con­cen­trate”? Exactly what men­tal process?

Silva: Just quiet down your mind and go back to think­ing the way you have thought before when you were successful.

Q: Do you review a suc­cess?

Silva: No, not nec­es­sar­ily. You could do that too. Go back to the level where you learned to go. But the thing is, even­tu­ally you don’t have to review a suc­cess, you just pro­voke that feel­ing, or desire that feel­ing, and you are back to the level where you should come up with the infor­ma­tion. Just by know­ing that you want the infor­ma­tion, auto­mat­i­cally you will become attuned, because of your desire, to the same level.

Q: How does the infor­ma­tion come? Do you hear it?

Silva: No, it just occurs to you.

Q: Just like your own thoughts?

Silva: Like as though it is a nat­ural thing, you knew it all the time and you have to say it.

Q: Can you tell me how you, per­son­ally, invoke that feel­ing?

Silva: It is auto­matic once you get used to doing it, because you have been doing it for so long you know. You need to con­cen­trate because you need the infor­ma­tion, and you need some way to get the infor­ma­tion, you just develop a way of get­ting the infor­ma­tion you need, by con­cen­trat­ing in a way that starts the infor­ma­tion flow­ing in to you again. It’s as though you are ask­ing for the infor­ma­tion, and it comes to you.

     I always believe that when Rabbi Jesus said, “Ask and you shall receive,” “Knock and it shall be opened,” it is some­thing like that; it is as though when I desire to have infor­ma­tion, I am ask­ing and it comes. It comes from the inner dimen­sion, not the outer dimen­sion. It is a spe­cial type of con­cen­tra­tion. You are look­ing for that feel­ing that you have devel­oped, have even­tu­ally devel­oped, through practice.

Q: That “Spe­cial feel­ing that comes with suc­cess” that you have talked about before?

Silva: That would be it. That’s it, because actu­ally you rec­og­nize that feel­ing and you like that feel­ing, because when you have suc­ceeded, you stay on it a lit­tle longer because it is a good feel­ing to be suc­cess­ful. So the more times you get to feel that feel­ing of suc­cess, the eas­ier it comes to you. Like, prac­tice makes perfect.

Q: You have told us that after prac­tic­ing enough suc­cess­ful health cases, you no longer need the 3 to 1 and 10 to 1 rit­ual, but can sim­ply “day­dream” and the day­dream­ing becomes “cre­ative and the true real­ity.” Is that what you’re doing?

Silva: Yes. That’s what we’re talk­ing about. That’s the best way I can explain it. You’re not really see­ing any­thing, you let your eyes go wher­ever they want to go, but usu­ally it’s to the left, you see? To the left and slightly upwards. And then you start day­dream­ing. You stare, defo­cus your vision, and infor­ma­tion starts com­ing to you, when you desire it, and when there’s a need for it. You don’t just play with it, but when you need to have infor­ma­tion, then you use your method for pro­vok­ing the feel­ing, to open the door to the information.

Q: Then it is not nec­es­sar­ily an imag­ing? You are not nec­es­sar­ily day­dream­ing in pic­tures?

Silva: No. Well, it would be sim­i­lar to day­dream­ing, because when you start get­ting infor­ma­tion you start mak­ing images of it, for it, or with it. But you don’t make the images before the infor­ma­tion comes. You make the images after the infor­ma­tion comes.

Q: And it is not a clairau­di­ence, like hear­ing a voice or some­thing?

Silva: No. It is just like your own thoughts com­ing to you. But it is the infor­ma­tion you desire from the inner dimension.

Orig­i­nal Arti­cle

Want to hear about the Silva Method and the Jose Silva per­sona? You’ll have to check out this exten­sive and com­pelling inter­view where McK­night fires ques­tion after ques­tion at Jose Silva. Read An Inter­view with Jose Silva