Fascination With Fear and the Path of Light

Fascination With Fear and the Path of Light by Julie Redstone

One of the more dramatic expressions of a consciousness that can no longer discern the path of light clearly, is the attraction toward those live situations and filmed presentations that deliberately create and amplify fear. 'Thrillers' and 'horror shows' are popular in America today, and can only remain so if one does not fully understand what the pursuit of such activities involves.

Embedded in fear-fascination is the blending of the emotion of fear with the 'high' or 'thrill' of living through it. The latter can also involve a sense of mastery, pride, or accomplishment for having withstood the intensity of one's own emotions.

The 'thrill' of fear is a venue for the seduction, manipulation, and unconscious control by energies that are opposed to the light, that seek to draw people away from it and from the 'aversive function' of fear. This function instinctively makes us turn away from unpleasant or anxiety-producing stimuli toward ones that are more gentle and loving. As a result of doing the opposite - of immersing oneself in fear-producing situations - it is possible to become adapted to fear's presence without knowing it and without knowing that there is a deliberate seduction involved that does not have one's best interests at heart.

The 'thrill' of fear is not a positive function of the human organism. It is a pathway that can lead to greater engagement with energies of darkness. Many situations of service that involve courage and risk-taking also involve fear. Yet these, in general, are not problematic, for those who risk their lives, for example, on behalf of others, are acting not out of a motive to seek fear-producing situations, but out of a desire to help and to protect. This is different than fear-seeking which, even when 'seemingly' harmless, reflects unconsciousness concerning what one is doing.

A state of fear has a significant effect on both mind and body. It can produce emotional, glandular, energetic, and even cellular changes that alter the harmonious functioning of the entire psycho-physical organism. Anxiety does this even at low levels. Episodic fear of an intense kind does this by creating a rush of energies into the body and emotions that must be quickly assimilated, yet often cannot be. Terror does this by producing an extreme alteration in the psyche and, as a consequence, a marker within the body's physiology as well.

When it becomes more widely known that the path toward light is continually opposed by forces that seek to limit its expansion, and that one of the primary tools of such forces is fear, it will be much less likely that human beings will go along with this intentionality out of a desire for self-protection and in order to maintain one's own personal freedom. Today, however, the thrill-seeking of fear is considered by many to be harmless, and so it is often pursued recklessly and with indifference, especially by the young, in whom effects are even more pronounced, due to the malleability of their bodies and psyches.

The dawn of a new consciousness is rapidly approaching that will change this situation altogether, for it will present a clear picture of what is happening and the consequences of behavior that turns away from light toward energies of darkness. In the meantime, a simple form of self-examination may help to introduce a clearer sense of one's own motives in seeking the 'thrill' of fear, and a choice will then become more available regarding whether to continue in this direction or not.

Julie Redstone is a teacher, writer, and founder of Light Omega, a center for spiritual teaching and healing in Western Massachusetts whose purpose is to assist with the planetary transition into light.

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