The visit was so successful that Dr. West told his friend Dord Fitz, an art professor in nearby Amarillo that he should invite Silva to come speak to his art students.

 

 When several of the art students expressed an interest in learning Silva's techniques, Fitz suggested that Silva come teach a class in Amarillo.

 

 More than 80 students attended that first Silva course. Even before they had finished their training, they were telling Mr. Silva that their relatives and friends were also interested, so Silva scheduled another class.  

 

 Word continued to spread by "word of mouth" until eventually it was being offered in more than 100 countries worldwide, in 29 different languages, and millions of people were benefiting.

 

 First presentation to a scientific panel   

 

 Meanwhile, while Silva was impressing students and artists with his findings, Dr. Hahn was arranging for a visit to the leading parapsychology laboratory in the world: The Mind Science Foundation Laboratory in Los Angeles, California.

 

 It was here that Silva observed a scientific project with a plant that convinced him that the human mind could alter matter just by thinking.

 

 Verified results

 

 Silva continued teaching, and Dr. Hahn continued encouraging him. But not everyone believed that such trailblazing research and results were coming out of Laredo, Texas. Dr. Hahn needed to demonstrate to the Mind Science Foundation board of directors that Silva's program was valid, so he undertook a major survey.

 

 Detailed, comprehensive survey forms were mailed to 10,000 Silva graduates. More than 1,100 of them took the time to fill out the forms and return them, an unusually high percentage. The graduates seemed eager to express their opinions.

 

 The results were spectacular. Not only were people receiving all of the benefits they had sought when they first came to the course, they were benefiting in ways they had not expected. They were correcting problems that they had not even considered correcting with Jose Silva's techniques.

 

 There was also a question about the graduates' overall opinion of the Silva course.

 

 Only half a dozen had any complaint, while the rest - 99.6% of the graduates - were satisfied.

 

 To validate the survey, Dr. Hahn conducted another survey. In this one, he got responses from every person who attended a Silva course in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The results in Albuquerque were the same as the results from the other survey, and every person was satisfied with the course.

 

 

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