UNDERSTANDING YOUR FEARS -- PART TWO

When we come down to the root cause of fear we will realise that the fear that causes the most grief is the fear of the unknown.

Knowledge Removes Fear

If you know what is going to happen to you, then you are not fearful.  If, for example, you were about to make a plane journey and, for whatever reasons, you were frightened of flying, if you were able to see into the future and to know that you were going to arrive at your destination safely, then there would be very little fear.  Similarly, if you were very ill and were concerned about your health and your future lifestyle, if you were able to see into the future and to see yourself living a healthy and active life, then, again, there would be very little fear.

Let me give you another example, If someone was chasing after you and you believed that they were going to attack you, then that situation would be a fearful one.  But if you then realised that you had dropped your purse and they were chasing after you to return it to you, then that knowledge immediately removes the fear!  So we can see very clearly that knowledge removes fear.  What you know, you do not fear.  You only fear that which you do not know, the unknown, and what is the unknown but the creations in your mind, your own unique thoughts about what constitutes a threat to you, about what would happen to you IF certain events were to take place.  So, in fact, you create your own fears and you create them not out of a response to reality but out of a response to your concept of the future which, in all probability, is wrong.

Subconscious Controlling

If knowledge removes fear, then how are you to obtain that knowledge, how are you to discover the reality either of the past or of the future??  Your knowledge of the past is contained within your physical brain cells, your memory, which is both highly subjective and highly selective.  Your knowledge of the future is non-existent because your physical brain, having not yet experienced the future, has no understanding of it.  So the only knowledge that you have, in this life anyway, is based on your experience of the life that you have lived up to this moment in time.  Now if, for example, your life has been one associated with wealth and many possessions, and if this situation has given meaning and purpose to your life, then, obviously, you would be fearful of losing that wealth and those posessessions because you believe that they are your security and that you could not live without them.  So your life would be controlled on a subconscious level by this overwhelming fear.

Coming to Terms

When you come to terms with your fears, what is being challenged, therefore, is your understanding of the world in which you live, your earthly knowledge.  But there is another source of knowledge within your being that can help you to handle your fears, namely, your spirit.  For you are dwelling, even now, within your spiritual body, which links you to the Source of all Life.  Which knows all things past, present and future.  Which does not even see separation between past, present and future, for time is purely an earthly measurement.

Your spirit will lead you into a true understanding of your fears.  It will not cause your fears to slip away, for they are part of your psychological being and are very real, but it will sound another understanding of life and will give you a wider perspective of your fears.  Your spirit, being linked to the Source of all Life, will bring this Source into your life.  You will grow to recognise the great truth that fear is simply a lack of trust in your Creator.  When you are not as one with your Creator then there is room for fear.  If you accept that fact then you can understand and come to terms with your every fear.

Your Greatest Fear

Consider the situation or the person that you fear most in all the world.  Now what would be your reaction if you had to face it or them right now??  Would you really be fearful or would not the fear disappear in the face of that reality and would you not then summon up every ounce of your physical and spiritual being in order to meet that challenge with right action??  Have you ever considered what would happen if you had to come to terms with your greatest fear -- death??  Have you ever asked yourself why you fear this one certainty in your life??  For if there is one thing that is certain in your life it is that you are going to die!  Why do you fear not just your own death but the death of your loved ones and friends.  If, like you, they are all going to die at some time, if, like you, they have to leave this physical plane of life as part of the natural cycle of their being, then why do you fear their going??

Spiritual Knowledge

You fear their going, basically, because you do not understand the reason for their going.  You do not have the knowledge as to why they have decided to die, as to why they have decided to leave this school of Earth.  How many of you, if faced with the serious illness of your child, would be fearful if you had the knowledge as to why that child had taken on the illness and why it had decided to die??  You can see, therefore, that spiritual knowledge, the knowingness of your Creator, removes fear.  You can also see that this knowledge has nothing whatsoever to do with physical memory, that it comes from a very different source.  It is not an accumulation of all your physical experiences so far.  It is a tapping into the source of Infinite Experience Itself, and what is the source of that Experience but your Creator, that Being Whom, you refer to as God.

Part Three follows....

This article is from "The Fantastic Teachings of Ramala".

UNDERSTANDING YOUR FEARS -- PART ONE

It is only when you understand the origins of fear that you will be able to live your life in peace -- and peace is your birthright!    (This instruction is given by a Master from Ramala.)

Two Kinds of Fear

I am going to talk to you about something that you have to contend with every minute of the day that you are awake, and that is fear.  I wonder if you have ever really considered just how much fear plays a part in your life, indeed, how much of your life is actually governed by fear.  Have you ever thought it necessary to investigate what is the cause of fear, whether fear is a necessary or even a desirable emotion??  Finally, have you ever spent time on seeking a way to handle your fears, for it is only when you understand the origins of fear that you will be able to lead  your life in peace -- a peace which is your birthright.  I am now going to suggest to you that there are in essence two kinds of fear -- physical and pyschological.  Let us examine this.

