Inner vision

Since all is ultimately consciousness, mind (as Buddhist metaphysics terms consciousness) is the builder of all and the source of the illusion of separateness. It is by the skillful use of the image-building faculty of consciousness (imagination) that we fashion the tools for our liberation. The subjectivity of inner vision does not diminish its reality value. It is real on its own level. Such visions are not hallucinations, because their reality is that of the human psyche. They are symbols in which the highest knowledge and the noblest endeavor of the human mind are embodied. Visualization is the creative process of spiritual projection, through which inner experience is translated into visible form, comparable to the creative act of an artist whose subjective idea, emotion, or vision is transformed into an objective work of art which then takes on a reality of its own, independent of the creator. 

Proust wrote out of an inner vision increasingly trained on time. As boldly as Minkowskian geometry, his enormous novel revolutionizes our sense of here and now. ... 

Zeki S 1999 Inner Vision. An Exploration of Art and the Brain. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 

In his autobiography (written in 1960) Jung commits himself wholly to the inner vision and to the wisdom and superior reality of internal perceptions. In 1938 (when his Tibetan commentary was written) he was moving in this direction but cautiously and with the ambivalent reservations of the psychiatrist cum mystic. 

But consider that the camera only records what we see. Tripping the shutter only freezes a moment in time. The moments recorded by Cartier-Bresson have become images only after they have been developed and printed in a way they can be presented and shared with others in magazines or through books and exhibits. The fulfillment of the photographer s inner vision is not realized until the film has been processed and reproduced. 

On the way up, there was this music experience. Since I am a musician, he chose the music knowing that I was—and that part of it was incredible. It was OK to keep my eyes open or closed, since it didn t matter. To close my eyes felt better. My perceptions were getting disoriented, and when I dosed my eyes a lot of information started to happen. Colors, patterns, cross-connections in sensory perception. Sounds and inner visions got confused. 

A passage from the work of Erich Neumann could apply to the stage of the work symbolized in this final plate of the series What in the primitive stage was realized as an unconscious bond, now returns on a higher level as the possibility of a symbolic realization of life s meaning when lived out to its fullest extent He adds this interesting comment, Now neither the extravert s outward vision of the world nor the introvert s inner vision remains in force but a third type of vision remains. 

Body Gods and Inner Vision The Scripture of the Yellow Court, 154) that one should shut in order to protect the loci of one s inner body. 

Now look here, Felix, I said sternly, having visions of needle teeth sunk in my ankle. .. But my mind must still have been grappling with the tarot and the quatrain because then I heard an inner voice that sounded much like the Maestro s Be not so proud as to spurn help at your feet. ... 

A 5-year-old girl is taken to the doctor s office by her mother following a conference with her kindergarten teacher. The teacher is concerned because compared to her kindergarten classmates, she is hyperactive, restless, and easily distracted. Recent testing revealed that the child s vision was normal but hearing acuity was below normal. Recently the child has complained of abdominal pain and has had occasional constipation. About 3 years ago the parents moved into a 75-year-old house in the inner city and have been renovating it extensively. Within the past year, the parents separated and the father moved out of the house. 

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