The Fake News of Fear

The adolescent mind’s version of wholeness is the visceral feelings of fear. Suppose we have discovered the true wholeness of our aware presence. In that case, we can avoid falling into this fake wholeness of fear, though even then, considering the enormous instinctual pull of the mind, we have to be courageously strong in that presence. We should never blame our adolescent mind for generating these thoughts of fear because it is simply trying to achieve the safe wholeness it has lost by we, its parent, not being present.

There are essentially three types of thoughts our adolescent mind experiences. Outward focussed, calm, step-by-step rational practical thoughts, and visionary thoughts that are enthused with the life-affirming qualities of our being. Such thoughts naturally ensure the survival needs of the body and express our innocent need to play and create. The third group of thoughts are those limiting beliefs that generate fear which only occur when we are not fully consciously present as the parent of the adolescent mind.

These thoughts are not what they appear to be. They are thoughts that are trying to achieve wholeness through fear. They are fake wholeness. They will command us like a tyrant or bully. They will guide us to act in ways that feed the fear, which is the only way the mind has to achieve wholeness if we, its always whole loving parent, are absent. These thoughts that limit activity and beingness are the limited mind’s version of wholeness. A wholeness that is contracted. They have the effect of making the sister of the mind, the body, roll up into a tight physical ball, quite literally, for this is their form of wholeness. They seek out information that confirms their limitation so this contraction can be fed. They seek news to confirm their bias. They seek people whose opinions confirm their bias. All the time, they seek to bolster the fear, which is the fake form of wholeness in the absence of the true wholeness of the mind’s parent - the aware beingness.

You will no doubt have experience these kinds of thoughts. They are compelling indeed, for they are founded on the instinctual need for physical survival, even if this is not under threat directly. Sometimes we may allow our attention to become so focussed on them that we lose our composure as the always whole peaceful observing parental awareness that is not the mind or body, that is assuming we have found that in the first place. For those minds that have, they can act like lighthouses of true wholeness in the ocean of the fake wholeness of fear.

They can remain clear that the actual fake news is that presented by these thoughts. Even then, we may need to find encouragement from our communities. Even then, we may need to avoid watching so much news and social media, which are so often the channels of fear. To help us we can remember that, if we are awakened to the always whole presence of our being, then, no matter what the adolescent mind may say about us being a limited person under threat, we can with conviction point out that it has no convincing evidence that we, this aware beingness are a personal reality at all.

Therefore, despite what it may believe, the adolescent mind cannot know for sure that these beliefs are true. Then it can remain open always to the possibility that they are not and that we are an impersonal aware reality - always whole and the source of all life-affirming aliveness that towers over the mind’s thoughts about reality. We can “talk” to our adolescent mind in this way and remind it, it is not the master of us, as, after all, it is our adolescent child. We can thank it for trying to keep us safe, but now it can relax in the secure arms of the presence of our aware beingness and continue to serve by helping organise daily life constructively and create paths to inspire those minds that are currently shrouded in fear. In this wholeness, if wisdom compels us to act with courage from freedom to protect other minds and bodies, then this may be our sacred duty and one that arises from courageous love and not fear.

With Love,

Freyja