What is fear of the supernatural? It isn’t a fear of the unnatural, but the terrifying experience of facing something that looks just like us and might kill us, or steal our souls, or take root in our bodies. It’s the fear that we might become consumed by it because it is more than us, from a realm incongruent with ours for the very fact of its similarity to it. The fear of the supernatural is the fear of ourselves, should we suddenly be loosed from the constraints of our own obsessive limitations— into transcendence, or ruin, heaven, or apocalypse.
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What is fear of the supernatural? It isn’t a fear of the unnatural, but the terrifying experience of facing something that looks just like us and might kill us, or steal our souls, or take root in our bodies. It’s the fear that we might become consumed by it because it is more than us, from a realm incongruent with ours for the very fact of its similarity to it. The fear of the supernatural is the fear of ourselves, should we suddenly be loosed from the constraints of our own obsessive limitations— into transcendence, or ruin, heaven, or apocalypse.