Jose Silva

March, 1975

One day back in 1944, a 30-year-old electronics engineer named Jose Silva set forth through the streets of Laredo—for his induction center. Now getting drafted is certainly an unlikely beginning for our story. But he was so intrigued by the psychiatric quiz he got that day that he went to the library and started reading up on psychology. Then on hypnosis. Then on brain waves. He was delighted to find that mental activity was measurable—and he started to visualize the brain as a kind of resonance...