In bondage to fear or how to become free
Coast Eugene A
associate professor of department of surgery FPK and PPV NSMU
deputy director of surgical care MSH CST
on st. Novosibirsk-Gl. OAO "RZD"
Expert scientific discussion of the project
"game professionals. What is consciousness?"
RF, Novosibirsk
E - mail: biggmen @ rambler. ru
The reasonable existence of a person in modern society is steadily associated with the socialization of each individual and his realization not only as a separate being, but also as part of a common single humanity. The process of realization of each individual, both personality and part of common humanity, is quite complicated and conceals many obstacles on its way. One of these obstacles is fears, which often become the cause of emotional disturbances, excessive focusing of attention, and can cause impaired personality development.
Fear is an emotional defensive reaction of a person or animal when there is a real or perceived danger to their life and well-being. For a person, as a biological being, the emergence of fear sometimes turns out to be not only expedient, but sometimes also useful. However, for a person as a social being, fear often becomes an obstacle to achieving his goals. As NA Berdyaev writes in his writings: “Fear is the basis of the life of this world … The organism, to a large extent, is built for protection. The struggle for existence, which is full of life, presupposes fear … "Nikolai Andreevich writes further:" From the point of view of the perception of a person as a social being, it can be argued that fear is experienced by a person who has no one to rely on at the moment of danger (that is, he feels himself separated from others, abandoned, etc.)”. The Soviet Encyclopedic Dictionary describes fear as follows: “Fear is a negative emotion in a situation of real or imagined danger. As a philosophical concept was introduced by S. Kierkegaard, who distinguished between empirical fear - fear of a specific danger and unaccountable metaphysical fear - longing, specific for a person. For a person, the emergence of fear is not only advisable, but also useful as a defensive reaction in the event of a real threat. An important fact is that fear in humans can arise in anticipation of an event, and not only at the time of the event, as it happens in animals. Fear can act as a protective reaction of the body in response to a real threat, assessed as a useful affect aimed at preserving a biological object, or, as a pathological reaction in the case of an imaginary threat,which can hinder the realization of a person as a person and a socially manifested object. What is the basis of fear? One of the first in Russia in 1927, an attempt to classify fears due to their occurrence was undertaken by the psychologist and psychiatrist N. E. Osipov. He described that fear manifests itself when a real danger arises, horror arises when a fantastic, mysterious danger, and with a combination of these factors, fear arises, and horror is experienced when several moments arise simultaneously. But this classification is based only on external factors and to a greater extent indicates synonymous concepts, which prompts the idea that all these manifestations are the result of a reaction to various manifestations of fear in response to a general external influence. Among other things, the psychologist and psychiatrist G. A. Dorofeeva points out thatthat most social fears are complex. A person is rarely afraid of only one thing, for example, bosses, but is afraid of several factors at once. For example, with the fear of bosses, there may be fear of criticism, responsibility, being in the spotlight. And this indicates the presence of a single source of fear that extends to adjacent social situations. When reading the preface to the Russian edition of J. Reingold's book "Mother, Anxiety and Death" by the author SN Enikolopov it is pointed out that Vygotsky spoke about the significant role of death in the life of every person. Reingold himself refers to the research of S. Hall, which showed that fear of death is at the heart of all fears. Yu. I. Zvonareva in his writings writes that the existing classifications of fears cannot fully cover the entire range of objects,causing him, and this in turn indicates that the basis of all fears and phobias is the fear of death. In his writings A. S. Gagarin points out that in the existential paradigm the subject of fear is “fear of states after death”, “fear of the very act of death”, “fear of suppression, loss of being. V. I. Garbuzov believes that thoughts about death underlie most of the phobias of childhood. According to AI Zakharov, the leading fear of older preschool age is the fear of death: “Its appearance means the awareness of the irreversibility in space and time of the occurring age-related changes. The child begins to understand that growing up at some stage marks death. " In addition, the existing classifications of fears cannot fully cover the entire spectrum of objects that cause it, and this indicates that the basis of any fear is the fear of death. The following, extremely important question arises: Why are such different external causes as the presence of an immediate threat and imaginary threats leading to the same reaction, which in the first case is rational, beneficial to a person and irrational in the second case, harmful to a person as a social object? V. Yu. Baskakov speaks about the violation of the original balance of the three spheres of existence of a modern person, defined by R. Bykov as "schizophrenic." It is an imbalance of mind, senses, bodily sensations and impulses. At the same time, he points to a significant emphasis and dominance of "mind" (mind, consciousness, control) in modern man. D. Aike believes that “fear is a psychosomatic process, that is, it manifests itself