Visualization is used in witchcraft in order to change the consciousness and change reality. In a Universe with innumerable possibilities, one needs to create patterning in the quest for conscious co-creation. The human mind is hardwired to give visual images priority of attention due to our dependence on the eyes for survival. The deep subconscious does not distinguish between actual sights and imagined ones. Therefore, sending energy into goal driven desires is a useful form of magick. Heyoka Merrifield writes in Sacred Art Sacred Earth (1993): “The root of the word ‘magic’ is magh (to make and be able). The same root is found in the words ‘images’ and ‘imagination,’ both of which are important in the making of magic. Through imagination and images, the magician is able to make things happen in a way that she or he consciously controls.” As the future is in part created by the collective human tide of expectation through our quantum relation to All That Is, so the circumstances of our lives can be altered with focused visualizations in a process similar to training a plant to grow towards a desired direction.

Visualization is used as a basis for many of the other techniques discussed, including: grounding, journeying, creating sacred space, etc. In The Craft the most basic tools are the most effective. The ability of the imagination to “see” altered realities in the mind’s eye is the epitome of fundamental magick.