In the “Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar“, Imhrat Khan reports that “All of us have two senses of sight, just as we have two senses of smell and taste and hearing. There is the outer sense, the highly developed one which we all use, and there is the inner one also. If only we could develop these inner senses of ours, then we could smell without our noses, taste without our tongues, hear without our ears and see without our eyes.”

To see without our eyes is what the scientific community regards as “Blind Sight”, described by Susana Martinez-Conde, the director of the Barrow Neurological Institute’s Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience, as “thought to be due to information flow through secondary neural pathways that bypass the Visual Cortex but which nevertheless convey a small amount of visual information to higher visual cortices.”

When this inner sense is developed people show alarming capacities to see without their eyes, as has been shown with individuals whose eyesight has been permanently damaged. Patients who undergo continuous testing [training] have in fact shown that their blind field sensitivity is not merely superior to their own sighted field, but also to normal vision (read more from Susana’s report). The consistent improvement shown by patients who are submitted to continuous testing shows that this is an ability which can be progressively developed and improved or even perfected. Training is key, and is often times disregarded even by individuals who feel they have spurs of psychic abilities but can’t perform on cue, they are unaware that these abilities are latent in every person just waiting to be developed.

An excellent exercise which will consistently allow you to improve these kind of abilities is “Card Focus.”

Roald Dahl’s “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar“, explains card focus through the direct experience of the book’s main character; Henry Sugar. In this marvelous book Henry first learns these exercises by reading a detailed description from a manuscript dictated by an Indian mystic, Imhrat Khan:

“And so it is that I am all the time striving to develop my inner senses of sight. Each night now I perform my usual exercises with the candle-flame (candle focus). After that I rest a little while. I drink a cup of coffee. Then I blindfold myself and sit in my chair trying to visualize, trying to see, not just to imagine, but actually to see without my eyes every object in the room. And gradually success begins to come. Soon I am working with a pack of cards. I take a card from the top of the pack and hold it before me, back to front, trying to see through it. Then, with a pencil in my hand, I write down what I think it is. I take another card and do the same again. I go through the whole of the pack like that and when it is over I check what I have written down against the pile of cards beside me. Almost at once I have a sixty to seventy per cent success. I do other things. I buy maps and complicated navigating charts and pin them up all around my room. I spend hours looking at them blindfold, trying to see them, trying to read the small lettering of the place-names and the rivers. Every evening for the next four years, I proceed with this kind of practice. “By the year 1933, I can read a book. I can cover my eyes completely and I can read a book right through. “

After reading the whole manuscript, Henry becomes so excited with the idea of having this talent that he dedicates most of his time to accomplishing this feat.

“At this point, he decided the time had come to test himself with the cards. He was in the living-room of his London flat when he made this decision and it was near midnight. He got out a pack of cards and a pencil and paper. He was shaking with excitement. He placed the pack upside down before him and concentrated on the top card.

“All he could see at first was the design on the back of the card. It was a very ordinary design of thin red lines, one of the commonest playing-card designs in the world. He now shifted his concentration from the pattern itself to the other side of the card. He concentrated with great intensity upon the invisible underneath of the card, and he allowed no other single thought to creep into his mind. Thirty seconds went by.”

“Then one minute. . .
Two minutes. . .
Three minutes. . .”

“Henry didn’t move. His concentration was intense and absolute. He was visualizing the reverse side of the playing-card. No other thought of any kind was allowed to enter his head.“

“Slowly, magically, but very clearly, the black symbols became spades and alongside the spades appeared the figure five. The five of spades! Henry switched off his concentration. And now, with shaking fingers, he picked up the card and turned it over.”

Henry kept practising and practising with the cards until he could see through them instantly. This ability has also been recently demonstrated at Ramtha’s School of Enlightenment where “Card Focus” is commonly practiced and taught.

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Drawn To The Flame

Since the beginning of time people have used the flame as a tool to transport themselves into a transcendant, altered state of mind or trance. By holding one’s focus solely into the flame, a person can quieten their mind to attain the capacity of being totally present in the now and maintaining a detachment from all else in their environment including habitual thoughts. This type of experience is affirmed by many teachers, coaches, philosophers and visionaries as the necessary state of mind for creative and effective change as well as personal creation in one’s life. Try candle focus now.
Henry sugar
In Roald Dahl’s narrative, “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar“, Imhrat Khan explains how he develops his psychic skills, “Each night now I light a candle and I begin by staring at the flame. A candle-flame, you know, has three separate parts, the yellow at the top, the mauve lower down, and the black right inside. I place the candle sixteen inches [aprox. 40 cms] away from my face. The flame is absolutely level with my eyes. It must not be above or below. It must be dead level because then I do not have to make even the tiniest little adjustment of the eye muscles by looking up or down. I settle myself comfortably and I begin to stare at the black part of the flame, right in the centre. All this is merely to concentrate my conscious mind, to empty it of everything around me.”

