Hi,
I'm a little confused. I've become use to the idea through photo-reading that the mind is absorbs and stores virtually everything we see, though it may not be consciously available. Hence, the beauty of photoreading is simply to prime the mind with the images of the text, allowing the other-than-conscious to process it as needed, bringing it up to conscious level during activation.
However, the basic thesis of Vera's philosophy in the memory optimizer is that the mind will NOT remember anything unless it was "properly" constructed in the first place. In fact, she suggests both in the tapes and the workbook that repeating the course is vital, that we should listen to it over and over again to really "get" it, the reason being that the mind is NOT able to construct everything on the first pass.
So, I sense a totally different pardigm here. On the one hand, we have the photoreading idea that we should trust our other-than-conscious, not worry about perfection, trusting our inner selves to give us the important aspects of the text as we need them. On the other hand, it seems like Vera's method requires puposeful, focused, intense concentration to properly construct memories, otherwise, we don't have them at all.
So, am I missing something? I was getting use to a natural "flow" state, trusting that whatever went into my senses was being registered. Now, I'm being told that unless I construct everything properly in my mind, it won't do me any good.
Please clarify. Thanks.
David
