Can You Be Trusted With Your Own Power?
Overcoming the fear of the power you are capable of wielding can change everything.
Human beings are amazingly powerful creators. While there are a few other animals that use tools, no others have conceived of, designed, or built the technology possessed by the human race.
One of the most fascinating aspects of our species, though, is how our fear has evolved.
Like the rest of the animal kingdom, fear used to exist to protect us from tangible things that could harm us. Dangerous animals we could not fight and win without tools like spears, arrows, bullets and the like.
Now, as the apparently dominant species on this planet, fear has turned towards mostly intangible matters. Fear is not something most people can point to and go, “That! That thing right there scares the shit out of me!”
Because we have built such incredible technology, and overcome the elements and other matters of environment, it is clear we are capable of incredible things both good and bad. No other animal on this planet has tools like architecture manufactured of wood, steel, glass, brick, and other elements; vehicles to cross vast distances in short spans of time; the internet; guns and bullets; nuclear weapons; rockets to reach beyond this world alone.
Humans can create both tremendous wonders and frightening horrors. The human race is capable of building and destroying on a scale that no other members of the animal kingdom on Earth appear capable of even conceiving of.
Can you be too powerful?
One of the greatest fears people seem to face, and I know this from dealing with it myself, is that we are too powerful. To quote Marianne Williamson’s Our Deepest Fear:
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness
That most frightens us.We ask ourselves
Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.”
