Tandir wrote: ↑Mon Aug 14, 2023 10:28 pm
Cerber wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2023 8:10 pm
Meditation.
Once you learn to be still and quite, within and without, then you will start to hear that which merely a whisper and see that which merely a shadow.
do you have any tips on meditation, or what you do in meditation?
otherwise I think a lot of people who take yoga will be able to hear spirits?
I meditated a lot and can only stay still for 30 min to 1 hour. depending on the day. so far I haven't been able to hear spirits. occasionally noises, but no actual words.
There are two key components to it all - Stillness and Focus.
To be able able to traverse space and time (to some degree) and to converse with greater beyond, you need first to reach (and maintain) near-complete inner stillness, inner silence, being able not to think, not to feel anything, not to generate any noise and to be comfortable in such silence.
For that first part, meditation is a good practice, which can help to master it. And I don't think there is huge difference between different meditative practices that exist out there. To the most part all of those are just "thousand different roads leading to the same moon".
Now for the second part, the Focus I'm not even sure if there is a lot of known practices that can help train "near-absolute focus", at least nothing comes to my mind, but others might have come across some relevant teachings somewhere. But it's actually simple enough that there's no need to read any books about it. It can be as simple as sitting in the room and staring as some tiny dot on the wall in front of you, without thinking about it, or anything for that matter. Staring long enough and with intense focus, that dot completely fills your mind, until dot becomes all you know, all there is, and you and the dot are one. If that makes any sense..
Now when you mastered both.. "Mastering" might sound like you need to pass some test or get somebody's approval, but it's only means when you your self feel fairly confident competent on the task. When feel you more or less got it, then you only need to combine both of those, to silence your mind and to focus on seeing and hearing, to block/ignore all your external physical senses and internal noise, and then focus on hearing and seeing.
Force your mind to hear and see without actually looking, to hear without actually listening in physical sense, to pull the sounds and pictures from the darkness, from the nothingness, but you should NOT try to see or hear anything or anyone specific right away. Instead you practice that simply by focusing on those random specs of light and random sounds that normally pop in and out of your mind's eye randomly, when you are at that deeper level of meditation. At the beginning it's easier to practice meditation in dark room, with close eyes, at night, when it's actually quiet.
During your deeper meditations, at some point you will likely begin seeing random specs of light appearing and disappearing momentarily, or even some patterns, maybe some sometimes fractal patterns, so you simply practice focusing on those. Try to grab one of those specs of light with your focus and hold it for as long as you can. It's perfectly OK if the first 100 times those slip away almost instantly and disappear back in to the void. Like other people mentioned, you should rush anything, you shouldn't want anything nor feel anything, you should simply practice your focus on the white noise.
And that's pretty much it. I'll leave the rest of the mysteries for you to discover.
As for disclaimer:
Proceed with those kinds of practices entirely at your own risk, be aware that everything comes with a price tag of some kind, and it is strongly advised to only go as far as you actually need to and not a step further, and there are often unforeseen and undesirable consequences, nobody who ventured out ever came back being quite the same.