Astral sight and blindess.

[maverick7h]

I was thinking about this and wanted to know what others had to say.

Most of us, as some point or another, have "seen" our world, actually a reflection of it,  with their astral sight, their 3rd eye, their ethereal vision, whatever you want to call it; maybe during an OBE, but especially those times where you wake up early and before you open your eyes, you can see. While this sight isn't perfectly accurate, it is quite close. Close enough to consider it functional vision.

So I was wondering, if we can do this, why is it we've never heard of a blind person learning to use this form of sight in place of their eyes? Perhaps many do, in a very weak form they might interpret as imagination through sound and what not, but theoretically one should be able to achieve an almost-perfect ethereal sight ability with practice and dedication. I would think someone who has gone blind could become particularly devoted to this practice. And I am sure if someone had, it would've made a news story here or there at some point, spread the word so others could be taught as well. So why have they not?

Possibly because people that go blind or are born blind have chosen that path for themselves (their higher-self has, I mean), hence they don't want to gain this sort of sight since it would negate a purpose of their journey. Perhaps those of us that ARE more spiritually evolved, those of us reading these forums and those like us - that we have the spiritual and physical integrity to not allow some ailment to take our vision. It is true most of us get sick considerably less than average, if ever, right? Or maybe its because most of this sort of information is only primarily available on the internet, a source of knowledge a blind person would be severely limited access to.

Another interesting thing is that I've heard someone who is born with sight but goes blind later in life, over time also slowly stops "seeing" in their dreams. They still dream though. It is often said however, that some to all of our "dreams" are actually experiences on the astral plane, hence we would be seeing with our astral sight. What connection could this have?

[MisterJingo]

From what I have read regarding blind people in the astral, they use a form of tactile sensing ie 'feeling' in every direction all at the same time but without the limitation of arms length.

I think 'astral sight' is learnt from experience of physical vision processing. We learn how to convert energy into what we perceive to be sight. These structures (knowledge) are utilised with subtle forms of energy in the astral. Blind people never learn this, so they interpret astral environments in a way they do understand (tactile).
This does warrant some interesting questions.
If a blind person has had physical existence before, surely they have the knowledge of 'astral sight' when OBE, so why do blind people not utilise or remember this perception? Does this mean once we leave the physical permanently we lose this ability? If not, why have blind people?
Also, before we learnt to perceive energy this way (photons, astral etc) how did we actually perceive the astral? What were our original perceptions and how did they form?
People take for granted our 5 senses and so automatically assume those senses are standard throughout the astral etc but this is not the case. They are limited to human beings.

[Sorlac]

I agree with what MisterJingo posted.  The only reason we have alter versions of sight, hearing, feeling with clairvoyance, clairaudience (etc) is because we're used to using the five physical senses we have.  The brain interprets the way it is used to interpreting, so it draws correlations to the senses it typically works with.

I've also read something on this subject with regards to those who are blind, and those who have always been blind, describing their sensing in the astral.  I believe one statement went something like this:

"I felt as if I was feeling everything around me at once, like I was putting my hands all over everything at the same time.  Thus, I had a perception of the spatial coordinates of everything and its surface form."

That is essentially exactly what physical seeing does, but he didn't actually see anything.  I can't remember where I read it, which is a shame since it was a good read.