A client and I were talking the other day about fear and the conditioned mind, and how there’s this common sense narrative (that I trot out all the time) about the conditioned, fear-based mind being a hangover from the cave-dwelling days.
Back then it made sense to live in fear, because physical survival depended on it (and physical survival is the ace card: the organism’s prime directive).
When food was scarce, predators freely roamed the earth and the neighbouring tribe wanted to boil your head, there were many ways a human’s life could end, so fear evolved.
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These days, wars and ethnic cleansing aside, life’s much more predictable, and death comes to us almost exclusively via non-communicable, non-violent causes, such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes etc. (You can click on the small image below to get to a larger version online, if you’re curious.)