Article June 10, 1996 ISSUE

Dismantling fear

Helen Tucker Parnell

While I was out for a walk, a dog ran up, barking right at my heels. I felt fear sweep over me. Then I looked down and immediately recognized the dog. He belonged to my neighbor's child and was not vicious. He just barked at everyone who walked by! The fear disappeared as quickly as it had come. Factual human reasoning—knowing what is true and why—had destroyed it.

But what about fear of death, pain, disability, failure, and other human miseries? Human reason tells us these are things to be feared. Here, too, consciousness of the facts dispels the fear. What facts? The spiritual facts.

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