Conejo23; "and to reply to photoreading’s post, if I have to take the home study course after the seminar in order for things to ‘come together’, then I'm definitely not interested in the seminar. My expectation is the seminar helps me get it to ‘come together’ right then and there at that weekend."
I am not saying that you have to take both the seminar and the personal learning course for things to come together i am saying that if you did do both the seminar and the personal learning course you would see things come together you would definitely understand things in the personal learning course because you had attend the seminar instead of a person who did not attend the seminar and did the personal learning course only.
"My expectation is the seminar helps me get it to ‘come together’ right then and there at that weekend.
THAT is my question. For the typical person who attends, works hard, keeps an open mind and goes through the process (and uses paraliminals to assist in the process), where can I reasonably expect to be not 3 months later after doing the home study course, but on the first Monday after the seminar?
Do you see where you mentioned about working hard? That's part of the paradymn. That goes against photoreading. Well if i work hard and keep working hard this will work. My perception is that you are putting a lot of pressure on yourself that this had better work. As i said earlier people sometimes have unreasonable expectations about photoreading. Your question about where can you reasonably expect to be after the monday of the seminar depends on many factors. It depends on your background, whether you think this is possible to work, how you well you learn the techniques. But if you come from the position of i have to have this it must work you set yourself up for problems because you need to be relaxed, accelerated learning state not too intense.
Photoread4me