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Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina I’m sorry to disappoint those who ask me to prove the existence of lucid dreaming… or astral projection… or even how much income I earn. Those people will be waiting a very long time because I don’t care to prove anything. That would actually do people a disservice by feeding their fears instead of helping them move through their fears. |
Ah, well there's the rub. Where, actually, does the fear lie?
Does it reside in the person who wishes some sort of objective confirmation? Or does it actually lie in the person who refuses to even discuss the matter?
Throwing off the shackles of preconceived notions is a two-way street, and a healthy one at that. But wanting it both ways simply isn't consistent with rational thought.
Turning one's back on the process of seeking, and explaining, truth is actually the fear-based model. Seeking truth, and proving it, requires courage and foresight, because one may actually find that their own presuppositions are incorrect,whether it's about evolution or astral projection or gravity. That's frightening, even terrifying for some.
Holding one's own presuppositions up to the light, describing them, studying them and attempting to prove them can go a long way to dispelling the fear. And one may even learn something in the process.
But simply saying, "I don't wish to prove it, now go away and stop bothering me with troubling questions" is the fear-based model, not the other way around.