Editing Visionary

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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:
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 |first1               = Jan Dirk
 |date                 = 23 June 2023
 |chapter              = Hallucination
 |title                = A Dictionary of Hallucinations
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 |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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== Extended meanings ==

A vision can be political, religious, environmental, social, or technological in nature. By extension, a visionary can also be a person with a clear, distinctive, and specific (in some details) vision of the future, usually connected with advances in [[technology]] or social/political arrangements. For example, [[Ted Nelson]] is referred to as a visionary in connection with the [[Internet]].<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1581891.stm BBC News | SCI/TECH | Visionary lays into the web<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

Other visionaries simply imagine what does not yet exist but might someday, as some forms of "visioning"  (or gazing) provide a glimpse into the possible future. Therefore, visioning can mean seeing in a [[utopian]] way what does not yet exist on earth—but might exist in another realm—such as the [[ideal (ethics)|ideal]] or perfect realm as imagined or thought. Examples are [[Buckminster Fuller]] in [[architecture]] and [[design]], [[Malcolm Bricklin]] in the automobile industry and [[Ada Lovelace]] in computing. Some people use [[mathematics]] to make visionary discoveries in the nature of the [[universe]]. In that sense, a visionary may also function as a secular [[prophet]]. Some visionaries emphasize [[communication]], and some assume a figurehead role in organizing a social group. In other words, a visionary means that a person can see what something could be long before it actually happens.

== In business ==
The ability to get a clear picture of the future is the reason the concept is also used in the business field to denote a leader who is able to anticipate future opportunities. For instance, there is the case of the American entrepreneur [[Steve Jobs]] who is often called a visionary<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.businessworld.in/article/-Steve-Jobs-Was-A-Good-Speaker-And-A-Visionary-Leader-Of-Our-Times-/05-12-2017-133706/|title='Steve Jobs Was A Good Speaker And A Visionary Leader Of Our Times'|last=Kler|first=Nina|work=BW Businessworld|access-date=2018-08-23|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/5-ways-visionaries-like-steve-jobs-got-that-way.html|title=5 Ways Visionaries Like Steve Jobs Got That Way|last=Zetlin|first=Minda|date=2015-07-16|work=Inc.com|access-date=2018-08-23}}</ref> because he was ahead of his time, implementing new ideas that are pioneering in the technology field. [[Management]] experts do not equate this as an uncanny ability to predict the future but a capability of viewing the world differently, which allows an individual to identify patterns, trends, and opportunities.<ref name=":0" /> Some conceive it as the ability to form a picture of what they want of the future and make it happen.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamduggan/2011/10/07/steve-jobs-visionary-or-opportunist/|title=Steve Jobs: Visionary Or Opportunist?|last=Duggan|first=William|work=Forbes|access-date=2018-08-23|language=en}}</ref>

There are authors who consider the concept of the visionary as one that is constituted by a set of acquired skills and, thus, a state that can be learned. For this reason, there are now training and educational programs that promise its learners that they can become visionary leaders. This is demonstrated by a growing body of literature that cites techniques, which can be obtained from courses in visionary thinking, for a person to reach beyond illusory boundaries.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Corporate Rise: The X Principles of Extreme Personal Leadership|last=Crawford|first=Curtis|publisher=XCEO, Inc.|year=2005|isbn=0976901900|location=Santa Clara, CA|pages=[https://archive.org/details/corporaterisexpr00craw/page/117 117]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/corporaterisexpr00craw/page/117}}</ref>

== In art ==
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Artists may produce work loosely categorized as [[visionary art]] for its [[wikt:luminous|luminous]] content and/or for its use of artistic techniques that call for the use of extended powers of [[perception]] in the viewer: (e.g. [[Gustave Moreau]], [[Samuel Palmer]], [[Jean Delville]], [[Ernst Fuchs (artist)|Ernst Fuchs]], the French [[Symbolism (movement)|Symbolist]] [[Odilon Redon]], [[Brion Gysin]], [[Max Ernst]], [[Stanley Spencer]], [[Edward Burne-Jones]], [[Adolf Wolfli]], [[Fred Sandback]], [[William Blake]], [[Hieronymus Bosch]], and [[Henry Darger]]).

[[Visionary art]] can be incorrectly defined as a category of [[primitive art]] (art of those not formally trained) rather than describing people who have used their visions (or dreams) to create their [[paintings]]. [[Salvador Dalí]] is one artist who would exemplify visionary art that is neither [[religious]] nor primitive.

== In TV shows and Films ==
* [[Alex Browning]] from ''[[Final Destination (film)]]'' is  a senior student at ominous vision of the plane exploding in mid-air.
* [[Kimberly Corman]] from ''[[Final Destination 2]]'' is a college student has an ominous vision of a highway pile-up.
* [[Wendy Christensen]] from ''[[Final Destination 3]]'' is a high school graduate suffers a premonition of the entire ride derailing. 
* [[Nick O'Bannon]] from ''[[The Final Destination]]'' is a college student has a premonition of a racetrack accident.
* [[Sam Lawton]] from ''[[Final Destination 5]]'' is office worker has a premonition of the bridge collapsing due to high winds.
* Raven Baxter from ''[[That's So Raven]]'' and ''[[Raven's Home]]'' is a high-school student who has a secret psychic ability that allows her to experience short visions of future events.
* Booker Baxter-Carter from ''[[Raven's Home]]'' is  Raven's son, who has inherited his mother's psychic abilities.
* [[Wednesday Adams]] from ''[[Wednesday (TV series)]]'' is a student at Nevermore Academy who attempts to master her emerging psychic ability.

==See also==
* [[List of 3D modeling software]]
* [[Digital art#List of digital art software|List of digital art software]]

== Notes ==

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== References ==

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* ''Celestial Visitations The Art of Gilbert Williams'' (Pomegranate Artbooks) {{ISBN|0-517-53900-4}}, 1979
* Carlo McCormick '' Sacred Mirrors: The Visionary Art of [[Alex Grey]]'', Inner Traditions International, 1990
* Metamorphosis: 50 Contemporary Surreal, Fantastic and Visionary Artists (beinArt) {{ISBN|978-0-9803231-0-8}}
* John Maizels,''Raw Creation: Outsider Art and Beyond'' (1996). {{ISBN|0-7148-3149-2}}
* Elka Spoerri, Daniel Baumann and E. M. Gomez, ''The Art of [[Adolf Wolfli]]'' (2003). {{ISBN|0-691-11498-6}}
* Geiger, John (2005). Nothing Is True - Everything Is Permitted: The Life of [[Brion Gysin]]. The Disinformation Company, 130. {{ISBN|1932857125}}.
* R. Todd Wise '' The Great Vision of Black Elk as Literary Ritual'', in The Black Elk Reader, 2000. {{ISBN|0-8156-2836-6}}
* ''Fantastic Art'' ([[Taschen]]) ( Schurian, Prof. Dr. Walter) {{ISBN|978-3-8228-2954-7}} (English edition), 2005
* ''Metamorphosis'' (beinArt) {{ISBN|978-0-9803231-0-8}}, 2007
* ''Cosmic Art'' Ramond & Lila Piper (Hawthorne Books) {{ISBN|0-8015-1774-5}}, 1975
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