Recently, I noticed that I couldn't access any of my abilities. It was like I woke up and they just stopped!
So, I was sitting at home a couple of days ago and was listening to hemi-sync tracks and feeling floaty and happy. Like being high but without the side effects. (Anyone interested in these can hit Google and find them, most of them are the real deal, but be careful of being scammed.)
Anyway, I was sitting at home with my eyes closed and staring into the blackness behind my eyelids, when I started getting images, - It started with a red door, then changed to a tree, then an antenna, then to a circle with an overlying triangle. Then there was a loud bang and I fell off the chair. I don't know what caused the bang, I checked the house (No-one was home at the time but me) but nothing seemed out of place both inside and outside the house.
I went back to meditating to the tracks with my eyes closed, but this time I "drew" a shining white flame circle around myself as a form of a shield. A good fifteen minutes passed and I was back as to the "floaty" state. After a while I lost sensation of my body, (Like when you're having an OBE) and began hearing voices, many of them were complaining and others where giving instructions. I could see gold lines like a web stretching out like a giant net across the sky. At this point I decided I didn't like where I was so I "walked" back to my body, (But it wasn't an OBE, so what is it?) just before I opened my eyes it was like someone was standing next to me and yelled in my ear, "Place your hands together, as if in prayer" so once I was fully awake and functioning again, I was thinking about what the voice had said, - so I placed my hands together like "In prayer" and suddenly I could "Sense" everything in about a 10ft radius, including the emotions of my parents who were entering the house. When I don't have my hands together, I can't access my empathy or do anything psychically. Hands together though, and I can do everything again! How does this work? Is it some sort of trigger? And what was the golden "web" I saw?
Putting hands together is not necessarily Christian. For example, there's the anjali mudra (a mudra is a hand position). I'm not well read in this, but I hear the hands contain some of the most powerful secondary chakras in our body. There's also the deal with the opposite currents of Ida and Pingala; one is on the left, and the other on the right, and I can't remember which. Maybe it's the combination of those when you put your hands together that helps. And/or the alignment of the hands with the heart chakra.
Gold is generally associated with the Sun and various Sun-gods especially dying-resurrected ones. Think Apollo, Ra, Dionysus. This idea also has an association with the heart chakra. However, it's the solar plexus chakra that's yellow (just to throw in a bit of contradiction). Also, as you probably know, gold is the color associated with the auras of holy people -> halo.
Just want to say that it's not all about Jesus, unless you want it to be.