Vishelp II

by
Paul Allen
1999

Please read also: Vishelp I , Vishelp III

Visualization difficulties are a common problem for a part of newcomers when they begin to practice Bardon's system.

To illustrate this please read a posting to the old Franz Bardon Bulletin at: FBB 26-2-9 .

I worked with a small number of beginners having this problem and it was found, that a special preparatory exercise seems to bring quick results.

As explained before, if someone with poor visualization skills closes his eyes trying to visualize something, he will experience serious difficulties. Such a person will see nothing at all with her/his inner eyes and therefore has nothing to concentrate upon. In most cases such a person will enter the process of looking at a chosen item, closing the eyes and trying to visualize it (without success), opening the eyes after a few moments again and repeating the process for many times.
 This is an fact a very frustrating process and most people will give up this kind of concentration drill after a few weeks of non rewarding efforts even when they are highly motivated to persevere. So a certain percentage of potential hermetic magicians drop away and only persons with natural good visualization skills will move on with the system.

Now it was found, that for poor visualizers it works better to directly stimulate the visual cortex, and not to try to visualize anything at all at first. Direct stimulation of the visual cortex is best accomplished by to methods:
 

1. The inverse color method (= the flashing tablets method,  = the candle flame method).
2. "Looking at ordinary things"-method.

Both methods are very well documented in the occult literature.

1. The inverse colors method.

Use a flashing tablet or diagram like  (klick on the symbol to get the hole picture).
Now look attentively at it for 2-3 minutes. Try to exclude all thoughts (shut down the inner dialog). After looking for some time at the tablet look at a white paper sheet or at an empty space on the wall and fixate for as long as possible the appearing inverse color picture. Don't try to visualize anything at all. You will notice that the picture hides and reappears in a regular pattern and at last fades out after some time. Alternatively you can also look at the inverse color picture with your eyes closed. But it was found that the colors are more brilliant with your eyes open. You will also notice, that brightness and color of the inverse color picture will change with changes in the light source and background.
Do this exercise two times a day for about 10 minutes. Always quit when you feel your eyes begin to get tired.
(You can use also the candle flame method, but it works not as good as the former method: Fixate in a dark room for some time the flame of an ordinary candle, close your eyes and look at the appearing colors as explained above.)

2. The "Looking at ordinary things"-method.

It's better to use first the "Inverse color method" and after having practiced it for a while to add this one.
Look intently for 2-3 minutes at an ordinary item. It should be not to big and not to small. (It should be of about the same size as the flashing tablet which you used before.) Again move your eyes away and look on an empty space on the wall. If there appears spontaneously a picture of the physical object (NO INVERSE COLORS !) on which you looked at, fine, if not, don't try to visualize anything. Just look again for 2-3 minutes at the physical object. After some time there will begin to appear on the wall or "in the air " in your minds eye a copy of the physical picture. First only for a glimpse then for a always longer time. Look at this picture as long as possible, but don't try to expand the time. Simply turn back to the physical object when the visualized picture vanishes.
Now and then check if you can visualize the physical object also with your eyes closed. If you are able to do so for 5 - 15 seconds, go on with the visualization exercises as explained by Bardon.
 

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