Yoga of Perfect Sight

Limits of Vision

It is said that letters on the Snellen test card marked twenty cannot be seen at a greater distance than twenty or thirty feet, but some persons can read even smaller letters at this distance. It can be demonstrated that the small letter O with a white centre can be seen perfectly at any distance when one can imagine the white centre perfectly white at that distance. When one can imagine such a letter at thirty feet. his vision will be 30/10. The perfect imagination of the letter O. or of other objects, is always associated with perfect sight of other letters or objects not known.

Field. In many cases of imperfect sight, not only in low central vision, there is a loss of the ability to see objects on one side. Perfect imagination is a cure for an imperfect Held. In some cases of destruction of the centre of sight of the retina, with total or partial loss of vision, it is difficult to understand how the use of perfect imagination or relaxation has been followed by a permanent cure.

Night Blindness. Some cases with imperfect sight see better in a bright light than they do in a dim light, and some cases are so marked that they have been described as cases of night blindness. These cases are cured at first temporarily, later more continuously by the perfect imagination of the letter O or some other object in a dim light as well as in a bright light.

Day Blindness. Some patients may read in good light only two lines of the Snellen test card, but after the light is dimmed, the vision may become 20/10. These cases are quite readily cured by the intelligent use of sun gazing. When the patient becomes able to imagine letters in a bright light as well as in a dim light, the vision becomes normal.

Colour Blindness. All persons with imperfect sight have an imperfect perception of colours. They may see large letters blacker than small letters, or the white spaces of large letters may appear whiter than the white spaces of small letters. Some patients may describe the colour of large letters of the Snellen test card as blood red, or they may see the large and small letters as grey or blue or purple, or any colour. The perfect imagination of one letter or other object is a cure for these cases of colour blindness. Even cases of colour blindness associated with diseases of the retina or the optic nerve are benefited by the intelligent use of the imagination.

Size. The size of letters of the Snellen test card or other objects depends entirely upon the imagination. If the imagination is perfect, one may imagine the size of known or unknown letters at the near point or at the distance correctly. If the imagination is imperfect, the size of letters or other objects will be imagined incorrectly. It is interesting to observe that artists who are familiar with the size of things which they draw very seldom present a perfect drawing of one object. A portrait painted by one painter may look entirely different from a portrait of the same person by some other artist. It is because of the variation of their imagination.

Treatment. It can be demonstrated that we see not the image focussed upon the retina, but our interpretation or our imagination of this image. Imagination, when used properly, is the most satisfactory. most accurate, most helpful method to obtain perfect sight. To improve the imagination it is first necessary to improve the memory: to improve the memory it is first necessary to improve the sight, to improve the sight it is first necessary to improve the imagination.

Halos. For example. persons with good sight appear to see the white spaces between the lines of fine print to be whiter than the margin of the page. It can be demonstrated that this is an illusion. We do not see illusions: we only imagine them. When the white spaces between the lines appear whiter than the margin of the page, we call these white spaces halos. Most of us believe we see them, and it is very difficult for many people to realize that the halos are not seen but only imagined. The halos might be called the connecting link between imagination and sight. To see the halos is to improve the imagination, and the vision for the letters also improves. One can improve the vision for reading not by looking at the letters, but by improving the imagination of the halos. To look at the letters very soon brings on a strain, with imperfect sight. To look at the white spaces and to improve their whiteness, is a benefit to the imagination and to the vision. One cannot read fine print unless the halos are imagined. By practise one becomes able to imagine or to see the halos more perfectly—the better the imagination, the better the sight.