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Book 2 – The Transformation

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Professor Harry Prosen, former president of the
Canadian Psychiatric Association, from Part 2

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Book 2 – The Transformation
Jeremy Grif昀椀th
Freedom Expanded is an elaboration by Jeremy Grif昀椀th on the
breakthrough biological explanation of the human condition that he
presents in his main book, FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition.
Freedom Expanded comprises two books: Book 1 which focuses on
the biological explanation of the human condition; and Book 2 which
focuses on how that explanation is able to transform the human race.

Freedom Expanded: Book 2 – The Transformation, by Jeremy Griffith

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Freedom Expanded is dedicated to the future of the human race by the World Transformation
Movement’s founding members: Annabel Armstrong, Susan Armstrong, Sam Belfield,
Jοhn Bіggs, Richard Biggs, Anthony Clarke, Lyn Collins, Steve Collins, Lachlan Colquhoun,
Εrіc Crοοke, Εmmα Cullen-Ward, Fiona Cullen-Ward, Anthony Cummins, Neil Duns, Sally
Edgar, Anna Fitzgerald, Brony FitzGerald, Connor FitzGerald, Tony Gowing, Jeremy Griffith,
Simon Griffith, Damon Isherwood, Felicity Jackson, Charlotte James, Lee Jones, Monica Kodet,
Anthony Landahl, Doug Lobban, Tim Macartney-Snape, Simon Mackintosh, Katrina Makim,
Sean Makim, Manus McFadyen, Ken Miall, Tony Miall, Rachel O’Brien, James Press,
Stacy Rodger, Marcus Rowell, Genevieve Salter, Will Salter, Nick Shaw, Wendy Skelton,
Pete Storey, Ali Watson, Polly Watson, Prue Watson, Tess Watson, Tim Watson,
James West, Stirling West, Prue Westbrook and Annie Williams.

Contents
Book 2 – The Transformation of the Human Race
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Section 1

An 8-minute Introduction, followed by Q&As......... by Jeremy Griffith ... 13
1:1 8-minute Introductory Video .............................................................................................. 13
1:2 Beethoven’s rendition of the triumphant TRANSFORMATION of the human race ........ 16
1:3 Commendation from former President of the Canadian Psychiatric Association .......... 17
1:4 What exactly is the human condition? .............................................................................. 20
1:5 Are you sure Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony chorus is about the human condition? ...... 26
1:6 Isn’t the destruction of the environment the urgent issue we have to address? .............. 29
1:7 Can you give me a very quick summary of the explanation of the human condition? .. 31
1:8 How does this liberate a criminal or a drug addict, and does it condone
criminal behaviour? ............................................................................................................ 34
1:9 But how is having the human condition explained supposed to suddenly
TRANSFORM my life and everyone else’s? ...................................................................... 35
1:10 Is this another religion? ...................................................................................................... 38
1:11 Are you saying religions are going to be obsoleted?........................................................ 39
1:12 Why will everyone in the world adopt the TRANSFORMED WAY OF LIVING?............ 41
1:13 Isn’t discussion of the human condition going to be unbearably confronting? .............. 44
1:14 Since the human condition is an unbearable subject to think about how did you
manage to find understanding of it? .................................................................................. 51
1:15 How can I become involved? ............................................................................................. 55

Section 2

The Transformation of the Human Race ..................... by Jeremy Griffith ... 61
2:1 The TRANSFORMED LIFEFORCE STATE ......................................................................... 61
2:2 The TRANSFORMED LIFEFORCE STATE metamorphoses the human race .................. 67
2:3 How the TRANSFORMED LIFEFORCE STATE will quickly repair the world................ 74

Section 3

Affirmations of the Transformed Lifeforce State ...................................... 81
3:1 Prue Westbrook ................................................................................................................... 81
3:2 James West .......................................................................................................................... 86
3:3 Stacy Rodger ....................................................................................................................... 92
3:4 Genevieve Salter ................................................................................................................. 96
3:5 Sam Belfield ........................................................................................................................ 98
3:6 Annie Williams ................................................................................................................. 114
3:7 Tony Gowing ..................................................................................................................... 117
3:8 Susan Armstrong ............................................................................................................... 122

3:9 John Biggs ......................................................................................................................... 131
3:10 Doug Lobban..................................................................................................................... 144
3:11 Nick Shaw ......................................................................................................................... 150
3:12 Neil Duns ........................................................................................................................... 165
3:13 Tony Miall ......................................................................................................................... 170
3:14 Anthony Landahl .............................................................................................................. 173
3:15 Pete Storey......................................................................................................................... 179
3:16 Prue Watson ....................................................................................................................... 181
3:17 Monica Kodet .................................................................................................................... 184
3:18 Anthony Clarke ................................................................................................................. 188
3:19 Polly Watson ..................................................................................................................... 192
3:20 Connor Fitzgerald ............................................................................................................. 195
3:21 Sally Edgar ........................................................................................................................ 204
3:22 The Denialators’ song lyrics ............................................................................................ 211

Section 4

Membership of the World Transformation Movement ......................... 213
4:1 ‘The vision splendid’ ................................................................ by Jeremy Griffith ..... 213
4:2 The TRANSFORMATION of the world ..................................... by Jeremy Griffith ..... 225

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Notes to the Reader

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While Jeremy Griffith’s 2016 book FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition is the
main presentation of his breakthrough biological synthesis on the human condition, and
the resulting transformation of the human race, Freedom Expanded: Books 1 & 2 present
the expanded account of Jeremy’s insights.

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Freedom Expanded: Books 1 & 2 are freely available to be read, printed or downloaded at
<www.humancondition.com/freedom-expanded>. For printing and binding suggestions for your

copies of Freedom Expanded: Books 1 & 2, see <www.humancondition.com/free-to-read-printbind>.

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Other books by Jeremy Griffith referred to in this presentation, including FREEDOM,
are freely available to be read, printed or downloaded from the World Transformation
Movement’s (WTM) website at <www.humancondition.com/publications>. Alternatively, copies
can be purchased from good bookshops or online booksellers such as Amazon.

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The WTM also has ‘Freedom Essays’ which provide an easy way to access these worldsaving understandings in wonderfully illustrated bite-sized portions. These are freely
available at <www.humancondition.com/freedom-essays>. You can also listen to them as
audios.

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The WTM also provides a number of introductory and other videos that discuss both the
biological explanation of the human condition and the resulting transformation of the
human race. These can be freely viewed and/or downloaded at <www.humancondition.com>.
We highly recommend you start with THE Interview That Solves The Human Condition
And Saves The World! at <www.humancondition.com/the-interview>.

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The WTM has a Frequently Asked Questions facility on our website at <www.
humancondition.com/frequently-asked-questions>, and we very much welcome your further

Questions and Feedback at <www.humancondition.com/contact>. With the understanding of
the human condition finally found, the horizons that now open up for the human race are
absolutely boundless, and immensely exciting—so find out what others are thinking and
doing and become involved by visiting <www.humancondition.com/community> and help
bring about the now urgently needed transformation of the world.

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There is no index in Freedom Expanded because both books can be freely accessed
at <www.humancondition.com/freedom-expanded> and any word or phrase easily searched
electronically.

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Unlike most books, there is no bibliography at the conclusion of either book because the
source is provided in small text at the end of each quote, so the reader can immediately
see when, where and by whom the quote was made—it is particularly interesting to see
how much knowledge has emerged in only the last 150 years. Also, rather than give the
particular edition and/or publisher of the book that the quote comes from, the page number
where the quote appears and the total number of pages of the particular edition used for
the source is provided. This enables the reader to find the comparative place of the quote
in any edition.

www.humancondition.com

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Book 2
The Transformation
of the Human Race

Please note, the following presentation incorporates the expanded transcripts
of the 2011 ‘Jeremy Answers Questions’ videos that appear on the World
Transformation Movement’s website at <www.humancondition.com/2011-jeremy-answersquestions>. All the Affirmations that are presented can be viewed on our WTM’s

Transformation Page at <www.humancondition.com/affirmations>.

Section 1
8-minute Introduction, followed
by Questions & Answers
by Jeremy Griffith

Section 1:1 8 -minute Introduction — how the World Transformation Movement

transforms the world

Welcome to the World Transformation Movement (WTM). My name is Jeremy Griffith.
I’m an Australian biologist.
How, you may well ask, is the World Transformation Movement going to TRANSFORM
your life, and not only your life but the lives of every human on Earth—and in so doing
TRANSFORM the world? The answer is by solving the underlying, real, core problem in all of

human life of the human condition.
Very briefly, the human condition arises from our species’ capacity for what has been
called ‘good and evil’. Humans are capable of great kindness, empathy and love, but we
are also capable of horrific atrocities like rape, murder and torture. Our human predicament
or ‘condition’ has been that because we have never before been able to explain and thus
understand where our species’ capacity for acts of shocking inhumanity comes from we
each carry a deep, now almost subconscious, insecurity and sense of guilt about our value
and worth as humans. Are we good or are we bad? Even in our everyday behaviour, why are
we humans competitive, aggressive and selfish when clearly the ideals of life are to be the
complete opposite, namely cooperative, loving and selfless?

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I know we are sometimes told that humans are wired this way—that we are competitive,
aggressive and selfish because of our animal heritage; that we have savage animal instincts
that make us fight and compete for food, shelter, territory and a mate. But that’s just the
excuse we have had to use until we found the real reason for our divisive behaviour. For
a start, it conveniently overlooks the fact that our human behaviour involves our unique
fully conscious thinking mind. Descriptions of our behaviour, such as egocentric, arrogant,
deluded, optimistic, pessimistic, artificial, hateful, mean, immoral, guilty, evil, depressed,
inspired, psychotic, alienated, all imply a consciousness-derived psychological dimension
to our behaviour. And, secondly, it overlooks the fact that we humans have altruistic,
cooperative, loving moral instincts—what we recognise as our ‘conscience’—and these moral
instincts in us are not derived from reciprocity, from situations where you only do something
for others in return for a benefit from them, as evolutionary psychologists would have us
believe. And nor are they derived from warring with other groups of humans as advocates of
E.O. Wilson’s theory of Eusociality would argue. No, we have an unconditionally selfless,
fully altruistic, truly loving, universally-considerate-of-others-not-competitive-with-othergroups, genuinely moral conscience. So yes, the real issue—the psychological problem in our
thinking minds that we have suffered from—is the dilemma of our human condition, the issue
of our species’ good-and-evil-afflicted, less-than-ideal, imperfect, even ‘fallen’ or corrupted,
state. We humans suffer from a consciousness-derived, psychological HUMAN CONDITION,
not an instinct-controlled animal condition—it is unique to us fully conscious humans.
And the truth is, we humans have always intuitively known that the real problem we
have to address and understand about ourselves is the human condition—the difficulty,
however, has been that unable to explain the dark side of ourselves we have coped by living
in almost complete denial of the issue, by blocking it out of our mind, because to think about
it was too depressing and, until now, an answerless and thus futile exercise. Indeed, I have
heard the human condition described as ‘the personal unspeakable’ and ‘the black box inside
of humans that they can’t go near’, which gives you some indication of just how traumatic a

subject it has been for us.
What has occurred to completely change this situation is that through the advances
that have been made in science, specifically about the different ways the gene and nerve
based learning systems process information, it is now possible for this fearful, historically
unbearable, deepest and darkest, previously off-limits issue of the human condition to finally
be explained and understood. We can now at last explain WHY we humans have not been
ideally behaved; to use religious terms, we can finally explain the origin of ‘sin’. And what
is so wonderful—in fact, SO wonderful it will TRANSFORM your life and the lives of all
humans—is that the explanation is compassionate. It explains that there has been a very good
reason for why we humans have not been ideally behaved. It is an explanation that completely
dignifies and redeems us. It reconciles the opposites of good and evil in our natures and,
by doing so, makes us whole. The great psychoanalyst Carl Jung was forever saying that
‘wholeness for humans depends on the ability to own their own shadow’ because he recognised that

ONLY by finding understanding of the dark side of ourselves could we be made ‘whole’—and,

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as incredible a claim as it is, it is that all-liberating and all-reconciling and all-redeeming and
all-healing—and thus all-TRANSFORMING—biological understanding of our imperfect human
condition that is presented here. (Note, an abridged version of this biological explanation of
the human condition is presented here in Section 1:7; the full explanation appears in Freedom
Expanded: Book 1.)
Yes, that greatest of all days in our human journey of conscious thought and enquiry—in
fact, the day we have lived in ‘hope and faith and trust’ would one day come—when biology
would finally be able to explain the psychological origins of our species’ deeply troubled
predicament or condition has now arrived. And it is in the nick of time, for there can be
no doubt that our world is in desperate straits, and, as a result, all manner of superficial
treatments of our distressed human situation now proliferate, but superficial treatments
won’t solve the problem. Socialist, politically-correct, left-wing dogmatic insistence on ideal
behaviour—or one of those think-positive, motivational ‘New Age’ courses; or stop-yourmind-thinking meditation; or even one of the more recent just-transcend-your-ego fads—were
never going to bring real and lasting peace and happiness to humans. Only ameliorating
understanding of the human condition could, and now does, achieve that.
In fact, solving the underlying problem in all of human life of the human condition brings
about such an incredible TRANSFORMATION in humans that you, and everyone else in the
world, will be taken from an effectively dead existence—and in truth, as we are going to see,
all humans’ lives have been so horribly oppressed by the agony of the human condition that
they have been effectively dead—to an existence that is utterly alive, enthralled with all of
life and drenched with excitement about what is going to occur now; actually, what is already
occurring, because if you read the Affirmations in Section 3 of this presentation (or watch
them at <www.humancondition.com/affirmations>) you will hear from people whose lives have
been TRANSFORMED by understanding of the human condition, like Neil Duns, who says, ‘The
freedom this brings is like nothing humans have ever experienced’; and Stacy Rodger, who says, ‘This
is all that we have ever, ever wanted’; and Doug Lobban, who says, ‘I am just so excited, I can’t sleep, I
am about to burst’; and Tony Gowing, who says, ‘This is like seeing the world for the first time, it’s like
waking up from a nightmare, it’s like 100 tonnes being lifted off your shoulders’; and John Biggs, who

says, ‘The relief and through-the-roof excitement that flows through your veins is incredible…It is beyond
comprehension how much wonder and fun and excitement and happiness the human race has coming.’

Yes, this is the most exciting moment in human history when humanity is finally liberated
from the agony of the human condition and TRANSFORMED to an utterly magnificent, humancondition-free existence.

Indeed, to introduce the next Q&A Introductory Video to the World Transformation
Movement I will play the most esteemed, the most highly regarded piece of music ever
written, because I think it provides the most powerful illustration possible of how fabulously
TRANSFORMING of your life—and of everyone’s life—the finding of understanding of the

human condition is. (At this point in the video presentation, a brief extract from Beethoven’s
Ninth Symphony is played.)

Questions & Answers
by Jeremy Griffith

Section 1:2 Beethoven’s rendition of the triumphant TRANSFORMATION of the
human race
Just how fabulously TRANSFORMING the finding of understanding of the human condition
is going to be for your life, and the lives of everyone else, can be most quickly illustrated
by listening to the most esteemed piece of music ever written—indeed, it was chosen by the
EU, the European Union, as its anthem. It is the climax from the chorus to Beethoven’s Ninth

Symphony (composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1824).
(To hear a rendition go to: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-mvutiDRvQ>. The oneminute compilation that is played in this video is an extract of this recording and contains
music taken between the 3:40 to 4:30 minute mark, and the 5:56 to 6:10 minute mark.)
All humans can relate to that piece of music—a chorus of human voices rising to a
crescendo of excitement over a glorious, culminating, victorious breakthrough in the human
journey. It’s an expression of immense jubilation about a fabulous time of triumph and
relief, a time, in fact, when the human race is finally liberated from the agony of the human
condition—as the words sung in the chorus of voices we just heard actually proclaim:
‘Joy’, ‘Joyful, as a hero to victory!’, ‘Join in our jubilation!’, ‘We enter, drunk with fire, into your

[understanding’s] sanctuary…Your magic reunites…All men become brothers…All good, all bad…Be
embraced, millions! This kiss for the whole world!’ (Lyrics from Friedrich von Schiller’s 1785 poem Ode to Joy,
Accessed 31 Jan. 2011 at: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._9_(Beethoven)>).

These lyrics reflect an anticipation of a fabulous time when all humans will be ‘drunk
with fire’, in a state of absolute ‘Joy’ and ‘jubilation’, when ‘the kiss’ of the liberating, all-

redeeming, all-uplifting, all-healing and all-TRANSFORMING understanding of the human
condition is finally found to ‘reunite’ ‘all’ people, both the ‘good’ and the ‘bad’—the time
when we are at last able to reconcile our capacities for ‘good and evil’ with compassionate
understanding. As has been explained, the issue of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ in the human make-up is
the issue of the human condition.
Indeed, since the issue of the human condition has been such a fearfully depressing,
unconfrontable and off-limits subject the fact that I’m talking about it so openly and freely
gives you some indication already that understanding of it must have at last been found.
So, again, what I’m talking about is not another of those futile, mindless, reality-denying,
let’s-pretend-the-human-condition-doesn’t-exist, pseudo idealistic, socialist, politically-correct,
left-wing, dogmatic demands for utopia; or, for that matter, another of those superficial, thinkpositive, motivational, so-called ‘New Age’ treatments of our human situation that can’t and
don’t last, but a profound addressing and permanent resolution of the underlying cause of our
species’ immensely troubled, good-and-evil-afflicted, core problem of our human condition. No,
this is not another deluded dream of utopia but a real event that all humans have hoped would
one day arrive, the time when ‘the whole world’ will, as Beethoven’s symphony anticipated, ‘enter,
drunk with’ the ‘fire’ of ‘joyful’ ‘jubilation’ ‘into’ the ‘sanctuary’ of a human-condition-reconciled

Section 1:3 Professor Prosen’s commendation

world where ‘all’ people, both the ‘good’ and the ‘bad’ will at last be permanently ‘reunite[d]’ with
each other—and with their true self; as Jung said, made ‘whole’ again.
Wow, so this is the breakthrough of breakthroughs that the whole human race has been
waiting for? Yes, this is the most exciting moment in human history when we can at last
make sense of our existence and genuinely and permanently heal our troubled souls. It is the
moment when the ancient, debilitating black shadow of the so-called ‘burden of guilt’ of the
human condition is finally lifted from the shoulders of the human race and all humans are
welcomed back into an ideal state—or, to use religious terms, welcomed back into ‘God’s
fold’. Our species’ ‘banish[ment]…from the Garden of Eden’ (Gen. 3:23) of a pre-human-conditionafflicted, original innocent state has ended because we have finally found understanding of
WHY the human race lost its innocence, became corrupted, ‘fell from grace’ (derived from the
title of Gen. 3, ‘The Fall of Man’).

The lifting of that dark shadow of the human condition opens up an absolutely glorious
and wondrous world for us all. It is as if humankind has been living in a world of terrible
darkness and a door has opened up to allow the light of redeeming and rehabilitating
understanding to flood in and sweep all that darkness away forever.
Yes, we are talking about that time humans have, for example, prayed for when they
recited The Lord’s Prayer, the time when ‘Your Kingdom come[s]’—in other words, when the
ideal state of a human-condition-reconciled, healed, peaceful, all-loving world would finally
re-emerge—and, given the plight of the world, this great culminating breakthrough in the
human journey comes not a moment too soon!
And I should immediately say that this ‘drunk-with-fire’-state-of-excitement that now
comes to the human race is not something that will take generations to come into effect—it is
here right now for you and for everyone else in the world to access.

Through answering a series of questions from viewers on Skype and in this audience
I will now explain how finding first-principle-based, scientific, biological understanding
of the human condition actually and immediately brings about this incredibly exciting
TRANSFORMATION of not only your life but everyone’s lives.

Section 1:3 Commendation from former President of the Canadian
Psychiatric Association
Before taking questions, and to support the assertion that what is to be presented is the
all-liberating and all-TRANSFORMING breakthrough understanding of the human condition
that science has at last made possible, I would like to include an evaluation of the significance
of this explanation of the human condition that was given by Professor Harry Prosen, one of
the world’s leading psychiatrists.
Firstly, however, to context Professor Prosen’s association with these understandings, I
should give a very brief description of the World Transformation Movement, and also briefly
introduce myself. In 1983, almost 30 years ago now in 2011, I established what is now called
the World Transformation Movement (WTM), basically because no one was addressing what
I could see was the all-important issue of the human condition. The WTM is a non-profit

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organisation with the aims, as our Memorandum of Association states, of ‘understanding the
human condition’ and ‘ameliorating the human condition’. The WTM is based in Sydney where we

have a long-standing foundation membership of some 50 individuals supporting the activities

of the WTM on a full time basis.

Founding members of the World Transformation Movement, Sydney, December 2008

Published writings by Jeremy Griffith
(All these publications are freely available on the WTM website to be read or printed.)

Section 1:3 Professor Prosen’s commendation

Since the establishment of the WTM I have written many books and publications
about the human condition, the best known of which is my 2003 book A Species In Denial,
which has become a bestseller in Australia and New Zealand. In 2004 the WTM began an
undertaking to make a documentary about the human condition. The detailed proposal
I wrote for the documentary, which contains all the concepts that appear in Freedom
Expanded: Book 1, received commendations from over 100 of the world’s leading scientists
and thinkers, including the physicist Professor Stephen Hawking and Nobel Laureate
Professor Charles Townes. (These commendations can be viewed at <www.humancondition.com/
DocoResponses>). Professor Prosen was one of those scientists who responded enthusiastically

to the documentary proposal when it was sent to him in 2004, and he has since visited the
WTM in Australia.

Harry Prosen is a professor of psychiatry who has worked in the field for over 50 years,
including chairing two departments of psychiatry and serving as president of the Canadian
Psychiatric Association. Professor Prosen was recently appointed one of 500 Specially
Selected Distinguished Life Fellows of the American Psychiatric Association. He is also
psychiatric consultant to the Bonobo Species Preservation Society. In fact, to listen to a brief
2012 radio interview of Professor Prosen talking about his amazing psychiatric work with

bonobos, click on Professor Prosen’s photo on his Wikipedia page. What follows is what
Professor Prosen said via Skype to WTM Patron Tim Macartney-Snape in the introduction to

the biology that is presented in Part 2:2 of Freedom Expanded: Book 1.

Professor Prosen:
‘Thank you Tim, it’s nice to be with you all in Australia. I have been a student of psychiatry for many
years. What I have to tell you is that I have no doubt this biological explanation of Jeremy Griffith’s of
the human condition is the holy grail of insight we have sought for the psychological rehabilitation of
the human race. I cannot urge you strongly enough to listen to what Jeremy Griffith has to explain. My
message is as simple as that. This is all so exciting; I’m quite overwhelmed to be here on Earth when these
answers are finally found. Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you.’

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Jeremy Griffith:
Yes, this is the most ‘exciting’ moment in human history when, through the advances that
have been made in science, the human condition can at last be explained and, as a result,
‘the psychological rehabilitation of the human race’ can begin—the time when all humans can be
TRANSFORMED from living in what has in truth been an extremely human-condition-afflicted,

struggling-to-keep-going, in fact effectively dead existence, to instead revelling in a state
of immense human-condition-free excitement and happiness—the time when all humans
are going to enter a TRANSFORMED existence where they will be, as Beethoven’s symphony
anticipated, ‘drunk with fire’, overwhelmed with excitement.
From this point on this transcript of the 2011 ‘Jeremy Answers Questions’ video will
progress via a series of questions and answers.

Section 1:4 What exactly is the human condition?
QUESTION: You spoke of humans being horrifically oppressed by the agony of the

human condition and that being free of that condition is what TRANSFORMS us, but I’m not
sure what, or at least I’m not relating to what, the human condition actually is.
ANSWER: It’s true—few people even know what the term ‘human condition’ actually

means, or even that it exists, let alone that it is the underlying, core, real problem in human
life. But, as mentioned, there is a very good reason for this: thinking about the issue of the
human condition has been far too depressing. In fact, the human condition has been such a
fearfully depressing subject we humans spend most of our time just making sure we avoid any
encounter with the damn thing. Indeed, we only ever mentioned the term ‘human condition’
when we were being really profound, and even then it sent shivers down our spine.
So yes, what exactly is the human condition? As I summarised earlier, the human condition
arises from the existence of so-called ‘good and evil’ in our make-up. We humans are capable
of shocking acts of inhumanity like rape, murder and torture and our agonising predicament or
‘condition’ has been that we have never been able to explain and thus understand why. Even in
our everyday behaviour, why are we competitive, aggressive and selfish when clearly the ideals
of life are to be the complete opposite, namely cooperative, loving and selfless?
This predicament or ‘condition’ of not being able to understand ourselves meant that the
more we tried to understand ourselves—that is, the more we tried to think about this obvious
and most important question about human behaviour of why is it so imperfect—the more
depressed our thoughts became. Clearly, to avoid becoming suicidally depressed, we learnt—
and learnt very early on in our lives—not to allow our minds to go on that thought journey.
We learnt to totally avoid the whole depressing subject of the human condition.
Certainly—and quite understandably given how guilty we have felt about our seemingly
imperfect behaviour—we invented excuses for being competitive, aggressive and selfish. As I
mentioned, the main excuse we have used is to say we have savage animal instincts that make
us fight and compete for food, shelter, territory and a mate. But, in our heart of hearts, we
knew this was only the excuse we had to use until we found the real reason for our divisive
behaviour. As I said, it conveniently overlooks the fact that our human behaviour involves

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our unique fully conscious thinking mind. Descriptions of our behaviour, like egocentric,
arrogant, deluded, artificial, hateful, mean, immoral, alienated, etc, all imply a psychological
dimension to our behaviour. The psychological problem in our species’ thinking minds that
we have suffered from is the dilemma of our human condition, the issue of our species’ goodand-evil-afflicted, less-than-ideal, seemingly imperfect, even ‘fallen’ or corrupted state. We
humans suffer from a consciousness-derived, psychological human condition, not an instinctcontrolled animal condition; it is unique to us.
The savage-animal-instincts-in-us excuse also overlooks the fact that we humans have
altruistic, cooperative, loving moral instincts—what we recognise as our ‘conscience’—and I
should say, and I explain this in Parts 4:12 and 8:4 of Freedom Expanded: Book 1, these moral
instincts in us are not derived from reciprocity, from situations where you only do something
for others in return for a benefit from them, as some biologists would have us believe, and nor
is it a product of the cooperation that was allegedly forged through warring between groups of
humans, as E.O. Wilson now asserts. No—we have an unconditionally selfless, fully altruistic,
truly loving, genuinely moral conscience. Our original instinctive state was the opposite of
being competitive, selfish and aggressive: it was cooperative, selfless and loving.
While we have understandably grimly held on to such excuses as blaming our ‘dark
side’ on our supposed savage animal instincts, our moral conscience knows full well that we
humans have loving and kind—not aggressive and mean—instincts. When we are young and
haven’t yet embraced such dishonest excuses it is very obvious to us that there is something
extremely wrong with the way humans are behaving, which we then try to understand.
At about 11 or 12 years of age we all, in our naivety, did naturally start thinking about the
incredible imperfection of human life—about why there is so much suffering in the world
when, seemingly, there could and should be so much happiness, togetherness and love, and
about all the hatred, cruelty, indifference and greed that is causing all that suffering. By about
14 or 15 our thinking about the human condition deepened to the point where we realised

that those imperfections, like indifference towards others, anger, even hatred, selfishness
and greed, also existed within ourselves. It was at this point of discovering that the human
condition existed not only in the world without but also within that trying to understand
the human condition without an honest explanation for it became so unbearably—in fact,
suicidally—depressing that we realised we had no choice but to resign ourselves to never ever
again revisiting the subject of the human condition.
And throughout this process adults couldn’t help adolescents because they, of course,
had already resigned to living in denial of the issue of the human condition. In the following
passage from his book The Moral Intelligence of Children, the Pulitzer Prize-winning child
psychiatrist Robert Coles provides an exception to this ‘rule’ by giving a very rare account by
an adult of a teenager in the midst of Resignation: ‘I tell of the loneliness many young people feel…It’s
a loneliness that has to do with a self-imposed judgment of sorts…I remember…a young man of fifteen who
engaged in light banter, only to shut down, shake his head, refuse to talk at all when his own life and troubles
became the subject at hand. He had stopped going to school…he sat in his room for hours listening to rock
music, the door closed…I asked him about his head-shaking behavior: I wondered whom he was thereby
addressing. He replied: “No one.” I hesitated, gulped a bit as I took a chance: “Not yourself?” He looked
right at me now in a sustained stare, for the first time. “Why do you say that?” [he asked]…I decided not to
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this: “I’ve been there; I remember being there—remember when I felt I couldn’t say a word to anyone”…
The young man kept staring at me, didn’t speak…When he took out his handkerchief and wiped his eyes, I
realized they had begun to fill’ (1996, pp.143-144 of 218). The boy was in tears because Coles had reached

him with some recognition and acknowledgement of what he was wrestling with; Coles had
shown some honesty about what the boy could see and was struggling with, namely the horror
of the utter hypocrisy of human behaviour—which all those who had already resigned to living
in denial of the human condition had determinedly committed their minds to not recognising.
The words Coles used in his admission that he too had once grappled with the issue of
the human condition, of ‘I’ve been there’, are exactly those used by one of Australia’s greatest
poets, Henry Lawson, in his exceptionally honest poem about the human condition, about
the unbearable depression that results from trying to confront the question of why human
behaviour is so at odds with the cooperative, loving—or to use religious terms, ‘Godly’—
ideals of life. In his 1897 poem The Voice from Over Yonder Lawson wrote: ‘“Say it! think it, if
you dare! Have you ever thought or wondered, why the Man and God were sundered [torn apart]? Do you
think the Maker blundered?” [Do you think humans are evil and a mistake?] And the voice in mocking
accents, answered only: “I’ve been there.”’ The unsaid words in the final phrase, ‘I’ve been there’,

are ‘and I’m not going there again!’—with the ‘there’ and the ‘over yonder’ of the title being the
state of deepest, darkest depression.

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Interestingly, in his best-selling 2003 book about the great Spanish artist Francisco Goya,
titled Goya, the renowned Australian art critic Robert Hughes, described how he ‘had been
thinking about Goya…[since] I was a high school student in Australia…[with] the first work of art I ever
bought…[being Goya’s most famous etching] The sleep of reason brings forth monsters…[which shows]
the intellectual beset with doubts and night terrors, slumped on his desk with owls gyring around his poor
perplexed head’. Hughes then commented that ‘glimpsing The sleep of reason brings forth monsters
was a fluke’ (p.3, 4). A little further on, Hughes wrote that ‘At fifteen, to find this voice [of Goya’s]—
so finely wrought [in The sleep of reason brings forth monsters] and yet so raw, public and yet strangely
private—speaking to me with such insistence and urgency…was no small thing. It had the feeling of a
message transmitted with terrible urgency, mouth to ear: this is the truth, you must know this, I have been
through it’ (p.5). Again, the process of Resignation is such a horrific experience that adolescents

determined never to revisit it, or even recall it, nevertheless, Hughes’ attraction to The sleep of
reason brings forth monsters was not the ‘fluke’ he thought it was. The person slumped at the
table with owls and bats gyrating around his head perfectly depicts the bottomless depression
that occurs in humans just prior to resigning to a life of denial of the issue of the human
condition, and someone in that situation would have recognised that meaning instantly, almost
wilfully drawing such a perfect representation of their state out of the world around them.
Even the title is accurate: ‘The sleep of reason’—namely reasoning at a very deep level—does
‘bring forth monsters’. While Hughes hasn’t recognised that what he was negotiating ‘At fifteen’

was Resignation, he has accurately recalled how strong his recognition was of what was being
portrayed in the etching: ‘It had the feeling of a message transmitted with terrible urgency, mouth to
ear: this is the truth, you must know this, I have been through it.’ Note that Hughes’ words ‘I have been
through it’ are almost identical to Coles and Lawson’s words ‘I’ve been there.’

So there are some very revealing admissions of just how fearfully depressing the issue of
the human condition has been.
Of course, living in denial of the issue of the human condition meant the adult world
couldn’t acknowledge the process of Resignation—you can’t very well maintain a denial
if you admit you are practicing denial; you can’t effectively lie if you admit you are lying.
And so, unable to acknowledge the process of Resignation, adults instead blamed the well
known struggles of adolescence on the hormonal upheaval that accompanies puberty, the
so-called ‘puberty blues’—even terming glandular fever, a debilitating illness which often
occurs in mid-adolescence, a puberty-related ‘kissing disease’. These terms, ‘puberty blues’
and ‘kissing disease’, are dishonest, denial-complying, evasive excuses because it wasn’t the
onset of puberty that was causing the depressing ‘blues’ or glandular fever, but the trauma
of Resignation, of having to accept the death of your true self or soul. For glandular fever to
occur a person’s immune system must be extremely rundown, and yet during puberty the body
is physically at its peak in terms of growth and vitality—so for an adolescent to succumb to
the illness they must be under extraordinary psychological pressure, experiencing stresses
much greater than those that could possibly be associated with the physical adjustments to
puberty, an adjustment that, after all, has been going on since animals first became sexual.
The depression and glandular fever experienced by young adolescents are a direct result of
the trauma of having to resign to never again revisiting the subject of the human condition. If
you watch Anthony Landahl’s Affirmation of the TRANSFORMED STATE in Section 3:8 of this

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presentation you can feel the absolute agony of someone recalling the time they went through
Resignation and suffered from glandular fever. Much, much more is said about Resignation in
Part 3:8 of Freedom Expanded: Book 1, for it is the most important and yet almost completely
unacknowledged psychological event in human life.
One of the rare few individuals who did manage to defy the practice of denial of the
human condition was the great psychoanalyst Carl Jung, who gave this deadly accurate
description of it: ‘When it [our shadow] appears…it is quite within the bounds of possibility for a man
to recognize the relative evil of his nature, but it is a rare and shattering experience for him to gaze into
the face of absolute evil’ (Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self, 1959, tr. R.F.C. Hull; in The Collected
Works of C.G. Jung, Vol. 9/2, p.10). Yes, it was ‘a rare and shattering experience’ for resigned adults to

allow their minds to confront the question of why their behaviour is so diabolically at odds
with what ideal behaviour should be—despite it being the stark staring obvious question that
had to be addressed and explained if we humans were to ever understand ourselves.
So although it is the core issue in our lives—and the issue that had to be solved for
there to be a future for the human race—adults do, as the question illustrates, find it very
difficult even recognising what the subject of the human condition is, and the reason for
that bewilderment is not because it is an unfamiliar subject, as we tend to think, but because
we have been living in very deep, determined psychological denial of the whole depressing
subject—and have been for a very long time; in fact, as is emphasised throughout this
presentation and fully explained in Freedom Expanded: Book 1, this practice of denial has
been going on since humans’ conscious, self-managing mind fully developed and the human
condition became full blown some two million years ago!
In 2010, the American heavy metal band With Life In Mind produced a song they actually
titled The Human Condition, which contains this rare and amazingly honest description of
the human condition: ‘We’re staring through the eyes of a bitter soul. Constantly surrounded by this
empty feeling…Never good enough for those ideals that seem to mean the most…Driven into madness,
I see no end in sight, and inadequacy seems like the only means to pass through this life. And I sit and
ask myself when will it end? The art of contention is an uphill battle I’m not ready to fight.’ Yes, unless

we resigned ourselves to giving up trying to ‘conten[d]’ with it, confront it, stop trying to
live ‘with’ the issue of ‘life in mind’, we would be ‘driven into madness’ with ‘no end in sight’ to
the unbearably depressing ‘empty feeling’ caused by the terrible ‘inadequacy’ of our seemingly
horrifically imperfect ‘human condition’! Denial of the human condition has been the only way
we have been able to cope with the human condition while we couldn’t explain it!
With Life In Mind’s Grievances album, which includes the song The Human Condition,
also contains many other tracks that feature deadly accurate lyrics about the human condition,
including: ‘It scares me to death to think of what I have become…This self loathing can only get me so
far’; ‘Our innocence is lost’; ‘I can’t express all the hate that’s led me here and all the filth that swallows
us whole…A world shrouded in darkness…Fear is driven into our minds everywhere we look’; ‘We’ve
been lying to ourselves for so long, we truly forgot what it means to be alive…How could we ever recover?
Lost in oblivion…Shackled in chains, bound and held down…We could never face our own reflections in
the mirror’; ‘We’ve all been asleep since the beginning of time. Why are we so scared to use our minds?’;
‘You’re the king of a world you built for yourself, but nothing more than a fraud in reality’; ‘How do we
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have left. No one hears our cries. And no one sees us screaming’; ‘Our fight is the struggle of man…This
is the end.’ Yes, to avoid ‘the struggle of man’, and ‘the end’ of suicidal depression from trying to

confront the issue of the human condition while we couldn’t explain it, there most definitely
has been no alternative but to live in complete denial of the issue—and this does make it very
difficult ‘relating to what the human condition actually is’, as the questioner said.
Incidentally, I should warn that this great, embedded ‘fear’ of the human condition in the
‘minds’ of adults is also the reason why it is very hard to take in discussion about the human

condition—any reference to it creates a ‘deaf effect’ where the fear won’t allow our minds to
absorb what is being said and so we are left thinking that what has been said or written doesn’t
make any sense or is unclear. As someone once admitted to me, ‘When I first read your books
all I saw were a lot of black marks on white paper.’ Talking about the human condition can be so

confronting that all we initially hear is ‘white noise’—in effect, our mind is saying, ‘I tried to
look at the human condition once before—‘I’ve been there’, as Coles and Lawson said—and I’m
not about to make that mistake again.’ So while the issue of the human condition has at last
been rendered safe to confront, initially our old fears dominate, which is why these all-precious
understandings of the human condition will take a little time to become widely appreciated.
What is needed to overcome this ‘deaf effect’ is a preparedness to re-read and/or re-listen
to what is being written or said about the human condition, as you will be surprised at how
you can begin to ‘hear’ it, take it in. In 2011, a writer, identified only as ‘Fitzy’, published an
online article about my work, in which he admitted that he too initially suffered from the ‘deaf
effect’ but overcame it with a second reading: ‘The core concepts keep slipping from my mental
grasp, at the time I put it down to bad writing, however a second reading revealed something the Author
had indicated from the outset—your mind doesn’t want to understand the content. The second read was
quick and painless’ (Humanitus Interruptus – Great Minds of Today, accessed 24 Oct. 2011, see <www.wtmsources.
com/106>). (Much more is said about the problem of the deaf effect in Part 3:13 of Freedom

Expanded: Book 1. And the WTM now offers a Deaf Effect Course at <www.humancondition.
com/wtm-deaf-effect-course>).

To summarise what I said earlier, our human predicament or ‘condition’ has been that
because we humans have never been able to explain and thus understand our less-than-ideal
behaviour we carry a deep, now almost subconscious, insecurity and sense of guilt about our
value and worth as humans. Are we good or are we bad?
So that is what the human condition is—the agony of not being able to explain and
thus understand our extraordinarily contradictory human behaviour. Until now. And, as
emphasised, what is so wonderful—in fact, SO wonderful it will TRANSFORM your life and
the lives of all humans—is that the explanation of the human condition that has finally been
found is compassionate. It explains that there has been a good reason for why we humans
have not been ideally behaved. It is an explanation that dignifies and redeems us. It provides
‘the answers’ that ‘save ourselves from this misery’ of ‘the human condition’ that we have been ‘so
desperate for’. It is the explanation that reconciles the opposites of good and evil in our natures

and in doing so makes us whole again—thus TRANSFORMING the whole human race, an
outcome that, as the lyrics to Beethoven’s music proclaimed, will make us so ‘joyful’ it will be
as if we are ‘drunk with fire’.
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I need to add a warning to this description of the human condition that I gave in 2011. It
is now 2012 and the famous American biologist Edward (E.) O. Wilson has recently published
a new book titled The Social Conquest of Earth in which he presents an explanation of the
human condition that doesn’t equate at all with the fearful description of the human condition
that I have just given.
As I fully explain in Part 4:12I of Freedom Expanded: Book 1, this new ‘Theory of
Eusociality’ (as E.O. Wilson has termed his supposed explanation of the human condition)
doesn’t truthfully explain the human condition at all, rather it attempts to dismiss it as
nothing more than a conflict between supposed selfish and selfless instincts within humans.
It is not a profound, truthful treatment of the psychological dilemma within us humans that
is the real human condition that we suffer from, but rather a completely fake, superficial
trivialisation of the subject.
What Wilson has done is put forward a supposed explanation of the human condition that
nullifies it, that makes it appear benign, nothing profoundly distressing at all, when, as the
descriptions I have just given of adolescents going through Resignation make very, very clear,
the human condition is, in reality, a profoundly deep, extremely dark and fearful—indeed
terrifying—psychological issue.
As is described in Part 4:12 of Freedom Expanded: Book 1, in devising such theories as
Social Darwinism, Sociobiology, Evolutionary Psychology, Multilevel Selection and now
Eusociality, mechanistic/reductionist science has become masterful at finding new ways
to avoid the true nature of the human condition. But unlike all these escapist, superficial,
completely fake, dishonest interpretations of human nature, especially Wilson’s theory
of Eusociality, what is going to be presented here is the fully accountable and thus true
biological explanation of the agonising, core issue of our human condition—the explanation
that finally explains the real, psychological dilemma that adolescents going through
Resignation know all too well, and which the world so desperately requires if it is to avoid the
effects of terminal alienation.

Section 1:5 Are you sure Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony chorus is about the
human condition?
QUESTION: ‘How do you know the chorus from Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony is

celebrating the arrival of understanding of the human condition?’
ANSWER: Well again, that’s what the lyrics actually say: ‘joy’ because we have
‘reunite[d]’ ‘all’ people, both ‘good’ and ‘bad’—we have reconciled the dilemma of good and

evil in the human make-up; we have found redeeming, ‘uni[fying]’, healing understanding of
the human condition.
Human mythology, both ancient and contemporary, is saturated with anticipations of the
human race one day finding dignifying, uplifting, redeeming and rehabilitating enlightenment
of our seemingly imperfect, good-and-evil-afflicted human condition. (The following
examples of anticipations of a human-condition-ameliorated world appear alongside many
other examples, and their sources, in Part 3:12 of Freedom Expanded: Book 1.) As mentioned,

Section 1:5 Are you sure Beethoven was referring to the liberation of humanity?

The Lord’s Prayer in the Hebrew Bible is an expression of hope for the arrival of the
redeeming, peace-bringing understanding of the human condition. The ancient Greek myth
of Jason and the Argonauts’ search for the ‘Golden Fleece’ and the ancient northern European
legend of King Arthur’s Knights of the Round Table’s search for the ‘Holy Grail’ cannot be
anything other than myths about the search for the human-race-liberating understanding of
our human condition. In contemporary mythology, when Jim Morrison of the rock band The
Doors wrote and sang of wanting to ‘break on through to the other side’, he had to be anticipating
a time when humans could break through from living in a human-condition-afflicted state
to a human-condition-free state. Similarly, when Morrison sang that ‘At first flash of Eden, we
race down to the sea. Standing there on freedom’s shore, waiting, waiting, waiting for the sun’, what

he was ‘waiting’ for was the dawning light of the liberating, redeeming and rehabilitating
understanding of the human condition to appear and spread across the world. Similarly, when
Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz was following the ‘yellow brick road’ to the ‘Emerald City’ she
was following the Sunshine Highway to enlightenment of the human condition that would
allow the human race to return to a Garden-of-‘Eden’-like, innocent, human-condition-‘free’,
reconciled, ameliorated, peaceful, cooperative, loving world.
When Cat Stevens, or Yusuf Islam as he now goes by, wrote and sang, ‘I’ve been smiling
lately, dreaming about the world as one. And I believe it could be, some day it’s going to come. Cause
out on the edge of darkness there rides a peace train. Oh peace train…take me home again’ (Peace Train,
1971)—and

in another of his songs, ‘Don’t you feel a change a coming, from another side of time.

Breaking down the walls of silence, lifting shadows from your mind…Yesterday has past, now let’s all
start the living for the one that’s going to last…when the clouds have all gone…and the beauty of all things
is uncovered again…Don’t you feel the day is coming, and it won’t be too soon, when the people of the
world can all live in one room, when we shake off the ancient chains of our tomb’ (Changes IV, 1971)—he

too was looking forward to a time when the human race could return to a human-conditionreconciled, guilt-and-conflict-free, unified, harmonious, happy, loving state; the time when, as
he said, the ‘shadows’ will be ‘lifted’ ‘from’ our ‘mind[s]’ and we can ‘shake off the ancient chains of
our tomb’ of the psychological bondage of the human condition.

We humans are conscious beings, we wanted answers, knowledge, not more dogma.
Specifically, we wanted answers to that core question of why have we been the way we have
been, less-than-ideally behaved—in fact, capable of terrible atrocities. What is the answer to
the historically bewildering issue of our human condition? Are we a flawed species, a terrible
mistake, or are we possibly divine beings? That is what we wanted to know, and that is what
has now, at last, been answered.
Elvis Presley was anticipating a time when understanding of the human condition would
be found when he sang, ‘There must be peace and understanding sometime, strong winds of promise
that will blow away all the doubt and fear. If I can dream of a warmer sun where hope keeps shining on
everyone…We’re trapped in a world that’s troubled with pain…Still I am sure that the answer’s gonna
come somehow, out there in the dark, there’s a beckoning candle.’ That is like Cat Stevens’ words,
‘out on the edge of darkness there rides a peace train’.

