You’re a Primate. Use a Tool

I have good news and bad news. The good news is that your ship has come in.

The bad news is that you have to row out to meet it.

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The first self-defense book I ever owned was Bruce Tegner’s “Instant Self Defense,” which I really loved (the second was Mas Oyama’s “THIS IS KARATE”. I still own both of them). We’re working on something similar: a touch of hyperbole, a ton of effective truth. We’ll shift thoughts around, but today I’m calling it LIFE WITHOUT FEAR just for the sake of fun. Is it possible to create a program that, followed carefully, would make the average person as clear and focused, as unlimited by fear as the average black belt? What an interesting question. But I’m going to proceed on the assumption that it’s possible, if you have the right combination of appropriate teaching and sincere student.

We’ll certainly see. The physical techniques? Hell, no. the capacity to walk the world with genuine confidence..? I suspect so.

Working on the LIFE WITHOUT FEAR project. (and yes, I giggle to myself just a bit when I say that, even to myself), using Dawn Callan’s profound insight into the internal structure of “human as survival animal/spiritual being” to find the critical aspects that must be learned or mastered or in which one must be unconsciously competent to be safe in the world, I realize that there is the psychological level, and the spiritual level. These have to be connected to the physical somehow. Intense combat simulations are best, but…