Fear is the most extreme distance from love. What is associated with fear are anger, rage, vengence, aggression, hostility... you get the picture I think. I've read that we are in the Fifth Root-Race of man, of Globe D of this Forth Round. The next Root-Race always begin to appear near the middle of the existing Root-Race. I think we are near the end of the Fifth and there are now great numbers of the Sixth Root-Race here. You will experience the worst and the best from the Fifth.
In my life, I've thought, spoke, and acted many times in a manner that upon reflection make me sqirm. Shame is only useful before the deed, in that it can make you reconsider before executing some train of thought, words or actions. But after the fact, it has no real useful place. If there are memories of things you regret, simply use them constructively by deciding not to perpetuate these things. Thats it. Now, if you follow Montalk and many others who think along the same lines, you might consider that something outside of you is trying to make you feel that you are only darkness, validated by your past actions. Make it clear that you know what you are, and that you are capable of dealing with light and dark.
Things ebb and surge. It can be said of spirituality that there are times when it will ebb, and may even have a pause before resurgence. If a person thinks he can make a communion occur between their Ego and their inner God, than go for it. I just do not see that happening for a bit with me, and for that matter with many others. So, what is very important, is what the individual see's how existence in matter on Earth should be. How we envision our world, what we would want for ourselves and for all life on this Earth is extremely important right now. Forces will be working to make you discouraged and disgusted with humanity. But this is the form we use to experience. One school of Magic says do what thou wilt, another says suffering is caused by desire and ignorance, a third just observes everything with mathematics and physics.
And then there are the stinkin democrats! 
Good judgement comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgement.
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You have to believe in the impossible in order to become.