Hi Near:
Thanks to you also, and for your great Amazon review too! As far as absorbing knowledge goes, maybe we get it the first time through, or the second, or the third. Going through the lessons more than once, as Shanti suggests, is the traditional way of harvesting knowledge because, as our awareness changes over time, we see more each time through. This is especially true if we are meditating. We will see more when reading any spiritual book the second and third time. As Anthem points out, reading can become spiritual practice, complete with the potential for energy overloads. That goes for writing it too. What's going on here?!
From my side, I felt that something more could be added to help facilitate exposure, plus adding some useful refinements. That is, presenting the AYP knowledge in multiple ways over time so more people would be able to find it -- run across it, if you will. If everyone in the world could run across it somehow, that would be "perfection." Hence, online lessons, a textbook (probably two), a novel, and a growing pile of small practice-specific instruction books (maybe 10 by the time they are done). It is just my way of getting the knowledge "out there" in as many ways as possible.
Next comes the AYP Enlightenment Series books in audio-book form (Deep Meditation, Spinal Breathing Pranayama, Tantra, etc). Beginning next year, I hope.
I even have a crazy idea to write a screenplay for the Secrets of Wilder, and have been studying up a bit for that. Maybe in a year or two, as time permits. Doing a reasonable first pass on a screenplay is the way to help get that ball rolling. A movie could take a very long time to happen -- years and years. The process has to start somewhere, like here on this old computer. Any movie industry people out there?
The guru is in you.