FEARS AND PHOBIAS Where do your fears and phobias come from? Fear of such things as spiders, snakes, and heights seem to be built into the human psyche as part of our evolved survival instinct. Many people suffer from phobias that are completely irrational, however. Fear of water, of birds, of numbers, of mirrors, of plants, of specific colors... the list goes on and on. People suffer from all kinds of bizarre phobias. While several years on a psychologists couch might get to the root of those odd fears, those who believe in past lives wonder if they are carried over from a previous lifetime. Does a fear of water indicate a previous death by drowning? Could a fear of the color red suggest, for example, that a personwas struck or killed by a red car or bus. AFFINITY FOR FOREIGN CULTURE You probably know a person who was born and raised in the United States but is an ardent anglophile - a person who is interested to the point of obsession with British culture. You might also know someone who can think of little else but getting dressed up and acting the part for the next Renaissance Fair or Civil War reenactment. There are philes for virtually every culture on the planet, both modern and ancient, affecting people who seem to have no rationale for their obsessions. Why? Are they merely trying to find familiarity in a culture in which they lived 100 years ago? 1,000 years ago?
Posted on: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 09:34:40 +0000
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