Hi Cyrus – Agreed it is a most important point in What the BLEEP and addressed more thoroughly in Down the Rabbit Hole – especially by Lynne McTaggart, author of The Field.

Editor

Dear Editor –

I was fascinated by the scene about the invisible ships, but never doubted it's truth for a moment.  I am a drawing teacher and am well aware of how little we actually see. I explain to my students they can already draw if they can write their names, but they are blind and my job is to teach them to see. To see an object as it actually exists in reality takes an enormous amount of concentration and focus.  I call it "Crossing Over the Bridge" and once a student "sees" something for the first time, they never go back to being blind in situations that call for true observing. 

I had a woman come back to class one day completely amazed because she had for the first time "seen" a raised feather pattern on the handle of a small brass vase she had owned, touched, dusted and looked at for 30 years. She said it was as if that pattern had just magically appeared since she had never noticed it before.

Once, when critiquing a students drawing I saw a big black shape in the middle of the fishbowl she was drawing and questioned her on it since I had not seen that shape and thought she made a mistake. The drawing was also missing a very large stick that was inside the fishbowl. She pointed out where she had seen the dark shape and suddenly,
again, like magic, I saw it. It was a huge, very black area BEHIND the fish bowl that I never saw.  Then I pointed out where the stick was and she was astounded for she had not seen it at all. The stick was in the foreground and that is what I had focused on to the exclusion of everything else and the black shape was in the background and she had focused on that to the exclusion of everything else.

For many years I have likened this learning "to see" to a spiritual experience. The amount of visual detail (including light and shadow) contained in the simplest object is almost beyond comprehension.  Once you have wrapped your brain around the incredibly complex and visually detailed nature of the earth, it becomes impossible not to revere it in all its majestic beauty and to want to protect it.

Gerry Melot
Houston, Texas

Dear Editor –