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Living · 2013

Quantum Jumping

by Burt Goldman

Silva Method / Mental Training

Quantum Jumping presents a guided visualisation premised on the idea that one can mentally visit alternate-self versions of oneself in parallel realities to acquire their skills, confidence, and creativity. It borrows the language of quantum many-worlds to dramatise what is, at root, a classic visualisation exercise.

The method directs the practitioner through imagined encounters with these alternate selves, treating the exercise as a way to import desired qualities into present life. Goldman, an early and prominent teacher of the Silva Method who studied directly with Jose Silva, carries that mental-training heritage into the online course format.

Its significance is twofold: as a living link to the foundational Silva Method, and as a populariser of the alternate-self motif that prefigures later reality-shifting culture. Marketed heavily online, it sits at the intersection of mid-century mental training and the contemporary digital manifestation economy.

In its words

The basic concept of Quantum Jumping is that you can become anyone you can imagine; endowed with any talent, any skill.

Practices it teaches

Quantum Jumping — Visiting a Parallel Self Who Already Has the Skill

Quantum Jumping is Burt Goldman's guided visualization for "borrowing" abilities from an idealised version of yourself.

Timeline Shifting — Moving Between Probable Realities

Timeline shifting (overlapping with "reality shifting" and "quantum jumping") is an internet-era manifestation practice.

The Bagha as Intention-Setter — Imprint the Outcome as Already Done

Beyond using the Bagha as a long meditation entry, Goldman taught it as a fast, portable intention-setting tool — a few seconds to "tell your mind what you want" before any moment that matters: a meeting, a…

Quantum Jumping — Meeting Your Alternate Self

Quantum Jumping is Burt Goldman's signature visualization, developed in his late 70s as he taught himself painting, photography, music, and writing.

The Bagha — Tongue-to-Palate Alpha Induction

The Bagha is Burt Goldman's quick-entry technique for reaching the alpha state — the relaxed, inwardly focused brainwave band he treated as the working level of the mind for meditation, suggestion, and…

Lineage

What it drew on
Jose Silva / Silva MethodNew Thoughtmeditation and visualization traditionsself-hypnosis
What it shaped
online meditation courses'quantum jumping' manifestation nicheSilva-derived mind-training teachers

The author

Burt GoldmanThe American Monk / quantum jumping Full voice →

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