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• Cover
• Commendations1
• Title Page 3
• Copyright4
• Dedication 5
• Notes to the Reader 6
• Contents 9
• Foreword
• By Charles Birch 17
• Introduction
• Broaches the subject of the human condition—the issue of which the human species has had to live in psychological denial because historically it has been an extremely confronting and suicidally depressing subject.
• The elephant in our living rooms 21
• What is the human condition? 25
• The agony of the human condition 27
• Humans’ historic denial of the issue of the human condition 33
• Plato’s ‘cave’ allegory for life in denial 35
• The ‘deaf effect’: the difficulty of reading about the human condition 42
• Unaware of the ‘deaf effect’ readers blame the presentation 52
• Age and the ‘deaf effect’ 56
• Intelligence and success also increase the ‘deaf effect’ 58
• The non-falsifiable situation 63
• Overcoming the ‘deaf effect’ 64
• The need for patience and perseverance 67
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• Summary of the old and new highways of thought in response to analysis of the human condition 70
• This move to a new human-condition-ameliorated world has no relationship to the New Age Movement, or to a religious movement 72
• Anticipations of the arrival of the human-condition-ameliorated new world 74
• The benefit of an indirect approach 78
• The essays of ‘A Species In Denial’ 79
• Deciphering Plato’s Cave Allegory — And in the Process Explaining How The Human Condition is Resolved 83
• Explains the allegory and in the process shows how biological understanding of the human condition liberates humanity from its human-condition-afflicted cave-like existence.
• The metaphor of the sun and fire, the meaning of existence and the demystification of God 85
• The burning effect of the sun and fire 89
• The illuminating effect of the sun and fire 94
• The reason for the cave existence 94
• Liberation from the cave 96
• ASPECT A 97
• A1:
  The difficulty of acknowledging the human soul and the spectrum of alienation, or denial of soul 

  99

• A2:
  Plato’s acknowledgment of the nature of our soul 

  101

• A3:
  Recognition of the soul’s world in mythology 

  104

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• A4:
  The biological explanation for how we acquired our soul, our instinctive orientation to integrative, cooperative meaning 

  106

• A5:
  The contrived excuses for humans’ divisive nature 

  113

• A6:
  A brief description of how our soul became corrupted 

  117

• A7:
  There were people who could live in the sun’s light, but they were unbearably condemning for the cave prisoners 

  123

• ASPECT B 130
• B1:
  Science–the liberator 

  131

• B2:
  Soul–the synthesiser 

  132

• ASPECT C 143
• C1:
  The difficulty of taking the truth back into the cave 

  144

• C2:
  The cave allegory was the theory, this is what happened in practice 

  158

• C3:
  Humanity’s departure from the cave to life in the sun

  176

• Resignation 187
• Examines the most important psychological event in human life. It is an event that has dictated the very nature of existence for adult humans and yet it is an event that has not previously been acknowledged. The essay explains that at about 12 years of age humans begin to try to understand the dilemma of the human condition. However, with humanity unable—until now—to explain this deepest of issues, adolescents eventually, at about the age of 15, learn they have no choice but to resign themselves to a life of denial of the dangerously depressing subject.
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• The elephant in the living room that only young people could see 188
• The destructive effect of the silence from the world of resigned adults 194
• Trying to confront the human condition within 200
• The depression 206
• Resignation poetry 208
• ‘Life’ leading up to resignation 211
• Ships at sea 218
• Olive Schreiner’s extraordinarily honest recollection of the world of the pre-resigned mind 223
• A history of analysis of resignation 229
• The moment of resignation: how humans change from believing in a cooperative, selfless, loving world, to believing in a competitive, selfish, aggressive, egocentric, must-win, power-fame-fortune-and-glory-obsessed world 232
• The extent of humans’ fear of the issue of the human condition 243
• The cost of resignation: ‘fifty foot of solid concrete’ between humans and their souls 256
• The autistic state demonstrates how the mind can dissociate itself from unpleasant experiences 269
• The necessary dishonesty of the resigned mind 277
• The dysfunction of the resigned mind 282
• The loneliness of humans’ alienated state 287
• The objective of the human journey was to solve the human condition 292
• Renegotiating resignation 294
• The end of resignation 309
• Our species’ fabulous future 311
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• Bringing Peace To The War Between The Sexes 317
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• The Denial-Free History Of The Human Race 349
• Some of the deepest wounds in human life have been caused by the lack of understanding in the relationship between men and women. The heartache, bitterness, suffering, and the hurt to children has been immense. There are so many questions about the relationship between men and women that need answering. With understanding of the human condition it is now at last possible to answer all these questions and bring peace to the ‘war’ between the sexes.
•      With understanding of the human condition it is not only possible to talk honestly about the different roles of men and women, it is also possible to present an honest, denial-free history of the human race, and explain the roles different races have played in the human journey.
• The Demystification Of Religion 375
• Powerfully demonstrates how understanding the phenomenon of resignation demystifies previously impenetrable aspects of human life, in particular the world of religious metaphysics and dogma. In fact, it is a clear demonstration of how science can and should be a winnower of mystery and superstition.
• Understanding the human condition makes it possible to acknowledge the immense differences in alienation between humans 376
• ‘Homes’ at different distances from the incinerating bonfire of truth 379
• Prophets and the concept of the ‘Virgin Mother’ demystified 383
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• The story of Noah’s Ark explained 393
• Demystifying the role of religions 395
• The Apocalypse and the Battle of Armageddon explained 398
• The demystification of God 406
• The difficulty of exposure that the demystification of God brings 407
• Where is the spirituality in negative entropy? 416
• If negative entropy ends with the ‘heat death’ or ‘big crunch’ end of the universe, where does that leave God? 421
• Afterlife explained 423
• The Trinity demystified 426
• Jesus Christ demystified 428
• Christ’s miracles and resurrection demystified 433
• Why the psychologically desperate do not suffer from the ‘deaf effect’ 438
• Why prophets were ‘without honour’ in their ‘own home’ and ‘own country’ 439
• Denial-free books 447
• Humour, swearing and sex demystified 449
• Recognising myself as a contemporary unresigned denial-free thinker or prophet 453
• The authority of an unresigned prophet 454
• A prophet’s role is to say the truth 461
• The role of contemporary prophets is to resolve the human condition, and by so doing make the need for religions obsolete 462
• Denial-free thinkers are not ‘brilliant’ or ‘clever’ or ‘geniuses’ 468
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• Australia’s role in the world 470
• Expressions of anticipation of the arrival of understanding of the human condition 490
• One cold, pure February night 493
• Conclusion 496
• The World Transformation Movement (WTM) 499
• A brief profile of the WTM written by a WTM Founding Director and Patron Tim Macartney-Snape AM OAM
• Index for Print Edition 517
• About the Author 528
• Back Cover