Dealing with the fear of uncertainty

[Mr H]

The fear of uncertainty seems to be fairly common.

 

What is going to happen to me after I die?

 

Where is my next paycheck going to come from?

 

What does the cabal have in store for us?

 

Even if we connect as source, these are still pressing and real concerns for this incarnation.

 

How do you deal with the fear of uncertainty and cultivate faith?

[Origin]

I don't care at any level what happens here, or who is playing war with whom, or imagining themselves to be a winner of the game. Or that I am really addicted to the system. And I'm not looking back, because there was nothing interesting to discover here. I don't think I need to fear something that is significantly more sophisticated. I can distinguish precisely what brought me forwards. And that was not this place..

[DaleP]

And what will the AI do to us? Solution included in this segment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ezbq2z6ca8&t=6240s

 

[Macnamara]

The gnostics would say that the feeling is because of our fall into differentiation and that in a sense it is an inner voice that calls us back to the divine source

 

The christians would say not to fear terror at night or arrows by day because if you trust in Jesus Christ as your saviour and lead a christian life then when you pass from this vale of tears you will go to heaven to live with the righteous and with God.

 

The vikings answer to an uncertain world, full of peril where their ship might be dashed upon the waves of a tempest or their winter food supplies be stolen by a bear or by raiders was to say that ultimately the only thing you had control over was how you met your end: if you could look death in the eye without flinching with your sword or axe in your hand then you proved your worth and earned your place at the feasting hall of Valhalla

Edited May 5, 2023 by Macnamara

[Campion]

On 4/9/2023 at 10:20 PM, Mr H said:

How do you deal with the fear of uncertainty and cultivate faith?

 

Alan Watts wrote a good book called 'The wisdom of insecurity', which was about the trade offs between freedom (insecurity) and security (lack of freedom). They're opposite ends of the same scale.  Needless to say he takes the side of embracing insecurity and living an ego-less life where you surf the waves of chance and fortune, because, well, it's all you anyway. The big self rather than the small self.  Well, I'm not quite ready for that, so go for a philosophy of doing your best at what you can and accepting the reality of the here-and-now. Like Gandalf telling Frodo that you can't choose what times you live in, but only how you use the time given to you. 

 

A Buddhist monk once told me that we can either do something, or not do something, and the outcome is what it is. Worrying about the future only saps our energy to appreciate the present; I think there's also a passage in the Sermon on the Mount about not worrying and putting ourselves in God's hands. Easier said than done of course, but if I'm afraid about something then that's also what's happening so I accept that too and don't fight it. 

 

Edited May 6, 2023 by Campion

[Macnamara]

10 minutes ago, Campion said:

Alan Watts wrote a good book called 'The wisdom of insecurity', which was about the trade offs between freedom (insecurity) and security (lack of freedom). They're opposite ends of the same scale.  Needless to say he takes the side of embracing insecurity and living an ego-less life where you surf the waves of chance and fortune, because, well, it's all you anyway.

 

Watts used to say that the universe is experiencing itself through us

 

But yes you raise an important point about the age old argument of government 'security' versus the freedom of the people. The conspiracy is all about suffocating the people with state intrusion so as to remove all agency and freedom and there seem to be many collectivists who willingly hand over all their agency in order to be mothered and micro-managed by the state