FEARLESSNESS is not just a word, not just a behavior, not just a character trait. No. It is something so much deeper and broader, historical and even timeless and otherworldly. It is all of that and more. It is mystery as well. And, I wanted to make sure readers of my fearwork understand this. Too often I forget it myself.
In otherwords, the empirical reality of my autobiographical and intellectual life as a person leading the fearlessness movement (Fearlessness Movement)--there is no 'accident' or 'casualness' to how I utilize and align with the forces of the great Sacred Warrior Spirit of Fearlessness (e.g., this started in consciousness, more or less, when I discovered in the mid-1980s this book by Tibetan Buddhist teacher from the East, moved to the West, the late Rinpoche Choygam Trungpa and this book I'm copying the cover from here). it was published in 1984. But only five years later after I had scanned it from a friend's library briefly, was I to then discover its real treasure and traditional lineage of wisdom and compassion--and thus, a total resonance with my soul. I was not to become a Buddhist. No. I was to become a Sacred Warrior...and, the rest is history.
What fascinated me from the start of my own initiation into the Fear and Fearlessness Teachings prior to my in depth look at Shambhala tradition, was that I felt the power of the concepts of Fear and Fearlessness (yes, with capitals). These two words were all I needed to focus on to best understanding the problems of humanity and this planetary crisis we are in. The Fear Problem was the basic label and Fearlessness was its solution. Of course, over the years since 1989 and my re-reading Shambhala --the development of fearology grew and still does.
In Chapter 4 of this book, it is simply entitled: "Fear and Fearlessness" --- whoa!
In brief, my critic/warrior has been on the war-path since late 1989 but it started even earlier in the late 1970s especially but even further back to the early 1970s. I saw (intuitively at first) that humans had lost their 'wild' instinctive intelligence (Defense Intelligence, I later called it). This was lost because their instinctive "warrior" was also being lost and diminished by a culture that was breeding (socializing and educating) people to be more or less dependent 'sheep' or 'mice' if you will. Domestication and infantilization are major ways to accomplish this--making humans more and more duped by the System of Control (i.e., the 'Fear' Matrix). That's why I teach Fear Managemen Education (criticism) through a Fearlessness Paradigm (which is really a Warrior Paradigm in the sacred traditions, which include Shambhala but are not restricted to this tradition). In 1992-4 I founded the School of Sacred Warriorship, in Calgary Alberta but it never took off--maybe it will come back. Today, my main venture is The Fearology Institute.
For an earlier 2017 FM blog on Shambhala: go to https://fearlessnessmovement.ning.com/blog/trungpa-s-shambhala-warrior
And for a recent 2023 (video talk on Fearlessness Path)
https://fearlessnessmovement.ning.com/blog/fearlessness-path-theory-and-practice
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