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Fear

I think that Fear was originally just the instinctive protection response, spurring flight or fight. It was only for self-preservation. When one senses danger, one becomes afraid, the physiology responds to enhance ability to flee from danger or fight the way out. This was tied directly to physical existence and still is for many species.

As we evolved, not only did we learn to be fearful of that which might end our individual existence, but we extended who/what we are to those around us, our circumstances, our possessions, and began to fear what might change our existence, usually through loss (... of life, habitat, food supply, companion, offspring, property - ref Ego/Personality issues). Our fears evolved with us, beyond survival only.

With the expansion of hierarchys from individuals to family groups to social bodies to religious and civil bodies, these became additional predators, in a sense, at least as far as loss and fear are concerned. Each level outside us, whether animal or human competitor or bureacracy, has/had the capacity to change us in ways we would not necessarily choose for ourselves. We fear the potential loss(es)/change(s). However, with careful alignments, we've learned that we might minimize our exposure to loss (as we perceive it) and have less to fear in the sum or a better defined set of fears which we feel we can abide.

Ex - We will align under government because our government may help protect us from their government. Our government may help secure our lives and what we value.

Ex - We will align under religion because we believe that such alignment may enable some gain or save us from loss. (For specifics, see doctrine/dogma of specific religion).

It is indeed attachment. We don't want to lose anything/anyone/any-idea we think is ours. Ownership does not guarantee continued ownership. Existence does not guarantee continued existence. --- We have learned this from empirical observation. And so, we are in fear of losing ourselves and what we feel is ours.

The real conundrum is that we project our fear onto the unknown future. In a way, we have assumed that someone or something will always try to get something from us. This is likely a reflection of our tendency to take what we can get from life/others.

This is how/where the whole system is changing.

Once we learn that we have EVERYthing, that we ARE Everything. There is no need for attachment to ANYthing. There's Nothing to be lost. It's all here, always, for anyone. These bodies, this existence, is not all there is, so there's no need to fear. There is no end, only transformation. We can detach from our narrow definition of existence and possession and just... enjoy.

06.05.2001

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