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Sorry for the lack of updates on Sunday

Nov13
by K.C. Thomas on November 13, 2012 at 3:13 am
Posted In: Blog Entry

I currently work for a large utility company (can’t say who without getting into trouble) that was severely impacted by Hurricane Sandy and the Nor’Easter that hit all the neighboring states of NY/NJ/PA. If you’ve been watching the weather and new reports, you know that a lot of areas, especially NYC, got devastated by the storm(s).

With that in mind, the company I work for has mandated since about 5 days after the storm, 12 hour/7 day a week forced days. My normal work shift is 4p-midnight. The forced time is 11:30a to midnight Monday – Saturday, and last Sunday we had to work 7a-7p. This means I got out of work at Midnight, got home at 1am, proceeded to get up at 5:45am to be to work at 7am for another 12 hour shift.

I’ve quite literally have not had time to do really any reading whatsoever. This week they’re starting to slow down to the point where we’re ‘only’ working 10 hour days. Quite honestly, I’m not sure when they’re going to end the forced overtime, but I’m hoping it’s by this weekend so I can start doing the Photoreading stuff again. Unfortunately, since I live and work in upstate NY, how long this forced overtime commitment lasts is anyone’s guess.

If I had to hazard a guess, we’ll be going back to voluntary overtime next week, but if we get hit by any type of storm within the next week or two, I’m fully expecting them to reinstate (assuming they haven’t stopped) forced overtime again because the newly repaired infrastructure is so fragile at this point.

Sorry for the inconvenience…

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November’s program – Photoreading

Nov05
by K.C. Thomas on November 5, 2012 at 4:39 am
Posted In: Article, Blog Entry

 

 

Photoreading… What is it? In a nutshell, it’s a method to allow a person to absorb huge amounts of information at speeds that defy common thinking. Documented speeds of over  690,000 word per minute have been recorded (mentioned on page 14 of the Photoreading book).

Before you begin questioning how this rate of reading speed is even possible, you have to understand that it’s not reading in the traditional sense. The whole premise of Photoreading is that your brain can take a mental “photo” of the page that your subconscious mind can process without conscious control.

The best way to understand it is to picture if you will, a picture in a newspaper. If you just glance at the phone, you can take in the entire picture at one time and you can understand what’s in the photo. You don’t have to process all the little dots, one right after the other, from top-to-bottom, left-to-right, to understand the photo.

Using the same process, this program (there is a home study course that goes into much greater detail than the book) describes how to make use of your preconscious processor, a part of your mind that takes in and processes visual information before your conscious mind has a chance to analyze the visual data.

The program itself is fairly easy and straight forward. The steps are:

  1. Prepare –  get all your materials together
  2. Preview – get a feel for what you’re getting ready to Photoread, and also to make a determination on whether what you’re getting ready to read even makes sense to read
  3. Photoread – the real heart of the program and the most difficult part to have faith in
  4. Postview – To take a quick glance back through the book to pick out words that you feel are important and to come up with questions to ask of the material to help you do what’s called activating the material
  5. Activate – where you start pulling the information you Photoread out of the murky depths of your unconscious mind to be available to your conscious mind. This is the magical step of Photoreading. It’s also one of the hardest steps for me to practice.

The hardest part of this learning program is actually having faith that you’re actually doing something worthwhile. When you finish the Photoreading step, you’re going to feel like you just wasted your time since you can’t consciously remember anything of what you just “read”. The more you focus on the “I didn’t get anything out of the reading” mentality, the harder it is to actually allow your subconscious mind to make the information available to your conscious mind.

One of the cool things that can happen once you start consistently practicing Photoreading is what’s called ‘spontaneous activation’. What this entails is Photoreading something, letting it incubate (it’s usually recommended to let the info incubate overnight to allow your subconscious mind time to process the info), and some circumstance pulls the information to conscious awareness and makes it available to you.

In getting prepped for this month’s use and review, I started doing the Photoreading process again and really playing with the training. This playing with the material is highly recommended in the program. With that being said, I decided to use it to help work on my writing projects.

I decided, just because I had just gotten it in the mail and I thought it’d be ironic, that my first book to Photoread would be a book on speedreading that’s based off the Evelyn Wood speedreading program. The second book was a thesaurus, and a few other books on how to write advertising copy.

I did some activation on the speedreading book, but nothing on the thesaurus or other books. Or at least nothing that was as structured as a formal activation. I kinda free-formed it based off the fact that the information I Photoread would be activated by my writing directly.

What I’ve found so far since I never really took it too seriously in the past is that when I really try it and play with how I expect the results to manifest, amazing things begin to take place.

Without conscious effort, my vocabulary expanded greatly within days of just the one Photoreading pass on the thesaurus. Granted, it could be wishful thinking that’s causing the effect. All I know is that either directly or indirectly, I started finding it much easier to find the right word in speaking and writing, enough so that I felt surprised a couple of times with the words that came out my mouth while talking.

Same thing with my reading speed. Even though the program states that you should be able to use it to read anything, I find there are plenty of times where it’s very difficult, if not impossible, to use the program to absorb information. Part of the reason is the prep to start reading. You have to relax and get yourself to Alpha state before you start the reading process. In people who practice it, it only takes about 10-20 seconds. So it’s not really that big of a deal.

Where it does become a deal is when you don’t have the time to actually prep for reading like that. My personal example is when I’m at work in a call center, I sometimes get a few seconds between calls, maybe as much as a minute or two. If I tried to get into the ideal mindset to do the reading, I’d never be able to do any reading at work. That’s why I Photoread a book on speedreading.

