Everything you see on the way to enlightenment is a manifestation of your mind. Everything, without exception. That includes various hallucinations, astral travel, spiritual beings, God, voices, other people’s energy and personalities, your own self-image, night dreams, meditation experiences, all of it. All of that is the dreaming mind. Which is why, in reality, there’s nothing really to be scared of in seeing all this stuff. Which is not to say it won’t be scary. Fear is part of the dreaming mind, it loves nothing more than to scare you.

When the mind is no more, all you see is the trees, the birds and the clouds.