The Path of Fearlessness, Healing and Liberation

Societies across the globe are built on a dominant culture – an oppressive, violent, hurtful, exploitative and destructive fear-based culture that thrives on inequalities in terms of gender, race, class and income. Dominance as a cultural construct has for centuries had a strong presence in institutions, influencing the socio-political agenda and landscape of societies. Fear as a concept, especially in relation to its opposite – love, is one of the most important and under-researched concepts of our time. Love is said to be a pattern that is life giving, regenerative, healthy and emancipatory, and fear is said to be a pattern of death, degeneration, dis-ease and enslavement. Fear-based conditioning is created when a person is hurt and does not heal that hurt, causing a disassociation from love. It’s a cause of great trauma. Fear is a dominant symptom in non-self-regulating, hurting and violent societies that have been subject to oppression and domination. In turn, like a virus, this fear infects the ideologies, myths, beliefs, values and socio-cultural context of societies. Fear and love are directly related, and so are fearlessness and liberation.