simultaneously in bodily processes and in emotional experience. " E. Erickson says that three processes are somatic,ego process and social - represent three sides of a person's life: "the body is subject to the action of pain and tension, the ego to the action of anxiety, and as a member of society, he is sensitive to the fear emanating from his group." And this is a very important statement, which indicates that fear is a derivative not only of the consciousness of the person himself, but also a derivative of the collective consciousness, i.e. social group. ON. Berdyaev in his work "Existential dialectics of the divine and the human" wrote: "The innumerable amount of violence and cruelty in human life is a product of fear. Terror is fear not only of those at whom it is directed, but also of those who practice it. It is known that the obsessed with persecution mania not only experiences fear, but also begins to persecute others and plunge into a state of fear. The scariest people are people who are obsessed with fear. Fear is destructive. " And if we take into account the fact that back in 1871, when studying phobias, K. F. Westphal described that phobias emerge in the mind of a person against his will and cannot be arbitrarily driven out of consciousness, then a rather interesting picture emerges. Irrational fear, which in its essence is the same fear of death as rational, does not arise at the will of the person himself and, since the person himself is not able to get rid of it on his own, its source is not so much the person himself, but rather the consciousness of the social group, in which he is. This conclusion should be compared with the words of N. A. Berdyaev: “Fear rules the world. Power, by its very nature, takes advantage of fear. Human society was built on fear. "And from this follows the conclusion - the irrational fear of death serves as a means of controlling a person by the consciousness of a social group of people. Thus, an idea is formed according to which, firstly, all fears are variations of the manifestation of a single fear - the fear of death; secondly, the fear of death can be rational, which is a defensive reaction of a living being to an immediate threat to life, and irrational, which is a pathological reaction harmful to a person, preventing his self-realization as a person; thirdly, the source of the irrational fear of death is not the person himself as a person, but the consciousness of the social group of people in which the person is; fourth, the goal of the irrational fear of death is to control a person.the idea is formed according to which, firstly, all fears are variations of the manifestation of a single fear - the fear of death; secondly, the fear of death can be rational, which is a defensive reaction of a living being to an immediate threat to life, and irrational, which is a pathological reaction harmful to a person, preventing his self-realization as a person; thirdly, the source of the irrational fear of death is not the person himself as a person, but the consciousness of the social group of people in which the person is; fourth, the goal of the irrational fear of death is to control a person.the idea is formed according to which, firstly, all fears are variations of the manifestation of a single fear - the fear of death; secondly, the fear of death can be rational, which is a defensive reaction of a living being to an immediate threat to life, and irrational, which is a pathological reaction harmful to a person, preventing his self-realization as a person; thirdly, the source of the irrational fear of death is not the person himself as a person, but the consciousness of the social group of people in which the person is; fourth, the goal of the irrational fear of death is to control a person.which is a defensive reaction of a living being to an immediate threat to life and irrational, which is a pathological reaction harmful to a person, preventing his self-realization as a person; thirdly, the source of the irrational fear of death is not the person himself as a person, but the consciousness of the social group of people in which the person is; fourth, the goal of the irrational fear of death is to control a person.which is a defensive reaction of a living being to an immediate threat to life and irrational, which is a pathological reaction harmful to a person, preventing his self-realization as a person; thirdly, the source of the irrational fear of death is not the person himself as a person, but the consciousness of the social group of people in which the person is; fourth, the goal of the irrational fear of death is to control a person.
One of the specialties whose representatives constantly have to deal with fears is medicine. This is understandable, because it is to medical workers that people with health problems, and sometimes with a threat to life itself, turn. The specialty of a medical worker is permeated with fear of losing one's health or life. That is why it seems extremely important to study the problem of fear in the health sector. And given the fact that today it has been established that about 70% of diseases are of a psychosomatic nature based on fear of loss of health, life, loss of attention, social positions, etc., it becomes clear that after finding out the true causes of these processes, one can find the key to solving a colossal layer of problems in modern medicine. It should be taken into account thatthat medical workers themselves are subject to fears no less than patients. In addition to those fears that their patients may experience, specific fears associated with the performance of their professional duties, such as fear of responsibility for the health and life of another person, fear of making a decision, fear of blood, fear of causing pain to another person and many others fears.