The song Aquarius, from the 1960s rock musical Hair, also anticipated a time when ‘the
answer’s gonna come’ about ourselves and bring about ‘Harmony and understanding, sympathy
and trust abounding. No more falsehoods or derisions, golden living dreams of visions…And the mind’s

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true liberation…We dance unto the dawn of day.’ Yes, the ‘mind’s true liberation’ comes about when

the human mind finally finds the dignifying and relieving understanding of our seemingly
imperfect human condition.
Bob Dylan wrote and sang about ‘The hour that the ship [of understanding] comes in…And the
morning will be a-breaking’; and of a time when ‘the present now will later be past…For the times they
are a-changin’’; and that ‘There must be some way out of here…There’s too much confusion, I can’t get
no relief…There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke…So let us not talk falsely now, the
hour is getting late. All along the watchtower, princes kept the view’, waiting and watching for the time

when the ‘false[ness]’-destroying understanding of the human condition would finally be found
and humans would no longer have to live in a state of sad and lonely ‘confusion’ about their true
worth and meaning. And in Blowin’ In The Wind Dylan pleaded: ‘how many years can some people
exist before they’re allowed to be free?’—free of the human condition. And there are the lyrics to

John Lennon’s Imagine, which anticipate a time when ‘the world will be as one’. And then there’s
U2’s Bono singing that we have to ‘kick the darkness till it bleeds daylight’; and of wanting to ‘tear
down the walls that hold me inside’; and anticipating the time when we can all say, ‘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.’ Bono is singing of a time when we finally find understanding

of ourselves and can, as a result, be TRANSFORMED from our insecure, distressed, immensely
troubled, human-condition-afflicted existence, and leave it behind forever.
So, as amazing as it is, the assertion is that what is to be presented is the great
breakthrough that the whole human race has lived in hope, faith and trust would one day
occur—the time when, through the advances made in science, it would finally be possible
to explain the biological origins of humans’ divisive, destructive, seemingly bad or evil
nature and, by so doing, bring an end to the insecure state of our human condition, thereby
TRANSFORMING human existence.

The time has arrived when complete and profound love in the form of understanding is
brought to every human allowing us all to love ourselves and each other fully, equally and
without reservation. All our guilt, pain and confusion finally goes and, as Professor Prosen
said, ‘the psychological rehabilitation of the human race’ begins.
Sceptical? Incredulous? That’s understandable, but again, how could I be talking so
freely, openly and clearly about the whole dilemma of the human condition if it hadn’t all at
last been made sense of? In truth, the subject of the human condition has been so daunting
and off-limits we couldn’t afford to mention it until it was solved.
We humans have been, as the songs said, incarcerated in the ‘ancient chains of our tomb’,
‘trapped in a world that’s troubled with pain’—a place filled with so much ‘doubt and fear’ that
‘life’ has virtually become ‘a joke’. The ‘hour’ certainly was ‘getting late’ for our ‘mind’ to find

its ‘true liberation’ from all the ‘shadows’ of ‘doubt and fear’ arising from the agony and horror
of our good-and-evil-afflicted human condition. Yes, this is the time when all humans are
finally going to be TRANSFORMED from a ‘tomb’-like, effectively dead existence to a state of
true aliveness.
As I said, this is the most wonderful moment in human history: the day the human race
has been waiting for of its ‘true liberation’ when, as Beethoven’s symphony anticipated, ‘all’
people, both ‘good’ and ‘bad’—along with the good and bad in each of us—will be ‘reunite[d]’,
reconciled through understanding.

Section 1:6 Isn’t the destruction of the environment the real issue?

Section 1:6 Isn’t the destruction of the environment the urgent issue we
have to address?
QUESTION: ‘I’ve been thinking for a while now that we are going to be forced to our

senses because we are fast destroying our world, so isn’t the environment the real issue we
have to deal with?’
ANSWER: It is certainly true that the environment is promoted everywhere as the

great ‘Save the World’ issue. But the truth is the so-called ‘Green Movement’ has only
been focusing on the symptoms. To fix all the runaway problems we are surrounded by—in
fact, to stop the destruction of our world and the disintegration of society that is happening
everywhere we look—we have to fix the cause of the problems, which is us humans. We are
the problem—our out-of-control egocentric, selfish, competitive and aggressive behaviour.
As I have said, there has been much talk of the need to love each other and to love the
environment, but the real need on Earth has been to love the dark side of ourselves, to find
reconciling and redeeming understanding of that—to explain the psychological origins of our
deeply distressed condition and by so doing heal our troubled souls and set ourselves free—
and it is precisely that all-important liberating understanding of ourselves that is going to be
presented. And again, this is not one of those mindless, dogma-based, ‘New Age’ (or, more
recently, ‘A New Earth’) false starts to a new world for humans that can’t and doesn’t last.
This is the mindful understanding that alone could bring about the real and lasting repair of
ourselves and thus our planet. We humans are conscious beings, we needed brain food not
brain anaesthetic. We have to be able to think our way to freedom, not abandon thinking.
To take the pain out of our brain we needed answers, specifically the answer to the crux
question of why we have been the way we have been, less-than-ideally behaved, and it is that
answer of answers that will be presented here in an abridged form, and more fully in Freedom
Expanded: Book 1. In short, this understanding gets to the heart of the problem behind the
destruction of our environment and solves it.
As to being ‘forced to our senses’ by what we are doing to the planet, as I’ve stressed, the
fact is the real reason behind the destruction of our environment has been us, our extremely
destructive behaviour, which at base is the issue of the human condition. And again, the
problem with dealing with the issue of the human condition has been that it was such an
unbearably confronting subject—in fact, a suicidally depressing subject—that we couldn’t
afford to go near it until it could be safely explained.
The emergency of our plight was never going to force anyone to confront the until-now
unanswerable and thus utterly unbearable and unconfrontable issue of the human condition. It
is only now with the human condition explained that it becomes psychologically safe to cope
and deal with the issue, and for the human race to be, as Professor Prosen said, ‘psychologically
rehabilitat[ed]’.

The truth is that focusing on the environment was a way of avoiding the real issue of ‘self ’.
It was a way of relieving yourself of the issue of the human condition through finding a cause that
made you feel good about yourself. It was a way of escaping the unbearable issue of the human
condition rather than a way of ‘saving the world’, as environmentalists deluded themselves they
were doing. TIME magazine editor Richard Stengel recognised this when he wrote that ‘The
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Yes, environmentalism, as it has been practiced, has been a way to make humans feel
good, feel ‘guilt-free’, rather than a way to repair the world, because actually repairing the
world required that we confront and repair ourselves and the interest of environmentalists
was in doing the exact opposite, namely avoiding the issue of ‘self ’—finding a way to feel
good and thereby avoid having to confront the real issue of ‘self ’. Environmentalists were
concerned with escaping the issue of the human condition, when we had to confront and
solve it if we wanted to end all the suffering and destruction going on in the world. They
were leading humanity in the opposite direction to where humanity’s freedom lay. The truth
is, the Green Movement has ultimately been a selfish, destructive enterprise, not the selfless,
constructive one its advocates deluded themselves it was.
We humans haven’t been prepared to confront the real issue of ‘self ’. In fact, we have
been preoccupied finding every possible way to escape the issue of ‘self ’. Materialism, for
example, was about surrounding ourselves with material luxuries to make ourselves feel good
about ourselves; it was a form of compensation for feeling unworthy, a way of keeping the
insecurity of the human condition at bay. The difference between materialism and causes like
environmentalism is that at least with materialism we weren’t pretending to be ideally behaved.
I should mention that the march to ever greater levels of delusion and dishonesty through
taking up ever more deluded pseudo idealistic causes to make ourselves feel good, to escape
the real issue of the human condition, is more fully described, explained and exposed in Part
3:11H of Freedom Expanded: Book 1.

To conclude this question, the great impasse humanity needed to overcome was not
the issue of our destruction of the environment, it was our inability to look at ourselves—
we couldn’t address the human condition; we couldn’t explain why we have been such a
massively selfish, competitive, aggressive, angry, egocentric, superficial, artificial, escapist,
materialistic, self-obsessed, indifferent-to-others-and-to-the-world, alienated, deluded,
fraudulent, duplicitous, pretentious, numb, seared, soul-destroyed, effectively dead species—
but now at last we can. And, most wonderfully, by explaining the good reason why we
humans became so artificial, selfish, competitive and aggressive we can permanently heal that
immensely troubled state, rehabilitate our species and, in doing so, rehabilitate our planet.
Saving the environment depended on finding redeeming and ameliorating understanding
of ourselves. If you want to save the snow leopard, or the giant Redwoods, or the Okavango
delta, or the Amazon, or the atmosphere, or the Earth, or those you love, or yourself, or the
human race, this is the only path that can achieve that—so the truth is the sooner you support
and adopt this path of TRANSFORMATION through understanding the better. The choice is selfdestruction or self-discovery. Unfortunately, self-distraction—finding ways to escape the issue

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of self such as finding causes that make you feel good about yourself—is the ‘abomination
that causes desolation’ (see Dan. 11, Matt. 24, Mark 13), the path to oblivion, the answer to absolutely

nothing. It is no wonder the leading environmentalist David Suzuki conceded in 2012 that
‘Environmentalism has failed’ (The fundamental failure of environmentalism, 3 May 2012).

Section 1:7 Can you give me a very quick summary of the explanation of
the human condition?
QUESTION: ‘Could you give me a very brief snapshot of what you and Professor

Prosen believe the biological explanation of the human condition is? I think I’m reasonably
intelligent and I would like to quickly see if it is going to make any sense to me? If it can
explain me, well go ahead—tell me about me!’
ANSWER: [LAUGHTER] Fair enough! And I agree, what is to be presented is a first

principle-based, rational, testable, biological understanding of the human condition. There is
no dogma, or faith, or belief, or mysticism, or superstition, or any abstract concepts involved
in the explanation. So you’re on safe ground, this explanation is all about knowledge that
either stacks up or it doesn’t—and if it doesn’t you should throw it over your shoulder, reject
it. What I have to explain will either make sense to you—in fact, make sense of you, because
this explains human behaviour—or it won’t.
I will begin with an analogy. What would happen if we were to take a migrating stork and
put on his head a fully conscious mind, such as we humans have? We’ll call him Adam Stork
because this story is like the Biblical account of Adam and Eve, but with a very important
difference. (Refer to the following picture of The Story of Adam Stork.)
When we first come across Adam Stork he is following his instinctive migratory path up
the coast of Africa to the rooftops of Europe for the summer breeding season, as storks do.
However, with his newly acquired fully conscious mind, Adam Stork is now different—for
the first time he is able to think for himself, and so he starts thinking. He sees an island off to
his left and thinks, ‘Well, I think I might fly down there for a rest’, and so he does, he diverts
from his migratory flight path and flies down towards the island.
But what is going to happen when he does? Isn’t Adam Stork’s instinctive self, which
is orientated to a migratory flight path that doesn’t include the island, going to try to pull
him back on course? We can imagine that not wanting to upset his instinctive self Adam’s
conscious thinking self would decide to abandon his experiment in self-adjustment and
choose not to go down to the island.

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Flying on, however, Adam Stork sees another island with some apples and thinks, ‘Why
not fly down there for a feed?’ Again, his instinctive self resists this experiment in selfmanagement. This puts Adam in a dilemma. If he continues to obey his instinctive self and
never carry out experiments in self-management he will never learn to master his conscious
mind. Only by experimenting in self-management will Adam Stork ever learn to understand
the difference between right and wrong.
The basic problem is instincts are only orientations, not understandings. Over the course
of thousands of generations and migratory movements, only those storks that happened to
have a genetic make-up that inclined them to follow the right route survived. Thus, through

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natural selection, storks acquired their perfect instinctive orientation to certain flight paths.
However, when the nerve-based learning system gave rise to consciousness and the ability to
understand the relationship between cause and effect, it wasn’t enough to be orientated to the
world—the conscious thinking self had to find understanding to operate effectively and fulfil
its great potential to manage events.
If Adam Stork obeys his instinctive self and flies back on course, he will remain perfectly
orientated but he’ll never learn if his deviation was the right decision or not. All the messages
he’s receiving from within inform him that obeying his instincts is good, is right, but there’s
also now a new inclination to disobey, a defiance of instinct. Diverting from his course will
result in apples and understanding, yet he already sees that doing so also makes him feel bad.
But, sooner or later Adam Stork must find the courage to master his conscious mind—so,
not knowing any reason why he shouldn’t fly down for the apples, he perseveres with his
experiment in self-management and does so. Again, his decision is met with criticism from
his instinctive self, which he now must live with. Immediately he is condemned to a state of
upset. A battle has broken out between his instinctive self, perfectly orientated to the flight
path, and his emerging conscious mind, which needs to understand why that flight path was
the correct course to follow.
Adam had to do something to resist the unjust criticism that he was having to endure from
his instinctive self—it would be completely unbearable to have to just accept the criticism
when he rightly feels it’s not deserved—but without the ability to explain himself all he could
do was retaliate against the criticism, try to prove it wrong or simply ignore it—and he did all
of those things. Adam became angry towards the criticism. In every way he could he tried to
demonstrate his self worth, prove that he was good and not bad. And he tried to block out the
criticism. He became angry, egocentric and alienated, or, in a word, upset.
Adam Stork became angry, egocentric and alienated as the only three responses
available to him to cope with the injustice of his situation. Only when he could find the
explanation of his upset condition—the explanation that has just been given here that
science has at last made possible, which is of the difference between the gene-based
instinctive orientating system and the nerve-based conscious understanding system—could
he hope to relieve his situation. Suffering upset was the price of his heroic search for
understanding—it was the inevitable outcome of his transition from an instinct-controlled
state to an intellect-controlled state, as it was for humans, because we were the ones who
developed the fully conscious thinking mind.
The so-called Seven Deadly Sins of the human condition, of lust, anger, pride, envy,
covetousness, gluttony and sloth, are in truth all different manifestations of the three
fundamental upsets of anger, egocentricity and alienation that unavoidably emerged when
humans became fully conscious and had to set out in search of knowledge in the presence of
unjustly condemning instincts.
This analogy is similar to that of the story of the Garden of Eden, except in that
presentation when Adam and Eve took the ‘fruit’ ‘from the tree of…knowledge’ (Gen. 3:3, 2:17)—
went in search of understanding—they were ‘banished…from the Garden’ (ibid. 3:23) of our
original innocent state for having become ‘bad’ or ‘evil’. In this presentation, however, Adam
and Eve are revealed to be the heroes, NOT the villains they have so long been portrayed as.

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While we are immensely upset—that is, immensely angry, egocentric and alienated—humans
are good and not bad after all!
We can see that as soon as we are able to explain that we are actually good and not bad,
all the upset—all the anger, egocentricity and alienation—that resulted from not being able
to explain our upset condition subsides; it disappears. Finding understanding of the human
condition is what liberates and TRANSFORMS humans from our upset angry, egocentric and
alienated condition.
That was a very brief description of the liberating and TRANSFORMING explanation that is
fully presented in Freedom Expanded: Book 1. What it reveals is that we humans are nothing
less than the heroes of the story of life on Earth. I say this because our fully conscious mind
is surely nature’s greatest invention and to have had to endure the torture of being unjustly
condemned as evil for so long (humans have had a fully developed conscious, self-managing
mind for some two million years) must surely make us the absolute heroes of the story of
life on Earth. And indeed, doesn’t the feeling exist in you and in all humans that far from
being ‘banish[ment]’-deserving evil blights on this planet we are all immense heroes? When
we humans defiantly shook our fist at the heavens we were saying, ‘One day, one day, we
humans are going to establish that we are good and not bad after all.’ Doesn’t this explanation
at last make sense of your and everyone else’s immensely courageous and defiant attitude?
Doesn’t this explanation validate a core feeling in you that you are not a meaningless wretch
but in fact an immense hero? Doesn’t this explanation bring deep, bone-draining relief to the
whole of your being? It is precisely this explanation’s ability to at last make sense of human
life, of all our behaviour, that lets us know that we have finally found the true explanation of
the human condition. Albert Einstein said that ‘truth is what stands the test of experience’ (Out of My
Later Years, 1950), and since this explanation is about us, our behaviour, we are in a position to

personally ‘experience’ its validity, to know if it’s true or not.

Section 1:8 How does this liberate a criminal or a drug addict, and does it condone
criminal behaviour?
QUESTION: ‘You said this explanation liberates everyone, so how, for example, does it

liberate a convicted criminal or a drug addict—and are you condoning criminal behaviour?’
ANSWER: Using the Adam Stork analogy, if we look at Adam’s life, he’s condemned as

bad when he isn’t, but he can’t explain why he isn’t bad. Can you imagine a more torturous
situation to have to endure?! While we can now understand that Adam Stork is an absolute
hero, up to now everyone has been saying he is an evil, guilty villain, so of course when he
becomes extremely upset old Adam Stork is going to be pretty keen to get his hands on some
heroin to escape the unjust abusive world he is having to endure; and of course he’s going to
get very angry and vengeful and commit crimes. BUT, his ability to understand his behaviour
now means he no longer needs to get written off through drugs, or get even through crime—
he can now explain himself.
This understanding of the human condition doesn’t legitimise or condone the upset
behaviour that exists in all humans to varying degrees, what it does is heal it, end it. Everyone

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comes in from the cold now, everyone is rehabilitated—as Jung said, ‘wholeness for humans
depends on the ability to own their own shadow’. Our sanity depended on being able to understand

ourselves at last.
So you can see that finding understanding of the human condition is what TRANSFORMS
the whole human race, all of us—‘unites’ the ‘good’ and the ‘bad’ in us all, as Beethoven’s
Ninth Symphony proclaimed.

Section 1:9 But how is having the human condition explained supposed to
suddenly TRANSFORM my life and everyone else’s?
QUESTION: ‘There is still a big question in my mind: how is having the human condition

explained supposed to make me sublimely happy right now as you said it would—‘drunk with
fire’, as Beethoven’s symphony proclaimed? How is my life, and everyone else’s, supposed to

suddenly be completely TRANSFORMED?’
ANSWER: At this point I recommend you print out a copy of Section 1 of this book to

enable you to more easily follow and think about this response and the previous answers.
Don’t forget, the issue of the human condition has been such a repressed, forbidden subject
that most people haven’t been aware that it even exists, so everyone has to expect that it will
take a little time to absorb and process what is being said.
So how does understanding of the human condition suddenly TRANSFORM your life?
Firstly, it is true that, as Professor Prosen said, with the explanation of the human condition
found ‘the psychological rehabilitation of the human race’ is able to begin. We could each go back
over everything that happened in our lives and, using the explanation, reconcile all those
events with compassionate understanding. We could undo all our psychoses and neuroses
and become, as Jung said, ‘whole’. We could go into therapy, re-visit all the events in our
lives, in particular the especially influential ones that occurred in the formative years of our
infancy and childhood and replace any neurosis and psychosis-producing denials and blockouts that we had to employ to cope back then with healing, compassionate understanding—
because we can now understand the source of all the upset, all the innocence-destroying
angers, egocentricities and alienations of the adult world we had no choice but to grow up
amidst. As the Adam Stork story explains, with the emergence of consciousness upset anger,
egocentricity and alienation has been occurring—and, since the upset hasn’t been resolved,
it has also been accumulating from generation to generation. So, we are all now a product
of the upset that resulted from our own experiments in understanding, and a product of the
upsetting effects upon us of the accumulated upset in past generations—an accumulated level
of upset that is now very great. In fact, a common experience might now be that, because
of their own experiments in understanding and their own encounters with the upset in the
world, your mother was so neurotic she was unable to give you any real love and your
father was so egocentric he was oppressively preoccupied, silent and angry—basically, no
one was there for you. Whatever your particular story, you can now understand where life’s
extreme imperfections came from, namely this great heroic but terribly upsetting battle to find
knowledge that the human race has been involved in.

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While this therapy of all our upsets is now possible, the problem is it would require
a great deal of time and supportive counselling—time and counselling the world hasn’t
available and cannot afford at the moment—and, in all but the most extreme cases, such
therapy is in fact not necessary.
I will now explain this absolutely all-important point of it not being necessary to
psychologically rehabilitate ourselves in order to be immediately free of the human condition.
The reality is we are not going to be able to heal all the upset within us straight away,
despite having the means, the compassionate understanding to do so. In fact, it will naturally
take a number of generations for all the upset inside humans to be ameliorated or healed,
and to eventually subside, through the understanding of the human condition that is now
available. However, with the upset state of the human condition now explained and defended
we no longer have to live those upsets out. What we can do straight away is leave all our
upsets behind as dealt with, the effect of which will be to be immediately free of the upset
state of the human condition.
To elaborate, now that upset is explained and defended at the most fundamental level—
the source of all the upset in the human race has at last been compassionately understood—it
follows that all the upsets in humans are now explained and defended. This means that all
the ways we have been employing to try to cope with the upsets within us and around us are
obsoleted, rendered unnecessary and meaningless. No longer do we have to try to prove our
worth because our worth has been established at the most fundamental level. No longer do we
have to deny any confronting truths about our immensely upset/corrupted condition because
no longer are there any truths about our upset/corrupted state that condemn us. And no longer
do we have to retaliate against criticism of our upset state because our upset state has been
defended with truthful compassionate understanding at the most profound level. Our upset
lives are explained and defended now, which means we no longer have to be preoccupied
compensating for those upsets by finding forms of self-aggrandisement, by seeking selfdistraction, or by chasing relief through materialistic forms of compensation for all the hurt
we experienced growing up in an immensely human-condition-afflicted world—in other
words, we no longer need to seek power, fame, fortune and glory to make ourselves feel
good about ourselves because our goodness has now been established at the deepest, most
profound, fundamental level.
Instead, we can simply leave our whole ‘must-prove-our-worth, attack-and-deny-anycriticism’ way of living behind as obsolete and redirect our mind and all our energies to
supporting and disseminating these human-race-saving understandings, and to repairing
the world from all the damage our upset has caused. You can, as it were, put the issue of all
your upsets/corruptions in a suitcase, attach a label to it saying ‘Everything in here is now
explained and defended’ and simply leave that suitcase behind at the entrance to what we in
the WTM call the Sunshine Highway and set out free and unencumbered into the new, humancondition-free world. Everyone can now join the Sunshine Army on the Sunshine Highway to
the World In Sunshine. As Bono, from U2, 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.’ Yes, ‘The ruins to the right of me, will soon have lost sight of me’—‘I’m leaving all the

ruins of the old, now dealt with and thus obsoleted, upset existence behind me.’ And what did

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Bob Dylan say? ‘The present now will later be past…For the times they are a-changin’.’ Cat Stevens
similarly foresaw a time when ‘Yesterday has past, now let’s all start the living for the one that’s going
to last.’ We leave our old upset, embattled world behind as dealt with.

All our egocentric embattled posturing to get a win out of life, all our strategising every
minute of every day to try to find a way to compensate for feeling inadequate or imperfect or
bad about ourselves, suddenly ends. The reality is that because we have had to live in such
deep denial of the human condition it is initially hard to see just how terrible life under the
duress of the human condition has been. It is hard to see how our lives have been completely
governed by insecurity, confusion, guilt, doubt, fear and extreme self-preoccupation. To
make our lives bearable we have had to put on a brave face and delude ourselves that we
were happy, however, all the suffering that was really going on in our lives is now over. We
are TRANSFORMED from what was, in truth, a deeply preoccupied, lonely, troubled and upset
human-condition-afflicted, virtually dead state to a state free of all that. We leave the dark
cave of denial and delusion where we have been hiding to escape the unbearable glare of the
truth about our seemingly imperfect condition. Excitement and meaning, based on liberating,
truthful, honest understanding of ourselves and our world, is what sustains us now.
To reiterate, having the human condition explained and defended means that everyone
can now immediately leave that old human-condition-embattled way of living behind forever.
While it will take a number of generations to eliminate the upset state of the human condition
from within humans, everyone can immediately be effectively free of the human condition
by redirecting their efforts from being preoccupied with and living out their upsets to living
in support of these understandings and to repairing the world—and with the human condition
solved it is at last possible to properly repair our environment, because all the upset that
caused, and was continuing to cause, the destruction of the planet now ends.
The excitement of being effectively free of the human condition—the joy and happiness
of being free from the burden of your insecurities and self-preoccupations; the awesome
meaning and power of finally being aligned with the truth and participating in the magic true
world; the wonderful empathy and equality of goodness and fellowship that understanding
of the human condition now allows you to feel for your fellow humans; the freedom now
to effectively focus on repairing the world; and, above all, the radiant aliveness from the
optimism that comes with knowing our march through hell has finally ended—IS GOING TO
TRANSFORM THE WORLD.

Descriptions of what happens in a so-called ‘near-death experience’ illustrate just how
exciting, sensitising and real-self-or-soul-rejuvenating being free of the human condition
is. It has been reported that mountain climbers, for example, who survive falls they were
convinced would be fatal (they were saved, in some instances, by landing in a snow
drift) very often recall that during those near-death moments they experienced a state of
extraordinary euphoria in which the world suddenly appeared utterly beautiful and radiant
and that they were flooded with a feeling of ecstatic enthrallment. With understanding of the
horror of the human condition of being preoccupied trying to defy unjust condemnation we
can appreciate how, in such situations when death appears imminent, the mind would give
up this preoccupation. In the face of death, all our worrying about trying to prove our worth
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to struggle with the agony of the human condition, at which point that struggle ceases and the
true world of our all-sensitive real self or soul suddenly surfaces and opens up. You suddenly
discover what it is like to be free of the human condition. You suddenly have access to all
the real beauty that exists in the world that your preoccupations with the human condition
have hidden from you. You discover another seemingly magic world that is all-radiant and
magnificent. This is the freedom that letting go the struggle with the human condition allows.
So, finding understanding of the human condition now enables you and everyone else
to suddenly be TRANSFORMED into a sublimely happy—‘drunk with fire’, as Beethoven’s
symphony anticipated—effectively human-condition-free state.
In my opening 8-minute Video Introduction I included quotes from WTM members whose
lives have been TRANSFORMED by understanding of the human condition. Now that I have
explained how this TRANSFORMATION is achieved by letting go of your human-conditionembattled existence their extraordinarily excited comments can be better understood. Neil
Duns said, ‘The freedom this brings is like nothing humans have ever experienced’; and Stacy Rodger
said, ‘This is all that we have ever, ever wanted’; and Tony Gowing said, ‘This is like seeing the world
for the first time, it’s like waking up from a nightmare, it’s like 100 tonnes being lifted off your shoulders’;

and John Biggs said, ‘The relief and through-the-roof excitement that flows through your veins is
incredible…It is beyond comprehension how much wonder and fun and excitement and happiness the
human race has coming.’

In the case of Doug Lobban, who was also quoted, I might play some footage from his
Affirmation so you can see first-hand just how amazingly relieving and exciting letting go
of your human-condition-embattled existence is, and how amazing the TRANSFORMATION
that results is. (You can read these and other Affirmations of the liberated TRANSFORMED
LIFEFORCE STATE by going to Section 3 of this presentation, or view them at <www.

humancondition.com/affirmations>.)

Section 1:10 Is this another religion?
QUESTION: ‘Not “living out our upset state”, as you described it, and instead deferring

to something else, in this case focusing on supporting understanding of the human condition
and the repair of the world that you say it makes possible, sounds a bit like another religion.
Does this all amount to just another religion?’
ANSWER: While this TRANSFORMED WAY OF LIVING does share a similarity with

religion, it is not a religion. In a religion you do give up living out your upsets and instead
defer to and live through your support of the sound life and words of the prophet around
whom the religion is founded, and similarly this TRANSFORMED WAY OF LIVING does involve
letting go of living out your upset state, however, in this new TRANSFORMED WAY OF LIVING
you are giving your support not to the embodiment of the ideal state in the form of a religion’s
prophet, but to the understanding of the ideal state and the good reason for our species’
historic departure from it. This is all about the end of faith and dogma and the beginning of
knowing. This is knowledge-driven—and that knowledge, that understanding of the human
condition, brings an end to the human condition. Religions were a means of managing the

Section 1:11 Are religions obsoleted?

upset state of the human condition while the search for understanding of that condition went
on, whereas the TRANSFORMED WAY OF LIVING is the ability to live free of the upset state of
the human condition, to leave it all behind as dealt with when that understanding of the human
condition is found.
The World Transformation Movement is not a religion, a way of containing excessive
upset while the upsetting search for understanding was being carried out, rather it is a
metamorphoser of the human race, a movement that brings about a complete progression
of humans from a terrible human-condition-afflicted state to a completely liberated and
TRANSFORMED human-condition-free existence.

In this new TRANSFORMED WAY OF LIVING, there is no dogma involved, or blind faith
required, it is all about supporting knowledge, specifically knowledge that resolves the human
condition. And there is no deity involved, nor is there any focus on a personality, or worship
of any kind. Best of all, there is no guilt involved because that has been eliminated by the
compassionate understanding of the human condition.
So, this is not another ‘religion’ but a ‘metamorphoser’, a progressor of the human race
from a human-condition-unresolved state to a human-condition-free existence.

Section 1:11 Are you saying religions are going to be obsoleted?
QUESTION: ‘Do you expect that all the religious people in the world are going to accept

this, give up their faith and adopt the TRANSFORMED WAY OF LIVING? Are you expecting
religions to be obsoleted?’
ANSWER: Religions aren’t being threatened by the arrival of understanding of the human

condition—they are being fulfilled.
Religions have, overall, been the custodians of the ideal state while the upsetting search
for the healing understanding of the upset state was being carried out, which means that
when that healing understanding is finally found the ideal state no longer has to be preserved
in the presence of an upset existence because all the upset goes and the ideal state becomes
universal, in which case the role of religions is fulfilled and therefore obsoleted.
The founding prophets of religions understood this—for instance, Buddha looked forward
to the arrival of the ameliorating, healing understanding of the human condition when he
said that ‘In the future they will every one be Buddhas [meaning in the future everyone will be free of
psychosis and neurosis] / And will reach Perfect Enlightenment [perfect understanding] / In domains in
all directions / Each will have the same title [everyone will be free of the various states of alienation that

currently differentiate us all] / Simultaneously on wisdom-thrones [everyone will be full of the wisdom
of understanding of the human condition] / They will prove the Supreme Wisdom’ (Buddha [Siddartha
Gautama] 560–480 BC, The Lotus Sutra, ch.9; tr. W.E. Soothill, 1987, p.148 of 275). Yes, understanding of the

human condition is the ‘supreme’ understanding that the human race has been in search of.
Christian scripture contains similar, numerous anticipations of our species’ liberation
from all the upset of the human condition. In Revelations in the Bible it states that ‘Another
book [will be]…opened which is the book of life [the human-condition-liberating book]…[and] a new
heaven and a new earth [will appear] for the first heaven and the first earth [will have]…passed away…

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[and the dignifying full truth about our condition] will wipe every tear from…[our] eyes. There will
be no more death or mourning or crying or pain [no more insecurity, suffering or human-condition-

induced sickness], for the old order of things has passed away’ (Rev. 20:12, 21:1,4). (Note, all biblical

references in Freedom Expanded: Books 1 & 2 are taken from the 1978 New International
Version translation of the Bible.)
Similarly, when writing Genesis in the Bible, the prophet Moses anticipated a time when
we ‘will be like God, knowing’ (Gen. 3:5), and, as previously mentioned, Christ’s The Lord’s Prayer
(Matt. 6:10 & Luke 11:2) anticipates the time when ‘Your [peaceful human-condition-ameliorated]

kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven’; Christ also looked forward to the time

when ‘…another Counsellor to be with you forever—the Spirit of truth [that is, understanding]…
will teach you all things [in particular explain the mystery of the human condition]’ (John 14:16,17,26).

He also said he looked forward to the time when, instead of being restricted to ‘speaking
figuratively’, we ‘will no longer use this kind of language but will [be able to] tell you plainly about my
Father’ (John 16:25). We will be able to explain in compassionate, understandable, first principle,

scientific terms what the ‘Godly’, cooperative, ideal state actually is—namely, the physical
law that causes matter to integrate into ever larger and more stable wholes (atoms integrate
to form molecules, then molecules integrate to form compounds, then virus-like organisms,
then single-celled organisms, then multicellular organisms, etc)—and importantly, we
will be able to explain why we humans have not lived in compliance with that integrative,
cooperative, complexifying, teleological, holistic law, which, as is explained in Parts 4:4B
and 8:1 of Freedom Expanded: Book 1, is the physical law of Negative Entropy. Our ability
now to explain why we humans have been divisively rather than integratively behaved means
we can at last safely admit that ‘God’ is actually the integrative law of Negative Entropy.
We can reconcile religion and science—as Christ anticipated, we can talk ‘plainly’ about the
cooperative, loving, integrative law that we have personified as ‘God’ and our historical lack
of compliance with that law.
And of course there is the prophet Isaiah’s anticipation in the Bible of the time when humans
‘will beat their swords into ploughshears…Nation[s] will…[not] train for war any more’ (Isa. 2:4).

A human-condition-free world was also anticipated by the prophet Muhammad of the
Islamic faith when he spoke of ‘that which is coming’ when we will ‘hear no idle talk, no sinful
speech, but only the greeting, “Peace! Peace!”’ (The Koran, ch.56).

The whole objective of science was to replace mysticism, superstition and dogma with
understanding, especially with understanding of the human condition. Indeed, even E.O.
Wilson once conceded that ‘The human condition is the most important frontier of the natural
sciences’ (Consilience, 1998, p.298 of 374)—despite later nullifying this ‘most important frontier’ with

his own human-condition-avoiding ‘explanation’ of it. As I said, the arrival of understanding
of the human condition brings about the end of faith and the beginning of knowing, and that
is precisely the transition the human mind has been committed to achieving. As conscious
beings that was our fundamental responsibility: to understand the world and our seemingly
imperfect place in it. In John Lennon’s song Imagine, where he sang of a time when the
human condition is resolved and ‘the world will be as one’, he asked us to ‘imagine’ that there
will then be ‘no heaven [above us and] no hell below us’—that there will be a world without the
condemning differentiation of good and evil, a world liberated from the insecurity of the

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human condition and thus the need for religion, where, as he sang, there will be ‘Nothing to
kill or die for, and no religion too…all the people living life in peace…No need for greed or hunger, a
brotherhood of man…all the people sharing all the world.’

The human race has always hoped and believed that humanity’s heroic search for, and
accumulation of knowledge would one day lead to the finding of understanding of the human
condition, at which time every aspect of human life that was seemingly so inexplicable would
suddenly make sense and a new reconciled world for humans would suddenly open up,
and that is exactly what has happened. From an overwhelmingly complex and problematic
existence a simple and totally effective, WORLD-TRANSFORMING way of living for humans
emerges that all humans—everyone—takes up.

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

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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

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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 selfpreoccupied 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

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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!’)

Section 1:13 Isn’t discussion of the human condition going to be
unbearably confronting?
QUESTION: ‘You say it’s going to be exciting but I find all this talk about the human

condition—about how I’m living in an alienated, angry and egocentric state and about how in
denial we all are—makes me uncomfortable. How are we supposed to endure and cope with
all this discussion about our corrupted ‘human condition’, let alone have it make us gloriously
happy like we’re ‘drunk with fire’?’
ANSWER: Yes, this is a very important aspect I haven’t yet discussed, which is that

understanding of the human condition inevitably brings with it exposure of, and thus
confrontation with, our immensely upset, or what used to be called ‘corrupted’, human
condition. We can’t very well have the truth about humans and not have that truth apply to
ourselves—so, yes, how are we to cope with all that exposure, and not only cope but have it
make us gloriously happy?
If we return to the Adam Stork analogy, if Adam could have explained why he had
to carry out his search for knowledge when he was first criticised for doing so he would
never have become upset—he would never have become defensively angry, egocentric and
alienated. Or if he had found the explanation for why he had to search for knowledge after
only a few days of carrying out that search he would have accumulated very little anger,
egocentricity and alienation to have to heal with understanding. But humans have had a
fully developed conscious, self-managing mind for some two million years and we have
only now found the understanding of why we became upset, which means there is now an
absolute mountain of accumulated anger, unsatisfied ego, and denial in us humans to have
to heal with this understanding.

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The problem now is not that we can’t compassionately understand and heal all our
upset—because with understanding of the human condition found we now can—the problem
is the immense amount of upset in us that we have to suddenly heal with understanding. It is
obviously far too much to have to suddenly face and rehabilitate. Alvin Toffler’s famous 1970
book Future Shock was actually an intuitive anticipation of this time when understanding of
the human condition would emerge and humans would suddenly be faced with, as Toffler
wrote, ‘the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too
much change in too short a time’ (p.4 of 505). One reader of my books described the problem very

succinctly when he wrote to us that ‘Diving into a sea of truth [in your books] where everything is
completely transparent…one can’t but ask “How will anybody cope with this!? How in the world can I
ask anybody to cross such darkness to reach light?!”’ (Enrico, WTM records, 24 Feb. 2011).

At the end of my brief description of the explanation of the human condition in Section
1:7 I said that you can know that this explanation of the human condition is true by its ability

to make sense of human behaviour. While the ability of these understandings to make the
world around you and your own life ‘transparent’ (as the reader said it does) confirms the
immense truthfulness of these understandings, such complete transparency does bring with it
the problem of how are we to cope with having so much upset in us suddenly exposed.
After two million years there is of course now going to be an immense amount of upset in
the human race. Certainly, we have learnt to restrain and conceal a great deal of that upset; we
have learnt to, as we say, ‘civilise it’, not let it show—humans don’t normally attack someone
now the moment they become angry. Adult humans now exhibit a great deal of self-control,
but underneath our manufactured facade of restrained civility, even manufactured happiness,
lies volcanic anger and immense frustrated egocentricity, which shows itself in all the
ferocious atrocities and vengeful bloodshed we humans commit, and—to a lesser degree—in
our smaller, everyday disputes. Also, unable to explain our upset, we have had to employ a
great deal of denial or block-out of any condemning thoughts, ideas and truths about our upset
state, which means we have become extremely alienated or dissociated or split-off or blockedout from our true situation.
In regard to how alienated we have become, the truth is we have had to avoid almost all
deep, penetrating, truthful thinking because almost all thinking at a deeper level brought us
into contact with the unbearable issue of our seemingly highly imperfect human condition:
‘There’s a tree with lovely autumn leaves; isn’t it amazing how beautiful nature can be, I
wonder why some things are beautiful while others are not—I wonder why I’m not beautiful
inside... aaahhhhh!!!!’ William Wordsworth certainly wasn’t exaggerating when he wrote,
‘To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears’ (Intimations
of Immortality, 1807), for it is true that even the plainest flower can remind us of the unbearably

depressing issue of our ‘fallen’ condition. Yes, as the Australian comedian Rod Quantock
once said, ‘Thinking can get you into terrible downwards spirals of doubt’ (‘Sayings of the Week’, Sydney
Morning Herald, 5 July 1986). The Nobel Laureate Albert Camus wasn’t overstating the issue either

when he wrote that ‘Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined’ (An Absurd Reasoning, 1955, in The
Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays, p.4 of 224). And nor was the British philosopher and mathematician

and Nobel Prize winner for Literature Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) when he said, ‘Many people
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humans have become immensely superficial and artificial, living on the absolute surface, the
meniscus, of existence in terms of what we are prepared to look at and feel. We are a deeply,
deeply alienated species, profoundly split-off from the real world and from our true selves, as
the great Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing acknowledged: ‘Our alienation goes to the roots…We
are born into a world where alienation awaits us. We are potentially men, but are in an alienated state [p.12
of 156] …the ordinary person is a shrivelled, desiccated fragment of what a person can be. As adults, we

have forgotten most of our childhood, not only its contents but its flavour; as men of the world, we hardly
know of the existence of the inner world [p.22] …The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being
unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man [p.24] …between us and It [our

true self or soul] there is a veil which is more like fifty feet of solid concrete. Deus absconditus. Or we have
absconded [p.118] …The outer divorced from any illumination from the inner is in a state of darkness.
We are in an age of darkness. The state of outer darkness is a state of sin—i.e. alienation or estrangement
from the inner light [p.116]’ (The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise, 1967). ‘We are dead, but think
we are alive. We are asleep, but think we are awake. We are dreaming, but take our dreams to be reality.
We are the halt, lame, blind, deaf, the sick. But we are doubly unconscious. We are so ill that we no longer
feel ill, as in many terminal illnesses. We are mad, but have no insight [into the fact of our madness]’
(Self and Others, 1961, p.38 of 192). For two million years our only psychological defence has been

denial, which is what creates alienation, so it is little wonder at all that we are as deeply
alienated as Laing described. In fact, the depth of our alienation is an exact measure of how
incredibly courageous and heroic the human race has been—because it is evidence of how
extraordinarily difficult it has been to keep going under the duress of the human condition.
Although the 1980s New Age Movement, which wasn’t based on explanation of the
human condition, was one of the many false starts to the human-condition-ameliorated,
TRANSFORMED new world, it did recognise exactly the form that human-condition-liberated

new world would take. One of the founders of that New Age Movement, the American author
Marilyn Ferguson, acknowledged how deadening our species’ psychotic, neurotic, alienated
existence that living in denial of the human condition has made us, and how desperate we
have become to ‘resolve’ the ‘inner conflict’ of that condition and by so doing end that terrible
alienation forever—when she wrote, ‘Maybe [the French Jesuit priest, scientist and philosopher]
Teilhard de Chardin was right; maybe we are moving toward an omega point [a final unification of our

split selves]—Maybe we can finally resolve the planet’s inner conflict between its neurotic self (which
we’ve created and which is unreal) and its real self. Our real self knows how to commune, how to create…
From everything I’ve seen people really urgently want the kind of new beginning…[that I am] talking
about [where humans will live in] cooperation instead of competition’ (New Age mag. Aug. 1982).

So when understanding of our fundamental goodness was finally found there was going
to be a very great deal of anger, egocentricity and denial/falseness/dishonesty/alienation that
would suddenly be revealed. The truth about ourselves unavoidably and necessarily exposes
the extent of our angry, egocentric and alienated condition. The truth destroys the lies, our
pretences, delusions and denials, as it must, otherwise it wouldn’t be the truth. We have been
living in near total denial of our corrupted condition as our only means of coping with it, but
the arrival of the truth about our corrupted state exposes and destroys all that denial.

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We have already seen some of this fearful transparency that understanding of the human
condition unavoidably brings when the process of Resignation that adolescents go through
to living in denial of the human condition was exposed, and when the Environment or
Green Movement was exposed as a selfish and destructive cause rather than the selfless and
constructive one its supporters deluded themselves it was. Throughout this presentation you
will be reading page after page after page of exposing, confronting truth; ‘diving into a sea of
truth where everything is completely transparent’ was how the aforementioned reader of my books

described it. In fact, this entire presentation represents an absolute avalanche of liberating but
at the same time naked truth, and all that naked truth is overwhelming; indeed, as I already
mentioned in Section 1:4, it is so overwhelming it can produce what we in the WTM call the
‘deaf effect’, where the listener or reader finds it difficult taking in the words that are being
said or written. I mentioned the reader who admitted that ‘When I first read your books all I saw
were a lot of black marks on white paper.’ Too much truth can be psychologically deafening, too

much for our mind to cope with.
Unavoidably and necessarily, when understanding of the human condition arrives
the extent of our upset state is suddenly revealed. Truth day is honesty day, exposure day,
transparency day, revelation day—in fact, the long-feared so-called ‘judgment day’ referred
to in the Bible (Matt. 10:15, 11:22, 24, 12:36; Mark 6:11; 2 Pet. 2:9, 3:7; 1 John 4:17). Although ‘judgment day’
is actually a day of compassionate understanding, not a day of condemnation—as a Turkish
poet once said, judgment day is ‘Not the day of judgment but the day of understanding’ (Merle Severy,
‘The World of Süleyman the Magnificent’, National Geographic, Nov. 1987)—it

is, nevertheless, a day when

we face fearful exposure of the extent of our species’ by now extremely upset condition.
The paradox of being wonderfully liberated but at the same time agonisingly exposed was
captured by the prophet Isaiah when he said that the liberation that ‘gives you relief from
suffering and turmoil and cruel bondage…will come with vengeance; with divine retribution…to save
you. Then will the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped…Your nakedness will
be exposed’ (Bible, Isa. 14:3; 35:4, 5; 47:3). Also referring to ‘the Day of Reckoning’ (The Koran, ch.56) and
‘the Last Judgement’ (ibid. ch.69), the prophet Muhammad provided a very similar description of

the paradox of being liberated and at the same time fearfully exposed when he said, ‘when the
Trumpet is blown with a single blast and the earth and the mountains are lifted up and crushed with a
single blow, Then, on that day, the Terror shall come to pass, and heaven shall be split…On that day you
shall be exposed, not one secret of yours concealed’ (ibid. ch.69).

