Section 1:12 Why will everyone in the world adopt the TRANSFORMED WAY OF LIVING?

QUESTION: ‘But people aren’t going to give up their existing lifestyles are they? You don’t expect them to do that do you? So how do you expect this is going to suddenly TRANSFORM everyone and TRANSFORM the world?’

ANSWER: A very, very important difference between religions and the new TRANSFORMED WAY OF LIVING is that everyone does take up this new TRANSFORMED WAY OF LIVING. What did the chorus to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony proclaim? ‘Your [the reconciling understanding’s] magic reunites…All men become brothers…All good, all bad…Be embraced, millions! This kiss for the WHOLE world!’ That means everyone.

To explain why the new TRANSFORMED way of living that understanding of the human condition makes possible is a ‘kiss for the whole world’, we need to consider the historical role religion has played. As humanity’s great upsetting battle to find knowledge—ultimately understanding of our good-and-evil-afflicted human condition—progressed we humans unavoidably became more and more angry, egocentric and alienated. Religions developed when we humans became so upset we could no longer afford to continue to stay living in a distressed and destructive angry, egocentric and alienated, knowledge-finding upset state and instead had to defer to and live through our support of the sound words and life of a great prophet. But doing that—stopping thinking for ourselves and just obeying and living by the words of the prophet—meant abandoning participating in humanity’s upsetting heroic search for knowledge, which still had to carry on if liberating understanding of the human condition was ever going to be found. Remember, Adam Stork could abandon his upsetting pursuit of knowledge any time he chose by flying back on course, but if he did he would not be participating in the heroic search for knowledge.

What is so different about this new TRANSFORMED WAY OF LIVING is that you are not giving up the upsetting battle to find knowledge when you let go of living through your upset angry, egocentric and alienated self, because that battle has been won, understanding of the human condition has been found.

While religions have been incredibly helpful by giving upset humans an effective way to abandon living out their upsets (I explain how religions have saved the human race in Part 3:11G of Freedom Expanded: Book 1), some people, and even religious people to varying degrees, had to continue with the upsetting battle to find knowledge, otherwise the ultimate knowledge we needed, the liberating understanding of the human condition, would never have been found. In the new TRANSFORMED world, however, everyone permanently moves on from the battle and takes up the TRANSFORMED WAY OF LIVING because once the battle is won, as it now is, there is no longer any need or justification to continue it. We have won the match, it’s over, now everyone heads off the field and into the showers.

To help illustrate this critical difference between a religion and this new TRANSFORMED WAY OF LIVING, we can look at The Simpsons cartoon series. The character Ned Flanders is a Christian, someone who has deferred to, and lives through, Christ. His neighbour Homer Simpson, on the other hand, is still living out the corrupting battle to find the knowledge that would defeat the implication that we humans are fundamentally bad, that knowledge being the explanation of the human condition. In one episode, Ned lends Homer his lawnmower, which Homer wrecks without remorse. Rather than getting angry or defensive, Ned simply accepts Homer’s behaviour—he is the ‘goody-goody’ Christian while Homer is one upset Adam Stork, living out the battle to find knowledge to the full; he’s massively angry, egocentric and alienated. But if Homer could explain the situation, he would say to Ned: ‘Listen Ned, you’ve deferred to and love Christ and he loves you, and you’re a goody-goody, and I’m one upset, corrupted dysfunctional dude, but Ned, I’m still out there doing it, I’m still participating in humanity’s heroic upsetting battle to find knowledge, so I’m a legend and you’re a wimp.’

If, however, we imagine that Ned has taken up the new TRANSFORMED WAY OF LIVING then Homer has no grounds to criticise him. Homer has no argument against Ned when Ned takes up support of this information and its TRANSFORMED WAY OF LIVING because with the upsetting battle to find knowledge—ultimately the understanding of the human condition—now won, there is no longer any good reason to keep living out the battle. In this scenario, the tables are turned: Ned would be in the position to criticise Homer for continuing a battle that is now over.

We are rational creatures, so when all the rationale, all the logic says there is only one response we can make, namely letting go of our angry, egocentric and alienated way of living and taking up the TRANSFORMED WAY OF LIVING, then that is the response the human race will take.

Of course, it will come as a huge shock that this dreamed of breakthrough in the human journey of the liberation of the human race has finally happened, and there will be a certain amount of procrastination because everyone is so habituated to their old power, fame, fortune and glory-seeking lifestyle, but all the logic and thus power lies with the new TRANSFORMED WAY OF LIVING. There is absolutely no need or justification for imposed force, for yet another conflict-filled revolution to introduce this new TRANSFORMED WAY OF LIVING, however, so powerful is the logic for the change to the TRANSFORMED STATE that before long people still living in the old embattled, have-to-prove-your-worth way of living will feel like people caught wearing last year’s fashions. There is such a stark difference between the free, expansive, enthralled TRANSFORMED life and the old embattled egocentric existence where your mind is narrowly focused and preoccupied working all the angles every second of every day defensively seeking validation/​reinforcement/​a ‘win’, that those living in the old way will seem like a different species. Compared to the new expansive, all-exciting, free TRANSFORMED STATE, those still stuck in the old embattled paradigm will be like sad, dead people. The old way is so clearly obsoleted now that when this new way of living catches on it will sweep the world.

