Our species’ fabulous future

Once the reader begins to comprehend and see into the human condition, the world begins to become transparent; the whole edifice of denial that humans have carefully constructed over some 2 million years begins to crumble. As William Blake prophesied, ‘When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are’. Jim Morrison’s inspiration for calling his band The Doors came from this statement, while author Aldous Huxley was sufficiently inspired by Blake’s words to title his book, detailing his experience with psychedelic drugs, The Doors of Perception.

With understanding of the human condition ‘the doors of perception’ are finally ‘cleansed’, and ‘man will see things as they truly are’. The whole manufactured, artificial edifice of denial of the resigned world begins to disintegrate and gradually ‘the scales will fall’ from people’s ‘eyes’; they will begin to wake up as if from a deep sleep, an amnesia or state of hypnosis.

The immense power that emanates from having insight into the human condition will be demonstrated in The Demystification Of Religion essay where Christ, who for so long has been regarded as the one nobody knows, will be explained and demystified, along with all manner of religious metaphysics.

Understanding the human condition allows humans to know everything about ourselves that we have ever wanted to know; better still, it liberates our all-sensitive potential. It liberates our soul. Humans have the potential to be a super-clever, ultra-sensitive species. This was made abundantly clear when savant syndrome was explained earlier. What has held us back has been the denial we developed to avoid the depression brought about by the issue of the human condition. This denial ensured our species did not become extinct, it protected us until we reached the position where we could solve the human condition and banish that suicidal depression. The denial contributed valuable service to the human race but thankfully it is no longer necessary. Understanding the human condition is the key Page 312 of
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There was a limit to how much denial/ alienation humans and our world could absorb, and that limit has been reached; humanity had to break through into understanding of the human condition, or face extinction. Towards the end of his life the Spanish cellist, Pablo Casals, summed up the plight of our species when he said, ‘The situation is hopeless. We must take the next step.’ The 1991 film, Separate but Equal, accurately summarised the situation in the words of one character, ‘Struggling between two worlds; one dead, the other powerless to be born’—words which echo those of Antonio Gramsci, ‘The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appears’ (Prison Notebooks, written during Gramsci’s 10-year imprisonment under Mussolini, 1927–1937). Until understanding of the human condition was found humans were powerless to change their society. Historian Eric Hobsbawm described humanity’s stark predicament when he wrote in his 1994 book, Age of Extremes, ‘The alternative to a changed society—is darkness’. To paraphrase Benjamin Disraeli’s famous expression, stalled halfway between ape and angel was no place to stop.

With regard to the hunger in the human heart for the arrival of the truthful new world, it is worth repeating the wonderful words from Sir Laurens van der Post that were included in the section on autism: ‘This shrill, brittle, self-important life of today is by comparison a graveyard where the living are dead and the dead are alive and talking [through our soul] in the still, small, clear voice of a love and trust in life that we have for the moment lost…[there was a time when] All on earth and in the universe were still members and family of the early race seeking comfort and warmth through the long, cold night before the dawning of individual consciousness in a togetherness which still gnaws like an unappeasable homesickness at the base of the human heart’ (Testament to the Bushmen, 1984, pp.127–128 of 176).

Having, at the last possible moment, broken through to understanding of ourselves, everything changes. The future for our species suddenly changes from being totally bleak to becoming fabulously golden.

There has been much superficial talk in the media about starving millions; terminal pollution; wars; universal relationship and family breakdown; endemic suffering, loneliness, depression and sickness; Page 313 of
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Such claims may seem astonishing. Living in denial, humans hardly knew humanity was struggling with a problem, let alone that there was a solution to it. One moment humanity is living in a wasteland, a world of almost total darkness, in a meaninglessness and disorientated state of complete denial, the next it is in a new world drenched in the light of relieving understanding with immense potential and great excitement ahead.

The following drawing summarises humanity’s journey to enlightenment. From happy, loving, integratively-orientated infancy and childhood, humanity progressed to the horror of insecure adolescence where humans had to search for their identity, for understanding of why they lost innocence and became divisively behaved. With the understanding of the human condition now found humanity can enter the happy, ameliorated, secure state of adulthood.