GG.1 that people suffer from an extreme Deaf Effect where they initially have great difficulty taking in or ‘hearing’ the most wonderful gift of being able to understand the human condition.
GG.2 that the reason people suffer from a Deaf Effect is because of our historic fear of the human condition, which is the immense guilt and shame the human race feels for having corrupted our species’ original cooperative and loving instinctive existence.
GG.3 that what happened was we humans became conscious and, for some reason that we had absolutely no understanding of, started to become competitive, aggressive and selfish—behaving in a way that was completely at odds with our instinctive self or soul that only knew to behave cooperatively, selflessly and lovingly.
GG.4 that not being able to understand why we had become seemingly evil monsters caused us humans to feel terribly ostracised and lonely in the world, a loneliness that allows us to understand such practices as the ancestor worship evident in the 12,000 year old Göbekli Tepe settlement in Turkey.
GG.5 that trying to confront the subject of our corrupted, seemingly worthless human condition without understanding of it has been so unbearably depressing for almost all adolescents that they had no choice other than to eventually ‘resign’ to living in denial of the subject.
GG.6 that even though we are now defended with the good reason for our corrupted condition, our fear of the subject from when we unsuccessfully tried to confront it when we were adolescents stops us from ‘hearing’ discussions about the subject.
GG.7 that the one final challenge for the human race is to have enough people overcome the Deaf Effect for there to be a critical mass of appreciative people showing everyone else that it is actually now safe to confront the all-important, crux issue of the human condition.
GG.8 that there is a small category of people who didn’t resign to living in denial of the human condition and who therefore don’t particularly suffer from the Deaf Effect called ‘Ships at Sea’, and it is these people who are most able to help initiate support for this world-saving understanding.
GG.9 that examples of rare exceptionally honest thinkers illustrate just how much the human race has been living in denial of the human condition and therefore how precious it is for everyone to now be able to understand and heal our psychologically distressed condition.
SOTB.1 Lacking the real defence for our corrupted condition all we have had to cope are the artificial defences of attacking any criticism of ourselves, of denying and blocking out any such criticism, and of achieving any positive reinforcement of ourselves that we can get hold of; our angry, alienated and egocentric ways of coping are what have sustained us.
SOTB.2 The ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition that explains why we humans are good and not bad obsoletes the need for our artificial angry, alienated and egocentric ways of coping and allows us to adopt the Transformed Way of Living, where we live in support of that redeeming understanding of ourselves.
SOTB.3 BUT the problem is how do we let go of our attachment to those old defences that we have become so dependent on and practiced at using.
SOTB.4 We are caught in a Mexican Standoff where we can’t go back into denial, pretence and delusion and yet we can’t go forward into accepting and implementing the implications of what we have learnt.
SOTB.5 The great problem with this resistance, this stalled Mexican Standoff state, is that it blocks our mind from being able to experience how this transformed way of living actually works. Because we find it almost impossible changing the focus of our minds, we are unable to discover how fabulously satisfying, wonderful and exciting the new Transformed Way of Living is.
SOTB.6 The most effective way of overcoming this problem of your extreme attachment to your existing defensive structure and its block to being able to experience how incredibly relieving and exciting the new Transformed Way of Living is, is to think very clearly about the situation the human race is in.
SOTB.7 The truth is that our artificial angry, alienated and egocentric ways of coping with the unbearable truth of the human race’s and our own corrupted condition are ultimately not sustainable and therefore it is undeniable that at some stage we have to stop living that way. The other truth is that this end point where the human race can’t endure any more angry, alienated and egocentric behaviour has now arrived, which means the human race urgently has to make the change from living that way and instead take up the Transformed Way of Living, which means you should make that change yourself, take up the Transformed Way of Living.
SOTB.8 You need to hold all the logic so clearly in your mind that you are able to allow your mind to actually take up the Transformed Way of Living, and at that moment when you actually do make that change you will suddenly experience how incredibly relieving and exciting living that way is, and then you won’t want to live any other way ever again.
