Akashics Photoreading Diary...

[Akashic_Librarian]

Ok so my Photoreading Course (Deluxe) arrived today.

And I thought it would be kinda cool to share my experiences, no long reviews, no in-depth discussions, just my opinions. I know some people will appreciate it. Some won't of course haha...but they don't have to read it (or comment on it) if they don't want to.

So lets start from the beginning of the beginning...

I ordered the course 4 days ago, and I live in the UK, it came from Wisconsin, and I payed $53 for Postage, thats about £26, and it came fast, well worth the price I must say.

When I got home, I took out a knife, and sliced the tape off...I carefully peeled open the box, wary of damaging the expensive goods inside...

Staring up at me was the 3-DVDs amd Photoreading Activator Paraliminal thats comes with the Deluxe Course. I havn't looked at these yet so I can't tell you if they where worth the extra money.

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Next up was the nicely designed Photoreading foler in which all your precious Photoreading accessories can be stored safely and stylishly...

It just felt very professional all of a sudden.

Below that came the two books Photoreading, and Natural Brilliance. I havn't read either of these yet, so again, I can't review them.

Below them was the Websters Dictionary and finally a series of plastic wallets which contained...*my heart skipped a beat*...the Photoreading Course...

I looked at the CD's in their immaculate states, I looked at the books, so neat and profesional...I soaked in the sense of power and laughed nervously at what was awaiting me.

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Twenty minutes later the first CD is loaded onto my computer...hesitantly I press Play.

I won't describe a blow-by-blow account of whats on the CD but I will give my feelings about it.

I loved it!

Pauls voice is so relaxing, its calming, reassuring and assertive. You feel like you know this man, and he talks to you in such a personal way, he may as well be on the phone with you.

Its nicely paced, its well scripted. And frankly I have already had a success with Photoreading the Dictionary provided...

I dunno if Mods wanna make this a Sticky...do so at your discretion I s'pose!

And CD#2 coming up soon folks, stay tuned to Worlds most Dangerous...Akashic Photoreading Diary...

[Sam988]

I hope you can get something valuable out of it, because i couldn't...


Really, they have some nice skimming techniques, but after a lot of experiment i found the PhotoReading step (at least IMO) to be a big scam.
The worst is that it's impossible to prove otherwise or to prove it to be true, just like religions, if you practice it you believe it, if you don't, you don't believe it, and none of both can prove it to the other that they're right.




Follows a study done by NASA itself to see if the PR course really did yeld benefits to reading, because they wanted to implement it so their engineers, scientists, and the rest of the staff could be more effective.

Not surprisingly (to me), NASA came to the conclusion that the PR technique doesn't work. A person using PR actually takes more time to reading in order to comprehend as much as someone reading normally (we're not talking about skimming techniques here, which are the only useful thing i found in Paul Scheele's PR course).

NASA Technical Reports Server

[Shamou]

Originally Posted by Akashic_Librarian

And frankly I have already had a success with Photoreading the Dictionary provided...

AL... you will get out of that experience whatever level of energy and enthusiasm that you put into it...

Keep the course my friend... and you'll come out of it smarter, wiser, more effective and a bigger person than you ever were...

My very best wishes...

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[Akashic_Librarian]

CD2:

Ok today I ran through CD2.

And I was very impressed, Pauls voice is still relaxing, I felt like I was being professionally guided and his calm confidance was reassuring.

The exercises weren't challenging, it was nicely paced, and it was a gentle introduction into Photoreading.

I am still very impressed and I still recommend it!

CD3 coming soon.

[RT Wolf]

Originally Posted by Sam988

Follows a study done by NASA itself to see if the PR course really did yeld benefits to reading, because they wanted to implement it so their engineers, scientists, and the rest of the staff could be more effective.

Not surprisingly (to me), NASA came to the conclusion that the PR technique doesn't work. A person using PR actually takes more time to reading in order to comprehend as much as someone reading normally (we're not talking about skimming techniques here, which are the only useful thing i found in Paul Scheele's PR course).

NASA Technical Reports Server

I disagree. I think the reason why the NASA study came to that conclusion was because they're very conscious-minded people and have a difficult time "letting go" and trusting something that's not conscious. I do, too. That's why it's been almost a year since I've had the photoreading course and still only occasionally see the kinds of results that were promised versus not. On the other hand, I'm willing to keep trying to do this and have found out that letting go and relaxing is rich pd territory for me in many areas of my life, including my personal sense of satisfaction, my relationships, my work, my PD itself and my experiments with IM.

Of course, spending a year trying to make something work for you may not be the best use of your time, so I can respect you deciding on your position about PR.

[Sam988]

Originally Posted by RT Wolf

I disagree. I think the reason why the NASA study came to that conclusion was because they're very conscious-minded people and have a difficult time "letting go" and trusting something that's not conscious. I do, too. That's why it's been almost a year since I've had the photoreading course and still only occasionally see the kinds of results that were promised versus not. On the other hand, I'm willing to keep trying to do this and have found out that letting go and relaxing is rich pd territory for me in many areas of my life, including my personal sense of satisfaction, my relationships, my work, my PD itself and my experiments with IM.

Of course, spending a year trying to make something work for you may not be the best use of your time, so I can respect you deciding on your position about PR.

Yes, RT Wolf, i'm very result-oriented, that's why i dropped PR.

