05-11-2016, 06:59 AM
what is fear?
it is something, like love, that everyone knows the experience/feeling, and yet it's hard to put it into words, and frame it around other concepts. That's been the case for me, anyway, since the longest time. Both fear and love I've found hard to 'grok' - when the words are used - because my deepest feeling is that there is some energy mechanic or process behind both, which can further be explicated, so one can actually 'see' what is happening.
but back to fear. I can't say that I've lived a fearless life. In fact, the very opposite. I think I've had elements of fear be present from an early age, maybe 4 years old. There was a particularly strong incident, from when I was about 7, when my favourite aunt died, and lots of feelings of betrayal and loss set in. I think that was the incident, in particular, which 'cemented' fear as a possibility in consciousness.
I made a lot of inroads via forgiveness with that experience last year. The majority of it was repaired and re-integrated. And yet, in my life, I still have some nagging notion of fear, of some trepidation, and holding back. It still has some roots, deep down, that I haven't been quite able to get a conscious reckoning on.
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I was listening to an interview with the actress Susan Sarandon on the way home from work earlier today. In it, she spoke about how she 'fell' into her career, and about all the wonderful and unexpected adventures that life has taken her on. All the people she has met, and that are part of her extremely wide personal circle; some of the causes she has championed, her experiences with ayahuasca which initially came about because she was promoting the rights of indigenous peoples. And the thing that struck me while listening, and that crystallized this thread, was that this was a 'fearless individual'. It just came through in her voice. There was nothing trying to force herself upon the situation or her reality; but there was an innermost confidence and personal faith. She just was able to work with a diverse range of situations, and remain direct, forthright, and undiminished. The only word for it, for me, was 'fearless'.
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But what is fear, and what does it mean to be fearless? It seems to come more easily to some personalities; and for others, they crumble and become anxious when exposed to new and challenging situations.
I have for a long long time tried to quantify and grasp the concept of fear. I've never really been able to come to a lasting conclusion, one that would hold for all my own experiences, as well as explaining others' situations.
I'm still exploring that.
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Fear is intimately related to red-ray. That is my belief anyway. Fear is an aspect which comes into play because of the perishability of the physical experience. Most notably, that the body we inhabit can be damaged, or forced to malfunction because an outside agency 'does' something to it.
That's why money fears are so red-ray related. It's about survival. What is the worst that can happen, that underlies money fears? That we become thrown out of our homes, and live in smelly, stinking conditions, with uncertainty about our next meal, or if we will be warm enough, or if we will be attacked during our sleep. These are the fears of loss of physical comfort. The human experience desires some form of assurance or continuity, that there can be some ongoing trust in the physical experience not to hurt us unexpectedly.
So one of the main roots of 'fear' is that of loss. That the mind has gotten used to a particular thing or person, and then that is taken away. It's a kind of attachment to a physical condition.
This is in no way to denigrate or belittle fears. Fear is a very real and tangible mental state, which can put it's offshoots into consciousness into many different ways. It can sway our behaviour; instead of taking bold, adventurous decisions, we take safe, predictable, loss-minimization choices. This is a mechanism that has been studied in psychology using various win-loss scenarios. When certain situations are presented, the mind will tend to minimise the risk of loss, which is a biologically sound position to hold.
But things that are motivated by the physical illusion (and loss and limitation) are exactly that. They do not penetrate the higher motivations of self, and thus the lower can derail the higher, and quite often does, because it governs the more primary and immediate responses that we have.
So paradoxically, in an attempt to minimise potential losses, we can end up being paralyzed, and choosing not to move at all. We actually get locked into those situations of zero-sum-games, without being able to bring more of ourself into the situation.
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so behind almost all fear, I believe, is the fear of loss. We fear losing our jobs, because it means loss of guaranteed income, which then means loss of continuity of maintaining the comfort that we would like in our physical situations. We fear snake bites, because it means we get poisoned, and then there is a loss of physical comfort and possibly long term damage (loss of physical function).
Death is a big fear, not only our own deaths, but the fear of others dying, our loved ones. We lose their ongoing presences in our physical experience.
It's all tied to loss, and one of the inherent traits of the space/time illusion. That of the perishability (the unidirectional arrow of time) that is one of the base limitations of third density. Loss is built into the third density experience.
When fear is able to be cleared and balanced in the red ray, we can then fully 'sit above' this aspect/limitation.
When fear is present in the red ray, then the mind is then caught and enveloped by the notions of loss. Loss of this. Loss of that. Clinging to what was before, and that is now no longer. It becomes tied in the most extreme way to zero-sum games.
