s You must expect the event to take place

This is a subtle law. The first two are simple and pas-sive——this third one introduces some dynamics. It is possible to desire an event, believe it can take place, and still not expect it to take place. You want your boss to be pleasant tomorrow, you know that he can be, but you may still be some distance from expecting it.

This is where Mind Control and effective visualization come in, as we will see in a moment

Law 4s You cannot create a problem. Not may not

Dynamic Meditation I 37 but cannot. This is a basic, all-controlling law. "Wouldn't it be great if I could get my boss to make such an ass of himself that he'll be fired and I'll get his job?" When you are working dynamically in Alpha you are in touch with Higher Intelligence, and from the perspective of Higher Intelligence it would not be great at all. You may trip up your boss and get him fired, but you will be entirely on your own—and in Beta. In Alpha it simply will not work.

If, at your meditative level, you try to tune in to some kind of intelligence that will assist in an evil design, it will be as fruitless as trying to tune a radio to a station that does not exist.

Some accuse me of being a poUyanna on this point Thousands of people have smiled indulgently as I spoke of the utter impossibility of doing harm in Alpha, until they learned for themselves. There is plenty of evil on this planet, and we humans perpetrate more than our share of it. This is done in Beta, not Alpha, not Theta, and probably not in Delta. My research has proved this.

I never recommend wasting time, but if you must prove this for yourself, go to your level and try to give someone a headache. If you visualize this "event" as vividly as necessary to accomplish anything at all, one or both of the following will result: You, not your in-tended victim, will get the headache and/or you will snap out of Alpha.

This does not answer all the questions you may have about the good and evil potentials of the mind. There will be more to say later. For the moment, choose an event that is a solution to a problem, that you desire, believe can come about and, with the following exer-cise, will learn to expect.

Here is what to do:

38 / THE SILVA MIND CONTROL METHOD Choose a real problem that you face, one that has not yet resolved itself. As an illustration, let us say that your boss has been ill-tempered lately. There are three steps to go through once you reach your level:

Step 1s On your mental screen, thoroughly re-create a recent event which involved the problem. Relive it for a moment

Step 2s Gently push this scene off the screen to the right. Slide onto the screen another scene that will take place tomorrow. In this scene everyone around the boss is cheerful and the boss is on the receiving end of good news. He is clearly in a better mood now. Ji yon know specifically what was causing the problem, visualize the solution at work. Visualize it as vividly as you did the problem.

Step 3s Now push this scene off the screen to the right and replace it with another from the left The boss is happy now, fully as pleasant as you know he can be. Experience this scene as vividly as if it had ac-tually happened. Stay with it for a while, get the full feel of it

Now, at the count of five you will be wide awake feeling better than before. You can be confident that you have just put forces to work for you in the direc-tion of creating the event you want

Will this work always, invariably, without a hitch?

No.

However, here is what you will experience if you keep at it: One of your very earliest problem-solving meditation sessions will work. When it does, who can say it was not a coincidence? After all, the event you chose had to be probable enough for you to believe it could materialize. Then it will work a second time, and a third. The "coincidences" will pile up. Abandon your Mind Control activities and there will be fewer

coin-Dynamic Meditation I 39 cidences. Go back to it and the coincidences multiply again.

Further, as you gradually increase your skill you will notice that you will be able to believe and expect events that are less and less probable. In time, with practice, the results you achieve will be more and more astound-ing.

As you work on each problem, begin by briefly reliving your best previous successful experience. When an even better successful experience comes along, drop the earlier one and use the better one as your reference point. This way you will become "better and better," to use a phrase with an especially rich meaning for all of us in Mind Control.

Tim Masters, a college student-taxi driver in Fort Lee, New Jersey, uses his waiting time between fares for meditation. When local business is slow, he puts a solution on his mental screen—someone carrying suit-cases who wants to go to Kennedy Airport. "First few times I tried i t . . . nothing. Then it happened—a man with suitcases going to Kennedy. Next time, I put this man on my screen, got that feeling you get when things are working, and along came another one for Kennedy.

It works! It's like a winning streak that won't quit!"

Before we move on to other exercises and techniques, let me take note of something you probably wonder about: Why do we move scenes from left to right on our mental screens? I can take note of the question here but it will be dealt with in more detail later.

My experiments have shown that the deeper levels of our minds experience time flowing from left to right. In other words, the future is perceived as being on our left, the past on our right. It is tempting to go into tins now, but there are other things to do beforehand.

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