Many benefits received

Many benefits received

After the churches declined to accept Jose's offer to turn over all his research to them, he still did all he could to help. For many years he gave full scholarships to religious people - ministers, priests, rabbis, nuns, and anyone else working in religion.

The benefits to these people and to those whom they serve have been great. Silva's mental techniques can be used for things as simple as helping you to prepare your place of worship, as important as working with abused and neglected children, as profound as helping people to achieve racial tolerance and understanding, and as pragmatic as obtaining the finances necessary for you to continue your work.

Author Robert B. Stone gave an example in his book The Jesus Legacy (Sum Press, 1993) of how information came in a dream to help with work at a church: "Friezes created for a church ceiling would not stick to matter what glue was used," Bob wrote. "The minister asked for a dream. He dreamt he used Elmer's glue with a hot iron. It sounded ridiculous but he tried it. The art work is still up."

Mental projection helps change a parishioner's attitude

A Protestant minister from Arkansas told how he was able to use subjective communication to help bring greater tolerance and understanding to some of his parishioners:

"I'm the pastor of a church that was asked to operate a little day care center for about nine months, to give it a sense of continuity as it moved from one location to another" he explained.

"We thought we were doing good, but we ran into some of the members of our church who were very upset because the day care center was integrated. The lady who lived next door to where we had the day care center was one of those who was opposed. We really needed her help because we needed about ten feet of her property in order to have the center.

"One of our members called us, using terms that I won't repeat, telling us how this would open the door for the neighborhood to become racially mixed, which would run down the neighborhood they feared, and destroy the church...all kinds of problems.

"I put off talking to the lady because the other church member had gotten to her first. Then some other church members came around me to help me. They said that they were afraid I had waited to long, that if I had gotten there first, something could have been done. But they felt that now it was impossible.

"On three occasions I called her home and asked to talk to her, and three times she refused. Finally, in desperation, I said, Ah! I'm a Silva graduate, I am supposed to be able to use some of these techniques. I remembered how others were enthused about the Mirror of the Mind, so I decided to try it.

"Things similar to this hadn't worked before, but maybe this would. So I used it.

"I pictured her as she was, and then pictured her as a person who was a warm and loving and outgoing person. I could imagine her smiling at me and saying, 'Come on over and let's talk about this thing.'

"I did this programming, and the next day I wondered if anything was going to come of it. I started to call her, and got cold feet. I had other things to do and did them. But finally, I just knew the time had come to call her.

"Then my phone rang. She was calling me!

"She had called to apologize for having been so rude in refusing to talk. She said, 'There's no way that those (people) are coming on my property, but we can talk.'

"We started talking over the phone, and even over the phone she mellowed. The next day I had a chance to talk to her in person. It was a totally different situation. I was amazed. From that point on, I will never question the value and power of using the alpha level. My prayers were answered."

Better health, improved finances, and able to help others more

Rev. Myrtle A. Ridgeway, an ordained Unity minister with more than twenty years experience in teaching, counseling, lecturing, and success as a spiritual healer said that she really didn't expect to get much out of the Silva course when she took it in 1979 with Ed Bernd Jr., at the urging of her friend Tag Powell. Mental projection at the alpha level brought people to her ministry as if by magic, she reported.

"What a pleasant surprise was in store for me!" she said. "In a very short time I was able to completely relax my body, quite my mind - and still be in absolute control of my own thoughts and feelings.

"The techniques have improved my personal health, my ability to concentrate, and my finances. I used visualization and imagination to bring more students to my new class and had more in attendance that I have had during my entire career!

"I used it to see my current expenses paid, and picked up three checks in my mail box in one day," she continued, still talking about the Mirror of the Mind. "I used it to picture myself married to the one person in all the world who is right for me, and me for him. Our wedding was last April 25th!

"From the very beginning, my healing practice improved 100 percent. It is almost eerie how many times I am accurate and how many healings there have been."

Practice at alpha leads to a better life

"Learning the Silva technique is only the beginning of a new life," Sister Charlotte Bruck says. "The daily practice of meditation and attunement is just as necessary for well-being as exercise, rest, and health foods."

Sister Charlotte was working as a counselor in the Catholic schools in Central Florida when she took the course with Marie Buckingham in 1974. She was a pioneer in guidance counseling at the elementary school level.

"I begin my day with meditation," she said, "and placing myself in the presence of God, as if it were my 'hot line' to the Holy Spirit.

"Then I begin to project the things that I need for that particular day. As each projection becomes a reality, I thank God for it, and add one more to my accumulated list of blessings. At this moment, I have 952 blessings going toward 1,000. This practice has had a tremendous effect upon my whole outlook toward my daily life and work.

"It has taken some time and much concentration to develop the belief factor to arrive at my present state of mind," she said. "Now it is almost automatic and well worth the effort I have spent on it. I now expect all of my projections to become reality."

She went on to explain how she works with children who have not taken the Silva course:

"Believing the old adage that 'If you give a child a fish, you feed him for one meal; but if you teach him how to fish, you provide him with food for a lifetime,' I am teaching children how to project for good things to happen, and suggest that they, too, begin to count their blessings.

"How many really follow through I may never know; but I have no need to know for I am only planting seeds. I leave it to the Holy Spirit to nurture the seed and bring it to fruition. I simply project that they will follow through 'if it is for their own good or the good of humanity.' For me, I know it must be 'for my good and the good of humanity,' and hence I shall never turn back."

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