Am I the only one who uses good old fashioned meditation and breathing techniques?
What you want to do is get in a comfortable position, this can be sitting or lying down depending on what you’re doing. Begin to focus on your breath, how it goes in, how it fills your body, and how it goes out, and how your body collapses. Focus on this rhythm, until you feel calm and relaxed. In my practice, I had to be able to focus on only my breath (and nothing else, no thoughts, no songs, nothing) for a half an hour.
But, you don’t need to do this for a half an hour just to get into a trance. Now that you are calm and relaxed I want you to visualize something that goes up and down. This can be a ladder, an escalator, stars, an elevator; the sky is literally the limit. I’m old fashioned, so I use a ladder.
Now, visualize yourself going down this thing you created, as you go down feel the change in your head, feel as the brain waves shift and as you go deeper and deeper into the trance. Congratulations, you are now in a trance.
If you’re really good you can open you eyes and move around and remain in the trance state, this is a high-level skill however. But, this is the trance state. It is impossible to go so deep that you yourself cannot bring yourself out of a trance state.
But, now that you’re in the trance state, do some magic. Use your living imagination to do some divination, have a vision, evoke a spirit, soul travel; if you can imagine it, you can do it.