John Lennon, exasperated by all the denial/dishonesty/falseness/delusion/pretence/
artificiality/superficiality in human life, desperately pleaded for honesty in his song, Just
Gimme Some Truth: ‘All I want is the truth, just gimme some truth. I’ve had enough of reading things
by neurotic…politicians…I’m sick to death of seeing things from tight-lipped…chauvinists…I’ve had
enough of watching scenes of schizophrenic…prima-donnas…I’m sick and tired of hearing things from
uptight…hypocrites…All I want is the truth now, just gimme some truth NOW’ (1971). Yes, we are all
‘sick and tired of ’ the dishonest denial the world has been drowning in—we have all completely

had enough of the human condition and are all desperate to be free of it, but wishing for the
truth is one thing, coping with it when it actually arrives is quite another.

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So the second part of your question is also very legitimate: ‘How is having our ‘nakedness’
‘exposed’ supposed to suddenly make us gloriously happy and excited, gloriously ‘drunk with
fire’, as Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony said it would?’

The answer to this problem of exposure is that, yes, this information that explains the
human condition is unavoidably and necessarily extremely exposing of everyone’s now
immensely upset, corrupted condition, but all that means is that we shouldn’t, and in fact don’t
have to, overly confront and study it. All we need to do is study the understanding sufficiently
to verify to our own satisfaction that it has explained the human condition, and then avoid
studying it more deeply. Instead, as described earlier in Section 1:9, we can leave all our
upsets behind as dealt with and redirect our efforts to living in support of these understandings
and to repairing the world.
Once you have investigated these understandings sufficiently to know that they have
explained the human condition you don’t need to know more than that. You don’t need to
know all the truth it reveals about human existence, or about how it reveals and explains
everything about your own particular upset life. In fact, if you study this information beyond
what your particular level of soundness and security of self can cope with you risk becoming
overly self-confronted and exposed and depressed. As emphasised, the human race has been
coping this far by maintaining extreme levels of denial of many, many truths, so obviously
the human race can’t hope to confront and dismantle all those denials overnight. As I said in
Section 1:9, that process will take generations, but that doesn’t mean we can’t support the truth
while this digestion and healing takes place—as long as we don’t overly confront the truth
during this absorption process. According to each person’s level of upset there will be a limit
to how much truth each person can cope with—there will be a limit to how much they can
listen to, read about and study these human-condition-confronting understandings—but that
doesn’t mean all people can’t immediately live in support of the truth.
While we each should investigate these understandings of the human condition
sufficiently to verify to our own satisfaction that they are the liberating understandings
of the human condition that the whole human race has been searching for, we shouldn’t
investigate them to the extent that we start to become overly exposed and confronted by the
truths they are revealing.
If you do become overly confronted by what is being presented your natural reaction
will be to try to attack and deny it in order to protect yourself—in effect, you will try to put
all your denials back in place. You will become defensive and angry and retaliatory toward
the information, and the consequence of such a response will be to sabotage the efforts of
all the humans who have ever lived to bring the human race to this dreamed of moment
of its liberation. We in the WTM have endured years and years of this furiously angry,
defensive reaction towards this information, attacks that were ultimately fruitless because this
information is true and it won’t be intimidated or oppressed: it is too precious to allow that.
The effect of overly studying this information, studying it more than your degree of security
of self can cope with, can be both dangerous to you and dangerous to the human race, and no
one should want, nor risk, either of those outcomes.

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Having lived without any real understanding of the world it is natural to want to keep
studying these explanations that finally make sense of the world around you, but this can lead
to becoming overly confronted by the extent of your own corrupted state. The more intelligent
and/or more educated in the old human-condition-avoiding, denial-based world, who pride
themselves on supposedly being able to think and study new ideas, will initially be especially
tempted to study these understandings beyond what their varying levels of security of self
can cope with, but it won’t be long before everyone learns that such an approach is both
psychologically dangerous to themselves, and irresponsible in terms of the human race.
When Christ spoke of a time when ‘the meek…inherit the earth’ (Matt. 5:5), and when ‘many
who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first’ (Matt. 19:30, 20:16; Mark 10:31; Luke 13:30),

he was anticipating this time when understanding of the human condition would arrive and
instead of the more intelligent and intellectual leading the way, as has been the case in almost
every human situation, the more innocent and sound, the more soulful and instinctual, the
less upset or corrupted will do so. As the story of Adam Stork reveals, throughout the two
million year battle to find understanding our instinctive self or soul was repressed because
of its unjust condemnation of our intellect, but when understanding of the human condition
is finally found this process is reversed, soul becomes sought-after. Our innocent, upset-free,
original instinctive self or soul—soundness—has to lead us back home to soundness. It makes
sense. Again, Christ gave the perfect description of this new situation when he said, ‘The stone
the builders rejected has become the capstone’ (Ps. 118:22; Matt. 21:42; Mark 12:10; Luke 20:17; Acts 4:11; 1 Pet.
2:7). The

pre-eminent philosopher Sir Laurens van der Post referred to this biblical analogy

when he too anticipated this new situation: ‘It is part of the great secret which Christ tried to pass on
to us when He spoke of the “stone which the builders rejected” becoming the cornerstone of the building
to come. The cornerstone of this new building of a war-less, non-racial world, too, I believe, must be…
those [more innocent, instinctual] aspects of life which we have despised and rejected for so long’ (The
Dark Eye in Africa, 1955, p.155 of 159).

Initially, it will be difficult accepting this advice to only investigate the truth to the degree
you are sound enough to do so, but with honesty you will see it is a proposition that can be
reasonably understood and accepted. It makes sense that the more secure in self, the least
alienated, have to develop these understandings of the human condition. In the old humancondition-avoiding, denial-based world, academia limited those who could be involved in
the pursuit of knowledge to the more intelligent, those with a high IQ (intelligence quotient).
For instance, to enter university you had to pass entrance exams that basically tested your
IQ. Obviously, to have the most appropriate people studying complex subjects like higher

mathematics and physics you needed people with the highest IQ. If you didn’t have an adequate
IQ you would make little progress in studying such subjects. In the new human-condition-

resolved, human-condition-confronting world we similarly need the most appropriate people
to study its information, which are those with a high SQ, soul or soundness quotient. If you
don’t have an adequate SQ you simply won’t be able to make any progress with the information
involved. With the explanation of the human condition we can now understand that everyone is
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the old denial-based world those who lacked IQ weren’t considered bad people, just not as able
to think as effectively about complex subjects. Upset is a heroic, good state, not a bad, evil,
sinful state, because it is a product of humanity’s heroic search for knowledge.
So everyone has to measure and limit how much they can study these human-conditionconfronting understandings against how much self-confrontation they can cope with.
Thankfully and most importantly, no one has to overly confront their old upset self—everyone
can leave that behind as dealt with and simply live for the new world and all its potential.
The main thing to remember is once you know that this information has explained the
human condition then you know that all the upset in the world and all the upset within you
is also now explained and defended—which means you can, as described earlier in Section
1:9, put the issue of all your upsets or corruptions in a ‘suitcase’, attach a label to it saying

‘Everything in here is now explained and defended’, and simply leave it behind as dealt with
as you set out free and unencumbered into the new, human-condition-free world. You can
join the Sunshine Army on the Sunshine Highway to the World In Sunshine. Again, Bono
anticipated this TRANSFORMED way of living where we leave the issue of all our upsets
behind as dealt with when he wrote and sang: ‘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.’ And what did that other extraordinarily prophetic/truthful songwriter of our times,

Bob Dylan, say? ‘The present now will later be past…For the times they are a-changin’.’ And Cat
Stevens similarly foresaw the time when ‘Yesterday has past, now let’s all start the living for the
one that’s going to last.’

Once you know this information is true, that the upset state of the human condition
is defended at the fundamental level, you can leave the issue of your own and the world’s
corruption behind as effectively dealt with and preoccupy yourself with disseminating this
information throughout the world and to a fresh generation, and preoccupy yourself with
supporting all the projects that must be undertaken now to free and rehabilitate the world from
the destructive effects of two million years of living under the duress of the human condition.
Now that we have the truth up all that matters is that it is kept alive and that it is
disseminated to the world’s population, because it alone can heal the human race and save the
world. All everyone must do now is support the truth about the human condition and it will
achieve everything everyone has ever dreamed of. If we look after this information it in turn
will look after the world. That is the mantra of the new world that understanding of the human
condition brings about.
The relief of being able to leave the issue of our upset state behind as dealt with, and
the excitement of knowing a human-condition-free new world is coming and that we can
all fully participate in bringing that about, is so absolutely incredibly relieving and exciting
it will TRANSFORM all humans. From being a human-condition oppressed and depressed
alienated person all humans can, and will now be, TRANSFORMED into Redeemed, Liberated
from the Human Condition, Exhilarated, Ecstatic, Enthralled-with-Existence, Transfigured,
Empowered, World-Transforming Lifeforces.

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In fact, it shouldn’t be necessary to talk about the whole issue of the human condition
any more than what is going to be done in these presentations about the human condition.
Humanity moves on to an entirely new existence now. We get the truth up, and we move on.

Section 1:14 Since the human condition is an unbearable subject to think about
how did you manage to find understanding of it?
QUESTION: Professor Prosen has asked me to say something about how I managed to

find these understandings of the human condition when the whole issue has been such an
unbearable subject to look at.
ANSWER: It is true that the issue of the human condition has been all but

unapproachable. To illustrate this, the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia says that ‘philosophers
and psychologists’ regard the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard’s 1849 book The Sickness

Unto Death as ‘one of the best accounts on the subject [of]…the nature of despair’ (<https://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/Søren_Kierkegaard>, accessed 11 Sept. 2010). As the title of the book, The Sickness Unto Death,

indicates, the ‘despair’ that the ‘philosophers and psychologists’ are referring to that Kierkegaard
gave such a deadly accurate ‘best account’ of, is the suicidally ‘sick[ening]’, worse-than-‘death’
depression that the ‘tormenting’ good and evil ‘contradiction’ of the human condition has caused
humans whenever they allowed their minds to even momentarily ‘glimpse’ its existence. The
following quote forms part of that deadly accurate description that Kierkegaard gave of that
worse-than-‘death’ depression that the issue of the human condition has caused: ‘the torment
of despair is precisely the inability to die [and end the torture of our unexplained human condition]…
that despair is the sickness unto death, this tormenting contradiction, this sickness in the self; eternally to
die, to die and yet not to die [p.48 of 179] …there is not a single human being who does not despair at least
a little, in whose innermost being there doesn’t dwell an uneasiness, an unquiet, a discordance, an anxiety
in the face of an unknown something, or a something he doesn’t even dare strike up acquaintance with…
he goes about with a sickness, goes about weighed down with a sickness of the spirit, which only now and
then reveals its presence within, in glimpses, and with what is for him an inexplicable anxiety [p.52]’ (tr. A.
Hannay, 1989).

Yes, we humans have learnt to live in such complete denial of the unbearable issue of the
human condition that whenever the ‘anxiety’ from it momentarily appears we are so unaware
of where that ‘anxiety’ is coming from that its source does seem ‘inexplicable’.
The great Russian philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev similarly wrote extraordinarily honestly
about the pure ‘terror’ the issue of the human condition has caused humans in his 1931 book
The Destiny of Man, when he referred to the ‘ancient, primeval terror’ of ‘the fallen state of the
world’, of the ‘deadly pain in the very distinction of good and evil, of the valuable and the worthless’,

describing the distinction between good and evil as ‘the bitterest thing in the world’.
So yes, the human condition has seemed to be a universally unapproachable subject—
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referred to came from, Berdyaev also gave this very clear description of a way, in fact the
only way, understanding of the human condition could be found. Referring to and possibly
even inspired by the courage of Kierkegaard’s writings about the human condition, Berdyaev
wrote that ‘Knowledge requires great daring. It means victory over ancient, primeval terror. Fear makes
the search for truth and the knowledge of it impossible. Knowledge implies fearlessness…Conquest of
fear is a spiritual cognitive act. This does not imply, of course, that the experience of fear is not lived
through; on the contrary, it may be deeply felt, as was the case with Kierkegaard, for instance…it must
also be said of knowledge that it is bitter, and there is no escaping that bitterness…Particularly bitter is
moral knowledge, the knowledge of good and evil [which is the issue of the human condition]. But the
bitterness is due to the fallen state of the world, and in no way undermines the value of knowledge…it
must be said that the very distinction between good and evil is a bitter distinction, the bitterest thing in the
world…Moral knowledge is the most bitter and the most fearless of all for in it sin and evil are revealed
to us along with the meaning and value of life. There is a deadly pain in the very distinction of good and
evil, of the valuable and the worthless. We cannot rest in the thought that that distinction is ultimate…
we cannot bear to be faced for ever with the distinction between good and evil…Ethics must be both
theoretical and practical, i.e. it must call for the moral reformation of life and a revaluation of values as
well as for their acceptance. And this implies that ethics is bound to contain a prophetic element. It must
be a revelation of a clear conscience, unclouded by social conventions [most particularly unpolluted by

the all-pervading social convention of denial of the issue of the human condition]; it must be a critique
of pure conscience’ (tr. N. Duddington, 1960, pp.14-16 of 310).

As Berdyaev said, ‘we cannot bear to be faced for ever with the distinction between good and evil’,
‘we cannot rest in the thought that that distinction is ultimate’. As a species we couldn’t endure having

to live forever with the crippling depression of the human condition, and with all the deadening
effects of alienation from having to live in denial of the issue of the human condition, and of any
truths that bring that issue into focus—which, as we are going to see, were many, many truths.
Understanding of the human condition certainly had to be found, and, as Berdyaev said,
finding it was going to require ‘fearlessness’ of the subject of the human condition. He said that
‘the distinction between good and evil’, which is the study of the issue of the human condition,

is ‘the bitterest thing in the world’, the hardest subject to confront, so much so he said that only
‘fearlessness’ of it could conquer it. Explaining from where this ‘fearlessness’ would come,

Berdyaev said that the study of ‘moral knowledge’, of ‘ethics’, of the issue ‘of good and evil’ in the
human make-up, that leads to ‘the moral reformation of life and a revaluation of values as well as for
their acceptance’—in other words, that leads to the TRANSFORMATION of the human race from

a self-preoccupied, selfish existence to a selfless existence—would require ‘a revelation’ based
on ‘a clear conscience, unclouded by social conventions’, namely the social convention of denial
of the issue of the human condition; it would require ‘a prophetic element’, ‘a critique of pure
conscience’. So, solving the human condition required ‘a clear’, ‘pure conscience’, a ‘conscience’
‘unclouded by [the] social conventions’ of denial of the whole depressing subject of the human

condition. Only those who aren’t made to feel, as Berdyaev said, ‘worthless’ when thinking
about the human condition—that is, only those who haven’t been exposed to upset in their
infancy and childhood and who are thus relatively free or innocent of upset, only those with
a ‘pure conscience’—could hope to ‘fearless[ly]’ face and investigate the issue of the human
condition. Everyone else will suffer ‘fear[ful]’ depression if they tried to confront and think

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about the issue of the human condition—in fact, everyone else will be resigned to living in
denial of the issue of the human condition. Obviously only those innocent enough of upset to
not have become resigned to avoiding the subject of the human condition could hope to solve
the human condition. If you can’t think about it you can’t possibly solve it.
As the story of Adam Stork describes, when human consciousness fully developed some
two million years ago our search for knowledge unavoidably involved becoming upset—
that is, angry, egocentric and alienated. The upset state of the human condition emerged. So
obviously by the end of that heroic two million year search for knowledge there was not only
going to be a great deal of knowledge ‘in our kit bag’, but also a great deal of upset. Through
the course of this heroic search, science, the formalisation of the pursuit of knowledge,
developed—and through that development nerves and genes and how they differ in the way
they process information was discovered—namely, how one is insightful while the other isn’t.
Science found the clues that made explanation of the human condition possible—but it was
being practiced by humans who were resigned to living in denial of the issue of the human
condition, and who, as a result, couldn’t possibly put the clues together and explain the human
condition. To do so required a human-condition-confronting-rather-than-human-conditionavoiding, unresigned, denial-free approach—‘a critique of pure conscience’, as Berdyaev said;
basically a mind free of the upset state of the human condition.
So, science and humanity as a whole had to wait for someone who had been
exceptionally sheltered from all the overwhelming upset in the world and who could thus
‘fearless[ly]’ assemble all the clues and deliver the explanation of the human condition—and

that is what happened, that is how I found understanding of the human condition. I grew up in
the quiet, natural, soulful countryside of Australia, which is, or was, one of the most sheltered,
upset-free, innocent countries left in the world, and only such an innocent place could hope
to deliver insight into the human condition. Interestingly, in an interview with the Australian
television presenter Andrew Denton, Bono, the aforementioned prophetic lead singer of the
rock band U2, said, ‘You do get the feeling in Australia that there’s…something going on down here, a
new society being dreamt up…[that in Australia there is] the opportunity to lead the world…to actually
just take some moral high ground’, to which Denton joked, ‘You say this to every country you visit.’

Bono responded, ‘The only other country I think has the chance in leadership in terms of creating
a new model as Australia would be Canada’ (Enough Rope, ABC-TV, episode 97, 13 Mar. 2006). Australia

has been an exceptionally sheltered country and only such shelteredness could produce the
innocence that Berdyaev recognised would be needed to unravel the human condition and
enable the ‘moral reformation’, the TRANSFORMATION of the world. As well as the benefit of
having grown up in Australia, I had to be, and was, exceptionally securely loved, nurtured
and sheltered in my upbringing, and also educated in two of the most wholesome schools in
Australia. I also grew up in the euphoric ‘flower power’, ‘Age of Aquarius’ 1960s post-war
flush of innocence, freedom and idealism that always follows such a terrible exorcism of
upset as occurred in the Second World War.
I’m not at all special, not in the slightest, just someone who had the good fortune to
largely escape encounter with the immensely heroic but also immensely upset state of the
human condition during my upbringing, and as a result found I could think about a subject
that was an anathema for most people, indeed virtually all people.

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Importantly, the real hero and liberator of humanity is science—and backing up science
has been the efforts of all the humans who have ever lived. Humanity as a whole, but in
particular science, did all the hard work of finding the clues that, as I explained, have made
the explanation of the human condition possible. It is like in a game of gridiron football where
the team as a whole, with one exception, does all the hard work, gaining yardage down the
field. Finally, when the side gets within kicking distance of the goal posts, a specialist kicker,
who until then has played no part, is brought onto the field. While he—in his unsoiled attire—
kicks the winning goal, the win clearly belongs to the team of exhausted players who did
all the hard work. Now that we can understand the great battle that the human race has been
waging we can understand that the least heroic and thus least special are those who haven’t
been in the battle, which puts me somewhere near the end of the queue in terms of deserving
any accolade or special regard from anyone. That is the truth, a fact—in terms of who is
deserving, I come last. If I had a second life, or even were to have the chance of a second
career to the one I now have of bringing understanding to the human condition, I would
immediately take the most difficult serving job I could find, maybe taking care of autistic
children, or helping those with AIDS, or helping any one of the oppressed or persecuted races,
or helping all the starving millions. Do you know that it won’t be long before the number of
people suffering is outstripped by all those who want to help—and this help will not be driven
by the pseudo idealistic, selfish ‘love’ we have been seeing, where people help others in order
to make themselves feel better about themselves (as described earlier in Section 1:6), but true
love that comes from a desire for the world to be as it really can be.
I should say that the notion of who has had to endure the most upset in humanity’s great
battle—in other words, who has been the most heroic, the most special—is redundant now
anyway because it is replaced by the equality of everyone’s goodness and specialness. In the
spectrum of alienation that necessarily exists on Earth there have always been a few people who
existed at the innocent, least embattled, least heroic end, which is where I came from and, as
Berdyaev pointed out, had to have come from to be able to look into the human condition, but,
as the story of Adam Stork at last makes clear, while all humans are variously upset, all humans
are equally good because upset was a result of an unavoidable and necessary battle. Some
people are taller or shorter than others, but they are all equally good. In exactly the same way,
some people have been more or less involved in humanity’s heroic battle than others and are
thus more or less embattled/upset, but they are all equally good. The equality of goodness and
worthiness of all people is a first-principle-established, fundamental and universal truth now.
The fearful, worse-than-death depression that was caused by the good-and-evil—‘the
valuable and the worthless’—distinction that Kierkegaard and Berdyaev talked about, no longer

exists. It has been eliminated forever—and not by blocking out, denying the whole subject,
stopping our brain thinking, or by using terrible lies such as saying there is no such thing as
truth because that was nothing more than a construct of language, as postmodernism tried
to maintain—you can’t eliminate or ‘deconstruct’ the dilemma of good and evil using lies.
That could only be achieved, and now is achieved, by rational, understandable, testable,
verifiable, first-principle-based biological explanation of the human condition. Knowledge has
eliminated the terrifying, sickening distinction between good and evil forever. That distinction
can no longer depress us because it no longer exists. With enough digestion time of the

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understanding that is now available, and that will take a generation or two, we humans can
think freely about any subject now without fear of depression. Berdyaev said ‘we cannot bear to
be faced for ever with the distinction between good and evil’, and we no longer are. Remember that

we humans are now able to understand that everyone of us is not just good but the absolute
heroes of the story of life on Earth. The unbearable terror of the issue of whether we are good
and worthy or not has gone from Earth forever. We are free now. It’s all over. WE ARE FREE.
Humanity no longer has to rely on dogmatic assertions that ‘all men are created equal’ purely
on the basis that it is a ‘self-evident’ truth, as the United States’ Declaration of Independence
asserts, because we can now explain, understand and know that our equality is a fundamental
truth. And—best of all—this dignifying, reconciling, redeeming and healing understanding
now allows you and every other human in the world to leave your upset state behind as dealt
with and be immediately TRANSFORMED to an effectively human-condition-free state.
So we can now understand and thus know that everyone is equally good, and also
everyone is now immediately effectively free of the upset state of the human condition. That
is an utterly fabulous, sublimely wonderful situation that the whole human race has dreamt
of achieving, and through all the efforts of all the humans who have ever lived, it has now,
finally, at last been achieved. We humans have won our FREEDOM. The TRANSFORMATION
of the human race is on, we’re all out of here, leaving the old exhausted, variously embattled,
good-and-evil-differentiated, upset, messed up world behind forever! As Bono sang, ‘When
love [truth] comes to town I’m gonna jump that train’. Yes, ‘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!’

Section 1:15 How can I become involved?
QUESTION: If I was to get involved, and that’s just an ‘if ’ at this stage, what would I

need to do? I don’t think anyone has ever heard of your organisation where I live and they
probably don’t even know what the human condition is, so I haven’t got the fellowship and
support like you’ve got there in Sydney. And how do you get into this TRANSFORMED STATE
anyway?
ANSWER: Listen to me, in all of human history there has never been a more exciting

time to be alive than right now, when all the effort of all the humans who have ever lived
finally delivers the dreamed of, hoped for, and prayed for, breakthrough understanding of the
human condition—and the awesome TRANSFORMATION of the human race begins.
We are free—we, the human race is free at last to ‘shake off the ancient chains of our tomb’
(that Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam sang about) where we have been imprisoned in terrible fear and
insecurity about our meaning and worth as a species—but no longer, because we have found
the liberating, redeeming, ALL-TRANSFORMING understanding of ourselves.
It’s on—the great breakout of the human race from the, in truth, unbearably agonising life
of suffering under the duress of the human condition. What were Jim Morrison’s words—‘At
the first flash of Eden, we race down to the sea. Standing there on freedom’s shore, waiting, waiting for
the sun’. Yes, when liberating enlightenment of the human condition finally arrives, ‘race down’

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to ‘freedom’s shore’ and get hold of that ‘freedom’ with both hands! There will be nothing more
exciting than when that ‘peace train’ that’s been ‘waiting out on the edge of darkness’ finally arrives
to ‘take’ us ‘home again’, that Cat Stevens sang of—so, do as Bono said, ‘when love [the truth]
comes to town…jump that train’!

WE ARE OUT OF HERE, leaving this spent, exhausted, dead world behind FOREVER!
LET’S GO is the great battle cry that will begin as a tiny voice among a few and then catch on

and spread to become a roar of excitement that will be heard across the world—like a hundred
thousand horses appearing from horizon to horizon galloping to a fabulous future—what did
the prophet Joel say: ‘Like dawn spreading across the mountains a large and mighty army comes, such
as never was…before’.

And all of nature will be absolutely cheering for us because this is that greatest of greatest
victories for all of life on Earth—because we humans were the ones who were given the task
of championing nature’s greatest invention, the fully conscious, thinking, self-adjusting brain.
We humans were given this amazing computer, but we weren’t given the program for it and
instead were left to wander in a terrible wilderness of ignorance in search of understanding of
our meaning and worth as a species—an understanding we have NOW FINALLY FOUND.
Everywhere there is going to be joy, more joy and excitement than we tired, worn out
and weary human warriors are capable of imagining—again, as Beethoven’s symphony
anticipated, ‘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!’

We are out of here, the great breakout is on. The human race is breaking free of the
shackles of our tomb that we have been forced to live in for so long we hardly know of
another existence—but we do know of another existence, another fabulous place ‘high on a
desert plain where the streets have no name’, that Bono sang of, otherwise why would we have

fought so hard and for so long. For two million long years we have fought for the arrival of
this day.
Sure, as with any new potential, this new frontier has to be pioneered, and because
we are familiar with the old, the old always resists the new—the initial resistance can
even be ferocious; in our case, as the Persecution of the WTM for Exposing the Human
Condition section on our website documents (<www.humancondition.com/persecution>), during
this initial extreme resistance stage we had to endure people saying and doing despicable
things. Thankfully, however, that stage has mostly passed. The point is we humans tend to
procrastinate. Change is difficult for us—‘the shock of the new’—and there is no greater
paradigm shift than this one of moving from a world of extreme egotism, great self-obsessed
hunger for power, fame, fortune and glory, and a life of terrible denial, lies, evasion and
escapism that we had to employ to cope with what we weren’t able to confront, to now a
world that is full of truth and light, free of all that agony arising from the insecurity of the
human condition. We are moving to a whole new place ‘high on a desert plain’ where, as Bono
said, ‘there will be no toil or sorrow…no time of pain’.
Change is difficult, but that is also the marvellous challenge—to be a pioneer, to set out
for a fabulous new world. And yes, I’m fully aware that this vision of a new world for humans
has been horribly discredited with the litany of dishonest false starts that have occurred

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regularly throughout history, but for anyone reading Freedom Expanded: Books 1 & 2 it’s not
hard to recognise that this is the real event, the liberating explanation of the human condition.
Pioneering a new frontier has always been a challenge because initially there is little
support for something new—well, if it’s new then by definition it is yet to gain popularity—
but don’t forget that the life of a pioneer has always been the most exciting life. If you
ask someone what they would most like to have been a part of in history they will
likely tell you they would like to have been with Lewis and Clark on their great pioneer
expedition exploring native America; or with Jacques Cousteau when he was pioneering
the exploration of the ocean depths; or with Socrates, Plato and Aristotle when they were
laying the foundations of Western civilisation; or with Christ when Christianity was being
pioneered; or with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin when they took those first steps on the
moon—and where this breakthrough understanding takes humanity is like a new planet.
Honestly, this greatest of all adventure where humanity takes its freedom from the horror
of the human condition is so exciting our bodies aren’t designed to cope with so much
excitement. It is that exciting!
Everyone has the opportunity now to be part of the most amazing time in human history.
Yes, you will have to live without much of a support base to begin with, and you will have
to be innovative and proactive in interesting others in this great journey to our species’
freedom from the human condition—but we here will help you as much as we can, share
with you all that we have learnt about how to propagate these ideas and interest others in
them, and how to build a base group of interest and support in your area—another WORLD
TRANSFORMATION CENTRE for the exhausted human race to meet and support the emergence

of a new TRANSFORMED world. Come on, LET’S GO, LET’S GET OUT OF THIS DEAD PLACE
WE HAVE IN TRUTH ALL BEEN LIVING IN, AND LET’S FIX THE WORLD UP—LET’S GO!

As for getting the TRANSFORMED STATE, it really isn’t that difficult. You simply need
to allow your mind to see the opportunity clearly—see how dead the old world really is
and how incredibly exciting letting all that go and living for the new world is. Notice how
popular songs focused on the exciting potential of the human race, not on the extent of the
devastation within us and around us, and they did that because it was the future of the humancondition-ameliorated world alone that was worth dreaming of and living for. Well that’s what
the TRANSFORMED WAY OF LIVING does, it lives for the true world, not the old dead world,
but the big difference now is that that true world has arrived—we’re no longer just focusing
forward on the dream of a fabulous future, but focusing forward on bringing that fabulous
future into existence because it has now arrived, it is all now possible. With understanding of
the human condition found and all our upsets defended, our dreams suddenly become reality.
It is an astonishing situation, but it’s all true. When, in his Affirmation (see Section 3:4),
Doug Lobban spoke of fixing the shower curtain ring he was seeing, and living for, what is
possible now, doing things for the love of all that is possible now, rather than for his sad, nowfinished-with, redundant, done-its-job, had-its-day, old, effectively-dead, ego-embattled, haveto-prove-your-worth way of living. You could see how a whole world had suddenly opened
up for Doug when he moved on from the old world to the new. He just let it go, because
that’s what we can do now—just leave the old world behind as finished with. As Bob Dylan
anticipated, this is ‘The hour that the ship comes in…and the morning will be a-breaking’, when ‘the

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present now will later be past…for the times they are a-changin’’; and of the time Cat Stevens sang of

when ‘Yesterday has past, now let’s all start the living for the one that’s going to last’; and Bono, ‘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.’ WE ARE OUT OF HERE.

Let’s go, let’s go, that’s the way we live now. Come out of the dead state we have all been
living in. Being liberated from the human condition and personally TRANSFORMED, and fixing
the world is a reality now, it really, really is. It’s no fraud. The finding of understanding of
the human condition defends us at the fundamental level, so we no longer have to prove our
worth. Our worth is established now. Proving our worth is an obsolete occupation—instead,
we can live for humankind and all that’s now possible. We are genuinely and truly free to
do that. The old world has had it, it’s done its job and it’s now dead, useless, finished with,
over—lost all its meaning, relevance and power.
The bottom line is we really do have THE MEANS NOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD,
so let’s do it! It’s on, the human race is coming home to a true world of ego-satisfied peace,
kindness, consideration and happiness. In a duet with Bing Crosby for a Christmas broadcast
in 1977, David Bowie sang these wonderful words of anticipation of humanity’s liberation
from the human condition: ‘Peace on Earth, can it be?, years from now, perhaps we’ll see, see the
day of glory, see the day when men of good will, live in peace, live in peace again…I pray my wish will
come true, for my child and your child too’ (Peace on Earth, L. Grossman, I. Fraser, B. Kohan, 1977). Yes, we

have lived in hope of the arrival of this day, and with the old world teetering on the brink
of collapse, that ‘day of glory’ when ‘peace’ comes to ‘Earth’ has arrived at the absolute last
minute. Just as Homer foresaw in his 2,900 BF (BF standing for Before now when humanity
won its Freedom) Greek legend about humanity’s great ‘odyssey’, which we had to undertake
away from our soulful true self in order to find understanding of ourselves, humanity, as
represented by heroic Odysseus, very nearly didn’t make it back home again to our soulful
true state, which his beautiful wife Penelope represented.
So what this critically important, fabulous new potential and frontier now needs is YOUR
interest, YOUR support, YOUR participation and YOUR strength. This is a call to action to
everyone. Please step out, get involved and help change the world because at last we really
can. Ask questions, see what you can do to help, find out what others are doing, and let’s get
out of this spent, exhausted, end-play state where the human race has been stalled for far too
long waiting for these redeeming, ALL-TRANSFORMING answers.
(I want to add to this transcript a further emphasis to this ‘call to action’. Make no
mistake, we in the WTM, and in fact the whole human race, is involved in a war that is
far more serious than any war that has ever been waged before—a war to bring these
understandings to a world that is now so deeply buried in denial that it finds it almost
impossible to take in or ‘hear’ these world-saving understandings of the human condition.
And, as described in the Persecution of the WTM for Exposing the Human Condition section
on our website, when a few do begin to hear it a proportion can become so defensive of their
old strategy of living in denial of the human condition that they try to attack and destroy the
emerging understandings. A sympathetic article about our work at the WTM, written and
published on the internet by a person identified only as ‘Fitzy’, sensed the ‘criminal’ danger

Section 1:15 How can I become involved?

of the world being so overwhelmed with escapist superficiality—‘with hideous noise’ as he
describes it—that these all-precious understandings that liberate ‘our true potential’ might never
be heard when he wrote that ‘We have a lot of competing noise for our attention these days, and it
would be criminal to let that overwhelm our true potential, by masking useful information with hideous
noise’ (Humanitus Interruptus – Great Minds of Today, accessed 24 Oct. 2011 see <www.wtmsources.com/106>).)

Watch the videos and read the Freedom Essays and also FREEDOM and the booklet
Transform Your Life that are all freely available on our website at <www.humancondition.
com/>, satisfy yourself that these understandings that are being presented really have

explained the human condition, and then get on board, become a MEMBER OF THE WORLD
TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT (<www.humancondition.com/member>) and LET’S GO! LET’S

GET OUT OF HERE!

I know this all might sound preposterous, but it’s not, it’s real, it’s on, you can join the
Sunshine Army on the Sunshine Highway to the World in Sunshine. Become a MEMBER
AND SUPPORTER OF THE WORLD TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT. This finally is the birth of

The Kingdom of Light and The Empire of the Sun in The World of the Free. After such a
terrifyingly long journey and struggle through the cavernous world of darkness into this new
world of light, the whole human race deserves, and is going to have, such a big celebration
and party now that it will go on for generations. Everywhere we are going to be hoppin’
and boppin’, rompin’ and stompin’, hollerin’ and howlin’, movin’ and groovin’, rollickin’
and rollin’, hootin’ and tootin’, jumping and jiving, jolting and somersaulting, skipping and
skating, shaking and shimmering, hugging and laughing, embracing and gyrating, twisting
and shouting, dancing and singing, slipping and sliding, jamming and slamming, ripping and
roaring, whirling and twirling and reelin’ and rockin’.
Now, we’ve got someone here in the audience who’s got some amazing moves, even
though he’s 6 foot 8 inches tall or something he can really dance. Dunsy, can you come up
here, come on don’t be shy. This is Neil Duns. Polly can you play that music I gave you (Bo
Diddley’s I Love You So, Little Richard’s Long Tall Sally, and Jerry Lee Lewis’ Hound Dog
from his 1964 performance at the Star Club in Hamburg). Come on Neil, show us that great
dance you do! (At this point in the presentation, Neil Duns and Jeremy Griffith dance.)

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Section 2
The Transformation of
the Human Race
Section 2:1 The TRANSFORMED LIFEFORCE STATE
Presented under the umbrella of the safety of the dignifying, reconciling, redeeming,
rehabilitating and TRANSFORMING full explanation of our less-than-ideal, corrupted, humancondition-afflicted lives, Freedom Expanded: Book 1 outlined a litany of terrifying truths to
have to face—specifically the terrifyingly exposing and confronting truth of the extent of, and
differences in, upset in humans now; of Integrative Meaning; of the fact that the human race
once lived in an upset-free, innocent state; of the truth that nurturing has been all-important in
the maturation of both the human race and in our lives individually; and of the truth that leftwing ideology was based on human-race-threatening dishonesty.
However, while our upset, corrupted state is now explained and defended and all these
truths are no longer condemning, having the extent of our corruption suddenly exposed
remains a frightening prospect. Alvin Toffler described the problem of the sudden change that
comes with the arrival of the all-exposing truth day or honesty day or ‘judgment day’ when he
wrote that ‘Future shock…[is] the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by
subjecting them to too much change in too short a time’ (Future Shock, 1970, p.4 of 505).

To return to the original analogy—if, on the first day of the emergence of the battle of
the human condition, Adam Stork could have sat down on a limb with his instinctive self and
explained why he had to fly off course, then all the upset could have been avoided. Now, two
million years later, we have finally found the explanation that Adam Stork needed but there
is, as a result of spending those two million years denying any confronting truths in order to
cope, an absolute mountain of truth to suddenly have to confront.
So how then is the upset human race going to cope with the arrival of this all-exposing,
long-feared ‘day of judgment’ (Bible, Matt. 10:15, 11:22, 24, 12:36; Mark 6:11; 2 Pet. 2:9, 3:7; 1 John 4:17), ‘the Day
of Reckoning’ (The Koran, ch.56) when ‘Your nakedness will be exposed’ (Bible, Isaiah, 47:3) and ‘not one
secret of yours [will be] concealed’ (The Koran, ch.69)? Yes, as was explained in Part 6:1 of Freedom

Expanded: Book 1, the Abyss of Depression in the Humanity’s Situation drawing (reproduced
below) is too terrifying to enter, and yet our freedom from the human condition depends on
acknowledging all the truths in that abyss. So how are we to cope with having the blinds
drawn on our false world? As Enrico, a reader of my books, put it, ‘Diving into a sea of truth
where everything is completely transparent one can’t but ask, “how will anybody cope with this; how in
the world can anybody cross such darkness to reach light?!”’ (WTM records, 24 Feb. 2011).

Also, how are we to suddenly let go of our old false ways of living that we are so used
to and familiar with? With the finding of the explanation for why we became upset the need
to validate ourselves, prove that we are good and not bad, is over. Our goodness has been
established at the most fundamental level. This means that all our old superficial ways of
finding relief from the insecurity of our condition of gaining power, fame, fortune and glory

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are now obsolete, but we are so habituated to our old superficial ways of finding relief from
the human condition that we find it difficult to stop persisting in those old insecure, selfish,
egocentric, ‘I-have-to-prove-I’m-good-and-not-bad’, ‘I’m-a-legend’, ego-castle-building
habits. We are told to ‘stop scoring goals, leave the field, have a shower and cool off ’, but all
we know is the battle that we have been waging ‘on that football field’ of life under the duress

of the human condition.

Humanity’s Situation: the Sunshine Highway to Freedom, the Abyss of Depression,
our Cave-like Dead Existence and the Spiralling Pit of Terminal Alienation

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For these two reasons, of having to confront unbearably exposing truths about ourselves
and having to let go of an habituated egocentric way of living, people typically find
themselves in what I referred to in Part 6:1 of Freedom Expanded: Book 1 as a ‘Mexican
Standoff ’ with this information—they recognise the information is true and don’t want to
deny it, yet they don’t want to accept its confronting and ego-castle-obsoleting implications.
They can’t go forward and yet they can’t go back.
So what is the human race to do? We can’t just stay stranded in the ‘cave-like dead
existence’ on the narrow strip of land between The Abyss of Depression and The Spiral down
into Terminal Alienation. If we remain where we are the human race will, very soon, go down
the gurgler, into The Spiral of Terminal Alienation, for it is already at that end play, end game
point where it is about to plunge into that pit of perpetual darkness of terminal alienation.
Thankfully there is a solution, and it is both an easy solution to take up and an incredibly
relieving and utterly exciting solution to live with. We take up the TRANSFORMED FREE WAY
OF LIVING, LIFEFORCE STATE. There are a number of people here at this presentation who

know how this TRANSFORMED LIFEFORCE STATE works and in Section 3 they give their own
personal description of that way of living and state.
The answer to the problem of how are we to cope with the mountain of defended yet
extremely exposing and confronting truth about ourselves is that we don’t try to confront
it. Once you have investigated these understandings sufficiently to know that they have
explained the human condition you don’t actually need to know any more than that. You
don’t need to know all the truth it reveals about human existence, or about how it reveals and
explains everything about your own particular upset life. In fact, if you study this information
more than your particular level of security of self can cope with you risk becoming overly
self-confronted and exposed and depressed. The human race has been coping by maintaining
extreme levels of denial of many, many truths so obviously the human race can’t hope to
dismantle all these denials overnight. In fact, it will take generations to confront, dismantle
and repair all our species’ psychoses and neuroses—with ‘psychoses’ being our ‘soul
repressions’ (‘psych’ means soul, our instinctive self) and ‘neuroses’ being our ‘conscious
denials’ (‘neuro’ means nerves). As emphasised, it takes time to digest understandings and, by
so doing, ameliorate or heal old habituated false and distorted ways of thinking and coping.
But this doesn’t mean we can’t support the truth while this digestion and healing is taking
place—as long as we don’t overly confront the truth while this absorption process is taking
place. According to each person’s level of upset there will be a limit to how much truth each
person can cope with, but that doesn’t mean all people can’t immediately live in support of
the truth. The main thing to remember is once you know that this information has explained
the human condition then you know that all the upset in the world and all the upset in you is
now also explained and defended.
In the case of making sense of your own life, it is true that you could use the explanation
to retrace and analyse all the hurtful events in your life and replace all the defensive denials
that you have had to employ with truthful, compassionate understanding of them—why your
mother and father were preoccupied and unable to give you the reinforcement your instincts
expected during your infancy and childhood, etc, etc. But to undertake such psychological
therapy and dismantle all your psychosis and neurosis would require a great deal of time

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and supportive counselling, and, apart from extreme cases of psychosis and neurosis, it
is not necessary. Instead, you can leave the issue of all your upsets/corruptions behind as
being understood, explained and defended now, and, rather than use time and energy being
preoccupied with the past, simply take up support of the understandings of the human
condition as the focus for your life. You can, as it were, put the issue of all your upsets/
corruptions in a suitcase and attach a label to it saying ‘everything in here is now explained
and defended’ and simply leave it behind at the entrance to what we call the Sunshine
Highway and set out free and unencumbered into the new, human-condition-free world on the
Sunshine Highway that takes you safely over the top of the Abyss of Depression. You join the
Sunshine Army on the Sunshine Highway to the World In Sunshine.
Once you know this information is true, that the human condition—including your own
corrupted condition—has been explained and defended at the fundamental level, you can
leave the issue of your own and the world’s corruption behind as effectively dealt with and
preoccupy yourself with disseminating this information throughout the rest of the world and
to a fresh generation, and preoccupy yourself with supporting all the projects that must be
undertaken now to free and rehabilitate the world from the effects of two million years of
living under the duress of the human condition.
Now that we have the truth up all that matters is that it is kept alive and that it is
disseminated to all people, because it alone can heal the human race and save the world. All
everyone must do now is support the truth about the human condition and it will achieve
everything everyone has ever dreamed of. If we look after this information it in turn will
look after the world. That is the mantra of the new world that understanding of the human
condition brings about.
Having grown up in ‘the dark’, without understanding of the human condition, the priority
of existing generations is to get these insights to new, fresh generations so that they won’t
have to adopt all the artificial ways of coping with the human condition—all the dishonest
denials, all the egocentric means of seeking compensation for the injustice of being unfairly
condemned, and all the angry retaliations needed against the unjust condemnations—that
existing generations have had to employ. We, the existing generations, are now the conduit
generations: the generations who will connect the old dead world to the new living world.
If children and pre-resigned adolescents can access these understandings they won’t
have to resign themselves to a life of living in denial of the human condition as their only
means of coping with it. Not having to grow up with all the dishonesties, denials, delusions,
artificialities and superficialities that present generations have had to endure, they will be like
a new species of beings. They will have a freedom that is almost unimaginable to those who
grew up without understanding of the human condition.
You can know now that all the upset in ourselves and in the world from two million
years of humanity’s heroic journey through ignorance is explained and defended. With that
knowledge we are now free to leave the issue of all that upset behind as being dealt with
and focus all our attention on developing a human-condition-free new world. The relief of
being able to leave the issue of our upset state behind as dealt with and the excitement of
knowing a human-condition-free new world is coming and that we can all fully participate
in bringing that about is so absolutely incredibly relieving and exciting it will TRANSFORM

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all humans. From being a human-condition oppressed and depressed alienated person all
humans can and will now be TRANSFORMED into Redeemed, Liberated from the Human
Condition, Exhilarated, Ecstatic, Enthralled-with-Existence, Transfigured, Empowered,
World-Transforming Lifeforces. This description can be distilled down to Liberated from the
Human Condition, Transformed and Empowered Lifeforces, which can be further distilled
down to Transformed Lifeforces. This Exhilarated, Ecstatic, Enthralled-with-Existence aspect
is the ‘Life’ in ‘Lifeforce’; and the Empowered, World-Transforming aspect is the ‘force’ in
‘Lifeforce’, so Lifeforce covers the personal benefit and the benefit to the world in one word.
Very importantly, while we each should investigate these understandings of the human
condition sufficiently to verify to our own satisfaction that they are the understandings of
the human condition, we shouldn’t investigate them to the extent that we start to become
overly exposed and confronted by the truths they are revealing. Having lived without any real
understanding of the world it is natural to want to keep studying these explanations that finally
make sense of the world around us, but, as emphasised, this can lead to becoming overly
exposed, confronted and depressed by the extent of your own corrupted state. The more
intelligent and/or more educated in the old denial-based paradigm, who pride themselves
on their ability to think, will initially be especially tempted to study these understandings
beyond what their varying levels of security of self can cope with, but it won’t be long before
everyone learns that such an approach is both psychologically dangerous and irresponsible.
When Christ anticipated a time when ‘the meek…inherit the earth’ (Matt. 5:5), and when
‘many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first’ (Matt. 19:30, 20:16; Mark 10:31; Luke
13:30),

he was anticipating this time when understanding of the human condition would arrive

and instead of the more intelligent and intellectual leading the way, as has been the case
in almost every situation, the more innocent and sound, the more soulful and instinctual,
will do so. Throughout the two million year battle to find understanding our instinctive self
or soul was being repressed because of its unjust condemnation of our intellect but when
understanding of the human condition is finally found this process is reversed, soul becomes
sought after. Our soul, soundness, has to lead us back home to soundness. It makes sense.
As Christ described it, ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone’ (Ps. 118:22; Matt.
21:42; Mark 12:10; Luke 20:17; Acts 4:11; 1 Pet. 2:7).

