Chaney - The Eyes Have It A Self-Help Manual for Better Vision

APPENDIX

Products, Suppliers, and Sources

Through the years, I have accumulated a wealth of information on natural products that seem to be beneficial to the eyes, as well as people to contact for supplies and services. I share that information with you here. The first place you should always check for products and remedies is your local health store or homeopathic pharmacy. Company addresses frequently change, and your local distributor should know where to point you for more information on how to get the products mentioned in this book.

Aloe-Vera Activator, and other Forever Living Products: write to Sonya and Wilbur Brown, 43540 Texas Street, Palm Desert, CA 92260.

Chelation therapy: Write to Dr. Robert Harmon, Desert Medical Center, 43576 Washington Street, Bermuda Dunes, CA 92201.

Fanie: An excellent line of beauty products. Of principal interest is the eye cream. It not only diminishes and prevents wrinkles around the eyes but, since it contains niacin, also acts as a blood activator to improve circulation around the eyes. Available through Dr. Valjean McGinty, P .O . Box 4873, Palm Springs, CA 92264.

Homeopathic remedies: Write to Standard Homeopathic Pharmacy, P. O . Box 61067, Los Angeles, CA 90061; or Borneman Homeopathic, 1208 Amosland Road, Norwood, PA 19074.

Herbalife products : offers a vitamin-mineral tablet made completely of herbs among their products. Primary distributor is Dr. Valjean McGinty, P. O . Box 4873, Palm Springs, CA 92264.

Schiff's products: offers a whole line of health care products. They particularly offer a one-a-day vitamin/mineral tablet that I especially like. It's free of wheat, yeast, corn, sugar, and starch. It has a base of rice and soy. Schiff's is available at most local health stores.

Vege-Homo products : for vitamins, minerals, and other nutritional supplements. Available through most health stores.

Wachter's organic sea products : Write directly to Wachter Products, 360 Shaw Road, South San Francisco, CA 94080. A note of inquiry will bring literature and a price list to you.

THE WINDOWS OF THE WHOLE PERSON

Note that the title of this book is The Eyes Have It. It is meant as an aid to sharpen your awareness as well as your eyes. So before we tackle techniques, I must ask you a question. See if you can answer it.

Do you realize you see with your consciousness and not your eyes?

A cow staked out to graze does not see the beauty of a landscape. Her awareness is only on the grass to eat. You, viewing the same landscape, see with your consciousness. Both the cow and you have eyesbut the conscious awareness in you sees with much more.

Another question: Could it be that by living to the highest potential of our awareness, the highest thought-voltage of our love force, we could see without glasses? That we could see with our fingertips? That we could see the unseen all about us?

It's just a thought. A thought-provoking thought. We'll consider it later. We'll consider first the physiology of the eye and exercises and methods to help you have healthy eyes. Then well consider consciousness againconsciousness in a world without glasses.

Stand at a large picture window and view the landscape in daylight. Notice how well you can see without your glasses. See the outline of hills, or any skyline. Don't worry about whether the scene is clear or blurred. Don't worry! Now cease to concentrate on seeing the scene. Think instead of a happy day in the past, or of a very funny story or joke. Suddenly any blur in the outside scene becomes sharp. Your entire vision temporarily becomes sharp and clear. As soon as you direct energy away from the eyes and cease to worry about them, the eyes immediately function properly, especially when thoughts are happy.

The expression of the eyes changes according to the emotions felt in the innermost part of your being. Sympathy, love, compassion, anger, hate, fearall of these emotions are reflected in the eyes as the state of inner consciousness looks through. This is true of the relaxed normal eye. A more modern aphorism might warn us that, although the eyes are windows reflecting the awareness of the soul, there are many types of windows. Because they also reflect the status of human health, eyes are often poor revealers of the soul.

One can never teach health for the eyes only; it must constantly be remembered that the eyes are part of, and involved in, the enitre physical being, the whole person. When health problems manifest anywhere in the body, the eyes are always affected, and usually first. The eyes, then, can be called the windows of the human trinitythe soul, the personality, and the physical body. Pain or discomfort can quickly cause the eye to become a distorted mirror of the soul.

SEEING AND PERCEPTION

She made me so mad I couldn't see straight! Don't let anyone continually make you angry, or soon the eyes won't see straight. Stress! For good vision there must be integration of vision with the evolution of your level of consciousness and awareness. Seeing straight might mean better understanding, cooler coping.

Seeing and perception could be partners; perception is the way we see the world; the way we see our husband or wife; the way we see a dominating parent; the way we see our future; the way we see God. Expanded consciousnessa greater awareness of life's mysteriescould mean better eyesight. A deliverance from the fear of death could open one's eyes to both physical and soul vision.

When you understand a certain teaching, you say, I see or I see what you mean. You are actually saying, I perceive your thought. I understand what you are saying. There are myriad ways of seeing.

And then there are those who can see with their fingertips, such as Rosa Kuleshova of Russia. She not only sees colors and chooses them correctly in blind tests, but she can also read blindfolded. Another, Lena Bleznova, can distinguish colors with her feet. A third, Nadia Lobanova, who is blind, can tell colors at a distance without touching them. With her hands eight inches from the text, she reads large letters, in both the light and the dark.

Others, in America and elsewhere, can select the correct colors in similar circumstances. Such an ability is called extraocular vision. Perhaps we have a crystalline lens and retina in our sensitive fingertips but don't know it. Perhaps as we unfold our other higher perceptions, we'll find we can see perfectly well with our fingertips even when our eyes can't.

But how does this second sight work? Sight has two organs: the eyes and the skin. The skin consists of visual microscopic ocelli distributed over the whole epidermis but especially in the fingertips. The ocelli possess a refracting body, an ocillary retina, an optical fiber.

This second-sight organ must have been originally designed for use in darkness (given that the eyes see only in light). The phenomenon of seeing in darkness is called nictopia. The problem is that of focusing peripheral or field vision into homocentric visibilityin other words, closing out all excessive areas to beam in on one small area. The difficulty, then, is not that of extending but of reducing the field of vision. Paroptic vision gains in integrity what it must lose of its integrality.

The paroptic visionthat of seeing with the fingertipscould be a bridge between physical and psychic vision. The diffused peripheral skin vision could be extended as a sky vision, like a telescope focusing on one small space. It could finally project itself beyond space and become psychic clairvoyance.