Day 7 The Spiritual Bypass of Fear

The fear that is leading our experience of reality at the moment is, you might be surprised to learn, a form of spiritual bypass. Startling, isn’t that?

The Narcissist-in-Chief, the Denier-in-Chief, the Toddler-in-Chief, or whatever other nickname you choose, has taken the practice of rewriting history to its dark underbelly. The thing of it is, as any good metaphysician knows, if we don’t rewrite history, to borrow from philosopher George Santayana, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

Are you noticing what I noticed this morning? So interesting. We often forget, and forego, the first part of the sentiment: Those who cannot remember the past.

Well, I’d say our Idiot-in-Chief is brilliant at that little talent, wouldn’t you? I’m pretty sure he can’t remember what he had for breakfast as I write these words at 10:30 this morning.

This very morning he claimed that he’d known COVID-19 would be a pandemic all along. Really? I don’t have to repeat his minimizing of the last two months here. If you need a refresher, just read the Op-Ed page in this morning’s New York Times.

There is something critically important here for we who work diligently to dream our dreams, to manifest our dreams, to live our dreams. We really do know that if we stay focused on, identified with, and rehearsing the hurts of the past that we will repeat them.

The only way to change history is to rewrite it. To use our God-given imaginations, and re-envision the world as we will it to be. As that whimsical theologian Mary Engelbreit said on Instagram yesterday, “Fear is a misuse of the imagination.”

Fear-mongering is its very worst application. Denial of the facts is a close second. Donald J. Trump has taken to using his own imagination as an instrument of cancel culture. He has attempted to cancel the virus and the thoroughly inadequate response of his administration by the minimizing and denials he has spouted for the past two months.

Beloved, fear cannot rewrite history.
Distrust cannot rewrite history.
Positive thinking cannot rewrite history.

The Editorial Board of The New York Times wrote an Opinion piece entitled “Stop Saying That Everything is Under Control. It Isn’t.” In it, they allege that our leaders are dealing with an “economy that’s hemorrhaging money and trust.”

Those of my readers who know that I write novels will not be surprised that in the first one I ever wrote, Oklahoma! Hex, (I’m in the middle of writing my 14th now) one of the spiritual truths I penned goes like this: Fear is a form of faith, believe it or not. It’s faith in what you fear.

One of the greatest fears we share as human beings are of not knowing whom or what to trust. That’s the effect of the misinformation campaign to which we have been subject. This is exactly why positive thinking IN ITSELF doesn’t work.

We have to start where we actually are if we want to change the world.

The easiest place to begin change is within. In fact, it’s the only place where you have absolute control—between your own ears—and then, only over the portion of your mind that is conscious. None of us has more than a minor clue of what lives in our unconscious minds.

So I say, let us begin ... where we are.

Let us deny the power of those who would mislead, and insist upon the truth.

Yesterday’s Times crossword puzzle had a long clue, the answer to which was an abbreviated form of Hunter S. Thompson’s novel, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The answer was FearAndLoathing. And believe you me, it’s gone way, way past Las Vegas.

We must remember that the tsunami of fear that is coming toward us is based on loathing. Yes, hatred. Hatred of otherness, hatred of our neediness, hatred of difference, hatred of change.

Let us resist the power of the temptation to lean toward the toxic underbelly of positive thinking and right speech, and instead remember these words from 2 Timothy 1:7 in the Christian Scripture: For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

This is classic denial and affirmation.

Begone, spirit of fear! I banish you.
I stand, instead, in Divine Power, Divine Love, and the Soundness of Divine Mind.

When Scripture of any kind is assembled, it is put through a rigorous protocol by what are known as redactors. The word means editors. Interestingly, the translations of world scripture that are considered the most valid are the ones that committees redact. Individually edited versions of scripture are known in the theology business as eccentric.

That’s a kind way to characterize this administration’s lies.

I, for one, am one hundred percent unwilling to continue to allow this administration to redact my reality. Instead, no matter how bad it is, I want the truth. When I stand on the ground of truth, it is easy to make changes. It is easy to face the fear. It is easy to insist on facts.

The ground of truth gives me, to steal from an image on Instagram this morning, courageous faith. That’s what’s called for here.

I am a person who lives by her faith in God. Not everyone can do this, wants to do this, needs to do it. I do.

Instead, I invite all of us to put our faith squarely on humankind. To believe with Archbishop Desmond Tutu, “Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”

If we all take the time daily to re-imagine a world full of healthy, happy people, eventually we will reach critical mass and the loathing that’s causing the fear will tip into love that’s causing the faith.

And in the meantime, Beloved, follow the advice of that great theologian RuPaul: “Shantay you stay inside!”

Dr. Susan Corso is a metaphysician and medical intuitive with a private counseling practice for more than 35 years. She has written too many books to list here. Her website is www.susancorso.com

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