I have been meaning to type up something about meditation and astral for a while now since an LJ friend asked about it. I've been meditating for what feels like forever, though I'm pretty sure that I started when I was about 20 or thereabouts. My problem is that I don't know how to break down what I do so it makes sense for somebody else. At this point, it's damn near second nature.

Meditation - best thing I can do is describe what I do, and hope it can be understood. I relax my body, let go of everything, close my eyes and see whatever I can see. You know how you see those colored dots when you close your eyes? I let them start spinning and going into patterns and then eventually I see... things. I just let it flow. Some of the things I see are rather intense. Some innocuous. All interesting. When I'm deep in to it I can direct it more, interact more. Particularly in the last two years, the things I see are things I can verify in some way following meditation. That's been rather freaky/cool.

Astral - Before I start I set in my mind that I'm meeting someone - usually neowiccan. We set a time to "get together" and then we use our own methods to "get there". I use a ritual by Akhet Hwt-Hrw that involves going through a door. When I get to the other side, I see in my mind's eye a certain place that is mine. When I feel the encounter is done, I head back to the computer and type like mad and attempt to get down everything I experienced and send it off in email. Suz does the same. Then we meet on AIM and compare notes to see how many (if any) hits we made. I would say that at this point we get hits more often than we don't.

Which reminds me, we're also long overdue for another meetup.

This has probably been no help whatsoever, but it's the best I can do at this point (and I haven't even started on the wine).