Handel
Little sheep lost in woods
(Disclaimer: the following is just my personal, albeit strong opinion. I'm not trying to pass it as facts)
I don't think that everything is just as black and white in the world(s). I think that most beings encountered in hyperspace and lucid dreams are both good and bad, like we are. As such, some of these entities you encountered (e.g. your guide) might have the best intentions for you, even if itself might be both good and bad in absolute terms.
I haven't done any entheogens (yet!), but I'm pretty good on lucid dreaming (for over a year now). In my travels while lucid, I've encountered the beings you mention. I met my Higher Self (who actually turned into a demon once and punched me in my stomach -- that hurt even even after I woke up -- because I didn't do what it wanted me to do), I met my Spirit Guide (who in one occasion was scared shitless from some "dream managers" who wanted me to continue take part on the dream -- I had refused to take part in their charade), I met entities that were literally constructing my dream as a computer program and getting pissed off when I flew away from it and refused to participate, I had devices installed on me that literally turned me on and off inside my dream (I'd lose consciousness inside my own dream!!), I met normal "leeches" that wanted to feed off of me, I was taught how to fight off small-time demons with the power of "Ohm", and how to fight whole planetary invasions with the power of "Ohm" but with ALL humans participating at the same time (impossible to fend them off alone), I also met the "dream police officer" who told me that the human race is actually enslaved to some beings without our knowledge, and I met the "men in black" bosses of that "dream police officer" who shut him up before he could talk even more (I drew these guys here: http://40.media.tumblr.com/978fbd9925bc31a06e4043f0457a81cb/tumblr_n3an1rnDC61rx1nxro1_1280.jpg ). Basically, I've gotten quite a grand tour in the last year and a half.
So anyway, my opinion is that there's some hierarchy of power in hyperspace/dreamspace, and we're too dumb to understand it all. That doesn't mean that all these entities are bad though. It is now my understanding that almost none of these entities are purely evil or purely good. They're all gray, and it depends on the entity, and the job they have to do, and your perspective.
For example, take my own spirit guide, "Esther". Is she a puppet in the whole thing, having a job to manipulate me? YES. I truly believe so. I've seen her being scared of other beings. But that doesn't mean that Esther is actually evil. If for example you were a worker, working at a cow farm, and you were responsible for the well-being of 5 cows, you're still the one who takes care of these cows. Even if your boss is going to slaughter these cows eventually.
In another metaphor, let's say we're cats. We take DMT, and suddenly our awareness expands. We're now able to converse with our human owners. When a human realizes that their cat can now talk, they're going to try to explain a few things about how the world at large is like. But at the same time, they will HIDE from their cat the fact that they work in a chicken farm, and that they slaughter chickens for a living. It's a job! Even humans have to have a job, often not as glamorous, but downright an "evil" job, to be able to buy (cat) food. Does that make these human cat owners "evil"? I don't think so. In reality, the human is both good and evil, in context, and depending on the point of view.
Of course, there's always the chance that the human owner is actually a more-evil-than-good person, or a downright tormentor. But that's usually not the rule.
In my opinion, and to summarize it, it's a jungle out there. Just because you can have some corporations or countries (use their cosmic equivalent) doing evil stuff (e.g. enslaving people to work on sweat shops, or stealing their water), doesn't mean that all their employees or citizens are acting evil all the time. And then you have the "better" corporations or countries, more peaceful, that do occasionally happen to harbor some serial killers in their ranks too anyway. So, everything is grey, and it depends on the situation one is in, the entity you talk to, the "cosmic corporation" you belong to etc.
We're too small to understand the big picture of hyperspace. For now, in our current evolution, we're just cattle. After my own revelations, I was angry, and I wanted "out". I wanted to be FREE from these machinations. Now I realize, that I simply have to accept what is. We're low in the scale of consciousness. We have to take entheogens, or do years and years of meditation, or being added devices and be "operated" upon before we can even start being able to communicate with that larger world. We're just too small yet before we can talk about true freedom.
