Editing Visionary (section)

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{{Short description|One who can envision the future}}
{{About|one who sees or has visions}}

A '''visionary''', defined broadly, is one who can envision the future.  For some groups, visioning can involve the [[supernatural]].

Though visionaries may face accusations of [[hallucinations | hallucinating]],<ref>
For example:
{{cite book
 |last1                = Blom
 |first1               = Jan Dirk
 |date                 = 23 June 2023
 |chapter              = Hallucination
 |title                = A Dictionary of Hallucinations
 |url                  = https://books.google.com/books?id=ewfHEAAAQBAJ
 |edition              = 2
 |publication-place    = Cham, Zug
 |publisher            = Springer Nature
 |page                 = 319
 |isbn                 = 9783031252488
 |access-date          = 14 July 2024
 |quote                = In 1838 [...]  [[Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol | Esquirol]] stated that 'A person is said to labour under a hallucination, or to be a visionary, who has a thorough conviction of the perception of a sensation, when no external object, suited to excite this sensation, has impressed the senses'.
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people may succeed in reaching a visionary state via [[meditation]],<ref>
For example:
{{cite book
 |last1                = Greene
 |first1               = Eric M.
 |date                 = 31 January 2021
 |chapter              = Meditation and Meditation Literatuire in Early Medieval Chinese Buddhism
 |title                = The Secrets of Buddhist Meditation: Visionary Meditation Texts from Early Medieval China
 |url                  = https://books.google.com/books?id=4cETEAAAQBAJ
 |series               = Kuroda Classics in East Asian Buddhism
 |publication-place    = Honolulu
 |publisher            = University of Hawaiʻi Press
 |pages                = 8–9
 |isbn                 = 9780824884444
 |access-date          = 14 July 2024
 |quote                = In the ''Chan Essentials'' and ''Methods for Curing'' [...] the meditator's journey is not psychological but ''visionary''. [...] Successful meditation, as depicted here, is primarily an elaborate visionary journey.
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[[lucid dream]]s, [[daydream]]s, or [[art]]. One example of a visionary is [[Hildegard of Bingen]], a 12th-century artist and [[Catholic]] [[saint]].<ref>[http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bio/247.html Hildegard of Bingen, Visionary<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Other visionaries in religion include [[Bernadette Soubirous | St Bernadette]] (1844-1879) and [[Joseph Smith]] (1805-1844), said to have had visions of and to have communed with the [[Blessed Virgin]] and the [[Angel Moroni]], respectively. There is also the case of the [[Targum Jonathan]], which was produced in antiquity and served as the [[targum]] to the [[Nevi'im]]. It described the significance of the [[turban]] or a [[diadem]] to indicate a capability on the part of [[Jews|Jewish]] priests to become agents of visionary experience.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Reading Prophetic Books: Form, Intertextuality, and Reception in Prophetic and Post-Biblical Literature|last=Sweeney|first=Marvin|publisher=Mohr Siebeck |year=2014|isbn=9783161523748|location=Tübingen|pages=392}}
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[[Robert Jarvik]] has suggested: "[[Leader]]s are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them."<ref>
{{cite book
 |editor-last1         = Robbins
 |editor-first1        = Pam
 |editor-last2         = Alvy
 |editor-first2        = Harvey B.
 |date                 = 18 February 2014
 |title                = The Principal's Companion: Strategies to Lead Schools for Student and Teacher Success
 |url                  = https://books.google.com/books?id=mZxyAwAAQBAJ
 |edition              = 4
 |publication-place    = Thousand Oaks, California
 |publisher            = Corwin Press
 |page                 = 257
 |isbn                 = 9781452287546
 |access-date          = 14 July 2024
}} 
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