(8) MIND CONTROL IS MORE THAN A PARTY GAME OR GIMMICK.

7-22-73

{Jack whistles, B hums, and Miette barks}

J   So you graduated? 

B  Yes, did you see my diploma? 

J   No, where is it?  Oh, over there, on the table. 

B   It was unbelievably fascinating. 

J   It says PSI on your diploma.  What does that mean? 

B   I don’t know. 

J   It sounds like sex information.  

B  (burst of laughter)  No ho ho ho ho! I scribbled a lot of notes about my nine cases—we each were supposed to do ten, but time ran out. 

J  What do you mean, cases? 

B  People would have, say, three cases.  They’d give you the name, the address, the sex, and the age of the person, and then the other person that’s doing the psychic part, gets into Level and projects the image of this person on their mental screen, and tries to figure out what area of the body might have a problem. 

      Before this rubs you the wrong way, Jack, as it does a lot of people before they understand the purpose of the course, Mind Control is more than a party game or a gimmick.  The graduates that are really into this are bored with the idea of sitting down and demonstrating their skill at diagnosing cases,  showing how often they can accurately sense what the problem area is and what the disorder is.

      If they have these psychic powers, what they do is, instead of guessing the way we novices do, they just tell the person.  A graduate will concentrate and get into Level, as it is called, and project positive thoughts.  And it works.

J   What worked today? 

B   There were groups getting together and getting feedback.  We were doing the party trick thing. 

J   You were going to find out if any of these people are able to do these things. 

B   Some of the graduates were there, and they're having Cottage Groups, and one of them said, We’ve only been meeting three weeks, and already we’ve had fantastic feedback.  We’re beginning to consider ourselves healers.  One five-year-old boy with spinal meningitis had gone into the hospital, not expected to recover.  They all started projecting, seeing him well, and inside of three or four days, the doctors couldn’t couldn’t believe it.  He’s out and completely well.

J   Where was this?  Do you know?

B   She was meeting in Milton. 

J   And where was this boy?  [I don’t know.] I should think with things like that, they would document their cases.

B   They do.  There’s a meeting every Wednesday night, and this woman is keeping records.  The man said, Pass on to us your documentation.

J    Yeah, because wherever it is, the hospital has to have a record of this type of thing.  But you wouldn’t get in touch with the hospital, I suppose.

B   Ohhh, I might.  But I believe her.  I don’t think she’d have any reason to lie.  They wouldn’t have any reason to get together week after week and tell lies about what they’re doing.  

J   No, they probably would not.  I wonder what the hospital has, though, for documentation.  Do these people go to the hospital, huh?

B   There was one guy that told me of a fellow that worked with him and was due to go to the hospital inside of three days.  He was walking with a cane, and he was going to have his hip operated on.  So without even telling this person he was working on his case, he started projecting positive, healing thoughts toward him.  Two days before the operation, he came in feeling much better.  The next day, he wasn’t using his cane.  He said he didn’t see any reason to have the operation.  His hip felt much better. 

     Another man who took the course was a lawyer.  He was so skeptical that he was saying to everybody the day before the final meeting, Okay, you people are going to be collecting your diplomas tomorrow.  I’m going to collect my money-back guarantee.  Instead, he was so overwhelmed with the way things went the last day that he’s become one of the biggest boosters of Silva Mind Control.

      He spoke of a friend who had some kind of pain.  He said I can’t help him when I’m sitting right in the same room with him, but if he’s at his house and I’m at mine, I go to Level.  He tells me the pain clears up.

J    Do you believe—I just want to understand this—do you believe that when a couple of doctors have diagnosed a case as spinal meningitis, that these people can just do away with that?

B   It does seem unbelievable, I must admit.  I just don’t know why they’d lie.

J    I don’t either.  I don’t know why they’d lie.

B   A lot of people say, Oh, this is had got to be a coincidence.  Or there will be X-rays, somebody has X-rays, and it shows a cancer. It will turn out that somebody seems to be feeling much better.  They’re X-rayed again, and the cancer has disappeared.  There’s no sign of it.  The skeptics explain it by saying they must have gotten the X-rays mixed up.  Something must have happened.  It’s a coincidence.  The only thing is, there are so many, many, many, many coincidences.  All these people are taking the course and graduating and going on to apply it.

J   I can see applying it.  I think if something’s mental, if somebody’s having a mental problem and—

B   That’s what some woman said, that a high percentage of disease is psychosomatic in origin.  They still have the symptoms, [Right] they still have the pain, they still feel rotten.  [Yeah, but it isn’t basically physical.]  Well, for example, you can’t grow another limb . . . not yet.  The time hasn’t come.  Kathie says there’s nothing that can be done yet about her legs.  We can casework her all we want, but we’re not going to make her get up and walk.

