Great Fear

Fear is another root emotion that has become a major problem for the human race. Relieving fear has become an industry, mainstream and alternative. Still, in the world it is tending to become worse, not better. Anxiety, paranoia, phobia, panic, catastrophic thinking.....these have become epidemic the world over. If we are not feeling the fear we are projecting it and sometimes manifesting it outside of ourselves as situations, people and systems that are dangerous and fear invoking. Strangely however, despite our greatest minds busily working on this problem, when we try, nothing seems to do anything other than passify it. Great fear carries on.

Maybe it is our approach that has been wrong. If we were courageous enough to own all our own fear, especially that which emerges at the moment we enter the womb of our mother, would it destroy us? Often, we think it will because it seems like great fear is part and parcel of existence itself. But is it?

Great fear, like great anger, actually has a heart essence. At the centre of great fear, much to our surprise, is awareness. And by awareness I mean not our awareness, but awareness itself. The field of awareness that is everywhere, that appears to be infinite in nature. This awareness only becomes our awareness when we learn to put a box around it. That becomes the delusion of self. Awareness actually has no such limits.

Some people call that no-self, but that is another duality which suggests there must be something outside of this alleged no-self. Awareness in fact includes what we think as personal awareness and we only think of it as personal because we have defined it. Throw away these boundaries, these definitions, and awareness becomes a field you can surf but the you doesn't go anywhere. Only your definition of your self disappears.


What a discovery! Great fear is actually a gateway to the essential reality of the universe, awareness itself. Is this fear a miasm, something passed on from generation to generation? Certainly, but it is also the way we have learned to interpret the contraction of awareness that happens as we incarnate physically. Whether it will be possible to re-interpret that contraction remains to be seen. But there is no doubt. There is an ultimate answer to great fear available to all of us.

That answer has always been known to a few, but now it must be known by the many. Great fear has had its day as a masquerader; now it is time to uncover the truth about what it really is. This fact will make the path to liberation from fear a reality available to all.

Projected, the world will look very different.