Forums IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ PhotoReading, Memory Optimizer Contradiction between PR and MO

In Memory Optimizer, Vera points out that one of things that keeps us from remembering something is that it wasn't "planted" very well in the first place. She uses the example of remembering someone's name, saying that usually the person we're being introduced to doesn't say their name very clearly in the first place, so how can we expect to remember it later? the quality of the planting affects the quality of the harvest.

With this in mind, how do you explain the Photoreading system? The information is put in very quickly, with defocused eyes. It would seem, according to Vera, that it wasn't planted very well in the first place, for future harvesting.

Yet she mentions Photoreading positively throughout her presentation. This seems like an apparent contradiction between the two systems, with regard to memory efficiency. Maybe you could ask Vera for an explanation? Thanks.

It seems to me that there are some distinct differences in the processes you describe. With respect to the name; in social situations people are frequently not in a state that is conducive to learning/remembering. You're noticing someone attractive nearby. You're wondering if you have food in your teeth. You're thinking about how your boss ticked you off earlier in the day. On top of that, you probably aren't putting any effort into storing that name. The result is that it gets stuffed somewhere obscure.

By contrast, with Photoreading, you are going through an entire process that is aimed at helping you store the material. You are beginning to create links to the information through defining a purpose, finding trigger words, and creating mind-probing questions. Through this process, you are creating a framework that is more conducive to storing/retrieving the information. You are also getting into a state that is more conducive to storing information. Some of your process may be subconscious but it is still taking place. I believe your inner mind is using the preparation and preview information you've come up with to help it decide how to code/store the photoread information.

To me, it's a process that is just not entirely conscious. You give your inner mind a sense of what you're looking for and let it use its superior capabilities to make it happen. Kind of like running a subroutine to convert Fahrenheit to Celsius. You know the temperature you want to start with but you may not necessarily know the calculation or the end result. Part of the trick is to have faith in the capabilities of your inner mind.

mgrego2,

A very well thought out answer - thanks! I will give it some thought.

jcarruth

mgrego2 has some powerful points. Kudos!

The apparent contradiction also comes as the cause-effect Newtonian mind tries to apply old-paradigm rules to a quantum Einsteinian universe.

Is PhotoReading a process of downloading information into the brain, or a process of exposing external information to a neural network that already contains everything including the patterns stored in the text?

If I show you a landscape and say "beautiful, isn't it?" you could say, "hmmm, yeah." You have had the entire experience landscape right?

But then I say, "hey, let's go study that hillside over there...there are 13 herbal species I want you to see, and by the way, it is also the site of an ancient city." How you look at the details of the landscape becomes completely different. Did you have the entire experience originally? I say yes, but not at a conscious level.

Your job, the job of your conscious mind, is to learn how to observe what the mind already processed.

Now bring in a book. Expose your neural network to it. Your brain processes visual input at 10,000,000 bits/sec (yes even the degraded images). Your conscious mind get 40 bits/sec. Then you go to your neural network, (your inner mind, your preconscious processor, your hidden observer, your paraconscious) and you say, "show me what I need to carry consciously that will give me the biggest payoff. Here's my purpose, what do I need to know?" At that point you activate, you gather CONSCIOUSLY the what the NONCONSCIOUS guides you to. By the end of your activation you have 4-11% of the text. And that is connected to all the rest of it.

When you meet someone at a party, you might choose you say, "So, please, tell me your name again and a story to go with it so that I'll remember it forever." We call that activation. You might be thinking that activation is memory...remembering what you PhotoRead. I have never thought so. Vera says, there is no such thing as memory. Construction and reconstruction.

PhotoReading was the exposure, the entering into the landscape, the immersion in the patterns of text, the prepping of the neural circuitry to give you what you need. Activation is the construction for later conscious memory. Spontaneous activation is the conscious hook up to what you already know, triggered by a spontaneous examination of a portion of your pre-existent memory web. WHen it happens you will almost always wonder how you knew it. Welcome to the quantum universe.

Thanks for the kind words, Paul.

Obviously, spontaneous activation is the "holy grail" for people who want to learn PhotoReading. Have your efforts with Memory Optimizer and Genius Code pointed toward a possible process for enhancing it or is it still a bit of a mystery?

Regards,

Matt

Gee, will I get the president of the company to answer all my posts? I am quite complimented and a little spoiled here, but thank you both for your efforts in helping me to understand this.

After much thought, I think it does boil down to a belief in whether or not you think you can do this, while you are doing it, and giving the paradigm a chance to shift.

"Part of the trick is to have faith in the capabilities of your inner mind." You got it, mgrego2. And if you've tried it a few times and it doesn't work right away, what do you do? You start to believe it doesn't work and act upon that belief.

I once was sketching in a restaurant, and a man came up to me and asked about my work. He then said, "Gee, I wish I could do that." "How often do you try?" I asked. "Never," he said. So of course, he couldn't do it. This story has stayed with me for years because if its implications.

Part of the trick is to have something happen right away so that you feel encouraged to continue. I think with PR is that it takes a while for your brain to accept a new way of doing something, and to stay with it long enough to start to see results. Paradigm shifts take time, and of course, we are working against long-ingrained habits - how long do we read the same way before we try to change this?

So, I have decided to practice without concern over results, just to get my brain oriented into doing something a new way. Maybe with practice, I will start to see some results, and get some encouragement going, over time. I don't want to be like the man who wished he could draw, but never ever tried to do it.

Jcarruth,

The sketch incident is a great one. It's one that I can easily relate to in my own life. It certainly brings out the importance of determining what you really want in life and then taking action.

It's easy to take the approach that something is not possible and to be exactly right. It's a little more threatening to take the position, "This might just work and who cares if it doesn't." However, that's the approach in which you're likely to find yourself pleasantly surprised.

If you watch the Photoreading forum, you'll notice a fair number of people who want you to prove with scientific certainty that the skill is attainable. There are many things that people take for granted that cannot be proven with scientific certainty. What makes Photoreading such a stumbling block is that it challenges long held beliefs about how the brain gathers and uses information. What if it's true and I've wasted all these years being inefficient with my time? It's amazing when it is such a simple thing to prove by your own experience.

To get back on topic, Paul raises an interesting thought when he asks:

Is PhotoReading a process of downloading information into the brain, or a process of exposing external information to a neural network that already contains everything including the patterns stored in the text?

Is this a nod to the idea that we already know everything and that education is just the process of drawing that information out? Don't know if I buy that or not but it's an interesting idea to play with. It's very empowering to think that perhaps the PR steps kick the brain into a more orderly means of processing and storing the information. Does the inner mind take that next step (as it's processing photoread material) of creating links between the useful information and things we already know? It's a very intriguing possibility that, to me, supports both PR and MO. What other steps can we take to facilitate that process? Have you attempted to use ABC Lists or analograffiti to activate Photoread material? I haven't so I can't speak to the PR enhancements offered up in the MO manual.

I do see your concern with PR and MO, but actually MO, especially to a beginning PRer is reassurence to understanding and 'memorizing' because, since PR works with other than conscience mind, and MO works with conscience mind, if they use both conscience and other than conscience mind,
it would boost confidence.

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Is PhotoReading a process of downloading information into the brain, or a process of exposing external information to a neural network that already contains everything including the patterns stored in the text?

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When i learned PhRing, my references called it a spiritual experience. For the first time, it appeared that the Atma's physical form would be in the brain. For me, i understood how everything, the full blueprint the primordial paradigm was seen to already be there. It was like waking up from a deep sleep.