Freedom From The Source Of Fear And Anxiety GF Live 4-05-25

If one in a hundred million human beings could hear and understand what it is that we're going to share together here and work to understand together here,

If one in a hundred million human beings could do that,

In that very moment,

The whole world would change.

I have absolutely no doubt.

It wouldn't be some dramatic like skyrocket bursting in the sky,

Nothing like that.

Nothing like we imagine will save us.

But it would be the beginning of a completely different order of consciousness that might and would influence all interactions across the board.

And so more like a ripple that would start in the center of a pond,

It would reach the distant shores and human souls would find that which they have been looking for their entire life.

All of this will be in the talk.

I have,

I think,

Five key lessons today,

A key question.

And so I would ask of you as best you can,

When I ask for Kate to put the key lessons up,

Please let the key lessons sit there for a moment so people can take it in.

I'm going to discuss in depth as best time allows each of these key lessons that I have written in order to present the material we will be looking at today.

So let's get started.

First of all,

Katie,

Let's put the title of the material up.

Pretty simple.

Freedom from the unseen source of fear and anxiety.

Freedom from the unseen source of fear and anxiety.

So just a moment on that.

How long does it take before a person realizes that no matter how many times they seem to have successfully dealt with their fear and anxiety,

A heartbeat later,

One day later,

They will find themselves swarmed like the mosquitoes,

The gnats up in Alaska,

Just swarming the head.

Out of nowhere,

It seems,

A single thought,

Single feeling,

And just like that,

The whole of the psychic system is caught up again in some kind of conflict where the anxiety and fear is seen as being caused by someone or something outside of us.

And so all of our struggles take place outside of us.

And that's what precludes the possibility of ever transcending the consciousness responsible for the conditions it blames.

Seconds.

Where does fear and anxiety actually live?

Everything has a dwelling place.

Nothing appears out of nowhere.

Where does fear and anxiety actually live?

An old story that follows these teachings.

First time I heard it,

Mr.

Howard spoke of it.

And ever so briefly,

He said there was a man who bought a new house in a new neighborhood.

New house and new neighborhood meant he'd had a certain kind of epiphany.

His level had changed a little bit.

And with each change in our level,

It's important to understand it doesn't mean the problems go away.

It means the ability to perceive the source of them is heightened,

Is clarified,

So that we become nearer and nearer to the moment where we understand that what must be transcended is not what we see troubling us,

But the nature of the seer.

So he moves into this house,

And the first night he's awakened by bats flying around.

He chases them out,

Catches them.

Second day,

Third day,

More bats.

He begins to wonder,

Where in the name of God are these bats coming from?

And he blames his neighbors.

He goes,

Says,

You need to get straightened out over there,

Whatever is going on.

And ever so briefly,

He struggles to change all the conditions that he sees as being the source of this battiness in his house.

One day,

Realizing he doesn't know,

He sees a little ad in a newspaper,

Got bats.

Call me if you want to know the real source.

Okay,

I'm out of answers.

Fellow comes over,

Man asks him how much it's going to cost.

Man says,

I don't charge for this.

The world would be a better place if you weren't so batty.

He said,

Well,

What's going on?

And the man says,

Follow me.

And he walks over to a side of the house that you would never even know was there,

And he opens a door,

And there's a set of steps that go down into the basement.

First of all,

The man's amazed that he's got a basement.

He had read that he did.

He hadn't really been down there.

But when they get to the bottom of the basement,

This material that's down there,

The investigator puts some of it aside,

And lo and behold,

It was covering up a big hole in the ground.

And the minute it was covered up,

You could hear,

Smell actually,

The fact that this was a bat dwelling.

And the investigator says,

You don't know this,

But the house you bought was built over an old mine tunnel.

And these old tunnels stretch for miles under all of this neighborhood.

And these bats,

They live and breed in these tunnels.

And until you seal up the source of their access into your house,

You will be plagued by them without any stop whatsoever.

Simple story,

Isn't it?

But now let's look at it together.

Kate,

Let's bring up the first key lesson.

Fear and anxiety do not exist outside of an old mind that moment to moment creates these dark states in a deeply divided space within itself.

Fear and anxiety do not exist outside of an old mind that from moment to moment creates these painful states,

And yet always manages to point to something outside of its own creative work as the cause of that conflict.

