Part 2.9  The fabulous, indescribably wonderful transformation of the human race from having to live with the agony and horror of the human condition to living free of it

 

 

This sculpture, Weight of Thought, by the Belgian artist Thomas Lerooy captures the unbearable agony of trying to make sense of our seemingly mad human condition. As an article on the Artsology website says, ‘The sculpture, with its exaggerated head and diminutive torso, stands as a powerful symbol of the burdens that knowledge and thought can impose on the human spirit’, and that ‘Its themes of mental burden and the search for meaning’, which ‘Lerooy sought to encapsulate in bronze – a material as timeless as the human condition it represents’, ‘continues to resonate with audiences’ (‘The Gravity of Intellect: Thomas Lerooy’s “Weight of Thought”’, 20 Apr. 2024; see www.wtmsources.com/305).

Yes, finding understanding of the human condition and by so doing ending ‘the search for meaning’ is what allows everyone to finally lift the ‘mental burden’ of not being able to understand ‘the human condition’, and by so doing make sense of human existence. It gives us the ‘Understandascope’ Michael Leunig was brilliantly intimating we desperately needed to rehabilitate and transform the human race in the following cartoon. This is the fourth masterpiece from Leunig that has been included in this book; three were included earlier in paragraphs 133, 142 and 179. With Leunig’s death in 2024 the world lost a brilliantly brave, honest and insightful, prophetic talent.

 

 

So how does the ‘Understandascope’ of the human condition actually liberate and transform the human race from having to live with the agony and horror of the human condition?

As has now been carefully and fully explained, lacking the real defence of the Instinct versus Intellect explanation for our corrupted condition all we humans have had to cope with the unbearably depressing truth of our corrupted condition are the artificial defences of attacking any criticism of ourselves, of achieving any positive reinforcement of ourselves that we could find, and of denying and blocking out from our mind the condemning truth of our soul-corrupted condition—our angry, egocentric and alienated ways of coping are what have sustained us. But now that we have the real defence for our corrupted condition all those artificial defences of anger, egocentricity and alienation are obviously no longer needed; they are obsoleted and can end—the result of which is the great transformation of the human race from living with the agony and horror of the human condition to living free of it!

While we now have the psychologically relieving understanding to rehabilitate the human race, the return to a completely psychosis and neurosis and alienation-free state will naturally take a number of generations. This is because it usually takes years of psychological healing for all the childhood hurts to our soul and resulting insecurities, confusions and misunderstandings and their effects to be replaced and repaired with understanding, so it follows that in the case of the largest neurosis and psychosis of all of the human condition, that healing process will be a generational process. (See my book Therapy For The Human Condition.)

HOWEVER, while the complete psychological rehabilitation of our species will take a number of generations, WHAT IS OF IMMENSE IMPORTANCE AND IS SO SPECTACULARLY WONDERFUL is that every human can immediately know that he or she is fundamentally good and not bad, and that this knowledge puts each person in a very powerful position because it means we can legitimately decide not to live in accordance with all the neurological and psychological upset within us.

The logic behind making this decision is irrefutable. As I have said, now that the great goal of the whole human journey of conscious thought and enquiry is achieved and we have found understanding of our conflicted and distressed human condition, all the old retaliatory, defensive and insecure behaviours of anger, egocentricity and alienation that we had to employ to cope while we couldn’t defend ourselves with understanding are no longer needed. They are obsoleted, brought to an end. In fact, with this knowledge of the human condition now found, it would be an act of total irresponsibility, indeed madness, to continue down that old, insecure, defensive, retaliatory and destructive road. The truth is, there is nothing in the way now of every human taking up a magnificent, unburdened, Transformed Way of Living where we abandon those old, now obsoleted, ways of living.

And, gloriously, what happens when we give up our old way of living and take up the new way of living that understanding of the human condition has made possible, is we transition from a competitive, selfish and aggressively behaved person to a cooperative, selfless and lovingly behaved person. Even though we are not yet free of the psychologically upset state of our own personal human condition, we can immediately have a change of attitude and decide not to live out that upset state that remains within us. The overall effect in our lives is that, despite the upset state of the human condition that still exists within us, we are EFFECTIVELY free from its hold and its influence, which is an absolutely fabulous transformation to have made!

Every human can, as it were, put the issue of all their mental upsets and soul-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 World Transformation Movement call the Sunshine Highway, and set out unencumbered by all those upset behaviours into a new world that is effectively free of the human condition.

 

 

What has just been described may at first sound extraordinary and unrealistic but it actually isn’t.

