1.07                 AN EDUCATIONAL  VIEW  OF  IRIDOLOGY

The basic theme of this FAQ is in relation to the educational aspect of
teaching iridology to the individual in a clear, concise, and interesting manner.
It seems now, more than ever, that people do not know where obtain satisfactory
answers concerning matters related to their health problems. I firmly believe
that iridology is a science and art that can be utilized in that form of
education, by informing that person that there is a lifestyle to help us
maintain good health.  It is our responsibility as iridologists to educate
people so they will seek the better way of life and prevention of disease. An
informed public will make more responsible decisions with respect to health,
resulting in an improved quality of life and enabling them to remain as
functional and productive members of society.

Our greatest challenge as iridologist is to educate the public. We must raise
the awareness of the public in order to find patients interested in restoring
their health.  Our method of analysis supports this work, and all the other
healing arts assist it and add to it.  This method of analysis must be made
clear, at every opportunity, that it is not a medical examination or a
diagnoses of disease.  We must inform the patient on the meaning of tissue
integrity, and by no means, put any fear or worry in the subject's mind.  We
must be sensible, tactful, and wise in what we say to an individual, not only
by what we say, but also how we say it.  That is why the language of
"integrity" is so important in conjunction with the analysis that we work with.

1.08        Four Stages of Tissue Activity as Observed Through the Iris

Organs and systems are rated according to the four different stages tissue
manifestation.

Stage (1) ACUTE. The first stage may be represented by pain and discomfort.
Tissues at this stage utilize biochemicals at a faster rate, thus eventually
wearing it out.
(This first stage is the beginning of all dis-ease and commonly detected in
children)

Stage (2) NORMAL. This stage is very uncommon to find in a individual, due to
the fact that it is difficult to analyze or find a truly "NORMAL" constitution.
Children seem to come closer to being checked in this area, although a tissue
that is rated a 3 or 4 is considered close to being a good functioning tissue.

Stages (3 -- 6) SUB ACUTE. This stage in which tissue conditions are usually
sub-clinical, having little or no pain. It is in this stage where tissue is
prone to toxic absorptiom due to a lower metabolic response. (Occurs usually
10 - 20 years of age)

Stages (7 - 8) CHRONIC. This stage is associated with a condition that is of
longer standing. In this stage tissue innervation is very low, with a decrease
of metabolic function. Toxins are not eliminated properly, thus inviting a
disease environment. 80% of all disease is found in this stage. (Occurs
usually around 20 years of age and up to any age)

Stages (9 - 10) DEGENERATIVE. The stage in which tissue integrity is at its
lowest level of metabolic response. This condition is most serious, as well
as the most difficult to reverse. (Can occur at any age)

1.09                          Iridology & Constitution

Constitution gives us a picture of the overall strength in the body. We rate
this on 1 being the best, 5 being average and 10 being very poor.

People with a strong constitution tend not to have as many illnesses, and when
they do, they seem to recover quite quickly. These are the type of people that
usually grow up abusing their health because they can get away with it without
no ill consequences. They also tend to be less receptive to someone with a
weaker constitution thus showing little consideration to their needs. It is
good to note that someone with a very good constitution can only burn their
candle for so long!

Those with a weaker constitution have a greater amount of inherent weaknesses
in their body. They need to take extra care of their body more than someone
with an inherited strong constitution to stay well. They are more sensitive
to foods, environment, stress and tend to take longer to recover from illnesses
that occur more frequently than someone with a strong constitution.

1.10                              IRIS COLOR

The human iris can be seen in a number of various colors, although there are
only two basic iris colors, blue and brown.

It seems more than ever, through so much inter-marriage of races in the world
that we are likely to see a genetic mix of colors. There are many instances
where drug and toxic settlements in the body, can make the Iris color appear
different from it's basic pre{*filter*} color.

It seems that people with a brown eye have a family history that goes back to
the more southern climates, while blue eyes have a history of a family
background in the northern climates.

It is been noted that brown eyed people seem more subject too glandular and
{*filter*} related disorders while blue eyes seem to be subject too lymphatic,
catarrhal and acidic disorders.

1.11                     ELIMINATION ORGANS TO CONSIDER

The major elimination organs are of utmost importance, therefore we must give
first consideration in learning more about their functions. The Iridologist
finds that the greatest amounts of tissue weaknesses in the body are primarily
found in the elimination organs. It is through that importance that an
iridologist will go into some detail on specific elimination organs and
channels.

1.12                         THE BRAIN & IRIDOLOGY

The brain is considered to be the most important organ in our body. Of all the
areas that we are covering in Neuro-optic analysis, least is known about the
specific brain areas and much research has yet to be done, although, Iridology
is in the pioneering stage and looks very encouraging.

When we study the eyes, we study the brain, as the eyes are extensions of the
brain. The developing eyes of the human embryo first appear on the 22-day as
grooves in the forebrain wall. The eyes are first attached to the brain by the
optic stalk in which becomes the optic nerve as the eyes continue to grow. The
eyes are made of brain tissue and retain the complex sensitivity characteristics
of this highly evolved tissue. This is why the eyes are so revealing and it is
through this intimate development upon which iridology is founded. One of the
most important structures of the brain are the thalamus and hypothalamus. These
are nerve relay centers which monitor tissue conditions in all parts of the body
and forward that information via neural pathways to the irides.

