“What if you could go through a book as fast as you could turn the pages?” my friend Paul Scheele asked me. I immediately thought of all those books I had never read, and I got excited. I told him if that were true, it was time for a career change.
Now years later, over 500,000 people have learned the remarkable “PhotoReading whole mind system” through the book, self-study course, or live seminar. It is taught in a dozen languages in cities around the world.
PhotoReading exposes printed materials to the brain at phenomenal rates, a page per second–all beyond the conscious mind’s processing capability, but within the capabilities of the subconscious. Now, reread that sentence to make sure you got it. It is a wild concept. We actually teach you to “mentally photograph” the printed page at 25,000 words per minute. (Remember, you promised to keep an open mind.)
25,000 words a minute? I smelled a scam and like every honest-to-goodness reviewer, I placed the money where my suspicion was. Right in their pockets. There was a refund guarantee after all.
The photoreading course cost me a few hundred dollars. For the money I got some books and audio CD. Looking at the package I felt daunted. Overwhelmed. Awed. The volume of stuff required photoreading to go through!
Then I went thru the material- and guess what? it took me under a week to realize the core behind photoreading:
1) Go into a relaxed state. Relax your eyes.
2) Then start sweeping your eyes left to right nonestop. Don’t halt when you feel you missed something.
Those two steps, in essence, constituted the ‘photoreading state’ where the brain was to assimilate information via the alpha state and subconscious awareness. Wow. I had to pay $300 to discover that reading fast merely entailed moving my eyes fast.
Nonetheless, I tried. I didn’t want consumer dissonance after all. My best try, alas, wasn’t good enough. A month of practice must have increased my reading speed from 400 words per minute to 1000 words per minute. It’s nowhere near 25,000.
If you asked me, much of photoreading is overhype and underdelivery. Are there any of you who got it to work?
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I bought the program too. However, my experiences were quite out of the ordinary. But I do not attribute these to the photoreading reading program. I had been doing alpha and theta brain entrainment cd’s for sometime before I took the course. So as a result the activation was what you might call 3D and holographic.
Pretty trippy experience and thoroughly enjoyable.
No, photoreading does not work, indeed. I have tried it several times and can prove that is does not work.
The Photoreading Whole Mind System sounds quite extraordinary and revolutionary, but its credibility from my experience is in doubt. I’ve attempted to apply the principles underlying photoreading, but I have not fully realised its potential. Something tells me that one’s subconscious mind can probably absorb loads of information with relative ease, but I don’t think the Photoreading system capitalises on this inhereent capacity as well as it could. So, by all means, try the course out but I wouldn’t hold my breath as to its efficacy. But it’s worth a go anyway. Perhaps it depends on the person and individual cognitive abilities. Not really sure.