Detecting illnesses in persons you have never seen is astonishing enough, but we never let it go at that Into the bodies where we project our awareness we also pro- ject healing.
Obviously there is an energy involved in mental pro- jection, an energy aimed by the intentions of our minds. Change these intentions from information gathering to healing and we change what the energy does.
How do we link our intentions to this energy so that it accomplishes what we want? The intention alone, in its pure form, is something like the will. As I said in the chapter on habit control, the will alone is of very Utile use. Just as we detect abnormalities by visualizing them, we visualize conditions as we want them to be— without the abnormalities. This is psychic healing. It's as simple as that
For most of the healing that you will want to do, it
win not be necessary to master the technique of work-
ing cases. You can become an effective psychic healer simply by using your mental screen as you do in prob- lem solving. In fact, even if you are in the early stages
How to Help Others with Mind Control I 109 of meditation and visualization, you may still achieve some effective results.
Many of life's possibilities hang in a precarious bal- ance. One little push and you can tip this balance your way. Sometimes, of course, the balance is already tipped and it takes a more accomplished psychic— which you will become—to tip it back. If you wait until you are as effective at Mind Control as you would like to be before you begin psychic healing you will waste priceless opportunities to provide needed help.
I began healing work long before I had developed Mind Control, and in fact long before I had an or- ganized methodology for healing. I tried one method after another, with varying results. The important thing is that I did not wait, and a significant number of heal- ings did take place—enough, in fact, that I developed a certain renown as a healer in my area of the U.S.- Mexican border. Many thought I had special gifts or unusual powers; but I had simply read and experi- mented until I got the hang of it.
One of my early healings shows how different my methods used to be. In 1959 I heard about a parish priest near Laredo who had suffered for fifteen years from a painful swelling of the knees. He was often con- fined to bed. The pain and confinement were not all that troubled the priest; he was unable to kneel at moments in the celebration of the Mass when kneeling is called for. The Archbishop had granted him a dis- pensation, but no dispensation could free the poor man from the feeling that he was compromising a sacred ritual.
I went to see him. "I think I can help you," I said. "I am no doctor, but for the past twelve years I have been working on parapsychology and we have obtained results much like those of faith healing, with which you are familiar."
110 / THE SILVA MIND CONTROL METHOD As soon as I said the words "results much like those of faith healing," the priest became more concerned for me than for himself. Parapsychology?
"I Stave never heard of such a science. I trust yots are not getting into anything of which our Holy Church would disapprove."
I explained, as best I could, some of the principles of parapsychology I had learned and how healings can be triggered. Nothing that I said seemed to mesh with this man's theology. He promised to look into it further and perhaps call me sometime soon. The look of com- passion on his face and the sound of disbelief in Ms voice gave me no hope at all that I would hear from him again. I knew, though, that he would pray for my protection from dangers so serious in his mind that they dwarfed even his own plight.
I did hear from the priest a month later and ones again sat by his bedside.
"Josi, as you know, the Lord leads us In strange ways. A few days after your visit I received « circular reviewing a book written by one of the brothers in our order. I found a whole chapter devoted to this para- psychology you were explaining to me the other day. Now I understand this a little better and I am willing to let you try your work on me."
I sat with him for over an hour and spoke of my
reading and some of the work I had done. The longer I remained, the more I liked the man. Finally he grew tired and it was time to leave.
"All right then," he said, "when shall we start the
treatment?"
"Father, it has already started." "But I don't understand."
•This thing is mental, Father, and while we were talking I have done the initial work."
How to Help Others with Mind Control I 111 next morning the priest was on the telephone and with surprise and joy in his voice reported that a great im- provement had taken place during the night.
Three days after my visit he could walk and kneel, and he has never since experienced discomfort in his knees. A miracle? No, a purely natural phenomenon. Here is how I did it.
During the more-than-an-hour chat we were both alert and relaxed, two conditions helpful in healing. The subjects we discussed gave him added confidence In parapsychology. In psychic work, confidence is as Important as faith is in religion. Meanwhile I began to visualize him in better health and, just as important, learned to like him more and more. Love is a tremen- dous power; I wanted that on our side, too.
I did one more thing in preparation for what I would
later do that night. To help visualize him later, I studied
the priest—his face, the feel of his handshake, his
various expressions and mannerisms, the sound of his voice, the overall feeling of being in his presence. This was the "initial work."
Several hours later, when the priest was asleep and I
was back home, I did the rest of the job. What I did
was totally different from what I do now. I had learned
that psychic energies are transferred most effectively when survival is at stake, as I mentioned in the last
chapter. Instead of going to my level, as I would to- day, I held my breath while picturing the priest in per- fect health. Long minutes went by, until my body screamed for breath. Still I held on to my image of the priest in perfect health. Meanwhile my brain, in a sort
of psychic scream, cried out and the energy of the
scream carried the carefully held image of perfect health exactly where it was supposed to go.
Finally I breathed, convinced the job was done, and