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Thread: Bates Method criticised ?
Post: Re: Bates Method criticised ?

Here is a fascinating historical account of NVI and the Bates Method written up in Life Magazine, 1957: <a class="postlink" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=Mj8EAAAAMBAJ&p...

JMartinC4

Bates Method

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08-11-2010, 01:20 PM

Thread: Most terrifying thing
Post: Re: Most terrifying thing

Doctors and lawyers and op-thal-mol-o-gists Dentists and preachers and eye antibiotics Corporate politicians dancing on strings - Those are a few of my most terrifying things! :D

JMartinC4

Bates Method

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08-18-2010, 10:16 AM

Thread: Becoming a Bates Method Teacher
Post: Re: Becoming a Bates Method Teacher

What was the date on that quote? It is a good description of why myopia has become more prevalent and progressively worse world-wide since the 'scientists' began measuring it circa 1900. They aren't...

JMartinC4

Bates Method

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04-10-2010, 06:43 AM

Thread: Becoming a Bates Method Teacher
Post: Re: Becoming a Bates Method Teacher

Here is an absolutely illuminating article on the topic of newborns and what medical 'science' has done to us for 100 years: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.rbs2.com/SilvNitr.p...

JMartinC4

Bates Method

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04-10-2010, 11:22 AM

Thread: Becoming a Bates Method Teacher
Post: Re: Becoming a Bates Method Teacher

JW - thanks. 1956. I was born in 1954 = practically every newborn in America was still receiving within an hour of birth a caustic 1% solution of silver nitrate into both eyes if they were born in a...

JMartinC4

Bates Method

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04-11-2010, 08:34 AM

Thread: Becoming a Bates Method Teacher
Post: Re: Becoming a Bates Method Teacher

Nancy, Yes, and thanks to you and David and everyone here on this fantastic website. I never would have come up with this info without this base of operations and encouragement. According to the 20...

JMartinC4

Bates Method

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04-12-2010, 10:13 AM

Thread: I found what keeps me back!
Post: Re: I found what keeps me back!

Now imagine what the effects on the unconscious might be if the infant falls asleep during the period of blurred vision? Or what if the infant wakes up in a darkened room when the blurring period wear...

JMartinC4

Bates Method

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08-23-2010, 09:55 AM

Thread: motivation
Post: Re: it works

basic714 Wrote:I've attempted bates method, however I just keep losing motivation. How do you guys keep your motivation?It's kind of like golf - if you don't get a thrill out of hitting a little whit...

JMartinC4

Bates Method

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08-27-2010, 10:53 AM

Thread: Becoming a Bates Method Teacher
Post: Re: Becoming a Bates Method Teacher

Forget it. First realize that your myopia is a result (probably) of nothing more (or less) than the drops that were put into your eyes within an hour of your birth. Don't try to make money off of th...

JMartinC4

Bates Method

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04-12-2010, 04:51 PM

Thread: Becoming a Bates Method Teacher
Post: Re: Becoming a Bates Method Teacher

Esther - Sorry, I was too blunt. Thank you very much for responding! Here are some possible answers to your questions which would fit with my theory and discovery: 1a. One reason everyone isn't near...

JMartinC4

Bates Method

22,692

04-13-2010, 06:01 AM

Thread: Bates Method criticised ?
Post: Re: Bates Method criticised ?

... But why would anyone "...unconsciously wipe away..." their normal and necessary distance-focusing tear film? Apparently when the mind is pointed in one direction while the visual system is point...

JMartinC4

Bates Method

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09-07-2010, 05:51 AM

Thread: newbie
Post: Re: newbie

As of last week, I would now say, that the first thing to do before beginning the Bates Method or any other natural vision improvement method, is to be aware that one probable cause of nearsightedness...

JMartinC4

Bates Method

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04-18-2010, 09:37 AM

Thread: newbie
Post: Re: newbie

David, Good comments. Thank you. Have you read the two documents that are linked in my signature? There is a 1989 report by a National Academy of Sciences commission on the increasing prevalence an...

JMartinC4

Bates Method

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04-18-2010, 02:57 PM

Thread: The Irony
Post: Re: The Irony

I probably benefitted from a low sense of smell. I had a concussion when I was about 11. And both my parents smoked cigarettes. But more importantly, when I was born in 1954, within the first hou...

JMartinC4

Bates Method

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04-20-2010, 04:35 PM

Thread: Why progress is slow, and most people are never truely cured
Post: Re: Why progress is slow, and most people are neve...

Gospel of St. Matthew, Chapter 23, Verse 13: Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of Heaven against men. For you neither go in, nor do you allow those entering t...

JMartinC4

Bates Method

38,632

09-20-2010, 05:18 PM

Thread: Double image
Post: Re: Double image

noneother Wrote:Hi, I'm seeing clear images but they're doubled - I see a clear image but around it are double/ghost images. This is with one eye covered too. How does one make the images appear to be...

JMartinC4

Bates Method

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09-29-2010, 01:34 PM

Thread: my myopic and depression
Post: Re: my myopic and depression

If you were born in a modern American (or most other industrialized countries') hospital after 1956, you received within two hours of your birth, an antibiotic 'treatment' of probably erythromycin or ...

JMartinC4

Bates Method

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04-22-2010, 04:24 PM

Thread: my myopic and depression
Post: Re: my myopic and depression

Fortunately for all of us, there is tremendous variation in human beings. We need to do longitudinal studies to see if the eye that is treated first is always the eye which develops worse (or better?)...

JMartinC4

Bates Method

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04-23-2010, 06:25 AM

Thread: newbie
Post: Re: newbie

I don't disagree with you. I am at a point in my life where I could choose to pursue this in a number of ways: journalistically, PhD-psychologically, PhD-demographically, NVI-teachability, etcetera....

JMartinC4

Bates Method

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04-23-2010, 06:36 AM

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

seetheleaves Wrote:ooo.. very interesting idea. when you diverge the Snellens to make the 3rd Snellen, do you see all the letters line up equally? do they line up overtop of each other?Yes. It teaches...

JMartinC4

Bates Method

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09-30-2010, 07:43 AM

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