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Dispatching A Visual Image A key for Unlocking Opportunities Edgar Wirt,Ph.D, F.R.C., I.R.C. MOST VISUALIZING consists of only daydreams - which come and go without changing anything, without setting into motion whatever might help to make the vision come true. Creative visualizing on the other hand is effective in bringing about the desired result. Several characteristics set off effective visualization from mere daydreaming. One of these characteristics - one which is often the most difficult to master - is how the visual image is terminated. Every image is terminated somehow - when something else intrudes into consciousness, or because it is necessary to do something else at that moment. Or the dreamer simply runs out of material for his fantasy, or out of details with which to enhance his image. Such terminations are unplanned and do nothing to "send" the image on its way to fulfillment. To be most effective the image must be completed and dismissed deliberately. Usually when we think of dismissing something from our minds, it means simply to think no more about it. But to dismiss a person from our presence means more than that - it means to send him elsewhere promptly and deliberately. In contrast, merely to stop thinking about something does not give it adequate dismissal, does not dispatch it into another dimension or a larger system where it can work out into a new reality. An analogy will help to clarify this. When you want to send a letter through the mail, you know that you have to let go of it, to dismiss it out of your hand. But you must dismiss it in a prescribed way; it has to be dropped into that slot in a mailbox where it will be picked up by the postal system and somehow be dispatched to wherever you have specified. You do not need to know all about the postal system, but you do need to know and to follow the simple procedure that is prescribed for utilizing the system. You cannot hold onto your letter, nor simply drop it out of your hand somewhere and forget it. But neither do you need to personally propel your letter to its destination, nor be responsible for it during its transit. You commit your letter to the postal system and terminate your connection with it in the only way that will be effective for your purpose. In light of this analogy, it is apparent that "holding the thought" for something you want to have or to accomplish is not the most effective way to attain it. Such would imply that the intensity and persistence of your own thought energy is necessary to bring about the result. Creative visualizing, on the other hand, involves tapping resources of creative energy that are beyond the conscious and familiar resources of any individual. Those greater resources are impossible, but the question is how to impress your purpose on them. Apparently, the way of dismissing an image is as important as the way of creating the image in the first place. Such dismissal must be planned; the image must be closed out in a way that is positive, emphatic, confident and final. This is where psychological gimmicks or heuristics are helpful, that is, methods that are not fully explainable but which are known to be effective. The Spoken Word Words spoken aloud at this point have surprising efficacy and have long been used in this connection - words such as selah, presto, amen, in the name of....., so mote it be, etc. Rosicrucians often complete a visualization with a simple spoken ritual, "If it be the will of the Cosmic, it is done". Another effective way is to state aloud, in few words, what you have visualized, followed by "So be it" and then to dismiss it from your mind promptly and completely, turning your attention elsewhere. This is not magic or superstition, it does not conjure cosmic forces to help out. It is a way to help you dismiss your image into the cosmic system, to delegate it and let go of it. The image that was created in silence, is terminated by breaking the silence, what was created without physical movement is terminated by deliberate movement. You can even snap your fingers, clap your hands, or make some other noise and motion. Whatever your choice, you will fulfill your commitment that the visual image shall be out of your hands and out of your mind, at least for the present. Make this your standard practice. Rational explanations of all this usually miss an important point and fall short. In psychical research it seems generally agreed that our connection with, or access to, any sort of psychic or cosmic system, whatever that may be, is by way of subconscious or hidden channels of the mind. Psychology may go far as to consider that any such system is really nothing more than the subconscious or the collective unconscious of mankind. In the view, impressing a purpose on "Cosmic Mind" is, in fact, impressing one's own subconscious, which then can bring to the surface unexpected clues for conscious guidance. The further outcome of a visualization would then depend entirely on what an individual does, with or without the help of those clues, to bring about the result. Actually there is often much "homework" to be done in preparation for the result; and intelligent collaboration, at opportune moments, can hasten it. But the point that is missed is that creative visualization often brings about those opportune moments and changes in circumstances that cannot be attributed to our individual efforts. In other words, there is more to it than can be explained rationally. This leaves room for further skepticism. But if, for example, such changes in circumstance are regarded merely as coincidence, the rebuttal is that such coincidences become more frequent, relevant, and fortunate. And if that in turn depends on our becoming more aware or more attuned to those elements in circumstances that can be used to advantage, then we are more closely approaching what it's all about in the first place - namely developing just such a relationship in which opportunities for joyous and successful living are expanded. Creative visualizing is productive in this direction also. In any case, however, in order that visualizing may be most productive, it is important to practice a way to delegate the image, to transfer it as a directive from conscious to subconscious - or to cosmic - mind. Dr Edgar Wirth is a Rosicrucian for many years. His insightful articles in mysticism, philosophy, and science have appeared frequently in the Rosicrucian Digest. Culled from Rosicrucian Digest, Vol.64, No. 2: February 1986 Copyright© Supreme Grand Lodge of AMORC, All rights reserved. 
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