Sir Laurens van der Post referred to this biblical

analogy when he too anticipated this new situation, writing, ‘It is part of the great secret which
Christ tried to pass on to us when He spoke of the “stone which the builders rejected” becoming the
cornerstone of the building to come. The cornerstone of this new building of a war-less, non-racial
world, too, I believe, must be…those [more innocent] aspects of life which we have despised and
rejected for so long’ (The Dark Eye in Africa, 1955, p.155 of 159).

This situation where you only investigate the truth to the degree you are sound enough
to do so presents another difficult truth for the old resigned, denial-based world to accept, but
again with honesty it is a proposition that can be reasonably understood and accepted. It is the
more secure in self, or the least alienated, who have to develop these understandings of the
human condition. If you are not sound enough to study these ideas to any great depth and you
try to do so, you will end up in a state of fearful depression, or worse still, mad.
Also, if you do become overly confronted by the information your natural reaction will be
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Plato’s dark cave of denial. You will become defensive and angry and retaliatory toward the
information, and the effect of such a response will be to sabotage the efforts of all the humans
who have ever lived to bring the human race to this dreamed of moment of its liberation. We
in the WTM have endured years and years of this furiously angry defensive reaction towards
this information, attacks that were ultimately fruitless because this information is true and
won’t be intimidated or oppressed. It is too precious to allow that.
The effects of overly studying this information, studying it more than your degree of
security of self can cope with, can be both dangerous to you and dangerous to the human race,
and no one should want nor risk either of those outcomes.
In the old denial-based world, academia limited those who could be involved in the
pursuit of knowledge to the more intelligent, those with a high IQ (intelligence quotient). To
enter university you had to pass entrance exams that tested your IQ level. Obviously to have
the most appropriate people studying complex subjects like higher mathematics and physics
you needed people with the highest IQ. If you didn’t have an adequate IQ you would make
little progress in studying such subjects. In the human-condition-resolved new world we
similarly need the most appropriate people to study its information, which are those with a
high SQ, soul or soundness quotient. If you don’t have an adequate SQ you simply won’t be
able to make any progress with the information involved. With understanding of the human
condition we can understand that everyone is necessarily variously upset/unsound but that
upset/unsoundness is not something bad, just as in the old denial-based world those who
lacked IQ weren’t considered bad people, just not as able to think effectively about complex
subjects. As just mentioned, Christ anticipated this change of emphasis in leadership that
occurs when understanding of the human arrives when he said, ‘The stone the builders rejected
has become the capstone.’

So everyone has to measure and limit how much they can study these human-conditionconfronting understandings against how much self-confrontation they can cope with. Again,
the human race cannot have lived in the darkness of both ignorance and denial for some two
million years and then suddenly be able to face all the truth about themselves individually.
That is simply not a reasonable expectation. Everyone has to expect a limit to how deeply
they can afford to look into this information.
Thankfully and most importantly, no one has to overly confront their old upset self—
everyone can leave that behind as dealt with and simply live for the new world and all its
potential. Although existing generations who grew up without these understandings will still
suffer the effects of the human condition, they are effectively completely FREE of the human
condition because they no longer have to live preoccupied with it. Future generations are the
ones who will be in the best position to further these understandings of the human condition
because among current generations there are very, very few individuals who remain secure
enough in self to confront and develop them.
You only have to study these understandings sufficiently to verify to your own
satisfaction that they have explained the human condition, after which all that is required is to
support the understandings.
The second problem of the Mexican Standoff, of finding it difficult to let go of your
old resigned, egocentric power-and-glory-seeking ways of living, only presents a problem

Section 2:2 The Transformed State metamorphoses the human race

initially. The first people to encounter these liberating understandings of the human condition
will find it difficult letting go their old false ways of reinforcing and sustaining themselves,
but once the strategy of letting go that way of living catches on and a critical mass of support
develops for the new TRANSFORMED LIFEFORCE WAY OF LIVING, it will carry all before it and
everyone will take it up.
Another transitional problem is what we in the WTM term ‘pocketing the win’. The first
people to discover the truth of all this information about the human condition will tend not
to appreciate the importance and need of taking up the new TRANSFORMED LIFEFORCE WAY
OF LIVING. They will naturally tend to ‘pocket the win’, which means using the information’s

ability to make sense of the world around them to empower them, allow them to be more
effective winners of power, fame, fortune and glory. For people to finally understand what
has been going on in the world and in their own lives is incredibly relieving and empowering,
and the initial inclination is to just enjoy and use that insight as an advantage, a tool, a way to
be an even more effective operator in the old resigned, competitive, power-and-glory-seeking
way of living. You ‘pocket the win’ by exploiting the information rather than responding
responsibly to its magnificence by letting go your now obsoleted, unnecessary and highly
destructive resigned competitive way of living and taking up the new TRANSFORMED
LIFEFORCE WAY OF LIVING.

Again, these problems of studying the information to the point of becoming overly selfconfronted and of ‘pocketing the win’, will pass as people become more aware of how this
human-condition-resolved new world for humans works. And, as is described in Section
2:3, once everyone is living selflessly at last in the TRANSFORMED LIFEFORCE STATE all the

inequality, suffering and destruction resulting from our old insecure, egocentric, extremely
selfish way of living will be quickly repaired.
The new TRANSFORMED LIFEFORCE STATE is not only all-powerful in its ability to heal
the world, it is also all-exciting. When yesterday the prospects for the world looked hopeless,
suddenly—and I have said this in every major document I have ever written—from one end of
the horizon to the other an army in its millions will appear to do battle with human suffering,
its weapon understanding, and its outcome world reparation.

Section 2:2 The TRANSFORMED LIFEFORCE STATE metamorphoses the
human race
It should now be emphasised that the new TRANSFORMED LIFEFORCE STATE is
fundamentally different to religion in that it is all about knowledge, not dogma—knowledge
that brings about a complete change, in fact a metamorphosis of the human race from an
insecure human-condition-afflicted state to an entirely TRANSFORMED human-condition-free
state. As is explained in Part 3:11G of Freedom Expanded: Book 1, religions were a means of
containing the upset human condition while the search for understanding of that condition
was being carried out. The WORLD TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT is concerned with what
happens after that liberating understanding is found, which is the metamorphosis—the
complete progression and change of the human race—from a human-condition-afflicted state
of psychosis and neurosis to a state free of that terrible condition.

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When it comes to the core issue of our immensely upset human condition we no
longer have to live in hope and faith that it will one day be able to be resolved, for it now
is resolved, and this resolution of the human condition gives the human race the ability to
at last understand and ameliorate or heal its upset condition. Dogma can’t heal upset, only
understanding can do that. So this is the end of hope and faith that understanding of the
human condition would one day be found and the beginning of knowing about the human
condition—it is the end of faith and the beginning of knowing. And there is no deity involved,
or deference to anyone, no focus on a personality, or worship of any kind.
Best of all, there is no involvement or emphasis on guilt, for guilt has been eliminated
forever with the reconciling understanding of the human condition. And it is eliminated
in a way that makes humans healthy, not sick. Part 3:11H of Freedom Expanded: Book 1
describes how the development of pseudo idealistic causes eliminated guilt using ever
increasing degrees of dishonesty/lies/denial/delusion—ultimately, in postmodernism, by
simply saying there is no such thing as truth!! Such extreme dishonesty/denial is extreme
alienation/separation from the truth, which in turn represents extreme neurosis/mind sickness
and psychosis/soul death. Lying/denial as a way of escaping guilt/self-confrontation only
leads to even greater sickness, ultimately to total dysfunctionality, complete neurosis and
psychosis—Thomas Nagel made this point when, in the quote that is included in Part 3:11H
of Freedom Expanded: Book 1, he said, ‘The capacity for transcendence brings with it a liability
to alienation, and the wish to escape this condition…can lead to even greater absurdity.’ With the

arrival of understanding of the human condition we get rid of guilt without having to use
dishonesty/delusion/denial/alienation/neurosis/psychosis/sickness/dysfunctionality. In fact,
it eliminates neurosis/psychosis/sickness/dysfunctionality. With understanding of the human
condition, guilt—the accusation, insinuation, implication that a human is not worthy/good—
completely disappears. We can now understand that after a horrifically upsetting two million
year heroic battle to overthrow ignorance all humans are naturally variously upset from that
great and necessary battle but all humans are equally good. In fact, with understanding of
the human condition the concepts of good and bad, superior and inferior, disappear from our
conceptualisation of ourselves.
The fundamental differentiation between religion and this new TRANSFORMED
LIFEFORCE WAY OF LIVING lies in the fact that where religions were based on deferring to, and

living through support of the embodiment of the ideals in the form of the soundness and truth
of the prophet around which the religion was founded, this new TRANSFORMED LIFEFORCE
WAY OF LIVING is based on deferring to and living through support of first-principle-based

understandings of the ideals and of our species’ historically unavoidable lack of compliance
with those ideals. So while religion and the human-condition-resolved TRANSFORMED
LIFEFORCE WAY OF LIVING both involve letting go living through your corrupted self and

deferring to something else, that is where the similarity ends.
To explain more fully the significance of this difference I should begin by describing and
explaining St Paul’s human-condition-relieving-but-not-human-condition-resolving discovery
of the beauty of Christianity. Acts 8 and 9 of the Bible relate Saul’s (as St Paul was known
before his conversion experience) journey to Damascus where he planned to persuade the
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about the human condition that Christ, through his sound words and life, had dared to reveal
and which this small group were living in courageous support of. However, while riding along
on his donkey in a seething, ‘murderous’ (Acts 9:1) rage towards Christ and his followers, Saul
had an epiphany, the effect of which was so incredible that it was to change the world and
save the human race.
With an appreciation now of what the human condition is, we can explain and understand
what happened to Saul. The human condition is a terrifyingly confronting subject and to cope
with that terror all the upset human race has been able to do was live in denial of it, try and
block out the whole issue of the imperfection in our lives. We attacked, denied and attempted
to prove wrong any exposing criticism of our corrupted state. This did relieve our condition
but there was of course a significant downside—a life of extreme anger, alienation and
egocentricity, very unpleasant behaviours and states. In one sense our retaliation against the
threat of exposure of our corrupted condition made us feel even more condemned. Defensive
retaliation as a strategy for coping with the human condition, while relieving, also fuelled
feelings of self-loathing. That was Saul’s predicament—his anger was very great and so was
the level of self-loathing he would have felt deep within himself for being such a brutally
angry person. The whole issue of Christ’s soundness that was making him so angry was also,
at another level, making him extremely distressed and unhappy about himself. At a moment
of full engagement in his mind with the horror of both sides of his situation, a thought
occurred to him: ‘If this man Christ is so truthful and sound that he is producing in me such
anger, what would happen if I was to flip the situation around and instead of attacking him
I supported him? Wouldn’t I suddenly be a force for enormous good—because I would be
supporting someone who is the absolute opposite of my immensely corrupted and angry-withsoundness, truth-hating-and-denying self. I would be a force for good in the world, instead
of a self-loathing monster. Wow, that’s turning my life around, isn’t it!’ And, at that moment,
as the metaphorical account goes, Saul fell off his donkey and was struck blind for three
days—basically he was overwhelmed by the sudden freedom he was feeling from all the pain
of his human-condition-afflicted life. Through his support of Christ, the agony of the human
condition had been lifted from his shoulders and he was able to live again. By siding with
Christ, he was able to resurrect the truthful, soulful side of himself; he had been ‘born again’
(John 3:3); ‘he has crossed over from death to life’ (John 5:24). As Christ authoritatively said, ‘I am the

resurrection and the life [through me, your soulful true self, can live again]’ (John 11:25).

One way of measuring how much upset humans are preoccupied with, and how oppressed
they are by the insecurity caused by the human condition, and thus how incredibly relieving it
is to not have to be preoccupied with the human condition, is to consider what happens when
someone has a Near-Death Experience. For instance, mountain climbers who survive falls that
they were convinced would be fatal (they were saved, perhaps, by landing in a snow drift)
often report that during those near-death moments they experienced a state of extraordinary
euphoria in which the world suddenly appeared utterly beautiful and radiant and that they
were flooded with a feeling of ecstatic enthrallment. With understanding of the horror of the
human condition we can appreciate how in such cases the mind gives up worrying, and all
facades—in particular the denial that they adopted at Resignation—become meaningless. If
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point the struggle and agony of having to live under the duress of the human condition ceases
and the true world of our all-sensitive soul suddenly surfaces. You suddenly discover what
it is like to be free of the human condition. You suddenly have access to all the real beauty
that exists in the world. You discover another seemingly magic world that is all-radiant and
magnificent. This is the freedom that Saul experienced when he abandoned his struggle with
the human condition and deferred to Christ. He was ‘born again’ from a state of near death.
All his embattled posturing to get a win out of life, all his focus on egocentrically building a
castle, an edifice, a representation of glory around himself, all his strategising every minute of
every day to try to find a way to compensate for feeling bad about himself, suddenly ceased.
To gain some measure of just how relieving the new TRANSFORMED LIFEFORCE STATE that
has let go the old human-condition-embroiled, have-to-prove-yourself existence is, read the
Affirmations of the TRANSFORMED LIFEFORCE STATE in Section 3 of this presentation or
watch them at <www.humancondition.com/affirmations>. You can especially sense the relief of the
TRANSFORMED STATE in Doug Lobban’s affirmation.

Realising the magnificence of this new way of living, this ‘way to be saved’ (Acts 16:17)
from an effectively dead, alienated state (Christianity was actually originally called ‘the
Way’ (Acts 9:2, 19:9, 23, 22:4, 24:14, 22)), Saul took his breakthrough, life-saving idea to the four

corners of the known world, and was thereafter known as Paul the Apostle, and following
his canonisation, St Paul.
Leaving your baggage, your ‘suitcase’ of human-condition-embattled strategies and
posturing behind by giving yourself to Christ was a marvellous solution to the problem of
the horror of the human condition, but it meant giving up your battle to prove yourself,
giving up your particular participation in humanity’s heroic struggle to overthrow the
ignorance of our original instinctive state. While supporting the soundness of Christ ensured
the battle to find knowledge continued indirectly through him, you personally had given up
the battle. To use the Adam Stork analogy, you had stopped searching for knowledge and
were flying ‘back on course’.
In 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 overthrow the implication that we humans
aren’t fundamentally good. 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’ while Homer is one upset Adam Stork, living
out the battle to the full, massively angry, egocentric and alienated. If Homer could explain
the situation he would say to Ned: ‘Listen Ned, you 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 battle, so I’m a legend and
you are a wimp.’
The new TRANSFORMED LIFEFORCE STATE, where you leave all your upset baggage
behind in favour of supporting these understandings of the human condition, offers a similar
all-relieving and all-exciting, ‘near-death-experience’-like, ‘fall-off-your-donkey’, ‘go-blindfor-three-days’-type freedom from the human condition that Christians experienced when they
deferred to Christ. But—and this is a very, very important difference—unlike Christianity or

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any other religion, this does not involve abandoning the battle because the battle is now won.
It is not an act of irresponsibility or weakness to let go the battle now, it is an act of strength,
because with the battle won the illogical and thus irresponsible and thus weak thing to do
would be to continue the battle.
So, if we return to the Homer and Ned example and imagine that Ned had taken up the
new TRANSFORMED LIFEFORCE STATE, Homer would have no grounds to criticise Ned. With
the 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.
Religions were a way of avoiding living out your upset when you became overly upset,
but it meant giving up directly participating in the battle to find the knowledge needed to save
the human race. Religions were a weak abandonment of the battle that still had to be fought.
With the TRANSFORMED LIFEFORCE WAY OF LIVING there is no weakness involved because
the battle is now won. In fact, taking up the TRANSFORMED LIFEFORCE WAY OF LIVING is the
only strong course of action for a human to take now. What is weak is not taking it up. This is
a very important difference—and it is a most profound difference—between Religion and the
TRANSFORMED LIFEFORCE WAY OF LIVING.

It is this fact that there is no longer any reason to keep living out the battle to champion
the ego that causes the world to change so rapidly from a world of conflict and suffering to a
world of peace and happiness. As emphasised throughout this presentation, the explanations
being presented are all rational—there is no dogma or mysticism or abstract concept involved.
As such we can know if what is being presented is accountable and true or not, and since
this information does explain the human condition there is no longer any justification for
continuing the upsetting battle to champion the ego, so it follows then that no one can argue
against taking up the TRANSFORMED WAY OF LIVING, and when everyone then does take up
that way of living our world will be completely TRANSFORMED. We are rational creatures, and
so when all the rationale, all the logic says there is only one response we can make, namely
the TRANSFORMED STATE, then that is the response the human race will take.
This is not a revolution dogmatically imposed by others upon us, as has pretty much
always been the case with revolutions in the past, this is a revolution imposed by logic, by
understanding, by information. Once someone is given this information there is only one
outcome in the end and that is that they take up the TRANSFORMED STATE. Initially people
will find it difficult absorbing and taking in these explanations because of the ‘deaf effect’,
the historical denials in the human mind to so many of the ideas being put forward, but once
enough people have overcome that ‘deafness’, and after that the Mexican Standoff, and their
enthusiasm for this fabulous free way of living demonstrates to others that it is worthwhile
persevering with the information until they can ‘hear’ it, the tidal wave of support for the
information, and with it the TRANSFORMED STATE, will sweep the world.
As I said, Homer has no argument against Ned, ‘no leg to stand on’, when Ned takes up
support of this information and its TRANSFORMED LIFEFORCE WAY OF LIVING. In Part 2:5
of Freedom Expanded: Book 1 I outlined a number of propositions that I suggest will come
about as a result of these understandings, the Third Proposition being that ‘the change that
is coming will be so quick and complete it will seem instant, as if one day the human race is

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living in a state of immense turmoil, confusion and despair and the next day it’s all over, an
entirely new peaceful world has emerged’. The world for humans is suddenly TRANSFORMED
from darkness into light. It really is as if the light switch in the room in which we have
been staggering around in the dark has suddenly been switched on—everything becomes
illuminated. As mentioned in the Introduction, we humans had this awesome computer put
in our heads, our fully conscious, thinking brain, but we weren’t given the program for it and
instead were left to wander this Earth searching for the program in a terrifying darkness of
confusion and bewilderment. Well, from that terrifyingly cold darkness we now emerge into
the warm sunshine of dignifying, redeeming, relieving and TRANSFORMING understanding.
There is another very important difference between religions and the TRANSFORMED
LIFEFORCE STATE, and that is there is no delusion involved in the TRANSFORMED STATE. To

use the Homer and Ned analogy again: Ned has a ‘goody-goody’, self-satisfied, ‘I-occupythe-moral-high-ground’ attitude. This drives the still-human-condition-embroiled Homer
crazy with frustration because he intuitively knows Ned is deluding himself in thinking
he has the moral high ground, is the more together, sound person and is on the right track,
but he can’t explain why Ned is so extremely deluded and totally dishonest in his view of
self. Homer can’t explain and thus reveal the truth that real idealism and the truly on-track,
moral high ground lay with continuing the upsetting battle to find knowledge, and that Ned
had become so upset, so unsound, he had to abandon that all-important battle and leave it to
others to have to fight, including Homer. Worse, by effectively condemning those still upset
and fighting the battle, Ned was basically siding against those still trying to win the battle,
adding substantially to the opposition they had to overcome. In fact, it was the delusion and
dishonesty that made giving up the battle particularly dangerous because its maintenance
required constantly persuading yourself, and others, that you weren’t being dishonest
and deluded in what you were doing. The shrill fanaticism of the idealistic left-wing was
suffocating of honesty and freedom.
While religion was by far the least dishonest of all the forms of pseudo idealism that
upset humans could take up—because of the honesty involved in acknowledging the truthful,
sound life and words of the founding prophet—it still involved substantial dishonesty and
delusion. In near total contrast to this situation, the TRANSFORMED LIFEFORCE STATE involves
no delusion and virtually no dishonesty. By not fully confronting the extent of the upset within
yourself and avoiding looking too deeply into all the truth about the human condition, you
are practicing some dishonesty, but the compassionate full truth about the upset state of the
human condition means you aren’t deluded about the fact of being an upset human. In fact,
you have to recognise and embrace that truth (which you can now safely do because the upset
state is defended) to effectively be able to adopt the TRANSFORMED LIFEFORCE STATE.
As is mentioned in Part 3:11G of Freedom Expanded: Book 1, possibly the best sales
pitch ever given for Christianity was one delivered by St Paul, as documented in the Bible in
2 Corinthians: ‘Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone [Moses’

Ten Commandments that were enforced by the threat of punishment], came with glory [because they
brought society back from the brink of destruction from excessively upset behaviour]…fading though
it was [there was no sustaining positive in having discipline imposed on you], will not the ministry of
the Spirit [the positive mental state from being at last aligned with truth and soundness through your

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support of someone free of upset and alienation] be even more glorious? If the ministry that condemns
men [through punishment] is glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry that brings righteousness!

[that allows you to be part of the ideal state] For what was glorious has no glory now in comparison
with the surpassing glory. And if what was fading away came with glory [‘fading’ because it’s hard to

maintain attachment to a system merely out of fear of punishment], how much greater is the glory of
that which lasts! [compared with the relative ease of maintaining an attachment to a system that makes

you feel that you are at last on the side of what is good, ideal and right]’ (2 Cor. 3:7–11).

If Christianity was considered the ‘surpassing glory’ to living in fear of punishment, then
the TRANSFORMED LIFEFORCE STATE is the surpassing of all surpassing glories. It is the best
solution the upset human race has ever had by an immense, stupendous, incredible, absolutely
wonderful degree—because while we are still living in a deferential state, we are only a few
generations away from completely eradicating the human condition from the human race—
and there is very little dishonesty and no irresponsibility, no weakness, no delusion, no deity,
no worship, no focus on a personality, no faith, no dogma, no guilt of any sort involved in
the process. What we have now is so relieving and so exciting that when this way of living
catches on it is obviously going to sweep the world.
As initially pointed out, the WORLD TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT is not a religion,
we are a metamorphoser, a movement that brings about a complete progression, in fact
a metamorphosis of the human race from a horrible human-condition-afflicted state to a
completely liberated, human-condition-free state. Humanity is TRANSFORMED from a state
of insecure adolescence where we searched for understanding of ourselves, to a state of
secure adulthood where we finally achieve understanding of ourselves. Religions were only
a way of coping with the horror of the human condition while the search for the liberating
understanding of it was being carried out. The WORLD TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT
is concerned with what happens after that liberating understanding is found, which is the
metamorphosis, the complete progression and change of humanity from a state of psychosis
and neurosis to a state completely free of psychosis and neurosis.
Finally, it should be emphasised that religions aren’t being threatened by the arrival
of dignifying understanding of the human condition—rather, they are being fulfilled. The
whole objective of religion was to be the custodians of the ideal state while the search
for the liberating understanding of humans’ ‘fallen’ condition was underway. Buddha, for
instance, looked forward to the arrival of the amelioration of the human condition when he
said that ‘In the future they will every one be Buddhas [meaning in the future everyone will be free
of psychosis] / And will reach Perfect Enlightenment / In domains in all directions / Each will have the
same title / Simultaneously on wisdom-thrones / They will prove the Supreme Wisdom’ (Buddha [Siddartha
Gautama] 560–480 BC, The Lotus Sutra, ch.9; tr. W.E. Soothill, 1987, p.148 of 275). In the Bible Moses similarly

anticipated a time when we ‘will be like God, knowing’ (Gen. 3:5). Christ also looked forward to
the time when ‘…another Counsellor to be with you forever—the Spirit of truth [first-principle-based,
scientific understanding]…will teach you all things and will remind you of everything [all the denial-free
truths] I have said to you’ (John 14:16,17,26). Christ also said he looked forward to the time when,

instead of being restricted to ‘speaking figuratively’, we ‘will no longer use this kind of language but
will [be able to] tell you plainly about my Father [be able to explain the world of Integrative Meaning

in denial-free, human-condition-reconciled, compassionate, understandable, first principle, scientific

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terms]’ (John 16:25). The same anticipation of our species’ liberation from the human condition is

expressed in Revelations in the Bible where it states that ‘Another book [will be]…opened which
is the book of life [the human-condition-explaining and humanity-liberating book]…[and] a new heaven
and a new earth [will appear] for the first heaven and the first earth [will have]…passed away…[and the

dignifying full truth about our condition] will wipe every tear from…[our] eyes. There will be no more
death or mourning or crying or pain [insecurity, suffering or sickness], for the old order of things has
passed away’ (Rev. 20:12, 21:1,4). As Tim Macartney-Snape said, and Olive Schreiner was quoted as

writing, at the beginning of Part 2, the human race has always hoped and believed that ‘some
day, some where, some time’ humanity’s heroic search for and accumulation of knowledge would

lead to the finding of understanding of the human condition, at which time every aspect of
human life that was seemingly so inexplicable would suddenly make sense, and we can now
see how true that hope and belief was. From an overwhelmingly complex and problematic
existence a simple and totally effective, extremely-rapidly-repairing-of-human-life-and-theEarth, way of living for humans emerges.

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the world
I want to now include a brief summary of how the TRANSFORMED LIFEFORCE STATE
actually repairs the world.
The fact is we can easily repair both humanity and our world now by everyone living
selflessly for the human race through their support of the dignifying truth about our species,
rather than having to live in the ‘cave’ of denial of the truth about ourselves where the
only relief available to temporarily appease our corrupted, apparently bad condition was to
continually try to prove we are good and not bad, which was an extremely self-preoccupied,
selfish existence. I talk about the influence Sir James Darling’s extraordinary soul-ratherthan-intellect-emphasising, Platonic education system had on myself and others in the WTM,
including my brother Simon and Tim Macartney-Snape in Part 5:1 of Freedom Expanded:
Book 1. In one of many of his extraordinary speeches Sir James said, ‘selfishness is, as it has
ever been, the ultimately destructive force in a society, and there are only two cures for selfishness—the
regimented state which we all profess to dislike, and the change of heart, which we refuse to make. That
is the choice, believe me, for each one of us, and we have not much time in which to make it. The need for
decision [to have a ‘change of heart’ and live selflessly] is serious and urgent, and the sands [of time] are
running out’ (GGS Speech Day address in 1950, Light Blue Down Under, by Weston Bate, 1990, p.219 of 386).

Sir James has, in this passage, identified selfishness as ‘the ultimately destructive force’ and
stated that historically there have only ever been ‘two cures for selfishness—the regimented state
which we all profess to dislike, and the change of heart, which we refuse to make’. The ‘regimented
state’ is obviously a reference to the dogmatically imposed and strictly enforced selfless,

cooperative, communal, social state of socialism/communism. As has been emphasised, being
fully conscious, self-managing beings, having to subordinate our thinking mind to dogma was
never going to work. De-braining ourselves was no real solution to our problems. Ultimately
we needed brain food, not brain anaesthetic. Our thinking mind needed understanding—

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specifically, understanding of why we humans are fundamentally good and not bad, evil,
worthless beings. In short, we needed the dignifying, redeeming and TRANSFORMING
understanding of the human condition. But what Sir James also recognised in this passage was
that, despite the urgency, we would ‘refuse to make’ the ‘change of heart’ from living selfishly
to living selflessly until humanity achieved that breakthrough. And he was right—until the
liberating understanding of why humans are fundamentally good and not bad was found we
had no choice but to keep on trying to achieve some relief from the insecurity of our condition
by finding superficial ways to prove we are good and not bad, such as through winning power,
fame, fortune and glory. We had no choice but to be ‘ego-centric’—we had no choice but
for our conscious thinking self (which is how the Concise Oxford Dictionary defines ‘ego’)
to be focused or ‘centred’ on trying to prove it/we are not bad, worthless and meaningless.
It is only now with the fundamental, trustable, knowable, first-principle-based, dogma-free
biological understanding of why we humans are not bad that we can afford to stop trying to
prove we are not bad all the time—that we can stop being egocentric; let go of being so selfworth-preoccupied; live for the human-condition-understood world FREE of that old insecure
existence; TRANSFORM from being selfish to selfless; have the ‘change of heart’ that Sir James
recognised was so ‘serious and urgent’.
In the episode ‘The Fallacies of Hope’, from his acclaimed 1969 BBC television
documentary series, Civilisations: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark, the British historian
Kenneth Clark (1903-1983) mentioned that ‘People who hold forth about the modern world often
say that what we need is a new religion. It may be true but it isn’t easy to establish.’ Saying we need

a new religion is really another recognition of the fundamental need for the human race to
have a change of heart, a change from living selfishly to selflessly, if we are to solve the
world’s problems. And saying ‘but it won’t be easy to establish a new religion’ is really,
deep down, a recognition that what is needed for this change of heart to occur is for the
daunting issue of the human condition to be confronted and solved. As explained in Section
2:2, the human-condition-ameliorating WORLD TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT is not a

religion but, like a religion, it does bring about a change from living selfishly for yourself to
living selflessly for something beyond self—so Clark’s acknowledgment that we need a new
religion was about as close as the old denial-based world could come to saying we needed to
solve the human condition.
Plato understood this great TRANSFORMATION from living in the cave of denial, selfpreoccupied trying to prove we are good and not bad all the time through winning power,
fame, fortune and glory, to living FREE from all of that now obsoleted insecure, oldworld ‘baggage’ in selfless support of the liberating understanding of why we humans are
fundamentally good and not bad, when he postulated: ‘Will our released [cave] prisoner hanker
after these prizes or envy this power or honour? Won’t he be more likely to feel, as Homer says, that he
would far rather be “a serf in the house of some landless man”, or indeed anything else in the world, than
live and think as they [the power and glory hungry] do?’ (Plato The Republic, tr. H.D.P. Lee, 1955, p.281).

Since materialistic luxuries, like glittering dresses, sparkling diamonds, bubbling
Champagne, huge chandeliers, silver tea sets, big houses, swimming pools and shining,
pretentious cars gave us the fanfare and glory we knew was due us, but which the world in
its ignorance of our true goodness would not give us, materialism was one of the important

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means by which we could sustain our sense of self-worth while the upsetting search for the
liberating understanding of why we are good and not bad was being carried out. In fact,
when we only had our ability to win power, fame, glory and fortune (and, with that fortune/
money/wealth/capital, acquire materialistic luxuries) to sustain our sense of self-worth
while the upsetting search for understanding of our worth was being carried out, those
relieving artificial forms of reinforcement were the only engines driving the old insecure
world—the only rewards sustaining the all-important search for self-understanding (which
is why socialism, which sought to replace the engine of greed with the idealism of selfless
cooperativeness before we had found self-understanding, couldn’t and didn’t work). So, this
egocentric, self-centred, individualistic, selfish, greedy, competitive, power-fame-fortune-andglory-seeking existence was also a ‘constructive force’ as well as the inequality-producing,
human-suffering-causing, Earth-destroying ‘destructive force’ that Sir James so aptly described
it as. Yes, there was truth indeed in the saying ‘Greed is good.’ The demonstrations against
greed and capitalism that we have been witness to in 2011 and 2012 are in truth naive, pseudo
idealistic, make-yourself-feel-good-but-don’t-solve-anything protests against the reality of
the insecurity of life under the duress of the human condition. Of course, this constructive
and destructive, ‘good and bad’ aspect of our behaviour is the core paradox of the human
condition that we are now at last able to explain and understand.
Nevertheless, while the ‘selfishness’ of the old egocentric, self-centred, individualistic,
selfish, greedy, capitalistic, competitive, materialistic way of living was the driving force that
kept the all-important search for the relieving understanding of why we humans are good
and not bad going, and was thus a ‘constructive force’, it was, as Sir James said, the ‘ultimate’
‘destructive force in a society’ because in the end only a selfless way of living works. Ultimately

selfishness is destructive. No matter how much you try to control and regulate it, a society
operating from a basis of selfishness will ultimately become dysfunctional. There was a limit
to how long we could keep going under the drive of selfish greed. For human civilisation to
survive, selflessness had to become the driving force in the world; ultimately, there had to be,
as Sir James said, ‘a change of heart’. As many people have recognised and said over the years,
‘it’s not that humans lack the ability to fix the world, it’s that they lack the will’, which is the ‘change of
heart’, the preparedness to live selflessly that Sir James recognised was needed.

So despite its precious contribution to the human race’s progress towards finding
understanding of ourselves, the ultimate truth is that selfishness, especially insatiable
materialistic, capitalistic greed, was poised to destroy the world. It was ‘insatiable’ because,
as an artificial form of reinforcement, materialism was never going to genuinely make us
feel we were good and not bad—only understanding of our fundamental goodness could and
now does achieve that. Mahatma Gandhi was really making this point about the insatiability
of trying to make yourself feel good by surrounding yourself with material luxury when he
famously said, ‘Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.’ Yes,
and when F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in The Great Gatsby that ‘Living well is the best revenge’
(1925) he too was recognising that while we lacked the real ‘revenge’ for the injustice of the

human condition, namely reconciling understanding, materialism was ‘the best revenge’ we
had. So, it is going to be an enormous relief now for the planet and for humankind—in fact,

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it is going to make all the difference—that, through the finding of understanding of why we
humans are good and not bad, we can finally let go of our selfish, egocentric, have-to-proveour-worth, materialistic, power-fame-fortune-and-glory-seeking way of living and take up
the TRANSFORMED, human-condition-liberated, selfless existence; again, have that ‘change of
heart’ Sir James recognised we had to have.

Just to illustrate the change that is going to come to our old materialistic way of living, in
front of me is a teaspoon—well, the monetary value of all the human-glorifying, egocentric
content and effort that has gone into its ornate, embellished design, extravagant silver plating
and competitive salesmanship and marketing to sell it to me, etc, etc, could feed a starving
person for a week! Almost everything I see in front of me—my extravagant watch, my fancy
shirt, my sophisticated pen—is in truth obscenely extravagant in a human-condition-free
world. I should re-design all these items so they are not so extravagant, and it won’t be long
before I and everyone else in the world will be doing just that. In fact, I idealistically once
designed and manufactured a full range of wooden furniture that was free of embellishment
and artificial content before realising that for such integrity to be tolerated the human
condition needed to be explained (see <www.humancondition.com/griffith-tablecraft>). Imagine
if all the car makers in the world were to sit down together to design one extremely simple,
embellishment-free, functional car that was made from the most environmentally-sustainable
materials, how cheap to buy and humanity-and-Earth-considerate that vehicle would be. And
imagine all the money that would be saved by not having different car makers duplicating
their efforts, competing and trying to out-sell each other, and overall how much time that
would liberate for all those people involved in the car industry to help those less fortunate
and suffering in the world. Likewise, imagine when each house is no longer designed to make
an individualised, ego-reinforcing, status-symbol statement for its owners and all houses are
constructed in a functionally satisfactory, simple way, how much energy, labour, time and
expense will be freed up to care for the wellbeing of the less fortunate and the planet.
Again, while we needed the individualistic, materialistic world to sustain our sense of
self-worth while we couldn’t establish it through understanding, now that we have established
it that old way of living is obsoleted. In his affirmation of the TRANSFORMED STATE in Section
3:4 of this presentation, you will see how Doug Lobban’s only desire is to fix the world,

starting with his shower curtain! He had let go of his egocentric mindset when he became
TRANSFORMED. The finding of understanding of the human condition naturally brings about

a whole new way of living. There’s no dogma involved, like there was in socialism—this is
about the end of dogma and also of faith, and the beginning of understanding.
It will certainly take time, in fact, a few generations, for us humans to sufficiently absorb
the understanding of the human condition for our underlying insecurity to be fully ameliorated
or healed and thus the need for some artificial reinforcement from materialism, etc, etc, to
completely disappear, but once you adopt the TRANSFORMED STATE, while you haven’t
eliminated the insecure state of the human condition within yourself, you have completely
changed your mind’s focus from living an ego-embattled, selfish life to living selflessly—you
have had that ‘change of heart’, the fundamental change of direction, that Sir James recognised
was so urgently needed to fix the world.

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Importantly, the more this ‘change of heart’ TRANSFORMATION catches on, the easier it
will be for people to move from the old insecure, ego-centric way of living to the new, secure,
ego-less way of living. The old egocentric way of living has had such a powerful hold on
humans because while there was no understanding of the human condition all we had was the
superficial reinforcement we gained from seeking power, fame, fortune and glory, but once
that relieving understanding is found, as it has been, that old egocentric way of living quickly
loses its power—so quickly, in fact, that everyone will be amazed by how quickly their need
for the old artificial forms of reinforcement falls away.
So, what I have been talking about is the TRANSFORMATION from living a selfish,
egocentric, have-to-prove-that-I-am-good-and-not-bad existence to the new, selfless,
egocentricity-obsoleted, don’t-have-to-prove-that-I-am-good, Liberated, Exhilarated
and Empowered, TRANSFORMED LIFEFORCE STATE or way of living—or simply the
TRANSFORMED LIFEFORCE STATE—that the current, transitional generations will take up.

Of course, when future, fully secure and integrated, human-condition-extinct generations
of ‘UNIVERSAL BEINGS’ appear there will be even greater relief for the human race and for
our planet. But the point is the great ‘change of heart’ is on! Imagine when we no longer have
to dress to impress, deceive and disguise—especially when women no longer have to be
preoccupied with being sex objects—how much freedom that is going to unleash, and how
much time, energy and resources it will save? Imagine when communication technology
is used only to spread reconciling truth rather than truthless, alienated, escapist, superficial
drivel, as it is currently doing—how much relief that is going to bring to humans and thus
our world? End the human condition and you end all the big problems of the world—and
thus all the little problems too.
So there are degrees of selflessness that we will now be capable of as we move from
the old egocentric world, to the egocentricity-obsoleted, TRANSFORMED LIFEFORCE STATE,
to eventually arriving at the future human-condition-extinct existence—however, it is the
fundamental change of direction, and the rapid change that will accompany it, that is allimportant. The point overall is the immense power of cooperative selflessness to solve all
our problems. If we were all selfless we could solve the AIDS epidemic literally overnight
because all it would take would be for everyone to agree to be tested for the AIDS virus and
those who tested positive to agree to not have sexual relationships with anyone who doesn’t
have the virus. When everyone is selfless we will be able to solve the greenhouse gases,
global warming problem almost overnight by everyone agreeing to hold every third breath
or something—that’s obviously not going to work, but the point is we will be able to do
whatever it takes! Actually, the most effective control mechanism we have available to us is
our ability to curb our numbers by not reproducing as much, at least until we have stabilised
all the threats to our world. In fact, we in the WTM have already employed this device to
defend the new world. As mentioned in Part 2:4 of Freedom Expanded: Book 1, we decided
not to have children so that we would have all the resources that we could possibly muster
to ensure these precious understandings of the human condition would survive the expected
initial onslaught of vilification, persecution and attempted repression for daring to address the
issue of the human condition. Certainly our tiny band of 50 people would not have been able
to undertake the legal actions we had to take against two of the biggest media organisations

Section 2:3 How the Transformed State will quickly repair the world

in Australia to redress their ferociously vilifying publications about us if we had children to
look after and support. It is the capacity to be selfless that has been missing from the human
situation. Basically, as soon as humans no longer have to be preoccupied with themselves
by having to artificially try to relieve themselves of the insecurity caused by their human
condition through winning as much power, fame, fortune and glory as they possibly can, and
are thus at last able to be concerned about the wellbeing of others, all the suffering in the
world will be able to be brought to an end. That is the key rehabilitating effect for humanity
and our planet that the transition from living selfishly to living selflessly brings through the
finding of understanding of the human condition.
Understandably, this power of selflessness has not been something we humans wanted
to acknowledge or think about because it has been too confronting of our present massively
embattled, ego-hungry, desperately-needing-self-gratification-and-glorification, selfish,
greedy, materialistic existence. We have had to live an alienated, escapist, materialistic life
because we haven’t been able to live a secure, honest, spiritualistic life, but now, with the
human condition explained, we can. As mentioned in Part 4:12 of Freedom Expanded: Book
1, we can gain an insight into the power of selfless cooperation by looking at ant and bee
colonies—truly, as King Solomon advised, ‘Go to the ant…consider its ways and be wise’ (Proverbs
6:6).

The 2004 award-winning documentary Ants—Nature’s Secret Power admitted the power

of selfless cooperation when it concluded that ‘The secret of ant societies is their cooperation…
[it’s what has enabled them to] act as a superorganism…[and become] nature’s true world power’
(produced by Adi Mayer Films, ORF Austrian Broadcasting Company with Docstar and WDR).

In his book The

Soul of the White Ant, Eugène Marais wrote that ‘the termite…never rests or sleeps’ (1937, p.61 of
154).

Bees’ extreme selflessness was also made apparent in a documentary on bee colonies,

which reported that ‘when bees become sick they sacrifice themselves and leave the hive to die to
prevent infecting the rest of the colony’, and how ‘in the summer, the workers only live around 30
days because they literally work themselves to death’ (Silence of the Bees, produced by Partisan Pictures, Inc.
and Thirteen/WNET for National Geographic Channel, 2007).

I’m not suggesting that we will ever go

beyond self-sacrifice to self-elimination as a strategy for solving problems, however, these
examples do make it clear how powerful selflessness is as a force for solving problems.
The main point is that our ability now to leave behind the insecure, self-preoccupied,
ego-centric, selfish state of the human condition makes possible the true reparation of our
whole world; it is us self-adjusting, conscious humans who—now that we no longer have to
live an insecure, selfish existence and can live a selfless, cooperative existence—will now
become ‘nature’s true world power’.
As I have previously said, the main reward for members of the WORLD
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This WORLD TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT has a slow beginning because humans
initially find it difficult even taking in or ‘hearing’ discussion about the human condition,
but it won’t be long before our website is discovered and then word of it and what it offers
every human and the world will spread like wildfire—as the visionary French Jesuit priest,
scientist and philosopher Teilhard de Chardin said, ‘The Truth has to only appear once…for it to be
impossible for anything ever to prevent it from spreading universally and setting everything ablaze’ (Let
Me Explain, 1966; trs René Hague & others, 1970, p.159 of 189). Before long we will be marketing our own

human-condition-free, world-saving products, providing our own all-exciting and meaningful,
denial-free, honest, human-condition-understood films, documentaries and books, launching
our own TV station—and our website will be the biggest in the world, bigger than Google or
any other existing site. And all this is not deluded hubris, or wild guessing, it is simply the
logical truth of what happens when the dignifying, redeeming and healing understanding of
the human condition is finally found—as all the quotes from prophets, songwriters and poets
included earlier testify.
The bottom line truth is that only the finding of the reconciling understanding of the
human condition and the ‘change of heart’, TRANSFORMED STATE for humans that it finally
makes possible can save the human race. The WORLD TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT
provides the only path forward for humankind. All else is ever-increasing, excruciating,
unthinkable suffering and ultimately doom for our species. So, become a MEMBER of the
WORLD TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT!

I strongly urge you all to now read Section 3 of this presentation, which features
Affirmations from numerous people about the all-wonderful TRANSFORMED LIFEFORCE
STATE, how they achieved it and the effect it has had on their lives. Or even better, watch them

at <www.humancondition.com/affirmations>.

Section 3
Affirmations of the
Transformed Lifeforce State
All of these Affirmations can be viewed at <www.humancondition.com/affirmations>.

Section 3:1 Prue Westbrook (recorded December 2009)

Hi, my name is Prue Westbrook, I’m 28 years old [at time of filming] and I’m a founding
member of the WORLD TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT (WTM).
I’m part of the conduit generation that gets these understandings to a fresh generation.
That is my life’s focus, that is where I draw all my meaning and sustenance from now, and
that is what I know solves all the world’s problems. I love every minute of it and I can’t wait
until the whole world catches on to this. Being a Lifeforce living for the potential of this
information is everything.
As you will see, the power and excitement and energy of this Transformed Lifeforce State
will be more than we can bear. It will sweep the world and produce a new lifestyle for humans
that will be an absolute party day after day, full of optimism, enthusiasm and meaning, where
everyone will be working together to transform the world through this information. It is a
transformation that will end all the suffering and pain on Earth and allow humans in the future
to have an existence of integration and beauty, unrecognisable to the existence we have known.
So how does the transformation process work?
The Abyss of Depression and the Sunshine Highway to Freedom drawing (see next
image) by Jeremy Griffith (see par. 1240 of FREEDOM) will become the most important and
significant drawing for our generation in helping us to understand how the transformation
process works and the situation that is before us.
Our generation has grown up with the human condition and as a result we have a lot of hurt,
pain, insecurity, alienation, anger and fear inside us, as this information reveals. There is a lot of

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upset within us to try to face now, not only from our own personal encounters with the human
condition but also from having in our heritage two million years of the human condition. But
this was always going to be the situation for the first generation to encounter the truth.
We have been owned by and are saturated in the human condition [see Video/F. Essay 10].
The cave-like dead existence shown on the Abyss drawing is where we have lived, it is the
only world we have known and so it is the only way that we know how to view the world [see
Video/F. Essay 11 for an explanation of Plato’s cave allegory].
The only way we know how to live is to try to prove ourselves everyday, take whatever
particular talents and abilities we have and use them to achieve, succeed and win. We
chaotically go about life, we take out our frustrations and anger on each other, we battle on,
we fall in love, try to find some meaning, we get drunk and just forget about it all, we bounce
back and give it another shot. We stay positive, keep our chin up, try and get a bit of relief
somehow from it all, go to a concert, a football game or on a holiday and say, ‘What human
condition?’ We live for ourselves and our families and try and make life work. We keep a
brave face and endure all the hardships and horrors that are thrown at us as best as we can. I

know it, I’ve lived there.

