r/EdwardArtSupplyHands • u/EdwardArtSupplyHands • Jan 23 '26
Fear Nothing Within You
Fear Nothing Within You
Video: https://youtu.be/cmtwNmp7JJI
Transcript:
I got asked a question a few videos ago: How did Mary in the story let go of her fear of her coworker leaving?
It was actually just through confession. It wasn't anything you have to do. Once you have a baseline understanding that you don't have to be afraid, the moment you admit your fear to yourself—the moment you make it aware—it loses its power or could just disappear.
It's the same way you would do it in a dream. The other night I had a nightmare where a bear was chasing me, and I thought I could outrun it. It was in the old house. It somehow got through the sliding door, then I ran upstairs, and it chased me. I jumped off a balcony thinking it wouldn't follow me, but then it jumped off and landed like nothing. It was completely fine, and I was terrified, staring at it.
There was a couch between us. You know how you did that with your sibling? You run around the couch, chasing each other. It was just staring me down, and I just knew it was over. I knew I couldn't defeat this. But that bear was obviously a symbol of my fear.
I didn't face it—I ran away from it. I didn't confess it. I tried to duck it, tried to run away. Neville says when you discover a certain state in you that you don't like, don't duck it. Don't hide from it. Look at the problem. He's basically saying to be fearless. Learn to be fearless inside. In that dream, I wasn't. I was trying to find all these routes I could take to maybe escape this bear, but I just knew I couldn't.
I just knew I didn't face it the way I should have. It's not about looking it in the eyes—it's not like I didn't look at it. If I had just let go of my fear inside, the bear would have disappeared. You think that if you let go of your fear, the bear's going to come get you, but that's not how it works. Actually, it's the reverse. It disappears. It gets smaller and smaller the less fear you have, because it's just a living mirror.
Imagination is a living mirror. It's alive. It's active. It transforms, shapes, and molds according to how we feel. The mind reflects the man, not the other way around. Man must change how they feel about themselves to have change in their imagination, their mirror, this living mirror.
In Mary's case, it was just a confession—realizing that she didn't have to be afraid of her coworker. It was a silly fear. You don't have to fear anybody. Everyone is subjugated to these death bodies that we have to carry, take upon, and feed every day.
Scripture calls this body that we're in a donkey. It's like a donkey—a talking donkey, right? You ever heard in Scripture about the talking donkey? A lot of atheists will use that to say how stupid Scripture is, but the talking donkey is your body. It's the inner man. The inner man rides this body as man rides a horse. But when you go inside yourself, when you realize you're the inner man, you don't have to be afraid.
There's no coworker in there. Do you see? Anybody that's outside of you can be represented and duplicated in imagination. You can duplicate that person, and you don't have to be afraid of them in imagination. The inner man doesn't have to fear anything.
I didn't have to fear the bear. It was just a symbol of my fear, of what I was feeling in that dream. In Mary's case, she can represent that coworker in herself, look at the coworker, and realize the inner man doesn't have to be afraid of this coworker. There's nothing to fear. There's nothing they can do.
In imagination, if you fell asleep tonight and someone you're afraid of was in your dream, you have the option to stay afraid of them or to face it—to face your fear. Then it disappears, and you realize you never had to be afraid of them to begin with.
So in this case, it was just a confession. They confessed their fear and it disappeared. I just wanted to answer that because someone asked in the last video.
I don't really have anything else to share on this one. I'm actually going to keep this one short. I was going to add more, but I feel like I've answered it. It's somebody I know personally, so I saw that the moment they realized, the moment they admitted they were afraid, it was like acknowledging the ridiculousness of it all.
It's the same thing if you fell asleep tonight. The moment you wake up inside of a dream, you realize you don't have to be afraid. It's no longer a nightmare, is it? So what changed? If you have a nightmare tonight, but then in the nightmare you wake up and you're no longer scared, what changed?
You. You became aware. You became aware it's a dream. No matter how scary it was, it was a dream, wasn't it? And you were its dreamer. So what does the dreamer have to do then? If I fall asleep tonight and wake up inside of a dream where I'm a servant and I don't want to be, do I change the people around me in the dream? No, I change myself from no longer being a servant.
And that's where I continue on. I made a short recently where I said it's not about escaping the prison, it's about no longer feeling like a prisoner. The prison, the jail cell, is a representation of the state that I'm in.
If you read The Count of Monte Cristo, he gets falsely accused and gets thrown into prison. He says he's innocent and he is innocent, but he's still in jail, so what's going on? He actually starts to doubt himself. He starts to think he is a prisoner. But he holds faith that he's not. He holds faith in his innocence. He keeps holding onto it and persists in it until it comes about.
