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In Focus: Vision, Mind & Body
By Michael Christian Balboa Press
Copyright © 2016 Dr. Michael Christian
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ISBN: 978-1-5043-0033-9
CHAPTER 1
QUANTITY, QUALITY, QUANTUM, OR QQQ: A PARADIGM OF SIMPLICITY
When it comes to primary eye care, you should first consider the following questions: What is good vision? Who determines this? How do you know that you have good vision? Is vision based just on genetic inheritance, or is it rather an active, integrative, and motivational process? Are you at ease or under duress with your vision?
These are questions of awareness. When they are answered well, new possibilities of vision can occur. So let us consider various aspects of this light-directed process.
Vision is unique to the individual. No two people see in exactly the same way; if they did, they would be in the exact space-time paradigm. Seeing is perception, giving meaning to light (particles and/or a wave) reflected off matter in all its forms — whether solid, liquid, gas, or plasma. Interestingly, no one can see light directly or even within space (between objects) but rather reflectively from all objects it interacts with.
In truth, it is unseen! We really do not see objects; we see their imagery (and therefore their interpretation). We cannot see no-thing! To see anything requires myriad physiological processes involved in this, all occurring in parallel to determine the following: detail discrimination, spatial context, stationary and dynamic position in space, brightness, colour, saturation, and contrast sensitivity. Biochemical processes, neuronal conduction, muscle posture and movement, vestibular interaction, proprioceptive cues, kinesthetic reflexes, and thought and emotional processes all have to be coherent for us to see well. They are all required to be phase coherent with respect to the speed of light, so direct and contextual meaning can occur in a state of easefulness.
Vision requires coherence to thought processes, emotional value, posture, and balance interaction, which are enacted spontaneously or voluntarily via the motor system. Vision is simultaneously a projection of consciousness into space and a reception of information to consider cognitively, emotionally, and spiritually.
As we see in our individual ways and in a commonality of agreement (what we would consider normal for the population), there is a requirement for balance between conscious observation (awareness) and all the processes that support this (in conscious unawareness) that are occurring simultaneously and automatically in the pre-, sub-, para-, and supra-consciousness domains. At the outset, this appears to be complicated, particularly in the manifestation of functional visual anomalies of myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism, and presbyopia. After this, if physical pathologies such as cataracts, macular degeneration, glaucoma, and other ailments occur, all of these are treated only within the physical paradigm of Newtonian understanding.
What is really happening? First, there is an unease functionally, which, if not brought into check by homoeostatic processes, may lead to greater unease or a pre-disease state. When this unease comes to a breakdown of process, disease ensues. There is a plethora of information in the literature on how to treat functional and pathological ophthalmic issues according to Newtonian scientific thinking, but there exists absolutely minimal information as far as a quantum perspective is concerned.
This is not the fault of current practitioners, who perform their crafts in the science that they know, but rather it is due to the advent of new thinking that is not only based on deterministic rationale but also inclusive of heart, soul, and spirit. This knowledge — or more so, knowing — is gathering momentum. It is reconnecting all the dissociated parts or disciplines of learning into cohesive creative possibility. If there is creative possibility, there needs to be an understanding of what is wrong and what is right. With all the intricacies and complexities of what is wrong, there is also right before us (when we make time to see) the simplicity of connection. This is consciousness. This is the ground of our being. When we are (the unity of time), then our doing, our functioning, our working, and our playing have great effect. These activities are in harmony, because they have a greater depth of being or a poise of stillness (of time) affecting the coherence of doing in space. This is ease.
The Newtonian paradigm tends to isolate entities into states of separate observation. The greater the observation, the greater the disconnection.
Even eye examinations tend to dissociate the back of the eye from the front of the eye and from the surrounding tissues: anterior segment, posterior segment, and the adnexa. The problems of the eye are looked at in isolation, categorized, and then compared to statistical normality for consensus. Specialties are set up, such as a corneal specialist, retinal specialist, vitreo-retinal specialist, etc. This is a flow-on effect of isolation — dynamic but disconnected.
