There is often confusion about many of the Hero's Journey steps. One area of confusion is the First Threshold.
It must be remembered that the Hero's Journey is both a physical and a psychological journey. The physical journey is just that, a journey - a physical movement. The psychological aspect is transformation - from an Old Self to a New Self.
The psychological movement is represented by physical change of location.
Psychologically the First Threshold is that place which the Hero is most afraid to go and from where he cannot return (that fear is enhanced by the earlier Interdictions and the Refusal).
Physically this is often represented by some New World that is a polar opposite of the Ordinary World, from which the hero has just come. A dangerous place, with dangerous and unfamiliar objects / creatures.
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