As Pete so kindly put it in another post, I’m one of those—albeit affectionately referred to as a couch potato—people who, on occasion since they are up all night will sit through an infomercial on photoreading. And while the ‘host’ of the show was scripted and/or was almost a complete moron, I was sufficiently impressed with the demonstration of the computer-based reading to seek out the web site and cost of the Photoreading package online. And while I realize and acknowledge that most of the recent products and innovations that have this underlying back-end flying around in Spiritual psycho-babble are usually all based on the same foundational principals, I also confess that my explorations to date of consciousness and subconsciousness on a personal level would lend me to think there might be some value to this product.
In any case, I’m somewhat suspicious of a product that attempts to make subconscious storage and retrieval appear as though it can be instantaneous and quick to learn. I don’t think any course could be so well engineered that ‘most people’ could grasp it quickly enough to really understand anything thing they read, regardless of pace. And while that’s cynical and perhaps downright mean to some, it is nevertheless true.
It is my contention then, and I know this could probably not be publicly declared, that this course is actually for those already with a reasonable, centered, realitively developed mind, that can ‘jump into’ the mindset needed to handle this operation. That degree of dynamicness in personality and mind comes after much work, and I don’t think this course has that potential or existing capability to handle it (though my cursory review could hardly be considered informed, which is the reason I’m posting this).
So, my question to the creator(s) is this: I am a 19 year old male, apt, reasonably intelligent, aware, and well-read, emotionally stable, able to focus intently for long periods, with a knack for mental visualization and an existing ‘odd’ memory that can sometimes be totally on cue and othertimes nowhere to be found --- what level of results could I anticipate from the book? And then, from the course?
It’s not that I’m too cheap. $245 is NOTHING for the skill that appears to be for sale. I would pay it in a heartbeat (and at my age and income, $245 is a substantial quantity of many other immediately tangible and satisfying things). I guess what I’m asking is whether or not possessing some or all of the prerequisites insofar as the mind-set is concerned will have any bearing on your overall, all said and done, performance. Given sufficient ambition, existing mental talent, and the thought that this is potentially a reasonable skill to harness the power of, can you achieve greater results than most?
Do you have any recommendations? Can you offer any other information that might be useful to me?
[This message has been edited by jedi (edited December 16, 2001).]
