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The Color of Your Head

Schwann refers to this kind of no color which is the color of your head so far as your eyes are concerned. Do you feel that your head is black? No? Hasn't any color at all? Have you see your field of vision is an oval with two eyes and this creates sort of two centers of an ellipse? So there's this whole field of vision. Now experiment, what is beyond the field of vision? What color is it where you can't see? It isn't black. This is an important point. It's no color at all beyond there. And in this way you can get an idea of what is meant by that character that I discussed

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