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	Torrance, CA 90504 1978                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      INNER VISION THERAPY It is my pleasure to answer your questions concerning Inner Vision Therapy.    Inner Vision Therapy is a unique interface of art and psychology that combines electronic audio-visual technology, fine art, and the intuitive skills of a therapist. As a technology, IVT (Inner Vision Therapy) uses three carousel slide projectors, two micro-processor dissolve units and hundred of slides that were made by creating and photographing artworks  made just for   IVT.  A sound background of relaxing music is provided while a session of Inner Vision Therapy is being conducted. The artworks are organic in form, brilliant and intense in color, and provide an extremely enjoyable and satisfying experience.  They are made by using both conventional and unconventional art materials such as watercolors, inks and oils. These artworks appear to be a section of life itself, pure living matter and swirling realms of infinite energy. The abstract and object-free appearance of these artworks  is free of specific content, so the viewer  can connect with his own individual inner world  of feeling, fantasy and personal experience while in the altered state of consciousness called reverie, a state of awareness   somewhere between waking and light sleep that is induced by the Inner Vision Experience. The Inner Vision Therapist uses the microprocessor dissolve units to gently blend, overlap and merge the three projected images with one another.  This difficult and creative use of his medium allows incredibly beautiful colors and patterns to form and also produces effects of great depth  and vast space.         After the Visions Experience which can last from twenty to forty-five minutes, the viewer slowly floats back to waking consciousness but is still in a very relaxed, open and aware state of mind.  The imagery  while in the state of reverie are still very fresh and often are still present in the viewers inner experience. The therapist must now gently contact the viewer and invite him/her to begin to share and externalize the journey of fantasy, perceptions and feeling that are occurring. The Inner Vision Therapist does not analyze or interpret the viewer's experience.  The  function of the therapist is to open an intimate and safe space for the viewer to  present his experience in the waking state Recording  the experiences that are shared is an important part of the session so the viewer can study and recollect his experience at another time and from other points of view.         The value of Inner Vision Therapy is to provide an occasion for someone to contact his own uniqueness and personal imaging and creative state of consciousness and to share this special part of who he is with another.  This experience is very valuable for those persons blocked and defended from inner feeling and  from  knowing about their unique  individual creativity. It is also valuable for those persons who are unable to respond to verbal  psychotherapy. For  those burdened with low self esteem  and self-directed negativity, Visions allow a period of ultimate affirmation and support, and for those who are lost to their sense of self and who don't know who they are, Vision provides direct contact with this source of self identity which is in the creative center of what we are. Inner Vision Therapy is intrinsically  connected to its art form. It is the power and potency of this art form which provides the core of this method of  healing.  The  therapist who presents Visions is presenting and creating an art experience for the viewer and afterward is sharing the effect of this art experience. A person trained as a psychologist or psychotherapist needs to have training and experience with artwork in all the dimensions of creating, presenting, and  understanding to be certified to use Inner Vision Therapy.         Conventional training  and practice in psychology does not qualify a person to use this media.  Those  persons trained and experienced in fine art and meditation would be more appropriately prepared to use this medium of healing. Inner Vision Therapy is  a totally  benevolent  experience. It has been experienced by thousands of people  over  many years and has always produced  an enjoyable and beneficial response without exception. Sincerely, Larry Epston