VISUALIZATION EXERCISES

   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 has proved highly effective in intensifying one's visualizations.

                  Exercising Your Inner Eye

 (taken from Experiences in Visual Thinking by Robert McKim)

   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 familiar face

a galloping horse

a rosebud

your bedroom

a changing stoplight

a newspaper headline

the sound of rain on the roof

    the voice of a friend

    children laughing at play

the feel of soft fur

    an itch

    a gentle breeze on your face

the muscular feeling of running

    of kicking a can

    of drawing a circle on paper

the taste of a lemon

    of toothepaste

    of a potato chip

the smell of bacon frying

    of a gardenia

    of perspiration

the feeling of hunger

    of a cough

    of coming awake

a stone dropped into a quiet pond with concentric ripples forming and expanding outward

these words flying away, high into the blue sky, finally disappearing.

your shoe coming apart in slow motion and each piece drifting away into space

an orange being cut into five equal pieces and the pieces being arranged into equal patterns