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🎧 The Fear Beneath Everything – Week 2: The Myth of Safety
A Rewilding Your Soul Podcast Series
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.” — Helen Keller
🜂 Episode Overview
Most of us were taught to chase safety — to build walls, to plan, to stay in control.But real safety, as Alan Watts and Ernest Becker both remind us, is an illusion.The more we cling to life, the smaller it becomes.
In this episode, Gary explores The Myth of Safety:how our fear of loss and uncertainty creates the very disconnection we long to escape —and how freedom begins not when we’re secure,but when we trust ourselves to walk unguarded through what’s real.
This week’s reflection weaves insights from Watts, Becker, and Helen Keller with a true story from Gary’s time in the Las Vegas desert —a moment that revealed the raw honesty of nature, vulnerability, and aliveness.
🌿 What This Episode Explores
The human tendency to confuse safety with control
Ernest Becker’s “immortality project” and the fear beneath our need for permanence
Alan Watts on The Wisdom of Insecurity
Helen Keller’s reminder that security doesn’t exist in nature
A personal desert story that reframes safety as honesty, not comfort
A guided Beautiful Question to end your week in reflection
🪶 About The Fear Beneath Everything
This is Week 2 of The Fear Beneath Everything, a long-form series within the Rewilding Your Soul Podcast.It explores how death anxiety shapes our modern lives — and how facing that fear can reconnect us to aliveness, belonging, and courage.
Each week follows the rhythm:
Tuesday: Core episode (awareness)
Thursday: EchoWork embodiment session (practice)
Sunday: Stillpoint Letter (integration)
