ABSTRACT
A retired psychotherapist in the Republic of Georgia told me of a view there that the root of human psychological difficulty is fear. Of being born, irreversible differentiation, division, the unknown, loss of the good, sexuality, conflict, death. As I wondered about this, I wondered increasingly about what I was wondering about. I found myself returning to something I was unable to grasp that led me onto stony ground. This was an experience of pervasive fear. A sensation that there is nothing but fear. No matter which way I looked at it, the idea kept recurring and made no sense, even though I knew I knew about it.
