Imagery is any poetic reference to the five senses (sight, touch, smell, hearing, and taste). Essentially, imagery is a group of words that create a mental image. Such images can be created by using figures of speech such as similes, metaphors, personification, and assonance. Edgar Allan Poe, Ezra Pound, and William Wordsworth were masters of imagery. The Fall of the House of Usher by Poe, for example, used such pictures of a "black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled luster by the dwelling" to creat ...

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Imagery:

The ability to perceive images in the mind. These may be visual, auditory, tactile, etc.

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Definition and meaning of imagery:

imagery - visible representation of objects and (or) phenomena as sensed or detected by cameras, infrared and multispectral scanners, radar, and photometers

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In psychology and neuropsychology, auditory imagery is the subjective experience of hearing in the absence of auditory stimulation. It occurs when one mentally rehearses telephone numbers, or has a song "on the brain": the phenomenon is usually defined to be spontaneous (that is, not under direct conscious control); it can be distressing. Auditory imagery is used by neuropsychologists for investigating aspects of human cognition. Writing in Nature, David J. M. Kraemer and coworkers use magnetic resonance imaging to determine whether the auditory cortex ...

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• Auditory imagery - Reference

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The film has several cinematic sequences. Each of these sequences has a distinct musical feel, although themes from earlier sections of the score recur frequently throughout. The chapters on the Koyaanisqatsi DVD are separated and named by the titles of the musical sections. The film's first image of the film is a cave painting depicting several tall darkly-shadowed figures standing near a taller figure adorned with a crown. The next image is a close-up of a the Saturn 5 rocket from the Apollo 12 mission during take-off. The fi ...

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Koyaanisqatsi, Koyaanisqatsi - Imagery, Koyaanisqatsi - Music, Koyaanisqatsi - Meaning, Koyaanisqatsi - History, Koyaanisqatsi - Trivia, Koyaanisqatsi - Influence

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The Second Renaissance contains a wealth of imagery, with each segment relying on an individual theme. The title reflects the general theme of rebirth—while the First Renaissance saw corrupt and outdated medieval societies give way to modern societies with new ways of thinking and new social structures, the Second Renaissance sees the outdated human civilisation collapse, allowing the machine society, a civilisation which humans can neither understand nor tolerate, to rise to dominance of the planet. The individual segments of the p ...

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The Second Renaissance, The Second Renaissance - Plot summary, The Second Renaissance - Part I, The Second Renaissance - Part II, The Second Renaissance - Imagery, The Second Renaissance - Commentary, The Second Renaissance - Events and Characters, The Second Renaissance - Million Machine March, The Second Renaissance - B166ER, The Second Renaissance - Music, The Second Renaissance - Voice Actors, The Second Renaissance - External link

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The Venus-Sun transit of June 7-8 2004 is a golden opportunity for humankind to gain access to the necessary and special knowledge that ensures human evolution and existence.

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creative visualization: Subject of the bestseller of the same name, written by Shakti Gawain in 1978.

In creative visualization, one clearly imagines whatever one wants to manifest (see manifesting); then one gives the idea, image, or feeling positive energy, by focusing on it regularly, until it becomes reality. Creative visualization's theory posits a spiritual source: a supply of infinite energy, love, and wisdom discoverable in the inner beings of humans.

Expressions for methods identical or similar to creative visualization include: active imagination, creative imaging, directed day-dream, directed waking dream, dynamic imaging, guided fantasy, guided imagery, guided visualization, imagery, imaginal medicine, imaging, initiated symbol projection, inner guide meditation, led meditation, magickal visualization, mental imagery, pathworking, Positive Imaging, positive thinking, positive visualization, visualization, visualization therapy, waking dream therapy, and willed imagination.

For example, willed imagination, also called creative visualization, is the magickal art of imagining the result one desires of one's magick (the word for Wiccan magic) in order to achieve that result.

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Computer-generated imagery (CGI) is the application of the field of computer graphics (or more specifically, 3D computer graphics) to special effects. CGI is used in movies, television programs and commercials, and in printed media. Video games most often use real-time computer graphics (rarely referred to as CGI), but may also include pre-rendered "cut scenes" and intro movies that ...

