Being a natural born medium, I see and communicate with spirits on a daily basis. Basically if you aren't born with the gift or haven't opened your third eye fully or properly a spirit can choose when and how to reveal themselves to you, spirits are naturally attracted to fear and or hatred, some of the best ways to have a spirit show themselves to you is to make them believe you are truly afraid of their greatness and power, tell them what they want to hear. If wanting to contact a spirit, visually or mentally, do the following.
1) go into a quiet room
2) light one white candle and place it in front of you
3) sit in a comfortable legs crossed position
4) close your eyes and clear your mind
5) as you breath in count to seven in your head then think of spirits
6) as you exhail do the same thing
7) repeat this until you feel your mind open or expand
8) once you've reached that state open your eyes and whisper I'm ready
9) them blow out the candle
Warning, this can cause accidental communication with a demon, enjoy (:
I can see that a bunch of great information has been given to you, about different points of view and manners. I would like to add some more things to the given information, and help you or "touch" your actual problem with seeing spirits by using the specific method you are talking about and trying to communicate and see spirits by using it. All of the other questions you saw on your thread were correct and really helpful, but yet I feel like I should talk about seeing spirits and about your problem while everything is related to the method of sight and way of communication with spirits and other entities.
Firstly, you did mention that you got scared while sensing / seeing a spirit, which is something that might make the process of sensing them harder. While being scared, you actually kinda block yourself from seeing them and make yourself to avoid the experience of sensing them.
So the first reason of having your difficulty with seeing spirits might stem from your deep fears of dealing with spirits and experiencing anything related with them. So shortly, you can't see spirits because you are afraid from them. You probably heard so many frightening legends about ghosts so that you prefer not to see them and believe that they do not exist. Consequently, your mind blocks you from seeing them. So basically when your mind blocks any sort of sight or entity, you will not be able to see it or sense it.
In order to get rid of this difficulty, you need to remove your fears and overcome them. One way to get over the fear is to be aware of your mind's fear from ghosts until the fear is no more. Do not fight the fear, accept and observe it. My tip is that.
You can also check why you are fearing of ghosts and watch your mind's conflicting forces of underlying skepticism and underlying belief. These are the causes for your fear - on the one hand you believe in ghosts and therefore want to avoid them, on the other hand you are skeptic and therefor feel that you are isolated and alone in the world and therefore can trust nothing to help you and guard you, hence fear.
Observe in particular your skepticism, observe and accept, do not fight it. It will also become weaker as you observe it.
When the fear and skepticism become weaker, the mind's blocking of non-skeptical phenomena will subside and the reality created and observed will start to include more happenings that cannot be categorized as natural, logical, science-proven. In this new state of mind you may be able to sense the presence of what you call 'ghosts' (spirits).
I also saw that someone told you that you might have a third eye chakra blockage, which is not necessarily true. The fact that you cannot use your third eye chakra in order to see spirits does not necessarily tell us that you have a blockage in your third eye chakra.
Mostly when this sixth chakra experiences a blockage, one may suffer from frequent nightmares and headaches, poor eyesight, lack of concentration and sometimes even migraines.
Also if the 6th chakra is not balanced, you have the potential to be a cold intellectual who trusts only reason and logic and is manipulative when it comes to getting what you want. Also when you say that , you are undisciplined and probably an underachiever.
So if you don't find any of this symptoms this may just tell us that you haven't developed it enough and didn't practice and meditate in order to improve your third eye chakra and develop your skills with it.
So what you simply have to do, just as about any other skill or ability in the craft or other subjects, you have to have patience for it and practice in order to develop it and improve it.
What I recommend you is to use meditation in order to improve your third eye chakra. You need to dedicate time, effort, energy and patience in order to achieve improvement and development of this chakra.
Through performing a third eye meditation you can open your subtle senses to perceive higher-dimensional worlds and energies. The third eye is the center of what is called clairvoyant sight , meaning "clear vision," and refers to the higher-sense ability to intuitively see or perceive subtle energies.
Just dedicate some time to meditate and give it as much time and effort as you need in order to success.
You may search about opening your third eye in Google (or any other searching engine) and look for the sixth chakra (third eye) meditation methods. You will find a bunch of articles about it, and you will probably get the information you need.
I also agree with people who said that there are different methods of sensing and seeing spirits and other entities. Yet, I decided to explain about the terms that the person who opened the thread asked about. But you can also simply search for other plenty of various methods of sensing and seeing spirits and entities.
Thank you for your answers. I do spend more than half my time on computers reading ghost stories, which could be part of the cause of my fear. I have another question: If I fear them my whole life, will I never be able to see spirits/demons? Like I mentioned, seeing them is just something that worries me, and always nags at my heart. I suppose they're just something that I'm deeply curious about, yet want to stay away from.
Lastly, I know this is paranoid, but... Do demons know when you are scared/nervous? Would they be able to tell if I'm writing this?