Physical Fear

Physical fear is that which pertains to the body and is closely allied to instinct.  Physical fear is concerned only with the present, with what you are actually sensing at any given moment in time.  It is, perhaps, best demonstrated in the Animal Kingdom for an animal, whilst being alert to protect itself from danger at all times, does not live in a state of fear.  But when an animal is challenged or is frightened in some way then it follows its instincts and either flees or else responds by challenging that which is causing it fear.  It can be said that thought or reason plays no part in this action.  It is  a natural response to the situation in which the animal finds itself.  Unlike human beings an animal is not capable of analysing the cause of the fear.  It responds instinctively.

Humanity, of course, being in an animalistic body also has its instincts.  You can all remember incidents in your own life when you have experienced physical rather than pyschological fear.  Perhaps you were walking home on a dark night and were startled by something.  Perhaps you were travelling in a plane and were suddenly placed in a life threatening situation.  In both cases you were confronted by somehing which, at first, caused you to respond instinctively, but if you were able to analyse what was causing the fear and to understand its origins and how much of a threat it constituted to you, then the fear soon disappeared.

Nevertheless, for a few moments in time you would probably have responded instinctively.  Your physical body would also have responded to such a situation by increasing the flow of adrenalin, thus enabling you to do things you would not normally have been able to do, like swim a great distance to avoid drowning or jump a great height into a tree to avoid being attacked by a wild animal.  That is the response of the human physical body to such a challenge.

Rational Thinking

For the most part, however, Humanity has tended to replace instinct by thought.  This, afterall, is what differentiates the Human Kingdom from the Animal Kingdom.  The Animal Kingdom not possessing the ability to think rationally relies solely on instinct, whereas Humanity can analyse and compare, can create mentally and inspirationally, can project itself into both past and future, and can in fact create its own reality.  So for the most part Humanity allows thought to over-rule its physical instincts and this characteristic, indeed, is demanded by its evolutionary pattern and cosmic status.

Psychological Fear

Let us now consider the nature of psychological fear.  You all know so well your deep psychological fears:  fear that your child may die, fear that a loved one will reject you, fear that a husband or wife will desert you, fear of catching a disease, fear that you will lose your wealth or a possession which you prize above all else.  Then there are the fears that are associated with time:  will I be able to achieve what I want to achieve in the time that I think is available to me, will the world situation in ten years time be so bad that my financial security will be threatened.

But finally, in the world which you live today, where there is so much personal and national conflict, where everyday the papers are full of reports of gory accidents, of murders, of droughts, famines and earthquakes, where human violence and degradation is daily brought to your attention, there is this fear that perhaps such events will happen to you.  The net result of all these fears is that a strong desire is created within you as to how to avoid such events, as to how to protect yourself from the world around you.  Instinct as a means of protection is, of course, usually ruled out because instinct is not deemed as being adequate enough in the conditions that prevail in the world today.

Past and Future

So it would probably be true to say that most people are concerned mainly with psychological fear.  Now I want you to see very clearly that this is not a fear of the moment in which you are living, because if you were challenged in any way at this very second in time you would respond.  You would face that challenge.  You would not panic or surrender to your "animal" instincts, you would use the rational power of thought to face the challenge.  So recognise that psychological thought is concerned solely with the past or the future.  It is concerned with the past in that if you have done something of which you are ashamed then you fear that it will be discovered, that past inadequacies will be revealed to humiliate you before your friends today.  It is concerned with the future in that because the future is unknown you cannot control it.  You do not know what lies in store for you and therefore you fear that you will lose something that you prize even above your own soul being, and that something is usually either a material or a psychological possession.

Part Two follows....

This article is from "The Fantastic Teachings of Ramala".

ONLY ONE TRUE GUIDANCE -- PART TWO

See clearly that the difference between the divine and the satanic is guidance.  It is guidance, or the absence of it, that decides the nature of the path that you walk in life.

 

 

 

Empower Yourself

How easy it would be if you could just close your eyes, enter into the stillness of your being and receive divine guidance, rather like turning on the radio in the morning in order to listen to the news.  But, alas, you all know better!  Why should this be so?  Because, using the analogy of the radio, your radio has very little power and can only receive guidance very faintly.  Your radio is quite serviceable but it needs to be empowered before it can operate efficiently, in just the same way that you have to connect a radio to a power supply before you can receive the radio station.  So you have to empower yourselves in order to obtain this guidance.  You have to empower yourselves by purifying yourselves in thought, word and deed and by establishing a pattern of stillness and silence, times when you consciously attune and direct your thoughts towards the Creator of all Life and humbly offer your being in service to that Lord with no thought of return or reward.

Knowing Intuitively

How many of you actually attune to your Creator on a conscious level during your everyday lives??  How many of you actually make the effort to quieten your minds and bodies at fixed intervals throughout the day and try to attune to your Creator and Its Will for you??  That is the guidance of which I speak.  Now, for most people, guidance does not come as that still small voice within, telling you clearly what to do in any given situation.  Guidance, for the most part, comes from the practice of constantly attuning to the Creator of all Life so that you know, almost intuitively, the path of right action without even having to ask.

