Be Afraid...Very Afraid...

[Myplanet2]

I want to pick at the bones of Fear. I've been watching this phenomenon with some amusement for a couple of years, and I can't keep quiet about it anymore.

What is Fear, anyway?

Is fear an emotion? Is it a condition? Is it a state of being? Is it a reaction of the nervous and endocrine systems to some stimulus? Is it a premonition? Is it a warning from a guide? Is it a demon squeezing our cerebral cortex? Is fear useful? Does it keep us out of danger? Is it crippling us? Does it prevent us from planning and acting?

We hear the word bandied about a lot. "That's fear based..." "I don't give in to fear..." "He's a fear monger..." "fear is a low vibration...".

I just kind of feel it behooves us to understand this thing a little better, as I take it to be relatively true that understanding something can remove some of it's ability to affect one adversely.

Personally, I see fear as having it's origin in the physical realm, most solidly, with a harmonic of it resonating in the slightly less dense "genetic" realm, and perhaps some "unpleasant" impressions haunting the middles realms.

It's not all that important to know for certain where it lives, and comes from. It comes from somewhere, and it's reall enough. Nobody alive has escaped it's clutches.

But it's what happens next that interests me intensely. What one does about it, or perhaps in spite of it.

There is a delightful plethora of examples of people rising above their fear and acting anyway. In fact there was a time following the previous depression where it became quite fashionable to eschew ones fear and entertain others at great personal peril.

I'm sure most of us have seen pictures of circus performers on the high wire, or high trapeze, risking certain injury or death with the slightest mistake. Or the daredevil doing a hand stand on a one legged chair cantilevered out off the side of a skyscraper?

And I'm equally sure most of us have heard stories about acts of bravery where one person risks their life to save another? rushing in front of a bus to save a fallen child? Standing up and taking a bullet, so your mates have a better chance of making it out?

What happens to the fear? Do they not experience it? Or do they quell it's calls for flight, and act in the now, based on some higher necessity?

If some can quell their fear sometimes, can they do it at other less dangerous times? Is this a skill which can be learned? Is it a skill which can be taught?

I subscribe to the model of "man" as a composite of many separate (separable) components. There is a body. It has various chemical and electrical reactions taking place.
There is a genetic component, which has as one of it's functions, the schooling of the future generations in the art of survival. There is the Brain and it's functions, and any number of types of "mind" which come into play. There are some (several?) levels of non/partially physical/energetic realms of existence within which we arguably reside to one degree or another. Such as astral and other etheric strata. There is the sovereign integral as James of wingmakers calls it, which I see as the individual being who cloakes him/her/itself in these other bric-a-brac. And then there are the realms beyond description.

Is there fear throughout all of this strata? I don't think so. I think fear is an animal of the body, and mind. On the physical, it can drive the nervous and endocrine systems to distracion. sweat, heart rate, respiratory rate, adrenalin, etc. On the mental level, it can foreshorten time, cause a panicked spate of planning and action. Rationalize otherwise repugnant behaviour. alteration of normal ethics and morals. And whatever else.

The point is, is all this fear necessary? What does a sovereign integral have to fear? What harm can it possibly come to? Your mothers body and mind, tells you you must be afraid about harm coming to your small child. But is that small child any less a sovereign integral than you are? Your identity as part of a nation tells your Border guard body to be afraid of the lurkers of ill will hiding in the bushes just over the bridge, but are the other citizens in your nation not also sovereign integrals? what possible harm can really be done to them?

Perhaps the question is less "what is fear", and more "what is afraid"? What is it that is really afraid. Are YOU afraid? Is your body afraid? Is it your mind? your country? Your planet? Your family?

I have my own answers to this, and leave it to you to create or review your own.

Is fear an anachronism? Is it our baby toe?

It is so easily manipulated, that I believe getting a handle on it and turning it on it's ear is enough to turn the tide in favour of peace, freedom and love, and a future created from deliberate choice.