There is nothing to be afraid of.

THIS MONTH’S THOUGHT:

Fear, anxiety, tension, apathy, anger, boredom, stress are all based on misconceptions.

SCIENCE OF MAN: 

(Excerpts from Lesson Seven)

The next level of being in the walking sleep state is that of fear.  In fear the person has become under the control of a “Not-I” that has suggested every conceivable kind of dread things going to happen to it.  This person believes in all sorts of catastrophes going to occur.  Earthquakes are going to destroy us.  Inflation is going to destroy us.  Illness is going to strike me.  I will probably come down with cancer or diabetes or some brain tumor or some other dread disorder.  I’m afraid that we will be without a job and we won’t have enough food to eat.  I’m afraid the house will burn down.  A “Not-I” gets one frightened.  It can put one in a state of panic.  You may have experienced it.  More than likely have where it tells you that some terrible something is going to happen.  And all of a sudden you seem to believe it.  The heart  races.  The palms perspire.  The person is in a state of anxiety from every direction.  So this is fear.  And the person who has been under the control of a fearful producing “Not-I” over a period of time is usually, generally considerably overweight.  This is very simple because its being reported to X that there is a great catastrophe going to happen very shortly, soon.  So the appropriate thing to be done, when there is going to be a catastrophe, is to store up food and water.  So, every particle of nourishment that goes into the body is stored by X in response.  It is the appropriate thing to do if one is going to be attacked and in a very severe situation and unable to have food.  So it is stored inside the body.   Generally these people are quite overweight.  As an entire society becomes more under the control of suggestion of fear, we have more and more people decidedly overweight.

Now, the next level of being in the walking state is called held resentment.  It means, really, hate.  It is a combination of fear and anger.  A person is angry and feels they have been mistreated, but afraid to do anything about it.  Now this is a state of being wherein one is in a continual seething inside. One is constantly fighting in imagination.  Sometimes there are violent killings in this imagination. It is getting even with them.  In this state tremendous energy of course is being burned up in imaginary fights.  But X acts on the information it receives.  And the information being received from I that is hypnotized by the ideas of revenge, of hate, is continually drying the body up. This person is usually rather skinny, somewhat wrinkled up. The face shows the signs of the attitude that is working within.  And they have all the symptoms that require adaptation from the continual state of preparing energy from the various hormones to prepare to fight or run and it really isn’t being done except in imagination.  These two, fear and held resentment make up most of the practice of any general practitioner physician.  There is fat man and skinny man, whether it is a man or a woman, that fill up the doctor’s offices because they have the greatest number of ailments.  Because in the imagination of the “Not-I’s” it is constantly being reported to X that they are in a very severe condition, a great emergency, and X is preparing them constantly to fight or run and the adaptation takes place.

The fourth level of being in this walking state is anger. Now that is the state where the one is constantly sticking up for their rights in imagination.  Constantly feel that they have been mistreated and that they are entitled to revenge.  And they have no fear of getting it.  And they are usually rather blunt and rude to most of the people around them. They are quite drivers.  And, possibly, are what the world calls successful.  They have signs and wonders that they have succeeded in improving their situation.  They may accumulate properties because they run over everybody they’re entitled to. And they’re angry at everyone.  And everything they do is very easily justified by the “Not-I” that says, “We have been very mistreated and we’ve got to stick up for our rights. ”The next level, above anger, (Incidentally, the angry person usually has a pot-belly and that is about it, otherwise they’re the usual size and shape.  Somewhat more ruddy complexion than the general run of people and are quite subject to heart attacks and kidney stones.  They don’t usually go to the doctor until forced to it, because they are angry at doctors, like everybody else.  The same as they’re angry at their wife, their children, their compadres, their partners, their customers, whatever).

