What is really behind a person's fear in life

Main subjects

FearAVAlexander VolchekAnxiety, stress, and inner calmSpiritSpiritual development and the spiritual pathChildren, parenting, and family life

Main threads of the conversation

• 00:00Fear as a social construct
• 04:50How society programs fear
• 07:54What really happens when you are afraid
• 13:55The nature of fear
• 14:35The illusion of perception: not feeling pain that is actually there
• 20:20Fear's effect on the spiritual system and deeper processes
• 22:34Fear as a motive for action
• 27:31What happens when you pursue results from a state of fear?
• 31:00What should you do with fear? How can you get rid of it?
• 33:50When do you not need to fight fear?

Claims made here

Individual claims identified in the material: who said them, when, and what kind of thought they express. Each timestamp opens that point in the video.

• 00:18

  In effect, fear makes us better, perhaps even more impressive.

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• 01:46

  Or someone says, “I was beaten as a child, so I realized early that I had to be an adult.”

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• 08:35

  It does not arise because my brain became frightened or I generated a thought. This is very important.

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• 14:04

  We also know a person can be brought psychophysically into a state where they stop feeling pain or fear.

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• 18:02

  Some people separate the spiritual world from the physical person.

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• 19:53

  The human system in the spiritual world is profoundly hierarchical. Even if you divide the person into parts, the hierarchy is immense.

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• 26:29

  Then ask yourself about famous people, billionaires, who say they achieved so much because they were afraid.

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• 35:17

  Rudolf Steiner described in 1924, at a gathering of Christian priests, how people of the current generation—and the following centuries—would need to learn to live with death’s energy nearby and recognize death as a friend.

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• 36:36

  When I was in my twenties, a friend studying neurology at medical school told me, “Stop having that test. Stop having MRIs. Never have another one.”

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• 37:06

  “Why do you need it?” That was incredibly good advice in my life.

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