J   That’s right, that’s right.  I think that whatever that disease is you just mentioned—[spinal meningitis]—I don’t believe you can do that either, any more than you can fix Kathie’s legs.

B   There was a case a woman was diagnosing, going into Level to try to find out was wrong with somebody.  She said, Well, I just can’t seem to find anything wrong.  And the person said, I guess you missed out on this one.  There’s going to be an operation next week for kidney stones or gallstones.  She said, Uh-uh, no, no, no, I’m sure there is nothing wrong there, absolutely nothing wrong.  She was so positive that the patient insisted on having another set of X-rays before the operation, and the stones had been passed.  The doctor would have gone ahead and operated.

J   Since they took the last X-rays, the stones passed, and the patient didn’t know it? 

B   He didn’t know it.  As I started telling you, out of my nine cases, I’d say that by the eighth one I was pretty tired. 

J   Each of you had nine? 

B  Yes, we got together and we’d do two at a time.  Somebody would be what’s called the Orientolagist, feeding me background information, and I’d be the psychic.  Then I’d do the same for them.  The eighth one I didn’t get at all, but in the first seven I got a lot of hits.

      I was sitting opposite a man who gave me cases seven and eight. The first subject was a twenty-seven-year-old man, so I started at his head. You’re supposed to start at his head and work down, and I said, For some reason I want to stop at his head.  The Orientologist said Good.  He’s not supposed to do that, but he did.  I said, I guess I’ll put his head on and see how it feels.  I said, My head hurts.  It aches.  I don’t know if there’s an injury of some kind in there or what.  I got some things wrong.  I said, I see a sharp metal object.  I don’t know whether that injured the brain or whether it’s an operation.  But it turned out that this guy had been hit on the head with a football. 

      There’s so many parts of the body that you can choose to focus on, not really knowing why you choose one over another.  In another case, for some reason I seemed to want to focus on the hip area, and he asked, What do you see?  I said, Well, the word bladder pops into my mind.  He said, Can you amplify on that?  I couldn’t, I said gall bladder. I feel as if there’s an irritation of some kind.  It turned out it was a kidney infection.  The bladder and kidney aren’t that far apart, right? 

      Hmm.  And uh, what else?  Oh!  They gave me the name of one person, and just as they got the name out, I began to cough.  I kept coughing, and I said, I feel as if I’m having trouble breathing.  It turned out the person had asthma.  Another one, I said, I feel as if it’s in the head, and she said Good, which she shouldn’t have, that’s helping you too much.  I said my ear seems to ache.  Maybe it’s the ear.  But then she told me afterwards that I kept going like this, blinking my eye.  And it was his right eye. 

J   It would be his left eye, Barbara. 

B  Oh yes, his left eye. 

      The last one I did, I said to a guy sitting there, Will you give me one case, and I’m going to call it a day.  You’re supposed to try to find three possible areas where you sense something going on. 

J   What do you mean, Barbara?

B   The head, the shoulder, out of the whole body you pick three possibilities, and then you go to the one that seems to draw you the most.  I started with the head, but then I moved down and concentrated on the hip area.  I said, I feel as if there’s something wrong here.  You’re supposed to follow your impulses, and I’m thinking, What the heck is it, is it an ulcer, is it liver?  It could be so many different things.  They teach you a little bit about anatomy, and I know how many different things it can be.  I said, Well, I have a feeling it’s in the joint.  There’s something wrong in the joint.  I thought, he must want to get rid of me because he said, Okay, you can count yourself out.  To count yourself out, you’re supposed to see this person in good health, erase your image of anything that you dreamed up that isn’t so, and also what you saw that was so, you see it corrected. 

J   You don’t want this fella coming down with something.

B  Yes, right.  So I did that, thinking this man was kind of giving me short shrift.  He said, That’s it, the guy had a piece of bone taken out of his hip.  He recently had an operation.  Now, how can you get that close, really?

J   Well, how would they do on Tony or Carol or your daughter?

B   I’ll tell you.  

J   How many different people had each case? 

B   I’d say at least four. 

J   So did four people have a shot at Tony or Kathie?  [Yes].  They did.  Four people. 

B  One girl said of Tony, he seems to be very depressed.  I feel as if he’s lost someone.  His wife or someone close to him.  In Kathie’s case, she saw an accident, and she said it was an auto accident. 

