Todd: Stan Grof, one of my mentors, really elaborated on this and did some fascinating work, does some fascinating work with it, and developed a technique called holotropic breathwork, where you can sometimes relive your birth experience. It’s quite remarkable. In the birth experience we have our first confrontation with fear. Before that we’re floating in the amniotic fluid and all of our needs are met through the umbilical cord and everything is blissful, and then boom. The walls of the uterus are contracting down and it feels like we’re about to die, so that’s our first confrontation with fear and we have to make sense out of it, and we start in a preverbal way to look for interpretations, again, without words, to make a world that coheres, a worldview that coheres. If you’re looking for a full-out gold-searching adventure, then this place has it in store for you. Todd: Same thing with the drive to be an authentic identity. This is who I really am. I’m not going to hide myself behind those masks anymore. I’m going to sing my music to the world, or as Walt Whitman said, sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world, right? One of the quotes. Excuse me, sir,” said Frank respectfully, “if I refuse to believe you, because I have heard you frequently express to friends your admiration of the view from your own drawing-room window—” Frank,” said Mr Allfrey, somewhat solemnly, as he turned his gaze full on the animated face of his nephew, “ if I could get you put into a lunatic asylum without a doctor’s certificate I would do so without delay, but, that being impossible just now—although I think it will be not only possible but necessary ere long—I have to make you a final proposal. It is this:— that, as you express such a powerful objection to enter an office in this country, you should go abroad and see whether a three-legged stool is more attractive in foreign parts than it is in England. Now, I happen to have a friend in California. If your geography has not been neglected as much as your Latin, you will remember that this country lies on the western seaboard of North America, not far from those gold-fields which have been recently turning the world upside-down. Will you go?”

Todd: That’s a secondary defense. There are tertiary defenses, and it goes on and on and on, because we become extraordinarily sophisticated and with elaborate defense systems, of course, that are tailored to try and keep ourselves safe in any of the myriad situations we find ourselves in, so I give you a very unusual one. You asked for a less obvious one. Then, he suggests we can all reveal one core fear at the root of all the other emotional difficulties we have, and that core fear is going to be the same every time. Just to give you a clue, these five core fears are: abandonment, loss of identity, loss of meaning, loss of purpose and death.Imi: Actually, just to interrupt, I think to keep our listeners up to speed it may be useful for us to just list a few defenses, so people know what we’re talking about.

Frank felt a sensation of indignation at being spoken to thus rudely, and in his heart he believed that if he was indeed fit for nothing, his sad condition was due much more to his uncle’s neglect than to his own perversity. He did not, however, give utterance to the thought, because he was of a respectful nature; he merely flushed and said,—“Really, uncle, you do me injustice. I may not be fit for much, and every day I live I feel bitterly the evil of a neglected education, but—”Todd: It’s like a second birth into a new world. A world of adulthood, and we are exposed to a much bigger understanding. Neurologically, we’re ready for that, about how life can be threatening, and again we have to make sense out of it and come up with an interpretation that we can work with, so that we know how to navigate the world, and the core fear is set in adolescence, but it’s built on the precursors in early childhood and the birth process.

These volcanoes make new oceanic crust at ‘spreading centres’ distributed (mostly) from the centre of the world oceans. These are the constructive plate margins and where all new sea floor is made. At day-break they were aroused by the guides, and rose with alacrity, feeling a little refreshed, and being anxious to push on to the water-hole, but when the sun rose and sent its dazzling rays over the dreary waste, giving promise of another dreadful day, their spirits sank again. Seeing this the principal guide encouraged them by saying that the water-hole was not more than three miles distant.

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