Bill Bennett: "Recently, I got some bad news. It catapulted me into fear. But I soon realised my fear would only make things worse. To deal with what I was facing, I first had to face my fear. So I set off around the world to find out all I could about fear....Come with me on my journey. You don't have to live in fear."
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When we spoke last time, you talked about the one you were working on is facing fear. It was like, Oh, that's so appropriate for me, God. And I mean, as it is, for so many of us, but you know, the nervousness that I feel now even, you know, I like you may otherwise I wouldn't have invited you back for the chat. I really enjoyed that last one. And yet, I still feel you know, I still have these fears of the expectation of I want to do this, well, I won't, I won't be able to think I'm great. But that's all ego based stuff. Well,
you know, it's really interesting you say that, because in a couple of the interviews that I did with some of the people for the film, I said, I asked a question. And oftentimes it was towards the end of the interview. I said, What are you afraid of right now? And it was a very confronting question, because I had to really sort of dig right back. In some of them, in their honesty, said, I'm afraid of this interview. It was for the very things that you're talking about. But you know, Tim, I mean, we can get into more later, but but one of the people that I interviewed said something really stuck with me. And she said her name is the Reverend Zoe Inman. And she said, one of the greatest fears is the fear of what other people will think of you. And if you get rid of that fear, it just loosens up a whole lot of stuff. You know, it really does it, you know, you don't, you don't worry about getting old or looking out, you don't worry about, you know, necessarily what you say, I mean, you've got to be courteous and respectful, and so forth. But, but all of these things, but, but I thought about that, you know, the, the greatest fear is the fear of what other people think of you. And one of the things that I'd like to talk about later on when it's appropriate is, is this belief that I've come to know, I've just not read in any way, and it's not that I've, or any of the interviewees actually said it, but it was just my sort of drilling down and drilling down and drilling down into fear. And I came to the sort of bedrock of loss, you know, that, that all fear in some form stems from a fear of loss. And if we can, you know, peel back the onion layers, and peel them back and peel them back, what you end up with is, you end up with some form of fear of loss. Now, in the case of what other people think of you, it's a fear of loss of respect to loss of station in life loss or loss of status. You know, loss of self esteem. You know, there's a number of things that can factor into that. But this notion that all fear, in some form or another, stems from a fear of loss is really interesting. And I'm, you know, I've tried to find a fee, that's not and I've asked people I've asked, you know, very esteemed people, if they can give me a fee, and it's not based in laws, and no one's been able to yet. There might be one, you know, somebody listening to this now, mine might come up with one. But, you know, on On the occasions when people have profited something, have come back to them and said, Yeah, but what about this, what about this, what about this and then ends up as a fear of loss? And of course, the greatest fear of loss is fear of loss of life, which is death. Yeah, it is interesting.
It's a really, really interesting observation because yeah, I mean, as soon as I think about, you know, many of the fears They go straight into last straight, straight straightaway. And then I can see what are you? Okay? So, you know, we usually look back at Trauma points in our childhood days as the source of the conditioning that we then live our lives by. And I can see straightaway, and I've Oh, yeah, that was that was an instance of loss of that triggered so and so straight away from what you're saying. It's really interesting point, I'm not talking about it before like that. Do you think that that stems from you might not be able to answer this, Do you think that stems from the ultimate separation of from when we are removed and detached from spirit, we come into this form and we are lost, in a sense, because we have to find ourselves again?
00:00 Facing Fear Trailer
01:08 Fear of what people think
03:06 All fear as fear of loss
06:43 Heart based living - a solution?
13:52 Good and evil - Is there such a thing as evil?
20:26 Our global fear
24:41 Why did you make this film?
31:26 The next movies in this series
39:11 Where to watch the movie
39:30 Fan-force.com shout out
40:22 facing fear film long trailer