The Mind, Seeing The Futility Of Fear, Lets It Go

Is there a way to completely end all fear?
I do not mean to end fear for a moment of time, I mean to end fear completely within myself so that it no longer exists.

Is that possible?

The reason I ask this question is that I see what fear does to myself and others. I see what fear does to the world. I see that the expression of fear creates discord, violence and pain. Problems that have existed for all time have not been able to be solved because of the persistence of fear. It seems that the ending of fear is vastly important if humanity is to survive.

So what is the actual experience?

In looking at it I see that there are two kinds of "things" I call fear.

One is the direct perception of danger to my physical being - like standing on the edge of a cliff or seeing a dangerous animal. I move physically away.
The other is psychological, a thought/emotion that anticipates an imagined future - whether imminently close or far off - that "I" do not want. My not wanting this future "reality" is a matter of degrees from mild to extreme.

The first kind of fear is biological and keeps me out of danger. No problems there.
The second kind of fear is the trouble-maker.  This fear is in my head and causes an emotional reaction in the body. It is stirred up by thinking. I am reacting to a perception.


This then leads me to other questions:
Who is it who is afraid?
Who is perceiving the fear?
Are those perceptions absolutely correct? 
Looking at the entire span of human history, has fear ever produced a totally sane result?
Do I think "my" fear is going to produce a totally sane result?
Do I think that "my" particular fear is somehow different from millennia of human fear?

It is the intensity of wanting to be free of suffering that brings awareness to looking at the problem of fear.
That energy is needed to open the doors that reveal the whole landscape of consciousness and the root of fear.

The mind, seeing the futility of fear, lets it go.