Bryn Athyn College Alumni Magazine Spring/Summer 2017 | Page 24

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LOOKING THROUGH
THE LENS OF
STELLA EVANS, PH.D.
If you gaze deeply into the eyes of a child, a romantic
partner, or even a beloved pet, you see something beyond
the physical surface. Love, sadness, joy, and other “invis-
ible” qualities somehow radiate through the eyes. Look
long enough, and you may feel as if you’ve glimpsed into
this being’s very soul. As Emanuel Swedenborg wrote, “It
is our interior life … that, through the organs of our body,
senses things that are in the world, and perceives them
naturally. The whole body, with all its senses, is merely an
instrument of its soul, or of its spirit.” (AE 152)
With this in mind, it may come as little surprise that at a
cellular level, our eyes function through an astoundingly
complex interaction of electrical signals, responses, and
processes. Within this fascinating world of the human
eye, professor Stella Evans, Ph.D., has spent her entire ca-
reer and made exciting new contributions.
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