Aphantasia

[Dragon0f0range]

I have a friend who is interested in learning magic, but he said he has aphantasia. That means he can’t visualize images in his head.
I usually teach people to control energy and make psi-balls which both require a lot of focus in pictures in your head.
Does anyone have any experience with aphantasia and magic or have any advice for him?

[Mystic-Void]

You find me at a loss of words friend. The only thing I can do is bump this at the top , so it gets more views and hopefully attracts members that can help.

I’ll leave these here , maybe they can help.

Aphantasia cure help?

I have aphantasia, this means I think completely in words only, I can’t imagine or visualize using any of the 5 senses such as sight, sound, taste, touch or smell. One of my biggest desires in life is to be able to have hyperphantasia which means someone who can visualize extremely vividly to where it feels like what they are visualizing is real even. They can rotate images in there mind and solve hard puzzles this way. Anyway how do I get this ability? Also I want to stop thinking in words and …

Minds eye

You have aphantasia, the inability to form mental pictures. Luckily, it’s not a death sentence for magic. Go to the following website to learn about image screening, it’s a technique that will cure you.

I’ll also mention @Lady_Eva .

[Keteriya]

I have it. Your friend has to learn to feel what she cannot see.

After images and all of those exercises still haven’t opened my minds eye- I actually stopped those exercises after a year of daily attempts and failing . I always figure at least when I see something clearly not physical I know I saw it.

[Lady_Eva]

@Dragon0f0range

or have any advice for him?

A.O. Spare’s sigils use letters, and are held in front of you then completely forgotten about, he should be a natural for that because he won’t keep “seeing” the sigil. The “gnostic state” part is an embodied state, felt in the moment, and not visualsied outside the body, or in a different time or space, as well.

Same with the mantric method, which is just letters, then you create a mantra, then chant it, no visualisation as such required.

[reddrakon]

Yes I experience this also. Your friend needs to learn how to use tactile sensing and meditate with their eyes open. I personally have this problem also but became very skilled at energetic doing this. Robert Bruce has great work on tactile sensing .