The quantum world of observation, on the other hand, is in a flux or flow between potentiality and actuality (the seen and unseen), surprise, and even shock. A complementarity exists between what is observed and what is thought to be possible. This is a focus of actuality and of the mind's imaginings. It means that vision is in a state of flow between interpreted objects and subjective possibility, certainly not objective, as the Newtonian belief would have us believe or understand. This model is therefore incomplete.
Reading letter charts and cards in dimly illuminated rooms is not a true gauge of vision. In 1862, even Dr. Hermann Snellen, a Dutch ophthalmologist, did not design them to be the present-day (publicly entrenched) gospel of 20/20 vision or better. He designed them only to be guides of detail discrimination. These charts and cards do not even consider the dynamic of changing from distance viewing and close viewing to a larger or smaller spatial context. Everything with respect to them is black and white, other than various shades of grey, with contrast-sensitivity charts, which are viewed at fixed distances.
All these tests have a certain type of validity, as they are performed worldwide every day. But there is no dynamic; there is no flow. There is no complementarity between motion and stillness or between dynamic and stationary. Everything is measured and given a quantification (in a stationary state), but qualities are not even considered in the mix of how the eyes feel. Are they more relaxed, more open, more comfortable even in movement?
So why this preamble? In my quest to facilitate improved vision for patients, I intuitively, more than twenty years ago, started to consider the relationships among stationary measurement, dynamic movement, their quantities, their qualities, and how they interfaced with one other. The quest seemed daunting, as I was going against the general grain of doctrine that vision could not improve with the wearing of glasses. But this did not matter; I was out for an adventure nonetheless. My preparation in life and experience of deep-end situations were a perfect genesis for expanded consciousness and the subsequent unfolding of events.
Newtonian science has an outstanding track record of separating information systems. As a result, there are many learned people on this planet who are brilliant in their respective fields but cannot comment on the connecting of systems. In some ways, this is good for an in-depth knowledge base but completely isolationist for a flow of information. It is therefore hard to gain information needed other than via (the privilege of) rational objective protocols, which are taught rigorously and that a scientist dare not depart from, lest he be excommunicated by his respective peers. This results in a rigid platform for conformity in scientific endeavour. It is also a controlled system and can lead to great inertia, thwarting new possibilities of thinking. Regardless of this, there are sparks of genius throughout the ages that Newtonian science could not have envisioned. Such changes that come are disruptive.
A classic example of this is the Wright Brothers. Wilbur and Orville were bicycle mechanics who dreamed about flying. They had hope in their hearts, or in terms of quantum theory, they considered the possibility that flying could become a reality. They were on a quest. They had no formal qualifications in aerodynamics or aeronautical engineering. These sciences did not exist then. But they had excellent powers of observation (awareness and applied consciousness) and of putting things together, salted with a dedication of belief.
What these men did on December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, changed the natural world forever. They flew a motorized biplane that has enhanced the speed of travel to all parts of the world today. It was thought impossible then, but it happened — an expression of discontinuous leap. When it was known and accepted to be possible, which they documented via film, whole new industries arose quickly. These industries are rigorously connected to allow safe air travel today. This work was creative and, over time, led to a syntropy (self-generation) of new products and creativity rather than an entropy or breakdown. Today, the public generally takes it for granted that we can fly. It is our conditioning and habituation now. Maybe we can teleport one day. Not possible yet?
This example gives an overview of knowledge, invention, possibility, differentiation, integration, and other possibilities. Are these just epiphenomena from a materialist's perspective? Hardly, when one considers the dynamics of quantum physics.
Good science does not exist in isolation. The very word science is derived from Latin, namely scientia, meaning knowledge, skill, expertness, awareness, acquaintance. It embodies consciousness and is therefore a connector. It has flow to other possibilities, even the arts and love. It is an expression of consciousness that enriches us.
Separation has been occurring since time immemorial. It has expressed itself in many guises over the centuries. Its first expression in Judeo-Christian understanding was in the time of Genesis in the garden of Eden. Man separated himself from Yahweh (the self-existent one = eternal or infinite being) by going against his instruction (the way of being). This may, in the natural mind, seem simplistic. From a quantum perspective, there was a separation from pure consciousness and interconnectedness (coherence). Man wanted another possibility, the tree (mind) of knowledge of good (adjective of God) and evil (another way). Enter the bipolar nature or duality and oscillation.
