Fear Arises
Let us discuss fear for a moment. Like all predispositions it has its origins and it manifest itself in various forms under certain conditions. The most common is the instinctual /reflexive fear which is an inbuilt survival mechanism which has evolved over millions of years to protect cell structures, organisms and later our own body. It makes us react to situations without us having to think about it. It evolved out of necessity for our basic survival need in our current three dimensional world. In times of emergency there is no need to consider reactions because they automatically arise from within us through millions of years of conditioning necessary for the species to survive. There is off course the conditioned mind which we spoke of earlier which evolved (mostly) out of current conditions. Fear is an interesting one as its earlier role of course was to protect the organism primarily however through individuals conditioning. Each person reacts and identifies the condition of fear differently and acts according to that identification. For instance many will run at the sight of a snake or a large spider however a zoo keeper would react quite differently. What one sees as a threat is totally different to how another might react to it. Fear can be very crippling but the most insidious fear is the one’s we react to unrealized. The one’s which are so deeply ingrained and are the buttons for our subliminal insecurities. This did not evolve over millions of years but through our lifetime without our consent. The bizarre thing about this type of fear is that it is readily identifiable and yet we struggle to let it go. It is the fear acquired by us during our formative years when our parents or carers advised us that e.g. certain actions could be very bad for us and some are good for us and so. These are residual behaviors adopted from their parents or carers. With that we have the cultural and society laws that are created by us for us but for whatever reason once created is difficult to shift. Why is it difficult to shift? Because we assign appointed caretakers to enforce them who ultimately adopt these laws as if they were created (ego) by them. It takes serious effort to challenge these edicts once they are in place because we become conditioned to them. People will rarely challenge or question them out of fear. As a result societies remain stymied and stagnant for longer periods than necessary because no one wants to challenge what has been written. How often have you observed some injustice in our society and only muttered your disapproval. Do you see how disempowered we really are? Do you like feeling that way? Let me tell you a little bit about the human condition. Every morning when you first get out of bed someone is going to define your day. That’s correct someone is going to tell you how you are going to feel and how you are to represent yourself for the day. You may decide to put on the television, read the newspaper or listen to the radio and someone is going to tell you (subliminally) how you are going to feel for the day. In all cases it’s not really geared up to make you feel good but rather to be apprehensive or vigilant about your environment. The news will be about someone killed, raped, drowned, serious car accidents, or some natural disaster. Am I wrong so far? You not only have local news to contend with you also have the world news to remind you that there’s no escape from this it’s all bad everywhere. It doesn’t stop there they will serve up news updates in between news to continue giving you copious amounts of fear and misery. Then of course comes the servings of what they call entertainment which nowadays amount to real police drama, real medical procedures, shows on natural disasters, and court procedures to name a few. Then comes your dose of morphine which they serve up as advertisement telling you about image problems, weight control, pain relief, funeral insurance, car insurance, house insurance claiming they can help? Are you that far into sleep that you are not in the least alarmed yet or are you really that well sedated? Or has this campaign worked so successfully that you now live comfortably in abject fear? With males there is a need to subdue the male testosterone with gladiatorial sports of all types. It’s about kicking a ball, catching a ball, going round in circles with your chariot, swimming, swinging a bat, flipping a coin, just pick an inanimate object and throw it.
You can watch these virile men on your television screen and live vicariously without lifting a finger you’re your told. Off course the ads served you up some reminders of your inadequacy unless you drink this, take this, drive this, or you’re a loser. So at the end of the day you truly are living an extremely fear based life and the worst kind because your enjoying it. Turn your television off, turn the radio off, I dare you? Like a goldfish in a bowl you’ve become more than moderately happy with your subsistence. All that fear that has been drummed into you from the moment you wake till you go off to sleep has to go somewhere. And it does; it goes into your psyche off course! What we know as existence is truly pitiful. A famous Russian mystic called G.I. Gurdijeff stated that “Man is asleep” that man is a robot. Give them a flag to wave and they will go to war for it. In the meantime give them a flag to wave to a team in support and they are happy. Pick a sport any sport and there’s your narcotic. Go back to sleep. There’s the remote control turn the television off, I dare you. Can’t you see the irony in this ? Remote control !!! That is you, you are in remote control.
Solving the Mystery
Once you understand the mystery you may take a deep breath and sigh! There it is, there it was, right under our noses. One of the greatest secrets kept right under our noses. Or should I say right inside our minds the last place one would look.
The disciples came to Jesus and asked, 'Why do you speak to the people in parables?' He replied, 'The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. Whoever has will be given more, and he will have abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. This is why I speak to them in parables: 'Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.''"
Matthew 13:10-13
What do you suppose that means? Well it's not entirely correct because the kingdom of heaven has been given to all of us, we are just not looking for it. There are hundreds of these messages from various disciplines and like a beacon it has been sending out signals to everyone for thousand of years. That the Kingdom of Heaven is here, it is inside you. All you had to do was listen, really listen ! Peel away the layers of the conditioned mind and really see, really hear and really know. It’s all there, the hidden becomes unhidden. And perhaps you will take that deep breath and sigh. The greatest gift ever given is you, it is inside you.
