BY MICHAEL HAUSER

THERE’S A COLD-HEARTED KILLER on the streets called fear and it’s running wild through the city of Los Angeles, and other towns and cities across the world. It enters through the mind and bit-by-bit, slays the soul. It seems to be exterminating the divine essence of our real identity; at least, that’s what we’re being led to accept as true. But don’t believe it, even though there’s evidence trying to persuade you to.

Take a glance at any newsstand. You’ll see these newsstands as major signposts for broadcasting the headlines of despair and fear across the world. Pronounced so bolding in all of it’s variations, one could say that these media outlets base their entire programming on concepts of lack, disease, and terrorism—all of which breed fear—it’s the macrocosm of our ego minds. Fear, if you enter into a relationship with it, will undoubtedly lead you down a path laden with obstacles and crises in your life. A path whose time has come to an end.

Fear is the ego’s tool to prevent you from being all that you can be. To stop you from knowing your true identity, God. Fear makes us grasp for ideals based on fantasy highs that will never meet the touch of your hand. Fear keeps you frozen in a time warp of past memories and future tripping, and never keeps you in the moment. It paces around your soul and gains momentum as it takes

hold of your thoughts, feelings, and actions, if you let it. Our charge is not to let it. The text from Gifts from a Course in Miracles, by Marianne Williamson, says that “all healing is essentially the release from fear.” Are you ready to release?

Fear is prevalent everywhere in our society and there is an impulse to drown it out by getting high, consuming large amounts of food and products—anything to avoid the Truth. This sometimes, uncontrollable urge to get high, higher, and highest is growing at ever-increasing rates so as to please the fear factor within, to fill the emptiness. We can heal it with love, but we must be willing to undertake this with the help of Spirit.

Gifts from a Course in Miracles states that “Peace is the ego’s greatest enemy because, according to its interpretation of reality, war is the guarantee of its survival. The ego becomes strong in strife.” In order for us to move beyond the headlines of the world, we must have dominion over our own personal headlines—from our personal relationships, to our relationship with ourselves. We must be at peace. In order for us to be at peace, to love, we must be willing to let peace in, to release fear.

If not, we’re left unsatisfied with the oceanic feelings of emptiness and despair, and we’ll turn again and again back to the devil of deception hoping this time we’ll get our divine needs met—love, acceptance, creativity, joy, happiness, freedom, and passion. The seemingly never-ending cycle speeds up until one day, either through the grace of God, or through the merciful temple of the body, we’re given a wake-up call, and that call will have us on our knees.

On our knees we pray for a new way of living, a new way of being. Our prayers are answered when we realize that we are the gatekeepers of our thoughts. We get to choose what we’re allowing to stream through our consciousness. At any given moment we are either choosing fear or love. Our thoughts determine our experiences, and behind our thoughts live vibrations of either love or fear.

When we die to our own ways and means, of filling our selves up from the outside in with products and people, and begin to birth ourselves with Spirit, we’ll give labor to new attitudes, new belief systems, new friends, new love, and a renewed connection to something that is forever filling our souls, from the inside. This connection is to the presence of God, representing the face of God in our daily activities.

By awakening our conscious connection to the one power and only power, God, our life will carry a tone that vibrates love, and by doing so transforms the world around us.

Remembering that there’s a power and presence in our life that permeates all that there is, fades away the illusion of fear, worry and doubt.

All that one has to do is look at nature and see how effortlessly and grand it operates without any efforting — there is not fear inherent in nature. We have the invisible power of nature operating in us, as us, and through us. It’s invisible, but very much part of us. It’s everywhere, responding to everyone, regardless of race, creed, or color. There is a way to feel your way into this vibration of love and it’s called prayer. I welcome you to discover a program of prayer that will dissolve all sense of fear, separation, and loneliness in your life and behold your true identity, love.

Michael Hauser is an Agape Licensed Spiritual Practitioner, and a producer/director/writer of conscious TV. He can be reached through his website, www.livingvertically.com.