Monday, March 27, 2006

Limits of Trans-Iridial Studies

by Dr Dan Waniek, MD
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We cannot study a knowledgeable field, empirically as it is defined and limited as we choose it to be, without an external warrant of its logical coherence. Beyond this fundamental limit of any formalized approach - so aptly described by Kurt Goedel - almost any other educated attempt to enhance our understanding will shape both our vision and the detail of its applied exercise.

It so happened that my contemplation once encompassed the iris. Such a delicately colored membrane, so conspicuously present in our own eyes, pushed the limits of my perception just one small but decisive step further, and beyond medical studies. The images of irides were first beheld in the course of my medical endeavor as a countryside family doctor. But their delicate detail, especially the fine structures of these membranes were - certainly - not only beauty in the beholder's eyes.

Gross Anatomy of the Inner Aspect of Vertebrate Eyes, Somewhere Near the Anterior Pole

So much truth was in the relationship developed between us that I also grew along these contemplated gems. And I developed my understanding along the lines of similarities between structures of the living and those of the myths and other synthetic forms of ancient knowledge. This idea was operationally named "cardinality" and developed elsewhere. Here I was reaching the point where everything I happened to study was also touched by an idea of beauty.

Serendipity, for ever...Everything looked as if something marvellous was always happening and somebody was somewhere around. In fact, and all along the knowledgeable journey, I was never alone anymore. Not only did I lose an old sentiment of loneliness, but some new and in fact irresistible urge developed in my heart : I tried to describe that beauty. My only caveat henceforth, and eversince, was to proceed systematically. The articles and books in this knowldgeable field were all written as a consequence, practically almost as if by themselves.

Alas, I am aware of the hopeless relativity of my approach and the odd choice of such a delicate enterprise. However, living enough to see it carried through, I can only point to the peace of mind it brought to me, where it mattered most – inside the contemplation process.

Friday, March 17, 2006

Like Our Own Ancestors, All Mammals Also Have Irides...

by Dr Dan Waniek, MD
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Take lemurians for instance. Not only their eyes but also their names are significant in a special way. In Mensis Maius, starting at Nonae Maiae , and going through ante diem VIII Idus Maiae, Romans celebrated their origins. It was a special nine-day feast of the dead, Lemuria - their own ancestral cult, brought from somewhere in Thracia Magna, like Dardania and Nicolae Densuşianu's aply pointed Remuria...

Unlike Latin, and even today, Daco-Romanian keeps lamură as a stem word for "origins", "nucleus, the strongest part" or "making pure again" and lămurire for "making as clear as possible".

The story is much deeper and longer. But this gaze, like that in all living iris, tells the beholder a tale of silence and contemplation. For instance, Constantin Noica, one of the greatest philosophers who ever lived - and father of father Rafail - develops these etimological studies in the line of Latin lamina. But who cares about such subtlety in the age of Wikipedia? Talk about involution of species...

Fig. 2 : Lemurian irides. Lemurians have big eye-to-head ratios and the magic of their gaze is not unlike that special one we happen to feel in humans... It's so simple in fact! The same old story of the remote caste trying to look like the actual caste...Posted by Picasa
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Friday, March 10, 2006

How Does an Iris Look Like it Does?

by Dr Dan Waniek, MD
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It reflects light. Moreover, it produces some light of its own... Last, but not least, it is transparent. All in all, and usually, it looks like this one :

Fig. 1 : Human Iris. This is the left eye of someone close to me, seen as if you were looking at it yourself, from a small distance. I'm reflected as a Purkinje image myself. No medication. Some mydriasis. Beautiful picture. Serendipitous absence of a real ring flash light must have helped...

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Friday, March 03, 2006

A Tribute to Hogan, Weddell and Alvarado - Masters of Eye Structures

by Dr Dan Waniek, MD
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Back in med school years, I never saw anything like this. And I feel I must pay tribute to the work that was most informative during those years, and formative beyond belief.

The authors simply lived inside the eye and flew with the eyeballs in the orbits as if these were not restricting bony sockets. Perhaps seeing is not only believing: seeing the inside of the eye is also living.

Did you know that the iris of the eye is the only living structure we can see in a sea of dead keratin, and stuff - other products of the skin? Look inside Hogan, Weddell and Alvarado's masterpiece and you'll make discoveries that others will never forget. And what is more, you'll see exactly how this thing works so that you might see...

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Dan Waniek is a Romanian medical doctor living in Paris, France. He is the author of Abaris the Hyperborean and many Trans-Iridial Studies, nine volumes of which are available for a small fee at iris-ward.com Posted by Picasa