In the future please use the search function. Normally threads like these get closed but because there is already some good discussion going on I won't do that. But somebody else might.
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how do you vizualize something? do you see it in physical form or just in the mind eye.
Visualization is simple - you use your imagination to see in your mind the dimentions and details of something.
For example, I used to play with legos as a kid. I had probably some 100,000 different pieces. Building with them was a process of thinking about what I wanted to make - by thinking about it I was using my imagination. I was thinking about the size, the color, where the little lego people would go (I used to make space ships) and so on. But I wasn't only thinking I was doing something. By doing I was also feeling the legos and fitting pieces where I thought they should logically go. Understand, as others have already pointed out, visualization doesn't have to be only a visual thing. If you can imagine what something looks like then you can imagine its texture or feel and what it might smell and taste like. (Umm.. don't try to eat any legos though... they hurt comming back out the other end (IMG:
style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) )Visualization is pretty synonomous with imagination.
Another example is when making any kind of art - even music can produce visual, imaginative affects - but especially sculptures, pottery, paintings, drawings and writting. When making a piece we think about what we want to create and again by thinking about we visualize in our minds what we want, like brain storming. Writting is a little different in that the only visual affect is what we imagine when we read the words. Yet none the less writting is a very effective way to engage your visualization skills. Needless to say there are many ways to go about visualizing something. I like to write and draw and doing either is probably when I visualize things the most. When ever I do either or both I am visualizing in my head what I want to create or say.
In the world of mysticism visualization is very important and one of the basic fundamentals that any magician should learn very well. The reason its so important is because its used for so many things; especially like meditation, pathworking, remote viewing, bi-location, astral projection or dream magick. I'd argue a magician uses visualization in every work he/she does.
A good practice to try is what I dubbed the "apple technique" and Makavelli did a fine job explaining it in this thread:
http://www.sacred-magick.org/index.php?showtopic=2724I'd add more but I got to go.
Visualization
Uwe Visualization Jan 17 2007, 06:14 PM
Jan 17 2007, 06:14 PM