In fact, because this revolution in human life is logic-driven the effect of the change it will produce of people living selflessly for the greater good rather than for themselves will be truly dramatic and quick. I should clarify here that upset humans were selflessly working for the greater good by searching for knowledge, however, they were also selfishly self-preoccupied seeking power, fame, fortune and glory as their only means of achieving some self-validation and relief while the search went on, and it is this selfish self-preoccupation that disappears when we adopt the TRANSFORMED STATE. It is the effect of this change in people living for the greater good in the sense of not being selfishly self-preoccupied that will produce such a dramatic change in the world. In fact, its healing effect upon the world will, overall, be so quick and complete it will seem instant, as if one day the human race was living in a state of immense turmoil, confusion and despair from all the anger, egocentricity and alienation in humans and then the next day it is all over—as though an entirely new peaceful world emerged overnight. As The Lord’s Prayer anticipated, ‘Your [cooperative, loving] Kingdom come, your [cooperative, loving ideal-behaviour way of living] will be done on earth as it is in [an ideal] heaven’ (Matt. 6:10 & Luke 11:2)! It’s all over, the human race is free! And having everyone together at last, unified in their mission to heal the human race and repair the world, will bring about such a feeling of fellowship that everyone will be completely overjoyed. The human race is at last empowered to end all the unspeakable and unbearable suffering in the world. We are out of here, we are gone, we are leaving the old upset, embattled dead world behind forever. ‘Let’s Go’ is the catch cry of this human-condition-ameliorated, TRANSFORMED new world. Again, as Bono anticipated: ‘I’ve conquered my past / The future is here at last / I stand at the entrance to a new world I can see / The ruins to the right of me / Will soon have lost sight of me.’

As I have said in every book and major document I have ever written, ‘Soon from one end of the horizon to the other an army in its millions will appear to do battle with human suffering, and its weapon will be understanding and its outcome, world reparation’ (see for example p.37 of my 1988 first book Free: The End of the Human Condition and p.184 of my 1991 second book Beyond The Human Condition).

I might include more anticipations of this time of the human race’s fabulously exciting peaceful exodus from the horror of the human condition: firstly, from the Australian rock band Hunters and Collectors’ song Holy Grail, ‘Woke up this morning from the strangest dream, I was in the biggest army the world had ever seen. We were marching as one…Started out seeking fortune and glory…we were so far from home…nothing left to plunder, when we stumbled on the Holy Grail.’ In the Bible, the prophet Joel expressed the exact same anticipation: ‘Like dawn spreading across the mountains a large and mighty army comes, such as never was of old nor ever will be in ages to come…Before them the land is like the garden of Eden, behind them, a desert waste—nothing escapes them…They all march in line, not swerving from their course. They do not jostle each other.’ In U2’s I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For, Bono sings, ‘I believe in the Kingdom Come when all the colours will bleed into one’; and in Where The Streets Have No Name he sings, ‘We’re beaten and blown by the wind, trampled in dust. [But] I’ll show you a place, high on a [uncorrupted] desert plain, where the streets have no name [where humans no longer have to egocentrically own and name everything]…Then there will be no toil or sorrow, then there will be no time of pain’; and similarly in When Love Comes To Town, ‘I was a sailor, I was lost at sea / I was under the waves…But I did what I did before love [since the ultimate form of love is truth we can read ‘truth’ for the word ‘love’] came to town…I’ve seen love [truth] conquer the great divide [between instinct and intellect, conscience and conscious, ‘good and evil’, yin and yang, idealism and realism, altruism and egotism, spiritualism and materialism, young and old, women and men, blacks and whites, religion and science, the left-wing and the right-wing, socialism and capitalism, country and city, and all the other manifestations of the poles of life under the duress of the human condition]…When love comes to town I’m gonna jump that train [when the liberating, TRANSFORMING truth about the human condition finally arrives I’m ‘out of here’; leaving the old dead world behind forever—as will be everyone else because, as Cat Stevens similarly anticipated, ‘out on the edge of darkness there rides a peace train’ that has at last arrived to ‘take’ us ‘home again’].’ (Again, the above examples of anticipations of the arrival of understanding of the human condition appear with many others, all with their sources, in Part 3:12 of Freedom Expanded: Book 1.)

(At this point in the presentation the extract from Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony chorus is replayed with the following lyrics moving across the screen: ‘Joy’, ‘Joyful, as a hero to victory!’, ‘Join in our jubilation!’, ‘We enter, drunk with fire, into your sanctuary…Your magic reunites…All men become brothers…All good, all bad…Be embraced, millions! This kiss for the whole world!’)