Hi Scott
I sympathize with your reactions to the video. It is what gets most people distracted from the true benefits of PhotoReading.
What Pete does not tell you is that he had to practise for one year before he got to that stage. ( I heard this from a reliable source within LSC).

What convinced me is :
1) before PhotoReading there was Subliminal Dynamics.
2) the adaptation of PhotoReading in UK as Quantum Reading
3) Speed Reading by Japanese children -
4) Blindfold reading by Malaysian Children.
5) testimony of Win Wenger in The Einstein Factor.
6) The testimony of L. Thomas
7) Numerous others.