Today an Italian man who presented himself as a "vision educator"
phoned me about the Italian version of Perfect Sight Without Glasses
he wanted to buy.

I had to tell him that the book is sold out and is now in reprint and
will be ready for deliver in a couple of weeks.

Then I shared with him a good conversation.

Even if he is a "vision educator" he is not accustomed to the Original
Bates System. In fact, he not only does not understand how to benefit
from the sun-gazing, neither from the sun-glass, but he never tried
the experimenr of low light and microprint, I have learnt.

He promised me that he would have tried this soon.

He is a researcher and told me than most advanced theories about
vision are discovering the hidden powers of the external muscles of
the eye, and this is slowly being acknowledge in academic sites,
exactly in the same direction as Bates did. It seems that only the
idiots doctors here on sci.med.vision seem to not cope with this fact.

Nevertheless, he is not so much sure about his own understanding of
Bates work that felt the urge to try my edition of PSWG. Also to
subscribe to my magazine "il falco". He lives in the States, and has a
story of hypermetropia, which he thinks he can definitely cure after
he has spoken to me.

To one question, he answered that when he was at Columbia University
in New York he tried to reach some documents about Bates but became
aware that all was effaced out, he could not find anything about him.

I hope to work with him soon because he showed a kind of open mind
which is not there when I  have something to do with idiots like
Cagnoli and Co., the mainstream "vision educators" in Italy. These
people have spoiled the name of Bates for their own purpose, that is
selling their courses and programs which have nothing to do with the
Original Bates System.

"Friends" of Bates are largely great frauds, great false men. They
understand nothing of Him. In fact, nobody gets a cure, and Bates
himself gets mocked at by other idiots like the ignorant men we find
here.

--
"As surely as any soldier ever died on the field, Dr. Bates gave his
life for a cause, battling against fate, during many years of
magnificent struggle, when the unending disappointment finally broke
in hopeless despair. His torch is still burning. There will come some
other battler, who is fit, and will hold it high until the people who
are sitting in darkness have seen its great light."
William B. MacCracken, M.D.
(1937, Berkeley CA)