There is a ‘stuckness’ that often comes with being a truth seeker. It’s frustrating and debilitating, and I know it well. It has everything to do with fear, because, let’s face it, the things being brought out into the open are deeply disturbing and downright horrifying, at least for people like you and I.
It’s about fight, flight, or freeze, and so many good people, perhaps even yourself, are frozen, because there’s no place to flee to, and there’s really no effective way for most people to fight this. So we get stuck.
And the thing about being stuck in fear is that it creates an emotional storm within yourself, an emotional avalanche, if you will, triggering a deep and very real need to escape. It causes inaction, which is the killer of confidence.
In our quest for more knowledge we seek the comfort and sense of security we think we can find by knowing that we’re not alone. And we’re not alone, but knowing that doesn’t seem to be enough.
Some of us attempt to escape the emotional storm by drowning it with booze, pills and drugs, which of course only exacerbates the depression and sidelines us in weakness and impotency.
Most simply stay frozen in the echo chambers and rabbit holes on an endless quest for that one piece of knowledge that will free us all. And the longer we stay there, the stronger grip the darkness has on us. It’s another form of escape, which is not at all the same things as taking flight.
It becomes just another distraction in our lives. A go-to time-killer that temporarily satiates the emotional cyclone of fear while simultaneously amplifying the fear. A form of self-medication which only exacerbates the anxiety, as most self-medications do.It’s very challenging to consume such hard truths without being weighed down by the heaviness of it all. There’s a gravity to the evil encircling us that does a fantastic job of preventing your spirit from reaching orbit...<<<Read More>>>....