I often call my parents (alive) into my OBE's for protection. They are very real eternal beings to me, behave parental, give advice and the likeness of that. But, I have a theological problem with seeing non-dead people. How can someone exist there and exist in the astral?
haha.. .this is actually an area I am experimenting with at the moment.
It is likely that we exist here and there simultaneously... here being a very focused point. The one that is experiencing and processing data.
I have had many experiences like this. Maybe we are interacting with their nonphysical counterparts. They wouldn't know this because they themselves have their direction or focused trained.. like you do now.. in this physical reality.
Very well put.
Another possibility is that they are your own projection. But I wonder why you feel that you need them "there" for protection.
In any case, once you feel more comfortable, you'll find that you need them less and less in the astral and more and more in the physical for different reasons.
Good question.