Shannon's Journal Discussion Thread, Vol. 5

[Darwinn]

Shannon

I continue to ruminate on power as the antidote to fear to the point where I suspect it is pre-exposure impact of a subliminal you are completing. I see that fear is a power state created by the ego for the purpose of survival of the self and it is an error to allow this to govern actions since that part of the self is only one aspect, a item of content, in consciousness which is already at a lower power state - it can't have true power.

My current understanding that power can be elevated through the pitch and frequency of consciousness, when this happens fear is like a sugar cube in the ocean.

Fear is a minor tool employed by the item of consciousness which is the ego; when power is low, the ego has greater sway and uses fear to enhance power at it's frequency, looking to manifest it in denser planes of existence. The more it has sway the more it makes real the very entropy it is driving us to avoid. I won't say more on this, you probably know already or have already passed by this part of understanding.  

It can be said though though fear has a useful physical component, bringing the body into line and ready for action, desire and fear are in the body. The physical grounding of these aspects in the body doesn't have to have its conceptual aspect, the conceptual aspect can easily be replaced by arousal and focus.

I don't know truthfully if any of that is right, but it's what I'm getting at the moment.

I am having a hard time following you because the ego is not what I find at the root of fear.  Perhaps we are not using the same definition, but I find fear always originates from the instinctual lizard brain, which I find is below the level of awareness required for ego.  How does this fit within what you are saying here?

OK I'm trying to work it out myself so I will think it through here from first principles. 

There's a physical origin of arousal in response to danger which is the reptilian brain/amygdala giving us our fight/flight/arousal response. 
 
This is conceptualised as fear and expanded by the ego which simulates danger and creates more triggers for fear to ensure survival. 


There is a circular relationship between a conceptual fear in the world (for example that ones power or efficacy is insufficient to meet a requirement the world has of you, thus making you unlikely to survive) and the triggering of the fear response.

When the ego dominates consciousness you become obsessed with addressing that fear through gaining physical power and all pursuits stem from that fundamental desire for preservation and survival. 

You become miserable, anxious and negative in the presence of anything which to you means a lessening of power. You get temporary respite from the achievement of goals springing from that's state of consciousness (if you're lucky!) but I don't think conceptual fear leads anywhere good in a sustainable way, and mostly will take you to exactly what you're avoiding.  

So fear will double back on itself and increase itself - for example if you suffer status anxiety, the anxiety is likely drive you to preserve what status you have by not putting yourself out there/making yourself small/'pretending' all of which diminish status and send you into a downward spiral.  


Dropping fear has to come then through (1) the belief that I can manifest the power to deal with anything and (2) an awareness that self is more than just the ego self.  I believe this is why things like meditation (the expansion of consciousness beyond the small self and awareness that one is more than just the ego) allows us to go beyond fear and be happy. It also expands our efficacy because we can make rational decisions outside of fear. 

I was also coming from a slightly esoteric place having looked at David Hawkins 'power versus force'; which seems to suggest that fear doesn't exist at higher levels of consciousness/power or at least has less sway and so one way to eliminate fear is to take on or embody higher levels of truth and consciousness. 

It's a bit fluffy i know, but that's what i have for now and I have to head off to work so happy to continue later if at all useful.