Fear is the core emotion that perceives, memorizes, automates, represents and manifests discontinuity, limits and entropy.
Fear, together with love, is in charge of conservation and protection. It is capable of recognizing imbalances, blockages, dangers and destructive states. It also has the function of anticipating risks, although it only indicates them, since their analysis is a function of sadness.
Fear is like an antenna that tracks the inner and outer worlds, detecting limits and dangers. It emits alarms, stop orders and feelings of insecurity. The activation of fear must be proportional to the probability, proximity and magnitude of the dangers it detects. When an alarm is triggered, fear must change its phase, stimulating sadness.
A danger is any cognitive content (matter, energy or information), internal or external, that poses a threat to the individual matrix. It is something that can potentially cause interruptions or blockages in energy-information flows, imbalances in the system, discontinuity in functions and partial or total damage to its structure.
Imbalance is the precursor of damage. Both damage and imbalances increase a system's entropy and decrease its symmetry.
Fear creates a protection that is based on boundaries, borders and barriers.
Fear also perceives and sets our own limits by controlling the motive force (restraint). Therefore, sometimes a disproportionate fear can cause a momentary functional paralysis. However, on other occasions fear loses its inhibitory function with regard to the motive force and then the latter grows, often in a dangerous and unbalanced way, thus transforming itself into anger, hatred and violence.
Entropy is a form of fear. It is a manifestation of disorder, of that which can no longer be harnessed or used. Entropy increases the limitations of a system by damaging both its structures and functions. The passage of time generates entropy, so we age, and we are afraid to die. Death is the end of symmetry (the greatest damage); it produces a complete discontinuity and interruption of life, as well as the destruction of the individual matrix (the end of the union of consciousness with the body and the place that it occupies). Randomness is also an expression of entropy, and that's why we're afraid of the unexpected and the impossible to predict.
Infinity is made of fear, for there is nothing more terrifying than that which is impossible to embrace.
Fear forms the painful core along with sadness and the motive force. Pain is a feeling whose aim is to induce a need for balance in the system.
The essential virtue of fear is prudence, which is the middle ground between cowardice and stupidity.
The energy of fear is the child of joy and the mother of sadness. Fluidity increases disorder and boundaries promote separation.
Fear is controlled by recreation and, in turn, exerts control over the motive force. Order controls disorder and limits restrain impulse.
Fear and love are a couple. They form one of the three diagonals of the emotional core. They balance and complement each other, forming the conservative power, whose meta-function is will.
The synergy between fear and love is called stability.
The emotional deviation of fear is phobic patterns, which are programs that instead of adequately signaling dangers, they exaggerate or create them.
Together, perverse fear and motive force generate anguish.
The first biological command for beings in the Earth's life system is that of survival. This is manifested as a strong impulse and motivation to maintain the continuity of the individual and the species through self-preservation, group protection, nutrition-predation and reproduction. Nature rewards beings by allowing them to experience continuity in the form of the joy of living, as long as no limitations or dangers are perceived.
True fear, which gives rise to all others, is the fear that comes from feeling that the continuity of life is threatened or could be lost. In this way, the joy emanating from the fulfillment of the first and most sacred mandate of the Spirit (survival) becomes fear. In Emoenergetica, the fear of death is the second source of suffering. It arises both from ignorance that we are much more than a physical body and from egoic attachment to our personality. Energy only transforms and moves, so death is nothing more than a major mutation and reconfiguration of energy systems that have temporarily been united by the binding force or love of existence and being within the context of the learning that we call ‘life’. However, in the Earth's life system, beings are often completely unaware of the cycles of change, rules and evolution that living energy experiences throughout space-time. Awareness is absorbed, and sometimes exhausted, by the work stemming from the attempt to fulfill the natural order through the genetically programmed biological commands of survival, belonging, reproduction and predation (transformation and absorption of matter, energy and life among beings and others). And so, the fear of dying becomes the fear of losing, of not getting, of not having.
From the energetic-transpersonal point of view, we are a conglomerate of energy fields with consciousness of being and we belong to a plan that goes beyond our own comprehension (Sacred Symmetry in Emoenergetica, the Rule in Central American shamanism). Religions have sought to compensate for the fear of death and infinity by substituting the lack of knowledge for the most multifarious beliefs, thereby trying to connect human beings with the transcendent sense of existence. Although religions and superstitions have been a point in our evolutionary path, the next step would be to increase consciousness in such a way that beliefs collapse in the presence of acquired knowledge by sublimating our nature as perceivers, navigators and readers of infinity. Science is currently trying to undertake this process, but its quest will be incomplete because it has renounced the magical side of the human being, that which contemplates that we are self-aware energy which forms part of an intelligent universal order or design. Only those who are able to go beyond what is material, directly seeing the subtle energy as it flows in the universe, have a chance to unravel a part of the mystery of life and really overcome the fear of death, not as a result of faith, but by pure realization. The true aspirant to transcendence (of the ego) is one who has tempered their reason as much or more so than a scientist and, at the same time, is able to set it aside, or rather use it as an anchor as they go into the inexplicable and the paradoxical, into the immense ocean of existence, while maintaining sanity and sobriety. We must not try to put an end to fear, only bring about its evolution.
The transcendent dimension of human beings allows us to remove emphasis from primary biological commands, provided that sufficient attention is refocused on the growth of consciousness. This is the first requirement to overcome perverse fear and then transform it into the guardian of knowledge. While it is necessary to protect life as much as possible, what allows human beings to mitigate the cycle of suffering is to turn the growth of consciousness and perceptual freedom into the first mandate and source of motivation to continue living (this is the path of the warrior).
Fear by Chema Sanz is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.