[extropy-chat] Fear of flying

[Kevin Freels]

"D-Cycloserine which is a substance interfering with your fear-memory"
Where do you get it?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <sm at vreedom.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Fear of flying


> Hi brother in fear of flight . . .
>
>>I'm getting ready to leave on my second commercial flight in my life and I 
>>am
>>dealing with
>>that annoying fear of flying. For the past two days I have not been able 
>>to
>>concentrate on much else. It's always in the back of my head.
>>Yet I know very well the statistics regarding airline safety. I am quite 
>>aware
>> that I am probably more likely to have a plane land on my head than die 
>> in a
>>crash since I have flown so rarely.
>
> I know that . . . It is especially difficult because I live in one country 
> and
> work in another which is 2000 km away! Therefore I MUST fly!
>
>>While I was in the shower I realized that the fear of course comes from a
> PERCEIVED loss of >control. I realized that we as humans constantly fool
> ourselves into believing that we are >in some sort of control when in fact 
> we
> are not.
>>This is evident in the way that we handle our everyday lives.
>
>>It led me to think about religion and how devoutly religious people give 
>>up
> control of >their lives to God. I began to realize that this deep seated 
> need
> to feel in control of our >lives must go back really far. In fact, it 
> could
> very well be the driving force behind >religion, not fear of death, but 
> fear of
> loss of control.
>
> I think you have a point. In everyday consulting work I see that a lot of 
> things
> related to strategy, decisions and leadership basically have fear as a 
> basic,
> not the management-lingo communicated. Also in conflicts of countries. It 
> all
> goes down to individual fear. We start to do seminars about fear for
> business-folks now.
>
> Some ideas about your control-topic. Most phobia/fear-specialists in the
> neuro-field say that it´s not so much a question of personality
> ("control-freak") but of an amygdala in your brain which learned something
> wrong. The neural way via the amygdala is very fast, faster than logical
> thought to intervene. Therefore it is not so much the question to get 
> control
> over the plane, but over your own emotional reaction.
> A relatively new approach (I haven´t used it yet, but I want to) is
> D-Cycloserine which is a substance interfering with your fear-memory. It
> doesn`t suppress fear, but it brings your amygdala to the point to forget 
> that
> it once reacted with fear to planes . . . Transhumanism  will have to 
> further
> the toolbox for modern management of our own mind!
>
> Have a good flight!
>
> Stephan
>
> Stephan Magnus
> High Performance Solutions GmbH
>
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