Blk:
My guess is that you can achieve moderate success without a great degree of the "Accelerated Learning State". However, this seems to be the tool which really drives the heart of the Photo Reading process.
Thus, some success at the Accelerated Learning State (even if only minimal) would be necessary to achieve proficiency.
Belief. This would be fundamental to the more abstract process of learning in general. If you do not have confidence and faith in what you are striving to achieve, then you will fabricate means by which to fail.
The process described as softness of being(no mind, if you prefer). Hardness (resistance) in any aspect of your being quickly results in imbalance. Just as trying too hard (hardness of action) results in mucking up of a good effort, so does disbelief (hardness of mind) trip up a practitioner from the delicate path of willful action.
True willful action is derived of a relaxed conscious will directing the vast strength of the subconscious mass. Any hardness of being (i.e. conscious interference) quickly mucks the process and disorients the subconscious efforts.
Thus, belief is essential to maintaining a relaxed concious (which is not struggling against itself) and peforming the learning and development process.
Kato (RW)
[This message has been edited by Kato (edited July 14, 2001).]
[This message has been edited by Kato (edited July 14, 2001).]