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I have three suggestions, and should clarify that this is advice based on what has worked for me. I'll list them in the order of what would logically come first before progressing:
1. Carl Jung's active imagination technique. This is more a practice for your own mind, but it's helpful in getting used to talking to aspects of your psyche, and thus getting used to having a conversation with something 'other' than yourself. It's actually quite helpful in self-work to imagine different aspects of your psyche as 'other' than yourself to learn about them. Start by imagining a scene with perhaps whatever comes up, or even a specific character from your own imagination that comes up. Pause the scene, insert yourself, and start talking to the imaginary being. It might seem hard at first, but let the being say whatever it 'wants' to say. Some beings will show up with a specific visual presence or voice in your mind, so getting used to this format of 'self'-conversation will get you used to conversing.
A little context; in various occult/esoteric systems, the body and mind are seen as a small scale model of the universe. To me, this effectively means that you can use different parts of your body and mind to talk to different parts of the universe. You can research this by looking it up, or just getting used to what kind of 'voice' a part of your body or mind seems to have. Talking to your 'self' is a very useful way to get used to talking to any conscious entity imo.
2. Meditating on the being. After figuring out what sort of entities or forces resonate with you, sit or lay down and spend a significant amount of time 'calling' to the being by saying a mantra (you could be repeating something like "I seek to commune with the presence of x"), visualizing the presence of the being, or 'feeling' what the being feels like in your body. A combination of the first two suggestions will often lead to the feel of an entity. Do this until something happens. Literally. It might be that you get information on how your mind conceptualizes the being. It might be that you get a visualization of something the being experiences, or wants to show you. It might full on show up and start having a direct internal monologue with you. Any number of responses could arise.
3. Casting a circle and calling a being. Research the traditional method for casting a circle, perhaps after using the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram or a variant cleansing to clear the space. Having researched a being you want to talk to, along with the appropriate offerings if relevant, call the being to your circle. If you are jumping into this right away, it's possible you'll be 'reached' in a more subtle way than you'd expect. A lot of spirit contact relies on training your psychic senses like a muscle. You are on the right track with the development of your own personal system of ritual Magick to act as a way to train. Simple drills like visualization, the psychometry post from earlier in this thread, or just sitting help. When you complete this practice, make sure you dismiss whatever presence shows up with appropriate respect.
Supplementing your practice with one of or any number of these practices will help you start getting a sense of the experience of having a conversation with consciousness as outside of yourself. Note that I said the experience of, because this is important. I grew up on the west coast of Africa, so I had the experience of very intense spiritual activity by virtue of the location having a more locally embedded openness to spiritual experience, but when I came over to North America I had to retrain my 'spiritual' senses. If you are living in a 'First World' (hate the term, but eh) country, you have to remember that you aren't just resisting your own 'lack of belief', but a collective thought-form that actively resists the presence of the supernatural.
My opinion, the spirit world is just as active in the 'West' as it is anywhere else, but you'll experience its effects as primarily mundane things as a result of the 'psychic censor' that Western society has collectively fed. Train your sensory apparatus enough, and eventually you'll have experienced too much actual dialogue with consciousness outside of yourself to deny it. Like learning a language, practice speaking the language and it'll leave an impact.
1. Carl Jung's active imagination technique. This is more a practice for your own mind, but it's helpful in getting used to talking to aspects of your psyche, and thus getting used to having a conversation with something 'other' than yourself. It's actually quite helpful in self-work to imagine different aspects of your psyche as 'other' than yourself to learn about them. Start by imagining a scene with perhaps whatever comes up, or even a specific character from your own imagination that comes up. Pause the scene, insert yourself, and start talking to the imaginary being. It might seem hard at first, but let the being say whatever it 'wants' to say. Some beings will show up with a specific visual presence or voice in your mind, so getting used to this format of 'self'-conversation will get you used to conversing.
A little context; in various occult/esoteric systems, the body and mind are seen as a small scale model of the universe. To me, this effectively means that you can use different parts of your body and mind to talk to different parts of the universe. You can research this by looking it up, or just getting used to what kind of 'voice' a part of your body or mind seems to have. Talking to your 'self' is a very useful way to get used to talking to any conscious entity imo.
2. Meditating on the being. After figuring out what sort of entities or forces resonate with you, sit or lay down and spend a significant amount of time 'calling' to the being by saying a mantra (you could be repeating something like "I seek to commune with the presence of x"), visualizing the presence of the being, or 'feeling' what the being feels like in your body. A combination of the first two suggestions will often lead to the feel of an entity. Do this until something happens. Literally. It might be that you get information on how your mind conceptualizes the being. It might be that you get a visualization of something the being experiences, or wants to show you. It might full on show up and start having a direct internal monologue with you. Any number of responses could arise.
3. Casting a circle and calling a being. Research the traditional method for casting a circle, perhaps after using the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram or a variant cleansing to clear the space. Having researched a being you want to talk to, along with the appropriate offerings if relevant, call the being to your circle. If you are jumping into this right away, it's possible you'll be 'reached' in a more subtle way than you'd expect. A lot of spirit contact relies on training your psychic senses like a muscle. You are on the right track with the development of your own personal system of ritual Magick to act as a way to train. Simple drills like visualization, the psychometry post from earlier in this thread, or just sitting help. When you complete this practice, make sure you dismiss whatever presence shows up with appropriate respect.
Supplementing your practice with one of or any number of these practices will help you start getting a sense of the experience of having a conversation with consciousness as outside of yourself. Note that I said the experience of, because this is important. I grew up on the west coast of Africa, so I had the experience of very intense spiritual activity by virtue of the location having a more locally embedded openness to spiritual experience, but when I came over to North America I had to retrain my 'spiritual' senses. If you are living in a 'First World' (hate the term, but eh) country, you have to remember that you aren't just resisting your own 'lack of belief', but a collective thought-form that actively resists the presence of the supernatural.
My opinion, the spirit world is just as active in the 'West' as it is anywhere else, but you'll experience its effects as primarily mundane things as a result of the 'psychic censor' that Western society has collectively fed. Train your sensory apparatus enough, and eventually you'll have experienced too much actual dialogue with consciousness outside of yourself to deny it. Like learning a language, practice speaking the language and it'll leave an impact.