You spent an entire year and still didn't get the results that were promised, and still believe it? That's what i call faith. You would be a great religious person


You only get occasional results? That's exactly what happens with religion also... the believers pray, sometimes they get their prayers answered, and sometimes not. But anyways, if you want to keep believing something that doesn't yield concrete results, OK, it's not my time anyways.

[RT Wolf]

Actually I'm results oriented in another way.

1. I'm 20 years old, and I love reading. I figure I'll live for about another 60 years. In that time, I'm prolly gonna be reading a lot of books. If I can cut down the amount of time I read them, a year isn't a big deal. Obviously I haven't been spending 8 hours each day at it.

2. I'm realizing that at lesat part of my inability to make this work consistantly is in not really following the whole system. I didn't set a clear definite and focused purpose for a long time because I like to learn everything in a book. But then, I realized that's my philosophy to life, too. I want everything. I'm learning to become more focused

3. Persisting in this is fertile PD ground anyway. First it is helping me learn persistance, second it is helping me to grow in a way I had not expected, to let my conscious mind relax for a little bit. Third, in a general "let go and trust" sort of way, like I said above. If I was a believer, I might say that I'm coming up against the trap of being at the level of courage, that of trying to control everything.

4. I can make it work, but not consistantly. This isn't a matter of faith, because I have at least some proof (obviously only adequate for me). In fact, I keep a list of reasons for PR working successfully that I can refer to if I'm feeling demotivated. Whenever you're learning a new skill, there will be times when it works better than others.

5. Going forward, my business is in knowledge. I'm a knowledge worker. Input, processing and output is one model of my business and any way to improve/increase input is worth trying out for a while. People spend millions of dollars on marginal gains (unless you're an american car company, then you spend millions to just keep up).

The potential rewards outweigh the costs I've put in for me.

I guess they don't for you. Keep this course in mind later. I remember reading a review where an engineer (i think) was in much the same position as you and just gave up. A year later, he came back to it and it just worked for him. Perhaps this just isn't the time in your growth for this.

BTW, I'm an athiest.

[Peter S C]

Nice idea for a thread. I'm enjoying it so far (although am still to be 100% convinced that I should purchase it) .

[Shamou]

Originally Posted by Peter S C

Nice idea for a thread. I'm enjoying it so far (although am still to be 100% convinced that I should purchase it) .

You know, that's the funny thing about PD material... people will spend thousands a year on clothes... twice that much for a trip south in the winter... hundreds for sports... thousands for grown up toys...

Yet... when it comes to PD... they will agonize over a few hundred bucks...

Well... that's human nature I guess...
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[Sam988]

Originally Posted by RT Wolf

Actually I'm results oriented in another way.

1. I'm 20 years old, and I love reading. I figure I'll live for about another 60 years. In that time, I'm prolly gonna be reading a lot of books. If I can cut down the amount of time I read them, a year isn't a big deal. Obviously I haven't been spending 8 hours each day at it.

Yes that's a very wise decision to do, but there are many reading systems other than PR.

Originally Posted by RT Wolf

4. I can make it work, but not consistantly. This isn't a matter of faith, because I have at least some proof (obviously only adequate for me). In fact, I keep a list of reasons for PR working successfully that I can refer to if I'm feeling demotivated. Whenever you're learning a new skill, there will be times when it works better than others.

Not that i want to discredit your proofs, but we can find "proofs" for whatever we want to believe in. Of course, as an atheist you know the whole talk, so all i ask is that you consider these proofs you have under the same light that made you discredit religious "proofs". If you've done that and still finds these PR proofs real and valuable, then ok, i can't argue against that.

Originally Posted by RT Wolf

I guess they don't for you. Keep this course in mind later. I remember reading a review where an engineer (i think) was in much the same position as you and just gave up. A year later, he came back to it and it just worked for him. Perhaps this just isn't the time in your growth for this.

BTW, I'm an athiest.

Well for a time i thought the course worked for me, i was PRing books by doing all the methods exactly the way Paul Scheele tells us to, and i had the impression that i was absorbing the whole book and was very excited.
I also had "proofs" that it worked, but after a gradual proccess that's too long to describe here i ended up in disbelief about PRing.

[Akashic_Librarian]

CD's 3, 4 5 & 6!

Yes THATS RIGHT!

Cd's 3, 4, 5 & 6 happened pretty close to each other and felt more like they should be put together as one.

I am impresed, excited, and enthralled...and thats all that needs to be said. Well worth the money!

I also watched DVD #1 and it really helped clear some things up for me, well worth buying them I must say!

CD's 7 & 8 will be later in the week, I start school AND a job, so I can't promise when I will get around to it. Stay tuned!

[Steve Pavlina]

If I recall correctly, the University of Minnesota tested PhotoReading and found that it did work.

I'd say if you're really skeptical about it, just don't buy it, since you'll only be looking to prove yourself right instead of actually learning a new skill. That applies to any personal development products.

[Brutha]

Originally Posted by RT Wolf

I disagree. I think the reason why the NASA study came to that conclusion was because they're very conscious-minded people and have a difficult time "letting go" and trusting something that's not conscious.

They tested the person giving a photoreading seminar. That person should be able to use the photoreading skills.

[Namaste]

Originally Posted by RT Wolf

I think the reason why the NASA study came to that conclusion was because they're very conscious-minded people and have a difficult time "letting go" and trusting something that's not conscious. I do, too.

They could have always enlisted people who aren't "conscious minded" to be volunteers