The Power of Imagination and Visualisation Can Aid in Coming into Direct Contact with One's Psychic Being

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The power of visualization has
been recognized as an aid in

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healing from illness and
excelling in sports, and in

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helping an individual achieve
results in the external world.

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The spiritual seeker also can
put this power to work to

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achieve results in the inner
world.

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Practitioners of Tibetan
Buddhism are trained on how to

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utilize visualization in their
spiritual practice, and

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considerable focus is placed
upon the techniques involved.

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Devotees from other traditions
also frequently use

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visualization, whether
consciously or unconsciously, to

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place themselves in a state of
receptivity to the spiritual

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forces.
Highly mentalized individuals

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frequently mistake acceptance of
an idea as the true realization.

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This, however, is misleading.
They may experience a change of

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thought, but their vital being
and their bodies remain

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untransformed, unchanged.
The progress that occurs on the

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mental plane needs to be
transmitted and accepted by the

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vital and physical levels of the
being in order to become an

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integral progress that also has
the power to express itself in

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the external world.
The power of visualization is

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one method for aiding the seeker
and moving the spiritual

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pressure and the mental idea
into the vital and physical

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realms and thereby effectuating
the realization in the entire

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being.
One of the main leverage points

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is the direct and solid contact
with one psychic being, the

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spiritual center of the being,
hidden deep within behind the

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secret heart.
This brings forth the power of

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realization.
The mother provides insight into

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how to use the power of
visualization to effectuate this

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direct psychic contact.
The mother notes quotes when one

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goes on the discovery of one's
inner being, of all the

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different parts of one's being,
one very often has the feeling

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that one is entering deep into a
hall or room, and according to

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the colour, the atmosphere, the
things it contains, one has a

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very clear perception of the
part of the being one is

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visiting.
And then one can go from one

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room to another, open doors and
go into deeper and deeper rooms,

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each of which has its own
character.

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And often these inner visits can
be made during the night.

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Then it takes a still more
concrete form, like a dream, and

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one feels that he is entering a
house and that this house is

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very familiar to him.
And according to the time, the

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periods, it is internally
different.

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And sometimes it may be in a
state of very great disorder,

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very great confusion, where
everything is mixed up.

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Sometimes there are even broken
things.

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It is quite a chaos.
At other times these things are

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organized, put in their place.
It is as though one had arranged

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the household, one cleans up,
puts it in order, and it is

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always the same house.
This house is the image, a kind

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of objective image of your inner
being in accordance with what

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you see there and do there.
You have a symbolic

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representation of your
psychological work.

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It is very useful for
concretizing.

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It depends on people.
Some people are just

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intellectuals.
For them everything is expressed

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by ideas and not by images.
But if they were to go down into

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a more material domain, well,
they risk not touching things in

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their concrete reality and
remaining only in the domain of

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ideas, remaining in the mind and
remaining there indefinitely.

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Then one thinks one is making
progress, and mentally one has

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done so, though it is something
altogether indefinite.

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The mind's progress may take
thousands of years, for it is a

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very vast and very indefinite
field which is constantly

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renewed.
But if one wants to progress in

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the vital and physical well,
this imaged representation

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becomes very useful for fixing
the action, making it more

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concrete.
Naturally, it doesn't happen

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completely at will, it depends
on each one's nature.

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But those who have the power of
concentrating with images, well,

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they have one more facility to
sit in meditation before a

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closed door, as though it were a
heavy door of bronze, and one

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sits in front of it with the
will that it may open and to

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pass to the other side.
And so the whole concentration,

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the whole aspiration is gathered
into a beam and pushes, pushes,

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pushes against this door and
pushes more and more with an

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increasing energy until all of a
sudden it bursts open and one

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enters.
It makes a very powerful

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impression.
And so one is as though plunged

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into the light, and then one has
the full enjoyment of a sudden

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and radical change of
consciousness with an

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illumination that captures 1
entirely and the feeling that

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one is becoming another person.
And this is very concrete and

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powerful way of entering into
contact with one's psychic

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being.
End Quote.

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Reference.
Shrioro Bindu and the Mother

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Powers within, Chapter 3.
Imagination, pages 35 to 37.