Section 1:9 But how is having the human condition explained supposed to suddenly TRANSFORM my life and everyone else’s?

QUESTION: ‘There is still a big question in my mind: how is having the human condition explained supposed to make me sublimely happy right now as you said it would—‘drunk with fire’, as Beethoven’s symphony proclaimed? How is my life, and everyone else’s, supposed to suddenly be completely TRANSFORMED?’

ANSWER: At this point I recommend you print out a copy of Section 1 of this book to enable you to more easily follow and think about this response and the previous answers. Don’t forget, the issue of the human condition has been such a repressed, forbidden subject that most people haven’t been aware that it even exists, so everyone has to expect that it will take a little time to absorb and process what is being said.

So how does understanding of the human condition suddenly TRANSFORM your life? Firstly, it is true that, as Professor Prosen said, with the explanation of the human condition found ‘the psychological rehabilitation of the human race’ is able to begin. We could each go back over everything that happened in our lives and, using the explanation, reconcile all those events with compassionate understanding. We could undo all our psychoses and neuroses and become, as Jung said, ‘whole’. We could go into therapy, re-visit all the events in our lives, in particular the especially influential ones that occurred in the formative years of our infancy and childhood and replace any neurosis and psychosis-producing denials and block-outs that we had to employ to cope back then with healing, compassionate understanding—because we can now understand the source of all the upset, all the innocence-destroying angers, egocentricities and alienations of the adult world we had no choice but to grow up amidst. As the Adam Stork story explains, with the emergence of consciousness upset anger, egocentricity and alienation has been occurring—and, since the upset hasn’t been resolved, it has also been accumulating from generation to generation. So, we are all now a product of the upset that resulted from our own experiments in understanding, and a product of the upsetting effects upon us of the accumulated upset in past generations—an accumulated level of upset that is now very great. In fact, a common experience might now be that, because of their own experiments in understanding and their own encounters with the upset in the world, your mother was so neurotic she was unable to give you any real love and your father was so egocentric he was oppressively preoccupied, silent and angry—basically, no one was there for you. Whatever your particular story, you can now understand where life’s extreme imperfections came from, namely this great heroic but terribly upsetting battle to find knowledge that the human race has been involved in.

While this therapy of all our upsets is now possible, the problem is it would require a great deal of time and supportive counselling—time and counselling the world hasn’t available and cannot afford at the moment—and, in all but the most extreme cases, such therapy is in fact not necessary.

I will now explain this absolutely all-important point of it not being necessary to psychologically rehabilitate ourselves in order to be immediately free of the human condition.

The reality is we are not going to be able to heal all the upset within us straight away, despite having the means, the compassionate understanding to do so. In fact, it will naturally take a number of generations for all the upset inside humans to be ameliorated or healed, and to eventually subside, through the understanding of the human condition that is now available. However, with the upset state of the human condition now explained and defended we no longer have to live those upsets out. What we can do straight away is leave all our upsets behind as dealt with, the effect of which will be to be immediately free of the upset state of the human condition.

To elaborate, now that upset is explained and defended at the most fundamental level—the source of all the upset in the human race has at last been compassionately understood—it follows that all the upsets in humans are now explained and defended. This means that all the ways we have been employing to try to cope with the upsets within us and around us are obsoleted, rendered unnecessary and meaningless. No longer do we have to try to prove our worth because our worth has been established at the most fundamental level. No longer do we have to deny any confronting truths about our immensely upset/corrupted condition because no longer are there any truths about our upset/corrupted state that condemn us. And no longer do we have to retaliate against criticism of our upset state because our upset state has been defended with truthful compassionate understanding at the most profound level. Our upset lives are explained and defended now, which means we no longer have to be preoccupied compensating for those upsets by finding forms of self-aggrandisement, by seeking self-distraction, or by chasing relief through materialistic forms of compensation for all the hurt we experienced growing up in an immensely human-condition-afflicted world—in other words, we no longer need to seek power, fame, fortune and glory to make ourselves feel good about ourselves because our goodness has now been established at the deepest, most profound, fundamental level.

Instead, we can simply leave our whole ‘must-prove-our-worth, attack-and-deny-any-criticism’ way of living behind as obsolete and redirect our mind and all our energies to supporting and disseminating these human-race-saving understandings, and to repairing the world from all the damage our upset has caused. You can, as it were, put the issue of all your upsets/​corruptions in a suitcase, attach a label to it saying ‘Everything in here is now explained and defended’ and simply leave that suitcase behind at the entrance to what we in the WTM call the Sunshine Highway and set out free and unencumbered into the new, human-condition-free world. Everyone can now join the Sunshine Army on the Sunshine Highway to the World In Sunshine. As Bono, from U2, anticipated: ‘I’ve conquered my past, the future is here at last, I stand at the entrance to a new world I can see. The ruins to the right of me, will soon have lost sight of me.’ Yes, ‘The ruins to the right of me, will soon have lost sight of me’—‘I’m leaving all the ruins of the old, now dealt with and thus obsoleted, upset existence behind me.’ And what did Bob Dylan say? ‘The present now will later be past…For the times they are a-changin’.’ Cat Stevens similarly foresaw a time when ‘Yesterday has past, now let’s all start the living for the one that’s going to last.’ We leave our old upset, embattled world behind as dealt with.

