I attended the photoreading seminar in Minneapolis in April 2008. During the 2 1/2 day session Paul mentioned several stories that I am very skeptical of but try to keep an open mind about.
One story Paul told us I basically wrote off right away. It was about photo readers who have walked by a bookstore with a question on their mind, not necessarily looking for a book. Then suddenly being drawn to a section of a bookstore and pulling a book off the shelf, only to open it up to a page about the exact question they wanted an answer to.
This last Wednesday May 7, 2008, I was at a bookstore studying when I decided to get up to use the restroom. I walked past a row of books and for some reason I stopped and browsed a section of shelves. It was the psychology section, not one I am usually interested in. I saw a book and consciously told myself I wasn't interested. The cover was unimpressive and the title "Choice Theory" didn't impress or appeal to me. I picked it up anyway and read the back. The review was unimpressive and from a reviewer I didn't particularly like. I opened it to a random page. There in front of me was the topic of a question I had been having a deep internal struggle with for the last several days.
The next day I sat down at the same bookstore to photoread a book. It suddenly occured to me that the story Paul told us at the seminar actually happened to me the day before.
This is rather strange.
Justice
