The essays of ‘A Species In Denial’

With the human condition understood it is now possible to explain all manner of mystery. It is the key understanding needed to unlock virtually everything humans ever wanted to know. If this statement is true, and you will come to see that it is, then choosing a previously inexplicable or unresolved issue and explaining it should be enthralling and hold the reader’s attention. As emphasised, this strategy also allows people to become familiar with the subject of the human condition without having to overly confront it.

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The first essay, Deciphering Plato’s Cave Allegory: And in the Process Explaining How The Human Condition is Resolved, analyses Plato’s cave allegory in greater detail than has been done in this Introduction and shows how biological understanding of the human condition liberates humanity from its human-condition-afflicted, cave-like existence.

The second essay, Resignation, looks at the most important psychological event in human life. It is an event that has dictated the very nature of existence for adult humans, yet it is an event that has not previously even been acknowledged. If humans are living in a state of deep psychological denial then the question arises, are they born with this denial, and if not, when and how do they adopt it? This essay explains that at about 12 years of age humans begin trying 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, learnt they had no choice but to resign themselves to a life of denial of the depressing subject. While humanity was unable to acknowledge the issue of the human condition and the resulting need to resign to a life of denial of it, it was not possible to describe and explain the unresigned life of children and adolescents. Their world has been a mystery to adults but once you read Resignation that mystery will evaporate.

The third essay is titled, Bringing Peace To The War Between The Sexes and The Denial-Free History Of The Human Race. Some of the deepest wounds in human life have been caused by the lack of understanding in the relationship between men and women. The bitterness, heartache, suffering and the hurt to children has been immense. There are 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. This understanding also makes it possible to present a denial-free history of the human race.

The fourth essay, titled The Demystification Of Religion, is an impacting demonstration of how understanding the phenomenon of resignation demystifies some previously impenetrable aspects of Page 81 of
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The fifth essay, titled The World Transformation Movement is a brief profile of the WTM written by a WTM Founding Director and Patron Tim Macartney-Snape AM OAM.

It should be explained that since each of the first four essays has been written as a discrete essay about a particular subject, rather than as a chapter of a book, each essay can, to a degree, be understood without having read the preceding essays and Introduction. It is important to note however that what is being introduced is an entirely new paradigm or way of viewing our world, and unless the reader already has some familiarity with the new paradigm, reading the essays in order will be necessary.

The reaction of someone who read the draft of the Resignation essay indicates that this indirect access to the issue of the human condition is effective. Peter Landahl, a teacher at a prominent Sydney private school and father of a WTM Founding Member, said after reading the draft, ‘Of all the FHA [now the WTM] literature I have read I found Resignation to be the best to understand. I didn’t get stumped anywhere, it flowed and I understood the whole way through.’ He said, ‘It was good to discuss a specific topic’, adding that ‘as a teacher, I found the explanations remarkably relevant and insightful.’ He added ‘I read it in a day’, and asked, ‘could I read the draft of the sequel essay, The Demystification Of Religion?’ (WTM records, Oct. 2001). Given all that has been said, these words might seem scripted but they are in fact an accurate and genuine response.

The feedback from within the WTM has been even more positive. WTM Founding Member, James West, wrote on 19 February 2002 that, ‘In terms of the “give up” [ie give up trying to maintain the denial] document you have always striven for, this new book achieves this. When I read these essays I kept getting surprised by the way the issues have been handled in a new way, and the surprise is at their increased power to hold my attention. For example, I’m reading and thinking from past experience with the subject, “here comes three paragraphs that might be overwhelming [ie overwhelmingly confronting] for me”, and I start to feel some “deaf” reaction kicking in [the process of eroding deafness is an ongoing one, so that even people within the WTM who have had a long association with this information still have degrees of deafness/ alienation to erode]. Then Page 82 of
Print Edition I read the paragraphs and, bammo, the momentum picks up instead of drops off. So many times the writing hits it up the middle and talks about a heretical issue so directly, assuredly and interestingly that it wins the day on the issue. To me it’s as though a committee or a university faculty has been researching the human condition for 50 years and this is the result, such is the plausibility and authority. It lifts the truth one step at a time out of the depths of unconsciousness into concrete reality. If communicating understanding of the human condition is chopping down a tree then these essays are like a chainsaw in their effectiveness (chainsaw doesn’t reconcile very well with the sensitivity that’s also present, but you know what I mean, sensitive and tough). In terms of the macro objective, it’s truly fantastic to have got to this stage with these essays of having the measure of the incredibly difficult task of communicating understanding of the human condition despite the deaf effect’ (WTM records, Feb. 2002).

We have also received feedback from other people outside the WTM similar to Peter Landahl’s, indicating that this less direct presentation is an effective method of overcoming the deaf effect and by so doing will enable people to finally understand human nature; understand themselves.