Comments & Questions
Visual mysteries present many teasing glimpses of seemingly impenetrable hidden mysteries. The mechanics of my experience is not enough! It is going to take all of us to alter, modify, and/or improve my theories.
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RE: Binocular Disparity
Response by Mary Johnston I believe the binocular disparity theory works with the orthodox theory that vision occurs in the cerebral cortex. But just for the moment, consider the divergent direction that vision occurs outside the brain at the interference pattern created by the marriage between the positive energy at the external object with the negative visual energy that exits the eyes creating a hologram - a sensation received via the mind located in the energy field. Then reverse engineer the binocular disparity theory as visual energy exits the eyes. Reversing the functions for normal vision to gain microscopic vision is the major example showing Capra's conclusion. Plus, viewers must study each visual variation and consider each and every aspect in order to make a decision on the whole. You can't review just one visual variation, i.e. stereograms, and understand how and why this visual theory was reached.
RE: Email Subject Line - something to think about
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RE: University of Maryland Physics of Light Course
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RE: Dennis Gabor
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RE: Afterimages & Green Filters in OR's
Response by Mary Johnston Liberman holds a Doctorate in Optometry from the Southern College of Optometry and a Ph.D. in Vision Science for his pioneering work in phototherapy. Formerly president of the College of Syntonic Optometry, Dr. Liberman is now president of Universal Light Technology, Ltd., in Aspen, Colorado, business doing research, development, and education seminars on phototherapy and phototherapeutic devices. Liberman is a pioneer in the therapeutic use of light and color and their relationship to human consciousness and personal transformation, and developing phototherapeutic devices for healing. His first book, Light: Medicine of the Future (Santa Fe, NM. : Bear & Co., 1991) is considered to be on the cutting edge of enlightened technology. If you do a Google search for Jacob Liberman you can pull up many articles. I highly recommend his book: Light: Medicine of the Future. That book also gives recommendations for anyone utilizing full-spectrum fluorescent tubes (pg 210). Liberman lived in Aspen, Colorado when I telephoned him years ago. From Susan Barber's interview with him, I see Liberman and his wife now live in Hawaii. Perhaps you can find his phone number in Hawaii. Or for information regarding lectures, workshops, this may still be a valid address: Jacob Liberman, O.D., Ph.D, P.O. Box 4058, Aspen, Colorado 81612 http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/mar1/liberman.htm
RE: Microscopic Vision
Response by Mary Johnston Knowing and understanding the microscopic vision process will lead you to control of microscopic vision. If you choose to follow the experiment, please, first read my disclaimer since I don't know the condition of your eyes or problems you may have. To gain full control, you need to allow some time for the visual neurons to adapt to the higher intensity light (3 days...it will vary with individuals...took me a week...). It would be important for you to read the page for afterimages and compare the process between normal vision and microscopic vision. Interesting the way the eye functions are totally opposite. My impression is that you are probably seeing fleeting glimpses of the aqueous humor contents that I described while in the hypnogotic state of full body relaxation just before sleep allowing more awareness of the microscopic scene. I just want to make sure you are identifying with my description and not something else. No, I have NEVER found any scientific literature regarding man's ability to use the naked eye as a microscope. And believe me, I've searched but that doesn't mean it is not so...just unknown. There was alot of scientific literature I found that gave the explanation I needed for certain occurrences but was never pin pointed towards microscopic vision. If you would have asked if I've uncovered any "UNscientific literature, then that's a different story. Dr. Karagulla at UCLA did research on "Diane" who had the ability of internal vision within the body. Then Barbara Ann Brennan, a healer, therapist and research scientist for NASA at the Goddard Space Flight Center with an M.S. in Atmospheric Physics...has X-ray vision into the body (Brennan, Barbara, Hands of Light). Diane and Barbara's internal & X-ray abilities on a scale of 1-10, I would say is a resounding 10 and what I describe with microscopic vision is a mere "1". I also strongly believe that once science gets involved with the experiments on my site and experience the truth to what I say that they will find the first clues to explain Diane and Brennan's mysterious internal and X-ray vision abilities. When I first began seeing microscopically, I knew I was seeing something but I didn't know what. It was moving/floating and always the same designs/shapes. First, I thought I was seeing something in the air that was unseen with normal vision. As I did research on the eye, my thoughts turned to microscopic molecules within the tear fluid. My research showed the tear film collects dust and matter and contains about fifteen different bacteria. Plus, the images I saw were not floating towards the lacrimal canal where the tear fluid drains into the nose. Using deductive reasoning and knowing what I saw was not dust and matter and there was never 15 different shapes/designs (bacteria) in what I observed. I then concluded what I was seeing was NOT within the tear film. My creative process became blocked...I simply could not figure out what I was seeing until.... One lady named Monica upon learning that I possessed the ability of microscopic vision approached me full of questions and ended up asking me if I would teach her how to use the naked eye as a microscope. She had her degree in medical technology. I started her out to see dominant vivid negative afterimages using 100 W light to adapt the neurons/synapses before taking her into microscopic vision. By that time, my eye/brain/hemisphere research showed me the need for higher intensity light, minute aperture creating coherence and smaller wavelengths in order for microscopic vision with the naked eye to occur. In the end, Monica saw exactly what I saw then I explained the process for microscopic vision. Suddenly, her eye lit up and she smiled, "Then, yes, one sees microscopically." Yes, she saw and understood. Monica told me that she used to see this observation when she was lying in the sun or on the beach while squinting and staring at the sun. But her thinking was, "Oh, that's just what happens to the visual system when you stare at the sun." She then let the thoughts go and questioned nothing. I believe probably everyone has seen this like you without control, but they are not THINKER personalities curious or questioning the occurrence to know and understand exactly what it was they saw. It was Monica with her background in medical technology that suggested the specimens we were observing were within the aqueous humor. My research dug deeper...
