Until the decipheration of the optical signal processing through brain, people of the modern age believed that the presence of light and healthy eyes are the only requirements for vision of the world around. Dr. Wald was among the three scientists who shared the Nobel Prize in 1967 for their research on vision. He discovered the presence of rhodopsin in the retina, which serves as the ‘visual purple’. This element converts the light waves (falling on the retina) into electrical signals. The latter transmit through the optical region of the neural networks and make visual perception possible. More significant is the finding that the consciousness of mind also plays a predominant role in this process.
Vision and recognition of visual perception is not possible in its absence. One may sleep with open eyes but can’t see the things present before his eyes in this state because of the near total inactivity of the conscious mind at that time….
The power of mind in making vision possible is more evident and amazing in the cases of extrasensory visual perceptions where the skin or some other sense organ or part of the body plays the role of the eyes. Retina (or rhodopsin present in it) is not required to convert light into electricity in such cases. This transformation is completed by the mental energy. In the earlier sections, we had cited several live examples of people endowed with these kinds of supernormal visual perceptions. The August 1963 issue of a Hindi monthly “Kadambini” had published an evidential article (on page 127-) under the heading “Andhon Ko Sabkucha Darï³yº” (Everything Made Visible for the Blinds). Authentic reports from Russia and Thailand were presented here citing the examples of people who could see through the skin only by a touch or through some other organs.
According to a news item in the Russian daily “Izvestia”, a girl named Rosa in the Nizhani Tagil village of Russia was able to read the newspapers and printed books by mere touch of her fingertips, without opening her eyes. Recognition of her exceptional talents by some scientists and other authentic viewers was published with her photographs in some other newspapers too. Rosa would move her fingers on any text line by line and read the pages as accurately as one would with open eyes and normal eyesight. If there was a photographic image or its print in her hand, she would also ‘see’ it through her fingers. For example, she would identify whether it is a picture of Mahatma Gandhi or Abraham Lincoln, etc. She would also describe the dress, hairstyle, features, etc, of the people present in the photo.
Researchers inferred that Rosa’s skin might be having some sensitive element like the infrared heat detector in a snake’s hood. This detector records subtle
65 variations in the heat waves. It emits low frequency heat waves that collide with the objects nearby and return back. Thus its sensor helps the snakes know the location of its prey. The reptile therefore does not go hunting for the prey; it mostly lies idle and catches its prey at appropriate point as per the ‘information’
supplied through the hood.
The tiny brains of pigeons and some other birds are also equipped with similar kinds of ultra sensitive elements. This sensor helps their brains record and retrieve the routes of thousands of miles of their journey. They can return back to the original place even after ten years. Frogs are found to have such special sensors or subtle ‘information processors’ located between the eyes and the brain. These help the frog ‘sense’ the presence of the predator or a danger from a long distance. These may even convey the enemy’s intentions of attacking…
The human brain too is endowed with an extrasensory center called the “ajó³ cakra” subliminally existing in its central core deep behind the mid-point between the eyebrows. If activated, this works like a third eye and sixth sense for clairvoyance and for knowing the unknown beyond any barrier.
The clue of the possible presence of infra red wave-detector in Rosa’s body guided the researchers in planing scientific experiments on her. They filtered off the infra red component from light rays and focused this light on a printed text.
Rosa was able to read it again with the help of her fingers. However, she was not able to recognize the photographs so well under this filtered light –– may be because the emission of her body were not so strong this time. This helped the scientists infer that, light-detectors and infra red sensors could be present elsewhere in the body as they are in the eyes. Further examination of Rosa’s body revealed the presence of ten such elements almost at a distance of each millimeter along her hands.
The above kinds of experiences have motivated several research groups to find out how such elements (of extrasensory vision) could be naturally present in one’s body. Or, could these be generated or activated by some method. Further developments would give a scientific approval and understanding of arousal of extrasensory perception by dedicated endeavors of yoga and meditations described in the Indian scriptures of yore.
“The British Journal of Medical Hypnotism” has reported about an institute in Bangkok, which trains blind people in perceiving vision through the cheeks. The directors of this research claim that the cheeks are more sensitive as compared to the other body parts to serve the purpose of a sense organ. In their views, the presence of subliminal spiritual currents is quite intense in the cheeks. They regard kissing the cheeks as an important mode for activation and transmission
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In 1954 a doctor of this institute had initiated novel experiments on meditation and trance after rigorous psychological training of the subjects. The subjects found suitable after the training were guided to focus their mind on their cheeks during meditation. The first successful experiment of this kind had endowed a thirteen years old blind boy with the exceptional power of vision through the cheeks within a period of nine months. This doctor reported ten more experiments on blinds later on. Of these, six were very successful. Without receiving any medical treatment, these people can easily see through the cheeks and are therefore no longer blind despite being deprived of the eyesight.
The instances of extrasensory perception indicate that there is a super sensing element or force hidden within us, which if activated slightly, can arouse astonishing powers. Scientists too have begun to realize that the sensors spread in the human body are most evolved with respect to adaptation, learning, and auto-regulation of normal functions of the body under the marvelous control of the brain. More astounding are the subliminal powers of the mind that enable these elements contribute in extrasensory perceptions. The Indian Science of Yoga and Spirituality offers in-depth knowledge and adept guidance in this respect.
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