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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...

RoyFokker

David's method

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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...

RoyFokker

David's method

31,020

10-11-2012, 04:09 AM

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

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RoyFokker

David's method

27,122

10-11-2012, 05:31 AM

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...

RoyFokker

David's method

27,122

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 ...

RoyFokker

David's method

27,122

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....

RoyFokker

David's method

27,122

10-10-2012, 09:45 PM

Thread: Computer use, with or without glasses?
Post: Re: Computer use, with or without glasses?

First off, there should be no debate on this glasses nonsense all the time. Here is what the admin of this site said about this: David Wrote:<a class="postlink-local" href="http://w...

RoyFokker

Bates Method

21,293

10-04-2012, 02:45 AM

Thread: Strange thing
Post: Re: Strange thing

I read a case history on seeing.org that also highlighted the emotional effects of using the Bates method: ... Quote:Awareness and acceptance brought about big emotional swings; I felt I was standing...

RoyFokker

Bates Method

23,972

04-30-2006, 06:08 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...

RoyFokker

David's method

21,553

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...

RoyFokker

David's method

21,553

10-06-2012, 10:16 PM

Thread: How do I change my perscription for reduced vision glasses?
Post: Re: How do I change my perscription for reduced vi...

Yeah the recommendation is don't read books by or pay to see crap eyesight teachers, natural vision educators or "Bates teachers". They want to cast a wide net for customers -- or revenue maximization...

RoyFokker

Bates Method

16,073

09-24-2012, 08:12 PM

Thread: How do I change my perscription for reduced vision glasses?
Post: Re: How do I change my perscription for reduced vi...

A good example of the low standard of contemporary Bates teachers: In Quackenbush's book and his extreme editing and butchering of the Perfect Eyesight Magazines by Bates, he has in the back of those ...

RoyFokker

Bates Method

16,073

09-26-2012, 02:31 PM

Thread: How do I change my perscription for reduced vision glasses?
Post: Re: How do I change my perscription for reduced vi...

Yes, it is important! Quackenbush, has been a Bates teacher since 1983 according to his books! So in all these decades he must have had lots of success... Nope! He had to lower the pole vault height b...

RoyFokker

Bates Method

16,073

09-26-2012, 03:44 PM

Thread: Getting a reduced RX
Post: Re: Getting a reduced RX

I just started wearing a pair of extra glasses my brother used to wear as his backup that I noticed were a weaker prescription than the current ones I was using. Before that I mostly wasted my time by...

RoyFokker

Bates Method

20,332

05-12-2006, 05:06 PM

Thread: Motivated to the Bates method
Post: Re: Motivated to the Bates method

It is better to bring the fine print really close to you and to bring your head very close to the monitor and to discard your glasses. You have to accept the limitations of your imperfect eyesight a...

RoyFokker

Bates Method

14,185

06-03-2008, 09:41 AM

Thread: Imperfect Sight Is Mostly an Illusion
Post: Re: Imperfect Sight Is Mostly an Illusion

Your mind and eye both see, it is not one seeing to the exclusion of the other, they are a totality which cannot be seperated. To be more correct your eyes send sensory data to the brain and the bra...

RoyFokker

Bates Method

12,265

05-27-2008, 08:07 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...

RoyFokker

Off Topic

14,900

10-10-2007, 12:36 AM

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...

RoyFokker

Off Topic

14,900

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...

RoyFokker

Off Topic

14,900

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...

RoyFokker

Off Topic

14,900

05-27-2008, 06:11 AM

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