The Life and Insights of Joseph Chilton Pearce by Michael Mendizza

Author:Michael Mendizza
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Psychology/Self-Help
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Published: 2021-01-12T00:00:00+00:00

Sight 8

When French writer, philosopher, and professor Jacques Lusseyran was eight years old, his eyes were completely destroyed by an accident at his school. When the boy’s bandages were removed, his parents informed him that he had entered into a new kind of life, and that he must keep them informed of every discovery he would make in his new world. Children live in an open-acceptancy at that age, and within two weeks the first great event took place, his reports were ecstatic: the light he thought he had lost came flooding back in. But, and this was the far greater discovery, the light was within him. “All my life,” he reported, “I have seen only the light reflected off of things. Now I can see light as it is directly.” The light within, brilliant, awesome, and numinous, was a state as well as an experience; the light without was pale by comparison.

Then color came back, in a pristine, direct radiance of intense clarity unknown before; green was pure green, rather than the varied but weaker reflections of it off objects. Soon he could perceive the general presence of objects by a combination of his overall body-sensing and the subtle differences within the state of light itself. While he still couldn’t run and play with other children, he never again bumped into objects and hurt himself as did most newly blind.

He found, further, that at the slightest hint of anger, irritation, sadness, or self-pity, the light within him dimmed. If he persisted in a negative thought, the light went out. Only then was he truly blind, which was terrifying. He quickly learned, from sheer necessity and direct feedback, to rule out negative thought. My meditation teacher once said, “No thought would dare enter my head unless invited.” Would we be so mentally lazy and indulgent if we were to lose our sight at every negative thought?

Carl Jung spoke of the child living in the unconscious of the parent. The parent’s implicit beliefs and expectations are decisive factors in the formation of the child’s world-self-view, even when not spoken or expressed in any way.

Two centuries ago, William Blake claimed that he did not see with his eyes but looked through them as a pane of glass; we should learn to see creatively, he said, using active rather than passive vision. About thirty years ago the scientific community found that our eyes cannot convey light to our brain. The retina does not “collect light waves” and send them to visual receptors in our brain. Vision is a construction of the brain that we see with the help of our eyes when it refers to the outer world.

Research people claim that images are a primary part of thought. We think through imagery. Even congenitally blind people think in images.

Consider the scope of the self-fulfilling prophecies given children during those infinitely open years when the constructions of knowledge bring forth a world that is at its peak.

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