You must discover this is true.

It doesn't matter how many people tell you,

It doesn't matter if you can repeat it yourself.

Fear and anxiety have no existence.

No negative state has existence outside of the unconscious nature that creates and sustains its existence at this level of consciousness.

So let's examine this now together.

Take a nice deep breath.

We're going to look at this in several different ways.

The first is through this context of,

I suppose,

What we all know as simple physics.

Don't get confused or lost.

I'm going to do my level best to help you see this as deeply as possible.

I cannot tell you if you could just catch even a tenth of the light that is going to be brought out into this mind that doesn't see itself,

Things would change for you.

The simple law of physics is really what the old masters used to call karma.

Physics is karma,

Or actually physics comes out of karma.

Karma is an invisible set of divine laws that are responsible,

And the word karma itself means for the ceaseless balance and rebalancing of all that exists in harmony,

Of bringing into harmony all that exists through an act of justice,

Which is another name for karma.

Karma is balance and justice.

And by the way,

That's why the original picture has the lady justice blindfolded because there's no one there that sees.

There is just the action of this constant balancing taking place in the physical world.

So in the physical world,

The law of karma can be said very simply.

Physics,

For every action,

There is an equal and opposite reaction.

Every one of us has heard of that.

It's a law that underpins so much of science.

Every action,

There is an equal and opposite reaction.

A rocket ship lifts off because the thrust coming out from the bottom.

So at once,

There is this set of laws expressing themselves,

One force going this way and another force going that way.

We don't see these forces appear at the same time.

We don't realize they coexist because our attention,

Physically speaking,

Is always drawn to one side or another of whatever it may be that has captured our attention in that moment.

So we see something moving like that.

We see something unfolding this way.

But we never suspect that what we see taking place this way is taking place because there is a corresponding action responsible for its appearance.

Our attention always goes to one side.

I like this.

I don't like that.

We never consider that it is impossible for every action and equal and opposite reaction that it is impossible to,

In quotes,

Like something without not liking something.

There is an equal and opposite action to every single desire that we have.

I hope you can see this physically speaking as best I'm able to describe this idea of karma.

Please,

You can now just post quickly.

Do you understand where we're going so far?

All right.

But this law of opposites is inescapably,

Equally unseen and misunderstood when it comes to the laws that govern our consciousness.

We can see it physically.

So let's look at these laws that govern our consciousness,

Where the laws are a manifestation in physicality of an invisible set of laws that govern consciousness and all of its relationships.

So we can see how is this true?

For every action,

There is an equal and opposite reaction.

Can we bring that idea down into something that we can see and study together?

And I say we can,

And we're about to do so in the second key lesson.

Kate,

If you'll bring it up,

Please read along with me.

I'm going to go into this in depth with you.

For every act of identifying with something imagined in a time to come,

Always initiated by some form of unconscious desire,

In that same moment is created a body of energy that,

As it is manifested,

Will,

Under law,

Oppose the nature of the original desire,

Along with the sense of self attached to it and identified with it accordingly.

For every act of identifying with something imagined in time,

Why do I imagine getting someplace on time in order to do something that will be meaningful to me?

We're speaking psychologically.

Why do I rush?

I rush without understanding the nature of what is rushing because something in me that I did not see imagines how much better it will be when I get to wherever it is I think I have to get to.

That's all unconscious.

The mind actually,

It might say I've got to get there,

But the thought I've got to get there has nothing to do with the coloration of the word there as the mind makes it because there means I've got to get away from the feeling that I have I don't want right now because when I get away from this over to that,

Then that will dominate and I'll be free of this and what we're studying here is that that and this the time to come and the desire that creates it in the same moment that energy as it manifests itself in my actions will,

Under law,

Oppose the original desire.

The desire is to escape the pain,

The anger,

The sense of betrayal,

And it seems logical to imagine what I have to do to escape it failing to see that every action I take to escape the original energy has an equal and opposite effect to that energy.

So suddenly,

Without knowing it,

I'm experiencing something that is opposing what I have wished for and I have no idea that the opposition to what I've wished for is not the world denying me what I thought would make me happy.

