Eye Floaters: Vitreous Opacity or Light of Consciousness?
By Floco Tausin
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We all have them, most of us see them, but only a few people pay attention to them: the scattered, transparent and mobile dots and strands in our field of vision. In ophthalmology, they are called "eye floaters" and explained as vitreous opacities.
But is this explanation correct? In this book, the author Floco Tausin follows the seers experience that eye floaters are not a cloudiness of the vitreous humour, but a shining structure and an expression of our state of consciousness.
In this collection of previously published and revised texts, the author reconciles the physiological, the ophthalmological and the seers understanding of floaters. Eye floaters are discussed as a phenomenon between science and religion, as a challenge to ophthalmology, as an expression of our visual nervous system, and as a starting point to an alternative spiritual treatment of migraine headache.
Floco Tausin
My name is Floco Tausin. I'm an author and a graduate of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Bern, Switzerland. For many years, I have devoted myself to the exploration of consciousness and exceptional states of consciousness through thinking, feeling, and my own experiencing. The acquaintance with Nestor, a seer living in the Emmental region in Switzerland, led me to a holistic study of so-called eye floaters or mouches volantes. Ever since, I'm engaged, in theory and practice, in the research of visual phenomena in connection with altered states of consciousness and the development of consciousness. My experiences and time of learning with the seer Nestor are subject of the spiritual novel "Mouches Volantes - Eye Floaters as Shining Structure of Consciousness" which was published recently.Der Name Floco Tausin ist ein Pseudonym. Der Autor studierte an der geisteswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Bern und befasst sich in Theorie und Praxis mit der Erforschung subjektiver visueller Phänomene im Zusammenhang mit veränderten Bewusstseinszuständen und Bewusstseinsentwicklung. Er publizierte mehrere Artikel zu diesem Thema und ist Herausgeber des vierteljährlich erscheinenden Newsletters „Ganzheitlich Sehen“. 2004 veröffentlichte er die mystische Geschichte „Mouches Volantes“ über die Lehre des im Schweizer Emmental lebenden Sehers Nestor und die spirituelle Bedeutung der Mouches volantes.
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Eye Floaters - Floco Tausin
Introduction
In the mid-1990s I met a man named Nestor living in the solitude of the hilly Emmental region of Switzerland. Nestor has a unique and provocative claim: that he focuses for years on a constellation of huge shining spheres and strings which have been formed in his field of vision. He interprets this phenomenon as a subtle structure formed by our consciousness which in turn creates our material world. Nestor, who calls himself a seer, ascribes this subjective visual perception to his long lasting efforts to develop his consciousness. This includes an appropriate lifestyle as well as practices for both temporary and permanent increase of the intensity of consciousness. Nestor claims that, through these physical and concentrative practices, his spheres and strings that were at first small, far away and very mobile, had now enlarged, come closer, started to shine, and now he could hold them in suspension with his gaze. There, in the centre of the visual field, there would be one last sphere, the source
, into which we human beings would enter when we fall asleep or die. Nestor is convinced that if we get near this last sphere as much as possible in our lifetime, we have the chance to enter into it keeping our full consciousness – and thereby overcome death.
Core-surround floaters in a seer’s view. Source: Floco Tausin.
Vitreous opacity or light of consciousness?
I have told the story of my apprenticeship with Nestor in my book Mouches Volantes – Eye Floaters as Shining Structure of Consciousness (2009). When I started seeing these dots and strings myself, I did a lot of research. I found out that this subjective visual phenomenon was not only known, but widespread. However, the way it is commonly understood deviates significantly from Nestor’s statements. In our culture, the authority to interpret this phenomenon has been with ophthalmology for centuries. There, these dots and strands are known by the term eye floaters
or mouches volantes (French for flying flies
). Eye floaters are an entoptic appearance, i.e. caused by the human visual system itself. In that case, it’s a cloudiness of the vitreous body that affects the patient’s vision. This perception is explained by the fact that the vitreous body shrinks and liquefies with increasing age (syneresis). Parts of the vitreous structure consisting of hyaluronic acid and collagen fibrils clump together and cast shadows on the retina, which become visible as scattered mobile dots and strings. Eye floaters are considered harmless. The general medical advice is to ignore them. As a precaution, one may have their eyes examined for a possible retinal detachment. This is especially necessary when the floaters are suddenly accompanied by large dark clouds (soot rain
) and lightning.
Common eye floaters. Source: Floco Tausin.
Many people can see their floaters if they pay attention. To most, they are just a curiosity and not really distracting. Some people, however, feel disturbed by their dots and strands, such that they are considering surgical measures. Vitrectomy, for example, removes parts of the vitreous humour. Laser vitreolysis, on the other hand, attempts to break up single floater strands through fast laser pulses. However, such treatments are risky and are not recommended by most ophthalmologists to remove the harmless eye floaters.
So, are eye floaters vitreous opacities, or are they the light of consciousness? Nestor has identified eye floaters as the first appearance of what he calls shining structure
or luminous spheres
and luminous strings
and understands as the light of consciousness. If he is right, then the ophthalmological understanding of eye floaters would be completely wrong. How can that be? Fact is that ophthalmologists cannot always find the floaters in the eyes of their patients. This is not only true for looking into the eyes with a slit lamp, but also for more sophisticated methods such as ultrasound examination or optical coherence tomography (OCT). Why is it that not all eye floaters can be objectively located? Ophthalmologists assert that some floaters are just too small or too close to the retina to be detected. If this is the case, then the methods and devices available are not efficient enough until now. Another