Hallo to all, I see the old marpions are still here, so to speak, and are stable in their practice, so far so good for them. Now I had the opportunity to work for several hours with two very nice young Italian ladies who are overcoming their own myopia by rest methods. One of them, graduated in psychology few years ago, was wearing strong minus lenses of 8 dioptres untill ten weeks ago. She dropped them starting her self-treatment by rest methods according to the publications by Dr. Bates, of which I am the Italian translator and publisher, and gained a very great success: she is now able to see at two meters letters which the normal eye can see at three meters, but in flashes she can see the letters suitable for two meters, so this is like 20/20. In the meantime, her night vision has improved very much to the extent that she was able to attend to the big concert that the rock band U2 gave in Milan last week. The other one is the lady I ave previously talked about, the woman recovering from her worst prescription of -23 D and glasses worn since age five. She is permanently without glasses now since January 1st this year and can spot 12/15 letters under electric light quite easily after a few minutes of practice with rest methods. This case is particularly interesting to the observer because her eyes, which were at the beginning bulging, only partially open and steadly fixed in a stare, now are radiant, open, moving and almost normal regarding their past bulgingness. Apart from a few weeks of disencouragement, when the lady went in search of answers for her condition to the wrong people (oculists who refracted her under mydriatics and found the same amount of myopia if not worst), and lost contact with practice, she is working now very well, using the "sun glass" by Dr. Bates and learning to look at the sun. The lady travels by bicycle and by train without any help and enjoys her life like she never did before. She also goes to the night club to dance and have fun. On the last trip home after visiting me, the people on the train pleased her with nice comments regarding her blue eyes, a fact that surprised her the most. These things I write here are for the record. I have also to tell about countless clients with little vision defects which are on the way to their permanent cure being very silly in dimension: 2 dioptres of myopia or something like that. The clients are well endowed in their own practice and have normal sight most of the time, all waiting for the time to come to check their driver's license test and remove the glasses prescription. One very interesting fact is about one man who had cornea conica, judged incurable from several authorities. This man read Dr. Bates book and other of his publications, and started practicing with intense intelligence and courage. The good eye now sees 20/10 consistently. The weak eye with cornea conica had flashes of normal sight (10/10) after two months of self-treatment. This eye had worn something like -5 dioptres contact lenses, but the man dropped them seeing their uselessness about 8 months ago. Tomorrow one lady will come to buy the books and the pinholes to try to cure her own very difficult situation, that of a lasik operation which was unsuccessful: one eye has remained myopic, the other one is hypermetropic. This condition stresses her very much and gives her all sorts of pains, and problems to the muscular-skeletric system, causing lameness and other strange illnesses. She has wasted almost 50 thousand eur in a few years to try to correct this dreadful condition, with no avail. Unfortunately, this woman has great responsibilities to abide on her job position, so will be difficult for her to find time for her cure, but we will see. I wanted to let all the learned people here that I have published the first part of Dr. Bates "Cyclopedia" of perfect sight, those who are interested may have a look at my webpage: [URL]http://TheCentralFixation.com[/URL]. One last personal remark: I can look now at the sun continuously for 1510 seconds, at mid-morning. Also I can look at the white sparks of the soldering electrodes with absolutely no problems of after images whatever. Since these anecdotical evidences are consistent and are becoming quite relevant in number, I have to emphasize that the truths discovered by Dr. Bates 100 years ago are still valid and merit much credit and further study. I'm becoming convinced that the prophecy of Dr. MacCracken will be right: those who will prove the truths of Bates won't be publishers like myself or the clients or the so-called "Bates Teachers". THE DOCTORS IN DUE TIME WILL WAKE UP AND START TO UNDERSTAND THE TRUTH. Perhaps it will take some other 20 years or more, but it will happen. When I see that the manufacturers of eyeglasses are pushing the sunglasses for children under 5 years of age, I have to think that perhaps the situation has come to a maturation, so to speak: something big is going to happen, because the madness seems so high and dangerous that people will soon rebel. But the doctors, the learned men, will have to find out, not me nor Otis.
