When wearing thick eyeglasses as a child, then thick hard contacts as a teen and adult, very bright light bothered me more than it did for those with no glasses. It was like my “correction” concentrated the light into a … more...
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Are You Noticing?
When I first started to tentatively explore the world of natural vision improvement, hardly daring to hope that this would help with my strong myopia, I came face to face with the realization that I often didn’t want to look … more...
Dream: The Depth Ball
I’m with my eye doctor, a friendly guy I’ve known for years, who usually treats me like a colleague instead of a subservient patient. I walk over to the adjacent office of a chiropractor, to notice everything there is dark … more...
Dream: The Teacher Suggests A Source For Vision Help
I’m in an energy healing workshop, led by a teacher I followed closely for years, traveling cross-country to see her many times. She’s working with a student I’ll call Y, who has also been following this teacher for years. The … more...
“Nobody Needed Glasses!”
In a recent interview, Biochemist David Rasnick, PhD, recalled some interesting observations he had made about health while working as a Peace Corps volunteer in Papua New Guinea in the early 1990s. [1] He emphasized that the indigenous people … more...
Are You Excited About Seeing?
Years ago an energy teacher told our class that fear and excitement are both triggered by the same neuro-chemical process, namely a surge of adrenaline. The difference between those 2 emotions lies in how we interpret this body sensation, which … more...
Fear is the Virus
Some modern teachers of natural vision improvement have linked myopia to a kind of fear. Fear is not so much about causing myopia as it is a signal of where you are in relation to where you would be most … more...
The Radical Cure of Errors of Refraction
Blindness Relieved by a New Method of Treatment
New York Medical Journal, Feb. 3, 1917, pp. 200-202.
A woman, fifty-four years of age, was first seen by me on May 9, 1915. Her son, who guided her into the office, stated that his mother had been “going blind” … more...
A Study of Imagination
Written sometime between 1920 and 1930. The copy I got a hold of was missing source info.
It is a truth that one can only imagine what one remembers. It is also a truth that one can remember only what … more...
Throw Away Your Glasses
Originally printed in Hearst’s International, vol. 44, no. 3, Sept 1923, pp. 42-43 & 128-132.
The “editor’s note” below is part of the original article.
Editor’s Note: When Mr. Hapgood was in Berlin he was astonished to see that the … more...
A Clinical and Experimental Study of Physiological Optics
Originally printed in the American Journal of Clinical Medicine, July 1921, pp. 437-443.
The “editorial comment” paragraph below is by the editor of the journal above.
EDITORIAL COMMENT — To be able to do without one’s eyeglasses, to read and … more...
Imagination and Vision
Originally published in the Journal of the Allied Medical Associations of America, Oct 1921.
Read at 10th Annual Meeting, Allied Medical Associations of America, held in Atlantic City, June, 1921.
At this time I have to announce what I consider … more...
Q&A on Reading – From Bates’s Better Eyesight Magazines
Gloria Ginn, a longtime vision improvement teacher, put together this collection of questions and answers about reading that Bates published at the end of various issues of his Better Eyesight Magazine.
View the PDF below, or download it … more...
New Book: Optimal Eyesight
Esther Joy van der Werf’s latest book is now out and available on Amazon!
Esther has traveled the world teaching people to improve their vision in workshops and personal sessions. She is the owner of visionsofjoy.org, one of the … more...
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What Foods and Supplements Are Good for Your Eyes?
Does the supplement industry have our good health in mind more so than the pharmaceutical industry?
Are we better off eating nutritious foods to get maximum nutrition, and skipping supplements altogether?
Or is there a reason we need supplementation?
Are … more...
Ditch the Dogma About Myopia
Eye doctors know best. That’s what we’re taught. If there were a natural treatment for myopia, or other conditions, eye doctors would know about it and be offering it to everyone.
Would they? What happens when there’s a new discovery … more...
How Do You Feel About Your Glasses?
As a child I felt trapped behind my thick heavy glass eyeglasses, caged even. I also thought they were necessary for me to be able to see. My mother often yelled at me that I’d “ruin my eyes” when I … more...
Pushing Visual Limits Gently
Well-intentioned coaches or teachers or parents often demand we try new activities, pulling us out of our comfort zone. They’re hoping to help us increase our skills and experience, yet if it’s too much of a stretch for us, we’ll … more...