Take Off Your Glasses and See: A Mind/Body Approach to Expanding Your Eyesight and Insight

307 Pages·1995·1.88 MB·English

by  Jacob Liberman

Copyright © 1995 by Jacob Liberman
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Liberman, Jacob, 1947–.
Take off your glasses and see: a mind body approach to expanding your eyesight and insight by Jacob
Liberman
1. Behavioral optometry. I. Title.
RE960.L53 1995 617.7—dc20 94-32101
eISBN: 978-0-307-79536-6
v3.1
This book is dedicated to the child within all
of us who has always been able to see.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is
invisible to the eye.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,
The Little Prince
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Gary Zukav
Introduction: Seeing from the Heart
Part One: There’s More to Vision than Meets the Eye
Before You Read Further …
1. “Don’t Worry, You’ll Get Used to It!”
2. What I Learned in School
3. An Experiment on the Workings of the Mind
4. Open Focus: Let Your Vision Escape Your Eyes
5. Seeing Through the Fear
6. Vision Quest
Part Two: Vision of a New Reality
7. Change Your Vision, Change Your Life!
8. Take Off Your Glasses and See!
9. A Day in the Life of Your New Vision
10. How to Take a Vision Walk
11. Living Clearly: Being Present and Staying Current
12. Vision Quest, by Rose Brandt, M.A.
Part Three: From Eyesight to Insight
13. Seeing the Invisible
14. The Truth About Thinking
15. Effortless Seeing, Effortless Learning
16. How to Learn Without Effort
17. Vision Quest, by Sonya Hagemann, O.D.
Epilogue: Open Living
Appendix A: Vision Improvement Resources
(Products and Programs)
Appendix B: Behavioral Optometrists
I. In the U.S.A.
II. International
Appendix C: Natural Vision Improvement Practitioners
I. In the U.S.A.
II. International
Endnotes
Bibliography and Further Reading
About the Author
List of Illustrations
1.1 The Eyes as Extensions of the Brain
2.1 Eye Exercises
8.1 Swinging Procedure
8.2 Palming Procedure
8.3 Position of Stickers on Window for Passive Seeing
8.4 Tibetan Wheel
8.5 Standard Eye Chart
8.6 The Reading Table
8.7 “Look Up!” Bookmark
8.8 Pinhole Glasses
13.1 The Electromagnetic Spectrum
13.2 Light Passing Through a Prism
16.1 The Arrow Chart
16.2 Colored Arrow Chart Instructions
16.3 Continuous Calculation Chart
Acknowledgments
Special Acknowledgment
I’d like to offer an especially heartfelt acknowledgment and thank-you to Rose
Brandt for her friendship and loving support throughout the writing of this book.
Her exquisite personal sensitivity, combined with her skill as a writer, allowed
her to transform my spontaneously expressed feelings and ideas into the content
of this book.
As a person who has transformed her own vision, Rose’s ideas, experiences,
and suggestions are sprinkled throughout the text. Her friendship and
contributions to this project have been invaluable to me.
Acknowledgments
This book is a compilation of many personal experiences that over the last
twenty years have been inspired and nurtured by the influence of many close
friends and respected colleagues.
I wish to deeply acknowledge my colleagues Ray Gottlieb, Robert Michael
Kaplan, Elliott Forrest, Bruce Rosenfeld, Larry Jebrock, Sam Berne, Marc
Grossman, Amorita Treganza, Robert Pepper, Simon Grbevski, and Peter
Fairbanks for their loving support. I’d also like to acknowledge the courage and
pioneering insights of Larry Dossey, Bernie Siegel, and Deepak Chopra.
I’d also like to thank my wonderful friends for their support and guidance
over the years: Sky and Rainbow Canyon, Herb Ross, Paul and Grace Durga
Lowe, Rose Kahn, Buzzy and Gayle Gordon Kaufman, Ron Henry, Terry and
Suzanne Levy, Elio Penso, Richard and Marilyn Fendelman, Truth Paradise,
Paul and Myra Berger, Stephen Feig, Eva and Herb Finkel, Frank Levinson,
Maxine Rose, Alan Lauer, Laura Lea Cannon, Stephen Rose, Patricia Bell, Fred
Spanjaard, Tom and Patricia Overton, Michael Greenburg, Brendan and Terry
Hart Roberts, Bija Bennett, and Gerry Sindell. I’m very grateful to Suzy
Hailperin and Cheryl Lynn Russell for their support during my early years of
discovery.
To my loving parents, Joseph and Sonia Liberman, and my exquisite children,
Gina and Erik Liberman, I’d like to express my deep love and appreciation.
I also wish to thank my agent, Loretta Barrett, my editors Erica Marcus and
David Groff, and Crown Publishers, for believing in me, giving me the
opportunity to share my vision, and guiding me to its completion.