In psychonaut field manual, there’s an exercise for opening your astral sight. Basically just focusing on ur 3rd eye area. Im not sure if this is because of this exercise or something else but I recently am able to imaginatively wander around really well.
I am wondering what this is. Its as if there is another “dimension” and in it I don’t actually see visually in the way one would think. 1-10 it is a 4 in vividness and intensity but genuinely feels like I am there and can easily forget the physical body. I can try to bring is other senses with good success but visual stuff comes most easily.
It doesn’t feel like a place where I could meet spirits or some kind of real plane because it feels entirely controlled by me. Can imagine or create anything I want.
And if I fly around my house looking at things, I can’t view things live, its all in my head.
This has been happening for about a month and have been excited, just have not developed it much. What are you guy’s opinions, on one side it feels special and mystical but also just sounds like daydreaming (i have never really daydreamed before). Main goal would be communicating with spirits.
I think one thing you could try is performing ritual in that space to contact spirits.
Neither does the physical world but you can perform rituals to make contact anyway.
You could do a full evocation there imagining the tools and what not. You could also try rituals meant for this kind of state like path working (Raziel’s paths of power, Lucifer and the hidden demons, etc). Even something as simple as imagining a door and deciding on the other side of it is the astral plane and then walking through.
Basically using the mental wandering as a launch pad into other things. What is important though is that once you perform whatever ritual that you let go of control of what you see, let the imagery arise spontaneously.
Not with imagining an evocation, but yes to the pathworking, particularly with Raziel’s paths of power. Reaching the end of the visualizations I can “see” the angel. Although, they don’t usually talk to me, just take my request and leave.
Also, IIH and I think Modern magick also eventually get to spirit communication.
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