The Insidiousness of Fear

[Anders]

@flofrog Yes, I was thinking of Ken Wilber's integral transcend and include idea, which is often very helpful I find to prevent a flattening out of our current evolutionary stage and dismissing it too easily. There are values I believe, even in suffering, that need to be preserved.

And yes, I guess you are correct that fears need to be outgrown. Fears are necessary until they can be replaced by higher development. To pretend to be fearless is even dangerous! The fear becomes subconscious, numbed out and from that hidden state tensions build up that repeatedly have to be released through things like conflicts and fits of anger.