The Most Effective Course on Speed-reading and Comprehension Ever Developed
Learn how to read both quickly and in depth over a wide range of subjects, and then to be able to appreciate, analyze and evaluate what you have read with clear and incisive intelligence.

The course teaches in-depth reading techniques that greatly improve literary intelligence, so that you can clearly perceive the ideas and values that the writer is expressing and relate them to those of other authors and so be better able to make objective conclusions.

Benefits to you...

• Learn how to read both quickly and in depth over a wide range of subjects, and to begin the life-enhancing activity of continuous self-directed education
  
  
• Learn the skills of reading so that you comprehend all and remember the key facts, not just for tomorrow but for always
  
  
• Be able to appreciate, analyze and evaluate what you have read with clear and incisive intelligence
  
  
• You can more than double your reading speed and supercharge your brain's capacity to digest, remember and implement huge amounts of information... essential ingredients to success in your professional and personal life.
  
  
• Be well-prepared for further mind development practices such as memorization, plus intuitive, creative and reasoning skills.

Ineffective education
According to expert reports, the average score on the SAT (the Scholastic Aptitude Test used in the USA for university entrance) has fallen by at least 20% over the last 30 years. Three students out of four at university have failed to reach the level of "formal operations," which is the ability to formulate hypotheses and systematically test them to arrive at an answer to a problem. To be able and creative with abstract ideas, in other words.

The majority are stuck at a "concrete" level of thinking, in which they can only think usefully about actual physical objects and events. Outside of a particular context the underlying principles do not transfer. Abstract reasoning is beyond them, or uncomfortable for them, so they are unable to fully participate and profit from education at a higher level. These are the students who cannot apply what they have learned, because the abstract and the concrete are two unconnected things for them: the result is a mind-body split.

The value of reading
Why has this occurred? Young people read far fewer serious books today and spend less time in intellectual discussion; in contrast, they spend many more hours in watching TV programs with little or no intellectual content: MTV, soaps and sport. Many young people have been brought up on the 30 second sound bite and pap, so their attention span is shorter than it was before, their vocabulary is much reduced, and many fail to achieve communication competence and literacy. The pleasure principle has taken over from the reality principle; immediate gratification rules supreme. Those who depend on TV and video games for stimulation do not have the disposition to think abstractly nor the training to do so well; they are on the receiving end and have no chance to think creatively. They do not benefit from the stimulation of imagination that reading provides.

Even for those of us who had a good education, if we forget all that we learned and never exercise our mental skills with new and challenging tasks, our reasoning ability and effective IQ will deteriorate. We may have an established expertise at work but for most of our time make the minimum mental effort. It is a fallacy that IQ and mental capacity is inbuilt and unchanging. Like physical fitness, if you don't use it you will lose it!

As yet, this downward trend continues and the situation deteriorates with each year that passes. Ultimately, this could even spell the end of our free democracies, which require participants to have an aware and critical mind. Can anything be done about it?

Self-directed education
Yes, for those that care, it is possible to 'get an education' even at an advanced age, and to build up the mental skills one had before or which were never properly developed. That is what the Mind Development courses are intended to achieve. Power Reading, our fifth course, specifically addresses the above-mentioned problems. Most significantly, it will help you develop independence and freedom in the world of ideas. That is so vital because it is your thoughts and ideas that form the basis for the life you live.

With this new home study course you can double your reading speed and supercharge your brain's capacity to digest, remember and implement huge amounts of information... essential ingredients to success in your profession and in your continuing education.

We all learn to read at school, after a fashion. But for most of us, this is not an optimal use of our brain power. In this course you will learn to better use the left brain's focused attention combined with the right brain's peripheral attention, in close harmony. Good communication between the brain hemispheres is a prerequisite for creative thinking and also a sense of well-being, where thoughts and feelings are integrated.

Reading may be defined as an individual's total inter-relationship with symbolic information. Reading is a communication process requiring a series of skills. As such reading is a thinking process rather than an exercise in eye movements. Effective reading requires a logical sequence of thought patterns, and these patterns require practice to set them into the mind. The methods currently used in schools do not touch on the issues of speed, comprehension and critical analysis and indeed all those skills which can be described as advanced reading techniques. In short, most of your reading problems have not been dealt with during your initial education. By using appropriate techniques, the limitations of early education can be overcome and reading ability improved by 500% or more.

Learn to read more effectively ... and more
Power Reading will teach you to read much faster and at the same time to have a greater understanding of what you have read. These are obviously great advantages. There is another major benefit. Most of us, as we read, 'speak' the words in our heads. It is this sub-vocalization that holds back fast reading and it is unnecessary. It is possible to have an inner speech, a kind of 'thought awareness,' that isn't linked to the tongue, mouth and vocal chord muscles, and this is much faster and more fluent. Cutting out the identification of vocalization and the stream of thought gives a surprising by-product. Many of us think that our constant sub-vocalized 'speaking voice' is who we are. Finding out that you can think and be aware without a vocal stream of words, opens up your awareness to the usually unrecognized domain of intuition and higher consciousness. You'll have a better sense of who you really are.

This Mind Development Course is available for only US$ 39.00!
It is the result of 30 years of research by Gregory Mitchell, and is edited and prepared for publication by Peter Shepherd, who will provide you with unlimited email support after purchase.

After you have completed your purchase, you download the course in the form of a PDF file that you can view in the freely available Adobe Acrobat Reader. Or you may like to print out a copy.

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• Super Vision (MD1) (visual skills)
• Effective Communication (MD2) (communication skills)
• Concentration: Developing Willpower (MD3) (concentration skills)
• Super Student (MD4) (study & note-taking skills)
• Power Reading (MD5) (reading & analysis skills)
• Zen & the Art of Sprinting (body-mind integration)

The CD also includes the full contents of the Tools for Transformation 2-CD Set, normally priced at $39. This, in itself, is an incredible package of information.

PLUS we include The New Life Course, normally priced at $39. Based on the principles described in Peter Shepherd's book 'Transforming the Mind' (also on the CD), this course takes you much further to give you the tools to really turn your life around. You will learn to look at the world with a more aware and open mind -- left brain and right brain working in harmony -- no longer suppressing your needs, wants and feelings. And so with enhanced confidence and self esteem, you feel ready to begin a new life of greater achievement and happiness.

SPECIAL OFFER! The MD Courses Package - only US$ 150.00!
The total cost would normally be $266, so you save $116! These courses are the result of 30 years of research by Gregory Mitchell, and are edited and prepared for publication by Peter Shepherd, who will provide you with unlimited email support after purchase.

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