“So I stare at the black spot in the flame until everything around me has disappeared and I can see nothing else…”
“I do this every night before bed and by 1929, when I am twenty-four years old, I can concentrate upon an object for three minutes without any wandering of my mind. So it is now, at this time, when I am twenty-four, that I begin to become aware of a slight ability to see an object with my eyes closed. It is a very slight ability, just a queer little feeling that when I close my eyes and look at something hard, with fierce concentration, then I can see the outline of the object I am looking at.“

“Slowly I am beginning to develop my inner sense of sight. All of us, you see, have two senses of sight, just as we have two senses of smell and taste and hearing. There is the outer sense, the highly developed one which we all use, and there is the inner one also. If only we could develop these inner senses of ours, then we could smell without our noses, taste without our tongues, hear without our ears and see without our eyes. Our noses and tongues and ears and eyes are only instruments which assist in conveying the sensation itself to the brain.” learn more…

Kuda Bux
Kuda Bux was an Indian mystic born in Aknmur Kashmir, Pakistan as Khudah Bukhsh. Just like Imhrat Khan in Roald Dahl’s tale about Henry Sugar, Kuda Bux also impressed audiences when he covered his eyes with soft dough, blindfolded himself, swathed his entire head in strips of cloth, and yet still be able to see. He was also a fire walker. Ironically, in his later life, he lost his eyesight to glaucoma, and still managed to reproduce his amazing abilities. Most astoundingly, observers noted that the unblindfolded Bux required reading glasses to read fine print. Whilst blindfolded Kuda Bux would read the dates on coins which are held on a spectator’s hand, read the fine print of a magazine, thread a needle, duplicate words he had never seen written, shoot a bullseye with a pellet gun, and many other mysteries.

Kuda Bux even had his own CBS tv series. In 1934 he allowed a team of experts and scientists to seal his eyes shut with dough, tinfoil, gauze and layers of woolen bandages. He astounded them by being able to still read from books placed in front of him. In 1935, in front of an audience of scientists from the University of London Council for Psychical Research and news reporters, Kuda Bux demonstrated his firewalking. He walked across a twelve foot pit of burning coals unscathed. In 1937, he amazed onlookers in Liverpool by walking the entire length of a narrow ledge of a roof 200 feet above the ground while blindfolded. In 1945, Kuda Bux skillfully rode a bicycle through congested New York’s Times Square while his eyes were taped shut.

When asked by a member of the audience “How can you see?”, Kuda Bux explained, “I can see due to the power of my concentration. I bring my attention to a finer level of my vision. It’s my power of concentration.” Kuda Bux paused briefly then stated, “My back was broken in three places. Doctors said that I would never walk again. With my concentration I was able to heal myself. I have no problem walking now,” he asserted.

And when asked “Can anyone learn to do this?”, Kuda Bux affirmed, “Yes, You can develop your power of concentration by gazing at the gap between a flame and the candle. Do this just a few seconds at first,” he explained. “After some time you will be able to do this for much longer.” See more about Kuda Bux.

Subconscious Sight

This website was created to supply its users with useful information and tools about the art of Focused Concentration and the subsequent development of Psychic Abilities.

This page discusses some of the science proving these benefits and their potentials. Also view the stories of Henry Sugar and Kuda Bux.

In our Scientific Age and indeed especially in the last few years a lot has been tested and discovered about the human brain and its capacity to do surprising things.

In 2005, a team of scientists from the Department of Psychology of Rice University in Houston, Texas, reported that their findings showed that “even without the Visual Cortex and in the absence of awareness, some preserved the ability to accurately respond to visual inputs…“, “a phenomenon referred to as blindsight.” entire article

Susana Martinez-Conde is the director of the Barrow Neurological Institute’s Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience, where she studies, the neural code and dynamics of visual perception.

In a truly enlightening article from the Scientific American magazine, Susana describes the phenomenon of “blindsight” or “Subconscious Sight” this way:

“Blindsight is thought to be due to information flow through secondary neural pathways that bypass area V1 [Visual Cortex] but which nevertheless convey a small amount of visual information to higher visual cortices. For some unknown reason, these secondary routes are not sufficient to maintain the feeling of sight. Thus the blindsight patient has the subjective feeling that he or she is blind, and reports visual information only when forced to take a guess.”

Based on a series of experiments conducted with a 67-year-old man who has been blind to the left half of his visual field since age 26, Susana claims that “If a missing Visual Cortex is your vision system’s only flaw, you may actually be aware of much that you cannot see. Second, this work revolutionizes the definition of blindsight from a residual set of vision skills to a type of superior sight.“

The above mentioned man has been tested since the 1970′s by Oxford University psychologist Larry Weiskrantz and colleagues until this day.

Although other blindsight patients have been identified and examined, this man’s detection abilities are considerably superior to other blindsight cases, “who has participated in many vision experiments over the years shows impressive detecting abilities because he has spent years practicing a specific type of skill in a familiar experimental condition.”

This claim leans us towards a clear sense of something which has become common knowledge in our day and age: practice makes perfect. Thus, one can assume that the regular practise of exercises like the ones supplied on this website can develop this type of amazing abilities: card focus & wheel of fortunes.

The results showed that this 67 year old’s vision “in his sighted field to be equivalent to that of normal, healthy subjects…” and that his “blind field sensitivity is not merely superior to his own sighted field, but also to normal vision.“ entire article

Consider another case, also published by the Scientific American, in an article by Vilaynur S. Ramachandran and Diane Rogers-Ramachandran from 2008.

Another man whose damage to his “visual cortex resulted in complete blindness in one half of the visual field. He could not consciously see anything, not even a spot of light, shown to him in that region. Yet when asked to reach out and touch the spot, he could do so accurately; he could touch a spot he couldn’t see!”

“It seems downright spooky, but…, we can explain, at least partially, his condition, known as blindsight, in terms of the multiple specialized anatomical pathways devoted to vision… This man has complete damage to V1 [visual cortex]. No information reaches either the what or how pathway, rendering him blind in the sense that he cannot consciously see objects. But because his where pathway (going through the superior colliculus and bypassing the damaged V1 en route to higher cortical centers) is intact, he can guide his hand unerringly toward the light spot that he cannot consciously see. It is as if there is an unconscious zombie trapped in him that can point accurately even though the conscious person is oblivious. The paradox of blindsight is resolved.” entire article