For we live by believing and not by seeing. 2 Cor 5:7 (NLT)
PART 3 – Eyes Have It
Yesterday we talked about Daniel Kish and his ability to defy the beliefs and systems we have in place around blind people. Despite having both eyes removed Daniel can ride bikes, horses, climb trees and hike through the woods un-aided.
He does this via a form of echolocation he devised as a child – a clicking sound he makes with his mouth that bounces off the environment.
Lore Thaler, a Psychologist, specialising in visual cognition, was intrigued to see if Daniel (and several other echolocating visually-impaired) did see with this unique sense. Since an image is something that the mind constructs and sight is just the brain making sense of signals, it receives.
So she took some special microphones and placed them near their ears to record exactly what they heard while they “clicked”. The scientists placed different objects in front of them – a car, a lamp post, a salad bowl.
They later placed them in an fMRI and measured their brain activity while they played back the different recordings – car, lamp-post, salad bowl, etc. They then compared the results to sighted people looking at the same objects. Although scientists had thought for years that the visual cortex of the brain remained dark for the visually impaired, they discovered that Daniel’s was coursing with blood flow and lighting up… as if he was actually seeing.
We all have mindsets about what is actually possible.
So what do you think came first? Daniel’s ABILITY to navigate the world without eyes or his BELIEF that he could navigate the world without eyes?
Humans once thought the world was flat and impossible to navigate for fear of falling off the edge. It was once deemed impossible to send a man to the moon or to break the four-minute mile.
The key was that someone was brave enough to push past the accepted boundary of what was possible and prove wrong a collective mindset.
Achieving the impossible always starts with faith… long before your eyes actually see it come to pass…
We actually live by what we believe.
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