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The Great Exodus: From the horror and darkness of the human condition contains a significant expansion of the biological synthesis Jeremy Griffith wrote for The Human Condition Documentary Proposal. It also incorporates a very substantial expansion of the contents of Jeremy’s The Great Exodus essay that was published in the United States in mid-2006 in the book Living a Life of Value. Both The Human Condition Documentary Proposal and The Great Exodus essay can be viewed at <www.worldtransformation.com/publications>.

The significance of this book in relation to Jeremy Griffith’s last book is that while A Species In Denial (2003) provides an in-depth analysis of the main aspects of Jeremy’s account of the human condition, this book contains the most advanced presentation of his synthesis of the biology of the human condition. It also contains a description of the psychological stages with ages that humans negotiated under the duress of the human condition—including and in particular how humans can cope with the confronting exposure of our variously human-condition-afflicted lives that unavoidably occurs when understanding of the human condition arrives.

This book is being prepared for submission to publishers overseas as an intended cross-marketing accompaniment for the eventual broadcast of the Human Condition Documentary. It is still in draft form with the editing incomplete.

Warning to the reader about the difficulty all humans have reading about the subject of the human condition

As Section 3 of this book makes clear, the issue of the human condition is a subject humans have historically found virtually impossible to confront and as a result, as will be described in Section 4, humans have lived in deep psychological denial of the subject. It follows that the reader should anticipate that reading about the human condition will be psychologically difficult. As Professor Prosen emphasises in his foreword, psychological denials are not at all easy to overcome and there has never been a greater denial in the human psyche than that of the issue of the human condition.

Importantly however experience has shown that this resistance the human mind has to reading about the issue of our human condition, and any issues related to it, can be overcome with patience, perseverance and, in particular, by re-reading the material.

Unaware that our minds do have a historic resistance to any analysis of the human condition what often happens is that readers attribute the apparent impenetrableness of what they are reading to other causes such as to poor presentation of the information and even to the failure of the arguments to be persuasive. The reader of course must make up his or her own mind about the truthfulness or otherwise of the arguments being presented, however experience has shown that denial of the issue of the human condition can greatly Page 5 of
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The benefit of being patient and of re-reading information about the human condition has been demonstrated many times with readers regularly reporting that when they first read such presentations they are hardly able to take in or ‘hear’ anything of what they are reading—as one reader confided, ‘When I first read [Jeremy Griffith’s] books all I saw were a lot of black marks on white paper’. However after re-reading the material the ability to ‘hear’ what is written improves so much that readers make comments such as ‘I thought I was reading an entirely different presentation to the one I initially read’. This ‘deaf effect’ that reading about the human condition causes is real and the reader does need to be prepared for it.

The human condition is the most difficult of all subjects for humans to address but it is the subject around which the whole mystery of what it is to be human, and about how we are to survive as a species, unlocks.