January 17, 2026 - EyeClarity Blog
For most of modern culture, perception has been treated like a passive act.
As if the world is “out there,” and the eyes simply capture it.
But perception is not passive.
Perception is relational.
Perception is embodied.
Perception is shaped by the nervous system.
And this is where my work lives.
Over the years, I’ve found myself in the same territory as a few powerful thinkers and traditions—David Abram, Iain McGilchrist, Merleau-Ponty, and Indigenous ways of seeing. But my work is not primarily philosophy or poetry.
My work is restoration.
David Abram: The Poetry of Perception
David Abram reminds us that the world is alive and responsive—what he calls “the more-than-human world.” His gift is restoring the sacredness of perception and the intelligence of the senses.
Abram re-enchants perception through language.
But he doesn’t train the body back into it.
Iain McGilchrist: The Diagnosis of Modern Attention
McGilchrist maps how modern life collapses perception into narrow focus, abstraction, control, and fragmentation—what he describes as left-hemisphere dominance.
His gift is the cultural diagnosis:
The way we attend shapes the world that appears.
But diagnosis alone doesn’t reorganize the nervous system.
Merleau-Ponty: The Philosophy of Embodiment
Merleau-Ponty established something revolutionary:
Perception is not something the mind has.
It’s something the body does.
His gift is showing that perception is lived, motoric, and participatory.
But he doesn’t offer the physiology of repair.
Indigenous Perception Traditions: Relational Seeing
Indigenous traditions hold a truth modern culture forgot:
Seeing is not a private act.
It’s a relationship.
Wide vision. Field awareness. Listening with the eyes. Sensing through the whole body.
These traditions didn’t need to “recover” perception—they never abandoned it.
But modern stress, trauma, screens, and indoor life have collapsed perception even in modern Indigenous bodies.
Where My Work Sits
My work is the bridge between these worlds.
I help people restore perception by reorganizing the nervous system and visual field—translating phenomenology, neuroscience, and Indigenous ways of seeing into lived experience.
This means perception becomes:
• trainable
• relational
• repairable
• restorable
I don’t treat eye conditions.
I restore the perceptual field—the biological foundation of vision, regulation, and presence.
Eyes are the doorway.
But the work is the whole organism.
And when perception changes, life changes—not as an idea, but as a lived reality.