As we have already noted, modern science is looking at the eyes as the "gateways of the mind." Liberman believes that specific mental patterns are directly related to the functioning or dysfunctioning of the physical eye, and light has a direct effect on our mental states.(18) Light is the principal nurturer of our bodies having a vital effect on our physical and emotional functions. Although hypothesized and tested since the late 1800’s, it wasn’t until the early 1970’s that it was finally proven definitively, that when light entered the eyes, it just didn’t only affect seeing, but also affected the brain’s hypothalamus, which in turn is the coordinator and regulator of most of our life-support functions. It also initiates and directs our reactions and adaptations to stress. (22-25) The Greeks and other ancient civilizations knew this and practiced it in their medicine. Now we have scientifically confirmed that the nervous and endocrine systems are directly stimulated and regulated by light to an extent not accepted, until recently by modern science. (22)

Endnote

1. Jacob Liberman, Light-Medicine of the Future (Santa Fe, New Mexico: Bear and Company, 1991) p. xxv. This and subsequent direct references

from this work are reprinted by permission of Inner Traditions International, Rochester, Vermont.

2. Liberman, op.cit., p. 14.

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