Theosophical Trails: Fearlessness Movement

Any sincere history of the Fearlessness Movement, will be international and diverse in its tracking down those thinkers across cultures and time who valued and acted upon the critical importance of fear shaping the direction of humanity and civilization itself. Equally, such a central valuation of fear leads to those thinking about the appropriate solution to the Fear Problem we all face. Fearlessness is one of the obvious routes to such a solution and remaking of civilization upon a new order of principles and practices of liberation as opposed to oppression.

The phote above from 1920s is of Alice A. Bailey and her husband Foster Bailey, and their role in not only the advancement of theosophy, an esoteric philosophy of life, but also their role in The League for Fearlessness (founded in 1931). I have studied this document of the founders and founding of The League and have written about its importance elsewhere on this blogsite ning and in many published articles and in my books. Because of a request from a colleague today online, I decided it is time that I finally put up (and make public) the entirety of the rare League for Fearlessness original brochure.docx that was my big discovery during doctoral research on the relationship of fear and fearlessness.

Also, I recommend readers interested in this League and the theosophical connections to the Fearlessness Movement and my own thinking, go to an interview I did with Steve Nation, of Lucis Trust, a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8Id7lI6rM0

At the conclusion of the talk with Steve Nation he says, "Fearlessness as a real cosmic energy....Fearlessness is without a doubt, one of the higher archetypes for all traditions, all professions."

A colleague wrote me in response to this blog: "And thank you very much for sharing with all us the original document. I understand that it may have been difficult to do it.

For me it is important because it adds a key page in the History of the Theosophical Society and contemporary Western esotericism. (If you have not done it, I think it could be a good idea to contact who you consider appropriate for such a page of the History to be recorded somewhere).

In addition, on a personal level, be able to see --almost palpate-- a proof that almost a century ago a group of people who "understood" met based on perennial truths that I fully share... is pleasantly motivating. (I simply imagine the moment you made that discovery --whose historiographic merit is entirely yours-- and I really excite me too!). It is really impressive, inspiring and revealing." -C.C.

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R.Michael Fisher December 7, 2022 at 5:03pm

A colleague wrote me in response to this blog: "And thank you very much for sharing with all us the original document. I understand that it may have been difficult to do it.

For me it is important because it adds a key page in the History of the Theosophical Society and contemporary Western esotericism. (If you have not done it, I think it could be a good idea to contact who you consider appropriate for such a page of the History to be recorded somewhere).

In addition, on a personal level, be able to see --almost palpate-- a proof that almost a century ago a group of people who "understood" met based on perennial truths that I fully share... is pleasantly motivating. (I simply imagine the moment you made that discovery --whose historiographic merit is entirely yours-- and I really excite me too!). It is really impressive, inspiring and revealing." -C.C.

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