A Review
"This book is about what is possible beyond, despite and even because of the circumstance of life."
In Dr. Kaplan' s research "patients came originally for treatment with eye problems but found that, after beginning the work, they were more interested in the deeper issues in their lives. Changes in home, career, or other life changes often accompanied a physical gain in improved eyesight."
"In Behavioral Optometry, eye deformities, rather than simply explaining visual defects, are seen as the end result of misperceptions from the brain and mind. Thus Kaplan treats not the physical eye defect but the whole person, seeking to have them address the inner imbalances which, he believes contributed to the defect occurring. Thus nearsightedness might be seen as a metaphor for constricting misperceptions, farsightedness as an inability to focus clearly in the present, glaucoma as related to a build up of intolerable pressure in one's life."
"To the skeptic this might seem like New Age mumbo-jumbo were it not for the strength of the clinical cases. These illustrate dramatic reduction in lens prescription dependency and sometimes a complete and permanent freedom from the need to wear glasses."
"Kaplan concludes that it takes much more than a healthily functioning organs to enable us to see clearly and well. We need also to re-kindle an inner light and to develop our formative imagination. Without these we are blind."
Review excerpts by Judith Hampson - published in NEW SCIENTIST Magazine, 1996
The Power Behind Your Eyes can be ordered through Inner Traditions
