Fear
Fear has enormous power over us.
We have relied on it to keep us safe in a dangerous world.
We have always relied on fear to warn us of danger.
Today, we need it to teach us the sound of the universe.
Fear creates an instinctual reaction in us.
We look around for an enemy.
When we find one, we magnetically alter fear by distorting the mirror.
We create a hierarchy.
We gain a position in relation to fear.
We have an Other.
It’s not me, it’s you!
We are safe?
Fear causes trauma, causing us to become aware.
Fear allows us to perceive an enemy and eject our trauma.
It’s not me, it’s you!
Are we safe?
Fear causes confusion.
It causes the present to dance with the past and the future.
Fear causes trauma and disease, as we struggle to become aware.
Fear causes justice, as we fight for life.
Fear causes wisdom, as we struggle to understand.
Fear causes change and growth and survival.
Fear causes the hierarchy.
It’s not me, it’s you!
We are definitely not safe!
Fear has a magnetic attraction.
It satisfies our voyeuristic fascination.
Sue Young The Three Lost Books of Healing
20.8.07 - See Also Peter Chappell on Trauma “Personally I think emotional literacy, alongside spiritual literacy, is the most important form of intelligence and that it’s opposite, the consequence of emotional illiteracy, man made trauma in all its forms, which at worst manifests in genocide and war, are the greatest source of ignorance and suffering. I think emotional intelligence is second in intelligence to spiritual intelligence and both are critically important today.â€
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