Forums IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ PhotoReading, Memory Optimizer response to hypertext's query

Sometimes reviewing old posts on this forum, can be enlightening. After responding to your question, I went to bed wondering why SQ3R was failing for me, after my medical school burnout in 1977! I got on the internet the next day and saw this posting from Paul Scheele, on April 30,2003! After reviewing the post, I believe that PR's use of the other than conscious mind is what really sets it apart from SQ3R. I think we use a bit of SQ3R to prepare or preview a book ( especially SURVEY and QUESTION) although our preparation goes much deeper as Paul explains much better than I can. Also, when we postread the book, we use the powerful tools of mindmapping, synoptic reading, with the rapidity of skitterring, dipping, and superreading. PR does not require one to REVIEW and RECITE, although I do that anyway on later layers of activation!
Of course we never have to READ the "normal" way which I feel is the "slow boring" way, that turns off so many people to reading, as I was in the past!

Paul explains how being in photofocus state, proper posture ( I assume he means keeping that tangerine at the back of the head to improve mental focus which inevitably forces one to sit up straight and align their vertebra, and the concomitant entry into more theta level brain patterns than just plain old SQ3R offers makes the difference.
To summarize: use of such techniques do not require one to have been classified genius by a standardized WAIS-R or Stanford Binet IQ test to benefit. It is like Paul Scheele always says,"It unleashes the natural genius that WE ALL HAVE INSIDE OF US!"

Hypertext, that means you can unleash the genius within you. You have it. We all do! I am not trying to be a salesperson for LSC. I am just amazed at how this works, as I know how anti-bookish I was over 3 years ago, and I know my changes are phenomenal!

Anyway Paul explains all this below, plus much much more in this quote from almost 3 years ago!------------------

PaulScheele
Learning Strategies Corporation posted April 30, 2003 12:51 PM
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I'd like to throw in an idea to consider.
The discussion thread regarding the benefits of the PhotoReading whole mind system needs to be separated from the the discussion of testing the PhotoReading step itself. Here's why:

The course is designed to load the participant with a MEGA dose of interventions in one's reading pattern. Posture alone has shown to influence reading speed and comprehension. One's positive internal dialog regarding comprehension has shown to improve comprehension significantly. In fact, every component of the program is used because of it's benefit. Name it: establish purpose, establish state, preview, rhythmic perusal, etc, etc, etc...they all have one intent; intervene in a person's reading process to offer better options, that use multiple intelligences and more of the whole mind.

In that regard, there is nothing contained in SQ3R that isn't reproduced in some fashion in the PhotoReading whole mind system.

My contention is that the PhotoReading step is THE paradigm shift to a new way of processing vast amounts of written data in less time. The paradigm shifts because the very act of PhotoReading affirms two things:
1) I have a preconscious processor
2) I have nonconscious resources that can serve me in acquiring information at a conscious level

It follows that it would be fruitless to PhotoRead and deny 1 & 2. So the operating presupposition of the course rests on research that indicates both 1 & 2 are true for anyone.

Now, how about testing the efficacy of the PhotoReading step?

There are plenty of good ideas on how to do that. Unfortunately AdamP's is not one. Any PhotoReader who picks up a book is going to know by feel of pages, images of the structure of pages, chapters, characters, bolds, etc. that one book is different than another. There is NO WAY that a graduate of PhotoReading could be deceived into activating a book that they didn't PhotoRead.

In fact, for years we covered up books and PhotoRead them upside down and backwards. The affective impact of the experience was so dramatic that most of the class participants could immediately distinguish between the books purely on the basis of emotional content.

Hence, the design of AdamPs experiment is poor.

As to the IBVA...you can find out more about the technology at www.IBVA.com

I don't think it proves PhotoReading. We are intrigued by the fact that all PhotoReaders show a similar brainwave signature when hooked up to the machine. We found it was not an Alpha state, but a state characterized by increased amplitudes in low Beta and high Theta frequencies. Additionally, it was fascinating to find that the major driver of the signature was the PhotoFocus state, not the physical relaxation of the PhotoReader.

[This message has been edited by raleigh199 (edited February 06, 2006).]