“PRAYER and meditation are our principal means of conscious contact with God.” (Page 96, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions)
Step Eleven refers, of course, to conscious contact with God. I need not worry about how to bring that about. The book tells me my principal means: prayer and meditation. If I attend to those, as indicated, I will have conscious contact.
I need not necessarily be aware that conscious contact is operative. It is quite possible to have experiences that are not conscious contact with God at all but are conscious contact with other metaphysical forces or beings. All that glitters is not go(l)d. It is also quite possible to have experiences that are conscious contact with God without realising it. After all, within the domain of meditation, we are told in the Big Book that God communicates with us through inspiration, an intuitive thought, or a decision (spirit, mind, body), and these channels are active also in the Godless.
The job, therefore, is to attend to what I can attend do and, beyond that, let go entirely of the results and what I think is going on.
If these are the principal means, what are the other means? God appears to be unfussy and will use anything and anyone. The playwright after all is behind everything and everyone on stage.