Besides, is there any "true" freedom from manipulation? I don't think so. Think of how life is organized and works. In order for that life to be sustained, EACH and every living thing HAS to piggy back on its surroundings. If you truly want true freedom from these entities, then you'd have to lose your identity and exist as pure Being. Then, manipulation is not possible. But so is not experience.
And let's get off our high horse for a moment too. We ourselves are NOT better than these "evil" entities. It's myopic to think so. We still capture animals in order to eat them (I'm not a veg*n btw). We still kill each other. We still manipulate everything around us (from each other, to our... gardens). So what gives us the right to want to be free from some manipulation (that is certain to happen at a higher level than we can perceive)? Certainly the celery plant I killed today in my garden didn't have a say on it. And I can guarantee you, celery plants are alive too. Or the crab I ate tonight. Or the quinoa I purchased earlier today at the super market, which is known to starve its south american native workers because corporations now use all produced quinoa there to sell in the western world (indirect evil). We're all evil. And we're all good too. It just depends on the perspective, and the situation at hand.
Please don't see my above paragraphs as a declaration of defeat. It's simply my "objective" observation, based on what I've experienced so far. So, just pick your battles. And since we're grounded in this plane of existence (at least most of us are), put most of your work towards taking care of your "real" life. Let this other world do what it does (it's not like we can change its status quo -- that's for its citizens alone to change towards becoming "better" beings). As you have seen, they still visit you on your sleep (even if they don't interact with you as clearly anymore). You can't avoid them because you're part of the "system". As long as you're incarnated as an individual human being, you're part of that system, by definition. So, just let them be. They do their thing, you do yours. Besides, someone else higher up is manipulating THEM anyway! It's the natural order of life.
Personally, I don't trust anyone. Not even my own guide. However, she has shown that while she might have a larger agenda to serve, she has helped me with a lot of things too (e.g. she recently revealed to me the cause of a recent illness, which I've taken steps to correct). So while I try to keep that world "in check", I also take some input in. Just cautiously. Take the good in, leave the bad out. As with real life, use your best judgement.
I don't think that everything is just as black and white in the world(s). I think that most beings encountered in hyperspace and lucid dreams are both good and bad, like we are. As such, some of these entities you encountered (e.g. your guide) might have the best intentions for you, even if itself might be both good and bad in absolute terms.
I haven't done any entheogens (yet!), but I'm pretty good on lucid dreaming (for over a year now). In my travels while lucid, I've encountered the beings you mention. I met my Higher Self (who actually turned into a demon once and punched me in my stomach -- that hurt even even after I woke up -- because I didn't do what it wanted me to do), I met my Spirit Guide (who in one occasion was scared shitless from some "dream managers" who wanted me to continue take part on the dream -- I had refused to take part in their charade), I met entities that were literally constructing my dream as a computer program and getting pissed off when I flew away from it and refused to participate, I had devices installed on me that literally turned me on and off inside my dream (I'd lose consciousness inside my own dream!!), I met normal "leeches" that wanted to feed off of me, I was taught how to fight off small-time demons with the power of "Ohm", and how to fight whole planetary invasions with the power of "Ohm" but with ALL humans participating at the same time (impossible to fend them off alone), I also met the "dream police officer" who told me that the human race is actually enslaved to some beings without our knowledge, and I met the "men in black" bosses of that "dream police officer" who shut him up before he could talk even more (I drew these guys here: http://40.media.tumblr.com/978fbd9925bc31a06e4043f0457a81cb/tumblr_n3an1rnDC61rx1nxro1_1280.jpg ). Basically, I've gotten quite a grand tour in the last year and a half.
So anyway, my opinion is that there's some hierarchy of power in hyperspace/dreamspace, and we're too dumb to understand it all. That doesn't mean that all these entities are bad though. It is now my understanding that almost none of these entities are purely evil or purely good. They're all gray, and it depends on the entity, and the job they have to do, and your perspective.
