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How the eyes work and their relation to the mind
Deeper perspectives on eyesight
The VisionLight website for South Africa contains a few pages which take a deeper look at how the eyes work, and just what an enormous part the mind plays in how you see. When you take a scientific look at what the mechanisms of the eyes are and how your eyesight develops from the unformed vision of your infancy, it becomes very clear that the act of seeing what you think you see is something uniquely personal to you alone.
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Read more>>The personality of perception
In fact, seeing turns out to be not simply a mechanical operation, but an organically developed and developing mental empire which you have created uniquely. Seeing is actually your own personality.
This in turn explains the two-way mind-focus when you use your VisionLight pinhole spectacles. Unlike glass lenses, pinhole spectacles draw you into a deeper relationship between the analogue mechanisms of your eyes and the mind and personality behind those eyes:
- When you wear VisionLight pinhole spectacles in the right way, you find that a certain mental wellbeing related to your sense of seeing takes form
- When you take simple measures to calm your mind before using your VisionLight pinhole spectacles, you will find that seeing with them becomes enormously more dramatic than without those measures
So important is your personality in the mutual interaction between your mind and your eyes that every time a completely unknown object is watched, the eye, in order to focus on it, always commits an error of refraction. This is the uniqueness of human personality.
Measure how you see
You can measure how your sense of vision is working by using the Freiburg Visual Acuity Test (click) developed by Prof Michael Bach of Freiburg University. It's free and online.
Apologies
By the way, the new VisionLight website contained some faulty links that I failed to notice until this weekend. This meant you may not have been able to access these few important "Deeper Perspectives" pages on the mechanism of your eyes and the role of your mind in perception. My apologies for this oversight (if you pardon the pun).
The links have now been repaired, and the visual appearance of the VisionLight website somewhat tidied up into the bargain. I hope you find it interesting, useful and kind to your eyes.