I hear you Anaeika. It was my belief that if the frequency was set high enough, protection done well, Guides. Angels etc called in, one's personal space set to unconditional love and time is spent ensuring that was so, and so on that such things couldn't happen.
That's the general belief at least and generally is true. I do believe its a good working theory.
But apparently there's a sort of 'matching picture's thing that happens too, I'll try to explain.
In this case all four of us ladies are energy practitioners and well know how to deal with our 'stuff' and get set for priestess level work. So when one of the ladies said "I have a pain in my side which happens when I reach certain spiritual states and I want to understand what causes it and remove it" - we decided to open a vortex and travel to it.
I think we expected to actually look inside her body for energy blockages or signs of etheric scar damage in the auric field...something like that which was work we had done many times for each other.
However when we took the vortex/tunnel we came out in an underground dirt floored room running with blood, not inside her body or auric field.
I was in an Iron Maiden, with blood oozing out of it onto the dirt floor and two of the other ladies were on racks or in chains along the wall, the forth was a guard at the door who was mortified by this places existence and the torture done here but was just a cog in a larger wheel unable to do anything to help us or intervene. While he was free (guard not prisoner) he was also imprisoned in the nightmare with us.
We all knew we had been in those underground torture chambers in a past life, maybe even all been there together before death of our bodies. The re-enactation of horror was instant for all of us and panic ensued.
Then some entity which fed on the horror and pain in that place came out of the shadows re-cognizing us.
In a panic we fled and that entity followed us back and into our Crystal Sanctum a high frequency shielded space unwilling to loose it prey The Sanctums frequency was too high for it and made it painful for it to try and stay, so it wasn't too hard to banish it. With all our memories and horrors of that life surfacing the one Priestess and I were very aggressive about banishing it back to the pit it came from and ceiling the room.
It never returned. But you can see how it found/recognized us in the first place and how all of us dying in that life (except perhaps the one who was a guard) under horrific circumstances left sort of a 'back door' in each of us and that's how it recognized us and followed us back out of it's own Now and into our Now in this lifetime.
We each had 'matching pictures' for that life, soul memories each of us, unknown until the one ladies side wound led us to the life it came from and why the body associated certain levels of spiritual access to physical pain. Her body remembered being tortured and killed for having experienced ecstatic states at another time in history.
I believe the woman with the side ache in high states of spiritual ecstasy and the other woman had already dissolved into fear before the beast began stalking us and only the woman who was the guard and I (both trained in Mystery School traditions) still had our wits about us enough to recognize it when it became present. While dealing with our personal terror and recognition, long traditions of maintaining the Observer State (Witness state called by some) in any state of consciousness allowed us to rally the group, get us back into this timeline, banish the beast entity and then administer assistance to the two ladies now fetal positioned and weeping, gasping and in terror.
This is Unusual - very rare indeed. One has to be a fairly advanced practitioner to open portal, take them and even get to place like that and have the psychic abilities to see entities and deal with them. So I wouldn't want anyone to think this sort of thing is going to happen to them necessarily.
I believe we received the experience because we were able to deal with it, clean up our 'goo' - and indeed we did and also to show us we had not entirely conquered fear.
It fact during our debrief afterwards when everyone was sorted out we even discussed that. It locked in our level of competence for a couple of us for sure and for the others allowed them a 'safe container' to clean out horrors from prior lives. Safe meaning we all survived. lol
It never did come back and it would be very unlikely to ever run into it again. We did a lot of energy work after that on each other clearing those etheric imprints out of each others fields - the original ones too. Sometimes I think we are given these experiences for just that reason - to heal and clear them out once and for all.
If you think about it - all of us have died every time we've come here (to human body/Earth) it's built into the system. Every now and then in a lifetime we gain access to other lives and can do a lot of healing on traumatic events that happened to us in those lifetimes which may have resulted in our deaths in those lives. So as horrific as the experience was and sounds in the retelling of it, Higher Good came from it. We leveled up as Priestess, and got to clean up some etheric muck from another life and get rid of the 'matching picture' from it and the backdoor into our field that it caused.
