Fear makes you stupid. Fear swamps intelligence. Fear takes us out of Being. We resort to strategies in an effort to re-establish certainty. Fear drives us to reject what-is in favor of any expedient that feels as if it will deflate our fear. We lose track of whatever may have initiated fear, whether an actual threat or a projection. This drives us away from attending. No strategy can resolve this. The only response, so long as this condition persists, is to attend to fear as opposed to remaining in a state in which fear is seen as a monolithic presence with an independent existence. For this to happen we need to know the primacy of attention – not by being told, we need to