I'm glad you decided to open up about your experiences. You are very welcome to come to https://slrpnk.net/c/animism and post about your experiences there.
I admit that your world of reference is strange to me - but I have learned that the terms and names people use are often very different and that we mustn't get hung up about it. I grew up in a big city where I couldn't really connect with nature, but I felt the lack of trees so much that I ran away with 17 to live in a greener place. Started to connect with plants. And much later I started to befriend a group of rocks. I can't say that it comes natural to me as to you.
I feel that a lot of people are coming to this knowledge again. For me it's about developing a better relationship with the landscape we're living in. There's a lot of conscious and knowledgeable entities out there ready to help out people who are lost and lonely (and some mischievous ones we want to stay away from).
So far my problem is when I dive deep into the non-human it's very hard to connect with humans. And vice-versa it's really difficult to be aware of the otherworld while I do human things. For example I've been busy and didn't visit my rock friends for weeks. Hope they don't mind as they run rock-time anyways.
Never mind those who have been brought up to be deeply scared of these experiences and dismiss them as pathological. For me, I'm done with so-called experts capping my power under the guise of wanting to improve my mental health. My mental health is fine, but the destruction of woodlands and watersheds is something we all should be deeply concerned about, and getting support from our good spirits is very much needed.