RE: Microscopic Vision http://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/spotsfloats.htm One of them decided to look into it (to prove me wrong) and found this article online, and it seems to substantiate that its cells and groups of cells in the vitreous, although it makes no reference to any body of work on the subject. It also mentions proteins, which I think may better explain the strandlike ones because vitamin A is incredibly tiny compared to the size of cells, so it seems unlikely to be seeing both in the same focal plane. A protein can be relatively large... In any case further explanation would be useful. I think its remarkable how little information there is (readily) available (i.e. google) on this phenomenon, given that it seems to be a visual representation of things much smaller than the human eye is normally capable of resolving. Given that the standard notion is that humans gained access to the microscopic world only in the 1500s, it would be interesting to consider the implications of this phenomenon and the speculation it might have given rise to in earlier times. As to your question about suggestion from your website, it is a good point (my MIT colleagues accused me of implanting the answer in the question when I brought it up at lunch). However, I have always thought it was something microscopic, because the resemblance to microscope slide images is uncanny. I think it would be great if you establish this with experiments for your book, and I'd love it if you kept me informed of your progress. Let me know if there's something I can help out with.
Response by Mary Johnston "...eventually most of them admitted that they'd experienced it...." Now you, no doubt, understand what I was attempting to tell you in what we observe was probably common but ignored by idle minds; therefore, the clues that the experience possess remained unknown. "...but they were skeptical that it was cells or anything at that small scale...." What, none of your MIT colleagues has the curiosity to check out my process of seeing afterimages and microscopic vision which will show and explain how the human eye CAN see things at that small scale? "...Nobody had a really good alternative hypothesis thought...." No alternative hypothesis but yet they are so quick to judge. Regarding the spotsfloats link your friend's search turned up: I'm aware of the floaters. But sorry, what is observed is NOT in the vitreous humor. Electromagnetic energy is encoded with the signals from the last specimen it came into contact with before it reaches the focus point at the minute pupil aperture; therefore, in the aqueous humor. Then visual energy due to the tiny pupil aperture begins to "diverge" after squeezing through the tiny pupil aperture taking up a larger area at the fovea. (Normal vision due to refraction "converges" the visual energy to a pinpoint on the fovea). Matt, I was impressed with you from your first email...your wondering, your questioning, your curiosity, your theory at what you were seeing just before you fell asleep in the car. Then you followed through and did something about it...a google search...then you took the time to email me with questions. Just remember, it is the rebels that end up making the difference and make the largest advances so don't let your laughing friends pull you down.
RE: Annoying Negative Afterimages My first impression was that he was a man who seldom or never wore sunglasses or hats to shield the incoming sunlight making his eyes/visual neurons more sensitive to incoming electromagnetic energy. He would have seen the bright oncoming headlights as a dark round shadows in his rearview mirror which would obviously be annoying to see what is behind you and to make a decision to change lanes etc. He fell into the minority of people who can see fleeting glimpses of negative afterimages. To cut down on his eye's sensitivity to light, I suggested that he wear sunglasses when out in sunlight. Sadly, I did not get the caller's name or phone number for further communication. As I later thought about his problem, he saw the annoying late night headlight negative afterimages as his eyes shifted to the rear view mirror and when watching late night TV late because the eyes normally constantly move but seeing negative afterimages requires an absolutely steady, unmoving gaze on the external object. His problem always occurred late at night after a long work day when his optical nystagmus eye muscles were fatigued refusing to move the eyes. He was exhausted ! Thus, he was driving with an absolute steady gaze and when he shifted his eyes to the rearview mirror, he also observed the headlight negative afterimages on the mirror backdrop. Same applies when watching TV. The caller needs to be aware that his body is telling him to STOP, don't work to exhaustion, relax, recharge your bodies energy level then go on. Otherwise, the next phase is sleep and a possible car accident. Only when his body is recharged and full of energy will normal eye movement return eliminating the annoying negative afterimage observation.
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