[roody15]

Disclaimer: This is probably going to make me sound crazy but perhaps it’s fitting.

In a deeply meditative state you can open up yourself to a spiritual state of perception. In this transcendental state you can attract other spiritual and ethereal entities. Not all of which are benevolent.

Lots of the meditative mantras, prayers and rituals perhaps are meant to ward off negative entities and even perhaps attract compassionate and positive spiritual forces

In a sense train yourself to open the door to different states of mind … this and of itself doesn’t equal enlightenment or happiness.

[bowsamic]

Yes, in the realm of emptiness (which we are never apart from) we can directly touch Buddhas and bodhisattvas, since we are never separate from them anyway. Buddhist practise helps us see this directly

[vorpalhex]

Do you view this description as being literal or metaphorical?

[bowsamic]

It’s literal, else they would have said it’s not