Transforming our fear through difficult times.

In this podcast, Eckhart answers questions about how to deal with our fears, especially when confronted with a crisis.

He says, intelligent action cannot occur when we're gripped by anxiety and negative thinking, which can be incredibly destructive.

What's needed is wisdom, looking at the totality of the situation, not just one aspect of the problem.

Eckhart says, we must free ourselves from the negative thinking that accompanies fear and align ourselves with what he calls the vertical dimension, the place where we are one with all that is.

He also urges us to pay attention to the most important thing in any situation, our state of consciousness.

Effective and intelligent action does not arise out of fear.

And no matter this requires, not only action that you take in your personal life, but also action that we need to take on the collective level.

If the action that we take arises out of fear, it's unlikely that it will be effective because what is missing then is wisdom, wisdom that takes into account the totality of a situation.

Not just focuses on one aspect of a problem and tries to solve it there, disregarding how it affects other things.

So what's happening collectively to us is then potentially a great awakener for many humans.

And practice whenever the fearful thinking arises, realize that it is not helpful, it's destructive, and realize that the primary factor in your life is the real life.

In your life is connected with the vertical dimension.

In other words, the primary factor is your state of consciousness in any situation, any problematic situation, any challenging situation.

How do you respond to it? The primary factor and your primary attention needs to be on your inner energy feed, your state of consciousness.

If that is not right, if that is negative, egoically, ego means complete identification with mind, if the ego is there, the ego may have good intentions.

It may look good at the beginning of an egoic thing that the ego says, this is what we need to do. But if you disregard your underlying consciousness, then you'll find that the famous proverb applies.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

So there have been many people in the world, they're good intentions, they've led to disaster, because they disregard it, their own consciousness, they just had an idea in the head.

Let's create a society where humans are equal, they're no longer exploited, let's get rid of the dreadful things of private property, and that all sounds so wonderful, so that all great, it's called communism, let's try it out.

And they tried it out, it looked so great intention, I suppose, whether it might not have been totally pure, there might have been a resentment also in other things with it, but there were good intentions there.

They just forgot about the human ego, the unconsciousness in every human being, including the people who wanted to bring about the revolution, and then it led to millions dead killed how I don't want to go into it now, don't eat it, but you can read history books.

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