Visualisation

One of the most fascinating abilities of the human being is the ability to visualize something: to see it in his minds eye as clearly as if it as before him. That ability is a prerequisite for making plans for the future, for engineering something, for creative work, for a lot of things. Incidentally, it is also a component of magic and of some meditation techniques like pathworking.
Visualisation means to create something in your mind – to see it, to hear, taste, smell and feel it. Often, our strongest senses are our eyes – that is why it is called visualisation. However, the more senses you can include, the more life-like your visualisation will be – and that will make it more successful. Therefore, this week includes a classical visualisation exercise that tries to engage all of your senses.
Visualisation can be used in a variety of different contexts. If you want to draw a picture, you visualize it before you start. If you want to create a machine, you visualise its different parts working together to see how it would work. That is not what I am going to be talking about. As you probably realized already last week, visualisation is necessary to do pathworkings. In pathworkings, visualisations are used to bring you – your mind, your spirit – into a position, a situation where you can make an experience. For example, in the guided meditation from two weeks ago you were brought to a place of safety, a place that allowed you to experience safety. Typically in a pathworking, you are controlling your surroundings, visualising everything in the beginning. Then, at some place/situation, you let go of that control and begin to register what is coming towards you, to receive answers, parts of the experience. A typical example is when you are led to meet somebody, ask him/her a question and "listen" for the answer. You do not actively visualize the answer, but receive it from somewhere. Now, the "where" is an interesting question. Probably most of the time it will come from your subconsciousness or higher consciousness. However, it might come from separate entities, from guides or even the Gods. Whatever your own theory is, be sure to be open to the answers you get.

A different application for visualisation is working with your body, your subtle body, or with energy: you can actively effect change using visualization. A classical example is autogenic training for working with your body, or grounding exercises for working with energies. This topic will hopefully be covered in more detail later.