I remember hearing ads on the radio for this, in the ate 1970’s.
As far as I recall, it was for some kind of course-maybe meditation?
Anyway, i wonder what it was, and what it was supposed to do for you.
Dunno, but I’ll bump the Thread for an answer.
Wife took one of their courses back in the 80s. Pretty basic self-help stuff as described in the wiki. The name was (is?) the only scary thing about it.
Apparently no more or less effective than any other book of similar self-help tips.
Does using a radio that plays “Jingle Bells” figure into this anywhere?
I like the slogan, “The Silva Method–Serving Humanity Better”. It reminds me of, “The Human Fund–Money for People”.
Just hearing the name, Silva Mind Control, takes me back to the glorious 1970’s and Erhard Seminar Training, Gestalt, encounter groups, TM, primal scream therapy, and transactional analysis.
Thanks for the info…it looks like this guy (Silva) picked up some of his ideas from Scientology. At least, thats what it sounded like.
Mind control is easy.
I want a course in Hyperstellar Archeology.
I’ll find you some more information. In the meantime, why don’t you pass the time by playing a little solitaire?
I took one of their seminars; my lovely parents, who were never satisfied with my results, signed me up.
The freakiest moment may have been when we were doing exercises to learn to memorize numbers faster (a skill I’ve never bothered with) and the instructor claimed he’d never been taught to identify 2 with a rubber ducky. He was the only person in the room who hadn’t learned his numbers as the one-legged lead soldier, the rubber ducky, the snake, the upside-down chair…
Except for the part where we were supposed to diagnose stuff “long distance,” it wasn’t so different from any other “better work/study methods” I’ve been in.
The number 2 is a rubber ducky? Is that common? A snake? Eeewwwwww a SnnnAAaaaaKKKkkeeeee…badgers badgers badgers badgers…
In Spain it absolutely is a rubber ducky: you know, the yellow one with the orange beak. There were a couple of Argentinians in the group and they’d been taught the same pictures.
If we were taught that way, I don’t recall. But that could say more about my memory than about our teaching methods…
I can definitely say that there were no rubber duckies or snakes in my numbers education. There were lots of handouts to be drawn on. The most common had lines. Each line started with a number, then the same number drawn with a dashed line, then the same number drawn with a dotted line, then room for you to continue drawing the number.
Other handouts had groups of things, then a line on which you were supposed to write the appropriate number, once you counted them out. There may have been duckies or snakes on one of them, but not in a shape-illustrating capacity.
There were also big example cards posted on the wall. Plain ones. No duckies. (The ones for the alphabet were over the main chalk board, so the numbers must have been to the side, somewhere.)
Hey! Don’t mock Klugarsh! He sold me this brass potato from the Moon!
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go into state 26. There’s a poetry reading in Waka Waka I want to attend.