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Section 3:1 Prue Westbrook’s affirmation

But there is another place humans can live now.
We have the truth now, the breakthrough of breakthroughs has occurred. With the help
of science Jeremy Griffith has solved the human condition and delivered the full biological
synthesis and explanation of humans [see Video/F. Essay 3]. The truth has arrived, thereby
bringing about a change—a paradigm shift of massive proportions, and while this is the most
exciting time in history, having the truth finally about the human condition is going to reveal
truths about our state that will be unbearably confronting for us. ‘Unbearable’—meaning
we will not be able to confront or cope with what the truth will necessarily reveal about our
state. This is a time of very great exposure, the time of ‘the lightning [that] comes from the east
and flashes to the west’ (Bible, Matt. 24-27). This quote from the Bible is explained in A Species In

Denial by Jeremy when he said that ‘Christ was clearly using the most powerful metaphor available
to express how exposing and thus confronting the truth about human nature would be when it arrives’
(p.445 printed edition/p.289 online version). This truth presents the full compassionate story about

humans—we couldn’t be talking about all this, talking about our corrupted state, if we didn’t
know that it is in fact the full truth that explains and defends us. Yet, while the defence for our
upset embattled state (including for all our hurt, our selfishness, our blindness, for what we
have become) is there, the truth will and must reveal everything. It necessarily comes clean on
everything about us. You can’t have the truth and not have the truth, as Jeremy has said, and
so we have a problem because it is too exposing and too frightening for us to cope with. [See
F. Essay 40: Judgment Day finally explained.]
Jeremy’s drawing of the Abyss is the truest and cleanest depiction we will ever have of
this situation.
How can we, if you follow the logic, hope to face or confront any of these truths? How
can I as a 28-year-old girl adjust to the fact that women’s lives have been focused around
reinforcement from men? [See F. Essay 27.] That women are ignorant of this need to search
for understanding? [See F. Essay 27.] That being resigned means you are dedicated to living
a life of denial? [See F. Essay 30.] How can men face what they have had to become? [See F.
Essay 27.] How can women face that we have not been able to nurture children properly? [See
F. Essay 21 & F. Essay 27.] How are we all to face, when we start to see clearly, how much
confusion and pain children in this world are in, dying inside themselves? [See F. Essay 55.]
How are we going to cope with seeing what’s really going on? How can we cope with and
accept our alienation? When I hear quotes from the Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing, I know
they are true (see par. 123 of FREEDOM). [See F. Essay 48: R.D. Laing’s fearless honesty.] I can
see the human condition in myself and in the world around me but I can’t and I don’t want to
look at it too closely. It is like there is a big ‘no-go-zone’ in me whenever I try to look at the
extent of the hurt and pain inside me and what it causes, my lack of sensitivity. It’s like trying
to look at our state truthfully, without any denial and live comfortably with all our falseness
and superficiality exposed and of course we are unable to do that because it is horrifying and
terribly confronting when you see it in the daylight for all it is.
We can take enormous comfort in knowing what a glorious job humans have done—the
greater story is sublime, what a journey it has been! But it doesn’t mean we can delve into all
these truths and face it comfortably in our day-to-day existence.

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I should say here that if you are still young and unresigned you can live with the truth
comfortably and as your appreciation grows of this breakthrough information so does
your appreciation and knowingness of the soundness of this information’s source, how
extraordinarily rare unresigned minds like Jeremy’s are in their ability to penetrate the truth of
any situation. [See F. Essay 49 for a biography of Jeremy; and F. Essay 39 for analysis of the
importance of the unresigned mind in humanity’s journey.]
If we resigned humans try to look at these truths too closely we face an abyss of depression
as Jeremy has shown in the Abyss drawing; or become angry about the exposure and defensive
and want to deny this information is true [see F. Essay 56]; or get stalled or bogged down in
trying to work ourselves out, become selfish about it and try to fix ourselves now that this
information has shed so much understanding and light on our situations. But to do this is really
not an option for our generation. Since this is the breakthrough biological understanding of the
human condition its importance is colossal for the human race and there is so much at stake
and so much to get on with doing now. As the Abyss drawing again shows us, the alternative is
extinction of the human species from terminal levels of alienation [again, see F. Essay 55] and I
don’t think that is an option—we cannot accept that alternative, we cannot let that happen.
So what are we going to do?
Well, there is a way. There is an incredible solution to all this and that is that we don’t
have to face it down or confront it or look at it at all. The path past all that is to just live in
support of this. Once we know the information is true we can just support it without looking
at or confronting the truths too closely, and we just get on with it.
Clearly, once you know this information is true and therefore its importance to the human
race, and you can begin to appreciate the profundity and scale of what has just happened
here—if this is the breakthrough of breakthroughs—the priority is surely just to support it.
The Abyss drawing shows a bridge and it is the way forward now. If we just live for this
information, live for the future, if we just get behind this information and support it, if we
look after this information, then in the decision to do that we are instantly liberated from our
human-condition-afflicted self and all our self-preoccupied destructive behaviour gets left
behind. The depression gets swept away with the incredible flood of meaningfulness that
your life has in standing by this information’s side and therefore ensuring that all humans
can benefit from its healing and ameliorating effects. All that other stuff isn’t relevant to us
anymore, it just doesn’t matter, it doesn’t touch you, it’s not on your landscape anymore.
It’s this discovery and the freedom from that state with all its complexities and
insecurities that transforms us, transforms the world and ensures this information gets to the
next generation. You say ‘I’m just going to live for this’ and try it and in that instant all the
possibilities for the human race now become radiantly clear. You see how this works, you
see its power.
We don’t have to get stuck trying to face this down or look at our own upset, we just get
right in behind this and leave all that behind. There’s not much we could have changed or
done about all that anyway and the fact is there is now a chance for the whole human race
to be free, for all the suffering to end and for the next generation to grow up with the truth,

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and then finally a generation can be born free of the human condition! We can now turn this
around. This takes priority in our lives and totally trumps the way we have been living, this is
the new place for humans to live.
That is the simple solution, just live for this and that creates a force, an unstoppable
energy, that will sweep the world. The excitement and meaning of that will make all our pain
and hurt seem light years away. We won’t be owned by the human condition or be insecure
about it or even be thinking about it at all, it won’t matter to us. Self is rested now. All our
upset will be redundant and all we will be focused on is what we can do now. It really is like
all our pain and all our psychoses and all the hurt of our old states will have been left behind,
like a huge city just evacuated, just left in history in the days before we had this information.
And we take up a whole new lifestyle based on living for the information and that will be all
humans’ common ground. So rather than being estranged from each other, we will be able to
talk to one another and relate to each other. This is the beginning of that time. We are sitting
on the means to transform the world, solve all the world’s and our own problems overnight.
It is a solution which will allow us to now finally deal with all the immediate problems—and
there are many—in the world and stop suffering effectively and quickly.
So the realisation is ‘Let’s Go!’, ‘Let’s get out of here.’ That really is the war cry. Let’s
get behind this information and push it all the way and turn this whole situation around. Let’s
build the new world finally, now that we have the firm foundations of truth and honesty and

all the answers and all the knowledge of ourselves to safely build it from.

The absolute exhilaration that comes from the discovery of just living for this and seeing
this potential and having the full force of the beauty of this information hit you is captured
in the picture (above) that WTM member Genevieve Salter, who has been an incredible
inspiration to me in the way she has lived her life, drew, of a girl looking at a sun rising which
is massive (you can see the size of it compared to her) and what I’m describing is just like
that. [See Transformation Affirmation 4 for Genevieve’s Transformation Affirmation.]

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You can also see the incredible excitement in this WORLD TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT
poster. Look at the figures and their happiness and the party they are having. Well, that
happens to be us, what our generation has to look forward to.
So that’s what’s in front of us now. There’s lots to do and everything to live for.

Section 3:2 James West (recorded December 2009)

Hi, my name is James, I’m 37 years old [at the time of filming], I’ve been involved
with the Foundation for Humanity’s Adulthood (FHA), now the WORLD TRANSFORMATION
MOVEMENT (WTM), since 1990. I’m going to give my testimony for the truth of this

information and what I say is really only going to make sense after seeing the Main
Introductory Video to The Biology by Jeremy Griffith. [Since James gave his affirmation,
this video has been superseded by the Introductory Video Series at the top of the WTM
homepage, with the biology being covered by Video/F. Essay 3: THE EXPLANATION of the

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human condition, and Video/F. Essay 12: One hour summarising talk.] I would like to start
by reading out the claims of this information because that is really the starting point for what

I’ve got to say.

In Part 2:5 of Freedom Expanded: Book 1 propositions were put forward that we
were going to introduce an understanding that will transform the world for its complete
betterment; we will bring complete hope to what can seem hopeless; give rise to a
movement that will sweep the world; will introduce a new paradigm of understanding
around which all knowledge can be integrated; and we will reconcile all the opposites in the
human situation. These opposites are ‘good’ and ‘evil’, idealism and realism, soul and mind,
religion and science, women and men, etc. This is big stuff we are talking about here and
the information is there and you’ve all had a chance to evaluate it. All I’m going to do is
testify to its soundness and truth in my experience and vouch for how good it is when you
see how this product works. That involves sharing some personal experience, which is also
up for your evaluation as to whether it is honest or not, whether it rings true or not. That is
how testimony works.
When we start discussing this material as part of the movement that follows the arrival
of this understanding about the human condition, it is the ultimate reality TV. You get to see
real people grappling with these most real of issues. Anyway I’m trying to remind myself that
it’s the realness in the end that is more important than delivering a polished presentation here
because I am certainly not going to do that.

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Basically this is knowledge about humans which in generations to come will allow
humans to grow up free of insecurity and hurt and every other kind of suffering of the human
condition. For my generation it boils down to an unbelievably exciting and fulfilling way of
living, totally liberated from our ‘prove yourself ’ preoccupied state and being transformed
from a state of paralysis to exploding empowerment. We get to participate in the last great
glory to cap off all conscious endeavour to this point in time. We are the ones who bring about
the transformation of the world. We become the WORLD TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT. We
are not going to wind back the clock on our own experience of the human condition but we
get to be a force for good, or a force for life, now that good and bad are reconciled and thus
obsolete. We become Lifeforces. We get to champion something that is so wonderful—the
culmination of all humans’ hopes and dreams and endeavours—liberating knowledge about
ourselves. We get to live in support of something so powerful and effective that no force on
the planet that has ever existed can come close to it. This understanding, if you live through
it, will do the rest for you. It solves every problem in your life, it fixes every problem in the
world and it is so strong and so empowering to be on the side of it. This knowledge is that
good and it’s here and the march to bring it forth is on. No one is excluded from this WTM,
it’s going to be, as Jeremy Griffith has said in every one of his publications, an army to do
battle with suffering and its weapon is understanding and it will sweep all before it.
That is a summary of what I’ve got to say from start to finish.
We are putting forward this information for evaluation. It is amazing stuff, it cuts
through things that have been puzzling scholars and academics for centuries but since we
are the subject of this information, it’s not a fully intellectual ride, because we can evaluate
it ourselves, from our own life experience. It’s ourselves that come into the picture, it’s our
own lives that come into focus. It’s our own authority as a human living with the human
condition that can duly access the validity of the insights. It leads to a new way of living, the
Transformed Lifeforce State. To a certain degree it’s going to be destabilising. When the truth
about us arrives and the lights come on it’s a bit of a shock, but I am still here after the shock,
as are others and we are saying the shock is passing and in the end it’s a blindingly brilliant
place where you end up.
I’m now going to go through that a couple more times in a bit more personal detail.
Hopefully I will get the balance right because my personal journey is really nothing in
this story. I’m so nothing it’s not funny, I pale into absolute insignificance compared to the
responsibility entrusted to me and others, by humanity, to be pioneers for these ideas.
I was nearly 18 when I first came across this information after doing a year of an
engineering degree at the University of Queensland. Initially I was attracted by the claims of
this information. Those putting forward these ideas have always been up front about these
claims and honest about them. I guess the boldness of these claims can either make you
suspicious of some kind of dogma or you can take them at face value and investigate. I talked
to some of my friends about it, and a couple of them shared my enthusiasm: WTM members
Jοhn and Richard Bіggs, God love them, they are still with me, we are still together and we
are still best friends.
I remember my late adolescence as a bit of a destabilised time for me. My friends would
describe me as competitive. I once came out with the phrase ‘don’t underestimate me’, of

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which the unsaid words are ‘or I will blow you out of the water’. And that was regarded as
a good summary of my under-the-surface character. I think I was on a highway to madness
actually, but I don’t want to write myself off as being unable to discern sense from nonsense
because that wouldn’t be fair to say, so I would probably say I was only as crazy as everyone
else out there. Anyway, I was a capable student and sports person. For example, in the year
I came across this information I represented Queensland in junior rugby union. I became in
regular contact with the FHA and Jοhn and Rick and I started to organise discussions about
these ideas with other friends and asked Jeremy to present talks about them and thus a wider
group of support gathered around these ideas. Through these times Jeremy was incredibly
generous with his time. We responded to the plausibility of his ideas but we also came to
have some appreciation of and were impressed and inspired by Jeremy’s unique selfless, vital,
humble character. In as much as we questioned our own capacity to swim against the current
of denial in the world and ourselves, we soon learnt from Jeremy’s sheer courage in standing
by an almost incomprehensibly glorious vision of a world free of ignorance about the human
condition. Jeremy’s ability to stand by the truth against a world committed to so much denial
has been truly amazing. As Jeremy once said about his undertaking, ‘I’m like a sparrow trying
to turn around trucks screaming down a highway.’ But then again what’s helped Jeremy is the

magnificence of his vision of a world free of the human condition.
I’d have to say that I enjoyed being a student of this information and there is a
considerable amount of selfishness in that, in the sense that who the hell was I to pontificate
on this stuff when it enables the clean-up of the world. I remember in the early days Jeremy
said to me, ‘this information will never disappoint you’ and it never has and I have been at
close quarters with it for a long time. It goes right to the bottom, right to the heart of what it
is to be human, it makes it safe to be honest about anything. There is nothing it won’t context
compassionately, but it’s not weak. It doesn’t condone destructive behaviour—it disarms it, it
disarms the root cause of destructive behaviour. The deal is this: that humans’ corrupt state is
now defended, so now we must be responsible and ‘put down the sword’ (cease our insecure,
prove-our-self-at-all-cost strategies to life), the game is up and the horror is over. This is an
assault on dishonesty but it is done gently. This is judgment day but as an anonymous Turkish
poet once said judgment day is ‘Not the day of judgment but the day of understanding’ (National
Geographic, Nov. 1987; quoted in Freedom Expanded: Book 2, for example in Section 1:13). The arrival of the full

truth about humans is not something we need to fear, because it is compassionate. [See F.
Essay 40 on the true meaning and significance of the term ‘Judgment Day’.]
Anyway, since explanation of the human condition exposes our behaviour for what it
is, with my version of the human condition I have had plenty of exposure to deal with. I’ve
been guilty of obscenities in the extreme—shocking indifference and ripping off the power of
this information for the cause of James West. Initially with this information there is a period
where you need to verify it. If it doesn’t stack up you should reject it, but there is another
reason you might want to reject it and that is, ironically, not because it doesn’t stack up but
because it stacks up so well. I spent a long time trying to compete with the information in a
Mexican standoff with it, in a position we actually call the ‘Mexican Standoff ’—‘I have found
something so good it fixes all the problems in the world, but wait a minute, I was planning
on being king of the world so where does that leave me?’ It would be massively irresponsible

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to abandon this information once you know the truth of it yet it seems to demand so much.
It destroys your egocentric way of living and for that you want to hate it [see F. Essay 33 for
an explanation of the Mexican Standoff]. Eventually I came out of that struggle by having
a change of heart, having taken the lead from other WTM members. I flipped sides from
wanting to compete with the information to just living in support of it. That’s when I really
discovered a liberation you could just never imagine. You think the world only exists in as
much as you can fight for your space in it, but let me tell you, that is only a tiny little portion
of the world. It’s a tiny little bubble that we live in, as heroic as it is, but when we trust this
information we discover the real world.
You discover that a change of heart is possible and it fixes you and it is possible for the
world and it fixes the world. You actually see how this works, how it rids the world of the
destructiveness of selfish preoccupation with our upset. That is what is on offer for the world
and that is what is so amazing that we want to try to communicate to everyone. We want to
help everyone through that doorway to the sunlit new world.
So the WTM will have meetings where we will discuss the transformation process and
help people negotiate that change. It’s going to take some steadiness and there’s going to be
a lot of nervousness created when this takes off because it is going to put people on the spot
when they see people becoming so enthusiastic about it, there will be nowhere to hide from
the truth when it arrives.
I’m just going to describe that journey once more. So that’s my personal encounter
with it. I discovered it and I got excited about the explanation’s ability to make sense of the
world. It brought me into competition with it where I was in the Mexican Standoff and then
I flipped sides. I didn’t want to compete with it anymore, I wanted to live through it and I
discovered, ‘Wow, this is special, this is amazing stuff.’ For the first time I could see this in its
true perspective where the masses of confronting honesty, anchored in first principle biology,
represented something of extraordinary beauty and specialness, the end of the need for denial
about the human condition, rather than a threat to my self image which couldn’t be dismissed.
The interesting thing with regard to the issue of evaluation of this information or the journey
that it takes you on, is that this is knowledge not dogma, so why isn’t full appreciation of this
information a smooth journey of intellectual digestion? Jeremy explains all this in Freedom
Expanded: Book 1 [see also chapters 2.2–2.3 of FREEDOM] and I gave my personal example
but to summarise, it’s because it’s about the subject of us and about that subject we humans
are only rational to a point. We’ve had to live in denial of truths like Integrative Meaning [see
F. Essay 23]. Of course you can deny that statement as well if you want to, but I would like to
offer the following on the issue, possibly as some reassurance. This goes to the accusation of
mindlessness being ultimately involved in fully appreciating this information and what it can
do. I’m one human with limitations to my intellect and capacity for rationale as all humans
have. So all I can give is the testimony of a human with those limitations, but in as much as a
human can know something is true and sound, then I was able to know and I do know that this
information is true and sound, including the claims that it makes. The evidence for me is the
extent and commitment with which I tried to compete with this information but failed to find
fault in it. I would go so far as to say that I spent myself, my intellect, my ego, trying to be
better than this information. Albert Einstein said ‘truth is what stands the test of experience’ (Out of

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My Later Years, 1950; quoted in Freedom Expanded: Book 2, for example in Section 1:7), and the test of experience

of this theory is one’s life. Every fibre of my being put these ideas to the test before I
decided to commit every fibre of my being to supporting them. You can’t commend anything
higher than that and you can’t derive any deeper resolve than that. Historically there is this
conversion experience with regard to appreciation of denial-exposing work where you hate
it before you love it. So what you will witness from Liberated and Transformed Lifeforces is
massive commitment and massive enthusiasm coming off a base of deep love of the power of
this information to free the world of suffering under the human condition.
Okay, so the truth is I am preoccupied with a wholly different world now. The only thing
relevant to me is the welfare of this project, which is ensuring these ideas get to the next
generation because I know that is what looks after everything. I am knowingly fostering the
new human-condition-explained world and leaving behind the ego-preoccupied, cynical,
competitive world and I’m 100 percent justified in doing so. I know I am not sound, I am
a mess and I know that is there for everyone to see, but I couldn’t care less and I don’t
preoccupy myself with presenting anything different to the world. My corruption is a result
of my heroic encounter with the human condition, and as such it is a badge of honour if
anything. I’m just participating in this incredibly glorious march out of hell, part of an army
to do battle with suffering using understanding as its weapon, part of an unstoppable and
untouchable force. That is a window into what I am doing and how I live which hopefully
can illustrate to some degree what generally happens to you when you truly appreciate the
magnificence of this information, and thus can be of some reassurance. The world in my view
is going to need some reassurance on this but to cut a long story short I want to say to the
world, ‘Look into this, discover the truth of it, then give it your support, all your support, it is
worthy of that and it won’t disappoint.’
That is basically it.
I was inspired to refer to the words of the song Holy Grail by the Australian rock band
Hunters and Collectors. I love the image of the army, this is the last battle and it’s a battle
to end suffering and it’s incredibly glorious, that’s where I lose myself and that’s what I
just want to be part of. Everybody knows about it intuitively or else someone couldn’t have
written this song [see F. Essay 45 for more examples of prophetic songs from our greatest
singers/songwriters]. I don’t know if I’ll put you through reading all of it, but here are just
some of the words: ‘Woke up this morning from the strangest dream / I was in the biggest army the
world had ever seen / We were marching as one on the road to the Holy Grail // Started out seeking
fortune and glory / It’s a short song but it’s a hell of a story…’ ‘We started out seeking fortune and

glory’: the heroism of our journey is unspeakable. Our egocentric state, as destructive as it
is, for it to be able to come to an end is just a testament to the specialness of this information
and this achievement for all of humanity. It’s too much to really comprehend that the whole
thing ends now. Prior to the arrival of this information the best humans could do was to put
the anticipation of it in a song where you can dismiss it—even Mark Seymour, who wrote
the song, dismisses the meaning of this song. ‘All the locals scattered, they were hiding in the snow
/ We were so far from home, so how were we to know? / There’d be nothing left to plunder / When we
stumbled on the Holy Grail // We were so full of beans but we were dying like flies / And those big black
birds, they were circling in the sky / And you know what they say, yeah nobody deserves to die…’ ‘Those

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big black birds circling in the sky’ are all the vultures, it’s the image of all these meaningless
movements—not meaningless, but these things posing to be the real thing, that aren’t going
to make any difference to the plight of the world because they don’t deal with the human
situation, they prey on our need to escape from the human condition, they don’t actually end
it. ‘Oh but I’ve been searching for an easy way / To escape the cold light of day / I’ve been high and I’ve
been low / But I’ve got nowhere else to go…’ ‘Searching for an easy way’: there is no easy way out

of here—we have to confront ourselves. Well, in fact there is an easy way out of here now but
there is no dishonest way—we live by supporting these ideas and it does the rest. It defends
us, but initially, in our insecure state, the truth of these ideas is a threat because it exposes the
extent of our corruption, our imperfection. So we are searching for an easy way to escape the
cold light of day. ‘I followed orders, God knows where I’ve been / but I woke up alone, all my wounds
were clean…’ That’s what this information does it defends us. ‘I’m still here, I’m still a fool for the
Holy Grail…’ So thanks for taking the time to consider my affirmation of the importance of this

information and the exciting time in history that is upon us.

Section 3:3 Stacy Rodger (recorded December 2009)

My name is Stacy Rodger and I’m 43 years old [at the time of recording] and I was
given Jeremy Griffith’s second book Beyond The Human Condition in 1992 when I was 25.
I wasn’t looking for anything, I wasn’t even too fussed if I read it and I didn’t even know
what it was about. But I did read it and what I read absolutely knocked my socks off. It
completely transfixed me, I just couldn’t believe what I was reading, I read it and I re-read it.
There were two huge revelations for me in that book. The first revelation was understanding
the process of Resignation [see F. Essay 30], which explained to me why my life had
changed so dramatically. The second revelation (and this one just took my breath away, there
is not a word to describe it) was that someone was finally telling me about the world of
men and it is that that I especially want to talk about. [F. Essay 26 & F. Essay 27 explain the
different roles that men and women have taken up under the duress of the human condition,
including how it affected their relationship and how understanding brings about the true
reconciliation between the sexes.]

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Being 25 I really had totally given up on ever being able to understand the world of men.
I couldn’t understand why they would treat me like they did. They weren’t at all interested
in my inner self. They were only interested in my outer self and that just felt so wrong to me,
so wrong. How could I live with that? As a strong woman I so much wanted to participate
in life but it was actually precisely because of that strength that I couldn’t accept how men
were behaving. But I had lots of friends who were men that I really liked and it just never
sat right with me that they were bad. I just couldn’t get it. It just wasn’t right and I could
not understand it. I tried to participate in life time and time again. I would read women’s
magazines from cover to cover to try to understand how you do it, how to be a sex object—
how to wear makeup, how to wear the right clothes and get the latest look. But every time I
lived out my strength and said what I really thought, especially about the insincerity of men’s
treatment of women—basically of men being self-centred, totally, seemingly unaware and
insensitive towards others and even seemingly unaware and insensitive towards the whole
world—it would always end up with men side-lining me and freezing me out. I couldn’t
understand for the life of me why, when all I was saying was what was completely obvious
and absolutely needed saying, as far as I could see, anyway.
So I used to leave the room, asking myself ‘What was I getting wrong?!’ Slowly but
surely I came to the very deep conclusion that I was the problem here and clearly a big
problem. I could do nothing right. I became absolutely crippled with self-doubt. I went from
being an incredibly happy, living-in-the-present, participating-in-all-life-had-to-offer girl,
to suddenly becoming a girl that was only interested in sport and on a daily mission just to
exercise all day, whether it be a run, a swim or a bike ride—anything in fact. The compulsion
to complete these activities just felt totally out of my control. I would put them before
everything else and hate myself so deeply for doing that. I couldn’t trust my thinking at all
and I doubted all that I did. I did not want to think anymore and it felt like the same question
was spinning around inside my head all day every day: Am I good or am I bad? And the only
thing that kept that incessant questioning at bay, was this unbelievably disciplined regime I
had developed from the minute I woke up: planning when I would do my run, when I would
do my swim, how was I going to do it that day? I was in a state of complete and utter deep
confusion. I didn’t know what had happened to me, all I knew was that I was no longer happy.
I couldn’t understand where I had gone wrong. I believed the world should be one way but it
wasn’t. So I just stopped participating. I became more and more reclusive.
But then I read Beyond The Human Condition by Jeremy Griffith and it was the happiest
day of my life because here I was reading about why. Why this had all happened, why my life
had changed so dramatically and I could finally understand that it was because I had resigned,
a process fully explained in A Species In Denial [and now in F. Essay 30 and chapter 2:2
of FREEDOM]. I could understand why men had treated me as a sex object and why they
were out there in the world backing their ego [see Video/F. Essay 3 for explanation of the
human condition, the cause of our species’ angry, egocentric and alienated state]. It was just
so exciting to me that there was a good reason for why men are the way they are—actually
not just a good reason but a heroic most courageous reason and that the sex object state
that women have had to cultivate in themselves has played such an incredibly important
supportive role and complements so purposely to the whole story of life.

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It has been a truly golden, beautiful role that we have played to support men’s job of
having to ‘march into hell for a heavenly cause’ (‘An Impossible Dream’, from The Man of La Mancha, lyrics by
Joe Darion, 1965). Men have been so misunderstood by all on this planet. By me, by women, by

nature. But it is not our fault. It is the result of the human condition and thank God that we can
understand that now. It has just made so much sense to me that to be able to understand men
today we had to go back to the biggest moment in our species’ history that Jeremy Griffith has
told me about in [his 1991 book] Beyond The Human Condition—that being the emergence of
a fully conscious brain, and to see what occurred. It had a huge impact on men’s and women’s
roles. Men’s job as group protectors was to go out in search of understanding for our conscious
thinking self or ego, and women’s role as the nurturers was to stay back, unknowing or
separate or naïve, of that great battle so that we could preserve as much innocence as we could
in order to nurture the next generation. So we don’t have an understanding of that great battle
or the repercussions of that for men in our bones, and that’s through no fault of our own. Men
backing their ego or their conscious thinking self is exactly what was required of them prior to
the human condition being solved. They had to keep going even though the world, and women
especially, were criticising them and trying to get them to capitulate to the world of soul.
So I understand now why men had to shut me out and shut me down. I was so
condemning of them, and of the necessary job that they were doing prior to the human
condition being solved. They were 100 percent right. It has been an absolute hellish existence
for men to have to do that and a hellish existence for women to be a victim of that.
But that is the true beauty about this information. The human condition is solved now
and it explains absolutely everything about men and women today and the huge gulf that
exists between the sexes. We can now bring understanding to that gulf and the reconciliation
that is now possible, is to me, the most exciting thing on Earth. Men and women can truly,
truly be together for the first time, from a base of understanding. I mean, how good is that?
Because what happens, and I know this first hand, is that when you absorb the fact and the
truth about why men are the way they are, you see how totally unfairly maligned by the
whole world they have been for the last two million years, and you have so much love and
compassion for their courage to carry on despite being totally maligned as the villains on
Earth, when in actual fact they are the true heroes. It is that love and compassion that tells
men that they are, thank God, now finally understood, and that we understand that. Their
defiance and oppression of women can now subside and that is one way that the world can
change overnight. The battle is over and men can come in from the cold now, they have won
their great battle. The hellish existence stops.
I can’t tell you how much this information has totally transformed my life. I can’t
believe my luck, that I get to be part of the most magnificent movement on Earth, the WORLD
TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT (WTM) and it is magnificent because it dignifies and explains

every single human that walks the Earth. This is all that we have ever, ever wanted.

Section 3:3 Stacy Rodger’s affirmation

I have gone from being that preoccupied, troubled, hating-myself, with—nounderstanding-of-anything-about-the-world, crippled-with-self-doubt 25-year-old girl, to
being the happiest 43-year-old on Earth, because I know the human condition is solved and
the world will never be the same again. All I want to do now is think because I can and I
know it’s 100 percent safe to do so. This information is all about thinking. I know that I don’t
need to dissect my life and work it all out, there is so much pain there. To have had to live
undefended and unexplained for two million years has come at a horrendous cost for humans.
But there is a very, very simple way to live and I know this information has explained
everything I need to know.
I’m drenched by this overwhelming feeling of never having to worry about whether
I’m good or bad ever again. That’s a question I never have to ask again because I’m good,
we are all good. I can now understand my strength; I can now understand why children are
still so alive inside; I can now understand the gap between children and adults; I can now
understand the process of Resignation and I know that it’s true because it happened to me; and
I can understand the difference between resigned and unresigned humans [see F. Essay 39 for
explanation of the difference between the resigned and unresigned state].
The best bit about it is that we all have different circumstances having lived life under the
duress of the human condition that make us different, but that doesn’t mean being resigned
or carrying more hurt or upset makes us bad. We are all dignified and loved, every single one
of us. Every human that has walked the Earth has done the most incredible job, we have not
one thing to worry about ever again. We are safe as houses. None of this cyclone that has been
our lot prior to the human condition being solved is our fault. The silence, thank God, is truly
broken now forever and children will be the first to know, they will feel it in the air. They
don’t need the perfect life, they just need to understand life, for the silence to be broken and
that has happened now. We truly are meant to be here and Jeremy Griffith, on the back of all
the science that has gone before him, has solved the human condition and I can’t tell you how
unbelievably exciting that is.
I know that humanity’s future is utterly glorious and I get so happy all I want to do every
day is dance because it has totally transformed my life. We are all so defended, every single
one of us and I always thought that would never happen. I thought all the problems on Earth
were totally unsolvable but I know better. I know better now. I know that the human condition
is solved and it’s honestly more than a human could bear, it’s so wonderful. As I said earlier,
it’s all that we have ever wanted. Underneath all our heroic, get-on-with-it, gutsy, keep-ahappy-face exterior is a deep, deep, deep needing to understand ourselves and finally we can.
So all I want to do with my life is stand strongly and firmly upholding the work of
the WTM because the full understanding of the human condition that we have at last will
transform the world and I know that’s true because it’s transformed me and it’s transformed
my life and I absolutely love it and our future is fabulous.

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Section 3:4 Genevieve Salter (recorded December 2009)

My name is Genevieve Salter, I’m 34 years old [at the time of filming] and I’ve been
involved in what was the Foundation for Humanity’s Adulthood (FHA) and is now the
WORLD TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT (WTM) since I was 17 so that’s a long time, 17

years. I suppose when I first came across these ideas the thing that was just so exciting and
thrilling for me was understanding the human condition and for a 17-year-old girl that was
so exciting, it was just like being drunk on knowledge all the time and always coming across
new concepts and new explanations for things. It was just a really, really, really thrilling time
and I suppose the reason I’m saying that is because I’m about to talk about this terrifying
issue of self, or terrifying for me anyway, but that initial understanding of the human
condition [see Video/F. Essay 3] was just so exciting and I had a ball discovering all these
explanations for the world around me.
My parents were quite religious at that time so the idea that I could understand religion
[see F. Essays 35 & 39] and understand God [see F. Essay 23] was just incredible, just so
exciting. That’s what I refer to as ‘the human condition without’—you’re looking at the
world and it’s making sense and you know that you’re in a world full of people that don’t
understand the human condition and you have understanding of that and that’s just so
exciting. You look at people around you and you can make sense of that and you can make
sense of what’s happening in the world and why there is all the greed and selfishness and
devastation. So being able to make sense of the human condition without was incredibly
relieving. But gradually, as your understanding of the human condition deepens and your
brain is continuing to process the logic, the information also makes you look at the human
condition within yourself and looking at the human condition within yourself is something
that I didn’t really want to have to do. It was really only a friend of mine at the time that

Section 3:4 Genevieve Salter’s affirmation

encouraged me to sort of hang in there and just settle down and look at this, look at what
you’re involved in, which I did.
The fundamental thing for me is that I knew that Jeremy Griffith had solved the human
condition, that these ideas made sense of everything that I can see around me and so I
know from that he is coming off a selfless base, from a base of trying to help humanity
and therefore me and from there I could absorb the realities of who I am. As I said, I was
17 or 18 years old and I’m a woman so I have my version of the human condition. My

resigned strategy to life that I took up was fundamentally, I guess, about reinforcement for
my object self. Jeremy explains in chapter 8:11B of FREEDOM [see also F. Essay 26 & 27
for an introduction to this topic] why women rely on men’s attention and reinforcement
for their sense of meaning and that reinforcement was a very important and preoccupying
thing for me and it ruled my whole world. I know I had a lot of pain in my childhood and
that’s not to say that my parents didn’t love me as much as they could given the realities
of the human condition, that’s just a reality of growing up with the human condition but
knowing that you’re just a part of this two million year journey and you have your version
of the human condition just like everybody else does, and you’re defended in that, means
you no longer have to live through those forms of superficial reinforcement in order to
prove your self worth because this information does that for you. It explains that humans
are good and that means me too and that was an incredibly relieving realisation and it lead
to an incredible Transformation [see F. Essay 15 on the Transformed State]. I remember
feeling that sense of freedom and no longer having to just live for reinforcement, to prove
my self worth and the feeling of relief, of no longer having to live like that anymore and then
almost instantaneously at the same time being drenched in this feeling of excitement about
the potential of this information for the future and what it can do for the world. If I can be
free of that need and preoccupation to prove myself, then what does that mean for the rest of
humanity? And if you’re not preoccupied with yourself you’ve got so much energy and room
inside yourself and love to help dedicate to the planet and to humanity and to getting other
people to understand these ideas and that just instantly becomes your focus.
I want people to understand and know about these ideas, I want to be able to help
support these ideas so that they get to the rest of the world and that means a future free of
the human condition and that is just such an exciting concept. So living for that future is
really all I do, that’s what my life’s about and it’s all I care about and it’s just so exciting
and fulfilling and meaningful. So coming from a completely lost, hurt, alienated, attentionseeking little girl, to someone that’s so excited about the future and has a meaningful life
and feels like they can contribute to something real and that knows herself I suppose is so
exciting. But the main thing for me is that future potential, that freedom that humans have
got to look forward to now.

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Section 3:5 Sam Belfield (recorded November 2017)

My name is Sam Belfield. I’m 44 years of age [at the time of filming] and I’ve been
supporting the explanation of the human condition put forward by Jeremy Griffith for
nearly 25 years, having read one of his earlier books, Beyond the Human Condition, when I
was studying at university. As most people would be aware there’s an immense amount of
contexting information in all the books that have been produced by Jeremy and the WTM
to date. There are also the other affirmations on the website so I’m going to try and pick
an aspect of this information and talk about something that’s relevant to me. And that is
what I’ve experienced in terms of the magnitude of the implications of this change and the
transformative effect of the information on me; and through understanding that transformative
effect, seeing the potential for humanity. I’m trying to convey my experience of its truth,
its accountability and in particular something of what I call the power of knowledge or the
power of logic and of having a conscious mind. And through processing information and
knowledge how that can dramatically change your perspective about yourself and about the
world and where it’s up to. In particular, how this information, this knowledge, can change the
direction of humanity and the planet at present [see Video/F. Essay 3 for an introduction to the
explanation of the human condition].
I wanted to start with this quote from Part 3, page 79 of the print edition of Jeremy’s
book Transform Your Life And Save The World (TYL): ‘I kid you not, what you’re soon going to
see appear, from one end of that horizon to the other, is an army in its millions coming to do battle with
human suffering and its weapon will be understanding!’ [See p. 65 of First Edition of TYL, pub. 2016.]

If you let your mind access this information you can be a part of that. If you let your mind
process this information and follow the logic through, it will completely transform your life.
It will transform how you see yourself and how you see humanity. Your perception of yourself
and the world will totally change.
There are heaps of benefits at a personal level with this information and processing it
but something I particularly want to talk about or highlight is a recognition that it’s our selfinterest and selfishness that is fundamentally destroying humanity and the planet. At one
level we sort of know that. If we boil it all down that’s an aspect or a manifestation of the
human condition. This information has the ability to end that self-interest, selfishness and

Section 3:5 Sam Belfield’s affirmation

egocentricity at a fundamental level in you and the world, and that’s what will produce this
‘army in its millions to do battle with human suffering’ on the planet and bring it to an end. That is

the magnitude of this information. It ends our self-interest and we all take up a life of living
cooperatively and selflessly. That’s what we have coming. That’s how good it is. That’s how
special it is. And best of all it’s available right now and for everyone.
So, as I said, that’s the outcome of this information. It’s not make-believe. It is not
a function of religion, it is not a function of left-wing dogma or discipline. It’s actually a
function of having a conscious mind and processing this knowledge or information and
responding to it, following the implications of it through to how it changes your perspective.
That process can be challenging but there is a path mapped out, a new way of living is here
and it’s on right now and soon everyone will be living it.

Where are we all going?
Recently I was flying back into Sydney on a plane at night. I was looking down on the
sprawling city, the mass of cars, the lights, all these people driving home. I had this reflection
in my mind, a rhetorical question of, ‘Where is this all going, where does this all end up,
what’s the meaning of all this?’ We live in a schizophrenic state. In one sense we live in a
massive amount of denial about the human condition but on another level we sort of peek
around the corner of life from time to time and we ask these questions of ‘where are we
going?’ If you’re going to have children or you’ve had children surely you’ve got to look into
that crystal ball and ask, where is humanity going? And I’d suggest that behind the smiles and
behind the confidence to carry on there is a deep anxiety about the direction humanity is going
[see F. Essay 55: Endgame for the human race].
What I really want to hasten to add is that the insights in this book change all that,
that book being, amongst others written by Jeremy, FREEDOM: The End Of The Human
Condition. On the front of FREEDOM is the statement by Professor Harry Prosen, ‘THE BOOK
THAT SAVES THE WORLD’. I have experienced that statement to be true—this book has saved

the world. In fact, I’d go a step further and say that in my view this is the only book that can
save the world, that’s how fundamental it is. I’ve got a perspective on how the information
in this book brings the human condition to an end and introduces a whole new paradigm,
a whole new way of life for us all. It’s not about modifying the existing paradigm. It’s not
about trying to tweak that or improve it in some way, it’s about a whole new model, a whole
new state of mind for humanity. These are big statements but if you genuinely let your mind
understand this information and follow the implications through your mind will validate this.

Imagine
I want to read the lyrics from John Lennon’s 1971 song Imagine from Part 3, page 81 of
the print edition of TYL: ‘Nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too…all the people living life in
peace…No need for greed or hunger, a brotherhood of man…all the people sharing all the world’. [See p.
67 of First Edition of TYL.]

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Every now and again I hear the full version of that song and it’s unbelievable. If you try
and stop and really get your brain to engage those particular lyrics, just to read them again:
‘Nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too…all the people living life in peace…No need for greed or
hunger, a brotherhood of man…all the people sharing all the world’. It really is hard to get your brain

to actually engage with what that’s all about, it’s hard to take seriously. Very quickly your
mind can bring forth defences and reasons and excuses and arguments for why that’s just not
going to be possible; for example, ‘our deeper nature is one of selfishness’, ‘we’re brutal’,
‘animals are competitive, red in tooth and claw, therefore we are’, ‘what about survival
of the fittest?’ [See Video/F. Essay 14 for a debunking of the ‘savage instincts’ excuse for
human behaviour.] When someone talks about the concept of a ‘a brotherhood of man’, a new
cooperative, caring, peaceful paradigm, it’s very difficult to take seriously; we are blind to
another potential. It’s like looking at a void, a vacuum—we see nothing.
At another level we’re also aware of our immense habituation to living through selfinterest, living egocentrically, proving our sense of self worth and we’re aware that we
and the whole world we live in day-to-day is geared towards that. We can’t entertain the
possibility that it could be otherwise. There is so much momentum behind the current
human state of mind of operating from a basis of self-interest. From there you can think,
well this is never going to happen, talk of a new world is just a flight of fancy, but I want
to contrast that view with the proposition that if you actually engage this information in a
genuine way your mind will take you on a journey that completely reverses your view and
you’ll arrive at a point where, not only can you let go of and move beyond self-interest
and egocentricity being the focus of your life but also see that our deeper, true nature
is actually all about being cooperative, loving and selfless and not all these other things
like being competitive, aggressive and selfish. In fact, you can understand that that selfinterest has been like a temporary veneer, a means to an ends while we’ve been trying to
find knowledge, ultimately self-knowledge, to understand our real nature. As you start to
put those realisations together—that we can actually change our perspective and move to
a position where we can let go of competitiveness, selfishness and all this craziness and
that our deeper nature is actually one of being selfless and cooperative and there being this
deeper law of physics on Earth of Integrative Meaning—then you start to see how this ‘army
in its millions’ that I talked about earlier can actually become a reality. [See F. Essay 23 for

explanation of Integrative Meaning.]

My psychological baseline
My psychological equation in and of itself is not particularly relevant, it’s not relevant at
all. I describe it only to demonstrate my transformation and what I’ve transformed from, how
my state of mind changed from one position to something very different indeed, and I think
talking a bit about who I am and how the human condition has manifested in me can be a
vehicle for understanding the power of this information.
Jeremy describes in detail the process of Resignation that happens in mid-adolescence
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resigned well and truly. I’m not going to go into the detail of that process, that can be
understood by reading Jeremy’s books and some of the other Affirmations. What I want to
talk about is how the human condition manifests in me on the other side of Resignation. For
me, my state of mind is characterised by two basic elements which are competing to prove my
sense of self worth and denial of the upset of the human condition within me.
Following Resignation we all develop a strategy to validate ourselves in some way. I took
up a strategy of trying to be civilised and projecting a persona of security about my sense of
self worth, that my strategy is working and giving me a sense of relief, that I have got it all
together, that I am upset-free and I don’t have this human condition brewing up in me. But
in reality I’m actually lying through teeth. I’m putting this persona forward, manufacturing
a view of myself that I want other people to see and reinforce as good and valid. But if you
scratch the surface, and this is not unique to me at all, I have a deep insecurity about my
sense of self worth and in compensation for that I’ve become consumed and addicted to
power, success and achievement as a way of filling that void. Your sense of self-worth is
totally conditional on how you think others are perceiving you. This state of mind defines
my behaviour. And that’s really important to understand—this state of mind defines your
behaviour; it dictates everything you do, how you go to work, how you dress, how you walk
down the street. It’s fundamental.
As you get older you become more punch-drunk and more in need of that win and relief.
You become more defensive and retaliatory toward criticism. You feel immense frustration
that no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you get the sense of relief is
fleeting. It’s never enough, it’s always thin. It’s like the game is loaded against you and as
a result of that you become even more frustrated. As you get older still you see in yourself
and other people this murderous rage, a capacity for brutality and a capacity to kick the shit
out of innocence. To try and make the point, Jeremy includes these images and paintings in
FREEDOM and I wanted to say I can relate to what they’re about.

Here is a detail (above) from Michelangelo’s The Last Judgment (1537-41) and William
Blake’s Cringing In Terror (1794-96) [see par. 98 of FREEDOM].

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This is a detail (above) from Francis Bacon’s Study for self-portrait (1976) [see par. 124 of

FREEDOM].

And this little depiction by Jeremy (above) illustrates ‘Hollow Adolescentman’, the
50 plus year old terminally alienated hero of the story of life on Earth [see par. 894 of

FREEDOM].

