Forums IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ PhotoReading, Memory Optimizer Photofocus, Averted Vision and Stargazing connection!?!

I am taking the photoreading seminar and as we were doing some of the exercises, I recalled an interesting passage from a book I have on amateur astronomy. (I am an amateur stargazer when the moon and soccer fans permit, I live next to a soccer field :\) Here is what I found in the book, 'Practical Skywatching' published by Fog City Press, on Page 68, under the title of Observing Techniques, mentions the following:
"AVERTED VISION
Appreciating the sky's fainter gems takes a certain amount of practice. Subtler characteristics are easier to spot if you look 'through the corner of your eye,' a technique known as averted vision. To do this, shift your center of attention slightly, while concentrating on the object. Fainter details will become visible since you will be using the more sensitive rods in the retina of your eye, rather that the cones at its center."
For those of you in the Northern Latitudes, looking to the West, you can see Orion's Belt(one of the most recognized constellations). Just below the lowest star of his belt you will be able to 'see' the Orion Nebula and sitting just north of it a hazy gas cloud. This is easiest seen if you PHOTOFOCUS. Or as the book says, Avert Your Vision.
I found it very stimulating to get feedback that I wasn't even expecting, to hit me like this from the seminar!!!

In photofocus you are still using the cones and the highest density of receptors in you eye. Unlike averted vision with uses the lower density regions of the eye, which are populated almost exclusively with the very sensitive rods.

They are alike in that you change you region of awareness. In photofocus I would say that you do not create an region of attention, only awareness. Attention implies you want to conscious make sense of what you see.

Iam2

One thing I didn't notice until recently was the connection between PhotoFocus and the Intuitive Focus used by Ross Jeffries in Speed Seduction. In PhotoFocus, both eyes are defocused and a fixed point of attention is above and behind the head. With Intuitive Focus, one eye is looking at a fixed point of attention; looking directly into the eye of the other. The other eye is defocused and looking "through" the person at a point about three feet behind them. This allows the brain to get very strange insights and intuitions. It's like seeing auras, only you see metaphors for their character traits, rather than colors. I believe the connection between them is in their ability to channel visual information to the "right brain." Paul Scheele learned the PhotoFocus technique from the book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain." (Perhaps "was inspired to create" would be better than "learned").

Iam2 I disagree. If you've studied nightwalking you should understand that averting your fovea/macula to anything other than what you're looking at leaves your rods to do the seeing. In photofocus we avert our macular vision to a point behind the book, but since there's nothing to see, the two maculae (left and right) do not converge on an image and are left out of the loop entirely.

You know,
I felt there may be a connection between these two optical states, however, I have a feeling I posted it to get feedback from all of your collective knowledge. Thanks to Alex, Kaiden, and those who have posted with your points and disagreements. Reflecting on this today and just now reading the responses presented, in both instances, you change or modify the way you 'normally' view the world but in application, these are very different.

I found it very intriguing that 'I' (other-than-concious mind) made this 'connection'. I am really just dumbfounded the many ways I generate these connections for my benefit and understanding of not only reading material but of discussions when I am in the 'relaxed alert' state. This was JUST ONE example that I wanted to put out there.