Fear Not: Living Beyond Your Fears

We are told by ‘The World,’ “You can be ANYTHING you want to be if you only believe,” while simultaneously telling us, “as long as it fits within OUR prescribed set of options, assumptions, and labels of what you SHOULD be.” In other words, “Conform, or we will cast you out.” Conformity, by definition, is “the act of compliance, submission, acquiescence, or obedience to a specified standard or authority.” We live in a world where people have continuously engaged in the never-ending battle against oppression. The irony is that most people slip into one of the various ‘oppressed’ societal communities (ranging from family traditions and gender issues, and even the cult of ‘healing the inner child’), communities that themselves require your ‘obedience to a specified standard,’ mainly victim consciousness, to belong. Again, “Prostrate, or we will cast you out.” What is at the root of all this? Fear. Not Fear of you, but the Fear of you leaving them behind, of seeing you live in the freedom of being your authentic