What does a plant do?  It takes in light energy, it stores that light energy, and then when we eat the plant or eat the animal that has eaten the plant, we are getting light in a different form.  When food has very little nutritive value it is because its light content is significantly reduced compared to something directly out of the garden. When you’ve got something that is close to the source you get a great deal of nutritive value eating a small amount.  When it is further from the source and often synthetic the food has little or no nutritive value - just bulk. We can’t eat enough to get what we need. So we see many individuals eating dramatic amounts of food trying to fill up something that can’t be filled.

The combination of poor light and visual confinement not only makes for less energy, a lowered ability to learn, a lessening of our visual function, but creates the biggest health care epidemic in the world which is eyesight deterioration.  Think about it.  Less than one percent of people is born needing glasses, yet two-thirds of the U.S. and World’s population currently wear glasses. It is such a big epidemic that we think it’s normal.

Yes.  As the noted physicist David Bohm said, “All matter is frozen light.” Everything that that looks solid is actually made of this invisible energy that we call light. We are light, not in some spiritual sense, in a real sense we are made of light.  Everything we consume is also light in a solidified form. 

What does a plant do?  It takes in light energy, it stores that light energy, and then when we eat the plant or eat the animal that has eaten the plant, we are getting light in a different form.  When food has very little nutritive value it is because its light content is significantly reduced compared to something directly out of the garden. When you’ve got something that is close to the source you get a great deal of nutritive value eating a small amount.  When it is further from the source and often synthetic the food has little or no nutritive value - just bulk. We can’t eat enough to get what we need. So we see many individuals eating dramatic amounts of food trying to fill up something that can’t be filled.

It’s systemic. You go into many classrooms; they have no windows.  You can’t escape, if you will, visually.  The combination of poor light and visual confinement not only makes for less energy, a lowered ability to learn, a lessening of our visual function, but creates the biggest health care epidemic in the world which is eyesight deterioration.  Think about it.  Less than one percent of people is born needing glasses, yet two-thirds of the U.S. and World’s population currently wear glasses.  And usually by the time kids are 12, 14, 16 years old, about 85% of them are wearing glasses.  It is such a big epidemic that we think it’s normal. 

When we talk about light deprivation, one of the direct effects of that is visual confinement.  When you deprive us of light you’re usually depriving us of the vision system being able to look off into the distance.  There is a chain of events. One thing leads to the next and we never really know what’s going on.

Many of the kids having difficulties in school really need more time to play.  When you and I were kids we spent a lot of time outdoors.  Today there’s less and less time outdoors.  We’ve become an indoor culture and when kids are not indoors in school what are many kids doing?  They’re sitting in front of their computers.  They’re sitting in front of their Gameboys, sometimes looking at these little screens for hours and hours on end, or they’re sitting with their cell phones next to their ears.  So we’re living in a world right now where what is normal is not natural.  We’re getting less and less and less of the essential nutrients that allow us to feel good.  And of course feeling good is such an essential aspect of the creative process, the learning process, the human expanding process.