Weird Tales/Volume 2/Issue 3/Sight Without Eyes

Sight Without Eyes

A FRENCH scientist named Louis Farigoule says that human beings have latent within them the power to see without eyes. This alleged power is termed paroptic vision.

After exhaustive experiments, Farigoule has written a book on the subject in which he states that man has a "paroptic sense" that is capable of communicating to the brain cognizance of the existence of surrounding objects practically identical with the effect of ordinary vision. His claim is that any part of the bodily exterior may be capable of paroptic vision under certain conditions.

Other experimenters who have taken up the work claim to have attained similar results. They state their belief that paroptic vision is a natural faculty and that light is the agent that produces paroptic vision. They also claim that variations in the intensity of light produce the same effects as they do in ordinary vision and that neither touch nor any of the other senses has anything to do with paroptic vision.

When the tests were made, precautions were taken which eliminated all possibility of any use of the eyes, yet the subjects were able to perceive and name objects with absolute precision.

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