Whenever fear arises, we have a choice about how to face it. We can project it onto someone or something else, we can lie to ourselves about what we are feeling, or we can surrender. Only the last of these three options is healing.<\/p>\n
In today\u2019s reading, most of the apostles project their fear onto one another. Since that is the situation in the moment, that is the situation that Jesus addresses through his teaching at Passover.<\/p>\n
Peter denies his fear, so Jesus points it out to him. Jesus wants to help Peter discover how Peter lies to himself. As Michael Langford writes in The Most Direct Means to Eternal Bliss<\/em>, \u201cRight from the beginning, the ego\u2019s preservation strategies have to be dealt with.\u201d<\/p>\n Jesus also experiences extreme fear in today\u2019s story. However, Jesus faces fear with surrender.<\/p>\n Surrender is letting go of one\u2019s point-of-view, one\u2019s will, and one\u2019s identity. In the final surrender, one also lets go of the sense of self-existence. Listen to what Dr. David Hawkins says about the final surrender in this video: (The tip continues after the video.)<\/p>\n