Spending time, spiritually conscious, in your physical body, in nature, can be a profound experience. One of the things you will begin to notice is how much is going on on an astral level in and around the natural environment. There are as many different types of beings in astral bodies as there are people on the planet. If you think about all the different types of beings on the planet, there are some doing horrific things and some beings doing angelic things. It is the same case on an astral level.
A spiritual being in-body working toward a higher level of consciousness who is owning his/her personal space with their Source connection is always more powerful than any being that is running at a lower frequency and disconnected from Source - no matter how frightening they appear. Nothing can match a being vibrating at gold or above connected with Source.
There are beings we sometimes call "diddlers". They are beings out-of-body hanging about messing with people’s energy systems. They have lost their connection with Source and are not very powerful. They may pretend they are, but they are not. It is all part of the game. Remember the biggest game that low vibration out-of-body beings play is that they don't exist. If you believe these beings do not exist, then you are most likely unconsciously giving some of your power away to them.
As humans take over more of the natural environment, we generally "run out" those beings that previously "looked after" that land. This accounts for the difference in energy between the city and nature. It is fascinating to go far into the wilderness and find beings that do not exist in other places. They own areas so dramatically because they have been looking after that particular place for millions of years. When an old-growth forest is cut down, the loss felt is not only that the trees are gone, but also that the beings are pushed out as well. They leave. The destruction happens on both levels.
Every living thing has consciousness on some level. For example, there is a being that is the spirit of the Norfolk Pine tree. It knows what to do. It knows how to grow. The tree won't talk to you, but you can talk to the being who is the spirit of the tree. The great gardeners are the ones who are in communication with the beings of the plants they work with. It may be unconscious, but they know the being of each species. On a Spirit level, they are in communication with that being. An individual rose bush, for example, is one of many manifest expressions of the rose spirit, the individual rose bush is like a cell in a larger organism, a part of that plant spirit, the rose spirit. Plant and animal spirits have different levels of consciousness.
Practitioners doing healings using herbal medicine provides another example. It is not the actual physical or chemical nature of the plant that does the healing, but rather the healing comes from the relationship with the spirit of the plant. The Herbalist brings the plant spirit in to assist the person that is hurting, to heal them. The physical plant is a representation of the energy.
When we, as spiritual beings, chose to begin to experience manifestation as a part of our journey, we began playing with levels of consciousness that were not particularly evolved. Thus, the first steps were more elemental: water, rock and so on. Then we started experimenting with experiencing manifestation through the other physical forms such as plants. We began experiencing different types of animal consciousness and onward. Each manifestation we play with taking on a body that is capable of more consciousness than the last body, experiencing different levels of consciousness, continuing on until we arrived at human bodies. Generally, once you start manifesting human bodies, you usually do not go back to any of the previous forms, often because you have created so many contracts, so much karma in human form that you can't leave the human manifestation until they are cleaned up.
It is simply amazing how much consciousness you can have in a physical body. You will not be able to get all of you in-body ever, simply because you as Spirit are so big, but you can have a lot. Our human physical forms have an enormous ability to accommodate consciousness. The degree of group-mind-reality/dependence or autonomy/independence is also significantly different depending on the consciousness level of the particular manifest form. For example, human beings have the ability to have greater individual consciousness than a mouse. It is part of our path, as we develop to become conscious independently, not giving our space away to other beings or other group minds.
f you look at the energy of less conscious organisms, fish, for example, you will notice they often act and move as one. It is a group mind. There is not a lot of individual consciousness. They move all together with very little separation. You see birds flying this way also. They all turn, at the same moment, because they have group mind consciousness. Certain beings will begin to play with more individual consciousness. Occasionally you will see beings in bodies, let's take a crow for example, that are really quite individually conscious. They are on the edge of manifesting another type of body. They will come back next time in a type of body that facilitates more individuality and consciousness.
In a natural setting, one not "taken over" by human beings, it is possible to be aware of the energy of each being existing there. Each plant has an energy you can tune into. You will also find other types of beings that are there as support for living things. Some of these beings are often called "devas". There are a variety of other beings present that support the growth of a forest. They are essentially there to assist. There are also beings without a specific purpose. There are often "wandering souls", for example, that hang out, especially near cities. They are simply lost spirits wandering around making trouble, unaware they are lost. This is why sometimes the forests near cities can feel a little strange. There are often beings hanging around that have had physical bodies but do not have a manifest form currently, they are "in-between", without a role to play. They can be "darker" beings vibrating at a lower frequency because they have a lot of foreign energy in their space. They cannot get their energy vibrating at gold. They have lost their connection with Source, and so they vibrate at a lower frequency. They will remain this way until the time comes for them to receive a healing, when they have learnt what they needed to and are ready to take the next step on their journey to consciousness and freedom.
