There are many ways believed to enable the living to contact the deceased and other entities roaming on the other side in the great unknown.
Many of the methods involve the person and/or persons trying to do so to maintain a great control of their concentration, being in an altered mind state, or go about the process using various tools. Interestingly, different methods are believed to attract different types of spirits.
A person’s experience with the methods below or their spiritual sensitivity (psychic abilities) seem to also play a role in how …

Telepathy can take many forms, but the most commonly used to communicate fall under the categories of channeling and mediumship. Telepathy in general is thought of as being able to transmit or receive thoughts, read minds, or manipulate others thoughts.
In the case of ghosts, rather than communicating mind to mind with another living person, it is believed that with channeling and mediumship you are communicating mind to mind with a non-living being.
In the case of channeling, many people regard this communication as a way to gather information from spirits through …

Meditation is often used as a means for focusing your attention in specific ways to accomplish an altered mind state. Some of the common reasons for doing so are to become more relaxed, others meditate to learn more about the intuitive wisdom within themselves, and yet others do so to place their minds into  a state of being that enables them to more readily connect with spirits.
The ways to reach these various states through meditation varies greatly depending on the school of thought, bodily positions, and conscious awareness of the …

Automatic writing is a method of spirit communication that typically involves using a normal writing instrument and paper, while allowing a spirit to control the pen and what is drawn or written on the paper.
This method of communication is similar to channeling in that it allows a spirit to enter the body, but rather than the whole body and mind being taken over, only the hand of the automatic writer is being used.
Once a person has effectively allowed the spirit to gain control of their hand, the spirit than writes …

Scrying is receiving a vision or spiritual message by staring into a glass window, pool of water, mirror, or other reflective object to induce self-hypnosis or reach a meditative mind state. A similar effect can be achieved by gazing into the fire of a fireplace or candle.
It is commonly believed that  by inducing self hypnosis or meditation people are able to put themselves into the right mindset to be able to communicate with spirits. Once in this state the surface of the object being scryed upon acts as a sort …