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I have known about photoreading for about a year, and in the beginning I was completely fascinated about it and visited the forum every day. I bought the book and even attended a course here in Denmark in May last year. But like many others I am bit of a procrastinator and for some months I have not been using the system as much as I would like to. I guess, I was afraid of the activating part, somehow I always only managed to get to the photoreading part and not further – but now I will give it another shot. Over time I have collected some of the answers from the forum and printed them, yesterday I read some of them (mostly by Alex) and I decided to begin photoreading again. By the way, I have never really experienced the “gel-effect”, so I hope that I finally will.

I have this nice little book by Noam Chomsky “Power and terror” (130 pages) and yesterday I photoread the book followed by a little postview. My purpose is: “to gain new insight into foreign affairs of USA so that I can learn something new helping me to get an independent opinion as I am very interested in foreign policy.” I remember all the affirmations and close the photoreading step with a sense of mastery. My trigger words are: USA, Sovjet, 9/11, Israel, Amzi Bishara, Osama, Saddam Hussein, Bush, Terror, Power, Turkey, Europe, convention.

Today I photoread the book twice and so far I’ve had two sessions of activation (2 x 20-25 minutes). I skitter and superread and every time I “feel” that this might be interesting I read the sentence or maybe the paragraph. I formulated some general questions like: “What is wrong with the US foreign policy” and “Which arguments and historic events are used by the author?”
I wrote them down and in the middle I wrote the title of the book, and I think that after the next session I will try mind mapping.
I think I’ve got the structure of the book by now, and I try to approach this book with a sense of curiosity (it isn’t for school).

I will keep you updated with anticipation that those of you who are procrastinating will pull yourself together and start using the system.

Please ask me questions.

[This message has been edited by Cremio (edited January 17, 2004).]

Noam Chomsky is a person who believes in the socialist system. If you are photoreading his books to learn about blame America first foreign policy than I say he is the man for you.

Consider balancing your knowledge with someone who believes in a strong and powerful America.

-George

You just have to get back on that horse and get going! There is no getting around the activation phase, so just start doing it and keep on doing it. It will be so worth it when we will be able to activate a handful of books in one day.