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I have friends that are very diverse in their beliefs and yet many of them have similar kinds of spiritual or "psychic" experiences! I think this is great, and an indicatior that these things exist no matter how you "come at it". The quality of the experience seems to be a bit different sometimes, but the experiences still happen.
I tend to have alot of "pre-cog" dreams, something I seem to have inherited from my father. Other times I just suddenly "know" things. Sometimes it's as if I am "remembering" a conversation with someone (guides?) and they are giving me advice, but I can't think of how I could possibly have met or known them.
Sometimes I will be alone or with a friend and feel a warm or cold spot and then begin to get an impression. I have met Goddesses, Angels, Ascended Masters, Fey, the spirits of animals and plants, " the passed on", and those who need some help" passing", and some "scary" stuff too.
I have set it up so that this takes place in my mind as an "overlay" because it would be too distracting to have it appear "outside" as some people seem to prefer to cultivate. I worry that I would come off as a real nutcase then!lol!
I never knew I was really a medium until I was giving a reading and describing what I thought must have been a (live) friend of the person, only later to be told the friend had passed awhile back, and I had been right in great detail! I was raised in a belief where this was not allowed, considered "evil" , and had lots of people try to "fix" me...or maybe I would have been able to give this comfort to people much earlier.
My Mother passed just about a year ago, and I think we have a better relationship now than ever! At some point I will try write more about this. I find this is one of the most common ways people touch mediumship is through the death of a loved one, and extremely often the maternal figure.
I describe my self these days as a "shamanic eclectic" meaning "someone who goes into the realm of spirit to bring back knowledge and healing for the people" and "a combination of many different styles".
When I was young, my experiences were most often negative, and so I was not too happy about what looked to be my impending spiritual "destiny" to work in this field.
I find that when I am left to experience these things without the intervention of people who are bent on proving it to be "evil", I really don't have alot of negative stuff show up. That and I learned some defenses.
I think dwelling on the "evilness' of something can actually cause it to become negative, when it might have been an op for something else! The attitude of the researcher does affect the experiment!
I have for instance run into people who find themselves suddenly "surprised" by a grinning goatish horned being, perhaps sitting on the kitchen counter or something. If the person was raised with the popular but really quite "unbiblical" version of what the "devil" looks like, they will run away screaming or try to drive it away, whereas people whose beliefs include the "Horned God" might say "Oh my gosh, PAN, what are YOU doing here?" and have a very informative experience.( My experience is, this being is not exactly evil, but mischievious, and loves to play tricks, he finds us very amusing, after all...)
 This does not mean you can avoid every bad experience.
My point is, not reacting with fear might glean you some less threatening results, however you believe. After all, if something seems evil to you, you shouldn't have to have it in your space, regardless! And you can tell things to leave, or make them with some know-how and help.
Here's an interesting observation: most people who have near-death experiences report very similar things, no matter what the cause.
Extremely few to nearly none report the "fires of hell" except for those people who have a vested interest in convincing you to fear it. Televangelist's guests, for instance, seem to report it as being the way they "came to God", but it seems to be born of fear.
This of course makes me wonder, because many people who have a very positive experience or even kind of neutral also report a deepening of spiritual belief, but most say they no longer fear!
I lived much in my life in situattions where fear was encouraged, but am largely over it now for the most part, tho it still creeps up on me sometimes. One of my fears now is what people do to each other in the name of their beliefs (one of the leading causes of war), and I always ask myself the same thing...is it born of love or fear?
I am not suggesting that you should be reckless and stupid, for the otherworld is much like here in that respect. I am saying you should take a similar attitude there as here. You would expect something negative to happen if you walk through a bad neighborhood with a hundred dollar bill hanging out of your pocket, tho some people could get by with this safely, right? Ok same thing there.
If you are hanging out with nice beings like maybe some friends and loved ones in a good place, it's not too dangerous. There are other situations where you are just asking for trouble and should at least take a friend or guide if you must go! Or at least that would be prudent. Some people never have trouble, some always do, which kind are you?
OK enough for now!