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Thread: Clearing your vision with the Snellen -- by Dr. Bates
Post: Clearing your vision with the Snellen -- by Dr. Ba...

Dear Imagination-blindness friends, Here are the recommendations of Dr. Bates in using your Snellen to clear your distant vision (to pass the DMV -- and better.) The intuitive mind is a sa...

otis

Bates Method

4,667

09-07-2006, 09:37 PM

Thread: Introduce yourself here!
Post: Re: Introduce yourself here!

Dear Jim, There has been profound OBJECTION to that minus lens -- and the leader has been Bates. I take all objection to the minus lens to be the second-opinion. But the main goal "empowerment" so ...

otis

Bates Method

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09-07-2006, 10:34 AM

Thread: my eyes arent getting any better.. please help
Post: Re: my eyes arent getting any better.. please hel...

Dear Skyline, "You cannot by reasoning correct a man of an ill opinion which by reasoning he never acquired. We can also say that neither by reasoning, nor by actual demonstration of the facts...

otis

Bates Method

21,852

08-31-2006, 06:07 PM

Thread: my eyes arent getting any better.. please help
Post: Re: my eyes arent getting any better.. please hel...

Dear Sky, "People believe and do whatever they want to do, regardless of the facts presented to them." Thomas Quackenbush Excellent. You are very seriously over-prescribed. But yo...

otis

Bates Method

21,852

08-31-2006, 08:47 AM

Thread: my eyes arent getting any better.. please help
Post: Re: my eyes arent getting any better.. please hel...

Dear Sky, Subject: Rely on YOURSELF. The OD has NO INTEREST in anything you are doing -- at all. He does not want you to "progress". I do not know where you are on your "Snellen", but I would sug...

otis

Bates Method

21,852

08-30-2006, 06:51 PM

Thread: Bifocals? Question.
Post: Re: Bifocals? Question.

Dear Beetle, Rather than attempting to "patch" an old pair of glasses, I would simply order a new pair for $9 from Zennioptical. If you want a "bifocal" then they have that also, for a reasonabl...

otis

Complementary Methods

5,232

08-29-2006, 07:28 AM

Thread: TEMPORARY low-cost $8.95 Prescription Glasses
Post: TEMPORARY low-cost $8.95 Prescription Glasses

Dear Imagination-Blindness friends, "Change your thoughts and you change your world." Norman Vincent Peale As your vision begins to clear from using Bates, yo...

otis

Bates Method

4,537

08-28-2006, 06:28 PM

Thread: Re: To Otis (or others) about using plus lens.
Post: Re: To Otis (or others) about using plus lens.

Dear Lisa, This is a Bates site -- and I respect that issue. I personally wish that I had support for a PREVENTIVE second-opinion -- when I NEEDED it -- but never got it. I certainly DO UNDERSTAND ...

otis

Complementary Methods

7,657

08-23-2006, 08:31 PM

Thread: Re: To Otis (or others) about using plus lens.
Post: Re: To Otis (or others) about using plus lens.

Dear Lisa, Initially, the "plus" seems like the WRONG idea. The minus works "instantly" and the plus does not. This is indeed a paradox -- and takes time to understand. Time that most ODs can not s...

otis

Complementary Methods

7,657

08-23-2006, 08:15 PM

Thread: Re: My Progress So Far
Post: Re: My Progress So Far

Dear Bob, I am highly impressed by your success. As you know I argue "alternative methods" -- but I admire anyone who can "stick" with a program, clear the 20/40 line, and go pass the DMV level tes...

otis

Bates Method

12,263

08-23-2006, 11:15 AM

Thread: Dumb Quesiton, but what do the perscription numbers mean
Post: Re: Dumb Quesiton, but what do the perscription nu...

Dear Karo, Subject: Origin of the Snellen Chart. The orginal intent of the "distant" chart was to get the chart as far away as possible -- consistent with office space. (About 1864.) This turned ...

otis

Bates Method

12,133

08-20-2006, 06:02 PM

Thread: Farsightedness
Post: Re: Farsightedness

Dear "J" and Bifocal, Subject: Basic Science for the effect of a lens on the eye's refractive STATE. As I stated before, the theory-of-the-eye maintains that your refractive STATE is either negativ...

otis

Complementary Methods

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129,137

08-20-2006, 05:56 AM

Thread: Farsightedness
Post: Re: Farsightedness

Dear J, You recognize that Bates recommended avoiding the minus. I agree with him on that point. I do not know if this will help, but the primate eye IN THE WILD has refractive states running from ...

otis

Complementary Methods

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08-19-2006, 03:41 PM

Thread: Farsightedness
Post: Re: Farsightedness

Dear Bifocal, While your title thread was "Farsightedness", it looks like you were nearsighed. I have been wearing glasses for 30 years. At first for reading because I would have distance blur afte...

otis

Complementary Methods

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129,137

08-19-2006, 01:29 PM

Thread: Farsightedness
Post: Re: Farsightedness

Dear BiFocal, I am a "technical" person -- so I tend to "see" problems from a SLIGHTLY different perspective. I believe that Bates had many excellent points -- starting with the refractive STATE F...

otis

Complementary Methods

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08-19-2006, 06:18 AM

Thread: What Bates said about the minus. Agree? Disagree? Why?
Post: Re: What Bates said about the minus. Agree? Disa...

Dear Lou, I liked your response. I also liked this statement by Dr. Bates -- because I can confirm it experimentally. But the accurate experiments confirming Bate's statement developed LONG AFTER B...

otis

Bates Method

5,752

08-14-2006, 08:07 PM

Thread: What Bates said about the minus. Agree? Disagree? Why?
Post: What Bates said about the minus. Agree? Disagree...

Dear imagination-blindness friends, Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it's the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead "Y...

otis

Bates Method

5,752

08-14-2006, 10:17 AM

Thread: how long will it take to be cured using plus lenses?
Post: Re: how long will it take to be cured using plus l...

Dear SkyLine, No one can give you an exact answer to your question. But from your "-1 diopters" prescription (about 20/70) I would suggest that there is a possibility of "clearing" your 20/70 to pas...

otis

Complementary Methods

6,276

08-12-2006, 11:00 AM

Thread: Eye Doctors Vs. Bates
Post: Re: Eye Doctors Vs. Bates

Dear Rocky, The one issue of importance to me. It should not be Bates AGAINST the eye-doctors. There are eye-doctors who support Bates-type methods. Since myopia had now developed in 85 percent of...

otis

Bates Method

10,504

08-09-2006, 08:17 PM

Thread: Dumb Quesiton, but what do the perscription numbers mean
Post: Re: Dumb Quesiton, but what do the perscription nu...

Dear Joe, Most ODs write the "astigmatism" as negative. If that is the case then divide by 1/2 and SUBTRACT from the spherical. This would make your you Snellen reading worse. Best, Otis

otis

Bates Method

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08-09-2006, 06:02 AM

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