What I’m trying to talk about is that the human condition is real, it’s in me. I’ve
experienced seeing in yourself a capacity to value nothing and it’s all a product of the human
condition, this egocentric necessity to become a wrecking ball as you try and validate that
you’re good notwithstanding the fact that there are so many implications that you’re bad,
you’re evil. That state is bloody lonely and bleak because it’s nigh on impossible to share with
anyone else. That is the duress of living saturated with the human condition.

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So that is my base psychological state post Resignation. So I’ve grown up with the
human condition and that’s how it’s manifested in me. It is not unique to me. The human
condition manifests in different ways in all of us to various degrees, different people take
up different strategies but fundamentally the human condition creates an undeserved sense
of guilt or insecurity about our self worth and we take up a strategy to try and prove that
implication wrong.
When you look at what I’ve just described and how real it is in you and how it basically
consumes and preoccupies you and dictates your state of mind all day, when someone comes
along, if we go back to that concept of ‘imagin[ing]’ a new paradigm, you think ‘Well how the
hell do I resolve or undo that?’ Well, the good news is that it’s actually really simple and it’s
also honest. I can vouch for that I’ve been around this information for a long time and I’ve
looked at that dilemma for a long time and I’ve understood that there’s a path through that and
it is simple. It’s not about trying to restrain all of that or explain it all out of existence, as I’ll
talk about in a second. It’s about actually moving on from it.

Moving on from the commitment to self-interest
To try and recap a little bit, your start position is that you are in complete denial of
the human condition and of how you live with it, how it’s manifested in yourself. I used to
describe myself as a ‘believer’, as in, ‘you are a total believer in the ability of your strategy
to give you relief ’. Mentally, you are wrapped up in this competitive model, this thing that
permeates what we call ‘the real world’, the world that we go out into every day. It defines
everything we do. We convince ourselves that the meaning of life is to be competitive and that
success means that we are worthwhile.
But then, as you start reading this information it makes sense in your mind, it starts to
break down your denial and you start to see your superficiality, artificiality, self-deception
and state of insecurity. In some ways the information is like a lens, it’s a process of bringing
focus on how you are living, how the human condition is manifesting in you. When you
come across this information you’ve got no awareness of the human condition in you, the
picture is out of focus and blurry and you can’t make anything out. But as you start to read the
information it’s a process of increasing focus and clarity on how you’re living and it becomes
more and more stark.
At the same time you’ve got the knowledge, the logic of this information working
away in your mind. More particularly how it provides the first principle-based, biological
explanation for why we are fundamentally good despite our upset. In so doing it ends the need
for us to apply our strategy to feel good about ourselves and get relief. You start to see, as I
mentioned before, that all that self-interest and egocentricity was only a means to an end, and
not an end in itself. The meaning of life isn’t to be egocentric, alienated and angry—that’s just
been a symptom in response to the human condition. It was a necessary means of sustaining
ourselves until we found self-knowledge. However, with our worth established that way of
living is redundant. The battle is over and we put the sword down. So you’ve got these two
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around the human condition in you and how you’re living, and you’ve also got the logic of
the information bringing into focus that that way of living is no longer necessary, it’s actually
redundant because we’ve got first principle explanation of why we are good. We don’t need to
prove that in any number of artificial ways.
So then you reach a point where you get a clean take, a simple view of the way you are
living. It’s like you’re outside looking down on yourself and there are a couple of things
that come together. In essence you see that applying your strategy is not working, that it is
destructive of you and of the relationships around you, that it is not giving you a lasting sense
of meaning, security and wholeness. In fact, the longer you go on it’s actually the reverse of
that. And at the same time you start to appreciate that that way of living is no longer necessary
because the human condition has been explained. At the point of that clean take you’re then
able to, if you like, look across at the information. You’ve been focused on yourself and how
the information makes sense of the human condition in you but then you look across at the
information and you think, well what if I live through this information all day, every day?
What if I use it as the framework for making decisions and managing my life? The contrast
hits you like a bolt of lightning and you make a profound realisation: if I live through this
information, hold it out in front of me, if I use it as my basis for managing my life, I can
transform my life, and, as it says on the front of TYL, I help save the world. That’s how
fundamental that clean take is in your mind.
At a personal level you see this opportunity where you get to step off that escalator of
increasing upset right now. All your problems are solved. But more importantly, you see
clearly that applying your strategy is now redundant and that’s not just for you individually
but for humanity. Humanity has been on a two million journey and our self-interest and
egocentricity is a product of that journey. We’ve now found understanding so all the
behaviour that goes with that phase in our evolution can subside: it’s actually irresponsible to
keep living that out. You make a threshold decision to abandon your fundament commitment
to this competitive frame of reference.
At this point the information sweeps in under you. You access and feel the compassionate
message of the information at a whole other level. You actually get to feel this concept that
we are the heroes of the story. You get to reflect on how unbelievably hard it has been for
us to persevere in the face of the ignorant implication that we’re evil because if you look
inside, you’re aware of this punch-drunk reality of who you are and what you’re capable of
doing. Everything is suggesting that you are an evil monster and yet it turns out through this
information that the complete opposite is true, that we’re the heroes of the story. Yes, we’re
massively upset but we’re actually heroic. You get to see our collective story and again, it’s
one of the things you understand more on the other side of transformation. It’s not the story
of this race or that race, we’re all human and there’s a collective story of all of humanity. As
Jeremy describes in FREEDOM, that story is the greatest story ever told and you start to feel
that in your bones and that is really quite special.
You start to see that ‘self is rested’ to quote Prue Westbrook from her Transformation
Affirmation [see Transformation Affirmation 1]. You see that you can stop having to prove
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stop in the world right now. I think one of the things that really struck at a personal level for
me was reaching a point of psychological peace and relief from being able to stop the cycle
of ever-escalating madness. I could see by virtue of having this clean take on who I am and
seeing the redundancy of my resigned behaviour that I can actually move on to a point where
there’s an immense, a profound amount of peace and relief. That of itself is an unbelievable
contrast to where you have been living. You work out that the information can bring all
humans that same peace.
You arrive at a point where you’ve let go of that commitment to self-interest and you see
how you are really living, and that it’s redundant. This is all a product of your mind acting on
the logic which goes back to what I was trying to say earlier. If I look at where I was at the
start of that journey, as someone who reads the lyrics from Imagine I can’t take them in, I’m
aware of my commitment, my habituation to self-interest and the momentum behind it and I
think, well how is that ever going to be overcome? And yet what is absolutely mind-bending
for me is that through processing this knowledge you arrive at a point in your mind which
isn’t pressured, it’s not being compelled on you from without, it’s actually your own mind
moving your whole perspective through to a point where that’s what you want to do, you need
to—your old way of living is redundant and all you want to do is let go of living through that
competitive, self-interested framework.

Moving on from the fear of confrontation
When we start reading this information our mind has an awareness of where the subject
matter is leading and, it sounds sort of funny, but our mind takes defensive or pre-emptive
action to prevent it from having to engage the logic that is being put forward. Your mind has a
preconceived view of where the information is taking you and that is to a subject matter that’s
going to be too hurtful or confronting or will leave you depressed, so it starts throwing up
deflections and defences and roadblocks to you processing it. That results in what we call the
‘deaf effect’ [see Video/F. Essay 11 for more on the deaf effect].
To try and tease that out at a deeper level. For example, people close to me have said
about this examination of the human condition that it is ‘rattling the black box in people and
you can’t do that’ and that the information is ‘encroaching on the personal unspeakable’ because

it’s not possible or sensible to go there. That ‘black box’ or ‘personal unspeakable’ is not makebelieve. I’ve experienced that as actually something very real and it is in every single one of
us. I know where this fear is coming from but what I want to say is that it is an unfounded
fear. That ‘black box’ is all the stuff I’ve been talking about in terms of the human condition
manifesting in you. It’s all the shame and guilt about deeds and actions you’ve done in your
life, your corruptions and perversions, it’s all in that ‘black box’ and you spend a lot of time
denying that’s in existence at all and any time something encroaches on that you’re very quick
to want to cover it up and block it from happening.
I want to emphasise that you can have a misreading that the information is reaching up
inside us and forcing us to confront those hurtful truths that will leave us dangling over an
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you actually hand that ‘box’ over to the information to look after. That part of yourself is
not left out in the cold or stranded. You leave it with the information and you move on [see
Video/F. Essay 33 in which Jeremy explains this aspect of the transformation process]. There
is nothing in that ‘box’ that does not have a home with this information. That was a very
profound realisation for me—that it is actually safe and I don’t have to continue to live in
denial and cover up that aspect of myself. There’s no dark thought or deed or any aspect of
our upset that doesn’t have a home in this new framework. I don’t need to face that down. I’m
not denying it, I’m not despising it out of existence. I’m owning it but I’m not engaging in it
and I’m not focusing on it because there’s no need to do that. But there’s an honesty and an
integrity about it because you’re not deluding yourself that it doesn’t exist.
So I really want to emphasise that this fear is unfounded in the context of this information
and if you find yourself feeling this way then you’re not actually hearing the information. As
the promotional material for Jeremy’s book A Species In Denial says, it contains the ‘naked
but dignifying truth about humans’. It is the confronting but compassionate full truth. It doesn’t

just naïvely or dangerously dig up all these truths and then leave us there stranded half-way.
It provides a comprehensive framework of knowledge and lays out beautifully a way for us
to assimilate and live with the information and takes us right the way through to safe ground.
It also explicitly says we don’t need to overly confronting the details of our upset. It does
not involve facing down the contents of our individual ‘black box’. Our job, if you like is to
support the information not confront it.
I wanted to read a section which is highly relevant from Part 3, page 89 of the print
edition of TYL:
“You and every other human can, as it were, put the issue of all our upsets/corruptions
in a ‘suitcase’, attach a label to it saying, ‘Everything in here is now explained and
defended’, and simply leave that suitcase behind at the entrance to what we in the
World Transformation Movement (WTM) call the Sunshine Highway and set out
unencumbered by all those upset behaviours into a new world that is effectively free
of the human condition.” [See p. 74 of First Edition of TYL.]

I couldn’t agree more with that and I’ve experienced the good sense of that and the need
for it and the logic behind it. We put that whole ‘box’ in that suitcase.
To recap, at the start you can think this information is never going to cover this dark side
of yourself but again, by virtue of letting your mind access the logic and actually reading
what’s talked about and becoming aware of the fact that this isn’t naïve, that there is actually
a pathway laid out, you realise that there is a new way of living that looks after all of that
and you leave that damaged, broken part of yourself with the information. It looks after you
and you’re safe when you do that. And as I said, it doesn’t miraculously disappear but it’s not
living itself out. It’s so safe and it’s so authentic.

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Visualise the future
A key thing that you work out as part of the solution to dealing with these aspects of
yourself that historically you’ve never been able to live with is this concept of visualising
the future and focusing forward. And that applies to both your commitment/habituation to
self-interest and also your denial about your upset state. It’s this concept of ‘we get the truth up
and then we move on’ [see par. 1049 of FREEDOM]. It’s about focusing your mind outward and on the

future, to visualise the potential for humanity now that the human condition is solved. Rather
than focus on what you have let go of and the relief you focus on the future.
There is nothing supernatural about that. It’s quite practical. You’ve got a conscious
mind. You can actually take it/transport it to the future, we can take ourselves to a new state of
mind and wrap ourselves up in that. By really focusing forward you are able to be operational
despite that habituation and mess. It is such an effective solution. You can choose what you
want to think about, what you fill your head space with and as a result of this information
we’ve got the ability to take our head space forward and think about what the human state is
going to be like now that we’ve got understanding of the human condition and you can think
about how good that is and immerse yourself in that. You can think about how good it is that
our habituation to self-interest can end and what that’s going to make possible.
We transcend, we live high and wide of our upset but we are not being dishonest and
deluded about our mess. We are not pretending it doesn’t exist. We are not despising it out of
existence. We are owning it but are moving on, not living with our face right up against it. We
are wrapping ourselves up in the future and that dwarfs or moves into the background any of
that desire to live out our habituation or to feel a sense of confrontation about our upset. That
possibility is mind-bending. Your upset doesn’t have to drive your behaviour. Your mind is
not living here thinking about this mess all day. Your mind moves forward, way forward and
you work at that.

Another journey starts
You sit here for a bit and you can’t believe your lucky stars. You are focused on this sense
of relief and you can’t believe you can abandon that competition and live honestly but free of
that state of upset. But then you start to lift your head and this is something pretty new for me.
You’ve got this room in your head, you’re no longer preoccupied with this need to prove that
you’re worthwhile all day, every day. So there is space in your mind, a lack of noise.
What that enables is for you to start to get even greater perspective on the wasteland
you’ve been in and you start to engage with the pain and suffering that is all around you,
you engage in how quickly humanity is spiralling out of control and you’re also looking
forward to the future and you can see that all of that can stop right now. The world really
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contrast becomes more and more stark. It’s actually a mind-bending frame of reference in
that the human condition, the suffering, all the manifestations of that can all stop right now.
Not in ten years, but right now. All that is required is dissemination and appreciation of this
information. When you see that the priority and focus becomes stunningly clear and selfevident—I have got to help progress this project. There’s nothing else I want to do. You get
the accurate perspective on what is in front of you and you start to see that focussing on self is
irrelevant. That’s why I love this image by WTM member Genevieve Salter [see Genevieve’s

Transformation Affirmation 4].

It’s of a rising sun depicting the information and the outcome that it brings about. And
then the depiction of herself with her arms in the air in front of that sun. It so accurately
reflects the true perspective, the scale of the information, as compared to us as individuals,
and the situation we are now in. When you get a group of individuals living with this as their
frame of reference then it starts to bring into reality the lifeforce that is possible. I’ve gone
from seeing myself as being the centre of my universe and unable to see any other potential
to now where, with the benefit of transformation and following through the logic in my mind,
I’m living in a place where I can see what this is all about and I’m so relieved that that’s the
scale of it. Its importance and power just dwarfs any of my habituation. All this artificial,
superficial, self-focused crap that you thought there was absolutely no way you could live
without, you can walk past. Living through and for the information is not something you are
being obligated to do, or compelled to. It is what you want do more than anything else in the
world. You don’t want to do anything else. That person standing in front of the sun is me and
that’s the scale of this information and if I can just tune into that then it looks after me. As I
said before, it’s about transforming your life and helping to save the world.
So how about that! I know the extent of my belief and commitment down that egocentric
road: ‘Bring on whatever challenge and I will overcome it!’ However it is now possible to
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defeated from within by my own mind following the logic of this information through to the
outcomes. I’ve gone from this position of massive self-interest and I’ve arrived at a position
where I don’t want the focus to be on me. It’s a case of, sign me up, what do I need to do?
I can see the potential of what this information can achieve, it’s here, it’s right now, I don’t
want to be focused on me. So that contrast just gets starker and starker and it just gets better
and better and evaporates all that old stuff that you thought would be impossible to let go
of. I just turned around the flow of the Amazon River in myself. You go from thinking about
some aspect of your upset that you thought utterly irresistible to feed but it can be resisted.
Your mind’s digestion of the information conquers that in yourself and brings the realisation
that can happen in everyone else.
I suppose it’s just about seeing the logical implications of this information. It’s about
taking up selflessness. In Part 3, page 68 of the print edition of TYL Jeremy quotes the lyrics
from the band U2, ‘I will show you a place, high on a [uncorrupted] desert plain’—an egocentricityfree existence where ‘the streets [will] have no name’. [See p. 65 of First Edition of TYL.] It’s all
about realising and living those implications and seeing that selflessness is consistent with our
deeper nature and, as I said before, understanding that selflessness is the integrative meaning
of life on Earth. Our mind and instinct start to come together to give a fulfilment unknown.
[We recommend you read F. Essay 45 which is a collection of prophetic song lyrics describing
our species’ liberation from the human condition.]
The battle to champion our goodness is won so we can legitimately do this now. That’s
what translates that ‘army’ into a reality. For the next few generations it’s about supporting this
information. That’s what selflessness translates into. We prioritise our life to that end. It’s so
simple and beautiful. I just become a tool to help bring in the new world. I just want to be a
speck in the mass of that ‘army in its millions’.

Imagine
Surely, if we could dream of a different world it would be along the lines of John
Lennon’s Imagine. Surely, it would be an ego-less rather than egocentric, cooperative rather
than competitive, selfless rather than selfish world. Imagine you could help change the world
to peace right now. Try to engage that potential for one second then imagine the motivation
and excitement to help realise that. Think of the collective energy and what that can achieve.
This allows your mind to see how we can change the world and change it practically
overnight. See how it will totally overcome the force of self-interest and egocentricity on the
planet. When that force is aligned competition can’t come close.
I have experienced how that can happen right now. I can vouch for the proposition that
if your mind consumes this information you will arrive at that realisation and know it to be
true and as a by-product there will be peace, fulfilment, wholeness, meaning for you that you
never thought was possible.
This is not about self-improvement to make you more effective or to achieve more. This
is not about becoming a more virtuous or a better person. It is about ending egocentricity,

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competition and selfishness. It’s about a new way of living where we serve the whole and not
ourselves. That is how fundamental it is. It’s actually not about us, the individual, and the fact
that it’s not about us paradoxically results in this sense of fulfilment and meaning that is a
glorious by-product.

Out of love in search of love
I wanted to read this quote from Sir Laurens van der Post. ‘He who tries to go down into the
labyrinthine pit of himself, to travel the swirling, misty netherlands below sea-level through which the
harsh road to heaven and wholeness runs, is doomed to fail and never see the light where night joins day
unless he goes out of love in search of love’ [The Face Beside the Fire, 1953, p.290 of 311].

As an extension to the focus not being on self, I did want to say the following.
Early on, one of the deflections your mind can throw up when trying to engage this
information is to focus on the messenger rather than the message and to question Jeremy
Griffith’s character and motivations. I want to say that I’ve known him for 25 years and
every waking hour he is about ending the suffering on the planet through synthesising
explanation of the human condition. He lives the example of the outcomes of the
information and that is to serve the whole, not self. It’s not about him, it’s the information
and what it can achieve. He is living outside Plato’s metaphorical cave [see Video/F. Essay
11 for an explanation of Plato’s cave allegory], he is what we’ve traditionally termed

a prophet or what the WTM calls an unevasive thinker. He’s defined by an integrity of
character and an amazing mind that’s unlocked an avalanche of insights that are seemingly
insoluble and inexplicable. Again, if you genuinely let your mind consider this information
it will validate this proposition. [We recommend you read Professor Harry Prosen’s
biography of Jeremy in F. Essay 49.]
Jeremy has weathered an immense amount of lies, persecution and character
assassination. [See F. Essay 56 for an explanation of the attacks on Jeremy and the WTM.]
It’s been a modern-day stoning. It was as Plato said, when a person tries to come back into
the cave with the light, with the explanation of the human condition, ‘they would say that his
visit to the upper world had ruined his sight [they would treat him as if he was mad], and that the
ascent [out of the cave] was not worth even attempting. And if anyone tried to release them and lead
them up, they would kill him if they could lay hands on him’ [see Video/F. Essay 11]. He has shown a

staggering resilience and courage. He’s not superior, not of intrinsic greater worth but is
unresigned and his mind has a unique capacity. It was a combination of circumstances that
has enabled that mind and allowed him to go to the bottom of the well. I wanted to say that
but hasten to emphasise that the focus is not on self, it’s about the future that is possible in
light of this insight.

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In truth you only need to read a page or two of Jeremy’s work to validate what I have said
about the messenger. I wanted to take a couple of extracts from my favourite pages of TYL.
This is from Part 2, page 56 of the print edition:

“[referring to Don Quixote of la Mancha and his companion Sancho]…gloriously
doomed battle after gloriously doomed battle; feeble beings charging at and trying
to vanquish the ‘outrageous giant’ ignorance-of-the-fact-of-our-species’-fundamentalgoodness! But that has been the lot of every human for some 2 million years! Wave
after wave of quixotic humans have thrown themselves at that ‘outrageous giant’ of
ignorance for eons and eons, as bit by tiny bit they accumulated the knowledge that
would finally make the redeeming explanation of our human condition possible!” [See

p. 44 of First Edition of TYL.] [Don Quixote is also the subject of par. 67 of FREEDOM]

And Jeremy has drawn this little depiction of Don Quixote and Sancho with the title
‘THE HUMAN SPIRIT’. When you start winding into just how special that human spirit is it’s

unbelievable. I just love the words ‘gloriously doomed battle after gloriously doomed battle…Wave
after wave of quixotic humans have thrown themselves at that “outrageous giant”’.

Also in Part 2 of TYL is Jeremy’s analogy of The Story of Adam Stork [see also, par. 250
of FREEDOM] and in particular the fist Jeremy has drawn on ‘Baddie’ Adam Stork shows the
extraordinary courage of the human spirit. [TYL contains two further images of Adam Stork
following the one below, one with the ‘Goodie’ and ‘Baddie’ labels reversed now that the
reconciling understanding of the human condition has arrived, which leads to the third image
depicting both storks reconciled and transformed].

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INTELLECT

INSTINCT

evil
guilty
corrupted
immoral
selfish
aggressive
competitive
divisive
‘unGodly’
egotistical
realism
conscious
reason
mind
‘I think’
head
wisdom
science
mechanism
right-wing
capitalism
materialism
old
men
whites
artificial
alienated
dishonest
insecure
troubled
city
sexual
yang
dark

good
innocent
pure
moral
selfless
loving
cooperative
integrative
‘Godly’
altruistic
idealism
conscience
emotion
soul
‘I feel’
heart
ignorance
religion
holism
left-wing
socialism
spiritualism
young
women
blacks
natural
sound
honest
secure
happy
country
non-sexual
yin
light

GOODIE

BADDIE

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And in relation to that fist, Jeremy says further on in Part 2:
“And so every day as we got out of bed we took on the world of ignorance that was
condemning us. We shook our fist at the heavens in defiance of the implication that
we are bad. In essence, we said, ‘One day, one day, we are going to prove our worth,
explain that we are not bad after all, and until that day arrives we are not going to
‘back down’, we are not going to take the ignorant, naive, stupid, unjustified criticism

from our instincts. No, we are going to fight back with all our might.”

The relief and compassion that runs through your body when you start to tune in to what
that little analogy is about is really quite amazing. Jeremy once said something to the effect
that if you fill all the valleys with all the books written about the human condition twice over
you still won’t come close to the majesty of that little diagram of Adam Stork because it
defends and saves humanity, and it’s actually true. It is just SO special and brilliant.
I wanted to highlight that because it is the core insight AND because when you wade into
this book it is important to keep sight of it.

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Nourishment
While the future is the focus, this information is so relieving and nourishing along
the way. There’s so much confusion, there’s so much we don’t understand growing up and
this information explains all manner of apparent mysteries: Why are men and women so
psychologically different? [See F. Essays 26 & 27.] How did highly social insects like bees
and ants evolve? [See F. Essay 25.] Why do men shoot animals for sport? [See F. Essay 27.]
Why rock-n-roll? [See chapter 9:11 of FREEDOM.] Why beauty? [See F. Essay 27.] Why
are we so moved by the beauty of nature? [See for example, F. Essay 21 on the formation of
our all-loving moral soul.] You name it. While the focus is on the future there’s just so much
reward in the short term. That’s something I really want to highlight. There’s a lifetime of
nourishment, so much brain food in terms of actually understanding what the hell has been
going on in the world and that’s reward enough.

What I live for now
There’s so many good things to think about now: stop destroying the planet; bridge the
gap with more innocent races. A particular one for me is how different it’s going to be for
young men to grow up in the future. I see groups of young adolescent boys huddled together
down at the shops so unsure of where they fit in in the world. Being a male, masculinity is
increasingly without virtue. On the other hand there is still this pressure from within and
without to kick the crap out of the innocent and sensitive part of yourself, to bury it, to kill
it off, to die inside, to grow up, to toughen up, to become a man and take up this ‘gloriously
doomed’ competitive existence. All of that has been unavoidable until this point in time, it’s

been part of the human condition but it’s been psychologically and emotionally very painful. I
am so glad that can stop now.

Freedom
I was sitting on a plane recently and across the aisle was a businessman dressed in a suit
and he was watching the 2007 movie Freedom Writers. It’s about a teacher in middle America
helping young adolescents and it’s a pretty moving and inspiring story. I realised as he was
watching the movie that he was actually crying and he was trying to pull himself together. It
was a small insight into how much we all want selfishness to stop and selflessness to reign
supreme. We are all desperate to go. Now humans have been exonerated and redeemed
through this information, we can. Let’s go, all forward, all together.

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Section 3:6 Annie Williams (recorded December 2009)

Hi, my name is Annie Williams and I’ve been a founding member of the WORLD
TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT (WTM) since 1980 and I’m now 48 [at the time of filming].

The name of the WORLD TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT has just been changed from the
Foundation for Humanity’s Adulthood (FHA), which I’ve always absolutely loved because it
talks about humanity finally maturing through understanding itself into its Adulthood state,
which is a state of management and functionality. But it has been changed to the WTM which
is just so incredibly beautiful because that is what this information does, what understanding
the human condition does [see Video/F. Essay 3], it does transform you [see F. Essay 15]. It
transforms you from someone that has lived, as Jeremy has explained, in the dark without
understanding, and has all the characteristics of the human condition and of being a human
at this time in history—so that includes all the depression and darkness and shame of our
unexplained state, and it does transform you to a person that is full of hope and love and
compassion for humans. It’s absolutely incredible what this does to you. It does transform
you—from someone who lives in a very small world that has no beauty and has no hope for
the future and can’t understand anything and that basically is just reduced to living a very
selfish and preoccupied life—to someone who can really understand the whole world, the
whole history of the human journey. The macro scale of this is just all-powerful. That’s why
I love the word transformation because that is exactly what it does. People can say, ‘How
does this work, you’re talking about transforming the world, the WORLD TRANSFORMATION
MOVEMENT, God, come on, you’ve got to be kidding’, but I know that I’m just one human

that has lived on this planet and I represent the rest of humans and it’s transformed me, so
it can transform all humans. And I’m not particularly smart or talented, I’ve just been lucky
enough to run into this information and what it does for you is just transforming! [Again,
Video/F. Essay 15 explains how understanding the human condition can immediately
transform your and every other human’s life and save the world.]
I’d like to give a little bit of background about what meant so much to me in terms of
accessing the real potential and power of this information.

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I was 18 and attending art college, which included studying art history, and the things
that were going through my mind at that age and stage of my life were things like ‘Why are
there so many different cultures and different religions?’ [see F. Essay 28] and ‘Surely there’s
got to be a universal truth somewhere’ [see F. Essay 23] and ‘Where does creativity come
from?’, and all those sorts of questions that run through your mind but you have no real
foundation or centre to think about things and to understand things. When Jeremy Griffith
introduced this information to me it was addressing those questions on a fundamental level.
It did take me time to really absorb it though, and I really want to appeal to people to keep
re-reading, to keep re-listening to the information because in those early days it does need
that re-reading. Jeremy calls it the ‘deaf effect’ because basically we have been living in
denial, so we take this state of denial as the only world there is, so it takes a while to erode
the cynicism, erode the superficiality and actually start thinking about things again. [See
Video/F. Essay 11: The difficulty of reading FREEDOM and the solution.] So to get through
the deaf effect reaction is a really important step and when you do, you walk around looking
at the world and you are in wonder, you can actually start thinking deeply about things and
you can understand what is relevant to you. Questions like ‘Why do women embrace the
idea of being a sex object?’ [see F. Essay 27], ‘Why is the world patriarchal?’ [see F. Essay
26], ‘What is sensitivity and creativity?’ [see F. Essay 42], ‘What is our conscience or soul?’

[see F. Essay 21], ‘What is morality?’ [see F. Essay 21], are all answered, it’s absolutely
unbelievable! I can understand what my conscience or soul is, I can understand the feelings
I had inside of me at that time, I can understand why my father was so incredibly tough and
strong and appreciate that. It was just unravelling before me. Jeremy talks about an avalanche
of answers and that is exactly what this information provides, you almost can’t keep up
with it and then you are skipping around in this wonderland of knowledge and you can start
thinking and start accounting for things.
But then you do run into yourself, run into your own human condition, and rediscover
that, and that is immensely confronting and immensely uncomfortable. This is the ‘Mexican
Standoff ’ that has been talked about in these affirmations [see Video/F. Essay 33 for a
discussion by Jeremy on the Mexican Standoff]. For me it was after 10 years of access
and intense involvement with the WTM and struggling with the Mexican Standoff that
the explanation of Resignation became so significant for me personally [see F. Essay 30
for the explanation of Resignation]. It allowed me to access the fundamental defence
of humans because when I could understand the difference between an unresigned and
resigned person, then I could accept how an unresigned person could think about this, live
with this, live fearless of the human condition and therefore think cleanly and explain the
human condition from first principle based biology. That was such a key moment for me.
I suddenly wasn’t feeling condemned or inadequate or criticised by the implications of the
information. I wasn’t trying to compete with the information because I could understand the
difference between an unresigned and resigned mind. I could understand, as Jeremy Griffith
explains, that unresigned minds are what were historically termed prophets [see F. Essays
38 & 39], and where all that substance, beauty and sensitivity comes from and why they

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really, really want people to read the Resignation essay [30] and chapter in FREEDOM [see
chapter 2:2] and really study them because they are incredibly unlocking of so many aspects
of the human condition.
There actually are two different types of humans: humans that have had to resign,
which is a defended dignified state; but there are also these rare humans that actually
don’t have to resign [again, see F. Essays 38 & 39 about ‘prophets’], which is a product of
the right circumstances and being in an incredibly nurturing environment, basically being
in a little corner of the world where the human condition wasn’t raging around them.
Understanding that was immensely, immensely significant for me. It was critical because
through that understanding I could accept my own human condition, not as a shameful
state or something I should be embarrassed about or feel criticised about, and then I
could actually stop competing with the information and then I could just access it’s true,
powerful, transforming potential.
I remember one morning waking up just feeling free of that heaviness, free of that feeling
of shame or criticism, free of trying to fight those feelings with just the old standard resigned
strategies that I had developed. I was actually, for the very first time, using the information
available to my mind and this brain food was actually kicking in and from there I was in a
position to really fully appreciate how you do live with this immensely confronting time in
history. You are finally given the tools and the information to be honest about your alienated
state and all that that means: that we have become immensely selfish, immensely preoccupied
with our own insecurities—that all that matters to us is trying to get our self worth validated.
And the change from that state, that this information makes possible, is the transformation.
You are transformed from that preoccupied person to a person free, not free of the human
condition but free of that preoccupation. Free to be able to think again, free to be able to feel
again, free to be able to understand everything and then you know in that moment that if I can
do this, if I can be transformed from what I was to what I’m feeling now, then this is what
saves the world, because I am one human of all the humans in the world and I’ve done it and
if I can do it then anyone can do it and that is the moment of transformation. That is what the
WTM is going to be taking to this planet and it is all-powerful and all-exciting because every

day you know (I mean we don’t know exactly when, and we’ve got massive challenges before
us), that this information is going to sweep the world as Jeremy Griffith said and it is going to
be like Pierre Teilhard de Chardin said, ‘the Truth has to appear only once…for it to be impossible
for anything ever to prevent it from spreading universally and setting everything ablaze’ (Let Me Explain,
1966; trs René Hague & others, 1970, p.159 of 189, quoted in Section 2:3).

That is the meaningfulness and that is the wonder and the power and the incredible,
incredible excitement that runs through your veins and it’s almost unbearable at times because
you know that every minute, even if you are asleep, that if you support this movement it will
save the world, full stop. It stops all the pain and it stops all the children having to go through
what you went through and how amazingly meaningful is that! What more could you ever ask
for in your life?! You are given the most wonderful glorious gift that you could ever be given.
So that’s why I’m a WORLD TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT member!

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Section 3:7 Tony Gowing (recorded December 2009)

My name is Tony Gowing and I wanted to tell you about my experience with this
explanation of the human condition that Jeremy Griffith has put forward and how it has
transformed my life into the most wonderful, meaningful, FREE, enthralled state imaginable.
Where before I was wandering around in a superficial, selfish, confused, ignorant,
insecure, egocentric madness, today I’m walking around in an effectively free, effectively
secure, meaningful, transforming-of-the-world-happiness, a liberated-from-the-humancondition, Transformed Lifeforce working on the most important project in the world, the
WORLD TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT (WTM).

The following Abyss of Depression and the Sunshine Highway to Freedom drawing [see
next image] by Jeremy [that is discussed in chapter 9:10 of FREEDOM] to me encapsulates
everything that is in front of all of us humans, now that the human condition is solved and can
finally be fully acknowledged and fully explained [see Video/F. Essay 3].
The thing about Jeremy’s explanation of the human condition is that it is science; it
is information and information that gets to the bottom of all human affairs. It opens up a
completely new paradigm, so everything needs to be re-explained based on this new ability
to be honest about ourselves and about the way we live. So it does take a while to get your
head around it and to understand this whole new paradigm based on this new honesty. I spent
about 10 years knowing this information was true and yet still trying to ignore it. [Note, this
long period of procrastination occurred before the Transformed State was fully developed for
coping with the exposure that understanding of the human condition brings—see F. Essay 15:
How everyone’s lives can now be immediately transformed, and Video/F. Essay 33 in which
Jeremy discusses this procrastination, or what has been termed the ‘Mexican Standoff ’ with
this information.]
Jeremy has talked a lot about us living in the cave-like, dead existence side of the Abyss
drawing and living in denial and living in that upset state [see Video/F. Essay 11]. There is
a lot involved with coming out of that state, becoming free of denial and being free of that
dead state, and that’s what we can now do with this information. The transformation process

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that I’ve undertaken, that has transformed my life, has basically come down to two main
discoveries or realisations that I’ve had, that bring me out of the cave-like dead existence side
of the Abyss drawing and across the Sunshine Highway to the FREEDOM, World-In-Sunshine

side of the Abyss drawing.

The Abyss of Depression and the Sunshine Highway to Freedom

Together, these two discoveries liberated and transformed my life to a most incredible
freedom and excitement-filled world where I live now. I’m part of the WTM that is going to
change the world from the superficial, dead, dark, alienated, depressing, selfish, destructive,
uncaring place that it is now, to a world full of humans liberated from the human condition,
transformed into empowered, arms-raised-in-glorious-freedom, sun-drenched-with-liberatingprotecting-knowledge, transfigured Lifeforces. And it’s these two realisations that I made that
I wanted to tell you about.
The first realisation comes in two parts. The first part of the first realisation was that
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understood it, I’ve applied it to my life, I’ve applied it to the world around me and I know
that it makes sense of absolutely anything and everything. It’s just unbelievably exciting to
be able to start understanding what the hell is going on in the world. It just makes sense of
everything. As I said, it opens up a whole new paradigm, a whole new world that you didn’t
know existed. You are coming out of this cave and finally seeing what is around you, what is
actually going on in the world outside this dark place that you have always lived in.
Once you start to understand everything there are a lot of very exciting realisations that
start to take place.
Where before I thought that the world was simply the way it was and unchangeable,
that you just had to battle on and live through all the horrors and terrors and hardships and
unfairness that the world is, I now know that there are answers to every single question that I
have ever wanted to know about the world and answers to all the problems on the planet.
Peace on Earth is now really a true prospect, it can happen, it’s not just some idealistic,
left wing, hippy, feel-good sentiment. [See Video/F. Essay 14 and F. Essays 34, 35 & 36 for the
full exposé of left-wing, pseudo idealism.]
We can finally acknowledge Integrative Meaning, the true meaning of life, which is the
driving force behind everything on this planet. [See F. Essay 23.]
All the bullshit, our egocentric, our selfish, our superficial, fake, feel-good crap that we
all go on with and we all hate in ourselves and we hate in everybody else can now end. We
can finally live real lives; we can live lives based on real meaning for the first time ever.
There is this world that you can finally see and be part of, it’s a sun-drenched world, a real
world, a true world, our soul’s world that is loving and sensitive and cooperative and peaceful
and uplifting and secure and we have not been able to acknowledge this or see this for the last
two million years—in fact, we had to deny it and attack it—but with this understanding of
ourselves we can see this world and can be part of it. It is right here, it’s all around us and it is
what we have all dreamed of as children and it’s what the children are dreaming of right now
and it is what we plead for in the middle of the night when our terrors are stabbing at us.
The bottom line for me is that I know through personal experience and applying it
to the world and myself, that this understanding does in fact solve the human condition,
which, like Jeremy said, is the most terrible affliction imaginable and has been the suicidally
depressing, underlying issue in all human affairs for the last two million years. It is this
liberating understanding that allows the reconciliation of our loving, happy, sensitive, soulful,
selfless, cooperative side of ourselves, with our dark, mean, angry, confused and depressed
side of ourselves, for the first time since consciousness developed and allows this world
transformation to take place and allows this transformation to take place in myself.
This is honestly the biggest and most exciting thing that has happened on the face of this
planet in the last 4.5 billion years.
The second part of the first realisation is finally being able to understand what is going
on in myself. Through understanding the basic Adam Stork story, that Jeremy has explained
[again, see Video/F. Essay 3], we can finally understand all our upset behaviour that has
resulted from living under the duress of the human condition and the reasons for it and I can
finally rest fully assured that it is all explained and defended.

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I can see all the upset and the preoccupation that I have in myself and the selfish
madness that I have taken up to deal with the human condition. I can just start to see a
glimpse of the pain that is underlying all of my behaviour, that is causing all that madness
and selfishness. I can see it all fits together—the human condition, my pain, my behaviour
and all the reasons for it. It makes so much sense, it’s so relieving to know what the hell
has been going on.
But the more you look into it, the more you can see. I can see the selfishness in
the world and I can see the selfishness and madness in myself. We are so mad, we are
completely 100 percent selfish and dedicated to proving our worth—we have had to be to
survive. But nonetheless, seeing that meanness that we are capable of is just so immense
and it’s horrendous. I just look at myself before I came across this: I was dedicated to
making myself feel better, in order to beat off any of that underlying terror inside myself
from my childhood. I have been dedicated to winning, to building a whole long list of
self accolades and proving I am a worthy human being. I didn’t care about anyone else
really, I just cared about how life developed for me and proving myself and staving off any
suggestion that I was bad.
Our selfish, human-condition-afflicted strategies are so deep and so entrenched that we
just can’t see them until they are pointed out to us and even then we can’t bear to look. I have
strategised the way I walk, the way I talk, the way I dress, the way I roll my sleeves up, where
I live, the job I have, everything. It’s all rolled into an intricate ‘show the world how good I
am’ package, proving I’m good and not bad. That’s how all humans have been living under
the duress of the human condition and that’s how you are living right now until you have
become a Transformed Lifeforce.
The more I look at myself with this information at hand, the more I see the extent of my
falseness. But seriously, that is not what this explanation is about. That selfishness is the truth
about where we have been living unable to explain ourselves and face the human condition,
but now that we can explain and defend ourselves everything changes, we don’t have to
live like that anymore—this transformation movement is all about freedom. Freedom from
the human condition and the inability to explain and defend our upset—it is freedom that is
available to us now and that is the way that we can now live.
This leads me to my second realisation and this is the major freedom. Because if this does
solve all the problems on the planet, if this does stop all the suffering, if this can end all the
terrible atrocities that are occurring on this planet then I realised that all I had to do is support
it, it’s that simple. All I need to do is join the WTM on the Sunshine Highway to The World
In Sunshine. I can just pack up all my baggage, all the mess of my human-condition-afflicted,
self-preoccupied state and leave all that mess and dysfunction—it has been taken care of by
this explanation of ourselves, my worth is no longer in question. I just support this massively
exciting movement that will change the world to the most exciting, wonderful world that
I could ever dream of. I don’t have to go into any of my pain or dysfunction, I don’t have
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I know that it’s true and I know that it sorts all those problems out. All I am interested in is
getting this information, this understanding of ourselves, to a fresh generation so they don’t
have to grow up in the depression and darkness that I had to and we had to.
Again, I just leave all that strategy of must-win, show-the-world-I-am-a-legend, provethat-I-am-good-and-not-bad behind—all of that stuff is just a ridiculous waste of time, that
kind of behaviour is just a redundant pile of shit now.
And that’s the point, that’s the moment, when you finally see the full redundancy of
everything that you are doing. When you see that it is all over, when you see that it is mad,
when you see that you don’t have to live like that anymore, when you don’t have to live that
tiring state anymore, that you can finally start to see the truth in the world, that you can finally
start to see outside that self-preoccupation bubble of madness that you live in. It’s like the
scales falling off your eyes, it’s like seeing the world honestly for the first time since your
childhood, it’s like waking up from a nightmare, it’s like 100 tonnes being lifted off your
shoulders, or like Jeremy said, a near-death experience [see par. 997 of FREEDOM].
Leaving all this baggage behind is not giving up or being weak, it’s just taking the next
step in humanity’s journey. It used to be the way we had to live, to be self-preoccupied and
egocentric but now this new information has come to light, everything can change.
The relief and excitement and pure joy in the anticipation for the future, that will be
fully free of this human condition, is simply incredible. Like I said at the beginning of this
talk, one minute I am walking around in a must-prove-myself, dark, denial-ridden, humancondition-afflicted state and the next I am just walking around in the completely-liberatedfrom-the-human-condition position supporting the most amazing, exciting, awe-inspiring
job imaginable.
You think about it: if this information and explanation of the human condition that Jeremy
has put forward does stop all the suffering, if it does end all the problems on the planet and
does everything we are saying it does, then doing anything other than supporting this WTM is
absolutely meaningless, it means absolutely nothing. All that bullshit that we carry on with,
swanning around and trying to prove ourselves and getting wins is all just a waste of time
now. Nothing else has any importance until all the world’s occupants have this understanding
of themselves and their surroundings.
So all you’ve got to do is grab your mates and join the WTM and liberate yourself from
the human condition! Let go of all that totally redundant, human-condition-afflicted, tiring,
selfish, behaviour and help change the world to the most amazing place you have ever
dreamed of!
I know this might sound a bit superficial or obvious after talking about solving the human
condition, but being able to solve all the world’s problems can only start once we have all
taken up this transformation into liberated Lifeforces.
The environmental movement simply cannot save the environment until we have made
this transformation. [Again, see Video/F. Essay 14 and F. Essays 34, 35 & 36 on how left-wing
dogma leads to terminal alienation.]

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All the starvation in Africa and elsewhere around the world cannot stop until everybody
has made this transformation.
The greed and meanness that is shown by the large corporations and that we have
all seen in the recent global financial crisis, and that is in all of us, cannot stop until this
transformation has occurred.
The psychologists cannot properly help all the distressed, depressed and terrified children
in the world without first making this transformation [see F. Essay 55: Endgame for the human
race on just how damaged children now are by the state of the world].
We cannot solve the obesity, drug or alcohol epidemics in our world unless we first make
this transformation [again, see F. Essay 55].
The power of what is coming as all humans realise that they are free of the human
condition and are able to make this transformation and leave all the mess and all the suffering
of the human condition behind and live in a world of freedom, is so incredible that it will let
nothing stop it in its path. It will blow through every corner of the world like a cool, fresh,
relieving breeze.
Our world can finally be free of the human condition through this breakthrough,
compassionate, biological understanding of itself and all we have to do to make sure this
happens is to consider the material in order to see that it is true and that it does make sense
of our condition and our world. Once we are satisfied that it is true, we simply leave all
the mess and dysfunction and the horror of our human-condition-afflicted states behind in
history, where they belong, and simply live for the future when children will not have to die
inside themselves as we have had to do for the last two million years, waiting and fighting
for this day to arrive.

Section 3:8 Susan Armstrong (recorded February 2015)

My name is Susan Armstrong and I am 42 years old [at the time of recording]. It is simply
thrilling to be alive at this time when understanding of the human condition has arrived, as put
forward by Australian biologist Jeremy Griffith [see Video/F. Essay 3]. And it’s so exciting to
talk about my experience with this information.

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Section 3:8 I’d like to start with reading the title and subtitle of Jeremy’s latest book, FREEDOM:
‘FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition. At last, the redeeming, reconciling and rehabilitating
biological explanation of the human condition that brings about the dreamed of dawn of understanding and
ends all the suffering and conflict on Earth’. And that says it all. This really is it! This is, to quote

Professor Harry Prosen in his Introduction to FREEDOM, ‘the holy grail of insight we humans have
sought for the psychological rehabilitation of our species’. The human condition is solved. Jeremy has

provided the answer to this fundamental question of why we are the way we are—divisively
instead of cooperatively behaved, and all the problems we worry about in ourselves and in the
world are solved from this point and it looks after absolutely everything you love or care about!
It really does transform your life from being an utterly preoccupied and selfish victim of the
human condition to a person effectively free of the human condition, saturated in relief and
excitement about myself, all humans, and the absolutely fabulous future before us.
My experience with this information began when I was 19, nearly 20. I stumbled across
these ideas and I found them very interesting and accountable and from there my interest
grew. The ‘deaf effect’ was very real to begin with [the ‘deaf effect’ is explained in Video/F.
Essay 11, and in chapter 1:4 of FREEDOM] but I just kept responding to the logic, re-listening
to talks and re-reading the text and this does erode our historical fear of the subject of the
human condition and you finally can ‘hear’ what is being logically put forward. This really
does explain and solve our condition!
Life becomes very exciting as you ‘test’ this information on life around you and you
start making sense of everything you look at. Walking around in your daily life you are able
to understand and see through all the behaviour around you and in front of you. Everything
becomes transparent. You see that the human condition is driving all our behaviour:
individuals, cultures, countries and civilisations, religion, politics, men and women,
absolutely anything you look at or think about! As WTM member Genevieve Salter says in her
Transformation Affirmation [see Transformation Affirmation 4], it really is like you are drunk
on knowledge and it’s an incredibly exciting time. For me particularly, understanding the

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differences between men and women was a very profound moment. To find out that men have
actually been carrying out the most meaningful and important job on the planet, this battle to
find knowledge—ultimately understanding of our good-and-evil-afflicted human condition—
was an absolute revelation. [See F. Essays 26 & 27 for explanation of the different roles men
and women have taken up under the duress of the human condition.]
So this was all very exciting. However, obviously you do then begin to see through the
human condition in yourself, and to start with this is a very fearful and terrifying prospect. I
began to see all the upset within me that the human condition had caused and the strategy of
denial I had taken up, and of course this was incredibly confronting. It leads to what we in the
WTM call the ‘Mexican Standoff ’, ‘where you intellectually know the information is true and that
it explains and defends the upset state, but find actually confronting it all excruciating’ [see Video/F.

