By Ozodi Osuji
Upon birth in the human body, the life force in us becomes aware that it lives in a fragile body that could be harmed and or snuffed out by many factors in the environment. It feels fear. Its thinking thereafter is colored by trying to figure out how to protect its fragile life on planet Earth.
Most of our thoughts are driven by fear. I know that to be so with me; most of my thinking is fear-based.
Fear-driven thinking means that one is in the world of separation and sees things that are not part of one; we live in a world of me and not me; those things seen as not me can destroy me. Fear-based thinking is separating.
To attain non-fear-based thinking, you have to have died to your desire for a separate self. Love is what unifies people into a whole self.
Love-based thinking is unifying; it makes one feel a part of all people.
Fear is separating; love is unionizing. Fear-based thinking enables the individual to adapt to his world, whereas love-based thinking enables the individual to get along with other people.
At a level beyond our current awareness is a level that, while still aware of fear, is a bit fearless; this is the level from which we dream at night. In our dreams, we do what we think is impossible during the daytime.
Still at a third level, we know ourselves as separated but always part of the whole self and know that we are eternal; here, there is no fear; our thinking is creative and creates other sons of God.
At that creative level, we think in tandem, in concert; all of us think as one thinker; thinking is shared; it is at that shared level that all sons of God wish to create our physical universe of space, time, and matter, and do it.
Thus, there are three levels of thinking that one can ascertain.
Hinduism has many levels of the abode of Brahman, called Lokas; some say as many as fourteen Lokas, including Bramaloka. Buddhism has three Lokas. Those Lokas do not concern me here.
MEDITATION
In meditation, one sits or lies on one’s back and tries to stop the fear-driven thoughts of the ego-separated self. One tries to stop thinking and attain an inner sense of silence and stillness. If one is successful, one removes all ego-based thinking from one’s mind, and one’s body and brain feel relaxed, calm, and peaceful; one feels like there are no thoughts in one; one just stays there like a lump of meat.
One may panic from the awareness that one is no longer thinking and force oneself to start thinking again.
Meditation is actually a conscious acceptance of one’s ego death. One says to oneself, “I do not want to live as an ego self-housed in body; I want to die to the ego and its world.” When the fear of ego death is overcome, one is thereafter ready to transcend the ego and its world and attain other levels of being, including the world of light forms, our world of separated things, but all things now in light forms, and finally, one attains the formless creative world of pure intelligence. Here, one intelligence has infinite points and thinks through all its points. Religions call that highest level of being heaven, but it has no name.
One should try to meditate daily for up to one hour or more. Its least benefit is the relaxation of your body and mind. We all need peace, don’t we?
Ozodi Osuji
March 23, 2026
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