Forums IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ PhotoReading, Memory Optimizer How to maximize PhotoRead step?

I have recently completed the Photoreading course. I have only photoread about 4 books so far. I am still struggling with photofocus during photoreading.

Because this step is the most unconventional of all of the steps, I want to make sure that I gain the maximum benefit during this stage before I discount it as useful. My questions are as follows:

1. I can see the blip page if I focus on the wall or some other object above and beyond the book itself, but when I direct my eyes to the center of the book, I loose it. I still try and maintain a relaxed focus and notice the whitespace (and as much of the periphery of the room) as I imagine an X accross the page. Is this alone sufficient to gain the full benefit of the photoreading stage?

2. I have read the forum extensively and have been practicing on those stereogram images on some of the web sites suggested. Unfortunately, I still have to mess around with each one in order to see the 3D image. I realize that I should get them faster as I practice, which I am doing, but am I destined to not get the full benefit of the photoreading stage until I master these things?

3. I have also read that the whole point of photofocus is to bypass the concious mind and let the other-than-concious mind photograph the pages. If this is true, is there another technique (other than photofocus-blip page) to bypass the concious mind and gain the same benefit?

Basically, am I going to have to wait until I can maintain photofucus before I see any miraculous results from the photoread stage or is there another way? I can't say that I have noticed an intuitive/magical knowledge of the book until I go through it several times with the activation (superreading, dipping, etc.). By the time I've done all that stuff, I'm pretty close to having just read the book in a conventional way?

I'm still keeping an open mind. I realize that I'm not going to master this technique right out of the gate, but according to the course, this step should be a relaxing, other than concious type thing anyway.

Any advice/comments and/or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

1. This is definitely sufficient to benifit from the photoreading step. Your level of proficiency will increase the more you do, and train your mind.

2. You don't need to master it to do it, you need to do it to master it.

3. There are several techniques for entering photofocus. You don't need to use them all, you can try them, and use whatever works for you. The tangerine technique you only use before you start photoreading and you don't think of it again after. You can try to see the four corners of the book, imagine an 'x' connecting the corners of the book, see a blip page, chant, and you can combine these, but you don't need to do them all.

Pete once suggested you photoread 10 books a day and activate only one to burn in the process in your mind. Don't worry about mastery yet, play with it, find what you like, what works for you.