Essay 33 and also Part 6:1 of Freedom Expanded: Book 1]. For a time you can’t move forward
because the truth is exposing your denial, strategy and the lies that you took up at Resignation
[see F. Essay 30 for an explanation of Resignation], but you are still trying to maintain this
strategy to defend yourself. You also can’t move back, because this information is logical and
true and you know it solves all the world’s problems.
The next stage in my journey with this information that I want to talk about is the most
exciting because it solves this impasse, and in fact it solves all our problems and all the
world’s problems, and that is the Transformed Lifeforce Way of Living. There seemed to be
three main building blocks for me in accessing this new way to live which I’ll go through
briefly now but they are in no particular order.
The first one is Resignation. As I mentioned before, and as is explained in F. Essay 30, we
all have an historical fear of the human condition. Jeremy has explained that for two million
years we have been living without understanding, without the manual for life. And in our
individual lives, we discover that in a very profound way at around the age of 15. We start off
wondering about the world as children and why it is the way it is, but at around 15 you start to
wonder about yourself and about ‘why I am the way I am’. Jeremy terms this incredibly deep
time as Resignation. And I will now read a couple of extracts from chapter 2 of FREEDOM
about Resignation [underlinings are as they appear in FREEDOM]:
“Delving deeper into how the journey toward ‘Resignation’ unfolds will reveal just
how terrifying the issue of the human condition has been, which is precisely what the
reader needs to become aware of in order to appreciate why it has, until now, been
impossible to truthfully and thus effectively explain human behaviour. Yes, describing
what occurs at ‘Resignation’ makes it abundantly clear why resigned humans have
become so superficial and artificial in their thinking, incapable of plumbing the great
depths of the human condition and thus incapable of finding the now desperately
needed understanding of human existence.
So what happened at around 14 or 15 years of age for virtually all humans growing
up under the duress of ‘the imperfections’ of ‘our human condition’ was that to avoid the
suicidal depression that accompanied any thinking about the issue of our species’, and
our own, seemingly extremely imperfect condition, there was simply no choice but
to stop grappling with the answerless question. And so despite the human condition

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being the all-important issue of the meaningfulness or otherwise of our existence, there
came a time (and, although it varies according to each individual’s circumstances,
it typically occurred at about 14 or 15 years of age) when adolescents were forced to
put the whole depressing subject aside once and for all and just hope that one day in
the future the explanation and defence for our species’ apparently horrifically flawed,
seemingly utterly disappointing, sad state would be found, because then, and only then,
would it be psychologically safe to even broach the subject...” (pars 107 and 108)

And just a small extract, again from chapter 2 of FREEDOM:
“...adolescents going through the excruciating process of Resignation, of resigning
themselves to having to block out the seemingly inexplicable question of their worth
and meaning and live, from that time on, in denial of the unbearable issue of the
human condition...” (par. 109)

So for the rest of our adult lives we all take up strategies to cope with life, a life of
denial of the human condition. As Jeremy says, while we became adults in a physical sense,
without the explanation of the human condition we were all still psychologically stranded in
adolescence, the ‘who am I?’ stage. We constantly fight off this implication that we are bad.
The second building block is the following all-important picture. Again I’m referring to

FREEDOM here and it’s the Story of Adam Stork.

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This story of Adam Stork is at the heart of Jeremy Griffith’s explanation [see Video/
F. Essay 3 or read chapter 1:3 of FREEDOM]. It really is an astonishing analogy, because it
explains the seemingly unexplainable, how we could be good when we appear to be bad. For
me it has more diamonds and gold around it than anything else. Because when you absorb
this truth, when you try using this logical explanation to defend you—the full truth about
humans, that you are upset but you are good, that you are fundamentally worthwhile and
heroic—instead of using the strategy you took up to defend you at resignation, your life is
transformed. All I had to do was try this defence and move on from, or let go of, my old
obsolete way of living/my strategy to life because it is simply not needed now.
The next picture I want to show is Jeremy’s drawing of our human journey. I am referring

Late
Childhood

CHILDHOOD

Now
–Shock Soon
of change

2 mill yr ago
or 12 yr old

–Shock
of change
Beginnings of
Resignation
1.5 mill yr ago
or 15 yr old

Difficult
+ to – Paradigm Shift

ADULTHOOD
ADOLESCENCE

A dying world of ever increasing and
accumulating anger, egocentricity
and alienation

Easy
– to + Paradigm Shift,
once over the
shock of change

Absorbing this wonderful story was also a very important building block for me because
it summarises the human journey over the last four million years from childhood, to the
human condition beginning two million years ago, to the adulthood stage of ‘I know who I
am’ that has finally arrived. I can see where I fit in as part of this amazing journey.
Putting these three building blocks together you really do see that our old way of living
was just where we had to live before understanding arrived, we had to live with lies and
in denial of our upset selves and we had to have strategies to protect ourselves from any
criticism. But now, a whole new framework is available/on offer to humans where the truth is
up, the full, dignifying truth about humans. It is a new landscape, a solution- based paradigm.
The old way is just gone now, it is superseded by knowing/understanding our ‘goodness’ and
having the defence for our ‘badness’, we are upset but we are good. That old way of living
has done its job and is just over, it is a ‘museum piece’ as Jeremy describes it in FREEDOM,
we can view it now as a way of living that once was in the human journey archives. The
human condition has been solved and the full truth about humans has arrived. I can, we all
can, live accepting our upset selves, the full, beautiful truth about me and all humans and I
am no longer a victim of my resigned upset state. It is amazing that we/the world can admit

to FREEDOM again, it’s at the beginning of chapter 8.

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our alienation (that we have previously done everything we can to hide), and that we can
show people how you can live with these confronting truths, how we can be honest about our
upset—we can be honest now, there is nothing to be afraid of or procrastinate about.
I anchor myself here, to this change in attitude towards my upset self, to the truth about
me and the strategy I had to develop to cope without understanding which naturally resulted
in a lot of damage as it does in all humans: upset, warring within myself, huge insecurity
about my goodness, compensating for any supposed ‘weakness’ or ‘frailty’, anger, frustration,
deep preoccupation and selfishness, competitiveness to prove I was good, and codependency.
There was just so much torture and confusion. On the surface I was maintaining a ‘I’ve got it
all together, happy’ front but underneath I was a very high- achieving and over-applied, driven
and competitive person and I had a lot of fear of ever living without that. I kept away from
feeling vulnerable at all costs, the fear of that was enormous and it completely owned me and
ran my life. Our strategies are protecting us from this depression, this uncertainty about our
worth and they are like spitting cats in the way they protect us from ever going near the issue
of the human condition again. They were born out of a time when if we looked at the issue of
the human condition we knew we weren’t going to survive because we had no answers and
so we just had to resign. From that point we were stuck in that necessarily egocentric mindset
but now we can actually see that it was just an habituated way of living that is simply obsolete
and redundant now.
The other thing I was thinking about is something Jeremy points out regarding the
‘Dog Whisperer’, Cesar Millan and his work with super aggressive dogs. [Jeremy mentions
Millan’s work with dogs in FREEDOM, par. 557.] Dogs obviously aren’t conscious but the
analogy is there, when you see him, he allows them to come out of their mad aggression to a
super calm and happy state just in an instant. And that’s what the Transformed State is like.
When you actually use this information to defend yourself, you are suddenly not owned by all
that fear and anger and preoccupation. You are suddenly enveloped in the full truth that you
are upset but you are good. Boom! It’s all calm and the mist clears.
We are all just little boys and girls who did the best we could under the duress of
the human condition. I am upset but I am good, it is actually all logically understandable
and beautiful in the full human story. The old framework is all around me and it is in me, but
I can live in the new one. The Transformed State is the way for upset humans to participate
so fully in this new framework, by supporting the information which is the full truth about
humans and not your old way or your old habit any more.
As Jeremy writes in FREEDOM, par. 1161, “We can reason that, ‘Yes, I do have all these
angry, egocentric and alienated feelings and thoughts, and I know that without undergoing a great deal
of psychological therapy I can’t hope to heal all the underlying upset that is producing these feelings and
thoughts. But I also know that way of feeling and thinking is now obsoleted, so I’m simply going to leave
that way of feeling and thinking behind me and adopt the new way of feeling and thinking that is now
available where I live in support of a reconciled, non-aggressive, non-competitive, truth-based new world
for humans!’”

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And to bring up my last visual, this is a poster that is available on our website of

humanity climbing out of the cave to freedom:

This cave here is based on Plato’s cave allegory, that Jeremy has depicted here in the
poster, and written about in FREEDOM [see also Video/F. Essay 11]. And it really is the
perfect analogy for our situation. Because without understanding, living in this cave of denial
was just the way it had to be in humanity’s journey to enlightenment, but it is dark and it’s
full of worry and doubt and insecurity about your worth. It is just the worst condition to be so
insecure in your fundamental worth, to be forever fighting that off. Now, with understanding
there is a shock of change process involved in coming out of the cave to the sunlit plains of
freedom, but the thing is we can! Jeremy has opened the cave door with this information.
We are actually free as a species of the human condition. We are all free right now and it’s
just a simple realisation to make. The Transformed State allows you to uncurl from the foetal
position in the cave just trying to survive life, you get up and simply walk out the cave door.
And despite the fear of the human condition being so great in the cave when you are still
relying on your coping strategy to protect you, once you drop your strategy at the cave door,
leave it all behind and you are out of the cave there is just no fear at all. It just is so obvious,
logical and natural how we live now that understanding of the human condition has been
found. The cave life is just over in the natural evolving way of us humans growing up into
adulthood. And for the first time ever this is a universal position for all humans. Everyone
abandons the battle now and lives this way because the battle to find understanding of the
human condition has been won. It’s actually the only sensible and strong thing to do and it’s
actually just madness not to. We no longer have to prove our worth. Our worth is proven.
Never again do we have to worry about that, or our goodness or our purpose.

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We now live forever in this new landscape, sunlit, happy, with not just hope but a deep
reassuring knowingness of why everything is okay forever more. You can actually boot hope
and faith right out the window! It is honestly amazing! You are not free of your upset, but you
are free from worrying about it and you know this freedom is for everyone and we fight for
the future now and it is so thrilling! Despite being so damaged from the battle we can all still
participate. Life begins afresh in terms of what you feel and see and want to happen and put
your weight behind. It’s just so exciting, your mind just buzzes with the feeling of freedom
and what is possible now.
On this sunlit plain in Jeremy’s picture, everything is glorious. I am glorious in the whole
truthful story of humans. My upset/scars are understood and defended. There is a rational
explanation for it all. I fit into that story, the greatest story ever told of the first species ever
to become conscious [see F. Essay 24] and have to go into battle with its own perfectlyorientated-to-love instincts [see F. Essay 21 for the origin of our moral instincts]. My instincts
and intellect are gloriously reconciled. We are ALL glorious here. It’s not a fleeting thought
or inspiration, that is with you forever. You are standing in this new landscape of knowledge
where we all belong.
The full truth, with all its confronting truths, must come out for humanity to be free.
But it’s only confronting from the perspective of the cave, in that no-solution paradigm. It
is okay. We can do this. There is a way to cope. The way we live now is to take up the full
defence available to us and leave our strategies behind. This is our truth and we have every
right to use it! We live a new way and the truths don’t condemn us here because we are
secure in our upset. It just doesn’t matter how upset we are, that is what we are meant to be
after two million years.
And then you really, really see how we all, the whole of humanity, gets out of here, out of
the cave. We finally, as the psychoanalyst Carl Jung said, can ‘own [our] own shadow’. And from
here we can get this information to future generations and no child will ever have to resign
again. As WTM member Annie Williams always says, the pain stops with us [see Annie’s
Transformation Affirmation 6]. We can stop the silence and finally be honest with children,
answer all their questions, which we have historically found so difficult, about why the world
is so un-ideal. We are all free of the old way here and we are living in the new landscape where
the future is our focus and all humans are free and the sun is rising so highly and brightly.
There is no reason ever to look back, just always to the horizon. Everything is covered here
and everything is saved and I can be centred and calm and strong and sensible with the truth
about humans in my life. All you have to do is support this information and IT will do all the
work for you, it will look after everything you love, humanity is coming home, the Earth and
all its creatures are saved. It’s the most beautiful thing that has ever been seen on this planet.
And finally, what bursts out of every cell in your body, is the roaring cry of ‘LET’S
GO!!! LET’S GO!!!’ And so to finish, I just have to read some short sections from Freedom

Expanded: Book 2, Section 4:1: ‘It’s on, humanity is coming home—our real self is going to come
thundering through to the forefront now and the world will open up for everyone, and everyone will
help everyone else. We CAN leave our old ego-embattled lives behind now and metamorphose into free,
empowered lifeforce beings.’

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The following are a couple of quotes from the Bible [that also appear in Section 4:1 of
Freedom Expanded: Book 2]. We can understand and decipher all manner of things now with
this information, and the Bible provides such an incredibly powerful and truthful account of
life under the duress of the human condition. These quotes are from two prophets, firstly from
Joel. As Jeremy says, the prophet Joel perfectly articulated the vision of our species’ liberation
from the human condition when he said, ‘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 have the appearance
of horses; they gallop along like cavalry. With a noise like that of chariots...like a mighty army...They all
march in line, not swerving from their course. They do not jostle each other’ (Joel 2). And the second

quote is from the prophet Isaiah: ‘He lifts up a banner [that is, the human race finds understanding]
for the distant nations, he whistles for those at the ends of the earth. Here they come, swiftly and speedily!
Not one of them grows tired or stumbles, not one slumbers or sleeps; not a belt is loosened at the waist, not
a sandal thong is broken. Their arrows are sharp, all their bows are strung; their horses’ hoofs seem like
flint, their chariot wheels like a whirlwind. Their roar is like that of the lion, they roar like young lions; they
growl as they seize their prey and carry it off with no-one to rescue. In that day they will roar over it like
the roaring of the sea [there will be immense excitement, enthusiasm and commitment]’ (Isa. 5:26–30).

And this concluding extract from Section 1:5 of Freedom Expanded: Book 2, in which
Jeremy writes:
“WE ARE OUT OF HERE, leaving this spent, exhausted, dead world behind FOREVER!
LET’S GO is the great battle cry that will begin as a tiny voice among a few and then

catch on and spread to become a roar of excitement that will be heard across the
world—like a hundred thousand horses appearing from horizon to horizon galloping
to a fabulous future...
And all of nature will be absolutely cheering for us because this is that greatest
of greatest victories for all of life on Earth—because we humans were the ones who
were given the task of championing nature’s greatest invention, the fully conscious,
thinking, self-adjusting brain. We humans were given this amazing computer, but
we weren’t given the program for it and instead were left to wander in a terrible
wilderness of ignorance in search of understanding of our meaning and worth as a
species—an understanding we have NOW FINALLY FOUND.
Everywhere there is going to be joy, more joy and excitement than we tired,
worn out and weary human warriors are capable of imagining—again, as Beethoven’s
symphony anticipated, ‘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!’

We are out of here, the great breakout is on. The human race is breaking free of
the shackles of our tomb that we have been forced to live in for so long we hardly
know of another existence—but we do know of another existence, another fabulous
place ‘high on a desert plain where the streets have no name’, that Bono [of the band U2]
sang of, otherwise why would we have fought so hard and for so long. For two million
long years we have fought for the arrival of this day.”

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Section 3:9 John Biggs (recorded December 2009)

My name is Jοhn Bіggs and I’m a founding member of the WORLD TRANSFORMATION
MOVEMENT (WTM).

As Professor Harry Prosen is quoted as saying in Section 1:3 [of Freedom Expanded:
Book 2], this is an extraordinarily exciting moment in human history and it’s an honour and a
privilege to be here supporting these ideas.
The quote by Prof. Prosen that Jοhn is referring to is: ‘I have been a student of psychiatry for
many years. What I have to tell you is that I have no doubt this biological explanation of Jeremy Griffith’s
of the human condition is the holy grail of insight we have sought for the psychological rehabilitation of
the human race. I cannot urge you strongly enough to listen to what Jeremy Griffith has to explain. My
message is as simple as that. This is all so exciting; I’m quite overwhelmed to be here on Earth when these
answers are finally found. Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you.’]

The Introductory Videos on our WTM homepage deal with the most profound and
confronting subject there is: that of the human condition—the issue of why humans are
so selfish, angry, alienated and non-ideal [at the top of the homepage see Video/F. Essay
10 for a description of what exactly the human condition is, and Video/F. Essay 3 for the

explanation of the human condition]. While I appreciate that this domain can seem exposing
and daunting at first, in my experience it isn’t as difficult as it can initially appear. Jeremy’s
explanation of the human condition is the dignifying and compassionate understanding
of why we are the way we are. It explains that despite our deeply non-ideal state, we are
fundamentally worthwhile and meaningful. We are on safe ground. So although it is a new
experience for most of us to have the subject of the human condition discussed so openly
and clearly, if you are patient and give yourself a little bit of time to take in the explanation,
you will soon become familiar with it [see Video/F. Essay 11: The difficulty of reading
FREEDOM and the solution]. You will soon discover for yourself how much sense it makes

and how much it resonates in each of us. Once you have some appreciation, you’ll be able
to see how exciting a breakthrough it is and what an unbelievably good thing it is for the
human race. What is in front of us now, both individually and collectively, is wonderful,

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brilliant and exciting beyond words. Humans have always sub-consciously known that one
day, understanding of the human condition would be found—that somewhere, somehow,
someone from a sheltered corner of the world would turn up who was able to explain and
solve all the problems on Earth—and that the truth that emerged would be able to explain
and thus heal all the suffering on the planet. [See F. Essay 50 about Australia’s role in
producing this breakthrough understanding.]
A quote that I love, by the Jesuit priest and philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, which
was published in a book after his death, articulates this knowingness in us all: ‘the Truth has
to appear only once … for it to be impossible for anything ever to prevent it from spreading universally
and setting everything ablaze’ (Let Me Explain, 1966; tr. Rene Hague & others, 1970, p.159 of 189, quoted in Section
2:3 of Freedom Expanded: Book 2).

It’s extraordinarily prophetic because, not only does de Chardin

admit that we are living in a state of denial, he anticipates the day that the Truth about humans
would be revealed and that everything would be ‘ablaze’—that the knowledge which emerged
would transform our world. The scale of the change that de Chardin anticipated is colossal,
and this is what is actually now underway. A monumental paradigm shift has begun. [See F.
Essay 15 about the transformation this breakthrough makes possible.]
While this change is very exciting, we have to take it steadily and adjust to it step by
step. We all have a responsibility to manage this process, rather than allow ourselves to be
overwhelmed by how new and confronting it is. If you think about it, how could you stop
all the anger, all the greed, all the selfishness, all the indifference and all the superficiality on
Earth if you didn’t have a very profound and thus confronting explanation of it? Soft-headed,
politically correct, feel-good, superficial ideas aren’t going to make any real difference to
the horror and suffering on the planet [see Video/F. Essay 14 and F. Essays 34, 35 & 36 for
an exposé of pseudo-idealistic movements]. As everybody knows, and you only have to read
the newspaper any day of the week to realise, the world is in a terribly desperate, difficult
situation [see F. Essay 55: Endgame for the human race]. It’s only profound, biological,
first principle, compassionate, dignifying explanation of the human condition that can make
any difference. And that is precisely what we now have. That is precisely what Jeremy’s
explanation does and thank God that it does. [Of the four essays that expose pseudo
idealism (14, 34, 35 & 36), see in particular Video/F. Essay 36 for an explanation of how the
transformation is completely different to pseudo idealistic ‘false starts’.]
I have been a founding member of the WTM, and before that a member of the
Foundation for Humanity’s Adulthood (FHA), for almost 20 years. In my experience,
absorbing and adjusting to this information takes a while, but isn’t that difficult. While
there is much that’s new, if you persevere with your investigation of it you will soon
see the simplicity of it and realise how much this information resonates in you. You will
soon experience for yourself how incredibly exciting this is. It’s not rocket science—
it’s far from that. It’s just very profound honesty. It’s confronting but dignifying and
compassionate honesty. The process of familiarising yourself with this information just

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takes some time and application. The ultimate fantastic result of digesting this information
is the Transformed Lifeforce State—how we live with this naked but dignifying truth
about humans—and it is all set out word perfectly by Jeremy in Section 2 [of Freedom
Expanded: Book 2, or in chapter 9 of FREEDOM, or, in the most condensed form, in F.
Essay 15]. All I have to add to what Jeremy has explained is my personal experience of

living with this information.

The transformation process is about how you get from the state depicted in William
Blake’s Cringing in Terror, which is the bottom image that appears on the front cover of
A Species In Denial (pictured above left)—this person living with the horror of the human
condition and being unable to confront it or explain it (that state is also depicted as the people
living in the cave on the front covers of Freedom Expanded: Books 1 & 2)—out into the
sunshine of the liberated or transformed position, the state depicted by Blake in Albion Arose,
the top image on the cover of A Species In Denial, and the state depicted by the people in the
sunshine on the covers of Freedom Expanded: Books 1 & 2. We are on our way to a world of
magnificence, wonder, happiness and all the things we have ever wished for. [Again, you can
read about the amazing transformation that is now possible in F. Essay 15.]

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It is important to mention that the process of change that comes with digestion of these
ideas takes time, because, if you immerse yourself in how mad and upset and embattled
this person cringing in terror is, you can see that initially it’s going to be difficult for him to
confront the fact that he or she is living in this embattled state of denial. It’s going to take
some work to help this person in the Cringing in Terror position move across into the position
depicted in Albion Arose. That’s what we’re talking about. It can be done safely because,
although we are all incredibly hurt, embattled, egocentric, angry and insecure, the bottom line
of this information is that we are all fundamentally good. Notwithstanding all the pain, all the
hell, all the horror and all the suffering we have been through, humans, every last one of us,
are all wonderfully good. It’s the understanding of our fundamental goodness that gives rise to

Late
Childhood

CHILDHOOD

Now
–Shock Soon
of change

2 mill yr ago
or 12 yr old

–Shock
of change
Beginnings of
Resignation
1.5 mill yr ago
or 15 yr old

Difficult
+ to – Paradigm Shift

ADULTHOOD
ADOLESCENCE

A dying world of ever increasing and
accumulating anger, egocentricity
and alienation

Easy
– to + Paradigm Shift,
once over the
shock of change

Humanity’s Journey from Ignorance to Enlightenment
Jeremy’s drawing Humanity’s Journey To Enlightenment contexts this moment in
time. This drawing spans about 5 million years in the development of the human condition
in humanity’s life story. [Read the full story of humanity’s journey from ignorance to
enlightenment in chapter 8 of FREEDOM.] Humanity’s ‘Childhood’ stage came after our
arboreal heritage and we spent, as I understand it, some 3 million years in this ‘Childhood’
state—this Garden of Eden, our happy, innocent, wonderful past—that we now have a very
strong instinctive memory of. With the dawn of the fully developed conscious mind some
2 million years ago, the human condition emerged. With that began the embattled horror

of the ‘Adolescence’ stage, which humanity has been living in for the last 2 million years,
an insecure state of not understanding our apparent inconsistency with the ideals, of not
understanding the reason for our fundamental goodness. This is the essence of the Adam
Stork story [that is presented in Video/F. Essay 3]: starting out with no knowledge; becoming
embattled in the process of trying to find that knowledge; and becoming more and more and
more upset the longer that journey goes on. Where we are now, is at the threshold of the
‘Adulthood’ part of that diagram. We are the little person sitting up on the hill—holding this
long sought after understanding of the human condition in our hands—and trying to deal with

The World In Sunshine that is ahead of us.

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the shock of the change. For 2 million years we have lived in a world where there hasn’t been
any real understanding of the human condition and we are trying to adapt from having no
understanding to being drenched in the magnificent, compassionate, dignifying truth about
our condition. It’s this World In Sunshine on the right hand side that is now possible that’s so
exciting. What we all want is to get the hell out of the state that the world’s currently in and
get across into The World In Sunshine.
Individually, it’s a process that you have to work through. It’s not instant but, if you
follow the logic, it’s not complicated. In fact it’s surprisingly simple. I would like to talk about
what I see as the two fundamental aspects that you need to appreciate in order to be able to
make the fundamental personal change that’s now possible.
Firstly, you need to recognise that what Jeremy has explained about the human condition
is true. If it were not for the fact that virtually all adult humans live in a state of deep denial,
that would be a straight forward matter. Unfortunately, it’s very easy for us as humans who
live in denial—as depicted in Blake’s Cringing in Terror—to just fall back into our historical
ways of coping. Because humans have historically been unable to explain their divisive state,
we’re very insecure about any truth about our condition being raised. So when we see/hear the
human condition being discussed, a lot of us, almost instinctively, recoil into thinking ‘that’s
taking me back down to that dark corner [of Plato’s cave; see Video/F. Essay 11] and there are
no answers to that problem and I don’t want to be criticised and condemned so I’m not going
there’. Others become angry when they sense that they are being confronted with the truth
about our condition and respond by ruthlessly attacking Jeremy, the WTM or the information.
That’s also happened a lot over the last 20 years. [See F. Essay 56: Why there have been
ferocious attacks on the WTM; and read about the persecution that Jeremy and the WTM have
suffered for exposing the human condition at www.humancondition.com/persecution.]
But there is a third response, other than falling back into denial or becoming angry,
and that is to try to develop some appreciation of this information. I accept at the outset,
that people are entitled to be 100 percent sceptical about whether Jeremy has explained
the human condition [see F. Essay 54: The accusation of hubris]. Like all new ideas, such
as Copernicus’s idea (that the Earth was not the centre of the solar system) or Charles
Darwin’s idea (that life developed through natural selection), there will initially be millions
of people who can’t cope but there will also be many who can cope, who don’t want to
stagnate in the old paradigm and who want to take the human journey forward. If you
take the time to watch some of the Introductory Videos of Jeremy explaining the human
condition, or if you read one of his books, you’ll soon appreciate for yourself just how true
his explanation is. So I encourage you to do this and to persevere with it. If you watch
the videos, it normally takes two or three viewings, perhaps a week or two apart, to get
an appreciation of Jeremy’s ideas. The reason it takes time is because of what we in the
WTM call the ‘deaf effect’. The ‘deaf effect’ arises because we humans live in denial of

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condition being discussed so openly, we have an almost instinctive ability to block it out
and not hear what is being said, as though we are ‘deaf ’. It takes some effort to apply
yourself sufficiently to hear and understand what Jeremy is saying, so I encourage you to
listen to what is being said carefully and to persevere with it. [See Video/F. Essay 11 for an
explanation of the ‘deaf effect’ and an introduction to the WTM Deaf Effect Course which
has been designed to erode the ‘deaf effect’.]
In addition, I would just like to tell you something from the heart. What Jeremy has
explained is the first principle biological explanation of the human condition. It’s not some
superficial, left-wing, feel-good trip [again, see Video/F. Essay 14 and F. Essays 34, 35 & 36
for an exposé of pseudo-idealistic movements]. It’s not some esoteric intellectual bullshit. It
is not some contrived excuse for human divisiveness [Video/F. Essay 14 includes an exposé
of the excuse that we have ‘savage instincts’]. It is The Answer to the question of questions. It
is The Truth about humans. This is IT. I am not saying that you should take my word for it. I
am asking you to make the effort to verify that for yourself. If this is what it purports to be, it
should make sense. There is a forum for feedback and questions on the WTM website. If you
make a genuine endeavour to understand this you will soon see how true it is. That realisation
is the first threshold.
The second issue then arises, which each one of us has to appreciate and accept. It is
axiomatic—if you realise that Jeremy’s explanation is true then logically you should accept
the second point but in my experience people don’t and I include myself in that. It is this:
you must also realise and accept that you yourself are a victim of the human condition.
It’s easy to see the human condition in others, in people around you, in people you work
with or socialise with or in public figures. It’s easy to say of someone else, ‘that person
seems to be suffering from the human condition’, ‘that person’s insecure’ or ‘that person’s
particularly egocentric’. It’s much harder to see the human condition in yourself and to
accept the fact that you are a victim of the human condition—that you are an insecure,
selfish, egocentric, alienated mess.
At the core of this realisation that you suffer from the human condition is this concept
of Resignation and what it means to be a resigned human that Jeremy has explained very,
very clearly in all his books. Resignation is a psychological moment, a ‘dark night of the
soul’, when humans change from believing in the cooperative, selfless, loving, happy state
that humanity lived in for some 3 million years, to believing in the competitive, must-win,
aggressive, angry, selfish state that resigned humans now live in. When you are born into the
world you expect it to be as it was during humanity’s Childhood stage, full of love, happiness
and honesty [see F. Essay 21 on the origins of our instinctive moral soul]. But you discover
that it’s not. In fact, you discover that its extremely selfish, unhappy and dishonest as in the
Adolescence stage. You discover the manifestations of the human condition in the world
and in yourself. We all struggle when we’re young trying to reconcile our expectation of
ideality with the reality around us and we find, almost without exception, that we can’t do
it. As Jeremy explains, we are then faced with suicidal depression because we can’t explain
our divisive condition. So to avoid that terrible depression, at about the age of 14 or 15, we
resign, give up on the ideals and take up a competitive and selfish attitude to life. [Read more
about Resignation in F. Essay 30.]

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Goya’s The sleep of reason
brings forth monsters (1796-97)

This drawing by Francisco de Goya, titled The sleep of reason brings forth monsters, is
of the moment of Resignation. It is of someone trying to face down the human condition and
being unable to do so—being hounded by these owls that represent all the misunderstandings
that we might be bad—and without the explanation of why we are good being unable to cope.
The monster is the implication that you are a worthless, evil human. There is a section on
Resignation in each of Jeremy’s recent books. I just want to try to give people an appreciation
of what it means to be resigned because it’s such an important concept and for me it’s been a
bedrock of understanding that has allowed me to understand who I am and to move forward.
The following are quotes about Resignation from [Jeremy’s 2003 book] A Species In Denial:
‘After only a few days it is almost impossible to get people who have become resigned to consider there is
such a thing as a cooperative purpose to existence, or to consider humans were once instinctively orientated
to living cooperatively. Resigned minds believe with a passion that humans were once brutish and
aggressive ‘like other animals’. They will not allow themselves to believe that humans have an instinctive
self or soul orientated to cooperative behaviour. And they believe with all their being that the meaning of life
is to be competitive, and that succeeding in competition with other humans is the way to achieve a secure
sense of self-worth. They actually believe that ‘winning is everything’, that success in the form of power,
fame, fortune and glory is meaningful...Their mind in effect says ‘I am going to believe in, live off, and enjoy
this new way of viewing the world; I simply do not care if it is false’ (p.236 printed edition/p.155 online version).

That is what humans take up when they resign. That is what the person in Goya’s The
sleep of reason brings forth monsters does when he can’t confront the human condition in
himself and in the world. They take up this resigned attitude to life. To quote A Species In
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person’s psyche or soul’ (p.257 printed edition/p.169 online version). Jeremy also quotes a poem written

by a woman called Fiona Miller when she was about 13 or 14 years old: ‘Again, Fiona Miller’s
amazing resignation poem described the extent of the psychological death that accompanied resignation:
“Smiles will never bloom from your heart again, but be fake and you will speak fake words to fake people
from your fake soul / What you do today you will do tomorrow and what you do tomorrow you will do for
the rest of your life / From now on pressure, stress, pain and the past can never be forgotten / You have
no heart or soul and there are no good memories / Your mind and thoughts rule your body that will hold
all things inside it; bottled up, now impossible to be released / You are fake, you will be fake, you will be a
supreme actor of happiness but never be happy”’ (p.257 printed edition/p.169 online version).

These are incredibly powerful quotes and I am using them to illustrate the state of
madness that we all adopt when we become resigned. I want to immediately stress that this
explanation of the human condition dignifies humans. There is a very good reason why we
took up this artificial state. We took it up to avoid suicidal depression and we had to—it
was actually the responsible thing to do—so we don’t need to be ashamed of how upset and
embattled we are. In fact, we can be incredibly proud of the fact that we are resigned. The
truth about the human condition is very paradoxical.
This is another quote from Jeremy’s book A Species In Denial about Resignation: ‘The fact
is that resignation is a state of extremely prejudiced falseness and thus ‘futility’ when it comes to thinking
effectively. It is not interested in the truth, rather it is interested in evading the truth…Given the extreme
falseness of the resigned state, it is no wonder humans have been sensitive about being called liars. Every
resigned adult has been lying, has been denying the truth about Integrative Meaning and many other
critically important truths, including the fact of their own extreme alienation. The truth is, all resigned
adults have been ‘lying through their teeth’; lying in the most extreme way while maintaining a broad smile
of confident denial of these lies’ (p.284 printed edition/p.186 online version). There is also this quote from The

Great Exodus ‘…the truth is that the levels of alienation in society now are such that pretty well all humans
are but cardboard cut-outs of what they would be like free of the human condition’ (Jeremy Griffith, 2006, p.111).

You just can’t do any better than those quotes and they blow you away with how truthful
they are, how profound they are, how confronting they are and how full of shit and upset
and embattled humans are. But the converse of that is that we are wonderful. We are truly
wonderful, glorious and courageous—as Jeremy said, human beings are the most courageous
things that the Earth has ever seen. So the human condition is incredibly paradoxical. The
reason I wanted to read these quotes is to try to help you to understand what it means to be
a human who has had to go through Resignation. Because, if you bear with me, there’s an
absolutely fantastic, all-your-dreams-come-true, answer to this problem.
To take up this solution we first need to face the reality of what is really going on inside
ourselves. We need to deal with who we really are. With any problem in life, whether it’s at
home, at work, at the football club, wherever, you first have to acknowledge that you have a
problem before you can address it. If you don’t admit it, you can’t deal with it. The issue we
need to admit, using the explanation of the human condition that Jeremy has set out for us, is
to accept that we are victims of the human condition and that we are therefore resigned and
self-centred. From the springboard of accepting that simple fact, there’s just so much joy and
happiness and wonder and glory that is possible. When each of us resign, we quite necessarily
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as much reinforcement that we each can. Except for the extremely rare, sound, unresigned
prophets like Jeremy, Sir Laurens van der Post and Teilhard de Chardin and a very few others
that you can read about in Freedom Expanded: Book 1, virtually everybody else, all adults,
are resigned. Everybody ends up in this state of mad denial—it’s just a question of what sort

of mad denial that we each get.

Our personalities, which are our expressions of our various upset states, come in all
different shapes and sizes. But fundamentally, we are all embattled Adam Storks—desperately
trying to get as much reinforcement for our self worth as we can. There are different strategies
that resigned humans take up—trying to be the best sportsman or the smartest cookie or the
best looking or the happiest person or the funniest or the most laid back, etc, etc—but at base
everybody is simply trying to validate their self worth and fight back against the implication
that we appear to be ‘bad’. Resigned humans are forever preoccupied trying to get as much
artificial reinforcement as they can. I am not condemning that state because it has now
been explained that there is a good reason for humans being so upset but that is what being
resigned has been all about.
My background is truly irrelevant in the scheme of things but it’s as good an example
as any for the purpose of this discussion. Because of the particular circumstances of my
upbringing, I became what we describe in the WTM as a ‘power addict’. I had a particularly
extreme desperation for power, fame, glory and fortune—like a big proportion of the men of
my generation. While on the surface I try to give the impression of being a happy, relaxed good
bloke—‘let’s have a few beers’, ‘let’s go down to the beach’—the truth is that psychologically
I am actually like the characters depicted by Blake, Goya, Bacon or Steadman.

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Beneath the surface, I am this intense, super competitive, winning-is-everything, angry,
insecure maniac. These pictures, which are a compilation of ones that Jeremy used in his
presentation, represent that part of us, of me. The hollow-eyed lizard in Ralph Steadman’s
The Lizard Lounge drawing is of a ‘power addict’. These are true representations of what
humans are—honest depictions of the human condition. I am not some centred, sound, secure,
happy person. I am this extremely embattled, angry, hurt, alienated maniac. Realising that and
accepting that is the springboard to changing it. Again, I stress that it’s not that I am trying to
condemn anybody or to make us feel bad by highlighting such terribly confronting drawings
of what it is to be human. I am highlighting them because we can now face our condition and
through doing so, change our state of mind in a way which has never been possible before.
That is what I am trying to help us appreciate.

Clockwise from top left: Blake’s Cringing in Terror c.1794-96;
Goya’s The Pilgrimage of St. Isidro (detail) 1821-23; Bacon’s Study
for self-portrait (detail) 1976; Steadman’s The Lizard Lounge (detail) 1971

I have been involved in the WTM for 20 years as I mentioned. I was very lucky because
when I first became involved, Jeremy was speaking a lot at universities and other forums. I
was fortunate enough to hear him talk on many occasions and I got a lot of exposure to him
explaining his ideas. As a result, I became very familiar with this information and I soon
realised that it was true. However, for the 15 years after that, although I was quite happy
to talk about and promote the information, even to defend it at great lengths, I never really
applied it to myself in a personal way. I just battled on with my own ‘Adam Stork’ strategy.
I persisted with the strategy of the hollow-eyed lizard in Steadman’s The Lizard Lounge
drawing. It was schizophrenic in a way: I was supporting an explanation as being the truth
about humans but in my own life I wasn’t personally embracing it. I was still thinking that my
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it, like humans do, for 15 years, despite knowing that this information was true and that my
resigned competitive strategy to life was now redundant. [See Video/F. Essay 33 for further
discussion of this ‘Mexican Standoff ’ and how to overcome it.]
And as I got older, like all humans do, I became more and more embattled and the human
condition compounded and compounded in me. Underneath, I became more selfish, more
egocentric, more angry and more insecure about my state. On the surface, I was working
overtime trying to keep up a polite, happy, easy-going demeanour like everybody does but
underneath the reality was that I was becoming more and more of an egomaniac. If you’re
honest you can see the same essential development of upset in the people around you. As we get
older, we each become more and more embattled. What I eventually came to accept is that once
you’re resigned, that’s it. You are this mad, selfish, egocentric, massively embattled human.
You can’t unresign, you can’t unscramble the egg, you can’t get back to and renegotiate that
‘dark night of the soul’ when you resigned (and frankly I don’t want to go anywhere near there).
You are trapped in a state of false, circular logic because what you adopt when you resign is not
true. It’s like being one of the masses in the movie The Matrix, walking around in a world that
is completely false and contrived, but unable to see through it. Once you are resigned you are
living with a self-perpetuating lie. It takes time to understand and appreciate the fact that you
actually are no longer working from a truly sound, rational base—the honest base that the very
few unresigned thinkers in the world operate from. So the real question you have to ask yourself
once you accept that you are resigned is: What do you do about that resigned madness? Do you
just keep living it out because it’s a highly established pattern? What do you do?
I continued living out my resigned strategy for a long time until one day almost four years
ago now, I came across Tony Gowing (who is also a founding member of the WTM), when
he had recently taken up the Transformed Lifeforce State [see Transformation Affirmation
7 for Tony’s affirmation]. I had known Tony for about a decade before then and he is a very

talented individual but, like all of us, he too was usually completely preoccupied with his own
situation. A remarkable change had come over him. Suddenly, he had this amazing freedom
and relaxedness. The change is his mindset was stunning. Whereas, just a month or two earlier
he had been battling through life like everyone else, all of a sudden Tony was talking—he was
raving really—with excitement about the potential of living for this information rather than
through his resigned strategy. After watching him go about his life for a few weeks, I thought
to myself: ‘Well Jοhno why don’t you have a go at that? I mean, where you’re going and what
you’ve been doing for 20 years of your life since you resigned, if you’re honest with yourself,
isn’t getting any better.’ I thought ‘Well why don’t I just try doing what he’s doing?’ So I tried it.
Essentially, once you realise that this information is true and accept that you are resigned,
you can very simply change your life by changing your strategy. You can effectively just ‘put
down’ your old resigned strategy—you can metaphorically put all the psychosis and the pain
of your life into a little box—and obtain all your meaning and purpose through supporting
this information. You use the information as the true explanation of your self worth and you
live in support of it. You simply let go your now redundant resigned strategy. That’s it! I know
that sounds almost absurdly simple, but it works. In fact, it works brilliantly! It works because
the information does what you were ultimately dedicated to achieving in your resigned Adam
Stork state, that being to validate your self worth.

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This is WTM member Genevieve Salter’s drawing that she drew more than ten years
ago now, of the Transformed State [see Transformation Affirmation 4 for Genevieve’s
affirmation]. The scale of the sun coming over the horizon gives you some insight into how
wonderful life is in the Transformed State. It’s wonderful because it liberates you from that
mad, crazy, intense, never-ending cycle of anger and insecurity that the human condition is.
The Transformed State allows you to effectively leave behind the embattled state that Adam
Stork lives in. It works because fundamentally what you take up when you resign is a lie.
Through your resigned strategy you are trying to prove that you are worthwhile artificially—
by scoring points or making money or whatever it is and, fundamentally, those things are not
the true reason that humans are good. The true reasons that humans are good are explained by
Jeremy in first principle biology in Freedom Expanded: Book 1, A Species In Denial or any
of his books [see also Video/F. Essay 3 or chapter 1 of FREEDOM]. Our resigned strategies
are now mad tangents that we no longer have to live out. Before this understanding was
available, we had to take up and live through these artificial strategies. We don’t have to do
that anymore. And the way that we get ourselves out of those mad resigned strategies is by
living through our support of this information.
The ‘trick’ to making this work is to internally let go of your old resigned strategy and
take up supporting this information as the meaning and purpose of your life. It works because
it’s the right thing to do, it’s the honest thing to do and it’s grounded in rationale. If you try
to do what I did for a very long time after knowing that this information was true, which was
to persist with my resigned strategy, you won’t succeed. No matter how talented you are. In
fact, for the individuals involved, resigned strategies never worked. No matter how many tin
cups you win, how much money you make you can’t prove that you are worthwhile that way.
Thank God that old way is now redundant. Instead, we now need to let the truth in, to let go of
the elaborate edifices of lies that we’ve built up around ourselves and in its place take up the
true reason for our goodness and use it as our defence.
Once you make this commitment inside yourself, the excitement is indescribable! An
incredible excitement and inspiration comes over you and in that moment you can see how
the Transformed State works. You can see how it works in yourself and you can see how it
will work in everybody else. You can see in that moment how the world can and will change.
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and it is inspiring beyond words. In that moment you are instantly Liberated from that endless
day-in and day-out struggle to validate yourself. You don’t care about who you are, where you
came from, how much shit that you have been through or how much pain and unhappiness
you have suffered. That is all irrelevant. You are just ecstatic about being part of the Sunshine
Army on the Sunshine Highway to the World in Sunshine—namely to a world of Freedom.
You’re instantly freed from the psychological agony of your position. I know that is a huge
claim to make but that is what happens when you let go of your resigned strategy and put your
faith in and live through this information. (I should mention that I am not using the word ‘faith’
in its religious sense, because you can verify for yourself and thus know that this information
is true. I am using ‘faith’ in the sense that you can put faith in the safety of a bridge that you
use to walk across a chasm: if you can satisfy yourself that the bridge has been built properly
and won’t collapse, then even though you haven’t built it yourself, you can trust in it.) You
live through what this information can do for the world. The feeling of relief and freedom is
incredible and then all you want to do thereafter is to get this information out into the world
and to stop all the suffering on the planet. You can access an incredible, profound compassion

for humans and for yourself. We can all be a part of this now. United and together at last!