By seeking the counsel and wisdom of your Creator in times of peace you will be able to attune automatically to them in times of crisis.  Remember, also, that your every action causes a reaction, that is the Law of Karma, and how the Universe responds to your actions enables you to check on the rightfulness and appropriateness of those actions.  I call this process "universal feedback".  How the Universe or the world around you is responding, provides a mirror to your actions.  This enables you to check on all your actions.

Challenges

The world today presents you with a great challenge.  It is a time when you must go boldly forth into the unknown.  It is a time when you must explore new relationships, both with your fellow human beings and with the three other Kingdoms of Matter, for it is only by so doing that both Humanity and this planet will be saved.  It does not need a wise person to see that little has changed in the field of human relationships over the known course of human history.

Humanity today behave in much the same way as it did in ancient India ad Sumeria, certainly as it did in ancient Greece or Rome.  The only differene between then and now is that the vibratory rate to which Humanity is being subjected is much higher, because the vibratory rate of the Earth is being speeded up.  One result of this vibratory increase is a great intensification in human relationships.  This not only brings out all the weaknesses of Humanity but also all of its strengths.  So it is a time when all people of consciousness should stand forth and be counted, should sound their note.  God works through people and the New Age has to be grounded on the Earth by the people who are open to the new, by the people who are attuning to the note of the new rather than of the old.

A Quantum Leap

Those who seek and follow their own divine guidance will discover not just the reality of life on Earth but the presence and purpose of their Creator in all things.  Now is the time to take a quantum leap forward in consciousness, to discover that everything in creation has God-consciousness and responds to Divine Will.  It is important, therefore, that you create your moments of attunement, that you try to become still and to contact the I AM presence of God within you, that you truly follow the ancient commandment "Be still, and know that I am God".  For without these moments of stillness you will follow the path of the vast mass of Humanity and will be swept along like lemmings to destruction.

Just because society as a whole follows a certain course of action and adopts certain values, that does not mean that you have to join them.  Surely you can see that many, if not all, of the great advances in human understanding have come about only because certain individuals chose to stand against the tide of popular belief, and by stand against I do not mean by consciously opposing but, rather, by simply upholding what they knew to be true.  How did they know it to be true??  Because of their own inner guidance.

Making Choices

If I use orthodox Christian terminology it will, perhaps, help you to distinguish between the paths that are open to you.  As you walk through life you are constantly choosing between what has been called the divine and the satanic paths.  The divine path is the path that leads to oneness with the Creator of all Life and, as such, is empowered by the will of your Creator.  The satanic path is the path which Humanity creates in response to its own egotistical thought forms, to its own desires to be as god.  However, because Humanity cannot accept that it alone creates the satanic path, so it has to place the responsibility for such a creation on some poor individual called the Devil or Satan who has to shoulder the burden of human guilt!!

But, truly, the satanic path is just the other side of the coin.  You all have to make choices, every minute of your conscious lives.  Unless you are a living Master, and have become one with the Creator, then, inevitably, you will err.  Do not be ashamed or downhearted.  To err is only human and, of course, your Creator has made allowance for that in the Divine Plan.  Just realise that it was simply seperation from your God, from your guidance, that created that situation of error in the first place and resolve to learn from that experience and never to repeat the same mistake again.  Life is a classroom.  You are allowed to make mistakes.  So recognise that suffering is simply the repetition of the same mistake -- separation from God.

A Learning Experience

I would like you to see clearly that the difference between the divine and the satanic is guidance.  It is guidance, or the absence of it, that decides the nature of the path that you will walk in life.  Do not, however, think that guidance will guarantee you a smooth path in life.  Look at the life of the Master Jesus.  You all have lessons to learn and karma to transmute.  What guidance will do is to ensure that you fulfil your chosen destiny and fulfil it with understanding and commitment.  Remember that guidance not only flows through you but that it also flows through other people and that God works through all people.  So be aware that everything in life, the people and the things that you like as much as the people and things that you dislike, has a message for you, is a learning experience for you, is your guidance as well.  So you must always be open to the moment and greet it openly and joyfully, for it truly represents your Creator talking to you, guiding you.

It is an aware person who sees the hand of God manifesting in their daily lives and who acknowledges and gives thanks for that presence.  That is true communion.  Recognise that you can choose whether to walk your path in life hand in hand with God, or not.  Indeed, that is the only path that an evolved soul can walk, for that is the path to the mastery of the physical plane of life.  You will only be able to accept the happenings of the next years physically, mentally and spiritually if you are truly walking hand in hand with your God, if you are at one with the Creator of this great drama.

Privileged

The world today is approaching a time of great testing and, therefore, a time of great evolution.  It is a time of the sorting of the wheat from the chaff, a time when many will fall by the wayside and will perish.  But it is also a time of great beginnings.  It is a time of great happenings on all of the many planes of life.  It is, so to speak, the final act of a great drama that began almost seven thousand years ago.  You are all privileged to be here to see the transformation of Humanity into the Golden Age of Aquarius.  So face this great challenge with trust in your Creator.  Go boldly forth into the new Age, secure in the guidance of the God within you, which is truly the one and only guidance that you have.

This article is from "The Fantastic Teachings of Ramala".