As I explain in detail in chapter 8 and chapter 9 of FREEDOM, and also in my book Death by Dogma, humans are able to do this, decide to change from living for self to living a more selfless existence—because we have been doing it throughout our history. In chapter 8 of FREEDOM I describe the heroic journey our species has been on as it attempted to find ways of living, and causes to support, that helped to contain and, in some cases, completely transcend our upset, resigned, self-centred, egocentric, selfish way of living. There was self-discipline where we ‘civilised’ our upset behaviour by superimposing more ideal principles for living upon our selfish and aggressive psychologically upset way of thinking and responding to life. Then there was the imposed discipline of our upset, where we lived by adhering to specific laws of behaviour, such as Moses’s Ten Commandments. Then there was religion, where we deferred to and lived through our support of an exceptional denial-free thinking, truthful, unresigned, sound prophet. And then there was a sequence of increasingly guilt-relieving, pseudo idealistic, no-psychologically-relieving-understanding-of-the-human-condition-based, false-starts-to-an-ideal-world, attitudes that were adopted, from socialism, to the New Age Movement, to feminism, to the environment or green or climatism movement, to the politically correct movement, to finally the completely guilt-stripped and totally dishonest, ‘there-is-no-such-thing-as-truth’ postmodern or deconstructionist movement, and its latest manifestation, the outrageously dishonest and deluded Critical Theory-based, ‘woke’, ‘Great Reset’, Globalisation, ‘No Kings’ movement.

Of course, as I emphasised in chapter 9 of FREEDOM, the degree to which we abandoned, or left behind, or let go, or repressed, or transcended our selfish and aggressive upset, real self and superimposed upon it or adopted a more selfless and cooperative attitude, varied enormously, but within that spectrum there existed the possibility of completely abandoning our upset way of behaving. In Christianity for example, this complete so-called ‘conversion’ from living for yourself to living for Christ is described as being ‘born again’ (John 3:3); as becoming ‘a new creation’ where ‘the old has gone, the new has come!’ (2 Cor. 5:17). So, just as what happened with Christianity, while resigned humans can’t easily change from being psychologically upset—as emphasised, that is a process that will take a few generations—we can immediately and completely change our mind’s attitude from living a selfish, self-preoccupied life and be, as it were, ‘born again’ to a consider-the-welfare-of-others-above-your-own-welfare, unconditionally selfless, soulful, pre-resigned-like way of thinking and living. While every resigned human naturally becomes extremely habituated to living for the relief of power, fame, fortune and glory, it is possible to completely relinquish that way of thinking and living and, in its place, adopt a completely different, unconditionally selfless way of thinking and behaving.

It immediately needs to be emphasised that the Transformed Way of Living is not a religion. While it is true that it is similar to a religion in that it involves completely letting go of or transcending our real, upset self and deferring to another way of living, that is where the similarity ends. The fundamental difference between the Transformed State and a religious conversion is that the Transformed State is all about knowledge, not faith or dogma—and knowledge that, after a few generations, has the ability to eliminate all the upset in humans. As is emphasised in Death by Dogma, dogma can’t heal upset, only understanding can do that. While religions were an incredibly effective means of containing the upset in humans while the search for understanding of that upset condition was being carried out, the Transformed Way of Living, and the World Transformation Movement that promotes it, is, in complete contrast, concerned with what happens after that liberating understanding is found, which is the advancement of the human race from a human-condition-afflicted state to a state completely free of that terrible affliction. The Transformed Way of Living, and the psychological amelioration of the human condition that it allows (given the time, the few generations, needed for it to take place), fundamentally changes the human race, taking it from a state of psychologically troubled upset to a state of psychologically secure soundness.

Religions were based on deferring to, and living through support of the embodiment of the ideals in the form of the soundness and truth of the unresigned, denial-free-thinking-and-behaving prophet around whom the religion was founded, whereas the Transformed State is based on deferring to and living through support of first-principle-based understandings of the ideals and of our species’ unavoidable historical lack of compliance with those ideals.

In fact, the Transformed Way of Living, where humans live in support of the understanding of the human condition that can, after only a few generations, eliminate all the psychological upset in the human race, represents the realisation of religion’s hope and faith that the liberating understanding of the human condition would one day appear—it represents the end of faith and dogma and the beginning of knowing. So this is the end of the need for religion and the beginning of the time of understanding that, in fact, all the great prophets looked forward to.

