The main idea is that you are the technology, sitting quietly in a room … indefinitely is your objective. Thoughts are your enemy, crush them as Sidhartha would. When you can master and explore your own brain (which is a wonder land) you will be ready to distinguish your own thoughts from inception and in which region of your own mind (“the direction“) it came.
Such fine sense and awareness is the beginning, and you don’t much stand a chance without someone uplifting you further. A Power harness only takes 18 months to learn, and that may only be a cargo cult antic. That’s why those who ascend go mad. Their teachers are false and never learn that struggling through delusion itself is the path of Power.
Power comes from the struggle, not the lofty ideas or personal ambition.