MythMath
05-06-2008, 05:35 AM
Nightwalking : Exploring the dark with Peripheral Vision
by
Nelson Zink and Stephen Parks
excerpt:
Peripheral vision
Could peripheral vision possibly be related to Vision, to Insight, to all those capitalized powers of perception?
Searching for references that might shed light on second sight, we found that while many individuals weren't
particularly aware of how they accomplished their achievements, the reports contained eery similarities.
We found a succession of texts from the Taoists of early China through the books of Carlos Castaneda
that spoke of a certain kind of all-seeing gaze.
It was often difficult to determine whether the authors were speaking literally or metaphorically,
but it was perfectly clear in the case of Miyamoto Muksashi, the legendary swordsman of fifteenth century Japan,
who had the clearest and most insightful description of the powers of peripheral vision we found.
In The Book of Five Rings, Musashi refers to the two types of sight which he calls Ken and Kan.
Ken registers the movements of surface phenomena; it's the observation of superficial appearence.
Kan is the profound examination of the essence of things, seeing through or into.
For Musashi, Ken is seeing with the eyes, Kan is seeing with the mind.
from: http://www.rexresearch.com/articles/nightwalk.htm
by
Nelson Zink and Stephen Parks
excerpt:
Peripheral vision
Could peripheral vision possibly be related to Vision, to Insight, to all those capitalized powers of perception?
Searching for references that might shed light on second sight, we found that while many individuals weren't
particularly aware of how they accomplished their achievements, the reports contained eery similarities.
We found a succession of texts from the Taoists of early China through the books of Carlos Castaneda
that spoke of a certain kind of all-seeing gaze.
It was often difficult to determine whether the authors were speaking literally or metaphorically,
but it was perfectly clear in the case of Miyamoto Muksashi, the legendary swordsman of fifteenth century Japan,
who had the clearest and most insightful description of the powers of peripheral vision we found.
In The Book of Five Rings, Musashi refers to the two types of sight which he calls Ken and Kan.
Ken registers the movements of surface phenomena; it's the observation of superficial appearence.
Kan is the profound examination of the essence of things, seeing through or into.
For Musashi, Ken is seeing with the eyes, Kan is seeing with the mind.
from: http://www.rexresearch.com/articles/nightwalk.htm