Frustrated With Lbrp Progress... Have You Ever Seen "visions" After Doing It? Options

It's been doing it for about a year, during some periods every day... and I just can't get any juice out of it.

It started well enough, but after a few months of daily practice, I didn't seem to have any results. I read Kraigs' modern magic book and he says it is likely you'll start seeing "visions" of things, he says he saw a snake disappear into the floor or something.

I'm no where near that point, if indeed I can get to such a point. I know the point of magick is NOT to have little tricks and visions but I feel bad that I cannot sense any true progress. I expected I would at least have gradual signs or feelings that I was advancing, even if just in baby steps.

Part of my problem may be that I rarely vibrate the names aloud, and when I do, I tend to feel a bit silly. My room has no curtains on the windows and there IS a constant sense of paranoia, at most times of day. I don't know. I dont plan on giving up but I wanted to know other people's sensations of "progress."

I can't add much, other than to say that the words and actions are dramatics (dramatic magick, Kraig describes it as). The important thing is to create the sacred space. To visualize, you almost need to achieve a genuine gnosis (I know, that's Chaote, but gnosis is the whole purpose of ritual, mantra, or any other method of empowerment, isn't it?) So, perhaps before the actions, try a little chanting, meditation, get in the frame of mind first. Just an suggestion. I chant a mantra 108 times, to candle light, and it gets me into the right frame of midn.