CONFRONTING OUR FEAR.





 The walls of our cognitive prison are made of fear. The fear of encountering unresolved pains which were so big when they struck us they could have endangered the very survival of the little child we were.

These pains therefore were prevented reaching consciousness even before the full blast of their lethal impact. Unfortunately they remain active in our depth like the dangerous sea-mines of the Second World War. The fear of colliding with these unexploded sea-mines remains in us, reverberating in the darkness of our uncounscious recesses.

The demons of our mythology, over which the ancient heroes had to win, might well be a metaphor to this fear lingering in us. Yet, we are not heroes and we do not fight the demons of our fear. Unknowingly we run away like cowards, and we do our best to repress fear in us, if needed with tonnes of different anxiolytics, including all the kinds of dope the market may offer.
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More fundamentally our organism withdraws us from the fight against our secret fear by identifying us with a thought program, we call "me", that is built upon the memories to which fear authorizes the access. The strength of the grip identification with thoughts has upon us is commensurate with the magnitude of the fear it keeps at bay. And this magnitude corresponds to the intensity of the pains we shelter unresolved in us. Yet, this stratagem of our organism is not enough and often fear pierces its ramparts.

The width of identification with thoughts can therefore shrink or on the contrary widen depending on how we confront or rather avoid encountering our unresolved pains. Of course no matter the 'size' of our thought identity we remain disconnected from BEING or Reality in us. Yet, I just wonder if senility and beyond, Alzheimer, are not resulting from the accumulation of unresolved pains and the fear they trigger, and this during a lifetime. One must be bold to awaken to Reality inside.

The fear that comes up from unresolved pains always belongs to the past which locked up in our memories is projected upon the future. Often, natural fears are empowered by the pathological ones and make us overreact to situations perceived as dangerous. When we take the right steps and let the unresolved pains we shelter in us gradually rise to consciousness and be evacuated, we find Reality is much different from what we thought it is.

When ancient pains rise to consciousness, fear is melting into feelings like loneliness or abandonment and the freeze of our heart runs on our cheeks as salty tears reawakening the experience of LIFE in us which is a boundless and superconscious wonder. At the end of the dark tunnel made of fear the Light of LIFE, or BEING in us, beams with JOY again. Nothing is lost forever and we can always retrieve Reality's ISness in us and its INFINITE depth, but we have to truly want it.


LOVE

Patrick Ali Pahlavi

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