SOTB.9 While all previous forms of abandoning our upset angry, egocentric and alienated life were fundamentally irresponsible and pseudo idealistic, abandoning our upset, egocentrically embattled, denial practising life is now not only legitimate, it is the only way to live.
SOTB.10 It won’t be long before everyone you walk past will be smiling and happy because they know about the Transformed Way of Living and how it saves the world. A great weight has been lifted off humanity—its 2-million-year long guilt for having corrupted our all-loving soul—so there is just going to be immense relief and joy everywhere.
4.1 that we have suffered from the ‘double whammy’ of psychological upset because we have cooperative and loving moral instincts.
4.2 that there is, as Richard Heinberg’s book documents, ‘everywhere in religion and myth…an acknowledgement that human consciousness has been separated…from an original innocence and can return to it only through the resolution of some profound inner discord’ .
4.3 that, as Hesiod described, we once were ‘A golden race…with calm untroubled mind’ who ‘shared’ everything and were ‘strangers to ill’ .
4.4 that, as Plato similarly said, we once lived in a ‘state of innocence, before we had any experience of evils to come’ when ‘neither was there any violence, or devouring of one another, or war or quarrel’ and then humans became conscious and ‘had to order their course of life for themselves, and were their own masters’ , which caused ‘the separation, when the world was let go’ leading to the ‘universal ruin’ that has arrived today.
4.5 that bonobos evidence the nurturing that created our cooperative and loving moral instincts.
4.6 that the unjust condemnation by our instincts caused all the volcanic frustration and anger in us humans, and our need for material reinforcement.
4.7 that this unjust condemnation necessitated we used the false ‘savage instincts’ excuse until science arrived to explain the real reason for our fallen condition.
4.8 that contemporary thinkers like Eugène Marais, Laurens van der Post, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Berdyaev, Erich Neumann, Paul MacLean and Arthur Koestler also evidence that the instinct vs intellect explanation of the human condition is the true explanation of it.
4.9 that with this true explanation of our condition we can now, as T.S. Eliot said, ‘cease from exploration’ and return to the upset-free state ‘where we started and know [understand] the place for the first time’ .
14.1 that scientists, like everyone else, have been living in fearful denial of the human condition and, as a result, have (Darwin excepted) been putting forward all manner of dishonest ‘explanations’ for human behaviour.
14.2 that these dishonest ‘explanations’ are largely based on the seductive reverse-of-the-truth lie that we have savage instincts and a guilt-free conscious mind that has to manage them. It is us humans now who are extremely upset savage monsters, not our ape ancestors.
14.3 that Social Darwinism led to E.O. Wilson’s theory of Evolutionary Psychology, and then to his Multilevel Selection theory which instead of explaining the human condition nullified it, effectively burying humanity forever in the darkest depths of Plato’s cave of denial.
14.4 that the most dangerous use of the false ‘savage instincts’ excuse is the left-wing’s use of it to justify its dogmatic imposition of ‘correct’ cooperative and loving behaviour — dangerous because it stopped the all-important search for knowledge. As Nietzsche said, we had to ‘keep holy’ our ‘highest hope’ of achieving ‘enlightenment’ of our condition.
14.5 that, as Dennis Prager ‘warned’ , ‘the left...use [dishonest, ‘savage instincts’] science...to coerce its citizens’ , ‘dictate what is to be tolerated and what is to be mocked’ by accusing them of being ‘sexist, intolerant, xenophobic, homophobic, Islamophobic, racist and bigoted’ .
14.6 that only this true explanation of the human condition can stop this left-wing march to an unthinkably horrific psychotic death-by-dogma end of the human race, and bring about a real transformation of humans.
Finally , if you do think that the now desperately needed, most ‘elusive and precious in the life of the mind...understanding of the human condition’ , that E.O. Wilson spoke of, has indeed been presented here, and that our species’ historic resistance to engaging with the subject means there will be a great ‘deaf effect’ resistance to it, will you help us defend and promote this absolutely critical human-race-saving understanding?
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