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Item Open Access Educating for Sustainability & Well-Being in a Risk Society & Culture of Fear(2014-01-12) Fisher, Robert MichaelnoneItem Open Access Item Open Access The 'Fear' Matrix Revisited(2019-06-12) Fisher, Robert MichaelOf the hundreds of new terms created over 30 years of my research, there is probably no more important term amongst them than ‘Fear’ Matrix. It represents the crux conceptual center upon which all my study of fear, fearlessness, love, etc. revolves. In particular, I have tried fervently to get educators, professional and otherwise, including leaders of all kinds, to take this concept seriously—as, in my view it is foundational to any real progressive reform or transformation of our societies. Indeed, it may be the pivotal concept to ‘save the planet.’ The author re-looks at what has happened in terms of others in the world utilizing this concept, in particular his own version of it. The results of this recent survey show the ‘uptake’ is less than inspiring and more like human beings are resistant to accept such a concept and reality of the ‘Fear’ Matrix. The author recommends how this situation can be improved.Item Open Access Fearless Standpoint Theory: Origins of FMS-9 in Arthur Schopenhauer's Work(2019-07-09) Fisher, Robert MichaelThe author shares a brief autobiographical history of his intellectual studies as Schopenhauer’s philosophy (and psychology) from the 19th century has some basic connections with Wilber’s philosophy (and psychology) in the 20-21st century. He draws upon his early writing of a Fearless Standpoint Theory (FST) which was heavily influenced by Wilber to assert there are deeper roots back to his theory now that he has recently been studying Schopenhauer. The importance of FST, especially in its new synthesis, is given emphasis in this technical paper as part of advancing the author’s overall fear management systems research and applications for the 21st century.Item Open Access Fearlessness Psychology: An Introduction(2019-05-28) Fisher, Robert MichaelThe author tells of his resistances to and his love of “psychology” since his youthful years until the present. He sets up the most basic (inadequate) starting place for his new psychology or psychology in a ‘new key’ by placing his inquiry and explorations upon the reference of an “Indigenous Perspective” (or worldview). He calls this “fearlessness psychology” of which it immediately by name alone challenges that most all other psychologies available to humankind are fear-based in their conceptualization and in their offerings and thus no wonder the Fear Problem continues to blossom. He lays out the problematics of all he is doing here and claims that his entire exposition in this technical paper is necessary to go through—he believes it will communicate itself with a wider audience because of this—but his critical philosopher-self is constantly critical of just about everything he sets out—and, yet, there’s no room in this introductory paper to deal with all his philosophical critiques of his own work (and others). This he suggests, a conflictual tension throughout the paper, is probably a really good way to proceed creating a new psychology—which, he wishes he didn’t have to call a psychology per se. With that, the author proceeds to engage a fascinating array of ideas that potentially will change the way “Psychology” is conceived in the first place. The future, if it is to be at all healthy, sustainable and sane, ought to take this Fisherian path and the sooner the better. For it is worth, an improved universal ethical referent is needed, says the author and fearlessness psychology is one way to nourish that imperative and transformative option. A better wisdom and compassion, he argues is likely a consequence of this new psychology—which is not really a psychology.Item Open Access Fearologics: Eco-fear Protestations of Climate Crisis Activism Need Critique(2019-07-22) Fisher, Robert MichaelThis paper introduces a new subfield of called fearologics as part of a larger methodology of fearanalysis. After defining the concept the author then applies it to the current raging activism and debates surrounding how best to do climate crisis activism and bring about the needed dramatic changes in our society in terms of global warming and the negative impacts it will have including the near-immanent collapse of social systems with ecological systems. As much as the author can empathize with the need to bring eco-fear into the picture of deliberations and the political sphere surrounding how we manage the environment, there are dangerous precedents being created, like a new species of fearmongering (logic) within the means in which to accomplish the ends of good environmentalist practices. A few recommendations are made in which the context of fearologics may bring new insights of how to critique environmental praxis without demeaning and/or ignoring the understandable and desperate cries for help coming from (mainly youth) climate activists today.Item Open Access Journey into Fearlessness: Towards a Meta-Service Healing Model(1990-09-10) Fisher, Robert MichaelnoneItem Open Access Near-Fearlessness Women Leaders and Their Shadow: U.S. Presidential Candidate Marianne Williamson(2019-06-14) Fisher, Robert MichaelAcross the globe, there is a recent under-examined critical history of important, and relatively effective, leadership by women in political spheres (e.g., Aung San Suu Kyi, Marianne Williamson). The author situates these women within a unique and virtually unknown consciousness movement he calls the global Fearlessness Movement throughout time, across cultures, transcending party-political lines, and across vast geographies. From that position and his own critical integral fearanalysis of such women leaders, including his introduction of the reference for a new fearlessness psychology, this paper argues for the upside and downside (shadow) of such women’s leadership. He makes recommendations for how to avoid some of the pitfalls that such women leaders and their followers seem to inhabit unconsciously. Avoiding any kind of blame of only these women leaders, he takes his fearanalysis to a systems integrative understanding where there are multiple complex factors intersecting that add to the degree of the pitfall—a ‘Fall’ that all are susceptible to in the world of a ‘Fear’ Matrix and no more exacerbated and vulnerable is such a Fall as in the political sphere with its toxic, if not psychotic, patterns.Item Open Access Notes and Drawings to Myself: A Fearlessness Future(2019-05-08) Fisher, Robert MichaelIn autobiographical style the author presents notes from his bulletin board in the day of May 8, 2019 as he looks up on his wall and decides to record them in this paper. Similarly, he finds two drawings (maps) of his visions for a Fearlessness Future based around a dream of an International Institute for Fear Studies (2002 map) and Global Fearanalysis Institute (Aug. 7, 2015). He comments on both the notes and maps in this technical paper as a revealing of his scope of thought and the difficult challenges of manifesting from ideas, theory and paper to the ‘real’ world of everyday happenings.Item Open Access Politics of Fear: An Integrative Paradigm of Fear Management/Education(2019-05-12) Fisher, Robert MichaelUtilizing the core findings of Jinmin Lee, a Korean political philosopher, this article searches for what constitutes the unique “integrative” paradigm for studying fear and fear management/education—especially, via the study of Lee of discourses (East-West) across time and cultures. The “politics of fear” is a crucial way to analyze the dynamics of every day fear in people’s lives and the discourses they may depend on that come from history. All findings point toward making the best approach one of integrating multiple voices, ideas, discourses and strategies—as the intersection of fear with political community is examined and used as teaching for individual and social practices.Item Open Access Schopenhauer on Fear(2019-06-20) Fisher, Robert MichaelIn continual search for the various roots (and routes) of W. thought in regard to making sense of “fear,” the author pursues a preliminary investigation of the great German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860). He concludes that Schophenhauer’s work is a critical philosophy: (a) underestimated in importance overall in the philosophical canon of W. thinking, (b) it is largely (mis-)interpreted on some important points, especially the stereotyping of its “pessimism” and (c) it is a philosophy ready (with some re-adaptations) for the Anthropocene era of dangerous collapse of ecological and social systems. The author suggests a much larger work of study and writing is still required to bring Schopenhauer’s work alive and in preparation for the 21st century and this technical paper barely touches on the surface of such an exploration.Item Open Access