Fear of ones own mind.

[laurel]

I just watched Leo's episode on fear. I read an essay on suicide recently called "Heaven and Nature." The author said, "I felt utterly exhausted and yet quite fearless of ordinary dangers, vastly afraid of myself, but much less scared of extraneous eventualities." If all fear boils down to is fear of a total loss of self, as Leo says, then how could someone be so afraid of their own mind?

Edited September 27, 2019 by laurel
Grammar typo

[Forestluv]

9 minutes ago, laurel said:

 If all fear boils down to a total loss of self, as Leo says than how could someone be so afraid of their own mind?

Because it is their own mind. . . My neighbor was recently diagnosed with early dementia and fears losing her mind. Why aren't you afraid right now? Because it is her mind, not your mind. 

[Leo Gura]

If you watch Part 2 you will see I said exactly that: all fear is fear of one self. Which is to say, all fear is fear of one's own mind.

All those "external" things you fear are your own mind which you have disowned.

[Truth Addict]

The label is not important. I could also call it 'fear of change' or 'fear of chaos'.

The how also is not really important, but the why it is.