Each one of us is consciously (and unconsciously) attempting to “recreate” in our psycho-emotional system a certain set of emotional states.
These ‘emotional states’ are already familiar to us. Because they are familiar to us, we have already been “trained” to enjoy them.
What is the “content” of these emotional states?
The most important element or ingredient in these emotional states is the “challenge-response dynamic”. Man thrives on this ‘challenge-response dynamic’.
Between challenge & response lies the state of pure ‘being’ & ‘becoming’ which is supremely joy producing to man. The goal is to embracethese challenge-response cycles such that enduring states of joy produced by the “solution” are permanent and complete.
This is the joy of entrepreneurship, of adventure, of achievement, conquering, creating, developing, designing, and making happen.
The fear or uncertainty that accompanies this challenge-response cycle is mere “symptom” of the possibility of “failure”.
Is “failure” possible in a challenge-response cycle? The answer is no – failure does not exist because a challenge-response dynamic is “hypothesis”- a call, a test-run. If it succeeds, we are home. If it fails we try again, failing which we shall operate at one stage lower till we develop the strength to operate here.
What do challenge-response dynamics accomplish?
Most important, they rent open, as it were, the fabric of “comfort and safety” born of misplaced faith in the material. Each time this fabric is torn apart, a greater faith in that beyond is born – faith in the Consciousness that is beyond all challenge-response dynamics. From this standpoint, there is no “failure”, only more & less alignment with a supreme Consciousness that is not “different” from that which is “designing” its way through the challenge-response.