Yes, religions aren’t being threatened by the arrival of dignifying understanding of the human condition—they are being fulfilled. The whole purpose of religion was to be the custodian of the ideal state while the search for the liberating understanding of humans’ ‘fallen’ condition was underway. Buddha, for instance, looked forward to the arrival of the amelioration of the human condition when he said that ‘In the future they will every one be Buddhas [meaning in the future everyone will be free of psychosis] / And will reach Perfect Enlightenment / In domains in all directions / Each will have the same title [there will be no more distorting alienation] / Simultaneously on wisdom-thrones / They will prove the Supreme Wisdom’ (Buddha [Siddartha Gautama] 560–480 BC, The Lotus Sutra, ch.9; tr. W.E. Soothill, 1987, p.148 of 275). In the Bible, Moses similarly anticipated a time when we ‘will be like God, knowing’ (Gen. 3:5). In his Lord’s Prayer, Christ instructed us to pray for the time when ‘Your [Godly, integrated, peaceful] kingdom come, your [integrative] will be done on earth as it is in heaven’ (Matt. 6:10 & Luke 11:2). He also looked forward to the time when ‘another Counsellor to be with you forever—the Spirit of truth [the denial-free, truthful, first-principle-based, scientific understanding]…​will teach you all things and will remind you of everything [all the denial-free truths] I have said to you’ (John 14:16, 17, 26). He similarly said he looked forward to when, instead of being restricted to ‘speaking figuratively’, we ‘will no longer use this kind of language but will [be able to] tell you plainly about my Father [be able to explain the world of Integrative Meaning in denial-free, human-condition-reconciled, compassionate, understandable, rational, first principle, scientific terms]’ (John 16:25). And again, the same anticipation of our species’ liberation from the human condition is expressed in Revelations in the Bible where it states that ‘Another book [will be]…​opened which is the book of life [the human-condition-explaining and humanity-liberating book]…​[and] a new heaven and a new earth [will appear] for the first heaven and the first earth [will have]…​passed away…​[and the dignifying full truth about our condition] will wipe every tear from…​[our] eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain [insecurity, suffering or sickness], for the old order of things has passed away’ (20:12, 21:1, 4). Yes, as Isaiah hoped, there would come a time when humans ‘will beat their swords into ploughshares…​​Nation[s] will…​[not] train for war any more’ (Isa. 2:4). And what did that truth-saying prophet John Lennon ‘imagine’? A time when the human condition is resolved and ‘the world will be as one’, when there will be ‘no heaven [above us and] no hell below us’; when, in essence, there will be a world without the condemning differentiation of good and evil, a world liberated from the insecurity of the human condition and thus the need for religion, where, as Lennon sang, there will be ‘Nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too…​all the people living life in peace…​No need for greed or hunger, a brotherhood of man…​all the people sharing all the world’ (Imagine, 1971). And, as has already been mentioned, it is the fulfillment of Martin Luther King Jr’s ‘dream’ of the time when the human race is able to ‘allow freedom to ring…from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city’ because ‘all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics’ can ‘join hands and sing’, ‘Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!’ (‘I Have A Dream’ speech, 28 Aug. 1963).

 

Another immense difference between the new Transformed Way of Living and a religion is that in the Transformed Way of Living there is no deity involved, or deference to any one personality; in fact, there is no worship of any kind. And best of all, unlike religion, there is no involvement or emphasis on guilt, because guilt—and the whole notion of ‘good and evil’—has been eliminated forever with the reconciling understanding of the human condition.

So while religion and the human-condition-resolved Transformed Way of Living both involve letting go of living through our corrupted self and deferring to something else, that is where the similarity ends.

 

 

So yes, as depicted above, with understanding of the human condition at last found we are no longer trapped in Plato’s horrible cold, dark cave of denial and delusion, and are free to come out into the warm healing sunshine of the compassionate full truth of the redeeming and dignifying understanding of ourselves. Our insecurity about being corrupted ends. We can finally understand that we are all good and not bad. And what this means is that all our old artificial and superficial dishonest and deluded ways of coping are no longer needed. We are FREE to leave all those fake and in-truth horrid practices behind as finished with. We can finally transition from living in a dreadful state of denial and delusion to living in a wonderfully TRANSFORMED STATE of freedom from all the dishonesty and delusion that made human life so fraudulent, mad, destructive and chaotic. In fact, all the in-truth extreme shallowness, emptiness and loneliness of that cold and dark dishonest and deluded, immensely destructive existence is able to be replaced by so much relief, happiness and healthiness now that we will find it almost too exciting to bear! We go from living an existence tortured by the horror of the human condition, to an absolutely fabulous life free of that horror.

