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Originally posted by Alex K. Viefhaus:
Speed reading and PhotoReading are two different things perhaps opposites.
And the funny thing is, other speed reading books toy with the issue of consciousness. In [u]Super Reading Secrets[/u] Howard Berg has a chapter titled "Mastering your mind's hidden potential with meditation" in which he mentions examples from religious traditions which employ meditation and focus to enter in to a devoted state. He even mentions the incorrupt bodies of monks and saints as examples of how this kind of concentration really does effect a change in the person! Berg recommends various concentration tips so that the mind will enter "into a receptive learning state". Mostly he has you pinching your nostrils but in any case he's aware of this issue. In [u]Breakthrough Rapid Reading[/u] Peter Kump writes a little about expanding awareness, and dabbles in consciousness issues when he writes "we tend to unconsciously select stimuli to be aware of". Then he goes on to discuss purpose. As far as I've noticed PhotoReading is the only technique that squarely addresses developing the role of other-than-conscious processing and focusing the mind efficiently on the task.
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We often find ourselves reading passages 3 or 4 times to understand them.
And having PhotoRead enables us to find these passages rapidly. Other writers in the rapid reading field acknowledge that one doesn't want 100% of a book, that part of the issue is finding what one wants and having a purpose. So it isn't that speed reading is about zooming in and PhotoReading isn't: any reading process has to focus more on some passages than others.
[This message has been edited by Carl Reimann (edited August 23, 2005).]
