I just realized that I haven't shared some of my recent personalizations of the photoreading process.
I did mention that I like to imagine a connection to the author of the book before I photoread a book. This has continued to develop so that my current understanding is that I am forming a mental connection, an actual rapport, with the author of the book through a point behind the top back of my head. This is the same area referred to by the tangerine technique. My understanding of the chakra system of energy centers within the etheric body, leads me to understand this point as referring to a transpersonal chakra. This is a chakra that connects us to everyone else. That is why it makes perfects sense to see this as my point of mental rapport with the author of the book that I am about to photoread.
Related to this, I was told a story at the recent PhotoReading retreat of a clairvoyant who was asked to meet with someone at a PhotoReading workshop. The clairvoyant didn't know anything about photoreading and wasn't aware of that there was going to be anything special going on there. When they showed up they were startled by what they were seeing. In terms of energetic movement within the energy fields of the participants in the workshop, who were in the act of photoreading at that time, the clairvoyant said that they had never seen energy moving in that fashion before. What they saw were two areas of energy focus within the photoreaders, and surprisingly, the eyes, from the perspective of the clairvoyant, didn't have anything to do with the process that was happening. The two areas that were active were the solar plexus and the transpersonal chakra - the center outside and behind the top back of the head. They saw a blue energy around the book being drawn in at the solar plexus of the photoreader, and there was a violet / magenta colored energy wrapping around the head of the photoreader connecting to the point behind the head like a cone-shaped hat.
I was very excited to hear this because it totally fit with my experience of the photoreading process and the way it was developing for me. I am feeling more and more connected with the authors of the books when I photoread. The mental space of this rapport is being more real everyday. I am now understanding that photoreading is about connecting to the thoughtform from which the book was precipitated. Photoreading takes place in a mental plane that is above language; the abstract mental plane. Most of the levels above the lowest concrete level, where you can basically hear yourself thinking out sentences in a specific language, are above language. They are symbolic abstract fields. This occurred to me when I came across some foreign books at the photoreading retreat.
Further, once you are able to connect with the author through this mental rapport, you can connect to more than just the mental framework of the book that you are photoreading. You can connect to the authors thoughts related to the book that aren't in the book. You can connect to the thoughts of all of the other people who have read the book and contributed to this thoughtform that surrounds the book. You can connect to tangential streams of thought related to these areas... Basically, this opens up a really big can of wonderful awe and appreciation for the vastness of consciousness.
Related to the photoreading technique, I now use the process, before I flip any pages, while I am sitting relaxed getting into rapport with the author and my purpose, to hold the book in my hands and when I am ready, keeping my eyes closed, I flip the pages of the book from back to front with my left hand while holding my right hand over the side of the book. I feel the pages flick over the center of the palm of my right hand as I inhale - drawing the energy of the book into my center - root chakra. I do this all on one inhale. Then I exhale and feel the energy of the book radiate out from that point at the root chakra throughout my energy field into the universe - anchoring it in me and connecting it to everything else.
Since I started using that technique - I now flip through the books - pretty much using a photoflip technique. I do the book upside down, backwards, frontwards and forwards, taking about one minute to do this. I know that I have the energy, the thoughts of the book in me, without any doubt or reservation.
Now I am able to activate most books using a very brief superread and dip on the fastest end of the scale, to a very fast rapid read / speedread of nearly 2000 wpm on the low end of the scale. I feel that I have read the book with a very high comprehension at these levels - probably at a higher comprehension rate than what used to be my normal reading rate around 500 wpm.