Why Do Beginning Buddhist Practitioners Feel Fear and Terror When Contemplating the Eradication of the View of Self?

Some people who are new to learning Buddhism feel somewhat afraid and fearful when contemplating the eradication of the view of self (satkāya-dṛṣṭi-prahāṇa); in fact, it is the manas that is afraid. Because since beginningless kalpas, the manas has always regarded the five aggregates (pañca-skandha) as the self and has constantly been grasping (upādāna) at the five aggregates. One day, when it comes into contact with the Four Noble Truths and is told that the five aggregates are not the self but are empty, the manas certainly cannot accept it at first and is unwilling to accept this truth of reality, so it feels afraid 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.