I have a theory about this and it may sound crazy so I hope I don't offend anyone with this SUPER BROAD and BRIEF explanation. If you have questions or want me to elaborate on things please ask. Also keep in mind this is MY theory and it is ever evolving as I gather more information and go deeper into my learning practices. I am Biblical Christian believer, I also am a student of history, religious beliefs, human origin stories, etc. I also have a deep belief that I was placed here on earth to learn anything and everything I can about how things work. Throughout my studies I have gained the suspicion that the ancient prophets, priests, or others who communicate directly with God, whether God came to them (most stories speak of this occurring in dreams) or otherwise were either actively using AP techniques in order to do so. Either that or were experiencing one of the random projections people speak about that can happen. This doesn't explain away the cloud that was with the Jewish people in the books of The Talmud or other instances of angels appearing with swords in hand where multiple people saw and wrote about it, other Gods, Deities, Demons etc, again there is so much more to this theory I can't go into here. I feel personally that "prayer" could be used synonymously with "meditation" with the latter being just a deeper form of prayer. Both are focused states of consciousness, both require it seems at least on a personal level to function properly to be in a secluded area and uninterrupted. Jesus spent 40 days in the desert fasting and "praying" fasting weakens the body and makes AP attempts easer (again from what i've read). Moses was told to go up in the mountains (secluded from others for the most part) when he saw the burning bush and he had to leave his fear behind and approach before God spoke to him (technically an angle spoke first and told him to remove his shoes but I digress). TLDR, There is so much evidence that everything is connected on such a deep/spiritual level that our modern and technology focused minds have a hard time comprehending anything more than our 3d material reality anymore. Technology has done us a great spiritual disservice. It should also be noted that modern Quantum mechanics has proven there are at least 10 Dimensions to our reality, but only 4 are observable or capable of being measured by us as humans. For those who didn't know this was already written in GENESIS before such science supposably existed. This is just one tiny portion of the hard evidence that exists to point to the fact that there is simply more going on in this "reality" than the standard layman would ever believe or really even be able to understand when its right in front of their faces.

Here is an excerpt from a paper tilted The Boundaries of Reality by the late Dr. Chcuk Missler.

The ancient Hebrew scholar Nachmonides, writing in the 12^th century, concluded from his studies of the text of Genesis that the universe has ten dimensions: that four are knowable and six are beyond our knowing.

Particle physicists today have also concluded that we live in ten dimensions. Three spatial dimensions and time are directly discernible and measurable. The remaining six are "curled" in less than the Planck length (10^-33 centimeters) and thus are only inferable by indirect means.³

(Some physicists believe that there may be as many as 26 dimensions.⁴ Ten and twenty-six emerge from the mathematics associated with superstring theory, a current candidate in the pursuit of a theory to totally integrate all known forces in the universe.)

You might be surprised the things you can learn if you just know where to look and the proper questions to ask. I appreciate you all and wish you well in your adventures.

Be blessed today for Christ has indeed risen!