Maldek and its knot of fear

[Steppingfeet]

So I was recently thinking about Maldek and the tangle they got themselves into from blowing up their planet. These guys spent over 100 thousand years in a perpetual state of fear. I can’t imagine it. To be so afraid you’re not capable of conscious thought. I mean, I’ve had my moments of paralyzing fear and anxiety but i don't think it compares.

Interesting idea to contemplate. I hadn't given it much consideration before.

Prompted by your post, I tried to wrap my head around the idea of previously conscious beings existing in a non-conscious state, unaware that they were conscious, the fear barrier being too strong to overcome.

The only two comparable situations that I could reference for my own understanding include dreams, and the movie, "What Dreams May Come".

The former perhaps bears some similarity to the Maldek situation. It could be akin to living in a perpetual dream, a fear- and anxiety-ridden dream from which one does not wake. Constantly looping through various terror-filled scenarios to which the dreaming self falls constant victim.

The latter also might be illustrative of the Maldek situation. Have you seen "What Dreams May Come"? In it, Robin Williams' wife has committed suicide in the waking world, causing her soul to become trapped in a darkness from which, according to the authorities of the world between lives (in the movie), one is not able to escape because one is wholly consumed by this darkness, forgetting that there was something other than the pain and limited identity. Robin Williams is strongly discouraged in his desire to reach his wife and break through her entombing misery. Naturally being the hero of the story he ignores the warnings and attempts to untangle her own "knot of fear".

Love/Light, Gary