I n our last message we discussed briefly the NEED TO LOVE AND BE LOVED. Today we are going to dis cuss briefly the problem of Fear. Certainly we live in a world that is gripped by fears, both of the real and unreal. Dr. James F. Bender, psycholo gist for the National Institute for Hu man Relationships, described the sit uation in this way: “If we were to be lieve all the distorted, fear-provoking information spoon-fed us through all media of communications, this is what our existence would be like: By 1968, one out of every five of us would be
dying of cancer, while one out of every 20 would be in a mental institution. We probably would be visited from time to time in the hospital by one of our children, a victim of cerebral palsy or polio, while a second child would be at home ill of rheumatic fever. A third child would, under these circumstances, be forced to go to his psychoanalyst alone. This could only happen if we were fortunate to have escaped the effects of heart disease, tu berculosis, arthritis, and if we had not been previously destroyed by Fourth of (continued on next page) 13
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