Scientists predict half the world population
will soon be myopic (TIME, May 31st 1999)
Those statistics can be changed.
How?
Some answers are in this issue of Direction.
It explores the importance of including eyesight and vision use
in the overall Use of the Self. Some of the other issues also tackle in this
issue:
Shedding some light on the ever-debated question of whether the Bates method has some similarities to Alexander work
How can FM's principles can be applied to the Bates method?
Was Aldous Huxley was a forerunner of applying the AT principles to eyesight improvement, without having been acknowledged by our own Alexander teaching profession.
Dr. Brian Freeman, a Sydney anatomist, writes on the Embryology of the Visual System, clarifying the remarkable complexity of this wondrous instrument.
Louise Gauld on Alexandrian and Bates scholar Aldous Huxley, and his book "The Art of Seeing" first published in 1942
Brigitte Cavadias (Bates and Alexander teacher) on the work of Dr. William Bates in vision improvement and in the light within the Alexander context .
Walter Carrington interviewed by Marjory Fern (U.K.) and Brigitte Cavadias (France) with Walter Carrington on "The Use of the Eye".
Issue Editor Peter Grunwald writes about his evolving work on the Eye-Body Reflex Pattern, and how the organization and use of the visual system reflect the function of the human body.