Op, what was your experience?

Mine lasted for a period of a couple of years and involved a "purposeful haunting" and "Spontaneous vision quests" - terms explained to me by both a famous author/shaman and a medicine man both of which I had sought explanations with.

Someone very close to me met an untimely, violent death. Apparently he felt I was also in danger from those that had facilitated his death. For those two years he manifested in every way possible both at home and at my work (which had also been his workplace). There were many witnesses to his manifestations from family, friends and co-workers. I won't go into details because it would be book length but he manifested almost daily which included full-body apparitions, signs through nature, orbs, sounds of footsteps, appearance of silver foot-prints which would disappear after 10-15 minutes, movement of objects, wall pounding (when what he deemed as enemies were were nearby), touch, scent, and many other types of contact.

I was never frightened by any of it because I knew it was him but those around me were terrified and most distanced themselves. But I think it was his intention to have some of them distance themselves from me. A few friends were fascinated by it though, as was I. It was actually very comforting to me and became a normal way of life to me.

But by far the most remarkable thing was that he would take me to somewhere, another reality, that we could actually talk to each other as we did in life. The apparitions, here in my reality, were short-lived and lasted for only moments but in the other reality we could have long conversations. It was when these "spontaneous vision quests" were occurring that I sought the help of a shaman and the medicine man. They explained that it was a place that he could temporarily stay and that I could go to also. The shaman called it "the first bardo" and the medicine man called it something else. These experiences were all spontaneous and not initiated by me.

They also explained to me that he was a spirit of great energy to be able to do all this but that the day would come when he would have to go on to his destiny when he felt he had to no longer protect me. That day did come and it was very difficult for me to accept at first. But now I am at peace with it all and thankful for the experience.

It changed my life in many ways and all good.

And for the poster who sees geometrical shapes: when I had the spontaneous "vision quests" I would feel like I was flying through geometrical shapes until I arrived to where he was. He would also manifest what I would call "light shows" here in my reality which where large displays of illuminated, floating geometrical shapes which lasted anywhere to a few minutes to 30 minutes. These displays would interact with me in that if I left the room they would follow me and if I tried to walk up to them and touch them they would back up staying just a few feet of me but out of arm's reach. These always came at times when I was feeling depressed and I think it was his way of lifting my spirits. I have researched to find others that have had experience with these light shows but have not found any yet.



It changed my life for the better and brought much peace once I understood it.