Intuition and ESP can now take a backseat.
The Silva Method promises all that and more with a
volitional control of the mind
By Arundhati Mitra
“Most people go
through life using only a small fraction of their brains," says Bimol
Rakshit, head of the Indian chapter of the Silva Method of Mind Control.
Predictably, this method teaches you how to use more of the mind-for
increasing memory, honing mental skills or even healing and spiritual growth.
When I first met Rakshit, I had just read The
Silva Method of Mind Control by Jose Silva and Philip Miele. The book
makes interesting claims about the brain's capacity and the energies emitted
by it. Measured by an electroencephalograph (EEG) in cycles per second (cps),
it is this energy that determines our state of wakefulness or sleep.
There are four levels of this energy emission: between 14 to 21 cps is beta
level, from 7 to 14 is alpha, 4 to 7 is theta and less than 4 cps is delta.
Scientists claim that of the four levels, we can consciously experience only
the beta level because it is the only one in which we are awake. The alpha
level is the subconscious or, as the Silva people say, the inner conscious
level. The state just after falling asleep or just before waking up is the
alpha state. Theta and delta are realms of the unconscious and deep sleep.
So far, so good. But then the Silva Method goes on to claim that it's
possible to stay awake at alpha and the deeper levels as well! Jose Silva,
who created this method, explains in his autobiography, I Have A Hunch, how he once consciously entered and
stayed in the alpha state at the University of Texas, San Antonio. All the
while, he solved mathematical problems even as the EEG verified he was in
alpha.
This immediately opens up many interesting possibilities. The right
hemisphere of the brain, the seat of creativity and intuition, is believed to
become active mostly at the lower levels. The Silva Method teaches you how to
consciously go to alpha and use more of the brain's right side, which often
makes the crucial difference between greatness and genius. There were a
thousand questions on my mind. But to all of them, Rakshit returned one
answer: "Do the course and you'll know for yourself."
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