Healing the Eye the Natural Way: Alternate Medicine and Macular Degeneration by Edward Kondrot

Author:Edward Kondrot [Kondrot, Edward]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Publisher: Fine Gold Press
Published: 2012-03-12T04:00:00+00:00

Aldous Huxley meets Dr. Bates

You may be surprised to learn that one of the great philosophers of this century, Aldous Huxley, benefited enormously from the method of eye treatment that I will be describing in this chapter. Mr. Huxley’s eye problems were due to an acute infection that left him blind for eighteen months and with the most limited vision after that. Even that began to fail in later years. In desperation, he began work with a vision training specialist, a woman who was an associate of Dr. Bates and a founder of the Bates Method. After several months, Mr. Huxley was reading without glasses and had much improved his vision. Problems of twenty-five years’ duration were improving. In gratitude for his own experience, he wrote The Art of Seeing in 1942 (now out of print, unfortunately) which relates the Bates Method of visual education with modern psychology and critical philosophy. The following quotation from his preface gives an idea of how he saw this work in the context of standard medical practice of his day, over fifty years ago. The following passage is taken from The Art of Seeing.

Why, it may be asked, have ophthalmologists failed to make these applications of universally accepted principles? The answer is clear. Ever since ophthalmology became a science, its practitioners have been obsessively preoccupied with only one aspect of the total, complex process of seeing – the physiological. They have paid attention exclusively to eyes, not at all to the mind which makes use of the eyes to see with. I have been treated by men of the highest eminence in their profession, but never once did they so much as faintly hint that there might be a mental side to vision, or that there might be wrong ways of using the eyes and mind as well as right ways, unnatural and abnormal modes of visual functioning as well as natural and normal ones.

Perhaps your experience has been the same as Huxley’s. Up until now, no one has suggested that there might be a better way to use your eyes. Welcome to a new world. I am going to outline a simple vision training program that you can begin doing today, in your own home, without purchasing anything! I know you will find that your ability to see improves.

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