Title: Seeing with the mind's eye : the history, techniques, and uses of visualization /
Authors: Samuels, Mike.; Samuels, Nancy,; Samuels, Nancy,
Publisher: Random House,
Year: 1975
Subjects: Visualization; Visual Perception; Mental Recall; Fantasy; Spirituality
Abstract: This volume explores the concepts and techniques related to visualization as the basic process of thought, memory, imagination, religious experiences, the perception of reality, creativity, and consciousness itself. The authors trace subjects like dreams, daydreams, eidetic imagery, and general visualizations through history and different cultures and religions. They cover visualization both in very general terms, discussing its history and theory, as well as offering to specific recommendations and suggestions as to how it can play a role in one's life.
Contents: [Sect. 1:] The nature of the image -- Introduction -- [1.] 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 -- [2.] Visual images and the word. Union and separation -- The cave paintings, participation mystique, American Indian stories and rituals -- Verbal versus visual thought -- [3.] 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 -- Twentieth century research in physiology, the image in psychology, the image in psychiatry -- [4.] Varieties of visualization experience. Memory images -- Eidetic images, Imagination images --^