"That's the day I realized that there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force that wanted me to know that there was no reason to be afraid. Never. Video's a poor excuse, I know, but it helps me remember. I need to remember. Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is just going to cave in." - from American Beauty What are your thoughts on fear? I've come to the conclusion that I don't need it or want it. I'm done with it. It's an aspect of love, but once you've taken it as far as it can go, there's no reason to hold on to it. But now I really see how most people make it part of their absolute truth. Most people are controlled by their fear. And they are afraid of people who are not afraid of anything. So getting to that place where you can understand, and really feel, that fear is meaningless, can't help but lead to overwhelming compassion. Compassion so enormous that its beauty is painful. It leads to alienation, because you are everything that other people are in denial of. You personify an existence past the point where other people say, "no, that's too much". But it's worth it. The psychedelic experience takes us through fear into beauty. ?
Fear, as well as it's motivation/opposition love, has dissolved entirely for me. It's like Depak Chopra said, we are made from the stars, our eyes are made from the stars, and the only reason for this is so that the stars can look back at themselves. To me any other motivation for life is secondary and an afterthought, a required part of the process laying the foundation stepping stones to ascending into the true light, the light which many people dont even consider.
yes... i wish my friends understood this.. they try and warn me away from the Edge, to save me from instability, but they don't realize that to me this Edge is the source of ultimate clarity to me. Some people think i'm just going crazy, when really my control over my own mind is surpassing that of my friends, who cannot keep up. I've had sleep paralysis occurring from time to time and it always put me into a state of fear, and know i find that this waking dream state to occur more often as i go deeper into my meditations, but know i have more control over what happens. I think the dangers of opening your mind occur when you cannot stop the fear but keep seeing more and more.
Fear? True fear? I know, and I have encountered it before. And I think I will encouner it again in the future. Am I afraid of fear? No. Do i embrace it and look for it? Do i hide from it? No, but I do avoid it. How could I know the joys there are to know, the feeling of freedom if I hd bever been truly in fear. Everything is to be valued, in my opinion. Life is not hop-scotch, lemonade and daisies, but I try an' view it so. Good day
this sums up my psychadelic journey thus far. i push myself into insanity but it makes me a stronger person. my friends say im crazy. and i have to agree with them. but i have seized controll of my own mind. IMO best thread ive seen so far on hipforums. thank you prismatism. good to know im not the only one.......
ride the snake, don't be afraid... just ride the snake!!! ~!@&$# i lied. i am afraid. fear binds us to this reality, without it we would dissolve into higher dimensions. only when a person that has acheived a state of mastery of this reality similar to reincarnate lamas' can you truly live without fear in this life. otherwise if you were free of fear you would dissolve into higher dimensions. you can let go of it to a greater extent than most people, but it will always be there.
I disagree desos and am not sure if you are speaking figuratively or if you mean we would literally physically be teleported to some other universe. but fear isn't a glue that keeps you down. this is it. you are here. you can be here and feel fear, and you can be here and not feel fear. that is of utter inconsequence to anything outside your own world a lot of people choose to stay here out of love you know
yes people live for love, but that doesn't mean that there isn't some small little spec of fear within them. i mean that the binding factor between our spirits, and this reality, is fear. if we were to truly be free of it we would physically no longer be here. the people that truly choose to stay for love however have acheived a state similar to the reincarnate lamas.
A belief in love is the only thing holding us back from going completley over the edge. Once you do, there is no love or fear, just insanity :cheers2:
I just think that's an unnecessarily negative view of the situation. Like the only reason we're here is because we're terrified, if we were REAL MENSCH then we would be angels or something? Nah, this is life man. This is the real world. Fear is as much a part of being human as love is, or your appendix. You can master your fear, you can not master your fear, whatever. It's your life. Here. In this world. You know there are people born with a brain condition that denies them the experience of fear? They have to live life constantly supervised, because they will do the dumbest things regularly, simply because they don't have the basic survival instinct of fear. So maybe what you meant was, without fear, we would transcend, because we would be dead. We would try to pet the saber toothed tiger. I agree
we would transcend, whether it be through angels flying down and evaporating us into the next dimension, or through getting hit by a bus, it doesn't really matter. the simple truth of the matter is that we are in this life because we are simply too afraid to be able to handle everything that reality has to throw at us, so we spend some time here and learn to conquer that fear and slowly ease into things. some people are further along than others, but no one has gone all the way. atleast no one that is still here anyway if you think that i am wrong then tell me that you could fearlessly jump out of a plane while peaking out on mescaline, acid, and mushrooms, right after smoking some dmt and salvia. because that is essentially reality magnified right there -- or rather the way it really is -- breaking down the censors that are in place to shield us from the shear magnitude of things. if we truly were without fear, then why would we need those censors in the first place? we wouldn't
picture this - fear is being sandwiched between me and my insanity, and were high five-ing. thats whats up
i dont get what you guys mean when you say fear? are you talking abotu fear of a specific thing? fear in its self is nothin mystical.. unless you take the perspective that we live forever so theres no point fearing death. but.. fear to me is an emotion whihc compells me away from percieved threats and toward percieved safety... fear is only bad if its irrational or just based on wrong perceptions. but personally, i do no live as if I will live forever.. i live as if this is my life. Thus fear is an important emotion to have even if it is most often wrong. Except it can also be incapacitating.. which is why in the long run it can be better to just no feel fear. however, this doesnt mean that fear in any way is related to any mystic truth.. except that question of whether we will live forever, and where we will go after life here on earth
