I am at Beyond Wellness working on clients and it’s getting late into the evening. I’ve just finished a counseling session and two Cranial Sacral Therapy Sessions and my last client was a massage session. This was a new client, a young girl from China who just came into the country to see her boyfriend.
I usually start a session with a little conversation to create a connection and provide a comfortable space. So I asked my client from the other side of the world: ” when you first came over to our country, what was the biggest change or difference that you observed in our culture”? The most common response is usually a remark about how we waste food and natural resources, but her response took me by surprise. She paused, giving the question a deep thought and then responded with: ” there are many differences in your country, but what really strikes me is the Fear Americans carry inside themselves. It’s not about something particular, rather a raw fear projected into everything around. I was amazed at her profound awareness and took this answer into deep thought myself.
The following day I was having a breakfast at a local diner by myself early in the morning before class. Right in front of me, drawing my attention was a T.V, CBS documentary in large bold letters across the bottom of the screen
America, Culture of Fear! 
Starting with film of a young man kneeling in the desert in an orange outfit about to be decapitated by a knife held by masked follower of ISIS, then it went to a popular college showing armed security with rifles trying to contain a sexual abuse problem on campus. Then it went from weather destruction to talking about the real Autism numbers in children are at 1 of every 45 and escalating out of control with no solution in sight!
Ok, that was enough of T.V for me for a day. I left the restaurant and headed for the sacred Journey Institute, where I was preparing lectures for Level-5 Cranial Sacral Therapy class. Here, I entered my meditation circle to explore my morning thoughts. I experienced profound discussions with my higher self about how America is viewed as the Police or Protector of the word. Now, isn’t the need to protect a product of fear? So what would happen if we could eliminate fear from our culture? In the deep trance I received incredible massages:
Truth:
It is our subconscious emotions that create the roles we play and the experiences we draw to ourselves. We are not Victims of our surrounding we are Creators of our environment.Truth:
As a collective, if we were to eliminate Fear from our entire culture there would be great consequences to this change:
There would be no Wars!
There would be no Crime!
There would be no Violence!
As I grounded myself, bringing myself out of the trance state, I took a deep breath and began to process this truth in my Intellect. Wow, my conscious thoughts then shifted into realizing a magnitude of this. A country driven by Fear, utilizing defense mechanisms of external power and control to exist, would have to let go of the huge archetype role of being the “Protector of the world” in order to change.
Could our culture handle that?
Is it worth Peace?
Written by:
Don Massat
SJI Director