Visualization

The key to all Magickal operations is a strong ability to visualize. Everyone
can visualize, but some need to strengthen their visualization abilities in order
to gain the effects they are working for. The following technique helped many
of my students in intensifying their visualizations.

Exercising Your Inner Eye

(I took this from "Experiences in Visual Thinking" by Robert McKim,
excellent book by the way).

Taking your time, translate each of the following descriptions into a mental image.
Go back and do it again in a few weeks and then a few weeks later, and notice the
difference. Notice the difference, also in the way you see things..inner as well as
outer..after you've done these exercises.

Now sense (see, touch, hear, taste, smell) with your minds eye:

a. a familiar face
b. a galloping horse
c. a rosebud
d. your bedroom
e. a changing stoplight
f. a newspaper headline
g. the sound of rain on the roof
h. the voice of a friend
i. children laughing at play
j. the feel of soft fur
k. an itch
l. a gentle breeze on your face
m. the muscular feeling of running
n. of kicking a can
o. of drawing a circle on paper
p. the taste of a lemon
q. of toothpaste
r. of a potato chip
s. the smell of bacon frying
t. of a gardenia
u. of perspiration
v. the feeling of hunger
w. of a cough
x. of coming awake
y. a stone dropped into a quiet pond with concentric ripples forming
and expanding outward
z. these words flying away, high into the blue sky, finally disappearing.
aa. your shoe coming apart in slow motion and each piece drifting away
into space
ab. an orange being cut into five equal pieces and the pieces being
arranged into equal patterns.