The manipulation continues. It seems each day we are handed either an insinuation or direct hit on fear by those in national power. Since the time immortal, leaders have used fear as a weapon to control and manipulate the general populace. We are continuously being assaulted by the use of fear to get us to act, buy, and vote in a certain way. Parents, schools, and politicians invade us with fear mongering. 

We have been taught to be afraid. The greatest fear of all is that of non-survival. Non-survival encompasses any idea we feel is necessary to continue living. It can include love, identity, acceptance, as well as the use of our basic creativity and thinking abilities.

The latest news is filled with underlying fear innuendos. War with North Korea and nuclear exposure keeps us on edge missing other important signals of things happening within our government. The loss of medical coverage and tax increases all rhetoric positioned to keep us in a fog of fear. The fog is a kind of basic paranoia. As long as we reside in this fog we will buy things we don’t really need. Trying to keep ourselves safe, vote in a way we feel will eliminate and bring about a lifting of the fear fog rather than instilling love and acceptance of all. When I look back on history I see a world based on fear and paranoia rather than one based on love and critical thinking. No wonder we have to fight for our rights to exist, to embrace that which brings us the grace of being, love and peace.  

Some fear has a natural place in our existence. It keeps us from crossing a street against traffic, seeking medical help when we are ill, and it helps us protect our children. This kind of fear is based on real experiences. The fog of fear is based on something sinister and deceiving. It is based on our need to be told what to do, to be dictated about our desires, longings, and need for acceptance and love. The fear of evil, of being called out as deviant in our lifestyle and behaviors is sinister and deadly to our existence as free human beings. When you accept your responsibility as a participant in the manipulation you can find a way out of the fog and the evil it represents to humanity. 

We all remain in a kind of enslavement of servitude. We are not in a place of service to a greater good, a more human existence but rather enslaved by the needs of individuals who have no ability to love and embrace the grace of being, of existence. 

There is no easy way out of the fog of fear. The moment you begin observing your place in this fog, looking beyond and examining the root of your fears you begin loosing the shackles that have kept you bound to the fog. I am not going to kid you. Freeing yourself is painful. Seeing our-self being manipulated by the fear mongers and being too weak in the knees to stand up and say no will probably bring more than a few tears. It is my personal experience that only by being totally honest with our behavior and choices and their roots in our life are we ever free. In my life freedom has come in spurts. It seems as if that each step I took and eliminated the fog a new fear appeared for me to see and conquer. 

The greatest lifting of the fog of fear comes when we are willing to look at how we manipulate others. Seeing how we enslave ourselves and keep our brothers and sisters of color, different races, different sexual and gender appetites, and religions in the fog. This insight is heartbreaking. We do this most often NOT of choice but rather out of dictated and manipulated behavior by our parents and society. Only as we free our-self from the prejudices, abhorrent thinking, and paranoia are we free to love all life, to express our likes and dislikes. As you begin this kind of journey your ego will scream out… No, No, not me not this time. I am not going to change. Be willing to love someone, your self or another enough to move past the ego. Know that each step you take you do it for yourself and generations yet to be born. Place your fear on the altar of tomorrow and watch it be consumed by the fire of life. 

We have always been free, we are the stuff of stars, but in our sleep of fear, we have forgotten this. Once awaken we see beyond our fear-sleep into the nature of reality Love.

  Suzanne Deakins, H.W.M. is a publisher (One Spirit Press and The Q Press) and author. Her books may be found on amazon.com. She teaches seminars on critical thinking and ontology, as well as Radical Forgiveness. She maybe reached at suzannedeak@gmail.com