Things can happen in the strangest of ways... some of you know about what people call a near death experience... that is when you offically die but a medic restores you right away, some people recall a vision during that time about a tunnel of light -etc. The vision is so realistic it can often transform their whole life from that moment on.
Many visions happen during such circumstances, often called revelations or enlightenment.
Black Elk ( native American ) had his vision when he was very sick and in a fever, he kept it a secret but finally told the tribal medicene man and was told that his vision qualifed him to become a holy man of the tribe (aka medicene man) and many years later his stories became the foundation for some of the beliefs held by Native Americans in this generation.
Fasting for many days can also bring one close to near death and generate a vision, much like the one Jesus experienced when fasting in the isolated desert.
In some kinds of meditation when you become very still and the body feels like it is floating you can experience a profound vision, and experience the light, because the physical body is slowed down to nearly no activity simular that is close to being death. Until re-booted by the vision.
Of course we can crash the gates with drugs, which likewise can shift our consciousness giving us a profound vision, as we close in on death with those chemicals ( don't o d ).
It is odd that we can get high so to speak when we reach rock bottom. But we have an inner system that seems designed for that purpose, which science has proven by shocking the pleasure part of the brain electronically.
We can always tell a vision form a normal dream because they are way more realistic in nature then just thoughts bubbling to the surface of the mind that were depressed while we were awake.
Such visions can happen when the body is sedated emotionally or overcharged emotionally. Emotional energy has something to do with how our consciousness can shift to the point of alternative perception.
Meditation is the safest method that I know of if I were to recomend one ... relative to a vision quest.
I ideas and claims made in this blog are my own and are debatable, so they are just for concideration if one has the mind to do so. I am not an expert on anything.
PS - up and down is a debatable term because the earth is a globe so we eather move outwardly or towards the center inwardly. ( in and out.. not up and down ).
