Visualization, Am I doing this right? Options

I'm currently practicing nocturnal witchcraft as per Konstantinos "Nocturnal Witchcraft" (oddly enough...), and i have a concern.


When doing some of the visualization training to help with skrying, i find most of it too easy. The animated tarot exercise (for those unfamiliar with the book: basically taking a tarot card and imprinting it in your mind, making it go from blurry to clear, and finally making it move in some way or "animate") was too easy, i found that i was able to easily picture the focal point on the card i had chosen (Which was the, i presume, ladys head on "The Universe" from Crowley's Thoth deck), and just as easily "animate" the card, or make it blurry or clear as i wished.

With the "phantom lights" exercise (again, for those unfamiliar, focusing on a single candle and seeing the "lights" around the flame itself, then either A: getting a vision through these lights when you can focus on them, or B: molding them into other shapes while, again, going from blurry to clear), it was just as easy. I've always been able to do what he described, and can remember doing it with any light source available when i was younger (mostly when i was bored dureing class....).

So my question is this: Should it be this easy or am i not getting the "full effect" or am i simply doing something wrong?

A little more backround info:

I am a very avid reader, and i absolutley love to read any sort of story. I've been reading since i was very small, and over time i've developed, subconciously i think, an ability to create a "movie" in my minds eye when i read. I no longer see the words on a page, its as if my subconcious is reading the words, creating an image, and sending it to my conciousness as a finished "picture", and it is doing it so fast, this "picture" becomes an actual "movie". I'm almost positive this has something to do with my ability to visualize things, but again, I am not sure.

Any help and/or input would be greatly appreciated.

Tiac (IMG:style_emoticons/default/help.gif)

It seems you can naturally do a very important step for any magickal working, visualization. Consider yourself lucky that is it easy for you. There are people who have difficulty with it. Perhaps it is time to apply your skill toward manifesting intent. That will give you a challenge.

Thanks for the input Masery.

I just didnt want to "jump the gun", as it were.

Tiac

A little more backround info:

I am a very avid reader, and i absolutley love to read any sort of story. I've been reading since i was very small, and over time i've developed, subconciously i think, an ability to create a "movie" in my minds eye when i read. I no longer see the words on a page, its as if my subconcious is reading the words, creating an image, and sending it to my conciousness as a finished "picture", and it is doing it so fast, this "picture" becomes an actual "movie". I'm almost positive this has something to do with my ability to visualize things, but again, I am not sure.

Any help and/or input would be greatly appreciated.

Tiac

Greetings Tia Sway,

Visualization in my opinion is a form of perception. We perceive through an innate sense the pattern that run through the universal structure like a thread interconnecting with other threads to form a quilt or covering.

When we read of things, or we hear of something happening and we gain that Intellectual Intuitive Insight into the pattern that runs through or Intermeshes with that particular aspect of Space/Time we are in some degree perceiving a glimps of it occurring.

And yes the more one is able to direct their visualization, the more the person is able to direct their inner sight into the nature of objects both physical and spiritual. And from their one becomes able to thread the direction of the flow of the thread much as a weaver does, which inturn brings about or causes a desired intent to conform with the Will.

This of course is a description of Magic(k) as well. The idea behind it though is Practice, Practice, Practice.

Respectfully,
Helel (Joseph)

its really cool if you want to win a race that you can run really really fast ... the challenge is to find races that are harder for you to win and go for those ... take the fact and talents and push them to greater heights and levels of reality.

awesome gift though ... use it well.