benny,
My thoughts here are directed to your comment and one from AlexK:
"If that is the case wouldnt it open up a whole new spectrum to one's consiousness. It would be as if I am filtering through 5 times more information daily. Almost like photoreading the world around me. Please give me your thoughts and comments on this. Am I mistaken or is this trully an achievable possiblity with some time and practice??"
"It becomes interesting when you start describing a person walking about 3 feet behind you off to one side. You just slow your pace and let them pass to check your accuracy."
Especially when considering perception such as that suggested by Alex - it seems obvious that we have taken a step outside of what would normally be considered "peripheral vision" into something extra-sensory or outside of what is materially considered as possible. I would seem that it just isn't possible to basically see out of the back of one's head. However, I can attest to the reality of such perceptions. It does take some time to develop, but if someone has enough motivation and will persevere, you will eventually begin to become aware of these perceptions. It's like Alex said - these perceptions are already there for everyone - most people just don't learn how to bring the information through to their conscious mind.
I don't feel the need to beat around the bush about the implications of photoreading - this process can help to open the photoreader up to perceptions that move into the realm of ESP. The photoreading process can eventually lead to the ability to perceive the world of thoughts and ideas. Many of the comments of Paul Scheele in the Photoreading book hint at this. In the book by Win Wenger "The Einsten Factor", there are some hints but also some sceptical comments thrown in that try to find some reasonable escape from the possibilities of telepathy and such.
Through my own efforts in meditation over the years I have experienced occasions that provided the definite evidence to me of the reality of these perceptions.
I will share a personal experience along the line of walking about while holding one's mind in a state of peripheral awareness. I say "peripheral awareness" rather than "peripheral vision" because the idea of vision is linked so directly to the eyes. In the case of seeing something that is without a doubt beyond the scope of one's physical eyes we need to broaden our concept of these perceptions.
At a time when I was living in New York City I was walking down the street focused in a state of peripheral awareness - both my "vision" and my awareness. I was breathing deeply and my mind was still and clear - this is a state of mind is known as the warrior's mind. This is from martial arts training where, for instance, if you allow a thought to divide your attention, you will soon find yourself divided by your opponent's blade. I was moving up the middle of my block towards Avenue A when a young man from India who was walking down the block towards me, focused his attention on me and veered his path towards mine. At this point he was almost one hundred feet away from me. The question immediately hit me, "Is he a threat?" I felt a momentary tension in the center of my body - and then a release and relaxation as the answer came back, "No, he just wants to know where to find Key Food." Key Food was a grocery store that was one block up and over from our current location. I continued walking as the man neared me and I had to keep a straight face and consciously resist the impulse to just tell him where the grocery store was until after he asked me the question. "Do you know where Key Food is?" he said.
I hope that this doesn't sound like I have gone off on a tangent here - this sort of awareness if the essence of what is behind photoreading.
If you doubt the reality of the perception of thoughts I will share one more occasion. I was walking directly behind a very perceptive friend of mine with whom I share a close rapport by some five or six feet after having stepped off onto a train platform. I was mulling over my day at college where I was studying painting and where we had a particularly vexing chairperson of the painting department, whose name was Paul. I recall that my thoughts became very focused on Paul and I was thinking in very literal sentences as I thought about "Paul this, Paul that, Paul, Paul, Paul," when I noticed my friend jerk his head with agitation, like there was a bee buzzing about his head, and say, "What's this Paul in my head?!"
So, yes there are amazing possibilities to photoreading. Yes, most people will say that these things are not possible. Yes, it takes real time and effort to develop the consciousness of these perceptions. But everyone has them and everyone can develop a degree of a higher conscious awareness.
Just B.
[This message has been edited by livingsuccess (edited November 13, 2003).]