My beloved Chris wrote this today, it was truly a Surprise and Delight!
Hiya,
Here's a lil sample from an interview with Liam Neeson. The intriguing line about FEAR caught my attention.
One hour earlier, he tells the story of a motorcycle accident he lived through in 2000. This riffing off a discussion of fear, of getting knocked out cold in the ring as a teenager; of the fearsome IRA legend Michael Collins, whom he played in the movie; fear upon leaving Belfast for Dublin and Dublin for London; fear upon leaving London for L.A. and L.A. for New York — none of it sounds really scary. It's just fear as abstraction, fear as thesis statement. Sounds like a guy looking back and marking time
I like the take on it...that Fear is ONLY created in the mind, in Abstraction. When there are holes in the New Story we are starting to tell, we tend to user "filler" from the 'FEAR' bin as a placeholder. Why do we do that, and how can we get rid of the 'FEAR' bin all together? Simply knowing it's like a crutch, a default choice or option that we humans tend to stear towards first....well, that's instilled in us culturally. So, part of telling our New Story MUST include severing ties with "cultrual convention", the best example of why we need to sever ties with the past because of how it anchors us to not only our past story but also our old patterns of behavior. Why do we choose to repeat the very behaviors we long to erase? Just like we keep going back to the FEAR bin, we also keep using the same Rulebook (more like a scrapbook) of past plans the worked, kinda worked, or even failed us miserably. Guess what, we need to trash that too.
Why are new stories so needed in everyday life...movies, TV, and books? How do the most prolific and celebrated artists of all disciplines get that way? Picasso and Stravinsky were masters of this survival technique...re-Invention. They frequently decided to redefine the terms by which they worked, which in turn, redefined their lives from the inside out. By simply changing how they created their art, they changed their world around them like ripples on a pond.
The Ripple Effect is REAL. As our vibration emits out from us, is resonates with the Universe and bounces back to us amplified. So, let's retune our vibration on the simplest, easiest level. Let's find a new way to live. Let's reinvent our Universe on our terms. The simplest things have the most resounding effects, the deepest joy, the happiest outcome.
-C
