FREEDOM 6

P. 26-40

There are two major themes that emerged here one is that of fear or fearfulness and the other is looking at what is sometimes referred to as the ego/the small self/the personality self in a different way.

One of the things that I found interesting about tonight's lesson was that I can even become fearful about fear. I can tell myself I shouldn't feel this way or fall into over analysis of everything that is going on in my mind and my world and continually asking myself or examining whether this is of fear or not.

I believe the essence of the lesson is not necessarily to judge fear or eliminate fear, but to get a sense of when fear is in control of an aspect of my life or in control of defining me in a certain way. We become aware that when we are controlled by fear, we are in limitation.

When I become aware that fear is a controlling factor in my life, I can begin to make choices and to act or respond differently. 

Often times fear can be an out growth of our history. In other words, things we have been taught to be afraid of or of learn to be afraid of and then have accepted that as being the truth. Fear also can be a reflection of our attachments— those people places and things in our lives that we have become overly identified with. We have made them part of ourselves and therefore will experience ourselves as being quite threatened if we are about to lose them. From the framework or the purview of the small self, it would seem that we are losing a part of ourselves.

“If you understand, each of you, that everything that you think is so important in your life is simply temporary and always has been, your attachment to the house, or your idealization of what it means to have a home, may be transformed.”

“once again, we would suggest that is historical programming, data you have used to know your world, and its response in being is fearful when it is triggered. The True Self, the one that you truly are, is never afraid, and you must understand what this means. Your over-identification with the small self, and what she has taught to idealize and also to be fearful of, has claimed these problems, whereas the True Self is always the solution to them.”

We are reminded that our encounters with fear are also essentially a part of our learning. So we do not condemn how our lessons show up. And that is certainly one way of working with fear is asking ourselves and our own inner voice, “What is it you are here to teach me? “What can I learn from you in these circumstances?” 

You notice how easy it is to get caught up in the stickiness of the mind. What's a book refers to as the small self or the personality self is not a separate entity that lives inside you, but essentially a limited mode of perception that we fall into when we define or look at ourselves in a limited sort of way. Even this realization by itself can afford us a tremendous amount of learning and growing. 

When you choose to rise above the vibration of fear, the fear itself might not disappear but you are attachment to it will no longer be as necessary as it might have been in the past. Your ability to see through the fear as to what the bigger picture might be will be incredibly enhanced when you view it from the mountaintop rather than from the valleys below.

I was reminded of one of my favorite one-liners from the movie “War Games” when the computer learns that there is no way to win a nuclear war or even playing Tic-Tac-Toe in response to its creator by saying:

“A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.”

We have said often times that have fear had a voice it would say “hold on to me and I will keep you safe.” And what we are doing here as we rise above in higher vibration is refusing to play the game of the illusion of safety.

Yes, fear is a powerful and emotional response to some situations in life. Sometimes the response is so ingrained or reflexive that it requires little or no thought at all. We are never condemned or judged for this, but when we allow ourselves to pass through the emotional and energetic charge that we might have been caught up, in we can examine From another book/movie Dune by Frank Herbert

From a science fiction book entitled Dune the main character whose name is Paul was taught by his mother who was trained in a highly advanced school of metaphysics. Here is one of the lessons he learned about fear:

LITANY AGAINST FEAR

“I must not fear.

Fear is the mind-killer.

Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.

I will face my fear.

I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.

Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.

Only I will remain.”

Here we learn that fear is a product of the small self. It is not something that exists was in the true self or higher vibrational awareness. This is neither a judgment or condemnation it is simply an awareness:

“To begin to comprehend that the what that you are, the Divine Self in manifestation, does not collude with or align to fear, you will understand that the True Self exists beyond it. And every encounter you’ve had with fear has been an encounter in lower vibration.

As we teach you about freedom, we want you to understand that freedom from fear and all of its masks will be “To begin to comprehend that the what that you are, the Divine Self in manifestation, does not collude with or align to fear, you will understand that the True Self exists beyond it. And every encounter you’ve had with fear has been an encounter in lower vibration.

As we teach you about freedom, we want you to understand that freedom from fear and all of its masks will be ”

In closing we are outlining the process whereby the “small-self”--the limited sense of self actually participates in this process of growth and evolution. It does not stay stagnant or sullen or angry or fearful. Because it is an aspect of who you are, part of your chosen vehicle here on planet earth, by its very nature, it participates in this process of moving towards wholeness.

“The first thing that happens is you begin to agree to a concept. “I may be more than I am, or more than I have known myself as.” And as this is understood and integrated by the small self, opportunities arise for the small self to begin to claim her identity in consort with the possibility that there is much more to her than perhaps she has ever known.”

“Imagine you are going on a date with your True Self. You have things you expect from any encounter. “I want to be treated well. I don’t want to be told what to do. I want to feel as if I am valued.” Can you understand, friends, that the True Self does these things? She is not out on a mission to exterminate you, and, in fact, at the end of a lifetime she will be holding the small self’s hand and taking the bow with her for the life well lived.”

“When you realize yourself, which simply means know yourself and know who and what you are, the gateway is no longer present because you have stepped through. You have not abandoned the small self, but perhaps you are deciding that your realization at the cost of the known, those things you thought you were, will be claimed by you in a way that will support a life of recognition of the Divine in mastery in all you may know and see.”

In Love and Gratitude