      Then another man, a minister, said when I gave him Tony’s name, I see a coffin, but it’s empty.  But they both had this impression of death connected with Tony.  You’re not supposed to be looking for death, you’re supposed to be looking for illness, so that seems a little strange.

      Two people got the lung.   You know, you had mentioned Tony’s emphysema.  One person said, I see a cigar in his mouth, and you had told me he occasionally smokes a cigar. 

J   If he smokes anything, he smokes a cigar.

B    One girl that I worked with gave me her mother.   Of course, I didn’t know who she was, I just knew she was a middle-aged woman.  I saw her very clearly.  I said, I see a plump woman with very pale skin, and I see something wrong with her leg.   I think maybe she’s got a brace on her leg, her left leg, I guess—no, the right leg. 

J   Do you have trouble with left and right?

B   No, not usually.  I was trying to picture her.  I said left because in my mind she was facing me. 

J  Yeah.  I was just wondering. 

B  When I said right eye in the other case, it was because the girl was looking at me, and she was trying to remember which eye it had been.  I was touching the correct eye, the left one.

     But I thought it was her right leg, which would have been on my left as I was facing her.  I think the right leg might have a brace.  I was incorrect in saying I saw her as a shut-in.  She’s an alcoholic, and she’s very pale except when she’s drinking, and then she gets red.  Then I said, I think she’s smiling and cheerful, and the girl said, That’s amazing.  I said I don’t think she wears glasses except for reading.  I see her putting on a little pair of rimless glasses—which I did, as clear as could be.  And the girl told me this was exactly right,  she wears glasses without rims for reading.

J   Is it difficult to get into this state where you can see things like that?

B  Not at all. 
J   How long does it take? 
B  A few minutes.  You count first from three down to one.  You see three three times and two three times, and then one three times.  You try to see it, and most of the time I can see some kind of three.  And that’s supposed to bring you to Alpha Level, and then you count down from ten to one, and you see yourself in your laboratory.  Supposedly, you get so you can function without all this ritual.  You eliminate first one thing, and then another, and eventually you eliminate the laboratory. All you have to do is sit down and take a deep breath.  You’re supposed to be able to go directly to this level.

J   Where is your laboratory?

B   Out there, by the pond, on that log across the driveway. 

J   You haven’t told me that. 

B  I did, honey.  Remember I told you about another ramp for Kathie?  How I put that in later?  [Yeah.]  I was looking out over the pond through the picture window, and I told you about my two people, Albert Schweitzer and Margaret Mead coming out of their retirement.

J   I don’t know if you’ve ever told me exactly where it was.  I thought it was in here somewhere. 

B   No, that was the first south wall.  But the second south wall is in the laboratory.  You just use the wall in the house to practice on, visualizing objects against it like an orange or a watermelon.  So once you get in the habit of seeing a black screen against that wall, then you can do the same thing in your laboratory.  Facing the driveway would be the south wall, and looking out over the pond would be the east wall, and so forth.

       I can see my laboratory as I count down from ten to one.  By the time I get to one, I’ve gone up to the ramp—

J  What do you see?  On the inside you can see? 

B  I see myself walking up the ramp and in the door, saying Hi to Margaret and Albert. 

J   Do they answer?  [Yes, they welcome me.]  They really do, huh?

B   They weren’t too much help today.  Oh, they might have been, as a matter of fact.  I think Margaret was the one that gave me “bladder.”  I said, What is the matter with this girl.  And the word bladder came to me.

    Later I asked a girl I had worked with, how she’d done on the cases.  She said, "There was one funny one.  I can’t imagine what made me say it, but I said, I think this person has trouble with constipation, which seemed like an odd thing to suddenly pop out with.  It turned out that was one of the problems."

J   I would like to know about that illness that was cured and what the hospital has to say about it.  Where it was.

B   If I see the girl again—there’s a general meeting Wednesday night—I’ll make it a point to try to find her.

J   Is she personally involved in this situation?

B   One of their group—[One of their group, not her.]—that meets with her in Milton, knew of this little boy.  [Was she involved in the get-together with this little kid?]  They all concentrated on this little boy. 

J   So she should know where he was, how old he was, and the hospital.  Would she know the hospital? 

B   I’ll ask her, if she’s there Wednesday. 

J   I’d like to know. 

B  Listen, Jack, there are books full of these things.  You can start reading and call the hospitals and check on them, if you want.  There are doctors taking these courses who are using Mind Control. 

J   I believe that, honey.  I believe in what you’re doing, but there are some things that I find difficult to believe, like a definitely diagnosed disease or affliction.  You know, when a person is crippled from an accident, is that going to be cured?