Prior to this time, everything was good. Shock (incoherence) immediately ensued upon separation. Emotions clamped down on the isolated self of being. The repercussions have been experienced for centuries since: disease, crime, and even murder.
Fortunately, it is not all like this. Good things have occurred and occur now regardless. Why? Because consciousness chooses. Consciousness wants health, well-being, and harmony among us all, when we trust or allow ourselves to be in those possibilities and allow instruction to take place. Let us consider applying this to vision care today.
The separations in the treatment of vision had their beginnings in the time of Sir Isaac Newton who most cleverly and mathematically described the refraction of light through lenses and prisms through geometric optics. This work was a landmark of scholarship in 1706, entitled Opticks. To this day, Newton's formulations are still used. It was all about quantity. In 1810, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — famous for his literary prowess in plays like Faust — wrote, in 1808, the treatise Die Farbenlehre or Colour Theory on the use of prisms. This treatise gave an exhaustive qualitative account of the colours of the spectrum and their effects on health. Are these qualities considered in mainstream science today? The simple answer is no. However, the Austrian philosopher, Rudolf Steiner, fostered Goethe's writings in his anthroposophic movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in central Europe. Colour therapy is most wide-spread in anthroposophy today.
Another separatist, the seventeenth century French philosopher, Rene Decartes, coined the phrase cognito, ergo sum (Lt.) or, I think, therefore I am. Here is the separation of mind and body. As an observation, the state of being is a result of thinking — isolationist again. Descartes did not know that the primacy of consciousness is the ground of all being.
The Renaissance (from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries) brought in separation between church, state, and learning because of corrupt practices. This separation ushered in secularism; spirituality was relegated to the church. Learning, academic scholarship, and the arts were freed from spiritual authority.
Since this period of time, the fruits of these labors have caused a great division and struggle for many to find meaning in their lives. Unfortunately, a state of separation, isolation, and polarization has perpetrated itself up to the modern era.
Even in the consideration of energy, classical Western physics states that there is only kinetic and potential energy. There is no expression for a state in between or a connector between stillness and flow. In 1979, Gary Zukav published The Dancing WuLi Masters. One of the meanings of WuLi (from the Chinese Mandarin language) is organic flow. Translated roughly in English, it is known as physics. As this expression implies, there is a flow of the kinetic; there is a stillness of the potential in a poise of being (organic or in life). It is therefore alive — not an inanimate object. It has spirit or consciousness as the ground of its being.
This way of thinking has been largely separated out in Western thinking over the centuries. Quantum physics is now bringing it back. Instead of the materialist view that everything is made from sub-atomic particles — everything from atoms to molecules to cells to tissues to organs, and even the brain itself (known as upward causation) — the quantum perspective observes things as downward causation. This means that anything seen or unseen is based on infinite possibility, that consciousness is the ground of all being, and that consciousness chooses.
This assertion does not negate Newtonian physics but rather places it in its proper context of an all-inclusive picture. The mind, the soul, and the spirit are included. One cannot give numeric value to them, as they are beyond space time in the physical sense of projection, extension, and interpretation. They are qualities that have different orders of perception and understanding. This is where quantification is meaningless. Qualities based on feeling, thought, emotion, intuition, or even revelation, are as important as quantities based on myriad forms of computation.
Why is this important? Patients can't give you a mathematical formula for how they feel or what new thought equations are going through their heads after a transformation of healing is experienced by both the practitioner and patient — quantum entanglement. Subjective and objective processes are also meaningless in this context because a new state of being is experienced subjectively, not according to fixed objective parameters of treatment.
Again, this does not negate the need for quantification. A resultant ophthalmic prescription may be given for certain visual needs that not only allows a patient to see well but also feel well, be well, and do well. Even new insights into life may be given to the patient and expressed in a following evaluation. The numbers for this prescription are not standardized, meaning that it is not a general tonic for a certain form of visual anomaly but rather individualized. Classical statistics will have no meaning here, because each person's outlook, thoughts, experiences, and insights will be different. Complicated? Seemingly, but not once quantum ophthalmic optics (QOO) is explained.
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