I am a devout Christian, but meditation and photoreading don't scare me. But then, I've also studied psychology in university, and been through years of therapy, read dozens of self-help books, and in general tried to fix myself (and very successfully, too, I might add.) I've used all sorts of tools to help me improve my life, including naturopathy, homeopathy, healing touch, educational kinesiology, holosync. My attitude is that if it works and it feels comfortable, use it. If it doesn't feel comfortable, don't. To state the obvious, if it doesn't feel comfortable, it ain't gonna work anyway, so why bother.
As far as the other-than-conscious versus conscious versus whatever other labels you can come up with, as far as I'm concerned, they're all a part of me, of my character, of my essense, of my soul. But then, I'm also that person who has started giving names to her inner selves (Freddie the Sabateur, for example - and yes, I have entire conversations with him.) I don't see this as sacrilegious - I see this as a healthy way of solving problems. But I also think that God is kind, loving, compassionate, and has a great sense of humour.
Having said that, all sorts of people have blocks about all sorts of things. Sure, I'll throw some Christians into one general category of having blocks of type A, and perhaps this group of people have blocks of type B, and so on and so forth. It doesn't really matter how you label it, we all have them - they just look a little different to people who don't have them, because, not having experienced that specific type of block, they don't necessarily understand it.
I think that it doesn't matter how you label it or how you view it - just go with what works for you, and you'll wind up going where you need to go. If your intent is to become a better person, however that has meaning for you, if you work at it with whatever methods you choose, you will become a better person, and isn't that what counts?
Okay, so this is perhaps a little (!) off topic, but somewhat related.
Having said all of the above, I've tried photoreading, and I'm still doing it every now and then, but it hasn't been dramatically successful yet - I think it has been moderately successful, but I haven't used it consistently enough, and realistically, I have a few other blocks I need to deal with that I think will help make photoreading a lot more successful.
