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Getting to Know Fear

 Fear: Panic  Fear, other people’s fear, is what I have thought keeps them from volunteering in the prison ministry: fear of becoming a victim of a crime.   A little bit of my own fear enabled me to be cautious in designing how the ministry worked.   Even the worst things about us have some good to offer. In the past six months I’ve been exploring darker aspects of my mind.   Darker means that which leads me to darkness, to blindness, that enmeshes me in not knowing the truth.   It started as an intention to do this, via SoulCollage ® .   That is an enjoyable, intuitive art activity through which you create a pack of cards with your own collages on them. It was developed by Seena Frost who has studied and practiced Jungian analysis and also theology.   She had originally been using Tarot cards   with her clients to help them easily open the treasure chest of their own minds (or spirits) themselves, to access their own wisdom.   At some point she must have decided that folks