29. To answer the question of how we are to cope with the exposure and associated changes that understanding of the human condition unavoidably brings we first have to context how humans have historically coped with the human condition

To answer this question of how we are to cope with the sudden exposure and associated changes the liberating understanding of the human condition inevitably brings we must first context how we humans have historically coped with our upset angry, egocentric and alienated state. Understanding how we have coped in the past will make it much easier to understand how we are going to cope now.

The following charts (see next images) appear in my first two books Free: The End of The Human Condition (1988) and Beyond The Human Condition (1991). They summarise the development in our forebears of integration and with it the emergence of consciousness and the associated corrupting battle of the human condition.

While a full understanding of these charts can best be gained from reading my three earlier books which are all available online at <www.worldtransformation.com>, the basic elements in these charts have now been explained in this book.

The top chart depicts the development of mental cleverness as indicated by brain volume. (Obviously brain volume is only a broad indicator of mental cleverness because refinements within the brain that don’t involve greater volume of brain matter may also be relevant to the brain’s ability to effectively process information.) The average brain volumes of our various australopithecine and Homo ancestors was also mentioned under the pictures of the skulls of these ancestors at the end of Section 17. Also, the explanation for the descriptions ‘Infantman’ for our ape ancestor, ‘Childman’ for our australopithecine ancestor and ‘Adolescentman’ for Homo was explained at the end of Section 17. The word ‘man’ in each of these descriptions is an abbreviation for ‘human’, and even for ‘humanity’.

The chart depicting the development of integration shows how the love-indoctrination/ mate selection process during our species’ infancy stage finally lead to our forebears living in a totally integrated state by 5 million years ago, a state that we remained in throughout our 3 million years of childhood. This utterly integrated existence ended some 2 million years ago when our fully conscious mind’s battle with our instinctive self lead to the breakout of upset behaviour, namely anger, egocentricity and alienation. As has been explained, with the search for knowledge unavoidably having Page 138 of
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PDF Version It is this period of ever-increasing levels of upset that occurred during our species’ last 2 million years in adolescence—in particular how we coped with this upset—that forms the main interest in this final part of this book. What is of greatest interest of all is the very last stages depicted on the dis-integration curve where terminal levels of alienation have developed and with it the threat of pseudo idealism destroying humanity, because that brief 200 year period is the period humanity is currently reaching the critical end of, and why the finding of this rehabilitating understanding of the human condition is so incredibly urgent.

The following summarises the main stages in this amazing journey that our species has been on leading to this critical final stage where terminal levels of alienation have developed.