What each of us needs to realize is that we are prey. We will always be hunted down and killed. Always. We can learn how to forget this, but we cannot avoid this.
The sense of being pursued is terrifying. We are animals, and we feel just what animals do, when a lion, or tiger or bear is chasing them, trying to kill them, trying to rip them to pieces and eat them.
Me, I am in the process of making my peace with this energy. I have felt terror most nights for the past 2-3 years. I shake like a leaf, but there is nowhere but numbness to hide, and that is not a good spot. I have to face this fear. I have to accept the cup that it offers, and allow it to work within me while not becoming one with it.
It is possible to enter terror, to learn its ways, to feel its texture, and to allow it to dissolve. And my feeling is that once this terror dissolves, very little will ever frighten me again, other than immediate and physical threats, which is what fear is actually for. That is its purpose, not torturing your days and nights with a cloud that can only be penetrated with will-power, and only worked in with major effort, courage, and strength.
I have chosen a difficult path. But it is an honorable one.