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I got a copy of Goldman’s Quantum Jumping myself to do a real review of this. Since I get too much traffic on this, I decided to study this stuff out of curiosity only.

Burt is prolific and a trained presenter. He himself was trained during his 10+ years working for Jose Silva’s organization as one of their trainers. His recording with Laura Silva (while seeming a bit too promotional for their various products) does confirm that he was working with the Silva family. (As well as this picture from guidemind.com)

And there’s no reason to doubt what Burt tells of his own life or (mostly) what others tell you about him.

Is he a promoter? Sure. Does he use the same promotional methods that scammers do? Sure. All advertising and promotion is based on the same psychological urges which are programmed into all of us – until you kick over your own traces and learn what these are (and become truly scam-free.)

Most of what Goldman bases his work on is from the Silva Method, particularly Silva’s last work – Silva UltraMind Course. He also uses Emile Coue’s famous self-programming affirmation. Napoleon Hill and others were champions of Coue’s work. Of course, the limits of affirmations is overcome with the Silva Method. Same with using Silva’s “going to Level” before you visualize your Law of Attraction goals.

Separately, I’ve even credited that Silva technique with improving Lester Levenson’s releasing technique.

But by the same token, Levenson’s method also brings a greater efficiency to Silva techniques. (See link above.)

A third point Burt covers is what he calls the Bagha. This is not the secret technique which Burt says it is. Look up the action (not the word) of touching the tip of the tongue to the roof of the mouth, and you’ll see it’s a long standing technique of balancing Chi in the body, and a technique of Zen meditation.

See: http://www.altmd.com/Articles/Qi-Gong-Sitting-Meditation

and  http://www.tehutionline.com/newpage30.htm

What is different here is that Burt says you can program this to get benefits showing up in your life – much as finding a parking place, a good seat in a restaurant, or to “quantum jump”.  However, Jose Silva also did this with the “three-finger” technique (actually, thumb and first two fingers together) – which has an older Eastern term (Kubera-Mudra). And here’s a page which shows some of more than 100 mudras (hand positions) which can assist in various physical balancing for illnesses. And here’s one story of someone using this successfully.

Here’s Jose Silva telling what is in bonafide Silva training:

That’s a bit thick – and Laura Silva is doing a much more polished job these days. That’s modern marketing for you.

The key point to Goldman’s stuff is his “going to alpha level” and then using visualization and mental programming with the use of affirmations. Now, there are literally millions of successful Silva graduates, I don’t have to go into this here.

What Goldman has changed is what visualizations you do when reaching alpha. Here’s a simple description of the Silva method which tells the visualizations Silva suggested be used originally.

In Huna, many practitioners tell you to create a “garden” which you can use to visualize those things in your life which you need to improve. Correct the symbology in your dream garden and they correct in real life. Very powerful stuff, according to reports.

Here’s a recording from Pohaku of HunaTrainer from Archive.org:

Goldman is just introducing a different metaphor. You could as easily tell people to go to their local garage and envision their life as a car in that garage, asking their “mental mechanics” to fix what it wrong with it, or to install high performance after-market add-on’s in order to improve your success or take it to a new level. Seriously – it doesn’t matter what the image you hold, it’s just that you get into a stable meditative state and then re-program yourself via affirmations. Visualization just makes it more entertaining and fun.

Does this stuff work?

If you really want it to. Skeptics can’t get to first base on it. But they don’t intend to. They are critical of everything and it shows in their lives.

Is it a scam? Only as much as it is metaphysical and people have to prove it for themselves. It is entirely experiential and only works as you say it does.

What could make it fail? Your own thoughts and feelings. And here is where I would improve on what he does: use Levenson’s release technique to calm the mind and get the desires out of the way. As I’ve said, going to Level helps you release even deeper, which gets rid of what I’ve come to consider the actual underlying reasons you don’t have any success in your life – basic desires, which cause feelings, which cause your myriad thoughts.

The point is the same with all metaphysical stuff – you make it work or not.

What objections do I find? Same with all the over-promoted and over-hyped stuff. They appeal to the material needs of people, which are lower on the scale of Maslow’s hierarchy. What Burt doesn’t deal with – and at least 97% of all self-help guru’s do this – he doesn’t tell you to go all the way with this stuff and get rid of any need to have all that the world offers. Because when you take this last step, you will really find that anything and everything you think of will appear for you – in what seems a miracle to those around you. But to you, it’s a simple thought.

But we’ll save that for later days. Realize that people who only use metaphysics and meditation for material things will only inherit what the world can give. The world can’t give you freedom or peace of mind, since these already exist within. Again – that’s another subject for another time (and is actually a book in pre-release.)

So: get a copy of Burt’s stuff for yourself – or not. That’s my take on it.

[Update: Goldman's Quantum Jumping is originally covered in his earlier MindBox series - you have to subscribe to their mailing list to get a copy...]

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