Hi Guys,
I thought that direct learning does NOT involve manual activation? It does involve photoreading the books you are using and visualizing your success using those skills in the relevant contexts. (Although it is okay to direct learn a skill from books you have already photoread and manually activated). The rationale for not activating books for direct learning is that conscious activation might actually hinder the natural and full usage of those desired skills (when the conscious mind works as a saboteur in the enactment of those desired behaviors).
The process of direct learning is covered a little bit in one of the chapters in the Photoreading Book (3rd Edition) and more completely in one of the chapters of the Natural Brilliance Book (where Paul Scheele provides the full script for creating your own direct learning tape) but not the NB course.
And oh yes, I hear that Direct Learning will also be covered in the forthcoming Genius Code course coming out later this year.