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I've gotten good results just from listening to some of the podcasts from this series. For example, it points out that you can only remember what you've paid some attention to, and how to pay more attention. There's also a piece about developing clearer memories of your past, and one about how to intentionally build associations and understanding which wil make it easier to remember what you study.
Unfortunately, it isn't cheap-- I caught some of it when the podcasts were free. This kind of thing is typically free for each podcast for a couple of days, and then discounted for a little while afterwards.
The lecturer was Vera Birkenbihl-- she seems to have a lot of material available in German, but very little in English.
I know that the "learning strategies" company is a purveyor of all manner of frauds and quackery. I once bought an "Aura Seeing" course from them and they are most famous for their Photo-reading program. That said, some bits are reputable or founded on fact. Can you vouch for these in particular?
I haven't listened to all of the podcasts in the memory course, but of those I listened to, there was no new age material, and all of it seemed at least sensible.
Would someone who knows German be willing to check out Birkenbihl's material and/or reputation?
I've also listened to some of their Win Wenger material, and there are dubious new age elements, but his hypnosis might at least be useful for cheap fun.
As far as I know Birkenbihl was NLP trained but didn't use the label herself for the stuff that she did. She also got a degree in psychology. She was highly paid management consultant/speaker.
While not advocating something like Quantum Healing she does have a program in which she says she teaches something "Quantum" with boils down to using things like Heisenberg uncertainity as a metaphor.
Wikipeadia notes that she was diagnosed with Asbergers.
She's not teaching something that would qualify for the label evidence-based, but then nearly no top management consultant does.