1.13                   Great Poems\Poets on The eyes!

     Intellectual disgrace
     Stares from every human face,
     And the seas of pity lie
     Locked and frozen in each eye.
                                - Wystan Hugh Auden
                                  [In Memory of W. B. Yeats                                                                             III, st. 1] Ib. st.3 [1940],  

     In a dark time, the eye begins to see.
                                - Theodore Roethke
                                  [In a Dark Time [1964], st. 1

     Hew not too high lest the chips fall in thine eye.
                                - Anonymous
                                  Proverb [14th Century]

     Around the world thoughts shall fly
     In the twinkling of an eye.
                                - Anonymous
                           [Attributed to Mother Shipton] Ib.                              

     While with an eye made quiet by the power
     Of harmony, and the deep power of joy,
     We see into the life of things.
                                - William Wordsworth
                                  [Lines Composed a Few Miles                   Above Tintern Abbey [1798], l. 27]  Ib.l. 47
     The harvest of a quiet eye.
                                - William Wordsworth
                                  [A Poet's Epitaph [1800], st.5]
                                  Ib. st. 13

     That inward eye
     Which is the bliss of solitude.
                                - William Wordsworth
                                  [I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud                                                                                         [1807], st.  1] Ib. st. 4

    Wher'er she lie,
        Locked up from mortal eye,
        In the shady leaves of destiny.
                                                                        Richard Crashaw
        [ Stepsto the Temple [1648].Two Went Up into the Temple

    The eye of the trilobite tells us that the sun shone on the
    old beach where he lived; for there is nothing in nature
    without a purpose, an when so complicated an organ was made
    to receivethelight, there must have been light to enter it.

                                - Jean Louis Rudolphe Agassiz
                                  Geological Sketches [1870], ch.2                                  

     Take a pair of sparkling eyes.
                                - Sir William Schwenck Gilbert
                                  [The Gondoliers [1889], act]Ib.

     These things shall be--a loftier race
     Than e'er the world hath known shall rise
     With flame of freedom in their souls,
     And light of knowledge in their eyes.
                                - John Addington Symonds
                                  [The Days That Are To Be] Ib.

     So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of
     ourlives come to their natural end.
                                - Sarah Orne Jewett
                                 [The Country of the Pointed Firs                                                                           1896], ch. 5]  Ib.

     Minnaloushe creeps through the grass
     Alone, important and wise,
     And lifts to the changing moon
     His changing eyes.
                                - William Butler Yeats
                                  [The Wild Swans at Coole                                                      [1919].The Wild Swans at Coole, st. 1]
                                  Ib. The Cat and the Moon

     Their eyes mid many wrinkles, their eyes,
     Their ancient, glittering eyes, are gay.
                                - William Butler Yeats
                                  [Last Poems [1936-1939].  Lepis                                                                                       Lazuli, st. 2] Ib. st.5

     One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth what one becomes..

                                   - John Galsworthy                                  Over the River [1933], ch.1

     somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond
     any experience, your eyes have their silence.
                                - Edward Estlin Cummings
                                  [i sing of Olaf glad and big                                                                                          [1931]]  Ib.

     They were lovely, your eyes, but you didn't know where to look.
                                - George Seferis [Giorgios                                                                                              Sefiriades]
                                  [Mythistorema [1935],]  Ib. XBI

     Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war
     he has seen.
                                - Bill [William Henry] Mauldin
                                  [Up Front [1944]. Caption for                                                                                                 cartoon] Ib.

     What poor astronomers are they
     Take women's eyes for stars!
                                - Anonymous
                                From JOHN DOWLAND, The Third Book                                                                                       of Songs or Airs [1603]

     Farewell, all joys; O death, come close mine eyes;
     More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise.
                                - Anonymous
                                  From ORLANDO GIBBONS, The First                                                                                       Set of Madrigals and Motets of                                                                                          Five Parts [1612],

     The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled
     with hearing.
                                - Ecclesiastes 1:9

     Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be
     pure, and whether it be right.
     The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even
     both of them.
                                - Proverbs 20:14

     The light of the body is the eye.
                                - Matthew 6:22

     With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you
     again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy
     brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine
     own eye?
                                - Matthew 7:2-3

     Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of the thine own eye.

                                - Matthew 7:5

     Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by  
     the immensity of space.                                      
                                                        - Giordano Bruno                                  

                                  [On The Infinite Universe and                                      
                                                        Worlds [1584], introductory                                      
                                                        epistle] Ib.

     We are as much as we see.  Faith is sight and knowledge.
     The hands only serve the years.
                                - Henry David Thoreau.  Journal                                                                                         [1906]. April 9, 1841.

     From those great eyes
     The soul has fled:
     When faith is lost, when honor dies,
     The man is dead!
                                - John Greenleaf Whittier.                                                                                              Ichabod [1850], st. 1

     The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how
     to use one's eyes.
                                - George Sand.  Nouvelles Lettres                                                                                       d'un Voyageur [1869]

     The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
                                - Ralph Waldo Emerson.  [Journal.                                                                                       December 20, 1822]  Ib. May                                                                                             1845.

     The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without
     speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
                                - St. Jerome. [Letter 54]  Ib.

     Among men, Hinnissy, wet eye manes dhry heart.
                                - Finley Peter Dunne
                                  [Mr. Dooley's Opinions [1900],                                                                                        Christian Science]  Ib.

     Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover,
     Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
                                - Joseph Addison  [Cato]  Ib.

     All seems infected that th' infected spy,
     As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
                                - Alexander Pope  
                                  [An Essay on Criticism [1711],                                                                                        pt. I, l. 9]  Ib. l. 358

     Every tear from every eye
     Becomes a babe in eternity.
                              -  William Blake
                                 [Poems from the Pickering                                                                                      Manuscript [c. 1805].  The Smile,                                                                               st.  1]  Ib. l. 67