Well, I've noticed different types of them. Sometimes I am viewing somebody here on earth. They could be doing any variety of activity. Other times its some spike headed fuck with the intention of scaring me. There are others that may even look back at me. I do feel that all of them are thought forms, that they are real, somewhere, and probably live some sort of life.
In reference to my post under
In search of understanding, as we begin to experience the various depths of meditation we begin to experience the various charisms. It just so happens that these charisms originate in the spiritual realm. The spiritual realm also abounds with spiritual beings, some of which are benevolent, some are neither harmful, nor helpful; and others are down right evil.
Generally as we negotiate the layers of the 8 stages of depth in meditation we become more and more aware of the spiritual realms. Here we become aware of the 3 types of spiritual beings. It is the more malevolent ones that get our attention most, because they mean to do harm to all.
The solution is not to pay them any attention, and keep going deeper. As we shed the layers of the self, we become more benevolent, so we become transparent to the malevolent entities, so they do not see us, and we do not see them, unless we need to.
I feel that all the layers of jhana are shrouded by a black cloud. That as we proceed through them, a curtain is lifted. These attachments or fetters, I see them as demons. They are the black cloud, and in meditation, in surrender, a hole is opened in them and light comes through. I picture this as some fucker with his hand over my face, and light can come between its fingers. I've come to this through viewing the visual field in meditation as if it were my own eyes. There are times that I can relinquish the body, and its these times that I see it this way. There are other times that more curtains might be dropped, such as my most recent meditation.
We do live in a "matrix". ^.^
True the immaterial domains are very matrix-like. When we shed all of the layers of the self, then we unplug from the "matrix."
We can see how those who begin to experience the spiritual dimensions will encounter spirits of all three kinds. We can also see how organized religion has demonized deep meditation, and out of their fear of deep meditation they have also demonized the mystics who cultivate the deep meditation experience.
Thus, there is almost never someone we can discuss these phenomena with, and thus organized religion has no answer for these experiences. It also takes tremendous courage to negotiate the 8 layers of the deep meditation experience, because one has to develop the necessary level of equanimity to encounter legions of demons, and not be frightened by them.
