That is because the tremendous fire-power of our human imagination can learn to hold fear differently and to respond to it in a more enlightened way. My human imagination, which is pretty powerful, got carefully trained to construct out of the experience of fear a chain-link fence of restricted living. That same human imagination must, experience by experience, boundary by boundary, retrain itself to see, in place of an electrified fence, a gate to new worlds. Or perhaps, new births. Our fears notify us of the presence of a boundary.
Boundaries are important.
They define a limitation in order to deliver us from it, so that we may deliberately, consciously, cross it. When we are afraid, we are, in a sense, superstitious. And that is because we trust strange and mysterious forces more than we trust the energies of nature that flow through us and that we are. We don't feel our own sense of being and power and place, but instead we fear powers and places and persons. And you know, there is the power of a community that believes in you and believes in the powers that are in you.