It is my own consciousness coming up with an equal and opposite effect to the very desire itself.

I'll pause for a moment.

Are you tracking?

It's okay if you're not.

We have a lot to go through here.

It's so important.

I cannot tell you how important this is.

For instance,

How many times,

And it's just like that,

How many times literally in a heartbeat,

You know,

The world in its sickness today,

Don't trigger me.

How many times in a given day are you triggered?

You pick up a message on your phone,

You look at your laptop,

You look at your phone,

You look at the news,

You get in a conversation with a relative,

A lover,

A friend about some political,

Which by the way,

You're crazy if you do.

And the next thing you know,

In a heartbeat,

I'm stressed to the max.

One thought,

One small reaction due to the smallest shift in the wind that even hints at the possibility of what,

That what this unconscious nature had fashioned,

Formulated,

And become identified with in some form of a desire that the world should be like this,

Or that you should be like that in that split second that it imagined that idea,

That desire fashioned with that image.

In fact,

An inseparable part of that imagination is the sense of self that imagined it.

So the minute that I imagined something and desire it to come to pass,

I am identified with that image and that image by its nature will attract the opposite,

Meaning that which will challenge it,

That's built into the scheme.

To even suspect that this is true,

Which will now go into some depth in the third key lesson,

Which we'll post in a moment,

Means that when I'm driving in my car and I can feel the pressure on the steering wheel,

God,

I'm going out to get something to eat.

Why should I be tense?

I'm on my way to my,

I was going to say,

I'm on my way to a family reunion.

Do you know why you're tense around family,

Around anybody that,

Especially that you have some identification with?

Because they are the ones that most easily trigger you because they are the ones who often run in contradiction to what you unknowingly demand of them through some image of yourself connected to a desire they behave as you wish.

Let's go to the third key lesson,

Kate.

When we imagine any time to come,

Whether it's in the next five minutes,

Five days,

Or 15 years from now,

Where for whatever the nature of that image that we are now identified,

Remember,

No image comes up in the mind that the mind didn't create in order to establish a sense of self.

Whatever that image that we're now identified with that we in quote,

Go on to achieve or otherwise feel some sense of relief in the moment of that image,

What we fail to see is the following.

Hidden in that exact same moment is also some form of painful anxiety that what we've imagined we need to be free won't come to pass as it's been imagined.

I'm in my car.

I don't know why I'm anxious on my way to the store.

I don't know that my mind has already gone to the store,

Found the pleasures it wants,

And has come back home and is eating or now resting.

I have no awareness at all that my mind is constantly tripping through various sections of imagined time.

There's no awareness.

So the mind imagines what it does,

Identifies with the pleasure connected to what it is imagined.

And in that moment,

In that action,

An equal and opposite effect is taking place.

So in the moment where I have feeling some sense of relief,

I am in that same moment in some form of painful anxiety,

Because what I have imagined that is giving me that sense of relief,

That fear is in that consciousness that it won't come to pass as it's been imagined.

Why suddenly become more anxious in traffic?

Why suddenly more irritated when someone seems to contradict you?

And it's an escalation.

Why the escalation in the anxiety and fear?

I'm describing it to you because when these equal and opposite unconscious forces are actuated,

Meaning that they are brought,

How do I say they are brought to bear by some form of will.

In that moment,

I imagine whether it's a second from now or 10 years from now,

You know,

When she's like this or when they're like that,

Or when I get past this point in time,

Oh God,

It's going to be so much better.

This is how the mind works.

But the mind does not see is that what it calls will make it better in a time to come includes the fear that that time will not come and any anxiety that comes up the moment something challenges it.

That means it's happening at the same moment.

That the anxiety we blame on a condition outside of us is a condition of an unconscious nature that first imagined that condition as a rescuing force and in imagining it now lives in the fear that what it has imagined is not going to unfold.

And it's always there with God as my witness.

This is why humanity is tense on the verge of breaking,

Always fearful of being triggered because this consciousness lives to be triggered.

It doesn't know that it creates the conditions and then identifies with them and desires them to come to pass as a way in which it can escape the pain of its own past.

It just does it mechanically.

It's a broken machine because it's unattended.

It's okay that these things work this way.

If they were attended,

Christ said,

Resist,

Not evil.

