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Student:  The other [[thing]] I [[thought]] of is how afraid I am in myself of the [[unknown]], and how often it’s stopped me so much in my life.  

Student:  The other [[thing]] I [[thought]] of is how afraid I am in myself of the [[unknown]], and how often it’s stopped me so much in my life.  

   

   

NEBADONIA:  Yes, that’s a very primal [[fear]] and it’s not altogether baseless.  All through human [[history]] people have [[witnessed]] what terrible things that the unknown and the unanticipated have done to them and their [[friends]].  For so much of their history people have been at the [[mercy]] of the elements and wild [[animals]]; and then of course, above all, each other--through hundreds of thousands of years of nearly incessant [[warfare]] and crime.  So this fear of the unknown does have valid historical roots deep in the [[collective]] [[unconsciousness]] of the [[human]] [[races]].  

NEBADONIA:  Yes, that’s a very primal [[fear]] and it’s not altogether baseless.  All through human [[history]] people have [[witnessed]] what terrible things that the unknown and the unanticipated have done to them and their [[friends]].  For so much of their history people have been at the [[mercy]] of the elements and wild [[animals]]; and then of course, above all, each other--through hundreds of thousands of years of nearly incessant [[warfare]] and crime.  So this fear of the unknown does have valid historical roots deep in the [[collective unconscious]]ness of the [[human]] [[races]].  

   

   

But this is where, my son, your [[wisdom]] can inform you that the best way to handle the unknown is by relaxing, by being highly consciously [[preparation|ready]].  Yet how do you do this seemingly [[paradoxical]] thing?--relaxed and ready?  It seems contradictory, like the attempt to be still by effort, by vigorously holding your [[mind]] a blank.  It can’t be sustained for long.  Rather, you have to experience in your [[stillness]] how, by consistently relaxing whatever [[physical]] tension or mental worry or fear that arises--as they will occur to you--actually leads to a heightened unity of [[body]] and [[mind]] and [[spirit]].  These fears of yours serve to separate you from yourself inside, and yet as you face them and relax into them, you gain a greater [[unity]] of self and [[purpose]].  

But this is where, my son, your [[wisdom]] can inform you that the best way to handle the unknown is by relaxing, by being highly consciously [[preparation|ready]].  Yet how do you do this seemingly [[paradoxical]] thing?--relaxed and ready?  It seems contradictory, like the attempt to be still by effort, by vigorously holding your [[mind]] a blank.  It can’t be sustained for long.  Rather, you have to experience in your [[stillness]] how, by consistently relaxing whatever [[physical]] tension or mental worry or fear that arises--as they will occur to you--actually leads to a heightened unity of [[body]] and [[mind]] and [[spirit]].  These fears of yours serve to separate you from yourself inside, and yet as you face them and relax into them, you gain a greater [[unity]] of self and [[purpose]].