The Visual Ladder: 5 Levels of Creative Perception
Looking
Seeing
Insight
Visionary
Inspired

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LOOKING
Look – direction gaze - where the subject speaks to you, engage, non-judgmental presence to discover your muse.
This is a physical and psychological action. To interpret, turn 'looking' into gazing.

SEEING
See – discerning gaze – flow with the movements from sensations to an image.
Discern visually, awareness, turn seeing into reflection.

INSIGHT
Insight – intuitive gaze –openness to the perceptive sense of place.
Intuitive and factual understanding, turn understanding into wisdom.

VISIONARY
Visionary – wisdom gaze – Allow your imagination to take flight, connect to the “is and was” flow from this dreamy state to the future.
Planning future with imagination and intellect. Turn management into leadership.

INSPIRED
Inspired - passion gaze – permit this creative impulse to lift your spirit toward the transcendent idea to animate what is certain and incredible and beautiful.
We were created by our Creator, who created us to be creative within creation.