I realized that in those short slots of time, if I could accelerate my normal reading process, I could actually get some reading benefit out of those little snippets of time. Since I Photoread that book, my speedreading speed has picked up significantly.  I know I’m probably reading somewhere in the 2,000-3,000 range again, a speed that I haven’t been doing for years. In fact, the last time I was able to reach those speeds was when I practiced the Evelyn Wood program for several weeks.

Photoreading the book on speedreading got me back up to those speeds within days without much real effort. I just started blowing through my reading at a pace that I haven’t been able to do for quite a while. The first week after Photoreading the speedreading book, I proceeded to read something like 5-6 books that week. Each book was around 100-150 pages on my Kindle, at work, with just those short snippets of time to use. I just wonder how much I could have read if I had focused on reading that speed at home.

I have a heavy workload coming up next week, so I don’t know how many times I’m going to get to practice the program, but I do know now that it does have an impact on my ability to absorb information. What I hope to do tomorrow is come up with a list of several books that I plan to Photoread this week.

I would like to plan on writing a short report on what I got from the books on that list to show what can be accomplished with this program. I plan to time each step of the process, just so a record of how much time I actually invested into each book. It might give an indication of how fast I’m actually cutting through the material. Guess we’ll see.

└ Tags: absorbing information, accelerative learning, Photoreading, preconscious processor, speedreading
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Well, it’s not what I hoped…

Oct22
by K.C. Thomas on October 22, 2012 at 8:52 pm
Posted In: Blog Entry

For a first attempt at doing a one month review of a program. I’ve realized that with everything I had going on in my life this month along with lots of unplanned stuff, I truly bit off more than I could chew.

Another aspect of the issue dealt with the program material itself. While the meditations were valid and could do a lot of good, the information in between the meditations really detracted from the overall value of the program. It just felt too much like the author was rambling or just recording the program on fly at the worst, or just reading from a script without practicing what he was going to say at best.

There’s quite a few spots in the program, including the meditations, where he stumbles over his words or just sounds like he doesn’t really know what he wants to say at that point. I feel that the program could have been greatly improved if the author had spent a lot more time polishing the recordings and making it sound like he was confident in what he was trying to teach.

The other aspect that I mentioned previously is what I consider his reversal on his beliefs. At the very beginning of the program, he was very adamant about what was actually taking place, whereas by the third or fourth track, he had already started to discount his beliefs and state that he didn’t really understand what was happening. It made it seem like he was wishy-washy about the entire thing.

As I also pointed out previously, he could have made the argument from either camp. If he wanted to pursue the alternate dimensions belief, he could have used Native American beliefs to bolster his own assertions. If, on the other hand, he wanted to stick with the idea that he didn’t know what’s going on, only that it worked, he could have used information from Project Renaissance to back up that belief.

In the end, if he had stuck with one point of view or the other, it again would have made for a stronger program, but since he became very tepid to his belief on what was going on, it just really caused what could have been a great program degenerate into a mediocre program.

If you wanted to still go ahead and acquire the program, my advise would be to gloss through the not meditation parts quickly and then focus entirely on the meditations. The ONLY reason I don’t suggest completely skipping the non-meditation parts of the recordings is because they sometimes provide information on specific terms used during the meditation or what the specific thrust of a particular meditation is aiming for.

Hopefully I didn’t disappoint you too much with my missteps during this first month’s attempt at giving an in-depth review of what kinds of effects a particular program provides. I’m hoping my next month’s attempt fares better. The topic I plan to cover is one I have a much stronger attraction and affinity for, which deals with speed reading and Photoreading. Hopefully I’ll be able to do a much better job.

 

Thanks for reading.

└ Tags: guided meditation, meditation, quantum jumping, review
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Starting to feel better

Oct15
by K.C. Thomas on October 15, 2012 at 1:52 am
Posted In: Blog Entry

Finally starting to get over this cold or whatever it is. While I’ve been recovering, have been going through some of the old books I used to read as a teenager. One of the books I came across was a book by Gini Graham Scott, PhD.

The book was about Shamanism and different types of rituals. The book was Copyrighted in 1991. Why this is all important is because exercise 9 in the book is titled: Creating a Gateway into Another Reality. What’s funny is this is the ONLY exercise in the whole book that I bookmarked nearly 20 years ago.

This exercise goes on to explain how to jump into another reality. It’s almost exactly step-by-step instructions that is provided in the Quantum Jumping program. About the only real differences is that the Shamanic exercise has you first erect a protective field around yourself, has you approach a blank wall that you either have the option of seeing a door start opening or to use your power object to cut a doorway, and finally, it has you meet either a familiar, spirit guide, or something similar as opposed to your doppelganger.

I couldn’t believe the similarities between the two programs. It’s literally like Burt read this exercise and just paraphrased every step of the process and promoted his re-written copy of the exercise. If you’re interested in looking into it further, the Amazon link for this book is here:

Shamanism and Personal Mastery

Not sure why this edition of the book says it’s the first edition from 1998 since I have the same exact book, same publisher, same exact pagecount, but copyright date of 1991. Not sure if there’s any differences, but was still an interesting book nonetheless.

└ Tags: exercises, quantum jumping, Shamanism
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This has not been the best week I might have had

Oct13
by K.C. Thomas on October 13, 2012 at 8:24 pm
Posted In: Blog Entry

This week has been pretty rough for one reason or another. Been working on my business site more and had to deal with being sick for several days. I’ve slept more this week alone than what I would usually get in any 2 weeks and I’m still feeling drained and basically run down. I’m hoping to get back on track either tomorrow or Monday, but not promising anything at this point since I’m still under the weather.

I again apologize for getting behind on my updates, but hopefully I can get caught up within the next few days. In the mean time, have a wonderful weekend.

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