It's a wonder to me why so many movies and novels are produced portraying demons, vampires, aliens and monsters of all kinds when the people who view or read them can be positively scared by these inventions.

1. Why Do We Create Monster Games and
play with it?
It's a wonder to me why so many movies and novels are produced portraying demons,
vampires, aliens and monsters of all kinds when the people who view or read them can be
positively scared by these inventions. What is the fascination for us humans in scaring
ourselves? Is life not troublesome enough that we have to add more fearful elements to it?
We create these monsters and then we allow them to frighten us, and in some cases have
power over us, also. Is this something we allow to spill over into our normal, everyday, lives;
that we not only allow demons to have power over us, but also various humans to whom we
give power by our adulation. Isn't it a fact that what we give our thought to we give power to
also. This can vary in range from movie stars, pop stars, politicians, churchmen, to overseers
and bosses. And, of course, monsters, the enemy, and demons! The fabric of our nightmares!
Our nightmares and fears can range in status from the simplistic, for example fear of a spider,
to fear of people in our everyday lives such as teachers, police, to greater fears of the
unknown, the enemy we cannot see and even wild animals we have never encountered! Fear
of our own failure is something probably all of us have faced at some time in our lives. And
many of us have as children been threatened with, and by, authority figures to scare us into
behaving ourselves. We have been threatened by our parents at times with the police or the
dreaded "bogyman", to frighten us into behaving. Or were our parents afraid that their
authority was in question and they had to call on a weightier one
For one person to be placed in authority over another human being does not always mean that
the one in authority is better or more intelligent than the minion below. In fact sometimes,
and possibly more often than not, it is not the case. But if the pupil does not eventually
outshine the teacher then the pupil has not really learned anything significant. And any
teacher who has had a pupil outshine them in their own field should be proud that they have
helped create this star.
But to be afraid of being either outshone by our pupils or frightened by our own, or someone
else's, demons, or cowed by those in authority over us is something we should examine
seriously and question. This is not an anarchistic idea. It is simply, and I think intelligently
and with due respect, a re-defining of the relationships, dogmas and creations we have
allowed to take control of us. We are cautioned that we should not question "our betters" or
those in authority. Who are our betters?
I believe the wisest people are those who are the humblest and would never assume to be
better than anyone else and would never assume to have control over us. My example would
be known and established persons of great and recognizable integrity. Two names spring
instantly to mind: the Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Theresa of Calcutta. These are people
who have cleared out the skeletons from their own cupboards and chased the demons from
their psyche, faced them, embraced them and turned fear on its head and changed it into its
opposite - love. And put themselves at the disposal of humanity to help create a better world.
People of this caliber would always be aware that they are the ones learning the most from
their fellow humans, and not the other way around. They would also be people who see life
as it is, without taboos, class levels, dogmas and superstitions.

2. I often wonder where our superstitions came from in the first place? Were they "invented" by
people who recognized the fears within us and used those fears to have control over us for
their own selfish, and mostly misguided, purposes? Someone who has your good at heart
would never use you in a manipulative way: would never impose an idea upon you that was
not for your own good. Once we accept these superstitions and take them on board, we give
the "inventor" of the superstition control over us. And if we ourselves are the inventor then
we give the superstition itself the control and we have rendered ourselves a great disservice.
One which will take a lot of self work and probably much professional help to eradicate.
There is nothing to fear really except fear itself, the voice of wisdom says. And that fear is the
greatest demon of them all. That is the foundation of all our problems. Topple it and the
whole edifice of our demons and the shadows of our doubts comes tumbling down.
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