I believe you! From many encounters of many other people along the years with Other Worldly Beings / Different Species and even Spirits of the Dead in the many Umbrals ( Astral-Realms), including myself, I've noticed a distinctive difference between those people who were actually experienced Pagans, Pagan witches, Priestesses and Magia/Magickal workers in general and those people from mainstream world, outside of Pagan: Occultism, Magick, Quimbanda, Wicca/Witchcraft and etc. The distinction was always the very same, mainstream people always have the negative and horror-oriented experience as opposed to the Pagan and Pagan magick oriented people whose experience seems to be mostly positive and joy-and-pleasure-oriented, pleasant.

Of course, as I pointed out there are "Unbalanced" works-in-progress in all Species, whether us a.k.a. human beings or Other Species. The words we choose to call them, let's say Demoness for instance, it depends upon that what we know in order for us to call that Being under that umbrella of label, name. So I believe you! In my experience, I once had dream / a visit in the Astral which the Goddess Ashtoreth was there and I followed her there. And it goes like this, I was across a street in a late afternoon, modern shops and stores gallore and I look across the street, I see a lady who looks mighty familiar to me. As I try to glance better, it seems that she looks exactly like the beuatiful lady depicted in an ancient Pagan statuette of the Pagan Goddess Astarte also known as Ashtoreth also known as Astaroth and etc. The ancient Pagan and Pre-Abrahamic Goddess Ashtoreth along the many, many years had been modified many times by the new mythologies-turned-religion which came about. At one time, she was added a Phallus and turned into a God in order to satisfy Patriarchal hustlers of that time. Later she was also given different names in order to settle with the languages of the Cultures which embraced Her worship. It took a long time but they finally changed her Species, from Goddess to Demoness, a word borrowed from the ancient Greek and then modified and vilified, maligned in order to scare, to control and to intimidate the primitive people of that time.

In my dream, She stops and stares at me from across the street. In the dream, I was not sure if it was really Her, at that point of the dream.

I had thought to myself maybe it might be just a beautiful, attractive lady that looks just like the Goddess.

So I paused for what it felt to me like seconds as we both stood still and stared at each other. Then she turned around with a smile and went around this Shop and entered inside.

At that moment I began to cross this street to the other side and I had easily got to the spot where She was. I looked at the shop, but it looked dark and front doors were closed. So I did the same as she did and I went around the shop, there was this side door and as I opened it in order to get in, there was no light, it was dark but the lights went instantly on as I walked through the doorway and into the shop.

I was inside of this room, there was small table and atop of it, a small statuette standing there and facing me. The room was spacious and long, I had to walk to get close to that small table.

As I got close, I realized, it is a statuette of the Goddess Ashtoreth a.k.a. Astaroth a.k.a. Astarte... I instantly got on my knees and I mentally said - I love You Goddess! I felt very good and blissful as I woke up and proceeded to write down the experience and then publish it online!

And I must confess, whethere as a Demoness, whether as a Goddess or whether as a Quimbanda-Mayoral Trans Queen of the Seven Crossroads Ashtoreth, etc, if She wanted me to, I would have made passionate love "with" and "to" Her.

I told you all of this in the spirit of sharing where my perspective comes from. Thank you for sharing your experience!

Cheers,

Sky a.k.a. JD Aeon