Here's a youtube clip on meditation ..on what true meditation is (a state) ..it also supports the teaching that we are supposed to "ascend beyond the astral realm" ..which in means in practical terms "we are supposed to leave these "spirit guides" behind" ...we should stop the spirit activity taking place in our head; we should not talk to them, we should not pass their "universal information" in our 3D world as "truths" etc. ...they came into YOUR mind, not the other way around! ..the spirits can go away ..if they say "they can't", these are just excuses and lies to get to stay in your mind, which they are tresspassing, as "teachers and gods".

OSHO: Meditation Is a Very Simple Phenomenon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0peVQTdI3Yg&feature=dir

The guy on the video says:

"When you are not doing anything at all; bodily, mentally on no level, then all activity has ceased and you simply are ...just to be ..that's what meditation is. ....just being. ..and DROP ALL doing. Thinking is also doing, concentrating is also doing" ..(you don't have to quit your job, just stop thinking about it. you don't have to give a way your child, just stop the thinking (compulsive thinking, overly worrying etc. .."will my child ascend"-type worries..).

...see, we are supposed to "drop all thought activity and that includes the external thoughts projected in to our mind by the "spirit guides" ..we are supposed to STOP reacting to these external impulses which is called the "sub-consciouss mind" ..but it is in reality "the spirit guides/the double ganger", not an unknown part of your OWN mind.

We are also supposed to drop (all) belief systems ..like incarnation vs. no incarnation ..it shouldn't matter. We can't know if the theory of re-incarnation is true ..so this "belief system" should be DROPPED, and maybe placed with "it is if it is"-type thinking ..."i'll see it when i get there, why trouble myself with this unaswerable (unaswerable to us 3D dwellers) guestion now".

"Once you have be come aware of the way ..how being can remain undisturbed, then slowly, you can start doing things ..keeping alert that being is not disturbed .. then you can start doing little (things) ..cleaning the floor, taking a shower ..but keeping yourself CENTERED."

How this could be put in more every day-terms (western daily living) ..once you start noticing that the "sub-conscious mind" is constantly throwing ideas and thoughts, emotions etc. into your mind, then you can start avoiding attachement to these external impulses ..if you haven't be come aware that the your mind is being manipulated by an external source (sub-conscious mind), than you just go on thinking that; all this mind chatter is just ME ..how could you know about anything else? ..we were born with our "sub-conscius mind" = the double ganger spirits ..but living with them from the get-go conditiones people to believe the "whole mind" is ONLY them ..but it's you + the spirits ..ever since your birth.

...so, once you realise your mind and being is being manipulated then you can start "ignoring it" ..not to follow all the many kinds of manipulative impulses. ..and once you start to notice you're follow them (with your line of thought) less and less, that you don't attach yourself to their thought-manipulation no more, so heavily. Then you start seeing the way to your "center" ..where no Heaven or Hell can push you around ..you just are and you don't no longer listen to them .. now you've stopped taking their in "spiritual info" ..then you are experiencing TRUE FREEDOM ..and still being a human being and not some illusory astral-god or -angel .. all these entities(characters) are just human imagination-created fantasy characters, not real souls ..only roles (..i'm rhyming)

Listen to the guy on the video clip for a few times and maybe read what i wrote on the subject as well for couple of times ...then try to put that into your life and surroundings; into what is your everyday reality with your job and your family and personal interests ..and then try to figure the way for you to practice this "empty mind/still mind" the WAY YOU WANT TO ..IN YOUR OWN PERSONAL WAY ..not in the way the guy or i is telling these things ..understand?

"So, meditation is not against action ..it is NOT that you have to escape from life ..it simply teaches a new way of life..."

And important bit: "You're not the doer, you are the watcher ... You become the watcher (metaphorically speaking, cause..) ..doing continues on it's own level, it is not a problem ...you can do all the small and big things."

...Being a watcher (of your mind and the external world) doesnt' mean you have to stop all doing, that you have to drop all human activity ..go out with your friends and drink and party the whole weekend ..it's ok ..it's not a negative thing at all, partying is just part of being human ..it's more negative to think you're NOT ALLOWED to drink few days straight, if you so feel like, right. ..but know all the time what you're doing ..watch yourself and you're mind.

"...that watchfulness should remain absolutelly un-cluded, un-disturbed.."

..and cause this is so ;watchfulness should be remain un-clouded and un-disturbed" this means if you're "playing around with the astrals" (channeling, magical rites etc.) ..you're not being watchful ..you cannot find the true YOU cause your "sphere of being" is costantly bombarded by external stimulation by the "spirit guides" (=double ganger-spirits) and they, most likelly, have been there ever since your birth

"the best way to boil a frog is to; put the frog into the pot and heat the water up slowly. If you'll drop a frog into aboiling pot of watr, it will jump out immidietly", as the saying goes..
..so the best way to condition a human is to "overshadow" him eversince birth; manipulate his mind ever since his childhood ...with the other method of "boiling" ..he just might jump out of the boiling water before true results have been seen of the "posession".

Many new ager prolly don't like this advice; not to communicate with the spirits ...but if the true meditation masters advice us to "transcend beyond the astral" i think we should listen.

Peace.