Mental Prison Essay

83. What Are ‘Mental Prisons’ or Unnatural Fears, and The Process of Liberation?
• The animals have no unnatural or excessive fears – a fear in the area where is no absolute DANGER present. Animals become proportionally anxious only in life threatening situations and instinctively try to avoid or reduce danger level. If cannot avoid it lets out a cry of terror, which is sort of automatic prayer to Providence for help, and help comes on the psychic plane. As humans animals also have ‘Guardian Angels’ – the spiritual beings always ‘on duty’ to assist when prayer is sent out. Contrary to humans, which could be permanently anxious about either various aspects of life or death, animals are FREE from FEAR once real danger is over, having courageous and animated attitude towards life.
• Humans have no courage to embrace life and have lack of another factor that promotes health & happiness –
‘Unpleasant Good’ is the ‘contrast’, equally important to its opposite, and must be fully learnt in a function of DEVELOPMENT. As in Eastern tradition where the symbol of ‘yin and yang’ represents complementary elements of equal importance, so is in a case of ‘two sides of a coin’ which together represent also ‘THE CONTRAST PRINCIPLE’
• Martinus formulated our mental status on the path from selfishness to unselfishness as, “Wounded Refugees between Two Kingdoms”. The enormous physical and mental suffering is caused by being spiritually ‘homeless’. Substantially deviated ‘ways of being’ lead towards head on collisions with the Cosmic Laws. That is inevitable phase, in ‘recognition’ of ‘Contrast Principle’ ‘exercise’. ‘Pain & Suffering’ lead towards strong longing for the opposite or corrective mode of behavior, cultivating the process of Renewal of ‘Cosmic Consciousness’. (Quote from ‘Livets Bog’ Vol I, chapter