Reaching prophets?

[Kapalika]

Perhaps this is a strange question... but is there any precedence for reaching out to those who have written scripture? It's occured to me to meditate and reach out to the stream of conciousness that was once Vasugupta to better understand the context he was in when he had the revelations he did.

Sure, in the nondual view (as was his) we are all Siva and thus capable of the same revelation... I just want to talk with whatever, now in existence is closest to him, if that makes sense, to compare my own thoughts.

If this doesn't make sense feel free to ignore. I just want to know if there is any history of this kind of thing in Hinduism and if so what I can do to go about it.

 

[Aupmanyav]

Hinduism, IMHO, discounts revelations. Of course, later stories make it up. It does however value what is said if that has any substance. As a believer in 'non-duality', I agree that all things in the universe are but Brahman (or Shiva, if you would like that term better) - "Sarvam khalu idam Brahma".

 

[Vinayaka]

Perhaps this is a strange question... but is there any precedence for reaching out to those who have written scripture? It's occured to me to meditate and reach out to the stream of conciousness that was once Vasugupta to better understand the context he was in when he had the revelations he did.

Sure, in the nondual view (as was his) we are all Siva and thus capable of the same revelation... I just want to talk with whatever, now in existence is closest to him, if that makes sense, to compare my own thoughts.

If this doesn't make sense feel free to ignore. I just want to know if there is any history of this kind of thing in Hinduism and if so what I can do to go about it.

I've never heard of any methodology, other than the very close Guru-devotee relationships after many years of meditation. So they can meditate together, and afterwards discuss stuff like, 'This is what I saw, sis you see the same thing." But this would be at the very advanced yoga level.