New Age Visualization

Source: Encyclopedia of New Age Beliefs

“New Age visualization is the use of mental concentration and direct mental imagery in the attempt to secure particular goals. Most popular “think yourself rich” (or healthy, or sexy, or happy) seminars and books endorse and use visualization as well as modern New Age seminars. In one’s mind, one can create “projection screens” on which to project desired images, such as greater self-confidence, losing weight etc. Claims from proponents are the quest for personal power, inner knowledge or spiritual enlightenment and physical health. Visualization is routinely used by shamans, spiritists, magicians, and witches. It is also widely used in psychic healing. Accompaniments with visualization are relaxation, meditation, trusting in the “guide,” the cultivation of willpower, various forms of self-hypnosis etc. Visualization is often used to develop psychic powers. This fact is recognized by numerous experts in both the occult and visualization fields. Some occultists acknowledge the importance of successful visualization for contacting the supposed astral realm where spirits dwell. Visualization can be used deliberately in magic ritual for spirit contact and spirit possession, but those things can be encountered in normal visualization practice or even through purely make believe fantasy rituals. In modern channeled literature, the spirits (really demons) actively endorse visualization, recommending specific exercises for learning how to contact them and become a channel. Christians are to be renewed daily by the Holy Spirit, prayer, and the Word of God. Not to be renewed using Eastern metaphysics or inner work through visualization.”

Here is more useful information about New Age Visualization by John Weldon and John Ankerberg: PDF 1 and PDF 2

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