I got the Home Learning course about a week and a half ago in the mail and I can say it is highly worth the money. Even if you don't intend to actually use specific photoreading, which would be outlandish, there are so many other strategies that the course teaches you to aid in learning and reading. This isn't hypnotic at all, I personally have not had any spontaneous activation yet (conscious info from photoreading without manual activation). The course reiterates constant relaxation, which if you are a more traditional person like me, can take quite a bit of getting use too. I treat the system as a skill, Micheal Jordan didn't get how good he is from occassionally bouncing a ball, he did from practice, and thats what this course takes.

The course has definantely changed the way I will read material forever even in this short amount of time. I am going to be going off to college this fall and I will imagine that Mind Maps and everything else taught will greatly increase my studies.