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Visual memory is a part of memory preserving some characteristics of our senses pertaining to visual experience. We are able to place in memory information that resembles objects, places, animals or people in sort of a mental image. Some authors refer to this experience as an “our mind's eye” through which we can retrieve from our memory a mental image of the original object, place, animal or person. The first scientist to give serious consideration to visual imagery was Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911) in the field of indivi ...

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• Visual memory - Eidetic imagery
• Visual memory - Photographic memory
• Visual memory - Iconic memory
• Visual memory - Spatial memory
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A cherub (Hebrew כרוב; plural cherubim, כרובים) is a supernatural creature mentioned several times in the Tanakh (or Old Testament) and the Book of Revelation. In medieval Catholic theology the Cherubim are one of the highest ranks in the hierarchy of angels, along with Seraphim. In popular Christian tradition, "cherub" and "cherubim" have become synonyms of "angel(s)" and especially with "baby angel(s)". Because most English speakers are unfamiliar with Hebrew plural formation, the word cherubims is som ...

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Followers of the Wiccan, Dianic, and Neopagan religions, as well as some archeologists and mythographers, believe that long before the coming of the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the Triple Goddess embodied the three-fold aspect of Gaia, the Earth Mother (Roman Magna Mater). A mother goddess was worshipped under a variety of names not only in the Ancient Near East and the ...

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Aerial photography is the taking of photographs from above with a camera mounted on an aircraft, balloon, rocket, kite, skydiver or similar vehicle. It was first practiced by the French airman Nadar in 1858. The use of aerial photography for military purposes was expanded during World War I by aviators such as Fred Zinn. Aerial photography is used in cartography, land-use planning, movie production, environmental studies, espionage, commercial advertising, and other f ...

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A wire frame model is a visual presentation of an electronic representation of a three dimensional or physical object used in 3D computer graphics. It is created by specifying each edge of the physical object where two mathematically continuous smooth surfaces meet, or by connecting an object's constituent vertices using straight lines or curves. The object is projected onto the computer screen by drawing lines at the location of each edge. Using a wire frame model allows visualization of the underlying design structure of a 3D ...

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Guardian lions, also called Fu Dogs or Foo Dogs, and called Shi (獅) in Chinese or Ra shi da, are powerful mythic protectors that have traditionally stood in front of Chinese imperial palaces, emperors' tombs and government offices. Since the Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD), imperial guardian lions were placed at the entrances to important official buildings and gates, until the end of the empire in 1911. They are still common, popularized as decorative and symbolic elements ...

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• Imperial guardian lions - Image gallery

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SIGINT stands for SIGnals INTelligence, which is intelligence-gathering by interception of signals, whether by radio interception or other means. SIGINT - SIGINT. SIGINT is actually a broad discipline under which multiple sub-disciplines fall. There are three major sub-disciplines that fall under SIGINT which are COMmunications INTelligence (COMINT), ELectronic INTelligence (ELINT), and Foreign Instrumentation Signals INTelligence (FISINT ...

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Animal style is a type of imagery used in Northern Europe during the ancient and medieval periods, characterized by animals or animal-like forms arranged in intricate patterns or combats. See also Migration Period art. Animal Style Art consists of intircate, ribbonlike traceries of line that suggest wild and fantastic beasts. The animal style was used not only in England, but also in Scandinavia, Germany, and France. Other related archivesMigration Period art, imagery, medieval<

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Imagery , Directed reverie therapies , Directed reverie therapy, Guided imagery, Imageries Psychotherapy Imagery:

The use of mental images produced by the imagination as a form of psychotherapy. It can be classified by the modality of its content: visual, verbal, auditory, olfactory, tactile, gustatory, or kinesthetic. Common themes derive from nature imagery (e.g., forests and mountains), water imagery (e.g., brooks and oceans), travel imagery, etc. Imagery is used in the treatment of mental disorders and in helping patients cope with other diseases. Imagery often forms a part of HYPNOSIS, of AUTOGENIC TRAINING, of RELAXATION TECHNIQUES, and of BEHAVIOR THERAPY. (From Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, vol. 4, pp29-30, 1994)

(See also: Imagery, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

Hypnagogic Imagery:

Imagery occurring in the hypnagogic state (occurring while dropping off to sleep).

(See also: Hypnagogic Imagery, Psychic, Psychic Dictionary, Parapsychology, Parapsychology Dictionary)

Hypnopompic Imagery:

Imagery occurring in the hypnopompic state (occurring while waking up).

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