Here's something veteran mystic Robert Bruce posted ages ago to the public forum at his Astral Pulse website - a meditation which show how interesting things can get. And they can get plenty more interesting too!
I had a strange and wonderful experience a few days ago thought I'd share here, as if I remember correctly some questions have been asked about nature spirits and elementals recently. However, this will probably ask more questions than it will answer.
I did a 5 hour trance meditation, starting at 11am, sitting in my office chair as I usually do. I had many OBE's and lucid dreams during this time, but an hour before the end I developed unusually strong astral sight with great clarity of perception. This is not like the usual real-time astral sight where I see other projectors and etc, but full astral sight where I am seeing into the high astral planes clearly. As you know, the astral light is bright and clear, far clearer than the light we have in this physical world. Everything is bright and vivid and colourful in the extreme, far more real and alive than here in the physical world.
NB: please keep in mind as you read on, that I am using at least 3 sets of eyes here, and 3 or more different levels of sight, including normal physical sight. I spent a considerable amount of time experimenting and switching between these during this experience. Of them all, physical sight was the most difficult to achieve while still holding my deep level of trance and astral sight.
1. physical sight
2. real time astral sight
3. normal astral sight
4. high astral sight
I was sitting at my desk, in front of my computer, where I usually meditate from. My astral eyes opened and I could see the room around me very clearly, more clearly in fact than in normal life. I seemed to have a pair of astral eyelids that I could open and close on multiple levels of the astral. I could also close them and see inside my minds eye, or open them and see the astral copy of the room around me. This was a bit confusing, but I am getting used to it and plan to experiment with it more in the near future.
First I noticed wisps of pale smoke hanging in the air around me, about head high, with astral sight. I thought there might be a fire, but sniffed the air and did not smell smoke. I opened my real physical eyes for a moment, and saw no smoke, so I knew that what I thought was smoke was in the astral around me.
I focused on one of the wisps of smoke and it changed into a small being, sort of unfolded itself. It had a face about the size of a tennis ball, with arms and legs streaming to a point of wispy smoke -- meaning the being was teardrop shaped. It maintained a dense smoke-like appearance, but I could clearly see its features, eyes and mouth, etc. It seemed to smile at me, or at least give me a friendly look, and then many other similar beings grew from the other wisps of smoke that hung in the air around me.
Intuitively, I thought these small beings were Sylphs, air spirits of some kind. I feel I have seen this type of being before, but have no idea where or when; a distant memory.
The sylphs surrounded me and then transported my astral body to an astral location far away. They flew me to a grassy clearing amidst massive trees in a beautiful astral forrest. Before me was a huge hollow stump protruding from the ground, like a wooden cave entrance. This clearing had a magickal quality to it that is hard to describe. Out of this stump climbed a large being. It was humanoid, with an angular and almost square or hexagonal shaped head. It had long arms and legs and was covered in dense, short, light brown fur, with lighter patches here and there and some speckling and banding in light grey. Its body looked like that of a large spider monkey or sloth.
The being felt ancient and intelligent and powerful to my senses, although it appeared young and perfect. It was a very clean and neat looking being, well groomed. The thought went through my head that this being ruled all nature spirits, and was some kind of deity. I felt inhuman intelligence with cool kindness and curiosity emanating from this being, and I responded with similar albeit slightly more-human feelings. It stood before me and looked at me, but did not speak. It seemed curious about me and I can only think that it sent the little spirits to bring me before it so it could examine me. Maybe what I had been doing, penetrating high astral realms in a powerful way, had attracted its attention. Then it waved its hand, like a command, and the small spirits carried me up into the sky, through many clouds and lots of blue sky, and showed me a great many high places. I had the feeling they were showing me their world, an airy domain of high places and clean air.
Eventually, the little sylphs left me and I found myself hanging in mid air in a very high place, with nothing but blue sky around me. I could not see any ground. I think the sky blue colour may relate to the astral plane I was on, rather than actual sky. Then a thought came to me, almost like a telepathic suggestion, and I said respectfully and powerfully: "Paralda, Paralda, Paralda, King of the Air, may your servants cleanse me!" Immediately I felt a powerful force take hold of me and my arms forced to raise out to my sides. I felt transfixed hanging in midair with my arms wide, with a great power flowing through and around me. After several minutes I was let go and was transported back to my office; or so I thought.
I found myself in what seemed to be a different house, and several people (or spirits) appeared around me, one at a time. Some were dirty and shady looking and I immediately disliked them, sensing they were evil, and some I was not sure about. One was dressed in a clean suit and tie, but I did not like the feel of him. I invoked my sword and when its blade burst into flame, I used it to draw banishment pentagrams and banished each of them. Better to be safe than sorry, methinks. After this I felt for my body and found myself back in my office chair. I had not fallen asleep, as I was still in deep trance and full of energy, with no reside of sleep.
I do not know what the above means yet, but hope to find out more in the coming months.
"Curiouser and curiouser, said Alice."
PS, compared with the astral planes, above the second astral plane anyway, the physical world we live in seems dim and slow and weak. The light is so much brighter and the energy is so much stronger in the Astral than it is down here. These poor tools I have of words fail me utterly when I attempt to describe it. I'll try and write a poem to express it. When I come back to my body after a high astral OBE, it's like arriving in a shadowy half-dead world compared to the high astral. The spirit worlds are also generally very bright, high energy places. I look forward to starting an intensive exploration of the astral, beginning next year, with great interest and enthusiasm. I may run a weekly journal and post it on the forum and website.
RB.