So, above the anger, comes the fifth state of being in the state of walking sleep, That state of consciousness is called boredom. This person has generally achieved a certain amount of comfort, certain amount of pleasure, certain amount of attention, had a lot of approval and possibly had power over other people.  But, it did not gratify.  It did not deliver what was promised by mammon.  So the person is quite bored. They’re really not very interested in anything, and consequently, they don’t do very much.  And they don’t get in to awful much stress.  Just enough,  because  they’re annoyed with things easily, because what’s the use.  It’s all the same.  You hear a bored person says, “It’s all the same thing.  I’ve heard all that before.  I’ve done that before”.  So, he’s looking for some specific excitement or something that will pull him out of this deplorable state.  Sometimes he turns to drugs, sometimes to alcohol., sometimes  to other excesses.  But, he just looks like it’s not very interesting. Life is a big disappointment.

A STORY:  The urge to be safe and secure is a powerful one.  It comes from the basic decision to regain the non-disturbed state.

I have been paying attention to the suggestions that threaten security. 9/11 had the whole world frightened and screaming for security.  The weather forecasters predict hail, floods, tornados, forest fires, hurricanes and other dangers to property and people. The weather report usually contains a summary of the current pollen count.  What a subtle suggestion that is.  Bad breath has the power to destroy the finest relationship.  Eating nearly anything can trigger unbelievable misery.  Fats, sugar and cholesterol can destroy the strongest body.  Fruits and vegetables may have dangerous chemicals on them.  Even unseen chemicals in drinking water quietly erode the physical being.  Breathing may be harmful to our health since the atmosphere contains pollen and chemicals that cause (?) allergies.  If I cease to breathe, eat and drink water I will most certainly regain the non-disturbed state very quickly!   The dollar is falling against the yen.  Older Americans are outraged that the Government may not provide them with health care, the cost of which is out of control.  Insurance companies know we are all 100% subject to suggestion 100% of the time and base their sales promotions on generating fear in us.

Security?  Is there any?  No. However, Spirit always does the appropriate thing for the information It receives, moment by moment.  My task, as the awareness function, is to make sure that the information reported to X is accurate and clear.

Fear is an illusion. Whenever my mind steps into the future (which is an illusion already), I become a sitting duck for the fear “Not-I” to take over. It is a mechanical, conditioned state that destroys the living being.  It runs rampant throughout the world.

Perhaps the greatest contribution I can make to the Planet and myself is to greet each day fearlessly.

EXPECTATIONS: 

Expectation based on misconceptions leads to disappointment. (From the Teaching Material)

1. That People will do what is right if they know what is right.
2. That other people know how they make me feel and they will help me.
3. That if I complain, I will get my way.
4. That if I can get my own way, I will be non-disturbed
5. That if I please people, I will be non-disturbed
6. That if I please people, they will do what I want.
7. That I can change myself if I make up my mind.
8. That I have rights that other people should respect.
9. That I would be happy if other people or something were different.
10. That others will accept my conclusions and reasons

The fact is that people can never do anything, which at the moment of doing, they do not feel is right or proper or justified.

The fact is that each experience is perfect for that time and place, even though it may not suit our taste or be without discomfort.

IDEAS TO WORK WITH:

1. Suggestions are brambles that choke the seed.
2. Don’t ever look for Truth. Look for illusions.  When you have seen the illusion for what it is, you have seen the Truth of the matter.  The Truth sets us free.
3. Only as I, the observer, sees some idea of the self as an illusion, is it free of the tendency to identify with that idea.
4. We are sowers of seed. What kinds of seeds do we sow?  Peace?  Love?  Joy?  Our mood, attitude, is our seed.  We live in that which we radiate.
5. Read and listen without interpreting. Interpreters are “Not-I’s” on an ego trip to show how smart we are.  Read and listen and let the material work on us instead of trying to interpret it.
6. Spirit is not concerned with how ‘good’ we are.
7. The Teaching material does not allow us to be less disturbed. But we will be less disturbed because we don’t care anymore if we are.  When we are free to be disturbed we don’t get all torn up about it.