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Originally posted by phatkatt73:
My fear is that you get the book and don't get the results you are looking for and are then "recommended" to take seminars to "clarify" and "break beyond" those pesky "prepatterned" cognitive abilities.

You would certainly learn it better if you have an instructor (in a seminar) - it's the same with learning anything. That's why the seminars are recommended, but there are people here who have learned entirely from the book (not a bad investment at ~GB£10!). The course is a half-way step between the book (where you have to learn it all with no help at all) and the seminar. I'll admit that I personally had no success with the book (purely because I couldn't set the time aside to learn, and that I had no great need to learn it at the time, although I'm just about to start a new course, so it will come in handy there!), so I've ordered the course which should hopefully arrive in the next week or so. Why am I so sure that it will work? I have an interest in the mind and its learning abilities, and have read and (more-or-less) understood what Scheele says about how PR works.

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I'm not so sure that everyone has the same cognitive or learning potential and have a preconcieved notion that PR involves mastering transferance from short to long term memory in ever larger chunks of stored short term info. The simplest example that I can think of is trying to memorize the number 149217761865 vs. 1492 - 1776 - 1865.

The difference between regular reading and Photoreading is that with regular reading, you mainly use the conscious mind, which means you have instant recall of everything you read as you read it. Photoreading is different in that you use the subconscious (or other-than-conscious) mind to absorb information. The subconscious is a heck of a lot more powerful than the conscious mind.

Your preconceived notion of PR is incorrect, as the information bypasses the short-term memory completely - you do not recall any of it immediately, but you then work on activating the information stored so that you can recall it when you need to.

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Anyway I have always seen myself as right-brained and have always had to dogmatically jack-hammer away at worded information while others seem to swim through the printed word as if on a warm summer's day. I wasn't smart so I had to work harder-translated: I spent more time than others.
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I know what you mean there - I'm in the same situation. But I'm also pursuing PR as an interest, as well as a learning tool.