Introduction to Intuitive Vision course
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What is Intuitive Vision?
What if seeing didn’t depend on the eyes?
Some questions open a door the moment you ask them. “What is Intuitive Vision, or extraocular vision?” is one of them, and here is a simple, clear answer.
Intuitive Vision is a capacity of consciousness that allows us to see everything around us in physical space, without using our eyes or any of the traditional senses.
Yes, you read that right. All of us can develop this astonishing capacity with practice and presence. Wearing a blindfold, or with our eyes completely covered, we can come to see what surrounds us as if our eyes were open.
We can move through a space we’ve never been in before, we can draw, we can even read books or ride a bike.
If you’d like, let’s go a little deeper into Intuitive Vision and extraocular vision. If this is new to you, you surely have plenty of questions about this capacity.
What is Intuitive Vision?
Let’s take an example that could happen on any ordinary day. You’re at home, absorbed in what you’re doing. Suddenly a sensation passes quickly through your body and a thought takes shape: a friend far away, someone you haven’t heard from in a long time. You notice that feeling for a moment and, without dwelling on it, you let it go.
A minute later, the phone rings. You know who’s calling, don’t you?
You didn’t learn it through any of the traditional senses, yet the information is there, expressing itself through you.
Chances are something like this has happened to you, and you know other people it has happened to as well. This leads us to say that there is such a thing as intuitive experience: something you know without knowing how you know it.
When we develop this intuitive capacity, we are simply developing the ability to focus our attention on a perception that is already active. Then we can begin to perceive what is in front of us. And with training, we can begin not only to sense but, in a way, to see the colors of what lies before us, shapes, letters or numbers, and far beyond that.
If we have a drawing of a lemon, we may even smell the lemon, because our subconscious perceives what is there and conveys it to us through our sense of smell. Or we may feel the texture of an object in a printed photograph.
Would you like it in more scientific terms?
In a study by the HeartMath Institute (an institute of cardiologists devoted to researching the intelligence of the heart), volunteers were asked to sit in front of a blank screen; a computer then showed them an image that triggered an emotional response. The study recorded that the heart responded to the emotion 4.8 seconds before the image was shown. That means the heart already knew which image was coming before the eyes did!
That intuitive knowing is what we use in Intuitive Vision and extraocular vision. It is the experience of seeing the information around us, with nothing to do with our physical eyes.
Your consciousness is constantly perceiving everything happening around you, even when you don’t notice it.
So Intuitive Vision, or extraocular vision, is the capacity to perceive all the information around us visually, without using any of the traditional senses.
If you’d like to see what the rest of the research says about this same experiment, we go into it more calmly in “How is it possible?”.
Where do Intuitive Vision and extraocular vision come from?
There is no “inventor” of Intuitive Vision or extraocular vision: as a human capacity, it is something intrinsic that every human being can experience.
Over time we find writings that already spoke of this capacity (see some videos, in Spanish, if you’d like to know more). If we dig deeper, we find people on every continent who developed this ability on their own, and some were even studied to understand where the information came from, since several of them were blind.
From these experiences, a number of schools emerged to teach it under different names: intuitive vision, extraocular vision, the VEO method, dermo-optical vision, mental vision, dermovision… Each school chose the name that felt right for this capacity.
Have you seen the well-known Netflix film “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar”? (in Spanish)
In our book Seeing without eyes is possible. Intuitive Vision and Expanded Intuition we explore the whole history of this capacity, along with everything the studies we’ve carried out to date have taught us.
What do we need to develop this capacity to see without our eyes?
Well, first of all… consciousness. That’s the first step, and we believe it’s one of the few truly essential ones for developing Intuitive Vision.
Another thing we need is an open mind. This goes beyond the framework of beliefs we so often carry with us. Starting from the idea that we are much more than we ever thought, we see the “truth” our mind was holding on to begin to expand.
We’re going to turn “seeing is believing” around and, for now, make it “believing is seeing.”
This last one isn’t essential, but it helps. It helps a lot. If we’re adults, it means being able to connect with the joy and curiosity of our inner child. That joy, that eagerness to play, keeps us present. And when we’re present, we don’t miss a detail of what is happening, in this case inside us, in that subconscious part of ourselves.
So, can all of us open up extraocular vision?
For us, it isn’t something that opens or closes. It’s something we can experience and train, and there’s no point at which it is “open” and another at which it isn’t; there are many ways of experiencing this capacity.
- Some people see colors.
- Some people see shapes.
- Some people can read.
- Some people pick up smells from images in another room.
- Some people can see what is behind them.
There are many ways to develop these intuitive and extraocular capacities and, from what we’ve seen, every consciousness has its own.
Through our Visual Research Commission (in Spanish) we have even worked with people who are totally blind, and they have managed to read large words, see colors and receive information about things before they happened.
For sessions, children do need to be at least 6–8 years old: although we approach it as a game and children love it, they will be wearing a blindfold for most of the session’s activities. The person also needs to be able to communicate, so we can understand what they are receiving and help them pay attention to what may at first feel subtle.
What’s the point, if I can already see with my eyes?
It’s a great question, and many people ask it: if we can already see, why should I put effort into seeing without my eyes?
In fact, there are many benefits to working with this capacity, although each person’s process will bring its own.
Benefits of Intuitive Vision
- It lets us discover who we are beyond what we always believed ourselves to be.
- It brings us into contact with our consciousness and lets us observe the ways we perceive what surrounds us.
- It helps us become more centered, calm and observant, and more honest and coherent with ourselves.
- It helps us listen more deeply, both inwardly and outwardly, and quiet our mind and thoughts.
- It helps us begin to believe we are capable of much more.
So whether you were thinking of practicing yourself or of sharing it with your children, you now know the benefits are many and far-reaching.
Milena Álvarez, in the Institute’s commentsIt’s like entering a world that feels more real than the one we live in day to day.
Okay, so how do I begin?
Reading about it is the first step. The second is feeling it. Our free five-lesson introductory course is coming soon in English: it will be the simplest starting point before deciding whether you want to go further. You can join the waiting list now and be the first to know when it, and our other courses, open.
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Step into the impossible. For those who feel ready to go beyond nearby perception and explore consciousness. Coming soon in English.
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In a one-to-one session, someone with experience looks at your specific situation and answers what you really want to know. Ask about a one-to-one session.
Do you feel this is going to become part of your life?
Not as something to achieve or to teach, but as a way of living.
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The Institute’s approach
We explore through lived experience, without closing ourselves off behind dogmas or beliefs. Play is how we learn and experiment: every experience has a gift to reveal.
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How is it possible?
Intuitive Vision is neither magic nor a gift. It is a capacity all of us have. Understanding how it is possible is the beginning of an inquiry.
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Intuitive Vision Coach Training
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23–31JAN 2027
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