I wouldn't call it as a 'test', I viewed it as a 'catalyst' or 'lesson'.
But yes it tends to reappeared until we get it 'right'.
It's like you need to solve the puzzle again and again until you get it right.
I can relate to this experience very well!
For my case it does appeared literally as "old hag". "an old lady witch".
Initially, I don't fear her but was "extremely pissed off" at her at her, I 'slashed her out' and 'teared her apart to pieces' as when we're in OBE state everything we imagined tends to materialized very quickly. But she continues to 'reappear', as time progressed I grew pity on her, on the last encounter I just shoved her as awareness of 'her presence as a catalyst' start to appear as 'abstract' inside my thought.
So she's working as a 'guardian at threshold'?
I didn't knew that.
But yes it tends to reappeared until we get it 'right'.
It's like you need to solve the puzzle again and again until you get it right.
omcasey Wrote:One example that immediately comes to mind is when first beginning to consciously shift "out of body". Immediately one is confronted by a fear test, which if not passed you go no further. The phenomena that occurs here is often referred to in OBE circles as "the old hag". It is a guardian at threshold. Often seen as something a bit frightening sitting on your chest, often strangling you and/or doing something else equally untoward. It is a test of the central nervous system. A check/balance. To see if a person is ready, fit, for going out. We get these, of course, regularly in every day life. Pass the fear - pass go.
I can relate to this experience very well!
For my case it does appeared literally as "old hag". "an old lady witch".
Initially, I don't fear her but was "extremely pissed off" at her at her, I 'slashed her out' and 'teared her apart to pieces' as when we're in OBE state everything we imagined tends to materialized very quickly. But she continues to 'reappear', as time progressed I grew pity on her, on the last encounter I just shoved her as awareness of 'her presence as a catalyst' start to appear as 'abstract' inside my thought.
So she's working as a 'guardian at threshold'?
I didn't knew that.