Eyesight Improvement Forum

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10-11-2012, 05:31 AM

Thread: Contact lenses
Post: Re: Contact lenses

Since I have came back, I have noticed this forum has really gone downhill. At least half the topics are about glasses or making excuses to use them for totally unnecessary activities. Bates said that...

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10-06-2012, 09:36 PM

Thread: Contact lenses
Post: Re: Contact lenses

Oh, it is definitely the modern excuses for Bates teachers that started this nonsense. For perspective I found out about Bates in 2002, but from Quackenbush. So what happened? I never really tried, ex...

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10-06-2012, 10:16 PM

Thread: Qlue's Journal
Post: Re: Qlue's Journal

Oh man, this is too painful to read. Qlue Wrote:So far I've worn the glasses without taking them off for 3 full days straight. I am trying to consciously remind myself to do Centralization all the t...

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10-09-2012, 02:30 AM

Thread: Qlue's Journal
Post: Re: Qlue's Journal

@David: You are wrong, Rishi is very kind, kinder than most modern Bates teachers, who won't do anything without money. What he has no tolerance for is charlatan Bates teachers and people who make up ...

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10-09-2012, 10:04 PM

Thread: Qlue's Journal
Post: Re: Qlue's Journal

Now you have gone beyond insulting our intelligence, Clark Night. This forum is the top in results for "bates method forum" on search engines. Again like I pointed there is Success Stories subsection....

27,122

10-10-2012, 09:45 PM

Thread: Not giving up but progressing in a different direction
Post: Re: Not giving up but progressing in a different d...

You don't need glasses to go to school if you can get there without them by bicycling, the bus or public transit. You only need glasses to see the board. However, teachers almost always speak out what...

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10-11-2012, 01:38 AM

Thread: Not giving up but progressing in a different direction
Post: Re: Not giving up but progressing in a different d...

I am actually just writing a letter to my friend in prison with pen and paper, something I have not done in a long time right now in the dark at 5-6 am. In our house the lights are crappy and poor. Bu...

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10-11-2012, 04:09 AM

Thread: My Bates failure
Post: Re: My Bates failure

I think the text below explains in great detail in part why I feel frustrated. I have a malignant hatred to the society, social order and Nation State forced onto me by birth which also fuels my power...

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10-10-2007, 12:36 AM

Thread: FairTax
Post: Re: FairTax

This is naive. The so called "democratic process" is a mask for what really happens and how our society really works. Money is power in our society not voting. Who wins elections is mostly who has t...

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05-08-2008, 02:46 PM

Thread: My Bates failure
Post: My Bates failure

Sometime 2002 I found Relearning to See by Quackenbush at a local library and took it out. Since that day I have been aware of the Bates method. Later at a library booksale I found the edited down ve...

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09-14-2007, 03:39 PM

Thread: My Bates failure
Post: Re: My Bates failure

This excerpt describes the power process: Quote:The power process has four elements. The three most clear-cut of these we call goal, effort and attainment of goal. (Everyone needs to have goals whos...

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10-10-2007, 01:02 PM

Thread: My Bates failure
Post: Re: My Bates failure

Lately I have been reading The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness by Yongey Rinpoche Mingyur and have been practicing Buddhist meditation as outlined by the author. The autho...

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05-27-2008, 06:11 AM

Thread: Critique of modern medicine by Ivan Illich
Post: Critique of modern medicine by Ivan Illich

Ivan Illich Wrote:"Physicians are taught today to consider themselves responsible for lives from the moment the egg is fertilized through the time of organ harvest. They have become the socially respo...

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05-08-2008, 02:16 PM

Thread: Way to meetup with other Bates practitioners -- Northern NJ
Post: Way to meetup with other Bates practitioners -- No...

I would like a way to find other Bates method practitioners. I need someone to use the burning glass on me and return the favor by using it on them. I am in Northern NJ, about an hour from NYC in Dove...