The modern understanding of fear raises an extremely important question: How to get rid of fear? As N. A. Berdyaev writes in his works: “… fear generates lies. There is a fear that the truth will reduce fear and prevent you from managing people. The pure truth could lead to the downfall of kingdoms and civilizations. Therefore, Christianity has adapted itself to fear. Periodically, fear management leads to a totalitarian order and terror. Every authority has an element of fear. And the opposite of fear is freedom. The truth about freedom was hidden out of fear. " M. Montaigne proposes "to take away from her (death) the trump card:" We will deprive it of its mystery, let's take a closer look at it … ".
To understand the processes occurring with a person in the process of the formation and realization of fears, it is necessary to take as a basis the theory as an admissible reality set forth in the book by A. Novykh “Consciousness and Personality. From knowingly dead to eternally alive "and in the program on https://allatra.tv/ with the same name (https://allatra.tv/video/soznanie-i-lichnost). According to this theory, the following statements are permissible: first, a person has primary consciousness, i.e. what we usually call the subconscious, not manifested "I", the animal mind; secondly, a person has a secondary consciousness, i.e. what in everyday life we usually call the intellect, the conscious "I", the human mind; thirdly, a person has a personality, which we usually call an internal observer who is able to observe the work as a primary one,and secondary consciousness. Let's define the ways and nature of the interaction of these structures. The primary consciousness controls the work of the human body, interacting through it with the surrounding world, receiving information about it through the senses and interacting with the primary consciousness of other people. The information received is transmitted to the person's personality, which makes decisions about further actions in the surrounding world. Secondary consciousness is the environment for the general interaction of the minds of different people, the source of accumulation, storage and processing of intellectual information, the zone of thought processes, i.e. what we most often perceive as a conscious activity. It directly contacts the primary consciousness and through it transmits information to the personality, which, based on the data obtained, makes certain decisions. Decisions are made and commands for execution by the primary consciousness of the individual by making a choice of one or another program of action. In addition, the primary consciousness can partially block or not block the information coming from the secondary consciousness, depending on expediency and necessity, it can prevent the implementation of behavior algorithms that can damage a person as a biological object. But control over the activity of the primary consciousness remains with the individual, even in those situations when it comes to the survival of a person as a biological object. If the person loses control over the activity of consciousness, then the situation can change. When a person accepts the concept of the behavior of primary consciousness, a person without the influence of secondary consciousness has signs of animal behavior, i.e.priorities of a banal household level (food, rest, preservation of health, reproduction, domination, aggression, etc.). With the predominance of the influence of algorithms for the behavior of secondary consciousness, the social aspect of behavior begins to prevail in human behavior (desire for power, realization of selfish interests, recognition in society, control and domination over other members of society, attracting the attention of other people, etc.). But in both cases, egoism, pride and desire for power will prevail in human behavior, the only difference is that in the first case it will be at a more primitive, animal level, and in the second - more sophisticated, more "civilized." In the case of the prevalence of behavior dictated by the source of internal spiritual needs, chosen by the person, the behavior of a person begins to be based on the principles of justice,conscience, kindness, mutual respect, love without the slightest signs of selfishness, pride and desire for power.
When considering this concept taken as a basis, it is necessary to accept one more condition, according to which the statement will be true: the person makes a decision only in the choice of the implementation of the algorithm of actions offered to her by consciousness, or algorithms dictated by the inner desire of the person for goodness and love. In addition, the primary and secondary consciousness are part of a single consciousness, which can be conditionally called a single intelligent system (hereinafter referred to as the system).
