muccaboy,
I would suggest you ask Learning Strategies Corporation DIRECTLY for the answers to your questions, since you're not going to get many scientific reports from users of the system
Call them or send them e-mail, this forum is for un-scientifical people like me, and Paul, Dana, Pete, Shawn ... only come by every few days.

I think Mastermind's responses are so ANGRY because questions like yours get asked ALL THE TIME. About half of the posts on this board are "does it really work?", "is this for real?", "give me some proof!" and so forth.

I think you can use the conscious & nonconscious parts of the photoreading system independantly; you could just speedread the whole book, but you would rely on spontaneous activation for just using the photoreading step.

So don't ask us for scientific proof, we're not, for the most part, scientists, ask LSC directly.

thanks
stefan