Why the translation in the Aramaic do not oppose what opposes you.

What an unusual idea.

Do not oppose what opposes me.

That's why I should turn my cheek seven times,

70 times.

That's why I should all of the things that are,

By the way,

Incredibly,

Horribly misinterpreted.

So that everything about religion nowadays has to do with this day-to-day life and the physicality of it.

Religion has very little to do with the physicality of our existence other than we express with our body and minds,

The laws that govern that body and mind.

And we don't understand them.

That's the real nature of religion is being connected to the source,

The divine source of this light of these laws.

All right.

Did we grasp some of this third key lesson?

That my,

I don't think that I'm responsible for this anxiety because I'm not there while the mind is creating the desired time to come.

And that mind,

Identified as it is,

Can't see the flip side of itself that coexists in the same moment that it creates the comfort to come.

It creates the fear of being uncomfortable in that same moment.

It's not separate.

The rocket that goes up by the force that pushes it down coexist,

A singularity.

And if we can understand this,

It brings us to a simple,

But incredibly important question that if we can look at it together and we will,

We'll reveal the whole inner story of fear and anxiety.

I started this talk by telling you that fear and anxiety have no existence in and of themselves.

And that they only exist because of the unconscious operation of a mind lives in a deeply divided space that it,

That creates itself.

Excuse me.

Katie,

Let's bring up the key question for this talk.

Let's slow down a little bit.

Put yourself in the place of this young man,

Young woman,

This boy,

This girl,

And he or she has gone to sleep there.

The family has gone to the beach on a vacation and the child has gone to sleep.

And here's the question.

Does the wave he imagines is coming to destroy his sandcastle?

Does the wave he imagines is coming to destroy his sandcastle exist without the sandcastle he dreamt into existence within which he has come to dwell?

Does the wave he imagines is coming to destroy his sandcastle exist without the sandcastle he first dreamt into existence and then moved into psychologically?

So that the wave we fear doesn't exist without the creation that we fear will be destroyed by it.

And when we create the sandcastles,

The time to come,

The situation where finally he,

She,

They,

And this are all resolved and my past is completely healed,

All of that business without the sandcastle in which we move,

Dwell,

Do we not enter into the pleasure that as St.

Paul said,

Who has hopes and things seen?

Our hopes must rest in things unseen.

Why must our hopes be in things unseen?

Because thou shalt have no graven images.

You shall not have an image of what is true,

Good,

And divine.

Because the minute you have the image,

You have entered into an unholy reliance,

You have entered into an unholy alliance with an unconscious nature that draws consolation and comfort from the image it is made of itself.

If only the whole world could hear this,

Not because I'm speaking it,

I'm of no importance,

No significance.

You have no idea how much I mean that.

That child laying in bed here,

Oh God,

The waves coming,

That the adult lying in bed,

Oh God,

What's going to happen tomorrow?

What's going to happen tomorrow to what?

To all of my sandcastles.

All of my plans,

All of my aspirations to finally get above and beyond all the people that can hurt me,

All the possessions I'll finally acquire that will empower me to have social authority.

The wave doesn't exist without the sandcastle and the wave and the sandcastle are the simultaneous appearance of an unconscious nature set against itself without knowing it is and trying to escape itself and always creating the condition it then needs to fear.

And this never,

This isn't,

This isn't,

You know,

This isn't like,

Oh,

That happened,

And then,

Oh no,

This is happening.

And oh God,

What about that?

The way our mind works,

It's seized,

And I do mean quite literally it's seized.

One day you'll understand this,

You'll see it for yourself.

The mind is seized,

But it's not seized by the condition it reacts to.

It's seized by its own reactions to something that challenges something it's identified with that it identified with so it would stop feeling seized.

And it's all in the dark.

The light dwelleth in the darkness and the darkness comprehendeth it not,

Said Christ.

That unconscious mind in its divided state,

So busy creating the conditions that it does to escape the karma of the last condition it created,

With little to no understanding at all of how these laws are unfolding within it and how it is the instrument of these laws without realizing that it is literally bringing to itself the experiences it has created for itself but denies the unwanted ones.

Because I'm not responsible for this anger,

For this anxiety.

My anger,

My anxiety,

My fear is intelligent.

