Seeing with Mind's Eye

From Preface: "Visualization, as presented in this book, is a set of concepts and techniques drawn from historical as well as contemporary sources, in every aspect of life, that seeks to reinstate the reader to an understanding of the nature of his visual processes and their importance in his life. Visualization is the other side of human nature, the primitive darkness, the energizing non-rational flow, the connection to the Source, the artist's inspiration, the path in the right hemisphere of the brain, the Dionysus to civilization's Appolonian rigidity, the door to the fountainhead. Visualization is not just an idea; it is one half of consciousness. It is one way we think, perhaps the more basic way. This book cannot teach you to visualize. You already do. You may want to rediscover this part of yourself, missing for centuries." - Don Gerrard, Editor Contents Include: * Inner and outer - Fantasy and Reality [Perceptions and images; the duality in experimental psychology; the duality in physics, Carl Jung's psychic reality; The unity in American Indian thought] * Visual Images and the Word [Union and separation; The cave paintings, participation mystique, American Indian stories and rituals, Verbal versus visual thought] * A Brief History of Imagery in Religion, Healing, and Psychology [Egyptian and Hermetic philosophy; Summarian fertility gods, Patanjali's 'Yoga Sutras': Tantric visualizations, mandalas; Old Testament visualizations, basic Christian visualizations; Shamanistic healing rituals; Egyptian medicine; Paracelsus; Christian Science Healing; 20th C. Research in Psychology, the Image in Psychology; The Image in Psychiatry] * Varieties of Visualization Experience [Memory images; Eidetic images, imagination images; Daydreams and fantasy; Hypnagogic and hypnopompic images; Dreams; Visions and hallucinations; After-images, Recurrent images] * Visualization and Perception [The physiology of vision: the eye and the brain; Fixed gaze and depth perception; The split brain] * The Effects of Visualization [Inner States; One-pointedness of mind; Effects on physiology; subtle body energy; Images as a guide from the unconscious] * Symbol, Form and Color [Symbols and Perceptions; Auto symbolizing; Symbols in Visions and Dreams; Tantric Symbols; Synesthesias] SECTION II: OPENING THE MIND * Preliminaries [Relaxation; autosuggestion, concentration, counting breaths; blind sight; memorizing what you see...] * Visualization Techniques * The Receptive Place * Receiving Images SECTION III: VISIONS OF WHOLENESS * Daily Life * Psychology * Medicine and Healing [Shamanistic rituals; Eskimo, Navaho; Babylonian healing techniques; Egyptian magic; Greek healing techniques; dreams and temple sleep, idols, excorism, occult healing, paracelsus and Renaissance healing techniques; the placebo effect; taboo death; the physiology of visualization healing; Yogic control of body; bio-feedback, Autogenic therapy; Carl Simonton's use of

This book assists the reader in learning about the powers of vision and it's influence over your decision making process. How to identify and respond to images obtained by the physical eye and how to manipulate positive images, produced by the intuitive imaging process of the brain. An excellent book for those who want to be the best they can be. You are what you think you are!