01-25-2015, 05:44 PM
(01-23-2015, 04:48 AM)Bring4th_Plenum Wrote: does anyone have a metaphysical understanding of what fear is?
One of my favourite quotes comes from Dion Fortune who was a mystic practitioner.
"A thought is a thing, a mood is a place"
Ra (as did she) used the term "thought form" to describe that thoughts become actual things in our time/space analogue.
As thoughts rise up in our minds what brings them to life for us lot lucky enough to be in space/time right now is the feeling or "place" that is attached to that thought.
I believe it is for this reason that the words Ra had to offer in reply to Don's question's were emotionally neutral.
If light could be seen as colourless then our emotional reaction to the light upon our exposure to it could be seen as adding colour to it. (light being a metaphor for our own thoughts in this context)
Rational fears are those areas of mental concern that can tangibly threaten our safety and security. Irrational fears are those personal boundaries we have put up as a means of protecting ourselves from a perceived threat to our safety and security. This may have occurred during our formative years as a child (0-7 years old approx) where we have yet to develop our cognitive/logical faculties, thus our ability to rationalise our experiences, and/or ask for help. Or it may be pre-incarnative in origin whereby we did not take up the opportunity in our past life to reconcile or shed light on the subjective fears that we unconsciously allowed to take root, grow and therefore dictate our life pattern.
I think we should all give our fears a good hug because metaphysically speaking, they are lonely creatures that need a compassionate embrace from their creators, which is us.