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Have you felt the prehistoric spear of fear in your head?
When some one showed us his snake, he warned us of our natural inbuilt fear of such things because we know they can be dangerous and fear prepares us for any dangerous situation.
The snake, a python, was really huge, it was on the table all the time but in a sleeping bag. He was talking about it but it was still only hyperthetical, the tention built up a bit by his story, and then he unzipped the bag and got it out.
It was increadible how the realness of it effected me, all the signs that were usually missing on TV, in magazines and in liturature, we there, in front of me, large as life, on the table. A big real slithering muscular snake! Those signs of real snake kicked of instinct embedded thousands, possibly millions of years deep in my brain, it awoken part of the animal in me, along with a prehistoric urge, an anxhiety came over me and my heart rate soared. I felt a sharp hot pain in my brain, it was like the point of years and years of animal evolution telling me it's bad news, willing me to do something, screaming at me to run, and that point was dug into my calm objectionate conciousness, that forced the point to submit.
And submit it did, it was over in a few seconds, then I started to take in the beauty of the animal, I could see first hand its majestic muscular movements, I could reach out and touch its smooth intracate scales.
So if you're afraid of something, either because of an experience as a child, or the experience of distant ancestors, confront your fear, you can beat it, and you will be liberated.
Each time you beat one of your fears, you win a abattle against the ultimate fear, eventually you will find victory over the only real fear - fear itself.
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