[bennett]

Interesting thread; I look at this a couple ways:

In one sense, I see fear as a function of the reptilian brain, the fight or flight response, a biological survival trait.

In another sense, fear is a root emotion, fundamental to 3-dimensional bodily existance. Like other root emotions, such as anger and sorrow, it's a response to the failure to control, to understand, to connect. It arises from our bewilderment at bodily existance. It's a function of the egoic process: it directs our attention, filters our information and drives our actions. Fear's manifestation is peculiar in character to the individual's life experience, a learned response arising from the root.

Attachment is symptomatic of the need to control, understand and connect, and we fear the loss of our imagined successes and their ultimate failure.

Of course we see all types here; it's a natural consequence of the antagonist's agenda, the downward spiral. Many of us seem to forget the Law of Attraction: fear attracts fearful situations, and supports the dark intent.

As to "remedies and antidotes", there is truly and finally only one - egoic transcendance. In ecstasy and love, there is no room for fear. (Or actually, fear, along with all other human responses, is still present, but so inconsequential as to not matter.) But I doubt any of us can claim that, at least stably. I think the only alternative is to focus - not on what we don't want (which seems to be one of the predominant preoccupations here), but focus on what we do want - which is to move through and beyond to the manifestation of a world in alignment with the Universal Laws and the Creator's intent.