# Visionary > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Visionary > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Visionary.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visionary > Source revision: 1337263976 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Multiple issues|section=| {{POV|date=May 2025}} {{Tone|date=May 2025}} {{Incoherent|date=May 2025}} }} {{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](/source/supernatural). Though visionaries may face accusations of [hallucinating](/source/hallucinations), 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 [...] [Esquirol](/source/Jean-%C3%89tienne_Dominique_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'. }} people may succeed in reaching a visionary state via [meditation](/source/meditation), 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. }} [lucid dream](/source/lucid_dream)s, [daydream](/source/daydream)s, or [art](/source/art). One example of a visionary is [Hildegard of Bingen](/source/Hildegard_of_Bingen), a 12th-century artist and [Catholic](/source/Catholic) [saint](/source/saint).[http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bio/247.html Hildegard of Bingen, Visionary] Other visionaries in religion include [St Bernadette](/source/Bernadette_Soubirous) (1844-1879) and [Joseph Smith](/source/Joseph_Smith) (1805-1844), said to have had visions of and to have communed with the [Blessed Virgin](/source/Blessed_Virgin) and the [Angel Moroni](/source/Angel_Moroni), respectively. There is also the case of the [Targum Jonathan](/source/Targum_Jonathan), which was produced in antiquity and served as the [targum](/source/targum) to the [Nevi'im](/source/Nevi'im). It described the significance of the [turban](/source/turban) or a [diadem](/source/diadem) to indicate a capability on the part of [Jewish](/source/Jews) priests to become agents of visionary experience.{{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}} [Robert Jarvik](/source/Robert_Jarvik) has suggested: "[Leader](/source/Leader)s are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them." {{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 }} == 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](/source/technology) or social/political arrangements. For example, [Ted Nelson](/source/Ted_Nelson) is referred to as a visionary in connection with the [Internet](/source/Internet).[https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1581891.stm BBC News | SCI/TECH | Visionary lays into the web] 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](/source/utopian) way what does not yet exist on earth—but might exist in another realm—such as the [ideal](/source/ideal_(ethics)) or perfect realm as imagined or thought. Examples are [Buckminster Fuller](/source/Buckminster_Fuller) in [architecture](/source/architecture) and [design](/source/design), [Malcolm Bricklin](/source/Malcolm_Bricklin) in the automobile industry and [Ada Lovelace](/source/Ada_Lovelace) in computing. Some people use [mathematics](/source/mathematics) to make visionary discoveries in the nature of the [universe](/source/universe). In that sense, a visionary may also function as a secular [prophet](/source/prophet). Some visionaries emphasize [communication](/source/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](/source/Steve_Jobs) who is often called a visionary{{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}}{{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}} because he was ahead of his time, implementing new ideas that are pioneering in the technology field. [Management](/source/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. Some conceive it as the ability to form a picture of what they want of the future and make it happen.{{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}} 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.{{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}} == In art == {{main|visionary art}} Artists may produce work loosely categorized as [visionary art](/source/visionary_art) for its luminous content and/or for its use of artistic techniques that call for the use of extended powers of [perception](/source/perception) in the viewer: (e.g. [Gustave Moreau](/source/Gustave_Moreau), [Samuel Palmer](/source/Samuel_Palmer), [Jean Delville](/source/Jean_Delville), [Ernst Fuchs](/source/Ernst_Fuchs_(artist)), the French [Symbolist](/source/Symbolism_(movement)) [Odilon Redon](/source/Odilon_Redon), [Brion Gysin](/source/Brion_Gysin), [Max Ernst](/source/Max_Ernst), [Stanley Spencer](/source/Stanley_Spencer), [Edward Burne-Jones](/source/Edward_Burne-Jones), [Adolf Wolfli](/source/Adolf_Wolfli), [Fred Sandback](/source/Fred_Sandback), [William Blake](/source/William_Blake), [Hieronymus Bosch](/source/Hieronymus_Bosch), and [Henry Darger](/source/Henry_Darger)). [Visionary art](/source/Visionary_art) can be incorrectly defined as a category of [primitive art](/source/primitive_art) (art of those not formally trained) rather than describing people who have used their visions (or dreams) to create their [paintings](/source/paintings). [Salvador Dalí](/source/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD) is one artist who would exemplify visionary art that is neither [religious](/source/religious) nor primitive. == In media == * The ''[Final Destination](/source/Final_Destination)'' franchise centers on the main characters who receive sudden and detailed premonitions of large-scale disasters before they happen. These visions allow them to escape death temporarily, only to realize that [Death](/source/Personifications_of_death) continues to pursue them afterward. [Alex Browning](/source/Alex_Browning) from ''[Final Destination](/source/Final_Destination_(film))'' is a high school senior who has a vision of his plane exploding in midair. [Kimberly Corman](/source/Kimberly_Corman) from ''[Final Destination 2](/source/Final_Destination_2)'' is a college student who foresees a deadly highway pile-up. [Wendy Christensen](/source/Wendy_Christensen) from ''[Final Destination 3](/source/Final_Destination_3)'' is a recent high school graduate who has a premonition of a roller coaster derailment. Nick O'Bannon from ''[The Final Destination](/source/The_Final_Destination)'' is a college student who envisions a fatal racetrack accident. Sam Lawton from ''[Final Destination 5](/source/Final_Destination_5)'' is an office worker who foresees a suspension bridge collapsing in high winds. Iris Campbell from ''[Final Destination Bloodlines](/source/Final_Destination_Bloodlines)'' is the grandmother of Stefani Reyes who has a premonition of the Sky View Tower collapsing during the 1960s. * Raven Baxter from ''[That's So Raven](/source/That's_So_Raven)'' and ''[Raven's Home](/source/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](/source/Raven's_Home)'' is Raven's son, who has inherited his mother's psychic abilities. * [Wednesday Addams](/source/Wednesday_Addams) from ''[Wednesday](/source/Wednesday_(TV_series))'' is a student at Nevermore Academy who attempts to master her emerging psychic ability. ==See also== * [List of 3D modeling software](/source/List_of_3D_modeling_software) * [List of digital art software](/source/Digital_art) == Notes == {{reflist}} == References == {{refbegin|2}} * ''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](/source/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](/source/Adolf_Wolfli)'' (2003). {{ISBN|0-691-11498-6}} * Geiger, John (2005). Nothing Is True - Everything Is Permitted: The Life of [Brion Gysin](/source/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](/source/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 {{refend}} {{Authority control}} Category:Fantastic art Category:Naïve painters Category:Prophecy Category:Daydreaming --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Visionary](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visionary) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visionary?action=history)). 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