Activation often fails when
No purpose for reading or poor purpose.
Lack of mind probing questions
Giving up too soom
Give it 3 to 6 activation passes. If you're read my post on my test/experiment you will notice that clarity comes in layers.
RyanS... your purpose "Could your purpose for reading just be to understand the book as you would normally read it"
My question is what on earth for? What you going to do with the book just waste a few hours to forget it anyway?
A purposes is doing something so that you can... what is it you can do when you've read the book?
Alex