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Online Reference For Body, Mind & Spirit

Term: Creative Visualization

DEFINITIONs:
1.  Creative visualization involves the fashioning of an image in the conscious mind and the charging (and constant recharging) of that image by the enormous psychic energy of the unconscious.
SOURCE:  Truth about Creative Visualization, Keith Randolph
2.  A process of using visualizations to affect your unconscious. This will have an effect on the Astral Plane leading to changes on the physical plane.
SOURCE:  Modern Magick, by Donald Michael Kraig
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