gymosphere,
No one has ever been able that teach the kind of photographic memory (eidetic memory) In any case just memorising it is not useful. To learn the mind has to incorporate the new information with with it already knows. Many small children have this kind of memory it is useful to them, however as we grow older we find that just the memory of something is not enough it has to become knowledge. in order to become knowledge that you can retrieve it needs to spread what you see/photoread has to spread itself out in your mind. Parts of it associates itself with other memories you already have. That's why LSC cannot offer paraliminals to help develop such a memory.
The ability to achieve spontaneous activation is already there within you. You just need to learn to understand the signals that your body/mind is giving you. That takes practice because the signals are unique to you. If you are expecting/hoping that spontaneous activation will give you a word for word account of what you photoread... that happening is even more rare. What you get when you spontaneously activate is a 'ah hah' type feeling... I see, I understand that or when someone asks you a question that relates to the book you give the answer, inwardly you know its right. Or you start talking to someone about the book... the information just comes bubbling up like a bathtub slowly overflowing.
Yes, you can aquire skills by direct learning. Though speed reading techniques seem redundant to me since I already use the photoreading system 
About direct learning... don't you think its a paradox that you want an eidetic memory of what you photoread and to be able to apply what you learn at the same time? An eidetic memory is like a book on the shelf... of little use until you take it down and practice it. Once you've learnt you don't need to remember what the book said you apply what you learn from your experience. Much more useful than the book any day.
I've figured that direct learning is possible because instead of forming an eidetic memory of the page you mind "sorts it out" so that you can use the information. It places parts in association with memories that you already have. That way they just seem to appear in your life without too much conscious effort. That seems to me why children have an eidetic memory... they haven't got enough experiences to hang the new learning on. Once they have life experiences and learning experiences the eidetic memory becomes redundant. Because the mind doesn't care where it's been it's interested in where it's going.
Alex
[This message has been edited by AlexK (edited September 26, 2002).]
