Forums IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ PhotoReading, Memory Optimizer How did everyone find out about Photoreading?

I think I first heard about Photoreading from an advert in a magazine - Focus, I think. I sent off for information, but not really reading too much into it (no pun intended!) as it sounded a bit implausible. That would have been around 4 or 5 years ago. It wasn't until I managed to get a full time job with a permanent contract that I could afford to buy it, which I ended up doing around 18 months ago. It's been sat on my shelf pretty much the whole time, although I did get up to around tape 4 when it first arrived.

I still get information through the post on stuff that LifeTools (UK supplier) are selling. I got one about 4 or 5 months ago for the Photoreading Turbocharger videos, books and tapes, and to get the PR course on CD. Then I lost the orderform and forgot about it until a month ago when I got another one through the post (pretty much telling me I was stupid for not getting it when I had the chance! ). So I ordered it and I have dusted the course materials off the shelf and am trying to find the time to get into it again.

I am also getting into NLP at the moment, having read several books and I am hoping to do a course soon. Maybe I can use that to find me the time to go through the course finally!!!

(Actually, I tell a lie about where I first heard of PR from. I watched that programme back in 1995 or whenever it was where Paul McKenna PR'd the stuff off that computer. ALthough of course I didn't know it was PRing then!!!)

Einstein Factor.

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Originally posted by Kaiden:
I heard about it years ago, because I learned about NLP through Speed Seduction, before I developed a more rounded interest in the subject as a whole.

I didn't think I could do it because of my experiences with being a slow reader. I have great comprehension, and amazing vocabulary, but I don't read fast compared to my mother or some of my peers.

What made me decide to invest the money? I had a breakthrough, where I was able to read a page a second with full comprehension. I can't say how, except to say that something broke the barrier between preconscious and conscious processing. It wasn't a pleasent experience overall, but the things that were good about it changed my outlook on a great many things.

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I learned about it not too long ago. I 3-4 months. I wanted to learn it in the summer, when I wasn't in school. Anyway, I learned about Photoreading from one of my dad's friends, whose nephew learned it and I think is very proficient at it.

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Originally posted by RogierB:
What do you mean it wasn't a pleasent experience?

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I have to plead the fifth on that one, on the grounds that my answer may incriminate me.

I think I might have an idea of what it was, but if I'm right I'm not sure it would be the best way to expand one's mind.

I believe I received a mailing from Learning Strategies. It was probably about 1990, maybe earlier.

So, the question for Pete B. is: what lists were you buying such that I would end up on it?

Probably an NLP connection, as I was on several of theirs.

Fun thread, this one.

--Brian

Hi guys... that's interesting... I talked to a family member who actually new someone who could "photoread" in the 70s, naturally without training....
so i was inspired to learn about this super fast learning technique!! But didn't really find much..

then I came across some accelerated learning books and found it in Einster Factor...

Thanks Guys!

Well, the place I found out about Photoreading is quite unusual. Taiwan, I was in this cramming school where I thought it was the only hope I have got to get into a good college. The cramming school is, all in a nutshell.....CRAMMING CRAMMING~~~! You don't have your own time for what you want to do. You are monitored 16 hours a day by supervisors. The higher scorer gets a different face from the supervisors, you can just feel it. That's how cramming school makes money here, advertised who got high scores from their place and brag about how strict they are. I was so pressure back then. Finally, sunday, I had a few hours to myself and walked into a bookstore trying to find a solution to my suffering. Voila, I found Paul's PWMS book, in chinese. I was so overwhelmed by the things I can do after I master PR. Don't really know whether it's the translation but I can't get it to work so I found the website and ordered the plc and found out that the translation miss out the NOPS and direct learning.

I saw the infomercial a couple yeas back at about 2 or 3 AM. I kept thinking that it was corny how they made it look like "American Breakthroughs" was like a TV show or something, I had never seen it in all my cable watching days. It reminds me of how Kevin Trudeau has had his infomercials lately, acting like it is a regular program, "Kevin and Debbie".

But for some reason I believed everything that they were saying about photoreading, and what Pete did too. So I looked it up, found stereoreading but it didn't have any good books so I didn't give it much thought, then found some other personal web sites with their experience of PR, and finally found the site with the PhotoReading forum that had a link to the LS site.

I'm not sure how it got started, probably because of the infomercial, but around that time I got hooked on mind improvement and began looking up everything I could. And in the PR forum I found out about Holosync from Pete. Then I found Mind Tek and Flightwaves. Probably only a couple have even seen Flightwaves, but it used to be a free, downloadable meditation program with 4 tracks with Holosync-type technology, and the CD was available at MP3.com for 15 dollars. The makers had some wuacky views on meditation, and after I was away for a while and got back into these things I saw it was raised to over 50 dollars. And I think the music was crappy and depressing.

A family member had found the PRWMS book and bought me a copy. I read it and tried a little but not much of anything. And when I was gone I didn't have the book and still wasn't sure about how it worked. When I got back recntly I strted tring it more and more, but don't have enough time until next week when school is out for me. I'v been only procticing the PR step everyday. And I have recently been trying Holosync, but don't have enough time to devote more than the time when I go to sleep to it. Soon though I will start to integrate both techniques into my life.