Removing the veil of separation

[Anders]

The blackening stage in esoteric alchemy can sound scary for it's about the breaking down of the personal self. One trick however is that this includes the feeling of being insecure!

The usual personal self always feels insecure because of certainties like inevitable death and other inevitable dangers for the physical body and even inevitable psychological and material threats in the form of loss of career, loss of social status and on and on.

Here Byron Katie's method The Work is useful as a questioning of those beliefs: Is it certain that I'm insecure? Is it absolutely certain that I'm insecure? That's a radical questioning of certainties that actually are beliefs when looking at it deep down as the future will be different than the past. Therefore the blackening stage is also about breaking down scary beliefs like that.

Anders this is strange? Or, I am observing it differently from another perspective. In Zen, we were taught overcoming our insecurities and ego. By gaining inner strength and the ability to know yourself, then we lose our insecurities. We are only insecure, if we think we are insecure. Once we comprehend our "Inner Reality", then there is a natural loss of "Self". Once again, insecurity is just another emotion that must be overcome.

But what about subconscious insecurities? What if the belief in certain death causes death for example? A false certainty. I know, it's an extrem questioning of beliefs yet still it's logically valid. The future may be different than the past; in the future taxes and death are uncertain.