Now, if we apply this concept to the material presented earlier, then we get a rather interesting picture of the work of primary and secondary consciousness in an attempt to subordinate a personality to its interests by attracting its attention. According to this concept, the primary consciousness provides the personality with algorithms of behavior aimed at the preservation and prosperous existence of a person as a biological object, and the secondary one provides algorithms that are beneficial for the unified consciousness of human society. Considering that the primary and secondary consciousness are parts of a single system, the implementation of the algorithms proposed by them should fulfill the interests of the entire system. In such a situation, a feeling of fear should not arise, becausethe actions of both consciousnesses in the interests of the system in relation to the personality in order to attract its attention should be coordinated and complementary to each other. From this statement follows a rather important conclusion, according to which fear can arise if there is a contradiction between the interests of the system and the individual, when the individual makes decisions that do not satisfy the interests of the system. Consequently, based on the above that fear is an instrument of control and management, the conclusion follows that fear is an instrument for managing the personality of the system. Thus, it turns out that fear is used to subordinate a person's personality to the interests of the system. Moreover, if a person, as a person, agrees with this kind of state of affairs, then he becomes a slave to the system, fulfilling its requirements. In this way,unequivocally correct is the statement that all irrational fears are imposed by the secondary consciousness in order to subordinate the personality to the interests of the system. Rational fears are the result of the activity of the primary consciousness, because it is it that is responsible for the preservation of the biological body, but at the same time also interacts with the system. If the question becomes in this way, then the conclusion follows from this - it is possible to get rid of fears by getting the personality out of the control of consciousness, or, to be more precise, by the system. And this can be achieved quite simply. To do this, a person must understand that it is not consciousness that dictates behavior and a plan of action to a person, forcing him, like a puppet, to follow certain instructions, namely, a person as a person decides how to act in a given situation. The system only proposes certain algorithms of behavior, while a person as a person chooses what to do. This requires an understanding of this process and observation of incoming thoughts-proposals for the implementation of this or that action in the world around. This kind of observation and separation of oneself as a person from consciousness, which is part of the system, will allow a person to take a differential approach to fears, to separate illusory, irrational fears from rational fear into a really existing threat. At the same time, a person, as a person, will be able to adequately respond to rational fear, control it and avoid uncontrollable behavior dictated by the system through fear, which almost always leads to a negative result for the person. This requires an understanding of this process and observation of incoming thoughts-proposals for the implementation of this or that action in the world around. This kind of observation and separation of oneself as a person from consciousness, which is part of the system, will allow a person to take a differential approach to fears, to separate illusory, irrational fears from rational fear into a really existing threat. At the same time, a person, as a person, will be able to adequately respond to rational fear, control it and avoid uncontrollable behavior dictated by the system through fear, which almost always leads to a negative result for the person. This requires an understanding of this process and observation of incoming thoughts-proposals for the implementation of this or that action in the world around. This kind of observation and separation of oneself as a person from consciousness, which is part of the system, will allow a person to take a differential approach to fears, to separate illusory, irrational fears from rational fear into a really existing threat. At the same time, a person, as a person, will be able to adequately respond to rational fear, control it and avoid uncontrollable behavior dictated by the system through fear, which almost always leads to a negative result for the person. This kind of observation and separation of oneself as a person from consciousness, which is part of the system, will allow a person to take a differential approach to fears, to separate illusory, irrational fears from rational fear into a really existing threat. At the same time, a person, as a person, will be able to adequately respond to rational fear, control it and avoid uncontrollable behavior dictated by the system through fear, which almost always leads to a negative result for the person. This kind of observation and separation of oneself as a person from consciousness, which is part of the system, will allow a person to take a differential approach to fears, to separate illusory, irrational fears from rational fear into a really existing threat. At the same time, a person, as a person, will be able to adequately respond to rational fear, control it and avoid uncontrollable behavior dictated by the system through fear, which almost always leads to a negative result for the person.dictated by the system through fear, which almost always leads to a negative result for the individual.dictated by the system through fear, which almost always leads to a negative result for the individual.
Understanding the true nature of the emergence of fear, one more fact becomes obvious - fear does not belong to the person. Fear is a psycho-emotional reaction that belongs to consciousness, and ultimately to the system. Therefore, it is not the person himself as a person who is afraid, but consciousness is afraid. This is also indicated in the theory of consciousness and personality set forth in the book by A. Novykh, which we took as a basis when considering this topic. Since we have found out that the fear of death is the basis of all fears, it follows that it is consciousness that is afraid of death. In accordance with Article 66 of the Federal Law of November 21, 2011 No. 323-FZ (as amended of March 6, 2019) "On the Fundamentals of Health Protection of Citizens in the Russian Federation", the moment of death of a person is the moment of death of his brain or his biological death (irreversible death of a person) … Based on understanding,that death in the generally accepted concept is considered the death of a person's biological body or his brain, that means that the system is afraid of the death of the human body, i.e. biological object. Since fear does not belong to the personality, i.e. she is not afraid of the death of the biological body, then this can be explained by the fact that the person does not die at the time of the death of the human body. Since in the process of interaction between personality and consciousness, it is the personality that makes decisions, controls the events and behavior in the environment, it becomes obvious that the true person in a deep understanding is precisely the personality.she is not afraid of the death of the biological body, then this can be explained by the fact that the person does not die at the time of the death of the human body. Since in the process of interaction between personality and consciousness, it is the personality that makes decisions, controls the events and behavior in the environment, it becomes obvious that the true person in a deep understanding is precisely the personality.she is not afraid of the death of the biological body, this can be explained by the fact that the person does not die at the time of the death of the human body. Since in the process of interaction between personality and consciousness, it is the personality that makes decisions, controls the events and behavior in the environment, it becomes obvious that the true person in a deep understanding is precisely the personality.