You know,

There were so many passages.

Christ said,

What man taking thought can add one cubit to his stature?

Take no thought for the tomorrow.

Take no thought for tomorrow,

For today has sufficient evil enough thereof.

Do you know what those words meant?

Take no thought,

What man taking thought,

Who by being anxious can do one thing to change their life other than continue to be dragged down by the nature that creates the conditions it then cries out against.

So how does all of this play out?

It's important that we recognize,

At least it is,

I think,

Seems to be that quite a bit of my work is connected to helping men and women realize that there is this beautiful tapestry of truths that have been sewn into the world in their appropriate time and place,

In the language and metaphor and analogy,

In the parables that best suggest and prove the possibility.

But no teaching can prove the possibility of a curriculum that belongs to the divine,

In which by its very action upon the would-be soul,

The aspirant,

It's constantly helping that individual to see where it is,

Though he or she does not yet see it,

That they are not who they take themselves to be.

Did you know that nothing is what you name it?

That there's nothing that exists that doesn't exist because of all that brings it into existence in that moment.

So that even emptiness,

Into which everything pours to create these forms,

Even emptiness is a part of existence,

But not separate from it.

Existence in some way proves emptiness.

And without emptiness,

Nothing would come into existence because there would be nothing for it to come into.

So these beautiful,

Invisible laws,

This tapestry of truths,

Men and women have been talking about it,

Those who are capable,

Who understand it,

Trying to bring it into this level of consciousness that can begin to try to grasp as above,

So below.

Well,

Of course,

There are these laws that govern the universe and creation.

And those laws that govern all of creation are inseparable from the laws that govern those humanity made in the image of those laws.

Not made in the image of God,

Whatever you imagine divinity to be,

Not made in the image of some iconic spiritual saint,

Sage,

Or whatever,

Made in the image of that which those individuals finally became so clearly aligned with that they surrendered themselves to it and then became the embodiment of those laws,

Which by the way,

Is why they're able to express those laws,

Even at the level that we are talking about here.

An example,

Take a nice deep breath.

I spoke of the New Testament.

Let me go to something we're all familiar with.

I've spoken about it,

But we're going to go deeper.

Buddha's teaching.

He says,

If a tree falls in the woods and no one's there to hear it fall,

Does it make it sound?

If a tree falls in the wood and no one's there to hear it,

Does it make it sound?

Now that question is intended to bring the willing aspirant into a series of conclusions.

Yes,

It does.

No,

It doesn't.

Each and every one of those opposite answers finally proves itself to be incomplete,

Which means the complete answer isn't in a word,

But in a realization that no sound,

No phenomena of any kind exists without some form of consciousness that's aware of it.

No awareness of the sound,

No light to reveal the form,

No sound,

No form.

Without the consciousness that's aware of it,

There is no existence.

So consciousness brings into existence through its awareness,

Whatever it is that we are made aware of.

I don't want to get lost there.

I'm simply trying to tell you that according to these laws,

There is a beautiful simultaneous coexistence of what we see as the opposites,

Yin and yang,

Active-passive,

Light and dark,

That which expands,

That which contracts,

That which is empty,

That which fills.

They do not exist without each other.

They are a coexisting set of principles that allow,

Through their activity,

For us as human beings to be aware of what is generated through their actions.

So that there is,

As Buddha was trying to say,

And as Christ said with do not oppose what opposes you,

A mutual inseparable dependency.

So that nothing comes into existence that comes into existence by itself.

And what we're talking about is that when we imagine something that's going to relieve us,

A time to come,

A place we're going to finally get to,

When we imagine that,

We have no idea that in the moment that we identify with that activity of an unconscious mind,

We have agreed,

Without knowing it,

To be pained by another order of identification that what we've hoped for,

Dreamed will come to pass,

Won't.

And so we live all the time looking around,

Trying to figure out what do we need to do in order to keep,

Listen,

This sense of self that's born out of an attachment to an image,

How to keep it in place and try to see this.

And the more we try to keep that one opposite in place,

The more we're visited by what opposes it.

And you can see that it's going like this,

Doesn't it?

Does the mind slow down and become peaceful?

Or does the mind accelerate in its own urgency,

Trying to resolve a condition that wouldn't create if it didn't first create the idea that it would know peace in a time to come.