B   There are certain things, obviously—if somebody’s arm is amputated, they’re not going to get another arm.  That was one of the first questions I asked.  How do you help someone—Chris spoke about amputation and he said, You would see the limb, but you’d see it lighter.  I said, Okay, what are you going to do to help that person?  He said, You see them with a prosthesis, or you can see them living as if they didn’t even have that handicap, rising above it.  He said, You can see them with a very happy, positive attitude.

J   What does that mean?

B   You visualize them overcoming this, feeling fine, like Kathie.  We can’t make her walk again, but when we see her, we can visualize her feeling great, feeling productive.

J   So you now have all you’ll ever need, as far as this course goes, huh?

B   There is another course you can take, but people don’t usually take it unless they plan to get into Mind Control very deeply, or they feel they’re ready for it.  I asked one of the graduates about it, and he said, Yes, he finally had taken it.

J   This looks like Dip-coma instead of Diploma. 

B   Does it?  Umhm, it does.  That’s a funny L. 

      There’s a course called Research and Theory.  It’s a history of the whole course, and if you have a chance to take it with Jose Silva when he comes to this neck of the woods, they say he is fascinating to listen to.

J   If he comes, will it be more money?

B   It’s two hundred dollars.  I don’t think I would ever care to spend that kind of money.  {J whistles.}  One man brought up something we all can’t help but think of.  We’re all inclined to be skeptical.  He said, You keep talking about using this and having the desire to help.  Suppose you have no desire to help? 

       Chris said, If a relative of your was seriously sick, wouldn’t you have the desire to help?  He said, My mother is.  I bring her to the doctor every week, but I’d feel like a charlatan if I started acting as if I were qualified to help her.  I spent four years studying to be an engineer, and now in forty-eight hours, I’m supposed to be a psychic?   I’m used to a black-and-white world.  You’re trying to draw me into a gray world, and I’m fighting it.

    I jotted down what Chris answered.  He said, I know you are, and as long as you do, we can’t help you.  You have to have the desire to do this.  He talked about how many people have been helped, and they don’t know why it works, but it does.

     The man said, I’m not questioning the integrity of the course, I’m just questioning my own ability.  I feel as if I’m at a bridge, and I’m afraid to cross.  Then Chris said, Why limit yourself by helping people just in the physical world, if you find it’s possible to help them in the spiritual world.

J   I think the man used a word there that’s a bit dramatic, don’t you?

B   What, charlatan?  [Yeah.]  Yes, but it was good because it brought some of our doubts out into the open.  There was one other real skeptic there, too, and I noticed he wasn’t with us at the end.  He said he never was able to visualize anything.  Chris said, It doesn’t matter, just imagine it, and when you’re doing this and trying to figure out what’s wrong with somebody, you’re going to feel as if you’re making things up.  That’s normal.  Just say whatever comes into your head, no matter how foolish it might seem. 

     It’s kind of uncanny, how well it works.  But that isn’t the point of it.  The point isn’t to show how psychic you are, the point is really to help people. You’re supposed to program your family every night before you go to bed, see them in good health.

J   Is it tiresome, Barbara?

B   Umm. . . no. 

J   Do you see yourself in good health, or do you leave that up to somebody else? 

B  No, you can work on yourself, but one of the things you don’t do is to be defeatest, like the man who said he felt like a charlatan . . .
9-2-73

J   I really think something is happening with my back. 

B  Something good?

J  Yeah, because I just stood up and nothing happened.  Hey, it’s nice to get up and not hurt. Gee, thanks a lot, angel.  It was kind of you to spend your time fixing my back.  It was worth it, really. 

B  It was a pleasure to have something constructive to do with my thoughts.

J   Of course it isn’t complete yet; don’t just chop it off.  I don’t know how you did it, though.   

B   I don't either, but I’ll keep at it. 

J  There’s still something there, Barbara.  But it’s not like it was. Oh!  I think I just overdid trying to find out if it’s there.  And it is.  I probably just wrenched my back testing it out. . . . 
Of course it isn’t complete yet; don’t just chop it off.

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B   Is your back still bothering you?  It should feel better because I’ve been working on it in my laboratory. 

J   My brother-in-law called me.  Marie’s brother Joe.  I was telling him about my back, and he said, “It just hurts when you move a certain way?”  I said, Yeah.  He said, “I think you’ve got a kidney stone.” 

B   Maybe you ought to see a doctor.

J   Oh, I should see a doctor all right.   But I don’t believe I have kidney stones.  I refuse to have kidney stones.  I don’t like the sound of them.