Contact Lenses, Glasses, Laser Surgery

Can you please discuss the physical, energetic, and the emotional benefits of the choice between contact lenses and glasses? Comment on laser surgery and its long-term effects.

Hilarion: The work of many of the ancients in understanding eye difficulties gave rise to a whole sequence of understanding of the eye and the ability to see without tension. This was an important spiritual practice for many years. You see, if your vision was as poor as the vision of many adults at the current time you would not have survived on this planet. To find food, to be able to work with others, when no glasses, no corrective methods were available you would simply have not survived.

Many of the aspects of causation, of vision difficulty come from diet; many ways in which small substances unable to be easily excreted from the body collect in the tiny capillaries in the eye and produce additional tension, stress and difficulties. The understanding of this has passed from your world. A few with it now are those known as, "The Bates Practitioners."

Information is not found in the books that Dr. W. H. Bates wrote, nor widely available. But, those who have been trained in this methodology passed from person to person are often able to have clearer sight, bring greater degree of benefit and ultimately find the deeper meaning of this. The willingness to see clearly, to see themselves, to see their world, to see the lessons around them. So for this reason anyone with vision difficulties is very much than asked to look at the spiritual side of this and to look at the deepest aspect that they can find enough to learn from these powerful lessons that they are presented with every day as they struggle to find clear vision.

At the same time as this then you are contending with all of these modern solutions in ways in which going back to a time about six hundred years ago when corrective vision first began on the planet and evolved fairly quickly over a period of a few hundred years to the glasses you see today. More modern methods will have the opportunity to provide benefit but the benefit is in terms of the opportunity to learn these lessons the same. It takes away the opportunity to learn more deeply and tends to reinforce the stress which is causing the vision problem in the first place.

To correct this by a deeper understanding by various exercises, by working with meditation, by corrections to diet, these would always be recommended. The difficulty is that if any method is utilized which is permanent such as eye surgery, laser surgery or similar surgical methods then you have the built-in difficulty that once you have learned the lesson you cannot then correct for it in the visual apparatus.

This is why of the various methods we do not usually recommend this one. It is also now gradually coming out of the various difficulties 10-20 years down the road from LASIK surgery and other methodologies and of course this must also to some extent be taken into account. However, we would see that the other corrective methods, contact lenses versus glasses have many pros and cons that put them right around equal. There are those involved in various corrective forms of contact lenses such as orthokeratology, utilizing technologies to gradually reshape the eye and these do not have long-term benefits since they are just again holding in place the underlying difficulties which could be corrected from within.

But these methodologies do allow individuals to eventually use either no contacts or minimal contacts and therefore from a simple point of view of vanity, or convenience and not having anything between you and someone else as would be formed by glasses. This is slightly preferable on some levels. Generally though, it is very much a matter of the lesser of multiple evils and working with these energies. The larger lesson here must always to be seen, the opportunity to see clearly, that which is in front of you to work with.

Myopia relating to the whole idea of that which is in the distance, which is farther in your future which relates to seeing the big picture, to seeing all of it at once, to understanding the true nature of that which is all around you in your own life. And that of hypermetropia, that being the difficulty with close vision, that aspect of understanding the details working with the innermost light of your own being, understanding that which is closer to you, most intimate within you.

Grasping this principles along with new methods of seeing, relaxing the eyes, not staring, looking in different directions, drawing from many sources, all of this can be helpful at making a deeper correction. Of course, the more important spiritual energy is not associated with the two, but with the third eye and this is an awareness that also can contribute at many levels to that which you feel as corrective vision. To attune to the subtle nature of what you are looking at, to see its deeper meaning, to let a sense of warmth and deeper relaxation penetrate into the point between the eyebrows or in the center of the forehead, to allowing this as also always seeing to go deeper into your own being. 

This can not only be helpful but can actually be an important opportunity to look at why you aren't seeing, because there is something that you can receive from that pathway the subtle pathway, through the psychic pathway that you would otherwise be avoiding at the more physical level and that can often be a way then in which a new pathway allows the emergence of energy or information that you previously denied.

The dietary aspect to this is the more complex and more controversial of course because so many of the substances that you are constantly consuming are those which you are not designed for or programmed for a long time ago. Over and over fats can be so helpful at absorbing those toxic materials before they ever get to the eye. Once they have reached the eye, fats can also be employed to remove them from the eye.

These are controversial methods yet they are discussed extensively by the two books by Vonderplanitz and that will be a wonderful way to educate, grow, and strengthen both physically and spiritually because some of the ideas run counter to the whole idea of society in an understanding of vision. An awareness that somehow you are getting older and degenerating and must therefore have these effects, this is nonsense. In point of fact you have more opportunity for more experience, greater strength in the eye if you understand the underlying principles.

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