Back when I wore strong glasses and then thick hard plastic contacts, bright lights seemed like an assault to my eyeballs. It felt like laser beams or daggers were coming toward me, and I recoiled in alarm. The last thing … more...

The normal lubrication of the front of the eyes comes from each blink spreading the tear film across the surface. We should be blinking every few seconds, and I’ve written more about blinking here. People can complain about Dry … more...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

New York Medical Journal, May 8, 1915, Vol 101, No 19.

Introduction

In most textbooks on ophthalmology it is clearly stated that errors of refraction are incurable, and that relief of the symptoms can be obtained only with the aid … more...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Download the Kindle version here

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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...

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...