Love, Fear, and Freedom from Stress

Guest post by Yasuhiko Genku Kimura ©2024. All Rights Reserved.

Question: I would love to know your daily strategy for coping with the stress of an overwhelming life. Mine has been the most challenging it has ever been of late.

1. Atomistic Approach vs. Systemic Approach to Problem Solution

The ordinary approach to problem-solving is to seek to formulate a solution particular to the problem at hand. However, a solution thus formulated requires for its existence the very existence of the problem to which it is a solution, because to have an existence means to have an identity.

To exist is to have an identity. Therefore, the solution has its existence by virtue of it having the identity as a solution to a problem. The solution depends for its existence on the very existence of the problem. The solution and the problem are thus being coupled and locked-in for their dependent coexistence.

There has taken place no change in context, framework, paradigm, worldview, being, or consciousness. The problem and the solution coexist in the same world, in the same reality, in which the problem has arisen in the first place. That is, so long as you have a solution or a strategy to cope with the problem of high stress, you will keep the high stress in place so that you can keep coping with it.

This is an allopathic or atomistic approach, not a holistic or systemic approach. With a holistic systemic approach, you will live your life in such a way that high stress, even if you have it from time to time, will not fundamentally affect you, and therefore, you do not need to have a strategy to cope with it as a solution because a contextual or systemic shift has taken place and you live in a different world, in a different reality, and with a different teleological orientation. 1

What follows is the exposition of a holistic systemic approach to the problem of high stress.

2. Love-telic and Fear-telic Life Orientations

Love and fear are two basic telic emotions that orient people in life in two distinct ways. Love orients them toward a full engagement with reality, while fear towards a (partial) flight from reality. In actuality, we are varied mixtures of both emotions of love and fear, but fundamentally, even as in the case of a positive (plus) or a negative (minus) integer, an individual’s telic orientation tends to be either love-telic (plus) or fear-telic (minus).

The people with the fear-telic orientation live inside a delusional world of simulacra as the substitute reality of their own making and away from actual reality. They are unable to face and to be with reality, of which they have morbid cowering fear and from which they have taken a flight.

The people with the love-telic orientation authentically live in reality and courageously engage with reality. Courage is a function of love; at the core of courage, there is love. It is love that moves them to engage with reality with curiosity and excitement and to face all the challenges or the “dangers” that are inherent in life and in reality.

The courageous enter into reality, while the fearful escape from reality. The courageous live an authentic life, while the fearful pretend to live and therefore live an inauthentic life.

“Far more critical than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. One often obtains a clue to a person’s personality by discovering the reasons for his or her imperviousness to certain impressions. The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.” — Eric Hoffer

The weakness of a soul and the number of truths that must be kept from it are also proportionate to the degree to which that soul is fear-telic.

As Dr. John E. Sarno has demonstrated 2 , many physical or physiological ailments are psychogenic, developed as a way of attention deviation in order to shift the conscious attention from the original psychological pain (the truth to be kept from oneself) to the physical pain (the symptom to occupy one’s attention and self).

This attention deviation principle applies especially to the morbidly fearful who suffer from various somatic (in reality psychosomatic) ailments. Hypochondriacs are a typical example but more subtle psychogenic manifestations exist in seemingly normal (but nevertheless fearful and inauthentic) people who suffer from various physical ailments from back pain to cancer.

This attention deviation is not limited to psychosomatic illnesses. Various problems in life, such as money, relationship, or career, may be used to deviate the attention from a real psychological issue whose etiology ultimately leads to repressed fear—of what the person does not want to know.

The same applies to the world at large. We deviate our attention from real problems to apparent problems many of which are intentionally manufactured by the powers-that-be to deviate the public’s attention from the real problems which they themselves have created. This is why they use fearmongering to manufacture pseudo crises to the fear-telic public into submission to their selfish will.

On the individual level, understanding and acknowledging this psycho-mechanics is the first necessary step but not sufficient. People must consciously and intentionally shift their telic emotional orientation from fear to love by consciously and intentionally taking a leap from fear to love—by consciously and intentionally entering into reality and standing in and orienting themselves from love.

That is to say, the cure for fear is the self-generation of love, and the cure for cowardice is the self-generation of courage. You must ask what it is that you don’t want to know and you must continue to ask until you know the answer. Then, the truth will liberate you.

3. Love

What is love? Love is the authentic pulse of life. Love is the self-reinforcing syntropic movement of “rhythmic balanced interchange of giving and regiving” 3 .

Beneath fear, no matter how morbid or even phobic it may be, there is love inborn and undying, pulsating as your very being and becoming as the cosmic movement of the life divine. Unless you live your life from love with courage, you have not really lived as you.

You have only pretended to live under cowering fear as a simulacrum of you.

What is love? Love is the enhancive “reinforcement of identity” 4 through evolutionary “symmetry transformations” 5 or “structure-preserving transformations” 6 . Identity is the defining structural integrity of the individual’s singular inner (“intensional”) properties that remains symmetrical or unchanged under various transitional or transformational outer (“extensional”) events such as aging or marriage.

