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... condition of hands I fell off to sleep. The warder saw this condition and reported that I had died. Authorities came and found me quite alive. I told them he was a fool. There is a French author Joules Romain. He is a medical man and a mystic. He can see with other parts of the body with eyes closed. He says, "Eyes are only a specialized organ." Other parts can as well be trained to see. But scientists ...

... thorn." Page 60 Sri Aurobindo : I see; so do the peace-makers say; they make war in order to end war! (Laughter) 24-4-1924 Eyeless Sight by Dr. Joules Romain Dr. Joules Romain demonstrated in Paris that a person with his eyes closed with dough of flour was able to see without using the organ of sight. The book affirms four centres of vision in the body over... become organised : for example, the eye or seeing. But all cells are capable of being conscious. Page 61 Disciple : But to what is due the phenomenon demonstrated by Dr. Joules Romain ? Sri Aurobindo : In his case it seems to be either a psychic or a psycho-physical phenomenon; because, in the first place, you have to meditate and, secondly, the doctor maintains that... working through them. Disciple : Ramakrishna felt the blows given to a bullock and there were marks of the stripes on his body. Is this action due to the kind of extended sense of which Dr. Joules speaks ? Sri Aurobindo : Yes. That kind of story is current about many yogis. It is, of course, due to the psychic sense – which is not limited to the physical body – but the intensity ...