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PhotoReading is grounded in leading edge technologies
Three powerful technologies of human development make the PhotoReading course work.
The first is superlearning; it is also called accelerative learning, integrative learning, or suggestology. It was developed by Dr. Georgi Lozanov in Bulgaria in the 60s and 70s primarily for the rapid acquisition of language. Peter Kline, one of the nation's top accelerative learning experts, hooked up with us in 1985 to integrate accelerative learning into the PhotoReading program. This is of value to you for two reasons: the first is that we can teach the PhotoReading system to you in an incredibly short period of time – just four full day sessions; and the second is so that when you get out in real life and use the system, you'll be able to process information at an accelerated rate.
The second technology of human development is neuro-linguistic programming, or NLP. This was developed by John Grinder and Richard Bandler. Among other things, NLP says that if one person performs a particular task he or she must click a certain set of circuits in a particular order. If another person is to perform basically the same task, this person must also click those same circuits in that same particular order. With NLP you can figure out how one person is clicking and teach another to click the same way.
That is what Paul Scheele did with PhotoReading. He trained with Bandler and Grinder in the late 70s and early 80s, and he used his expertise in NLP to figure out how natural PhotoReaders were clicking their circuits. He then developed a program to teach everyone to click the same way, so that everyone gets the same results, so that everyone can PhotoRead.
The third technology is with pre-conscious processing. This is about learning below the threshold of conscious awareness. Subconsciously. Learning with the unconscious mind, the inner mind. And that is what PhotoReading is all about because we bypass the conscious mind and dump the information directly into the other-than-conscious.
PhotoReading leaves speed reading in the dust
About the only similarity between speed reading and PhotoReading is the word "reading."
Speed reading is basically regular reading hastened up. Instead of going for words you are going for phrases, complete lines or paragraphs. It's still primarily a conscious-mind, left-brain function.
PhotoReading, on the other hand, is an other-than-conscious, right-brain process. You learn how not to rely on the words that are on the page, but on what goes on in your head. It's not about moving your eyeballs really fast; it's about using your brain more efficiently.
Speed reading is about getting comprehension of the words on the page while PhotoReading is about getting comprehension of the meaning of the page.
Speed reading may get you up to 5,000 words per minute, though 1200 words per minute is more the case. With PhotoReading you start at 25,000 words per minute, and where you go from there is anyone's guess.
With speed reading, 90 percent of people quit using the techniques within a few months. This has to do with the way it is taught. You are taught to go faster and faster, and the faster you go the more doubts will start to creep in as to whether or not you are getting anything. And with these doubts come tensions and stresses, and who wants that?
With PhotoReading there is no stress; it is a calming, relaxing process. This is the case for two reasons. The first has to do with super learning, accelerated learning. It suggests that if you enter a relaxed state of alertness where you slow down the little voice in the back of your head and relax the body, you will be in an accelerated learning state in which you can learn and process information more optimally. Guess what? When you are in this relaxed state, you can not be stressed. The other reason there is no stress has to do with the fact that you are not worried about whether you are getting anything consciously while PhotoReading because we tell you up front that you won't.
With PhotoReading you will be relaxed and comfortable.
PhotoReading gives you more than one way to read
When you PhotoRead, the information is blasted into the right brain. Because it is in the right brain, you cannot perform left brain functions on it. You cannot think about it, you cannot chew the fat about it, unless somehow you can bridge the gap from the right brain to the left brain, unless somehow you can activate the information from the other-than-conscious storage bins into the conscious mind.
There are a half dozen ways to activate information. The technique you choose at any given time depends on the level of comprehension you desire. If you want full comprehension, you will follow one process. If you want core concepts, you'll do something else. If you want specific facts, there is still another process to use.
There are primarily two ways to activate information: automatically or manually. Automatic activation is when things come to you when you are PhotoReading or after PhotoReading. It is when information just bubbles up. The challenge is that the information comes from the intuitive side of you so it feels as if you are remembering a dream, or a flash of intuition, or a piece of creativity, or a hunch, or as if you may be making it up, or as if you don't know whether it is true or false. So, the more intuitive you are, the better you are with automatic activation.
If you are not intuitive, don't worry. PhotoReading stimulates that part of the brain where your intuition hangs out so as you PhotoReading your intuition improves. Additionally, we have developed a set of manual activation techniques where you can manually take chunks of information from the right brain and put it in the left brain, where you can manually activate information from your other-than-conscious mind into your conscious mind...so that you can use the information.
We recognize that just as regular reading is deficient because it is primarily a left brain process, PhotoReading is deficient because it is primarily a right brain process. There are times when PhotoReading is not the technique of choice. It is easier, for example, to read a one page letter than to PhotoRead it since PhotoReading works best on multiple pages. It is probably easier to speed read a letter...so we teach you a simple speed (super) reading technique.
You will have more success with our speed reading technique than you will from a traditional speed reading school because of the way we teach it. Typically, you start at 212 words per minute which is the average reading speed and go faster. You get into the higher speeds but you have the tensions and stresses, and you are primarily in the left brain.
We start you off at 25,000 words per minute, and we say slow down. Guess what? It is a lot easier to slow down than to speed up. You are in the relaxed state of alertness so when you slow down for super reading, you maintain the relaxed state. And, you will actually bridge the gap from the right brain to the left brain when you slow down. You get your whole brain working for you.
The 10% of traditional speed readers who keep using the technique do so because they've been able to bridge the gap going from the left brain to the right brain.
To give you the skills so that you can literally approach any type of material, pull from it what you need, in the time available, we teach a variety of reading skills. This gives you the flexibility you need to be a skilled reader. It also gives you the power of your whole brain working for you. You get the benefits of the logical, analytical nature of your left brain working in tandem with the intuitive, holistic, creative nature of your right brain. This is phenomenal processing power.
In essence, you are getting a whole brain reading system of which PhotoReading is a dramatic part.
Visit the Official PhotoReading Website to order the PhotoReading Personal Learning Course or enroll in a PhotoReading seminar.
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