From: laura@nospam.me   
      
   "Janice"  wrote in message   
   news:MPG.1c6c2ada5715cdf598a294@news.individual.net...   
   > In article ,   
   > david@edenroad.demon.co.uk says...   
   > >On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 21:06:03 -0600, personalpages.tds.net/~rcsilk wrote:   
   >   
   > >"Imagine your eyeballs not just as RECEIVERS of light, but also of   
   TRANSMITTERS   
   > >as well.  Now imagine Light as being the "common currency" of thoughts   
   and   
   > >actions:  as the information you receive visually (as light thru the eye)   
   gets   
   > >encoded into your brain electrochemically, then so too your thoughts may   
   be   
   > >re-converted and formed in your "mind's eye" (or the back of your retina)   
   and   
   > >transmitted back out thru your eyes, only in a much much more gentler   
   form of   
   > >energy."   
   > >   
   > >Dick, the rods and cones do not transmit.  Period.  Science by analogy   
   > >doesn't work.   
   >   
   > Isn't he just saying to *imagine* all this?  Even though it isn't   
   > literally true, there's no reason why imagining it couldn't act as an   
   > effective suggestion aid for producing hypnagogic imagery.  In fact it's   
   > possible to do cool things by imagining that your eyes are projectors --   
   > with your eyes open, you can create hypnagogic images that seem to be   
   > floating in the air or projected on the walls.  I used to have a great   
   > time with that when I was a kid.   
      
   In the "alternative" realm of New Age stuff, some believe that the entire   
   body emits "mitogenic rays", and that the eyes act as a particularly potent   
   source of these because of the lensing and focusing effect. That is a   
   distorted adaptation of the original idea of mitogenic rays as a form of   
   radiation that causes cells to divide.   
   While that original idea has been abandoned when it became understood how   
   cells do divide, there may be some merit to the idea that cells do   
   communicate with their immediate neighbors using photons (named biophotons   
   because of their function and origin rather than any difference from regular   
   photons), and this is being researched.   
   So, the body may give off an incredibly tiny amount of (technically) visible   
   light, and the place where this would be most visible would of course be by   
   looking at the retina through the pupil.   
   That the body gives off a sort of light, only not in the visible spectrum,   
   is of course well known. Anything over absolute zero temperature does.   
   Infrared light.   
   The thing about these biophotons is that they are apparently in the visible   
   band, though far too few to see.   
      
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