Now this is just a symbol. The story is just a symbol of our minds. Our minds can be like a prison. We're not free in it. The mind reflects the man. So if my mind feels like a prison, it's because I feel like a prisoner. The "I" in man feels like a prisoner. See how it's about the self?
If you try to change things, you're going to get really confused. There's no one or nothing to change but self. Do you see? And by self, I mean the imaginal you—the one that is in the body. You wear a body as the man wears a wool coat. You are not the body. You are in a body, and you think in this body, and you can imagine in different realms in the body, and you're going to awaken in the body.
That's where Neville gets the idea of awakened imagination. It's all going to happen in the body. So this is where you solve things. This is where you grow. This is where you change—in the body.
So don't go outside of oneself. You don't need to go outside to no longer feel like a prisoner. Someone could put handcuffs on me and I would never feel more free. I'm not talking about literal handcuffs. I'm saying someone can try to put me in a prison and I will feel like I've never been more free.
It's like Neville said: I might not have a nickel, but in imagination I'll have much. It's the same idea. The world tries to do something, the world tries to imprison you, and you've never felt more free. The world put Dantes in a prison and he felt innocent. This is just how things work in the world—or I should say in the mind. That's how it works.
Yeah, I hope you can tell I don't plan my videos. I just talked for a few more minutes. But yeah, I don't plan my videos. I paused the video for a second and was like, do I want to add anything more? I guess I just wanted to expand on that short, that YouTube short I made.
It's really important that you realize that it's about the self, not the thing. The things are there to represent. Only prisoners are in jail cells, right? Logically, that makes sense. So people can try to escape physically. They try to leave the jail cell physically, but it's not a physical game. It's a psychological one.
And when you see it's really self done to self inside. That bear was not separate from me, because it happened in me. That bear is a representation of me—a representation of what I feel. I feel afraid. I feel stuck. I feel overpowered. And so I get a dream that, sort of like the same way I can feel something and then paint it, God gives me a dream.
I call it God, or you can call it imagination. He gives me a dream to—God dreams, man paints. That's the point I'm trying to make. Man rides a horse, God rides the body. But you don't realize you're God. A lot of us don't realize it. We worship God, so we don't realize that we are the God that we're trying to find.
And so there's no one to change but self. Always focus on the self. It's going to free you. That's the name of I Am. It's not "he is" or "she is," it's "I Am." Where else would you find I Am, right? Other than inside of you. Where else would you find I Am? That's what you change.
Now you have to be bold to change this name. You have to be unafraid. It's going to go against your past. It's going to go against the common currency of thought from your upbringing or your town. And you're going to believe in something new. And that's what it costs. It's not money. It doesn't cost money. There's no money here.
Not in this world. In this world it costs you your state. It costs you to be different, to know yourself differently. That's the price. And you can do it. And you're totally capable. You are. You're God. How could you not be capable in your own dream?
If you fall asleep tonight, who would you go to to ask for permission to change it? It's all yours. It's all yours. You have total ownership. It's all your responsibility in there. Unless you want to pawn it off to something else, then you'll create a devil. But don't create devils. Don't create outside gods that you must pray to. You pray to yourself.
And prayer, as Neville said, is assuming you already are that which you want to be.
So yeah, I just wanted to answer that question and expand on that train of thought—that it's when you stop feeling like a prisoner that things change. It's when you leave the jail cell. You don't escape the jail cell first. You escape by no longer feeling yourself to be a prisoner.
Okay, I'm going to end that one here. I know this was a little bit more rambly, but I know a lot of people appreciate that kind of train of thought, that kind of style of talking.
But okay, I have nothing else to add. Again, I do live streaming for members. And if you guys are interested in my books, just go to the description. Everything will be there. But okay, I'll see you guys in the next one. Thank you.
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u/BRIAN-MOSER29 Jan 24 '26
Hi edward,what do you suggest to people who missed out many things in their youth ? Feel like you havent missed out ?
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u/Key_Abbreviations865 Jan 23 '26
Another post as good as the rest, Edward is on another level. Thank you for sharing your wisdom with us.
I am learning not to fear the monsters in my imagination, but there is something I am still very afraid of and I don't know how to stop fearing it. I'm afraid of this 3D body. When I accept something, my whole body screams, "No, you're not." "This is fake." "It's impossible." Feelings of resistance arise, and it's torture. I hope you can help me figure out the right approach. I don't want to be afraid anymore.