Calliope by Earth Orbit Audio System

"Alongside the separation of soul components in dissociation, there can also be a loosening of the subtle structure of the bodily and soul constitution of the physical body, etheric body, astral body (soul), and I (personality), even though this is not allowed to appear in our normal state of consciousness. For in this process, a person would be confronted with experiences he could not bear. Unpurified memories of past experiences, including those from previous lives on earth, would push to the fore, which a person today, without a spiritual training leading to a strengthening of the I, would not be equal to. To prevent this, a spiritual being is needed who protects the human being from it. This is the Guardian of the Threshold, whom we can initially recognize as our unpurified experiences, but is present in a very real sense in supersensory experience."

-Rudolf Steiner