Spirit contact while meditation?

[sashataj]

I’m unsure whether this is the correct place to post this, if not please move it as you see fit; I was meditating today. I want to build on my mindfulness meditation practice because I want to be able to distinguish my own chatter vs external contact. During my mindfulness session I was focusing on my breath, the chatter would come and go. Then suddenly I heard my name so loud in my head as though it came from the outside of my body like someone else called me, however I knew it was in my head still but it didn’t sound like my own inside chatter. It was interesting. I am convinced it was a spirit. Does anyone else have any similar experiences? Or is anyone else doing what I’m doing — building up mindfulness practice to distinguish one’s own chatter vs external experiences that are perceived within?

 

[Morell]

Meditation is good way to learn that difference, along with other skills, as it helps develop higher senses.

I had experience with voices talking to me during meditation... I also had out of body experience during meditation. Since you want to learn the difference, without voices from beyond you wouldn't have an opportunity to have any experience for comparing and learning the difference.

 

[fungus77]

This is more of a specific situation, but I was meditating while mentally repeating a daemon's enn over and over. After a while, my body felt like it was vibrating, and it sounded like vibration was surrounding me. I do feel like the daemon did present itself to me...... I said a few things to them in my mind, and slowly their presence and the vibration feeling/sound went away. So I guess the moral of the story is, if you experience something that you don't normally experience during meditation sessions, its probably from an outside source. Especially if you're meditating with a specific method/goal in mind.

 

[Eldros]

I’m unsure whether this is the correct place to post this, if not please move it as you see fit; I was meditating today. I want to build on my mindfulness meditation practice because I want to be able to distinguish my own chatter vs external contact. During my mindfulness session I was focusing on my breath, the chatter would come and go. Then suddenly I heard my name so loud in my head as though it came from the outside of my body like someone else called me, however I knew it was in my head still but it didn’t sound like my own inside chatter. It was interesting. I am convinced it was a spirit. Does anyone else have any similar experiences? Or is anyone else doing what I’m doing — building up mindfulness practice to distinguish one’s own chatter vs external experiences that are perceived within?

That’s an interesting experience. I’d just be careful about going from “it felt external” to “therefore it was a spirit.” Our minds can produce some pretty strange experiences, especially during meditation.
And even if consciousness is more than just the brain, that doesn’t necessarily mean there’s an afterlife or that our souls go somewhere.
I think that’s the more interesting question.