All our egocentric embattled posturing to get a win out of life, all our strategising every minute of every day to try to find a way to compensate for feeling inadequate or imperfect or bad about ourselves, suddenly ends. The reality is that because we have had to live in such deep denial of the human condition it is initially hard to see just how terrible life under the duress of the human condition has been. It is hard to see how our lives have been completely governed by insecurity, confusion, guilt, doubt, fear and extreme self-preoccupation. To make our lives bearable we have had to put on a brave face and delude ourselves that we were happy, however, all the suffering that was really going on in our lives is now over. We are TRANSFORMED from what was, in truth, a deeply preoccupied, lonely, troubled and upset human-condition-afflicted, virtually dead state to a state free of all that. We leave the dark cave of denial and delusion where we have been hiding to escape the unbearable glare of the truth about our seemingly imperfect condition. Excitement and meaning, based on liberating, truthful, honest understanding of ourselves and our world, is what sustains us now.

To reiterate, having the human condition explained and defended means that everyone can now immediately leave that old human-condition-embattled way of living behind forever. While it will take a number of generations to eliminate the upset state of the human condition from within humans, everyone can immediately be effectively free of the human condition by redirecting their efforts from being preoccupied with and living out their upsets to living in support of these understandings and to repairing the world—and with the human condition solved it is at last possible to properly repair our environment, because all the upset that caused, and was continuing to cause, the destruction of the planet now ends.

The excitement of being effectively free of the human condition—the joy and happiness of being free from the burden of your insecurities and self-preoccupations; the awesome meaning and power of finally being aligned with the truth and participating in the magic true world; the wonderful empathy and equality of goodness and fellowship that understanding of the human condition now allows you to feel for your fellow humans; the freedom now to effectively focus on repairing the world; and, above all, the radiant aliveness from the optimism that comes with knowing our march through hell has finally ended—IS GOING TO TRANSFORM THE WORLD.

Descriptions of what happens in a so-called ‘near-death experience’ illustrate just how exciting, sensitising and real-self-or-soul-rejuvenating being free of the human condition is. It has been reported that mountain climbers, for example, who survive falls they were convinced would be fatal (they were saved, in some instances, by landing in a snow drift) very often recall that during those near-death moments they experienced a state of extraordinary euphoria in which the world suddenly appeared utterly beautiful and radiant and that they were flooded with a feeling of ecstatic enthrallment. With understanding of the horror of the human condition of being preoccupied trying to defy unjust condemnation we can appreciate how, in such situations when death appears imminent, the mind would give up this preoccupation. In the face of death, all our worrying about trying to prove our worth and all our efforts to defy any criticism become meaningless—there is no longer any reason to struggle with the agony of the human condition, at which point that struggle ceases and the true world of our all-sensitive real self or soul suddenly surfaces and opens up. You suddenly discover what it is like to be free of the human condition. You suddenly have access to all the real beauty that exists in the world that your preoccupations with the human condition have hidden from you. You discover another seemingly magic world that is all-radiant and magnificent. This is the freedom that letting go the struggle with the human condition allows.

So, finding understanding of the human condition now enables you and everyone else to suddenly be TRANSFORMED into a sublimely happy—‘drunk with fire’, as Beethoven’s symphony anticipated—effectively human-condition-free state.

In my opening 8-minute Video Introduction I included quotes from WTM members whose lives have been TRANSFORMED by understanding of the human condition. Now that I have explained how this TRANSFORMATION is achieved by letting go of your human-condition-embattled existence their extraordinarily excited comments can be better understood. Neil Duns said, ‘The freedom this brings is like nothing humans have ever experienced’; and Stacy Rodger said, ‘This is all that we have ever, ever wanted’; and Tony Gowing said, ‘This is like seeing the world for the first time, it’s like waking up from a nightmare, it’s like 100 tonnes being lifted off your shoulders’; and John Biggs said, ‘The relief and through-the-roof excitement that flows through your veins is incredible…It is beyond comprehension how much wonder and fun and excitement and happiness the human race has coming.’

In the case of Doug Lobban, who was also quoted, I might play some footage from his Affirmation so you can see first-hand just how amazingly relieving and exciting letting go of your human-condition-embattled existence is, and how amazing the TRANSFORMATION that results is. (You can read these and other Affirmations of the liberated TRANSFORMED LIFEFORCE STATE by going to Section 3 of this presentation, or view them at <www.humancondition.com/affirmations>.)