My Library

I had, of course, attended many weekend seminars and other conferences on these topics. Some of these were quite good ones back in the 1960s, for it is still those years I'm talking about. So I had gotten used to paying something for information and immediate experience of what was being offered. But after several years of this kind of research, I eventually had concluded that merely reading about stuff only did so much for mind-development -- and what was offered at seminars was usually the lowest common denominator the masses were capable of taking on board. Thus, I started looking around for contemporary developments along these lines. And when Silva Mind Control came along, I paid my fees to learn something directly from a Silva Method "practitioner." The term "mind control" worried a lot of people -- largely because it implied mental control of OTHERS. Thus, some of my work colleagues and friends now accused me of being "into mindcontrol." And for the first time a few friends walked away from me, especially after the media had a field day with "Silva Mind Control." But in fact, in the Silva method the "control" was directed to the control of one's own mind by virtue of learning to identify one's own states of consciousness -- and especially, but not