For example, take my own spirit guide, "Esther". Is she a puppet in the whole thing, having a job to manipulate me? YES. I truly believe so. I've seen her being scared of other beings. But that doesn't mean that Esther is actually evil. If for example you were a worker, working at a cow farm, and you were responsible for the well-being of 5 cows, you're still the one who takes care of these cows. Even if your boss is going to slaughter these cows eventually.
In another metaphor, let's say we're cats. We take DMT, and suddenly our awareness expands. We're now able to converse with our human owners. When a human realizes that their cat can now talk, they're going to try to explain a few things about how the world at large is like. But at the same time, they will HIDE from their cat the fact that they work in a chicken farm, and that they slaughter chickens for a living. It's a job! Even humans have to have a job, often not as glamorous, but downright an "evil" job, to be able to buy (cat) food. Does that make these human cat owners "evil"? I don't think so. In reality, the human is both good and evil, in context, and depending on the point of view.
Of course, there's always the chance that the human owner is actually a more-evil-than-good person, or a downright tormentor. But that's usually not the rule.
In my opinion, and to summarize it, it's a jungle out there. Just because you can have some corporations or countries (use their cosmic equivalent) doing evil stuff (e.g. enslaving people to work on sweat shops, or stealing their water), doesn't mean that all their employees or citizens are acting evil all the time. And then you have the "better" corporations or countries, more peaceful, that do occasionally happen to harbor some serial killers in their ranks too anyway. So, everything is grey, and it depends on the situation one is in, the entity you talk to, the "cosmic corporation" you belong to etc.
We're too small to understand the big picture of hyperspace. For now, in our current evolution, we're just cattle. After my own revelations, I was angry, and I wanted "out". I wanted to be FREE from these machinations. Now I realize, that I simply have to accept what is. We're low in the scale of consciousness. We have to take entheogens, or do years and years of meditation, or being added devices and be "operated" upon before we can even start being able to communicate with that larger world. We're just too small yet before we can talk about true freedom.
Besides, is there any "true" freedom from manipulation? I don't think so. Think of how life is organized and works. In order for that life to be sustained, EACH and every living thing HAS to piggy back on its surroundings. If you truly want true freedom from these entities, then you'd have to lose your identity and exist as pure Being. Then, manipulation is not possible. But so is not experience.
And let's get off our high horse for a moment too. We ourselves are NOT better than these "evil" entities. It's myopic to think so. We still capture animals in order to eat them (I'm not a veg*n btw). We still kill each other. We still manipulate everything around us (from each other, to our... gardens). So what gives us the right to want to be free from some manipulation (that is certain to happen at a higher level than we can perceive)? Certainly the celery plant I killed today in my garden didn't have a say on it. And I can guarantee you, celery plants are alive too. Or the crab I ate tonight. Or the quinoa I purchased earlier today at the super market, which is known to starve its south american native workers because corporations now use all produced quinoa there to sell in the western world (indirect evil). We're all evil. And we're all good too. It just depends on the perspective, and the situation at hand.
Please don't see my above paragraphs as a declaration of defeat. It's simply my "objective" observation, based on what I've experienced so far. So, just pick your battles. And since we're grounded in this plane of existence (at least most of us are), put most of your work towards taking care of your "real" life. Let this other world do what it does (it's not like we can change its status quo -- that's for its citizens alone to change towards becoming "better" beings). As you have seen, they still visit you on your sleep (even if they don't interact with you as clearly anymore). You can't avoid them because you're part of the "system". As long as you're incarnated as an individual human being, you're part of that system, by definition. So, just let them be. They do their thing, you do yours. Besides, someone else higher up is manipulating THEM anyway! It's the natural order of life.
Personally, I don't trust anyone. Not even my own guide. However, she has shown that while she might have a larger agenda to serve, she has helped me with a lot of things too (e.g. she recently revealed to me the cause of a recent illness, which I've taken steps to correct). So while I try to keep that world "in check", I also take some input in. Just cautiously. Take the good in, leave the bad out. As with real life, use your best judgement.
