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learning and human development technologies. I wanted to know how people learn most effectively. My company, Learning Strategies Corporation, was over three years old with many clients who could benefit from my studies. I was also strongly motivated to improve my own skills as a learner.While attending different seminars and courses, I heard about an instructor from a speed reading school in Phoenix, Arizona. The instructor had suggested a bizarre experiment to one of his classes. After flipping pages upside down and back-wards to learn eye-fixation patterns, he instructed the students to take a comprehension test on the book, just for the fun of it. Their scores turned out to be the highest the class had ever achieved. Was it a fluke? The instructors at the school hypothesized that maybe they were turning the page into a stimulus that is processed subliminally.
About the same time I heard that hypothesis, I attended a workshop with Peter Kline, an expert in accelerative learning. When I told him about my interest in researching breakthroughs in reading, he offered me a challenge. A client of his, IDS/American Express, wanted a speed reading application of accelerative learning. Suddenly, a consulting job, my master’s degree work, and my passion for learning landed in one nice package on my lap.
In the fall of 1985, I began background research into studies of subliminal perception and preconscious processing. Significant research evidence suggested humans possess a preconscious processor of the mind that can absorb visual information without involving the conscious mind. I experimented with using the eyes and the preconscious processor in special ways on written materials. I dubbed this concept of "mentally photographing" the printed page PhotoReading.
I devoted my full time to designing a seminar based upon the accelerative learning model, expert strategies of rapid reading, the human development technology of neuro-linguistic programming, and studies on preconscious processing. Soon the PhotoReading seminar was born.
One of my experiments involved returning to the speed reading school I had attended. I asked the teacher for several books and tests. After PhotoReading one of the books at 68,000
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