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Originally posted by Adam16:
Thanks for your reply. Do you think if I spend TOO MUCH time previewing or postviewing, that I will have trouble with activation because it's already in my conscious mind?

In a word - Yes

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Last night I worked with a fiction book and it didn't have titles or subtitles so I basically read first sentences of a few paragraphs and basically read the whole book and knew what it was about by the time I was done. So do you think this would be a limit to activation?

No that's not the limit to activation that the first pass you want more you activate more. It boils down to your purpose, what do you want from the book?

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Also I thought about something this morning, do you think it would be at all beneficial to work with the dictionary? Like just work on PRing sections, and seeing if my intuition will guide me? I bet I would have more confidence in my intuition if so. Another thing I thought of, I'm actually pretty intuitive anyway, like if I'm daydreaming I usually get impressions of something I'm going to come across or someone's going to talk to me about in 5 minutes to an hour. But do you think it's a good idea to apply this to activation? Sort of get into a daydreaming state and allow the impression to arise?

Apart from what would be your point in activating a dictionary that way? I must warn you the mind does not take lightly to playing games when it comes to intuition. Repeatedly 'testing' the intuition has a knack of shutting it down. Use your intuition to guide you to the necessary passages in a book that answer the relevant questions in relation to your purpose. Develop your intuition to practical ends and consider the rule the same as for photoreading... do not Practice the skill. Use the skill with a purpose whenever you can so that you develop it.

When it comes to activation of books, Just do what is necessary to get the information you require consciously to satisfy your conscious comprehension. Some books it will tak longer others next to no time. You fully develop the skill by using it more.

Alex