Why Do Beginning Buddhist Practitioners Feel Fear and Dread When Contemplating the Elimination of Self-View?

Some beginners in Buddhism feel fear and dread when contemplating the elimination of self-view (ahaṃkāra-mamakāra-parityāga); in fact, it is the manas that is afraid. Because from beginningless kalpas the manas has always taken the five aggregates (pañcaskandha) as self and has constantly grasped at them. One day it comes into contact with the Four Noble Truths, which tell it that the five aggregates are not self but empty. At first the manas certainly cannot bear this and is unwilling to accept this truth of reality, so it feels fear and prevents the mind consciousness from further contemplative practice (vipaśyanā-caryā), hoping to maintain the status quo and continue to have something to cling to.