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I am writing in the forum for the first time; however, I have been reading the forum for about 6 months now. I have been using the home study PhotoReading course for about 1 year.

I have become very interested in syntopic reading as described in the PhotoReading book. Recently, while applying the principle of syntopic reading, I made an amazing discovery. I PhotoRead the book of Ephesians in the New Testament, and a book by an author named Watchman Nee written about the book of Ephesians. After PhotoReading both, I allowed about 12 hours of incubation/other-than-conscious processing. Then I started to manually activate the Watchman Nee book.

Something happened! While I was manually activating the Nee book, it triggered something in my other-than-conscious mind and the actual book of Ephesians started to spontaneously be activated on the spot -- a side benefit I did not expect but am very excited about. I just thought that some of you might want to know what I have found. If anyone else has had a similar experience, please respond.

I've also found that if I PhotoRead several tightly focused books in the same field, spontaneous activation can occur more easily. For example, I needed to upgrade my knowledge of C++. I PhotoRead three books on the language - two were 500 pages each, the third was over 1,000 pages. I PhotoRead each one three times (started with Prepare and Previewing each book, then PhotoRead each book three times). I let the books incubate for 24 hours and started mind-probing. What was rather wonderful was that the desired information bubbled easily into my awareness. I think that such intense PhotoReading, in books narrowly focused gave several presentations of the same material that was then more readily available to my conscious mind because pre-existing "hooks" in my memory could be more thoroughly utilized. When I went to regular activation techniques (mind mapping, Image Streaming, super reading and dipping) I found that I already knew most of the material I needed and I probably spent no more than 30-45 minutes in manual activation. There is a wonderful synergistic effect that comes about from syntopic reading!

ckerins,

A Question for you: How long do you spend previewing a book that is 1000? Also, do you note your trigger words at this time or do you do it with a postview. TIA

Hi Tia,

I began by previewing the smaller books first, spending about 5-8 minutes previewing each of them and gathering trigger words. The great thing about the syntopic reading in such a tightly focused area was that I could grab a number of trigger words/phrases easily from the smaller books so that when I went to the 1,000 page book I already had a number of words that were relevant to it. The structure of the C++ language and order of presented concepts was similar in the books (which would also occur when syntopically reading physics books, for example) - so it also took only about 5 or 10 minutes to preview that book, too.

When I preview, I tend to look at the front cover and back cover - grabbing and noting anything of interest there. I then move to the table of contents and grab stuff if there's anything there. Jump to the index and quickly scan it for anything that has a lot of entries associated with it, then move through the main body of the text, grabbing anything that catches my attention. I then decide look over my list of words/phrases and create a strong purpose statement. I hope you find this useful.

ckerins,
Thx for the input ... I tend to get bogged down with the indexes because there can be so many significant words... a problem I am still working through.

My apologies for digressing from the original topic of the post.

Remember to build comprehension in layers, from whole to parts, structure first, and increasingly more detail as you go.

For dense material, create a Mind Map for each chapter. Add a layer of branches to your Mind Map after each activation pass.