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Thread: Progress...
Post: Re: Progress...

Nancy Wrote:just be careful of end-gaining, like expecting to improve at a certain steady rate, or reach a certain level of improvement by some specific future time. When I first read Huxley's phrase ...

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Complementary Methods

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11-12-2009, 01:48 PM

Thread: woman on youtube improves eyesight by using lower prescripti
Post: Re: woman on youtube improves eyesight by using lo...

You can order eyeglasses quite cheaply online, specifying your own prescription. This might be a way of circumventing the problem of convincing a puzzled and bewildered optician to humour you.

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Bates Method

13,407

10-20-2009, 05:13 AM

Thread: A skeptic asks...
Post: A skeptic asks...

I have a few other questions regarding vision improvement, but after some consideration I thought i'd better ask them here as they are more from a skeptical perspective. (Let me just preface all of t...

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Bates Method

16,096

10-17-2009, 05:59 AM

Thread: A skeptic asks...
Post: Re: A skeptic asks...

Thanks for the encouraging words. I'm pretty good at politely asking my skepticism to take a back seat while I try something outside what is accepted by the mainstream. I will allow myself to be con...

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Bates Method

16,096

10-20-2009, 05:43 AM

Thread: A skeptic asks...
Post: Re: A skeptic asks...

JMartinC4 Wrote:If you havenât experienced it, you have every reason to doubt the veracity of the Bates or any other natural vision-improvement methods. I think this personal experience element real...

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Bates Method

16,096

10-28-2009, 02:23 PM

Thread: A skeptic asks...
Post: Re: A skeptic asks...

I could not tell you how strong my glasses are, as I don't have my prescription handy. Very strong, I would say. I can't read the largest letter on the optician's eyechart unaided, though I am just ...

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Bates Method

16,096

10-24-2009, 12:45 PM

Thread: Bates Methods Proven by Research
Post: Re: Bates Methods Proven by Research

(Archive bingeing! Hope no-one minds me bumping this older thread.) Otis, you wouldn't happen to know where one could come by Michael McClay's research papers, would you? I've been hunting around o...

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Bates Method

18,830

11-09-2009, 05:19 AM

Thread: why doesnt sungazing burn your retina?
Post: Re: why doesnt sungazing burn your retina?

Judyb Wrote:It is not safe and sungazing does burn your retina. A few seconds of staring at the sun will destroy a small part of the retina and cause permanent reduction of vision. It is called sol...

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Bates Method

29,309

11-07-2009, 10:21 AM

Thread: why doesnt sungazing burn your retina?
Post: Re: why doesnt sungazing burn your retina?

Thanks, David! Once again, very illuminating (no pun intended). So, as I understand it, we're basically talking about a matter of degree; ie that some (careful, controlled, limited) exposure to the ...

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Bates Method

29,309

11-07-2009, 02:59 PM

Thread: why doesnt sungazing burn your retina?
Post: Re: why doesnt sungazing burn your retina?

Incidentally, the reason I am going on about this rather is because that where the Sun is concerned there exists a grave risk of real, disabling, irreversible damage to the eyesight--damage occuring i...

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Bates Method

29,309

11-07-2009, 03:16 PM

Thread: why doesnt sungazing burn your retina?
Post: Re: why doesnt sungazing burn your retina?

I had uncomfortable experiences with over-exposure to the sun a few times before I got glasses, and afterwards in situations where I had removed my glasses. For example, while spending a day at the b...

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Bates Method

29,309

11-08-2009, 02:38 PM

Thread: eye floaters anyone?
Post: Re: eye floaters anyone?

I've always had scads of floaters--since infancy, I'm sure, and certainly since 4 or 5. They've never troubled me. Everyone I know has them to some degree or another.

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Bates Method

36,012

10-20-2009, 07:15 AM

Thread: Going without glasses is dangerous
Post: Re: Going without glasses is dangerous

I am experiencing a similar kind of frustration, but was rather expecting it so it hasn't hit me as hard. I'm driven to speculate that the reason Bates saw bad outcomes in people who continued to use...

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Bates Method

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11-07-2009, 11:13 AM

Thread: Going without glasses is dangerous
Post: Re: Going without glasses is dangerous

I'm not an expert here by any means, so hope no-one minds if I jump in & say a couple of things. Firstly, nothing I have ever accomplished in my not-quite-four decades that was at all worth accom...

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Bates Method

36,938

11-07-2009, 07:32 PM

Thread: Three cups Accommodation exercise
Post: Re: Three cups Accommodation exercise

This is actually quite an interesting excercise. I was able to do it pretty much from the word go; it's similar to certain visual practices I've used for trancework & meditation in the past. Int...

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Bates Method

48,422

10-28-2009, 02:28 PM

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