/ /
some people are truly fearless. When someone has honestly been exposed to the extremeties of the physical experience, and they are still bold, forthright, and undiminished, I look upon them and say: that is truly wondrous. There are not many that I have encountered like you.
it is something, like love, that everyone knows the experience/feeling, and yet it's hard to put it into words, and frame it around other concepts. That's been the case for me, anyway, since the longest time. Both fear and love I've found hard to 'grok' - when the words are used - because my deepest feeling is that there is some energy mechanic or process behind both, which can further be explicated, so one can actually 'see' what is happening.
but back to fear. I can't say that I've lived a fearless life. In fact, the very opposite. I think I've had elements of fear be present from an early age, maybe 4 years old. There was a particularly strong incident, from when I was about 7, when my favourite aunt died, and lots of feelings of betrayal and loss set in. I think that was the incident, in particular, which 'cemented' fear as a possibility in consciousness.
I made a lot of inroads via forgiveness with that experience last year. The majority of it was repaired and re-integrated. And yet, in my life, I still have some nagging notion of fear, of some trepidation, and holding back. It still has some roots, deep down, that I haven't been quite able to get a conscious reckoning on.
/ /
I was listening to an interview with the actress Susan Sarandon on the way home from work earlier today. In it, she spoke about how she 'fell' into her career, and about all the wonderful and unexpected adventures that life has taken her on. All the people she has met, and that are part of her extremely wide personal circle; some of the causes she has championed, her experiences with ayahuasca which initially came about because she was promoting the rights of indigenous peoples. And the thing that struck me while listening, and that crystallized this thread, was that this was a 'fearless individual'. It just came through in her voice. There was nothing trying to force herself upon the situation or her reality; but there was an innermost confidence and personal faith. She just was able to work with a diverse range of situations, and remain direct, forthright, and undiminished. The only word for it, for me, was 'fearless'.
/ /
But what is fear, and what does it mean to be fearless? It seems to come more easily to some personalities; and for others, they crumble and become anxious when exposed to new and challenging situations.
I have for a long long time tried to quantify and grasp the concept of fear. I've never really been able to come to a lasting conclusion, one that would hold for all my own experiences, as well as explaining others' situations.
I'm still exploring that.
/ /
Fear is intimately related to red-ray. That is my belief anyway. Fear is an aspect which comes into play because of the perishability of the physical experience. Most notably, that the body we inhabit can be damaged, or forced to malfunction because an outside agency 'does' something to it.
That's why money fears are so red-ray related. It's about survival. What is the worst that can happen, that underlies money fears? That we become thrown out of our homes, and live in smelly, stinking conditions, with uncertainty about our next meal, or if we will be warm enough, or if we will be attacked during our sleep. These are the fears of loss of physical comfort. The human experience desires some form of assurance or continuity, that there can be some ongoing trust in the physical experience not to hurt us unexpectedly.
So one of the main roots of 'fear' is that of loss. That the mind has gotten used to a particular thing or person, and then that is taken away. It's a kind of attachment to a physical condition.
This is in no way to denigrate or belittle fears. Fear is a very real and tangible mental state, which can put it's offshoots into consciousness into many different ways. It can sway our behaviour; instead of taking bold, adventurous decisions, we take safe, predictable, loss-minimization choices. This is a mechanism that has been studied in psychology using various win-loss scenarios. When certain situations are presented, the mind will tend to minimise the risk of loss, which is a biologically sound position to hold.
But things that are motivated by the physical illusion (and loss and limitation) are exactly that. They do not penetrate the higher motivations of self, and thus the lower can derail the higher, and quite often does, because it governs the more primary and immediate responses that we have.
So paradoxically, in an attempt to minimise potential losses, we can end up being paralyzed, and choosing not to move at all. We actually get locked into those situations of zero-sum-games, without being able to bring more of ourself into the situation.
/ /
so behind almost all fear, I believe, is the fear of loss. We fear losing our jobs, because it means loss of guaranteed income, which then means loss of continuity of maintaining the comfort that we would like in our physical situations. We fear snake bites, because it means we get poisoned, and then there is a loss of physical comfort and possibly long term damage (loss of physical function).
Death is a big fear, not only our own deaths, but the fear of others dying, our loved ones. We lose their ongoing presences in our physical experience.
It's all tied to loss, and one of the inherent traits of the space/time illusion. That of the perishability (the unidirectional arrow of time) that is one of the base limitations of third density. Loss is built into the third density experience.
When fear is able to be cleared and balanced in the red ray, we can then fully 'sit above' this aspect/limitation.
When fear is present in the red ray, then the mind is then caught and enveloped by the notions of loss. Loss of this. Loss of that. Clinging to what was before, and that is now no longer. It becomes tied in the most extreme way to zero-sum games.
/ /
some people are truly fearless. When someone has honestly been exposed to the extremeties of the physical experience, and they are still bold, forthright, and undiminished, I look upon them and say: that is truly wondrous. There are not many that I have encountered like you.
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