Grimoire for the Apprentice Wizard

16 Grimoire for the Apprentice Wizard

and look at a scene with many complex layers (like a

roomful of people or trees in a woods). Or try look-

ing at 3-D pictures through those special 3-D glasses

only one eye at a time. Seen through only one eye,

everything seems flat, rather than three-dimensional.

You lose all sense of perspective. In the larger sense

of things, that’s how most people “see” everything.

And what they see is the “mundane” world.

Going in With Both Eyes Open

One of the main distinctions between Wizards

and others is a special way of looking at the world,

and seeing beyond the surfaces. Some people call this

“thinking outside the box.” Most people really “see”

with only one eye—either the left or the right. That

is, they filter all their perceptions and experience

through one side of the brain or the other. A Wizard

“sees” with both eyes, using and integrating both sides

of the brain at once. And so a Wizard has a sense of

perspective that most people simply cannot imagine

(and the word imagine means “see an image in your

mind”). When you “see” that way, patterns appear to

you that no one else can see (in fact, they’ll tell you

that you’re just seeing—or imagining—things). It’s

like those clever stereogram pictures that look like

just a mess of little colored dots and squiggles, until

you unfocus both your eyes just right—and then sud-

denly a whole 3-D image leaps out at you. The mind

of a Wizard looks at everything that way. We might

even call this “holographic perception.”

There’s a saying that, “In the land of the blind,

the one-eyed man is King.” In the Kingdom of

Magick, the one-eyed man is blind. These lessons are

to teach you to always see with both eyes....

Quest: Binocular Visualizations

These little exercises will help you focus your

perception, inner vision, and magickal imagination.

Before you do each one, you should rub your palms

vigorously together until they are charged with heat.

Then place them over your open eyes, allowing the

energy to be absorbed into your eyes.

1. Third Eye: Stand about 6” back from a mirror,

and gaze into your reflection with both eyes open. At

first you will see two eyes, of course. But go into soft

focus eye mode and slowly the two eyes will merge

into one—a “third eye!”

2. Floating Sausage: Point your index fingers at each
   other about 6” in front of your open eyes. Bring your
   fingertips together and gaze at the contact point with
   soft focus. Soon you will see a “sausage” appearing
   between them. Slowly separate your fingertips until
   the “sausage” appears to be floating in space. Bring it
   into clear focus and hold it steady for a couple of min-
   utes without straining.


3. 3-D Cube: Use the same technique of soft focus
   and allow these two images to float together until there
   are three. The middle one will be in 3-D.


4. “3-D Photo:” Now look at these two photos in the
   same way, and allow them to merge into a single 3-D
   image! Practice until you can hold the 3-D effect


5. Stereogram: Now look at this mess of little
   squiggles and see if you can perceive the 3-D image
   hidden within. To do this, you will need to use both
   eyes and both sides of your brain in synch! Such im-
   ages are called SIRDS (Single Image Random Dot
   Stereograms) and you can view many more of them
   at: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~etzpc/sirds.html.

Verbal .................

Logical .............

Linear ............

Digital ...........

Abstract .......

Analytic .......

Symbolic .....

Deductive .....

Rational .........

Temporal ..........

............ Nonverbal

.............. Intuitive

............. Holistic

............ Spatial

........ Analogic

...... Synthetic

....... Concrete

........ Inductive

..... Nonrational

...... Nontemporal

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