Through the very act of loving someone or something, you enhancively reinforce your identity, that is, you intensify and enhance your identity by increasing and enlarging the range of who and what you are by including and integrating into your identity the persons whom you love or the realms of reality which you love—from nature, music, art to poetry, mathematics, and philosophy.

The telos of love is liberation. It is liberation because through the dynamism of love you liberate yourself from the static boundary and confine of your present identity. Love is the authentic pulse of not only love but also freedom because freedom is the life-source of that pulse of creative evolution, that evolutionary dialectical sublational movement, through which you intensionally and extensionally enhancively reinforce your identity.

To live in and from love is to align yourself with the creational evolutionary telos of the Universe and of the cosmic creation and evolution—with the telos of Reality as a whole.

Thusly you fully and consciously partake of the cosmic entelechy towards ever-greater freedom and self-realization.

Whereas love is the authentic syntropic pulse of life, fear is the inauthentic entropic tremor of death. The telos of love is liberation because love is the authentic pulse of freedom. The telos of fear is enslavement because the fearful seek and cower in security and protection instead of seeking and braving in freedom and adventure. However, love as the authentic pulse of freedom can overcome fear because freedom includes the freedom from fear, fearfulness, enslavement, and psychosomatic stress.

4. Freedom from Stress

Stress arises with the perception that your life is uncertain and not under your control when you want it to be certain and under your control. Stress is the psycho-epistemic somatic pressure induced by the sense of insecurity and helplessness—a sign of fearful victim consciousness.

It is the common perception of reality that life is uncertain. We experience that our life is inherently uncertain and largely not within our control. Therefore, stress is inevitable so long as you crave for certainty and control while we hold onto this perception of life and reality as uncertain and uncontrollable.

However, there is a substantial difference between those who are love-telic and fear-telic with respect to how they experience and deal with the life conditions that cause stress.

The love-telic are the courageous self-generators of their own lives and experiences of reality. They know and understand that they have the control over their own thought and imagination, and that their thought and imagination creates and manifests as their destiny. They know and understand that the way and the process in which their life actually unfolds to manifest their thought and imagination as their destiny is uncertain but that it will manifest is certain so long as they control their thought and imagination.

Your life unfolds to manifest your destiny in accordance with your thought but how it will manifest is uncertain and sometimes it manifest in a surprising, almost mysterious, way.

You repeat mistakes but it turns out that what you thought was a “mis-take” was a “right-take” on the right path towards the fulfillment of what you desire, think, and imagine.

Therefore, trust or faith is essential.

5. Faith

Faith, Neville Goddard variously defines as follows:

“Faith is the loyalty to the unseen reality.” “Faith is the commission [commitment] to the promise of an expected end.” Faith is the assurance of things hoped for.” Faith is the conviction of things not seen.”

On faith I wrote the following many years ago:

Fear is the tool of the indwelling devil that disempowers you in the face of uncertainty. Faith is that which transmutes fear into courage. Faith is not composed of certainties but of questions which you work through in the most sophisticated, sensitive, and soulful fashion. Faith is a reading of reality using the subtlest, inmost faculties of the human mind which is connected to the supramental and blessed with the spiritual.

Faith is a link to the irresistible cosmic forces of the universe that work to support you in the fulfillment of your purpose—you who do not believe in failure or defeat as anything but only a temporary experience.

Faith in yourself is both the self-generated intelligence with which you outwit and defeat the indwelling devil and the self-generative power with which you build a triumphant life.

In Conclusion

Faith is knowing your unity with the Source, while love is knowing your identity with the Source. You and the Source are in syndiffeonesis 7 —that is, in difference-in-identity (love) or difference-in-unity (faith). Therefore, being love-telic implies being faith-telic.

Where there is love, there is faith and courage—the two prime virtues of the divine virtue that is love.

Notes:

1. On the Systemic Approach, see the “From Solution to Resolution” section in my

essay “Alignment Beyond Agreement”(2003): https://genkuworld.com/wp-

content/uploads/2020/11/Alignment-Beyond-Agreement-Expanded.pdf.

2. John E. Sarno, M.D., The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders

(2007).

3. Walter Russell, The Message of The Divine Iliad (1949).

4. Christopher M. Langan defines “love” and “identity” with a mathematical precision in his “Love and Teotlesis” article (March 9, 2024).

5. Herbert V. Guenther, Ph.D., From Reductionism To Creativity (1989).

6. Christopher Alexander, Ph.D., The Nature of Order (2002)

7. Christopher M. Langan, The Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe: A New Kind of Reality Theory (2020)

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Editors’ note: Many thanks to Yasuhiko Genku Kimura for this insightful article that dovetails wonderfully with Chris and DrGenie’s last posts. We look forward to his future submissions. Please join his substack here: