Hate is an intense or passionate dislike. My theory about hate is that such a strong emotion must be connected to fear. When a person is afraid, the human energy body responds by defaulting into a fight-or-flight response. This triggers our human DNA, and the primal warrior spirit comes out to play (tee hee). The survival instinct is awakened, and the ego goes crazy. After all, to carry out a successful defense in battle, we needed the passion of hatred to defeat the enemy!
I think there are three categories related to the emotion of fear. One is a direct experience like a verbal threat or being bullied. The second is the perceived threat, which is the fear of running into the bully out in public. The third is an abstract fear like a conspiracy theory.
An article in Psychology Today states: “According to Washington, D.C.-based clinical psychologist Dana Harron, the things people hate about others are the things that they fear within themselves. She suggests thinking about the targeted group or person as a movie screen onto which we project unwanted parts of the self. The idea is ‘I’m not terrible; you are.’ This phenomenon is known as projection. Another psychologist says, ‘We developed this method to survive, for any “badness” in us put us at risk for being rejected and alone. So we repressed the things that we thought were bad and we employ hate and judgment toward others. We think that is how one rids oneself of undesirable traits, but this method only perpetuates repression.’”
Let’s turn to love for a whisper on hate and fear.
The emotion of fear is woven into the fabric of all emotions, forming a bridge to the consciousness of passion. Passion represents a connection to primal energy found in the residue of the three states of human consciousness. Fear evokes hatred that calls into action the survival mechanism, adding passion to the processing of life events. There is a thin line between the emotions of love and hate. The ego will cross that line when stimulated by an issue of the heart.
Passion, love, ego, hate, and fear are necessary emotions stitched together to facilitate primary functions of human evolution. Unhealthy soul attachments to thoughts, beliefs, behaviors, and a way of being can bind emotional energies together to evoke the warrior spirit. Threats to personal sovereignty can be real, imagined, distorted, or created by a construct seeded by abstract fears.
Once summoned by a strong emotional response, the ego energy influences the need to assign responsibility. The ego perpetuates survival by competing to substantiate its own view. Assigning blame supports the justification of actions, which can occur at the expense of making others wrong. Unnecessary suffering creates errors of the mind which contain the residue of threats from the past. Stressful situations remove a person from self-awareness, which can lead to incorrect thinking stemming from a build-up of unresolved emotional energy.
The survival mechanism is called into action, often leading to inappropriate reactions to the perceived threat. Self-deception and denial become part of an established mechanism that often carries a tremendous cost to personal integrity. Aggression leading to violence is a product of unstable emotions that have triggered a primal response. When feeling hatred, ask yourself ‘What am I afraid of?’ and ‘What needs to be healed within me?’
Bring joy, ease suffering and create beauty, then dance like you mean it!
Blessings, Russell
Love is the primary unit of life. Hate is the primary negative unit of life.
Dr Marcel Vogel
(IBM Senior Scientist)
