Visualizing the flourishing, however, is but a momentary slice of possibilities - flourishing refers to a person's COMPLETE physical and psychological health over the span of a full life, and is an active process that can be achieved only by a person's efforts... but these possibilities enable one to better crystalize that furtheranceing, thus providing a form of guidance of possibilities - which fuels the person's creativity in adapting other possibilities to that person's ends ofthe life-enhancing living...

It is not enough, however, to be concerned with values - in so far as being a spiritual visualizer... there is more to life than sustanence... there must be flourishing to be living life as human qua human... this has to do with the fact that what makes a life good is its being led in a life-furthering fashion... this is to say, a life-enhancing living... how to go about this, how to integrate possibilities of the material to this, is what a spiritual visualizer does - showing possibilities of successfully being in that world in which the flourishing resides... the issue, tho, is how the person then manages that which is within the person's control, within the realm of that person's choices - and this entails all the social strata of viable living, that is, above the sustanence level... moreover, this is a sum-plus in that the furtherance of this life-enhancing action tends to increase the wellbeing more and more, so that the end result will be greater than what had been before [all other factors or situations being equal - namely those matters which are NOT under the person's control ]...

It should be noted that while the goal of life sets the standard of ethics, the identification of this standard does not, by itself, tell everything which is needed to be known in order to achieve that goal... just as knowing one's purpose requires a standard of measuring as to whether that purpose is being advanced or not, so too a standard must sometimes be supplimemted by more specific instructions or information... in this case, the objective, life, is a long-ranged, widely encompassing project... countless discrete actions can affect an individual's life, and recognising the exact nature of their impact often requires sifting thru layers of subordinate values and interlocking aspects of one's welfare... actions' net effects are often not apparent... to say that life is the standard of value is, while important, extremely abstract... if the identification of this standard is to provide fruitful guidance, what is then needed is more specific instructon... this is what nornative ethics provides... illustrating this normativeness is what being a spiritual visualizer is all about...

Why is it that VALUES are so important to an artist? For one thing, it has to do with that universe within which is shown in every work rendered... what is or is not within the boundaries of the canvas displays the morals of the artist... at first glance, this does not seem to be so - but consider the implications of the fact that what is included within is so because it is considered to be of importance, and what is considered to be of importance stems from one's value, which are the source of importances... if, as shown, there is no such thing as intrinsic values, that the elements of reality simply exist and as such are there to be ascribed value by those wishing to make use of the components, then whatever is shown within the confines of any work of art is an expression of what the artist considers to be of importance, and as such, what is of value to the artist... now, there are values and there are values - a value, as said, is what one acts to gain and/or keep - and the only values worth persuing would, therefore, be those which are VIABLE VALUES, values which pertain to enhancing the wellbeing of being human, values which aid in the flourishing of being human... this is the task of being a spiritual visualizer - to show these possible viable values and how the materials of existance can be utilized to incorporate those values into the reality of each person's life...