I've had lots of metaphysical interactions with other beings. In particular I've had a conversation with Shiva during a psychedelic experience where he gave me lots of advice about my personal circumstances which really helped me cope at time.Bonus metaphysical stuff:
I actually think we all have *spiritual* gender opposite soulmates that are linked to our energy bodies, and that a lot of the issues with anima projection onto individual women is often a manifestation of our inner spiritual knowledge of that.
I don't have any religious beliefs or see the logic in "faith," personally, but got close enough to an NDE once and had some other experiences where the old Germanic or Norse concept of the "Fylgja" became convincing to me.
Do you happen to know anything about that from your knowledge of Europe, by the way? It's a theoretically thorny issue when religion comes into the picture, but that stuff comes from our early pre-Christian pagan lore to be sure (the goddess Freya and the kundalini and so on where this was known to the ancient Indian/Aryan traditions as well), but I think there was a strong amount of lore that got carried over via what's been termed the Germanification of Christianity, where the old traditions and metaphysical lore got woven in to new forms inside the Vatican and Europe to avoid total eradication...
@Lucas88 and @Pixel--Dude sound like they studied more of that old lore vs the agenda of Abrahamic religions. (I'm in favor of us all getting along with the "people of the book," in theory, as long as they're not in the psychotic synagogue of satan anti-gentilism camp, but still curious what each of the independent thinkers here might know on the subject...)
The old gnostics believed that the Christian God was an enemy of humanity whose goal was to keep humanity imprisoned here in the physical world. This is where the idea of the soul trap comes from where angelic beings approach the person having the NDE and convince them to willingly go with them. They will pose as angels of God if you're Christian, ascended masters if you're New Age. Etc.
Most of the old Gnostic and Pagan occultic knowledge was destroyed by Christians and Muslims across the globe. These fanatical demons burned libraries to the ground in order to remove any knowledge about the occult we had gathered so they could replace it with their Jewish slave religion.
I believe ancient mythologies all recount the same story which was told in Sumer. The story of Enki and Anu. How Enki sought to elevate man to his rightful status of godhood and how Anu wanted to keep mankind living as servants in obscurity, never to reach their full potential. The Fylgja you mentioned could well have been demonic in nature, trying to convince you to go with them and taking on a form which you might be most likely to accept. Of course we need the full extent of your NDE to make any accurate assumptions about what you saw...
Interestingly (trying to keep this on topic) the ancient gods and goddesses enjoyed relationships with multiple partners and even had multiple wives or husbands. And these are the gods and goddesses who taught humanity everything about how to live civilised lives. I believe Shiva was one of these gods. Shiva enjoyed the poon but that doesn't make him evil, he's one of the wisest gods in the entire pantheon! So if this is the case does that mean how humanity conceives of moral love being a monogamous relationship is flawed and inaccurate?