The problem is majority of our society today vibrate at the level of fear. In the Man of Consciousness by David Hawkins, fear is the fifth lowest level in the whole map of 17 levels. only that, fear is at an energy level of is quite a below the first awakening point from being a sleepwalker. To be mired in fear means you are being held back from rising to the higher levels of Courage, Acceptance, Love, Joy, Peace, Enlightenment. As long as you entrench yourself off in the land of fear, you can't reach the higher levels of consciousness.