Fear & the Spiritual Path
“Fear that you will not be loved, accepted and protected; fear that you will not be able to create the resources you need; fear that you will have to be subservient to a taskmaster—these fears are driving you to be out-of-power. They create anxiety that keeps you from being your authentic self, living your authentic life and following your dreams.”
— Spotted Eagle
Spotted Eagle tells us that the human animal in us bases his choices on his neediness to create certainty. He says we do this because our biology and the culture that results from it have a huge investment in being afraid of the uncertain future.
The culture tells us to abandon our authentic desires for joy, creativity, ease and freedom. Instead, it encourages us to do whatever it takes to become something we are not and to spend our lives chasing after the illusions of security and control over what happens to us. While it constantly raises the specter of personal catastrophe, the culture goes on to manipulate us through its parade of artificial icons whose traits it demands we emulate.
If we are to free ourselves to actualize our unlimited potential for the feeling experiences we long for in our hearts—what he calls: essence—we must have the courage to be our authentic selves, and embrace the emotional risk of having what we truly want in life.
Spotted Eagle tells us that every human being is here to reclaim power from fear of uncertainty. He asks us to take dominion over our lives by recognizing that the Earth plane is a classroom about fear, and that overcoming fear is the only spiritual path that any of us is undertaking.
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March 30th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
I`ve had these wonderful, fearless moments lately wherein things I would never have imagined thinking felt very good and no longer frightening. It`s quite liberating when you begin to see that one`s thought is the only thing standing in one`s way, and you can, indeed, ask for what you want… right out loud!