Later in paragraph 292 I use the example of the immense relief the Christian apostle St Paul experienced when he gave up living for his corrupted condition and instead chose to live through his support of Christ. Well, I will pre-empt that and include here this picture I have drawn of St Paul falling off his donkey and going blind for three days with ecstatic relief. That is how much more relieving it is now to be supporting the actual human-race-transforming understanding of the human condition! As I say in that later paragraph, the relief and happiness that is on offer now is so incredibly great it is like falling off the back of a thousand donkeys and of our eyes being so flooded with tears of happiness we won’t be able to see out of our eyes for months!

 

St Paul falling off his donkey and going blind with ecstatic relief after he let go of his struggle with the human condition

 

The following two paintings by the already mentioned prophetic artist and poet William Blake, titled Cringing in Terror and Albion Arose, powerfully illustrate the absolutely fabulous transformation from having to live with the horror and agony of the human condition, to being able to live free of it in support of the redeeming, reconciling and healing understanding that we now have of that condition.

 

 

Basically, we humans can now come back to life from having had to endure living in an effectively dead state. As the descriptions from R.D. Laing, Christ, and the band With Life In Mind made clear, 2 million years of accumulating upset has left us in a numb, seared, effectively dead state—but we are finally free now from having to live trapped in Plato’s deathly dark, deep, cold cave of denial and delusion. The whole human race can wake up now from what has in truth been a terrible, terrible nightmare. WE ARE FREE TO ALL COME BACK TO LIFE NOW; the great TRANSFORMATION of the whole human race is on! And this is not another deluded, pseudo idealistic, false start to an ideal world, this is the real deal, the human-condition-understood-and-resolved ACTUAL transformation of the human race!

While chapter 9 of FREEDOM gives an overall description of how this completely wonderful transformation takes place, my booklet/​video The Great Transformation, my booklet/​video Sermon On The Beach, and my Video/​Freedom Essay 33, provide a specific description of how to let go and leave the old insecure, have-to-prove-you-are-good-and-not-bad ways of living and adopt the new, human-condition-free Transformed Way Of Living where you can live a fabulously meaningful and joyous life in support of the redeeming understanding of our corrupted condition. Also, the many affirmations, endorsements, ecstatic responses and excited descriptions on our website all bear out how fabulous the new world is that has opened up for the whole human race!

It does need to be emphasised that with humanity’s immensely heroic but at the same time immensely upsetting search for the redeeming explanation of our corrupted condition finally over, not only CAN everyone leave the old, now obsoleted, ways of sustaining their sense of self-worth and instead adopt the new Transformed Way Of Living, everyone actually HAS TO leave that old way of living and instead live in support of understanding of the human condition. What makes everyone HAVE TO make this transition is not the dictates from some outside authoritarian regime, or the imposition of a dogma-based, pseudo-idealistic, ‘woke’ culture, but the imposition of the unassailable logic that the old selfish artificial ways of living are destroying the world and can no longer be endured, and since those ways of living are now no longer needed there is NO JUSTIFICATION AT ALL for continuing to live that way. ADOPTING THE TRANSFORMED WAY OF LIVING IS WHAT EVERYONE CAN AND THEREFORE HAS TO DO NOW TO SAVE HUMANKIND.

I should clarify, as I do in paragraph 1231 of FREEDOM and in Freedom Essay 33, that the focus in leaving the old world of artificial reinforcement isn’t on giving up your possessions or walking the streets in sackcloth in self-denial and servitude. We’re talking about a change of mindset that can have an effect on your priorities, which can affect your choice of possessions and so forth, but the focus isn’t on self-deprivation.

I also want to point out, as I do in my book Death by Dogma in paragraphs 94-96, we humans have always known that one day we had to mature from living in an insecure, defensive competitive, selfish and aggressive state to living in a secure cooperative, selfless and loving state, but being unable to confront the human condition and by so doing find the understanding that actually makes that transformation possible, out of sheer desperation it was decided to just ‘fake it to make it’, which is what the Critical-Theory-based, ‘woke’, ‘Great Reset’, Globalisation, ‘No Kings’ movement have been trying to do. While such fakeness was never going to work—as Death by Dogma makes clear, only the psychologically redeeming, reconciling and healing understanding of our corrupted condition could relieve us of that condition—it does reveal how intuitively anticipated and needed this great transformation is. Later in paragraphs 289-290 I will include descriptions by the famous podcasters Joe Rogan, Russell Brand, Neil Oliver and Kevin A. Maclean of a great yearning now for a whole new way of living based on ‘the sanctity of love and truth’, as Rogan put it—which the human race now has in the human-condition-solved Transformed Way of Living!

So yes, taking up the Transformed State is all-relieving, all-wonderful and all-important! Join the Sunshine Army on the Sunshine Highway to the World In Sunshine and let’s fix the world because at last we really can!