...active imagination or visualization (sometimes called guided imagery). The normal use of visualization is to form mental images. However, occult practitioners in both the East and the West have long used it to deliberately attempt to create or manipulate physical, psychological, or spiritual dimensions. Although originally the sphere of secret occult societies and private practitioners, the explosion of occult thinking in the past forty years has thrust occult visualization techniques into enormous popularity both in secular society and in the Church. In some instances, Christian teachers who have been confused about the difference between the two approaches have unknowingly promulgated occult methods. These days, occult visualization techniques abound in many vital areas. These include:
- As a technique of healing
- As help recovering from various addictions
- As an attempt to increase wealth and influence in the business world
- Respectability in the areas of cancer treatment and pain control;
- As a very central technique of transpersonal psychotherapy for personal transformation
- As part of transpersonal educational techniques introduced to school students (elementary level on up) for relaxation and to contact “inner guides” and to receive “inner wisdom”
- And among Christians who think it is compatible with the Bible’s teaching, i.e. Richard Foster
That's from an informative article that can be found here:
Carl G. Jung
Man of Science or Modern Shaman?
www.crossroad.to
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