Dominque, thank you for the comment you posted after my article, “Welcome to the Age of Aquarius.”  Dominque asked a most brilliant question concerning the true nature of love and fear.

In fact, the first step we must take on our journey to a higher love is just that: learning to distinquish love from fear.  Before reading further on into this post, please read my 3/16/2008 article entitled Conditional Love Versus Unconditional Love.  Once you’ve finished reading that post, return to this one for further clarification.

What is Love?

Love is the great spiritual force that propels our souls to evolve ever upwards.

What Feelings, Emotions, and Traits Characterize Unconditional Love?

Joy, serenity, generosity, bliss, happiness, humility, excitement, hope, faith, forgiveness, trust, optimism, laughter,endurance, patience, peace, abundance, radiant health, vitality, passion without drama, Sacred Sexuality,tenderness, learning, wisdom, kindness, healing, freedom, creativity, courage, commitment, beauty, caring, personal growth, spirituality, balance, oneness, ecstasy, compassion, empathy, tolerance,being nonjudgmental, spontaneity, fun, healthy pleasure, fulfilled desires, gratitude.

In other words, all the positive thoughts, emotions, and actions under the sun are characteristic of unconditional love.

What is Fear?

Fear — we all know all too well what it feels like to be afraid — that dreadful feeling of alarm or terror we experience if we sense that someone or something is going to hurt us; or the intense anxiety we experience as we wait in expectation of impending danger, disaster, or doom both real or imaginary.  We’re not talking here about fear as a natural defense mechanism to protect us from real harm.  What we’re talking about is toxic fear that keeps us frozen and paralyzed and stuck in patterns of behavior we can’t seem to control.

(The following passage in an excerpt from Grant Me a Higher Love)

Personal Fears versus Transpersonal Fears

All human beings have their own set of personal fears as well as transpersonal fears or collective unconscious fears.  Transpersonal fears are those primal, collective fears common, in varying degrees, to all human beings living within a particular culture.  In addition, many transpersonal fears, such as the fear of abandonment, cross the culture line and are inherent at this stage of human consciousness — to some degree — in all human beings.

Now that the Age of Aquarius is upon us, we’ve come to the stage of human evolution in which God asks that we overcome our own personal fears and conquer the transpersonal ones as well, so that we can walk the path of love.

The first step in our journey toward wholeness is to overcome our own personal fears.  After that we can take on the transpersonal ones.  Keep in mind that our personal fears are mirrors of our transpersonal ones.  For instance, people who were physically or emotionally abandoned by their parents have been given an opportunity to confront their own personal fear of abandonment.  As these people work on their personal abandonment issues, they’ll also overcome their transpersonal fear of abandonment as they learn that they can never be abandoned since God, our spirit guides, our angels, and our departed loved ones are always with us.  For these people, overcoming the personal fear of abandonment and the transpersonal fear of abandonment would be among the primary karmic lessons they’ve incarnated to learn.

Until we overcome both our personal fears and our transpersonal ones, we’ll remain chained to a life that is ruled by our emotions and uncontrollable thoughts.  Know that housed within yourself you possess everything you need to overcome these fears.

What Feelings, Emotions, and Traits Characterize Fear?

Pessimism, pity, flight, doubt, arrogance, hubris, violence, lust, jealousy, envy, greed, pettiness, meanness, power struggles, worry, selfishness, narcissism, guilt, feelings of rejection and abandonment, victim consciousness, anger, hatred, prejudice, vengeance, passing judgment, the excessive need to be right, holding a grudge, dogmatic thinking, phobias, obsessions, compulsions, addictions, perversions, feeling sorry for oneself, depression, and anxiety.

In other words, all the negative thoughts, emotions, and actions under the sun are characteristic of fear.

Dominque, please let me know if this helped you.