God is not the author of fear. You are

A Course in Miracles

Fear is ignorance, blindness, prejudice, and misunderstanding. Fear is illusion. Fear is the only problem in our human story. Fear is the illusory belief system which says that we are separated, lacking and trapped. Fear is the unawareness which prompts our foolishness. Fear is the mainspring of our lies and deceptions. Fear is the wrongful use of imagination. Fear is the basis of all our symptoms. Fear is what we need to be aware of and to see through. FEARLESS is an interesting motto but LOVINGNESS would be a better one. If fear is illusory, we don’t need to fuel and energize such thoughts, feelings and activities any more. Love is the basis of the absolute sacredness of individuality. Love is the awareness that each person is completely and absolutely an individual expression of the ONE LOVE. Love is the insightful awareness that fear is an illusion. Fear is the notion that perfection and love are illusions. Love and fear are mutually exclusive. Perfect love casts out fear.

Psychologists talk about rational and irrational fears. Once you admit that any fear is rational, the floodgate is opened and every plague known to mankind enters that door. We should be afraid of trucks, war, germs, robbery, disease and death? Insurance companies are the richest companies in the world, and are fear-based. DSM IV is full of phobias and compulsions as well as addictions, all of which are fear-based. The word "cancer" carries tons of fear. All of our human stories are tinged with fear and survival reactions and tactics. Some of the great ones have said "Fear not." Or "Love and do as you please." True perception sees only love and only Good everywhere, inside and out, whether we are alone or together.

To see evil is to experience fear. "Resist not evil" means to keep your eye on the Good, on love. You can find many reasons to fear anything, but you only need one reason to see Good and Love: only Love is real. Rational fear is not rational. Why would love step in front of a truck? Examine that. Our fears are immature and our loves have to grow until they reach maturity or perfection, and then fear is gone. Gone where? It never was real.

We do many stupid things out of ignorance, and fear is ignorance. Love educates. Fear blocks true learning. Fear says that love is limited, weak and exhaustible, undependable, unreliable, unable to work in the world of business, politics, rehabilitation of criminals, prevention of drug abuse and alcohol abuse. But when it has been tried, it has worked. A whole book could be written on this. Fear says that love does not protect you from harm, and that there is much harm in the world that we need protecting from. We sell our souls for love because we believe we lack it The reason we have a problem with love is that love is trust. The ego prefers the control tactics of fear because we think fear is real and that control works better than trust. Hawkins’ kineosology proves that fear weakens. We spend a whole lifetime trying to control, and we fail, because there is nothing to control. Why does love need controlling? Why would you need to beg and fight for a cup of water when have a river inside of you?

Fear controls our mind. Love and all of its symbols is all that we could want. What are love’s symbols? Money and stuff. We are obsessed with money and stuff because they represent love, which we can’t see and don’t think exists. Things can become empty symbols of love when we cling to them instead of enjoying what they represent. All of the things in the world will not compensate for the awareness of what they represent. Possessions are simply love in form. Forms change. Nathan had motorcycles, cars, trucks, three wheelers, and a new house, but he lost his beloved. Now these toys mean nothing. All of the things he possessed did not make him a man. Only the awareness of love and its meaning makes a man. Power without love becomes powerlessness. Possessions without love leave one possessed and empty. Control and dependence on fear is a poor substitute for the trust in love.

Your thoughts and beliefs attract more of the same. Watch what you believe.

You experience what you attract

You attract what you perceive

You perceive what you think

You think what you fear or love

You fear or love what you imagine

Are you experiencing what you want?

If not, forgive yourself and choose again.

Re-imagine

Re-think

Re-perceive

Embrace love and let the illusion of fear go

Your world of experience will change

And you will attract what you want

Why is so much of our story and our identity fear-based? Programming. After centuries of fear-based experiences, perceptions, and imaginations, it is no wonder that the fearful collective mind controls us. The battle therefore is between the illusory fear in our collective mind, which is programmed, and love reality in our superconscious Self, which is not programmed. The failure of our fear-based programming and behavior is actually not a failure at all. The "failures" in our fear-based story is simply a consequence of our mistaken perceptions and mis-used imagination. These consequences we call symptoms, which are friendly reminders and life-saving red flags to help us to get back on course and to re-discover our true nature.

If love is a confusing word to you, just use the word peace, joy, or ecstasy, they all mean the same thing. All too often love is confusing because it is perceived as arising from outside of ourselves rather than from within. Of course, we can attribute peace, joy and ecstasy to an outside location also. But the truth of it is that there is nothing outside of ourselves, outside of our consciousness. You are infinite consciousness, however strange that may seem. The belief that you are a very small speck in an immense field is the direct cause of all of our self-esteem and practical problems. The full realization that we are infinite is a lifetime achievement, i.e., the challenge to regain and retain the territory of your infinite nature . Our programming against the reality of our infinite nature is spotty, however, and too shaky to stand. Although we have massive amnesia, everyone can begin to educate himself about the meaning of the fear-based paradigm of avoidance and control.

Scientists have discovered a black hole in space named MCD-630-15, a galaxy 130 million light years away. The equivalent of 100 million exhausted suns have been sucked into this totally black hole called a singularity, smaller than an atomic particle, out of which may be pouring a constant new source of cosmic energy, spinning incredibly fast. They have gathered tons of data about this phenomenon during the last decade, but they are constantly revising the theory in order to make sense out of this data.

This doesn’t seem so strange to me because we don’t have an accurate model for what we are seeing and for all of the data we are gathering in our own universe of experience.. I have called my current model Infinity Theory, in order to explain the mysterious phenomena we are experiencing in our daily lives. We know a little bit of how it works, but we don’t know what it is. A new model of the universe is emerging which is based on love’s reality, and not fear’s programming. (See Green, The Universe is a Green Dragon)

What does it mean that you are a spiritual being? Our identity story is comprised mainly of psychological and social conditioning, which blocks out the still small voice of our true spiritual identity. A spiritual being is characterized by a consciousness of the eternal and infinite meaning of our psychological and social story.

Jesus practiced a rhetoric of shock in order to break down preconceived associations

Harold Bloom

Gospel of Thomas

The shocking claims that Jesus made for the New Humanity:

All power in heaven and earth has been given to me (Matthew 28:18)

I am the resurrection and the life (Jo 11:25)

I am the way the truth and the life (Jo 14:6)

I am the good shepherd (Jo 10:11)

I am the light of the world (Jo 8:12)

I am the bread of life (Jo 6:35)

Courage! It is I. Be not afraid (Mk.6:20)

I am the door (Jo 10:7)

I am the vine, you are the branches (Jo 15:5)

Who are you looking for? (Jo 18:8)