Intense psychological turmoil - and encounters

[Sirius]

Moving on from initiation and briefly looking at pagan rituals summoning Hecate meets criteria.



Hecate is the Greek goddess of magic, witchcraft, the night, the moon, crossroads and necromancy and pretty much still worshiped as such today.

The ceremony to summon her in itself is not interesting unless made so. What is significant is that she is summoned at a crossroads. Hecate is also a guide to contact other spirits, spirits like deceased family members. Contacting her derives from already being in a charged mental state that gets focused by the rest of the ceremony.

 

Hecate was associated with borders, city walls, doorways, crossroads and, by extension, with realms outside or beyond the world of the living. She appears to have been particularly associated with being 'between' and hence is frequently characterized as a "liminal" goddess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hecate