The Einstein Factor : A Proven New Method for Increasing Your Intelligence

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Summary: Educators should Read This Book
Review: The benefits of doing the exercises described in The Einstein Factor are wide ranging. I've been working with this book for the last four or five years and have noticed not only an improved ability of recall, but also an enhancement of detail, color of imagery, texture, vividness. I do dream work, psychic readings for others, tarot, etc and my perceptions have been greatly enhanced via The Einstein Factor . On a more pragmatic level, I recommend this book to teachers, counselors and others working with children and young adults as it will improve their own skills in many ways.

Jaye Beldo:[e-mail]

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Summary: For anyone who loves to learn
Review: This book describes itself as a proven new method for increasing your intelligence. There have certainly been many years of experimentation, research and teaching behind the methods presented. If you like learning, then you'll probably love a book about learning, and this is no disappointment: plenty of practical techniques to try out and a guarantee, I would say, that even if your intelligence doesn't change, your intuition will definitely have improved for practising these methods.
Central to the book is the technique of "image streaming". The main idea behind this is that we all have a constant stream of images flowing out from our subconscious minds, but traditional education and upbringing has generally taught us to screen out these images. So successful has our screening become, many of us believe that we don't have such images at all, and cannot "visualise" with eyes closed. The authors however reassure us that everybody has these images. Image streaming is the way to kick-start and develop our awareness of them. One particularly effective part of this technique is to use your own voice as a kind of feedback loop to reinforce and solidify the process of visualisation. I was surprised at how well a rich, sensory, and vocal description added to the vividness of my images.
Having laid the foundations with this basic technique, it can them be put to practical use is all sorts of ways: re-examining your own past, solving problems, answering questions intuitively for yourself and others. The research behind the book shows in the scientific theorising behind these and other techniques although, very often, the authors have to conclude that they don't really know why these intuitive techniques work; they just do!
There are plenty more goodies to try too: borrowing identities from your greatest heroes, modelling musical genius, photoreading at lightening speed, freenoting, achieving flow, and boosting brain power through oxygenation.
This book has an upbeat energetic style, which is probably a benefit of being co-written. It gave me a lot of new ideas, and I feel confident that the benefits will continue well beyond the simple enjoyment of reading.

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Summary: A self-help book that's not a sham!
Review: Win Wenger's book is very clearly written and, unlike most books on "how to use the power of your subconscious mind", this one provides actual exercises you can do - not vague claims and advice. As to whether image streaming makes you smarter, I don't know, but it does open up access to an endless source of ideas and insights. This practice is particularly useful for creative people. It's not unlike freewriting - only it's spoken and you use a tape recorder. This book is SO worth the money, because Wenger includes so many concisely presented ideas - enough for several books. (The reviews on this page claiming that image streaming can make you "lose control" strike me as strange. It should IMPROVE your sense of control and calm.)