Satan, the Dweller at the Threshold (involution-evolution)
Reading more about Dweller on the Threshold reframed my earlier doorway OBEs to have been a type of initiation to another degree of consciousness. I can see how, along a rather natural progression, the residual past me’s and even transpersonal -collective unconscious- the stuff of the World, formed a concentration of shadow consciousness. This was the entity next to the doorway. Or, like in the Wiki page, my confusion over these OBEs in the months that followed had to do with the cognitive dissonance of having experienced both vantage points, the ’solar angel’ and the ‘dweller’. Example: at the beginning I’m this bodiless, free being soaring around see-feeling in all directions. But then, I’m the one being pulled through a doorway, feeling myself being annihilated. Then pop I was back in my body. Several times this happened. Seemingly, I was going back to pick up these dwellers, until finally when I went to the meeting place there …