Re: Photoreading validation
> I must say I'm especially sceptical ... enter a "state
>of accelerated learning". Paul Scheele says .. One enters a light state of
>trance and flips through the book. The way it has been presented, it
>seems to me that it turns up side down the idea of first learning conciously
>and then, after practice, knowing unconciously. According to Scheele,
>by entering some sort of "unconcious state" one should get to know the
>content of a book immediately (helping the "unconsciousness" only by
>flipping through the book). Somebody less careful with words than me
>might have called this a con.
I tried this out through a recommendation from my NLP trainer, Will
MacDonald; otherwise, I too, might have wondered about a con - there are a
few out there!
You are right, Karl Kirsten, to point out 'that it turns up side down the
idea of first learning conciously and then, after practice, knowing
unconciously.' That is precisely why it works. Learning consciously involve
filters that waste enormous amount of time and that distort learning very
seriously. You evaluate every word, critically, before having a chance to
know what the book is about.
After PhotoReading some particularly turgid and confusing psychology,
because I simply could not understand it through normal reading: I got 86%
in three hours of writing a (six hour) assignment on the various schools of
that science. My purpose was to see how distance learning worked. It works
OK with something like speed reading of any kind on your side.
I noticed that my understanding of the subject was really unprejudiced, I
was able to make evenhanded judgements on a subject about which I had known
little. (This was only within the limits of the course) One does not lose
one's faculties after PhotoReading.
Also, my style turned out to be that I did not consciously know the
contents of the text that I had PhotoRead. I had to skim to write the
assignment and could do so rapidly and accurately - a framework having been
laid out in my mind.
Some of the exaggerated claims are simply the way that work and business is
done in the USA. Ignore it. It's not always reason to turn down a good
product.
You could take this as a recommendation:)
George