Rishigg wrote:
> 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)