HAVE ANY OF U TAKEN THE SILVA MIND CONTROL COURSE? OPINIONS?

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HAVE ANY OF U TAKEN THE SILVA MIND CONTROL COURSE? OPINIONS of it ?

I took that course on 54th St. & Madison Ave, in August of 1972.

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

No, but I read the book - or one of them. "Every day I'm getting better and better," said the writer. My girlfriend and I used to say that and really laugh, as we struggled in our careers, our lives in general.

Actually, I attended The Church of Today which had to be at the time the most popular "church" in Michigan if not the nation during the 80's and 90s.
They had about 30 classes going on at any given time, and about 35 support groups - teaching this sort of thing, helping people with various problems & addictions.. Nobody was able to replace the 'minister,' Jack Boland, after he died.

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David - Have you been able to read anyone's mind?

Guy: What shape am I thinking of?
David: I have a gun, and you're thinking of a square.
Guy: Wow... heh... who woulda thunk it. Ten in a row... eh heh... You're a natural.
David: Thank you.
Guy: I have children plea-
David: A triangle!

T
K
O

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@Diest TKO,

Diest TKO wrote:

David - Have you been able to read anyone's mind?

Guy: What shape am I thinking of?
David: I have a gun, and you're thinking of a square.
Guy: Wow... heh... who woulda thunk it. Ten in a row... eh heh... You're a natural.
David: Thank you.
Guy: I have children plea-
David: A triangle!

T
K
O

Y do my thawts go back to a song called: "Stagger Lee" ?

David

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@Pemerson,

I'm wondering where the "every day I'm getting better and better" thing originated. I somehow doubt it was this preacher, but not sure.

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@ossobuco,

I must not have been real clear, but I think I said it came from one of the books written by the author of Silva's Mind control.

The minister, Jack Boland, taught similar ideas involving mind control. The Silva books were before his time, my time, but I remember reading the one.

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From Wikipedia:

Émile Coué de Châtaigneraie (February 26, 1857 " July 2, 1926)
was a French psychologist and pharmacist who introduced
a method of psychotherapy and self-improvement based on optimistic autosuggestion.

The application of his mantra-like conscious autosuggestion,
"Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better"
(French: Tous les jours à tous points de vue je vais de mieux en mieux)
is called Couéism or the Coué method. The Coué method centers
on a routine repetition of this particular expression according to a
specified ritual, in a given physical state, and in the absence of
any sort of allied mental imagery, at the beginning and at the end
of each day. Unlike a common held belief that a strong conscious
will constitutes the best path to success, Coué maintained that
curing some of our troubles requires a change in our unconscious thought,
which can only be achieved by using our imagination.
Although stressing that he was not primarily a healer but one who
taught others to heal themselves, Coué claimed to have effected
organic changes through autosuggestion

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@Pemerson,

but I remember it from an associate of my father's, before that (or maybe I'm confused).

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@OmSigDAVID,

Thanks, David. That sometime associate of my father's (don't get me going, my father desperately needed a job) was a hypnotist doing well at the time on tv, so your explanation makes sense.

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I heard this attributed to him many, many times over the years.
The fellow who ran the course counselled everyone who took
the course, that when asked "how r u?" he shoud reply: "better & better."
He hoped that this woud give rise to a discussion thereof,
and word of mouth recommendations of his place.
He said that it worked.

David

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@ossobuco,

ossobuco wrote:

but I remember it from an associate of my father's, before that (or maybe I'm confused).

I may be wrong as I've read so many books on that sorta subject. I recall that book was quite old, though.

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@Pemerson,

ossobuco wrote:

but I remember it from an associate of my father's, before that (or maybe I'm confused).

Pemerson wrote:

I may be wrong as I've read so many books on that sorta subject.

I recall that book was quite old, though.

Well, Coué goes back to the 1800s.

David

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@Pemerson,

Silva's thing was long after my dad's - which wretched association might have been around 1960. I remember the guy's name, but won't pursue that. Anyway, the better and better stuff was a mantra. Mantras bothered me even back then, before mantras got popular.

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@ossobuco,

ossobuco wrote:

Silva's thing was long after my dad's - which wretched association might have been around 1960. I remember the guy's name, but won't pursue that. Anyway, the better and better stuff was a mantra. Mantras bothered me even back then, before mantras got popular.

Jack Boland called it denial and affirmation. You become aware of your negative thoughts when you have them, and affirm who and what you truly are - a healthy, wealthy, and wise being. I was able to do certain things because nobody ever told me I couldn't, but after while I would begin to question, to think, "Good grief, I was raised in an orphanage, made bad grades, I must be a fake." (I still do and always will do that, even when I made 3.8 gradepoint in college). I couldn't continue living that way. On the way to my newspaper job, I begn to say to myself, "Lord, use whatever talent I have for the benefit of mankind." It could be called, just mind control.
I don't really know what is a "mantra" but it could help people stop the thinking, while meditating.

My sister told me not long ago that our father once said to her. "You are the smart one, and pemerson is the pretty one." Of course, we both took that to mean, "You are the ugly one and pemerson is the dumb one. Oh, God, parents!

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@Pemerson,

Oy.

On mantras, I suppose I don't just shun personal ones. Promoted ones by advertised personalities, see the fires spark from my ears.

(I'm off, g'night.)

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@ossobuco,

Goodnight, and yes, pem is OK.

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@Pemerson,

Pemerson wrote:

Goodnight, and yes, pem is OK.

There was a very important case in the 5th US Court of Appeals in 2001,
involving the Bill of Rights and Dr. Timothy Emerson, of Texas;
r u related to Dr. Timothy Emerson?

David

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@ossobuco,

Every day, in every way, I will learn to obey.

George Orwells 1984

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@roger,

roger wrote:

Every day, in every way, I will learn to obey.

George Orwells 1984

Wedding vows or party politics?

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@roger,

roger wrote:

Every day, in every way, I will learn to obey.
George Orwells, 1984quote]

The worst thing you can do to children is teach them obedience
Dr. Joe Harmon, instructor of philosophy, former priest, said in 1973

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