We have been trained to think this is reading:

Read-contemplate-read-contemplate.

Instead, when you learn to read at mind speed instead of vocal or subvocal speeds you can absorb all of the information in one step (a.k.a. reading) and contemplate it in another handling it comfortably.

This is much more exciting and profound! (The fact that you do it so much faster is more of a nice side effect.) When you can sift through massive amounts of information with understanding (think, light years better than google; understanding means awareness of how one particle of data relates/affects another and fits into the whole) instead of reading and thinking, reading and thinking or grasping for a detail as you contemplate, you experience a quantum leap in human cognition.

If anyone has read Dune, you’ll see that Frank Herbert has already theorized about a bit of the potential of the human “soul”. (Soul to the ancient Hebrews means 1) everything that makes you you, the whole person or 2) the life you enjoy as a soul. Note that it never meant some shadowy thing in humans that is indestructable. I mean it in the first ancient Hebrew usage. I use that term because I believe that we as humans extend beyond the barriers of how we currently define ourselves in terms of our own anatomy/physiology.)

When you begin to read at mind speed you begin to realize that you are more than what the anatomy and physiology books say that you are. Information starts to flow in from the book but then as if you have a connection to the author and the subject themselves information begins to flow from beyond the pages of that book albeit very subtly.

All matter and energy is information and we can gather it, organize it and process it as nothing else in the known material universe can.

The human being alone can then make MORAL decisions in a universe of limitless information. This is something to wonder at. The human brain is the most complex of known physical structures in the known physical universe. Yet it may only be a focal point of quantum based information exchange. That explains how it could possibly be limitless while being material based.

So speed reading (a limiting term) can be a door to amazing growth.

It was mentioned above that someone should come up with a way to “speed up” other areas of life. Yes, when you are able to focus your whole soul on a one thing awesome things happen. It is ALWAYS better to be as focused as you can be when doing anything! Yes, even love making. Far from speeding things up it enriches it immeasureably.

If you go down this road you will eventually realize that you profoundly affect reality with your consciousness. This is a very wonderful way to realize goals in life.

Another application is our hard wired ability (though also a skill you need to develop) to heal yourself and others.

Sorry, if I wrote too much. I just wanted to kind of put out some points to ponder for those that think that we are already near our potential.

Metaphorically, this would be like landing on Mars and declaring that we’ve finally finished exploring the galaxy.

Look up mentat in wikipedia.org. Very interesting.