Since it is the personality in the process of studying the problem that can possess the properties of continuing life after the death of the biological body, the question arises: why does consciousness try to control and enslave the personality, does the personality have something that consciousness needs so much? And the answer to this question follows from the above data - drawing the attention of the individual to the implementation of programs of behavior proposed by the system. It becomes clear that the attention of a person is the necessary element for the sake of which the system is trying to enslave a person's personality.
Why is the attention of a person's personality so interesting to the system? To understand this issue, you need to turn to the data set forth in the foundations of quantum physics. When Klaus Jenson carried out an experiment on electron diffraction in 1961, it became clear that an electron can behave both a wave structure and a corpuscular one. Moreover, when the electron manifested itself as a wave, then when an outside observer appeared, i.e. when the observer's attention was paid to the study of the properties of the electron, he began to behave like a particle. Thus, this experiment indicated that the force of the observer's attention leads to a change in the wave properties of particles into material ones, i.e. to materialization of the object of the microworld from the wave. It is the fact of the influence of the observer's attention on the materialization of objects from an undefined wave system that formed the basis of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, the founders of which were Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. Equally demonstrative is the quantum Zeno effect - the metrological paradox of quantum physics, which consists in the fact that the decay time of a metastable quantum state of a system directly depends on the frequency of measurement of its state, was experimentally confirmed at the end of 1989 by David Wineland and his group at the National Institute of Standards and technologies (Boulder, USA). In this case, the probability of decay of a metastable quantum system may depend on the frequency of measurements of its state, and in the limiting case, an unstable particle, under conditions of more frequent observation of it, will never decay. Consequently, it is the power of the individual's attention that forms the material world from the existing wave structure. This is indicated in the books by A. Novykh “Allatra” p. 132 and in the book “Consciousness and Personality. From the known dead to the eternally alive (https://allatra.tv/book/soznanie-i-lichnost-kniga).
Based on the results obtained, we can confidently conclude that fear as a negative psycho-emotional reaction is not inherent in a person as a person, but arises from the side of his consciousness, or, to be more precise, a system that tries to subordinate a person's personality to its interests. At the same time, fears have the goal of enslaving the individual. And the important thing is in which direction a person as a person makes his choice. If a person invests his attention in the programs offered by the system, then he receives in response the formation of the world around him and relationships with other people in the key of the interests of the system, and not the personality itself, i.e. a perspective that is obviously negative for the individual. If a person pays attention to positive behavior dictated by the natural need for love, excluding manifestations of selfishness and pride,realizes the interests of a person as a person, and not as a slave to the system, then it becomes free from patterns of behavior imposed by the system, gets the opportunity to control its actions independently, and not under the dictation of consciousness. At the same time, she is able to fully realize herself and remain free. In such a situation, a person is also freed from the irrational fear of death imposed by the system. And the rational fear of the death of the body is already perceived as a warning of a real possible danger, and a person, and as a free person, is able to adequately respond to the information received without turning into a puppet of the system. Thus, the mask of mystery is torn from the nature of fear, from the activity of the system. If a person is not aware of the mechanisms of the formation of fear, does not realize his separateness as a person in relation to consciousness,then he is not able to observe, objectively evaluate and adequately make a decision in the current situation. At its core, consciousness is a tool for the interaction of a person with the outside world. What a person will invest his attention in, in positive behavior dictated by love, the desire for goodness and unity with people, or in material interests dictated by egoism, pride and the desire for power, then he will eventually receive: freedom in decision-making or stuns a puppet under the influence of fears dictated by the system. Each person as a person shapes his life, making a daily choice between good and evil. What a person will invest his attention in, in positive behavior dictated by love, the desire for goodness and unity with people, or in material interests dictated by egoism, pride and the desire for power, then he will eventually receive: freedom in decision-making or stuns a puppet under the influence of fears dictated by the system. Each person as a person shapes his life, making a daily choice between good and evil. What a person will invest his attention in, in positive behavior dictated by love, the desire for goodness and unity with people, or in material interests dictated by egoism, pride and the desire for power, then he will eventually receive: freedom in decision-making or stuns a puppet under the influence of fears dictated by the system. Each person as a person shapes his life, making a daily choice between good and evil.
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