The peace is built into the marriage of these opposites and that which brings them together for the sake of revealing the divine.

So let's go to the summary and special key lesson.

Please just listen now,

And we'll study this together.

This is part one of the summary and special key lesson.

We become anxious,

Rushed to or through a moment in time that wouldn't exist if some part of our unconscious nature hadn't first imagined some sense of security,

Pleasure,

Inseparable from that conditioned image.

And then,

Once having become identified with that image and our newly desirable sense of self that is inseparable from it,

We live in an unseen,

Non-stop form of tension and anxiety born of fearing anything that challenges the existence and the continuation of that imagined sense of self.

Psychological tension and anxiety is through an unseen arrangement and agreement that we make with our own unconscious nature,

Absolutely unaware of the fact that as we move to try to escape,

As we move to try to change something in a time to come,

The very action of that energy produces a corresponding opposite effect,

Which is that that which I'm identified is not going to come to pass as I've imagined it.

This is why,

Incidentally,

There's so little gratitude in this world.

In spite of our ignorance,

In spite of our arrogance and selfishness,

We are all given,

To whatever measure it is true,

Things that enrich the life,

That bring pleasure to it,

That produce moments of comfort with family,

With nature.

But it's all soiled,

And it's soiled the instant that we become identified with and want the continuation of that pleasure,

Of that desire.

And the continuation of that desire can only happen in imagination and only in an act of becoming in a time to come.

So the very desire of a better time to come produces the bitterness of a fear that the time we hope to come isn't coming,

Or worse,

That something has stolen it from us.

We become anxious,

Rushed to or through,

A moment in time that wouldn't exist if some part of our unconscious nature hadn't first imagined some sense of security,

Pleasure,

Inseparable from that image.

And then having once identified with that image,

That feeling,

And our newly desired sense of self that's inseparable from it,

In that moment we live in an unseen,

Non-stop sense of tension and anxiety.

What do I have to do to keep this going?

How do I control this?

How do I get,

How do I make tomorrow work out the way it's supposed to work out?

And there's your sandcastle.

There is your sandcastle.

Let's bring up the summary key lesson,

Kate.

In the shadows of our tomorrows,

Hide all of our sorrows.

Best we pray to remain in the light of day.

In the shadows of our tomorrows,

Hide all of our sorrows.

Best we pray to remain in the light of day.

And the light of day doesn't just mean the light of the sun above.

The light of the day is never not breaking inside of the human being.

The living Christ,

That which is eternally true,

That which loves and never fails to love regardless of how it is met,

That light of day is always there.

It is we who live outside of it,

Favoring the shadows of that unconscious nature that projects a light at the end of the tunnel.

What's the old saying?

The light of the end of the tunnel isn't the end of the tunnel,

It's a train coming at you.

If you've understood any of this,

And not just this moment,

But sit with it and contemplate it and want to understand it,

I posted and wrote all of these key lessons so that you would have something written that you could look at and work with if you so desired.

I can tell you beyond the shadow of a doubt that as the light of understanding such things as we've discussed today breaks inside of you,

So are you elevated,

Lifted above that world in which,

Without knowing it,

We are complicit,

Not just in the conflict that we see around us,

But in this everyday tension.

We don't know who we are without tension,

And the reason we don't know who we are without tension is because this consciousness is so set on its continuity that we don't know of any other form of identity other than what it spells out to us when it gives us the moment of hope,

And then dashes it or takes it away from us,

As it always does,

And as you know it always does.

If you remember nothing else,

In the shadows of all our tomorrows,

In the shadow of our tomorrows,

Hide all of our sorrows.

You find yourself,

If it's possible,

And you will one day.

You have to work at it at first.

You have to want to see.

You're getting ready to go talk to somebody.

You're making a plan to go somewhere.

You're in your car,

And if you look closely,

You'll see there's tension and anxiety in every fiber of your being because everything that is moving you is trying to move you toward what will relieve you from what you don't want to be,

Have,

Or do,

And the very seeking of relief in a time to come ensures that the time is coming that will challenge whatever it is that you're identified with,

And you will feel,

Oh my god,

Now what do I do?

And you'll have to start the whole thing over again.