Re: Closed Eye Visualisations

["crimsonteabiscuit" <crimsonteabiscuit@...>]

Dear Rawn and Stephen,
Thank you for your posts, I know that it is a matter of persistence
one way or another. I do feel that 'brute forcing' my way past these
obstacles is not always the best solution - are a lot of problems not
merely conceptual (i.e. in the way you are performing the technique)?
All the best,
C.


--- In BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com, "Rawn Clark" <rawnclark@n...> wrote:
> Dear "Crimson Tea Biscuit",
> 
> >> While I can visualize confidently and successfully with my eyes
> open - I have quite a bit of difficulty visualizing with my eyes closed.
> When I visualize something with my eyes closed, such as a banana - it
> tends to appear quite vague and only part of it is in view, after a
> little while it fades altogether. It appears correctly and accurately
> when I have my eyes open. When performing closed eye visualizing, I have
> tried duplicating the mental process that I perform with my eyes open -
> but without much success. The images are simply not 'summoned up'
> easily. <<
> 
> I don't know if this is the "answer" per se, but I'd like to offer this
> as something for you to ponder. :) One difference between working with


> eyes-open and eyes-closed is that with eyes-open you have some sort of
> defining background upon which to project your visualization. In other
> words, there's a surface which has depth, etc. With eyes-closed on the
> other hand, there is no surface but only a depthless blackness. Your
> brain therefore isn't able to say, for example, "okay, I will create
> this visualization three feet in front of my face". It has no automatic
> judgment of *where* to place the visualization.
> 
> Furthermore, in the eyes-closed visualization one doesn't *use* the eyes
> in the same way that one does when eyes are open. It forces one to work
> with the mental creativity alone, separate from normal sight.
> 
> Over all, I recommend that you keep working at it. :)
> 
> My best to you,
> :) Rawn Clark
> 11 April 2004
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