Jose Silva Jr.
Director
Jose Silva, Jr. is one of the last links to his father's pioneering research that led to the development of ESP to help everyone benefit from it every day, in every area of life.
Joe was born in 1941, the first of Jose and Paula Silva's 10 children. When his father began to experiment with hypnosis in the late 1940's using Joe's younger sisters and brothers as subjects, Joe was there to help and to document much of the research. He recorded pre-natal age regression sessions when his siblings went back to so-called "past life regressions".
Eventually, the research led to a way to develop ESP and Joe and the other children were encouraged to practice it at every opportunity. During those same years, Joe and his brothers also helped out in the family's electronics repair business.
Joe was in the U.S. Navy serving in Vietnam when his father began taking his findings to the public via a series of workshops in the mid 1960's. There was a huge demand for Jose Silva's "mind control" system, as it was called back then, so in 1967 Mr. Silva asked Joe to come back to Laredo as soon as he could and help take care of the electronics repair business.
When the new seminar business began to grow, Joe helped manage it too, and was one of the three incorporators of Silva International, the corporation that still manages the original course.
In 1995 Mr. Silva nominated Joe to take over the Presidency of Silva International, a position now held by Laura Silva Quesada since September 6, 2007.
Joe's unique perspective of observing his father's research and the results it produced has provided great insight to help him make good decisions for the companies that manage the programs, and for the worldwide corps of Instructors who depend on the Laredo headquarters to help them present seminars that accurately represent the research and enable people around the globe to take full advantage of Everyday ESP in their own lives.
Joe has been married to his wife Ruth since 1967. They have two children, David and Ruthie and five grandchildren. Joe holds a black belt in Karate, and served as a consultant to Ed Bernd, Jr. in developing the Silva Star Athlete program and The Silva Method – Think and Grow Fit book (published by Career Press in 1996).