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Jeremy’s Humanity’s Situation drawing is about how the world is going to change. Over
on one side is the existing cave-like dead existence that we currently live in and on the other
side is the Sunshine Highway across this chasm of unconfrontable truths about humans. The
importance of understanding Resignation is that it gives you a grip on the reality of why you
are stuck over here and how you get out of it. It’s the realisation that you are a resigned person
suffering from the human condition who is stuck over here that enables you to have this
change of heart—that enables you to cross the bridge along the Sunshine Highway into the
New World where everything is just wonderful. The relief and through-the-roof excitement
that flows through your veins is incredible. Nothing can touch this. This information has a
purity and a beauty that is out of this world. It is the sun rising from the deepest, darkest,
coldest night that humans have ever known. As de Chardin foresaw, everything is ‘ablaze’.
Prue Westbrook, one of the members of that the WTM, said the human body can’t cope with
the levels of excitement that the Transformed State generates and that is probably true. [See
Transformation Affirmation 1 for Prue’s affirmation.]
Other than being an embattled human, there are absolutely no other pre-requisites or
qualifications needed to be part of this. For humans, from one end of the Earth to the other,
it’s on for young and old now. It truly is. Anyone who wants to be part of this can be part of
it. So get into it. It’s not difficult—all you have to do is get started, listen to what’s being said,
follow the logic and take it step by step from there. It is beyond comprehension how much
wonder and fun and excitement and happiness the human race has coming. We have a forum
on our website for feedback and questions on this whole process and how to manage it so I
encourage you to get into it.

Section 3:10 Doug Lobban (recorded September 2010)

My name is Doug Lobban, I’m 32 years old [at the time of filming] and would like to
talk to you today about my journey with the information that Jeremy Griffith has put forward
because using this explanation of the human condition to understand the world around me
and myself has had the most profound effect on my life I could ever have imagined. [Read the
explanation of the human condition in Video/F. Essay 3.]

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I had a very typical upbringing, I grew up on a property in country New South Wales
in Australia and then I worked in the rural industry after leaving school. I was introduced
to this explanation through a friend, Will Salter, about 10 years ago and became a founding
member of the WORLD TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT (WTM) about four years ago and
moved to Sydney to more directly support it shortly after that. My testament to the truth and
power of this explanation of the human condition is also as much a testament to all the other
Transformed Lifeforces you will see on this website and that what they are saying is true
and is real and is available for all humans that have read and understood this explanation.
Listen carefully to where Jeremy talks about the transformation that takes place through this
explanation [see chapter 9 of FREEDOM, and F. Essays 15, 33, 36, 57 & 58] and also to what
the Transformed Lifeforces have to say [you can view other Transformation Affirmations
HERE] because it is through that explanation and their experiences that you will find the key

to living with this all-confronting but dignifying and defending truth about ourselves.
Humans are without a doubt the most destructive force on this planet. We are capable of
the most severe atrocities to ourselves, other people, animals, our environment and the world
we live in. Even in Australia, the luckiest country in the world there are epidemic levels of
suicide, depression, murder, rape, child abuse and violence on so many levels, and it is all
increasing. Humans as a species have become extremely angry, egocentric and alienated and
this upset is spiralling more and more out of control with each generation [see F. Essay 55:
Endgame for the human race]. However, we also know and have seen that humans have an
incredible capacity for love, kindness and selflessness and can and have performed amazing
acts of generosity and bravery for and towards each other. [See F. Essay 21 for the explanation
of how humans developed our altruistic moral instincts.]
In truth, deep down we are all striving for and want peace, harmony and freedom and
it’s through this explanation that this will be achieved. It is through this explanation that
humans can be at peace within ourselves, harmonious with each other and our environment
around us and experience the true freedom and all the relief and meaning and excitement
that goes with that.
I’d like to talk to you about the transformation that I have seen take place in myself
because it is in seeing this that I then understood how powerful this explanation is and it is
through this process that the world’s problems can be fixed virtually overnight.
I wasn’t particularly searching for answers but when this explanation came along what
really attracted me to it was that it was a first principle science based idea [again, see Video/
F. Essay 3 for the explanation of the human condition]. It is a simple rational explanation and
therefore understanding of why we are the way we are. It is not something you have to put
your faith in and hope that it is right. You can use this explanation to understand the world
around you and yourself, testing its validity by putting the concepts into real life situations
that we all experience on a daily basis. For me there was always a rational answer for
everything and I was never going to accept some ridiculous theory, of which there are many
out there, which could not be tried and tested in my own mind and experiences.
My life before knowing about this explanation was heading down a very typical road
but once I knew about this information I started to see the human condition in the world
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before knowing this everything was so confusing. Nobody would talk about anything except
the weather and other mindless chit chat. Everyone walks around denying that there are
any problems and to be a man in the world you just had to knuckle down, get on with it and
become toughened to everything life threw at you. [See F. Essay 30 for the explanation of how
humans psychologically ‘resigned’ to a life of denial of the human condition.]
After understanding the explanation for a while the focus shifts and you start to see
the human condition within yourself and it is at this point that you end up in the ‘Mexican
Standoff ’ with this explanation, which, as is explained by Jeremy in Section 2:1 of Freedom
Expanded: Book 2 [see also Video/F. Essay 33], is knowing the explanation of the human
condition is true but finding it very difficult to accept the obsolescence of your old, habituated
egocentric, escapist and defensive strategy that you adopted before coming across this
explanation and that your resigned self will not accept any criticism. Even though the
explanation actually dignifies and defends our resigned position it still sees it as a negative. I
don’t want to talk too much more about what is known as the ‘Mexican Standoff ’ in the WTM
other than to say that if you find yourself in that position don’t worry, it gets a whole lot better
and it will only be a matter of time before you’ll be able to see the true power and beauty of
this explanation.
I’d now like to talk to you a bit more about how I moved from the ‘Mexican Standoff ’
position to the transformed position.
Firstly, you have to understand that the information is true and you have to test it enough
in your life, your own life experiences enough to see this. This process will become quicker in
time so it’s not a problem.

Late
Childhood

CHILDHOOD

Now
–Shock Soon
of change

2 mill yr ago
or 12 yr old

–Shock
of change
Beginnings of
Resignation
1.5 mill yr ago
or 15 yr old

Difficult
+ to – Paradigm Shift

ADULTHOOD
ADOLESCENCE

A dying world of ever increasing and
accumulating anger, egocentricity
and alienation

Easy
– to + Paradigm Shift,
once over the
shock of change

Humanity’s Journey from Ignorance to Enlightenment

The first thing that I saw, or really bottomed out on I guess, was this bigger picture of
where humanity is at and where we’ve been. Two million years is a long time to be suffering
under the duress of the human condition and a friend of mine was talking about this one
night, that it is just where humanity is at in its journey, which is just an extraordinary thing to
bottom out on. It is the thing that I really latched onto—that it is no one’s fault, it’s just where
humanity is at and it’s just what has been going on for 2 million years. So it’s no wonder
everything is the way it is and if you can look at it in that light of our species’ journey it

The next part for me pieced together over a few days.

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explains why humans are just on such an egocentric bender in so many different directions.
Without understanding in that journey we were going to end up in the position that we’re in
basically. And it’s no one’s fault, it’s just the journey humans have had to go on but thank
God we’ve now got the truth and the explanation as to why it’s happened. [Chapter 8 of
FREEDOM details the 2 million year journey humanity has been on to find understanding of

the human condition.]
The next thing I saw was basically that within my own mind there are two ways that I

can think.

This picture is really good at explaining that and it will come more into context here as I
go on. One way to think is the rational, logical, truthful way that everyone now has access to.
You can understand Jeremy Griffith’s explanation that he has put forward, you can understand
who Jeremy is, you can understand why he and other unresigned thinkers could delve into the
forbidden realm of the human condition and dig out the truth and I can understand to some
extent why I am the way I am, and what shaped me and moulded me in to who I am now. [See
F. Essay 39 for an explanation of unresigned thinkers.]
The second way to think is the resigned way, this way just totally rules the roost, it defies
logic, it doesn’t want to listen, it throws its weight around, it’s manipulative, conniving,
compromising—basically dishonest. It’ll do anything to get a win or prove that it’s good and
not bad. It’s insatiable, it’s never satisfied, it just always wants something else. It’s massively
ego-centric. It’ll get one win and then it’ll want another one, always on the lookout, it’ll never
back down, it’ll just hold on to grievances forever, it is never going to accept that it’s resigned
and it’ll always argue the toss and never be happy. For me my whole strategy was one of trying
to look soulful, trying to be something I’m not. To admit that you’re resigned is the biggest
blasphemy for your resigned brain. [Again, see F. Essay 30 for the explanation of Resignation.]
But once you can see those two ways of thinking, once I could see that then I was out of
my resigned bubble. I was in this realm here [the second bubble in the diagram] where you’re
looking back in and you’re seeing the framework that you’ve been living through and you’re
seeing that nothing will ever change whilst you’re living through that framework. It’s at that
point that you’re out of your bubble, you’re looking back in at it and you’re seeing it for
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resigned human after 2 million years of the human condition. Once you’re in that position
you’re no longer being owned by your resigned strategy/view of the world as you are in the
first position in the diagram, you’re in the second position.
You can also see that your resigned strategy is defended, you can see that it’s explained,
you can see that it’s over, you don’t have to live through it anymore and you also see that you
don’t have to face it down, you don’t have to confront all the human condition within yourself
and you can just let it go, just like that. Just like in the third picture in the bubble diagram.
The best way I can describe it is I just moved on and my strategy didn’t come with me. It
just stayed back there and from there everything just opens up, it is quite extraordinary how
you just start living for something other than yourself and what you are living for fixes the

world’s problems and everything just becomes amazing.

Humanity’s Situation: the Sunshine Highway to Freedom, the Abyss of Depression,
our Cave-like Dead Existence and the Spiralling Pit of Terminal Alienation

I love this picture because when I broke through into the Transformed State I had a real
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and everything is just so relieving. It’s exactly as Jeremy says, it’s like taking wet, heavy
burdensome woollen jumpers off and the weight and everything just drips away from you
and the relief is unbelievable, it really is amazing. I was thinking about that coming out of the
swamp image and thought you know that’s so great, it’s just such a shithole back there, just
keep going forward and then I thought ‘Oh, it’s just exactly like Jeremy’s drawings of coming
out of the cave and it’s exactly like the macro picture Jeremy drew of Humanity’s Journey to
Enlightenment. [Plato’s cave allegory is explained in Video/F. Essay 11.]
So anyway, you end up on this bit of road on the right-hand side of the Abyss drawing
(above) and you start trudging out of that cave-like dead existence and you keep walking
forward and then you get on this bridge straight across the abyss and you end up out in the
sunshine. It is extraordinary. Just the fact that you can be free of your own human condition
and free of all that preoccupation. You’ve got no worries, no noises in your head, it’s just
gone, you can just work away with nothing in the back of the mind nagging away, you can
just do your work and be happy, singing, whistling away. This explanation and Transformed
State is for everyone and there is no odd human out there that can’t access this, you’re not the
one out of 6 billion that can’t access this, it is there for everyone. The beauty of that Abyss
picture I was thinking the other day is that it’s got a bridge going over it, Jeremy didn’t draw a
little ladder going down into the abyss so that you have to trudge through the depression at the
bottom and climb all the way back up the other side. Instead he’s drawn this awesome bridge
going straight across it! It doesn’t matter what strategy you’ve got either, you can be anything
and just knowing that you don’t have to live out that strategy is so relieving. You can just
bundle it all up into one big package and leave it behind and head across that bridge. It’s all
explained and it’s all dealt with. All the pain and suffering in human life is now explained and
understood. It’s dealt with and defended and understood. The information or the explanation
does that and you can just be so free of it, it’s incredible.
And the excitement that flows from being free of all that, that is quite amazing. You
can’t sleep, I mean I would go to bed thinking about this transformation process and I would
wake up in the morning and the first thing I would think of is the transformation process!
I’d be waking up at 4.30am and just thinking for an hour or so and then jump out of bed at
5.30am and say to my partner ‘Pol, I’ve just got to get up and go to work I’m so excited!’.

And the excitement is unrelenting, I don’t know whether it’s going to settle down. In the
first week my poor old body wasn’t quite coping with all the excitement I am feeling, it
couldn’t quite keep up with my brain and all the realisations I was having! The 180 degree
switch your thinking takes is what really amazed me. You go from being confronted by the
information and Jeremy and the explanation basically because your resigned self can’t deal
with it, and also being confronted by the Transformed Lifeforces and the transformation
process, to just not being able to stop thinking about it. Any spare moment your brain has
got it will just click in because that’s all it wants to think about, that’s all it wants to promote
and that’s all it wants to support. And all that ego and the need to prove yourself just goes
and you can walk around free to do whatever you want to do. And the buzz you get after
talking to someone about it or doing a talk about it is just incredible, it is amazing and that is
one thing that I have found just so extraordinary, that switch in your brain from struggle and
preoccupation to total freedom.

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So through this process you can change from living your life through a competitive,
egocentric, insecure, meaningless framework, to being able to live a happy and content- withwho-you-are, meaningful and incredibly exciting life.
I just thought I’d read out this little bit of writing. I wrote this late one night after lying
awake for several hours being so excited trying to calm myself down but I couldn’t, it was
about 11.30pm so I will just read it out now:
‘I am just so excited, I can’t sleep, I am about to burst. I was in the shower and a hook
on the curtain had fallen off so I put it back on and got an amazing feeling of meaning
and I got out of the shower and just looked around for something else I could fix
because that is what we get to do now, fix the world, and I just can’t believe that after
eons of generations we are the ones who actually get to participate in fixing the world
up. It’s just unbelievable, there is so much to do I can’t wait to get into it.
Even though I know you did, especially Jeremy, I have this feeling of “You didn’t
tell me it was this good”. I’m starting to feel selfish because all I can feel is how good
it is that it is finally all over. We’re out of there. LET’S GO.
I got this image of marching straight forward with incredible purpose straight out
of a massive swamp into long green grass with flowers and butterflies and sunshine
and never ever looking back just keep marching forward. Everyone together, we are
going to have so much fun.’

Section 3:11 Nick Shaw (recorded February 2015)

Hi. My name is Nick. I’m 42 years old [at the time of filming]. I came across Jeremy
Griffith’s biological explanation of the human condition when my school friend (and fellow
WTM founding member) Rick Biggs introduced it to me when I was 19.

Today I’m here to give my affirmation about this breakthrough understanding that has
occurred. I thought I’d structure the talk in two parts. Firstly I want to go over the information
a bit and secondly talk a bit about my experience of encountering this information and how it
has completely transformed my life.

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Even though the explanation is presented on the WTM website perfectly, for this first part
of my talk I wanted to go over it as it’s the underpinnings of this new product which is the
Transformed Lifeforce State. There are four themes I wanted to draw out:
— Firstly, that this information actually is true. It actually is the exonerating,
compassionate, healing, transforming explanation of the human condition. It’s our
species’ story and represents just a mind-bogglingly exciting breakthrough [the best
place to familiarise yourself with the explanation of the human condition is Video/F.
Essay 3, in which Jeremy introduces the ‘Adam Stork’ analogy].
— Secondly, solving the human condition has been a case of having to get all the truth
up in one go. Therefore we have gone from a position of having virtually no truth about
our condition, because we have necessarily been living in complete denial of the issue
to cope, to suddenly having the whole explanation up. So that’s a shock and it also
makes the information extremely confronting to us [see F. Essay 40: ‘Judgment Day’].
— Thirdly, because the information is very confronting, the answer to the question of
‘What do we do about this, how do we cope?’, is to not confront it any more than is
necessary to verify that it’s true and instead just support it. Its unevasive truthfulness
and compassion and honesty and strength will do the work of transforming the
individual and so the world [see F. Essay 15 on the Transformation this information
makes possible].
— And fourthly, I want to talk about Resignation. Resignation is the most important
psychological event to occur in human life and yet it has never before been able to be
explained [see F. Essay 30].
It’s understanding those four themes that really helped me understand what is going on and
helps me/us cope with the arrival of this breakthrough. And then beyond that, not only cope,
but take up the absolutely-all-your-dreams-come-true, impossible-to-describe-how-good-it-is
attitude and way of living that this information allows for existing generations of humans.
To flesh out the first theme and go through the information a little bit. The information
is there in Jeremy’s books and videos and presentations, set out beautifully and perfectly for
the world. What it lets you understand and see is that the human story has fundamentally
been a journey from ignorance to enlightenment, and all the while having to live with
this unbelievably difficult equation of being criticised for doing that—for searching for
knowledge to make us enlightened and not ignorant! As Jeremy explains in the Adam Stork
story, our story has not just been one of having to defy the ignorance of our instincts, but
our instincts were the most magnificent, perfect orientation to love and selflessness [see
F. Essay 21]. Not only that, our instincts also represent the Godly ideals [see F. Essay 23].
As Immanuel Kant said, ‘there are two things which fill me with awe: the starry heavens above us,
and the moral law within us’ (Critique of Practical Reason, 1788). We all know how amazing God is!

So we were on an absolute hiding to nothing. It wasn’t just a case of one-on-one. We were
outnumbered three to one! And it has been going on for two million years! It’s just been the
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Jeremy explains this ‘triple whammy’ in chapter 3:5 of FREEDOM, par. 263: ‘So, when we
humans went in search of knowledge we were initially criticised for not obeying our instincts, and then
secondly for responding to that initial criticism in a way that offended our cooperatively orientated,
moral instinctive conscience, and, then thirdly, by that behaviour defying the very integrative, cooperative
theme of existence that our intellect could so plainly see existed in nature. We defied our instincts, we
offended our moral conscience, and we insulted the very meaning of existence/God!!! We humans could
hardly be more guilt-ridden. And all this guilt, which we can now understand was completely unjustified,
made us extremely, excruciatingly upset—absolutely furious, in fact. As necessary as it was, in our case,
‘flying off course’ was an incredibly upsetting act of defiance—which is why we humans have been capable
of absolutely extraordinary acts of brutality, barbarism and cruelty. While we have tried to restrain and
conceal the anger within us, ‘civilise’ it as we say, it is, in truth, volcanic—but, again, we can now at last
understand the origin of all that anger.’]

As Jeremy has said, it will probably be beyond the reach of anyone to ever describe the
pain, difficulty, heroism and utter magnificence of what embattled humans, along with their

innocent prophets, have endured and achieved [see F. Essay 39 for an explanation of prophets].

The Adam Stork story is our true story. If nurturing was the prime mover in humanity’s
primate past [see F. Essay 21], I suppose it could be said that the Adam Stork story has been
the prime mover in humanity’s conscious adolescence. The human condition has been the
bottom line driver in all of human life for two million years and its influence just saturates
everything. All situations, all people for all time [see Video/F. Essay 10]. So if you want to
understand your story, it’s just a part of the human story, and it’s all okay. It was all for the
right reasons. A defiant conscious mind seeking to find knowledge, guided by, underneath

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it all, our beautiful soul, but also condemned to kingdom come by our soul’s ignorance, it’s
orientation to the ideals and by God.
It’s our true story. We are just beyond upset. We are just so volcanically angry, egocentric
and alienated BUT we are immense heroes. The incredible thing about the Adam Stork story
is that it finally articulates and explains, with irrefutable logic, the incredible paradox of the
human situation of how could we be good and worthwhile when we are just so volcanically
upset and seemingly bad? It finally explains the feeling in us that we’re not banishmentdeserving, evil blights on the planet but immense heroes. That defiance of the ideals and
the upset that unavoidably went with that was exactly what was required of the human race.
There was no avoiding it. We had to have the courage to do it and endure it. And what is
just so extraordinary is that it was all for the right reasons. Ultimately, it was our love of the
true world, of our beautiful lost soul and the re-discovery of that in the future (that has now
arrived) that drove humans through our adolescence. Because it was only through finding the
ultimate knowledge of the human condition—with the price being to become upset—that all
the suffering, pain, upset, angst, unhappiness, etc could be brought to an end and humanity
return to its fabled Garden of Eden state.
So our story is not just a story of flying off course like Adam Stork. It’s also a story of
being triply condemned for doing so! Our upset was just unavoidable and it was going to
be extreme and intense and it has been and it is. That’s why we are just so incredibly upset,
such psychologically messed up creatures. What we had to endure was just so unfair, just
so immensely unfair. Our response to it—our upset—and the colossal extent of it is the
true measure of our courage. It’s just amazing that the seemingly most simple exercise of
searching for knowledge could lead to such an all-out war! And you can see that it was just a
lack of knowledge and understanding that led to our immensely embattled state and that once
we find the explanation, the criticism stops, the two parts of us can be reconciled and our ego
can calm down. So the human journey was part of God’s plan after all! It’s true, we’re good
and not bad after all! And we can finally, through all the efforts of, and on behalf of, all the
humans who have ever lived, stand triumphant and say ‘I AM UPSET AND I’M GOOD AND I
CAN EXPLAIN TO YOU WHY!’

That explanation is as clear and as obvious and as true as, to use another fundamental
truth about our world, the truth of gravity. Gravity exists, it explains the movement of
bodies in relation to one another. It’s just a fundamental truth about our world. Similarly this
biological explanation, that Jeremy Griffith has synthesised, is just as fundamental and basic
and true as what gravity is. The battle to validate ourselves is all over!!! As Martin Luther
King said, ‘Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!’ (‘I Have A Dream’ speech, 28
Aug. 1963). Can you believe it?!?!?!?!

So the biological explanation of the human condition is freely available on the WTM
website for people to check out and evaluate, but I’d like to say that I can’t find the words
to describe how true, profound and magnificent it is. The goodness that it brings about by
solving the human condition is just so immense and exciting that it’s nearly too much to bear.
It’s impossible to describe the magnitude of the breakthrough. The nearest words that I have
seen are these that appeared in an Amazon review of Jeremy’s book A Species In Denial:
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no wait, in the universe. In fact it is the greatest anything in the universe.’ (see www.worldtransformation.
com/online-endorsements).

It really is the greatest anything in the universe, for as Jeremy has

explained, denial-free thinking has always been the purest form of love the human race has
ever known.
Einstein said that truth is that which survives the test of experience. As we are the
subject of this information, this biological explanation of the human condition, we are in a
position to personally test its validity. Not only through independently verifiable scientific
observations and evidence but also through our own experience. Humanity’s journey has
been a psychological one, and because we each in our own lives go from being instinctcontrolled creatures to conscious-controlled—we go on the same psychological journey the
whole human race has been on—we’re very well equipped to know its truth or otherwise as it
applies to ourselves and the whole human race.
The second theme in the information that I want to talk about is that because the human
condition hasn’t been an issue that we have ever been able to openly discuss (because we
have never been able to understand it) it has been, and was always going to be, a case of
having to ‘get all the truth up in one go’. So basically there has been this completely offlimits subject—off-limits because it was just too confronting while we couldn’t understand
it—that has all of a sudden been reefed from our deepest awarenesses and placed right out
in the open. Given our denial, it was always going to be like that. It’s dead-set like being in
a dark room where you can’t see anything, and you just have to grope around trying to find
your way, to the lights suddenly being turned on in one instant. That being an analogy for the
fact that we have lived in such deep, deep fear and denial of the issue of the human condition
for eons and then all of a sudden the world is being explained and therefore everything is
transparent and out in the open. So you need to stay steady on your feet psychologically
and it makes sense that, initially, if you have a history of psychological instability, to keep a
distance that is safe [see FAQ 1.19].
So, while finding of the understanding of the human condition has been the holy grail of
the human journey—and it is truly beyond exciting that it has been found—it does come as a
great shock because we are just so completely saturated and full of the human condition and
equally in denial of that to cope [see F. Essay 40: ‘Judgment Day explained’]. We have been
so completely owned by it and victim to it, we are just so upset, so embattled, so historically
condemned and confronted by the ideals and so in denial of all that, so it comes as a great
shock and naturally that shock is going to take some time to adjust to. However, because
this is an adjustment from a terrible negative to an incredible positive, the time taken to get
over the shock and make the adjustment will get quicker and quicker. This massive paradigm
shift has been, and will continue to be for a little while, a pioneering journey, but as we say
‘If not us, then who?’ and ‘If not now, then when?’ and we can gladly and enthusiastically
participate in what can appear at first to be a daunting frontier, but really is the most exciting
ever of frontiers. And because this is logic driven, you’re on safe ground. You can just get on
with your day, your life, as best you can, following the logic that is in front of you at a pace
that you can cope with. Another aspect of denial is because this has been such a previously
off-limits subject, a lot of your realisations happen sub-consciously and you only later catch
up with them consciously.

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The third theme in the information I’d like to talk about is that we can’t hope to heal
all of, or even virtually any of, our upset in our lifetimes. Even if we could, it would take
so much supportive therapy and counselling that we can’t afford the time or resources
for because the priority is to make this information available to everyone, especially new
generations, so all the suffering can end.
This information is just perfect science, it’s also perfect philosophy and heaps of other
things too. It just perfectly describes what has been happening in the human journey, what
is happening, and what will happen when humans respond to it rationally, which ultimately,
because we are rational creatures, we will. Jeremy Griffith didn’t invent the human condition.
He didn’t invent the fact that the generations who were going to be there at the end of the
human journey would be completely embattled, upset, resigned and worn out. It’s just the
facts, it’s just the truth. And having the truth is the only chance the human race has got. So our
upset can’t be fixed or healed. The information is enormously beneficial to help us cope with
our personal circumstances, but it’s future generations who will be free of upset. But what we
can do—and this is completely sensible and rational—is not overly confront this information,
but just investigate it sufficiently to establish it is the truth and then support it and it will do
all the work. It’s dissemination will help everybody and helping everybody will fix up the
world. What you discover is that being able to legitimately, responsibly, sensibly and lovingly
‘put down the sword’ of battling to validate yourself and take up support of this information is
just the most thrilling, exciting thing to be able to do that it is beyond description! What you
discover is the revelation that it’s not our upset that is necessarily the problem, this colossal,
volcanic upset, it’s our inability to understand it. So while we are still upset, being able to
understand where it all came from completely transforms our lives.
The fourth theme is a very important aspect of how we coped with the human condition
while we couldn’t understand it. This is a phenomenon that Jeremy has called Resignation
which is a psychological adjustment that, without understanding of the human condition, we
were forced to make [again, see F. Essay 30 for explanation of Resignation]. So to talk about
Resignation: the situation to date is that you are born into the world expecting it be ideal
but then discover it’s not. As you grow up under the duress of the human condition you also
discover that you personally are no longer ideal but highly imperfect—in fact, carrying huge
elements of anger, indifference and selfishness. So, at some point, usually in your teenage years,
to cope with the reality of the world and your upset reality, you have to give up on the ideals
and adjust to reality, a process Jeremy has identified and termed Resignation. In fact, Jeremy
explains that resigning requires three elements: blocking out the truth of your upset reality, the
truth of who you really are; blocking out the truth of the ideals, that they exist and that they are
true; and just forever thereafter focusing on seeking superficial reinforcement for yourself, a
win, just anything to get some relief from the implication that your condition means you’re bad.
Because Resignation is so important to understand I’d like to flesh this process out a bit
more. We come into the world expecting it to be ideal—expecting it to be unconditionally
loving, but the world is not, it’s massively upset because of this heroic battle that humanity
is waging. Because children are innocent they have got no awareness of the full horror of
what being a resigned adult human is like and because adults can’t be honest about their state
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and generosity, blame themselves for any lack of love they experience. They conclude they
aren’t worthy of love, that they are unlovable and bad. This is a terrible thing to seemingly
have evidence about yourself and that hurts children immensely. Children, in their innocence,
fight back with everything they have to try to prove they are worthwhile. Such hurt and the
following emergence of egocentricity upsets our soul which fuels the criticism, which leads
to more defiance and more criticism, and so the human condition has been passed to the next
generation! [See F. Essay 55 for analysis of our species’ compounding upset.]
So, if we come into the world expecting it to be ideal but it’s not and we similarly are
growing increasingly upset—in fact, we have encountered the effects of two million years of
the upsetting search for knowledge—there comes a point where we have to resign ourselves
to reality—the reality of the world without but, very importantly, also the world within. So,
Resignation is basically a super-developed, near-autistic response to the issue of the human
condition. Jeremy explains that it’s a mechanism for invulnerability so that you don’t get
taken back to the issue of the human condition that you can’t deal with without understanding.
I/we all have a part of us that is cringing in terror about the issue of the human condition.
It’s saying, ‘Don’t make me look at it, I can’t, I can’t, can’t.’ Understanding the process of
Resignation and what it means to be resigned is critically important in understanding how to
take up the Transformed Lifeforce State because, importantly, even though Resignation is a
completely dishonest, destructive and selfish state it was a necessary and heroic part of the
human journey. We can understand that it is okay to be resigned.
This brings me to the second part of my talk which is to talk a bit about my own personal
experience with encountering this magnificent, all-exciting breakthrough in understanding
the human condition—a subject that is all-confronting and historically (in humanity’s life and
in my life) completely off-limits. In a lot of ways, experiencing the transformation that this
information makes possible really is a matter of letting it. It’s a matter of realising those macros
truths I’ve talked about above, realising that they are true and applicable to you and making
the adjustment to let those truths in. As Jeremy has said the human condition is an intensely
personal subject, but we can now understand that it is also a universal phenomenon that every
human suffers from and all our stories are explained and reconcilable to one another.
A critical issue you need to understand to make the adjustment is the fact that we are
resigned. Our resigned way of thinking is just completely designed to avoid the issue of the
human condition. It is mutually exclusive with the truths that the information can now allow
you the benefit of. Initially, it’s the truth in the information, its accountability, its absolute
importance to the human race that makes you want to support it. But then you discover
personally that you are resigned, that you have a mortal fear of the human condition and
that you’ve developed your whole life and thinking framework around denying your reality,
denying the ideals and just living for superficial reinforcement. Humans live completely at
odds with the honesty that the information gets up and represents and allows you to have
the benefit of. So you can get into a ‘Mexican Standoff ’ with this information where you
can’t go forward, because you’re habituated and committed to your resigned ego-castle, and
you can’t go back, because you don’t want to sell out the truth about humans because it’s
the only way forward for the human race.

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What’s required is having a change of heart, is to take up the Transformed Lifeforce
State [see F. Essay 33 about the ‘Mexican Standoff ’ and how to overcome it]. To explain: it
requires the abandonment of your commitment to your resigned self and instead, using the
knowledge that is now available, understand that you are good, lovable and worthwhile even

though you are upset.

Jeremy sometimes puts the caption ‘Out of here!’ with the above image of the person
holding the key of understanding aloft. In other words, we can just leave all of that world of
having to egocentrically bat away behind us now. The job is done, reconciling knowledge has
been found, and we can just leave all of that behind. The reason we can do that is because
this information is the real reason we are good, lovable and worthwhile. Our resigned way
of thinking is just completely redundant, obsolete and has done its job. It really and truly is
no longer necessary. It just isn’t needed anymore so it doesn’t make sense to keep peddling
the old, resigned agenda, defiantly rejecting criticism from the ideals and madly trying to
convince ourselves that we’re good because we’re winning etc. Even though it is a massively
destructive, dishonest and fraudulent state, it was an absolute necessity before the human
condition was solved. I am still resigned and still full of the human condition. It’s just that
with this information you can parent and re-assure your arrested-development-stranded-inadolescence, resigned self. The funny thing is that the bottom line of your resigned self is just
trying to say, ‘I’m good’, but in an immensely defensive no-holds-barred, psychologically
aggressive, extremely limited way, a way that was only necessary before the explanation of
the human condition was found.
People say to me that I really emphasise the logic of the Transformed Lifeforce State and
I do. It is all logical but also, my experience of the human condition is quite intense and so it’s
important to me that I am well versed in that logic and that I keep the arguments in my mind.
The logic explains that we all get some version of the human condition from the imperfection
of life and that we have to endure this whilst doing our best to participate as we live out the
deeper truth that humans are good.

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The above right picture depicts what happens when children encounter too much
embattled, have-to-prove-yourself, egocentric oppression from the previous generation. This
type of thing is rife now but the amazing thing is you can explain and defend all the aspects
of this terrifying picture using the Adam Stork story. That embattled parent was once a child.
Everyone is defended now and it’s understandable how it all happened. If you are faced
with that type of situation, you will—as the picture shows—either become psychologically
crippled from it or turn into what we call a ‘power addict’, which is what happened to me
[chapter 8:16D of FREEDOM describes the effect this ‘power addicted’ personality has on
children]. It’s nobody’s fault. It’s just an extreme version of the human condition where
you are just completely owned by the need to get a win and therefore extra sensitive to and
intolerant of any criticism. [See F. Essay 55 for more on power addicts.]
Anyway, one of the realisations that I had along the way when I was in the ‘Mexican
Standoff ’ was that I do have this ability to be sensible, if I want to be, about the issue of the
human condition and that I don’t have to be beholden to my resigned self. Resigned thinking
will take you away from being sensible about the issue of the human condition like a magnet
being repelled. We can now explain why we are good in first principled, irrefutable logic
so there is no need to keep going on with it. So, if I wanted to be sensible, I could run with
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because it would just undermine our whole strategy. But once you use the information to
understand that you are resigned—that it is okay to be resigned, that it’s no longer necessary
to go on with it—you can let the whole thing go and let the information take the burden
of the issue of the human condition and deal with it for you. All of a sudden this massive
preoccupation, that you hardly realised you had, is lifted!!
You go from being deeply ashamed of who you are to, at worst, not being ashamed
of who you are anymore or, at best, actually connecting with the truth that you are deeply
lovable and profoundly heroic. You/your condition is completely explained and accounted for
as part of humanity’s immensely paradoxical, brave journey from ignorance to enlightenment.
And it’s all true. It is. And that’s virtually all you need to know/understand—that you are
upset but you are good.
The thing I just love about it is that you actually can’t argue with the logic. There is
just no other conclusion—Adam Stork/humanity has been heroic, and good, and right, even
though we are so massively upset. You can try and argue that Adam Stork was wrong for
flying off course, or wrong for getting upset, but you’ll actually lose that argument. We do
need to put down the sword and move on from the battle and its destructive effects and we can
and should now because it is all completely defended.
All of a sudden everything makes sense. Including that it’s true that as a species we once
lived in the Garden of Eden [see F. Essay 21] and personally, we once had some access to
that before we resigned, and that this information really is the end of that journey, and that
it really is all over, and that humanity really is coming home. All you really have to do is be
sensible and rational and abandon the now old, obsoleted technology of the resigned way of
thinking and just do anything to help this project and it will save the world. You realise that
no one is free until we are all free and you just want everybody to catch onto this information.
The goodness that this has brought about and will bring about is just ridiculous! It’s just
everything everyone ever wished for. You can near explode when you let yourself feel it!
So every problem you look at, whether it’s yourself, some other egomaniac, any article in
any newspaper, just any problem you look at—and there are just endless numbers of them—
can all be solved by supporting this information that defends humans. It allows us to put down
the sword, understand that the great battle is over and that we are now free to bring about the
virtually-never-let-ourselves-dream-of new world. We’re finally all going to be united with the
one goal of fixing up the world and freeing the planet from the human condition. The battle
to champion the ego is won now, everyone can come in from the cold and be together in the
Sunshine Army on the Sunshine Highway to the World in Sunshine!
Another aspect of it that I just love thinking about is that the colossal pain, angst and
frustration of being misunderstood as bad when we know we’re good, can end with us. The
upset and all the pain will start to rapidly subside now.

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Looking at Jeremy’s ‘Development of Integration’ chart (that appears in a number of
his books—see, for example, chapter 8:11C, par. 842 of FREEDOM) we can see the human
race is at the bottom of the exhaustion curve and is facing the prospect of terminal levels of
alienation and social disintegration [see F. Essay 55: ‘Endgame for the human race’], BUT
that disintegration stops with us. If ever I’m having a bout of being bluffed by the resigned
world within me or all around us at present, I always remind myself of this. The things that
my resigned self thinks are so important—in its completely imprisoned, cave-dwelling [see
Video/F. Essay 11 for an explanation of Plato’ cave allegory], only-paltry-sticks-to-playwith, denial-ridden, fraudulent-but-immensely-heroic-and-previously-necessary state—are
now obsolete and redundant. It’s all just a false construct that we developed to cope with
the horror of the human condition. It’s just not real. We can just move on from it. It can all
stop with us. It won’t exist in the future. People won’t have to suffer it, they won’t have to
endure it. As Jeremy has talked about, in the future there might be a museum where you can
go and put headphones on to experience what the world was like before the human condition
was solved and dead set people will put them on for a second and then throw them off their
heads it’s so horrible! Jeremy said in his first book Free: The End of the Human Condition,
published in 1988, with the human condition solved we have nothing to prove anymore,
only something to achieve and that’s where the human journey is up to. Going over that
bridge, over the Chasm of Depression, over the issue of the human condition, is going to
take humanity back to where it came from—a world full of selflessness and happiness but
this time with the answers we had to originally leave that world to find. (The ‘Development
of Integration’ chart shows that with understanding we enter the ‘Transformation Stage’ and
return to living integratively/selflessly.)

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Section 3:11 So, in coming to the end of this talk, I just can’t emphasise enough how full of the human
condition we are; I just can’t emphasise enough how much this information takes care of that
and loves it and I just can’t emphasise enough how exciting it is to be able to support this
information that ends the human condition and so will solve every problem that the world has.
So, as Jeremy says, it’s not that hard to take up the Transformed Lifeforce State, it’s just a
matter of seeing the situation and opportunity for what it is.

Nick’s affirmation is followed by him talking about the excitement
and power of the Transformed Lifeforce State in a group discussion.
There are five extracts that flow on from each other.

Part of the excitement of this pioneering stage is knowing about the absolutely incredible
excitement and happiness that the Transformed way of living is going to bring to the world.
People looking on can think ‘oh, that’s going to be a slow, arduous job. You’re going to
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egomania is to just forgetting that and supporting this’. Once you experience the Transformed
Lifeforce State you know with certainty it isn’t going to be like that at all. Jeremy has written
about a prophet in the Bible called Joel who saw clearly how it will work and it makes a lot
of sense. Joel basically looked forward to the time when the human condition was resolved
and talked about how unbelievably exciting it will be. I forget all the words he used, but they
described how people will be so together and inspired they will tackle any problem before
them, coming over the roof tops, everyone just shoulder to shoulder. [‘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 have the appearance of horses; they gallop along like cavalry…They charge like warriors;
they scale walls like soldiers. They all march in line, not swerving from their course. They do not jostle
each other’ (Joel 2)] That was Joel’s vision. Jeremy has a similar vision that he describes in all

of his books. He says ‘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.’ [See a description of Jeremy’s

vision in F. Essay 51.] It makes sense that that will happen because we are just so battle-weary
and dead we can hardly feel anything anymore and we just live in hope and faith that the
answers will one day come. So, imagine the relief when the answers arrive. The excitement
just in the WTM is enormous because once you get the Transformed Lifeforce State you can
see how it works for you and you can see how it works in the world. You know that the human
condition is finished, you know that every problem that there is is going to be fixed. You know
that the future won’t suffer, and you know that there’s no impediments to that happening. All
that needs to happen is that this information is supported and that it does the work. Jeremy
calls it ‘the Joel Effect’ and with this momentum it’s going to take off and we’re just going
to have to pinch ourselves. It’s just going to be just so unbelievably exciting, just everything
you’ve ever, ever wanted, and everything every human ever wanted, and it’s actually here!
There just aren’t words to describe it. You just can’t describe it!
In terms of the positives of togetherness etc that humans haven’t been able to have, I was
going to read the words of this song at the end of my Affirmation but I just couldn’t because
I knew I would get too emotional but I will quickly read them now. At Christmas time, my
nephew was playing the piano and his Mum was sitting next to him just crying because it
was so special. Anyway, I looked the song up and it’s this song called World in Union. They
actually use it as the theme song for the Rugby Union World Cup but I think it was originally
an African hymn. (If you want confirmation of what the human story is actually about—that
we did once live innocently, and we did become corrupted, and we lost that, and we searched
for understanding so we could return to that state—then just look at the lyrics of any song
that you love and that inspires you.) The words are: ‘There’s a dream I feel, so rare, so real. All
the world in union, the world as one, gathering together, one mind, one heart, every creed, every colour,
once joined, never apart!’ That’s what’s coming. It’s here actually. It’s actually here! Thank

goodness there’s actually something practical that we need to do, because if you just sit with
that and try and just cope with the goodness that this information brings about it is too much.
At the end of the day, it’s like what Albert Camus said about the enormous task of solving the
human condition when he said, ‘Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But tasks are called superhuman
when men take a long time to complete them, that is all’. [You can read more of Camus’s quote in

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F. Essay 50.] That’s the goal of this job and it has taken a fair while, and it might take a little
bit longer. But thank God there is something to do, so you can actually apply yourself, rather
than just evaporate into a pool of excitement, kind of thing! I reckon it’s dead set going to be,
as WTM member Prue Westbrook talked about [see Transformation Affirmation 1], people are
going to just get too excited and have to have some way of coping with it.

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As WTM member Tony Gowing said, you can’t see how bad the human condition is
until you’re free of it [see Transformation Affirmation 7]. You’ve dead-set got to convince
yourself that it’s great because we just haven’t been able to have the positives of a normal,
sound life because we have been banished into ‘Plato’s cave’. It’s as Jeremy said, you
couldn’t design a worse torture, and that’s what we’ve lived with, and that is finished! Plato
has the analogy about humans living in a cave, a cave deep underground, chained up with
their backs to the light, looking at pictures/reflections/shadows of stuff on a wall [see Video/
F. Essay 11 for an explanation of ‘Plato’s cave’]. That’s such a good metaphor for where
humans psychologically live when we haven’t been able to understand the human condition.
We resign and that’s the world we lived in and we couldn’t see how bad it was. It’s impossible
to describe how terrible it is. But because we had no option but to do that—to just defend
ourselves, to become angry, egocentric and alienated as the only responses available to us—
we made as many positives out of it as we could. For blokes, it’s the adventure. For girls, it’s
being pretty. Basically, it’s literally as if the lights have been turned off and the keys chucked
away and we found a rat in the corner and said, ‘I’ll make my life out of grooming rats. That’s
just fantastic! It’s great!’ So, the absolutely best thing in the old world, like going to a rock
concert or your footy team winning the competition or whatever, is in truth just an absolutely,
incredibly poor substitute for being able to understand yourself. We just did it as a holding
pattern. We just did it because that was what we had to do while we accumulated knowledge

Late
Childhood

CHILDHOOD

Now
–Shock Soon
of change

2 mill yr ago
or 12 yr old

–Shock
of change
Beginnings of
Resignation
1.5 mill yr ago
or 15 yr old

Difficult
+ to – Paradigm Shift

ADULTHOOD
ADOLESCENCE

A dying world of ever increasing and
accumulating anger, egocentricity
and alienation

Easy
– to + Paradigm Shift,
once over the
shock of change

This drawing of Humanity’s Journey to Enlightenment shows that it’s a shift from a
situation that is so negative to so positive. It just seems amazing that it would require any
adjustment at all to get used to it, but nevertheless, we do need to adjust because we did live

to get us to this day, and get us the hell out of there!

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in that cave. We didn’t have any understanding. So, it’s just like humans, before we didn’t
understand thunder and lightning, they sacrificed their children. That’s how terrified they
were of that issue, of thunder and lightning. It’s going to take a lot of reassurance for them
to accept, ‘Look, when thunder and lightning happens you don’t have to kill your kids. It’s
just a natural phenomenon caused by an electric discharge in the atmosphere during a storm’,
and they’ll say, ‘Are you sure? Are you sure? It looks really angry! I feel like killing one of
my kids because I feel like I’m in trouble!’ But, ‘No, no, no, you don’t have to, you know!”
So, the analogy is, it’s a situation we’re absolutely terrified of. That’s why it’s a bit of an
adjustment for the human race, on the macro, which will take whatever it takes. And for each
of us personally it takes a bit of time because we live in mortal fear of the issue of the human
condition and we have resigned to cope. So even though we have a sensible self that can hear
this information, that can understand the logic in it and that desperately wants it to succeed,
we are just sort of waylaid by this commitment to the old, resigned way of living. We have
had to be really committed to it and it just takes a while to have the fabulous realisation that
it’s all over! But you don’t have to live there anymore. It’s just extraordinary that it’s all over.
It’s nothing like anything that’s ever been before! This is the culmination of two million years
of conscious effort. That’s what it is. It’s just amazing!

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What is amazing I reckon is how the journey shown in the Humanity’s Journey to
Enlightenment drawing (above) went on for just donkey’s years (two million years in fact).
You can’t get your head around how long it went for. It just got worse and worse and worse
and worse and worse! That is us! We are humans who have been suffering from the human
condition for two million years. We are just completely wrecked [again, see F. Essay 55 for a
description of the ‘Endgame’ state that the human race has now reached]. You’d think, ‘Aww,
well surely it’s going to take at least another two million years to fix, so those people will be
useless, you may as well just put them straight into the museum!’ But what’s amazing is we
can be totally effective. We don’t personally become sound again, we’re highly compromised
and all that stuff, just messed up people—but it’s supporting this information which is perfect,
it’s sound. There’s nothing to add to it. All humanity needs is this information. All you need to
do is to help it. Whether that means you mow the lawn or just whatever it is, it’s helping that.
So the effect of what you’re doing is sound even though you’re a wreck. Sure, you’re not as
dysfunctional as you used to be because you’ve got an awareness of what has been going on.
It’s just the most extraordinary deal. It’s a ‘get out of jail free’ card! The deal is: ‘You are one
corrupt human. Welcome aboard! What do you want to do to help?’ It’s just amazing!

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I was just going to say, I was thinking about what Tony Gowing and Prue Westbrook
were just talking about. In Prue’s Affirmation [see Transformation Affirmation 1] she said
that there’ll come a point when we’re just not even talking about the human condition any
more. Where this project is currently up to, one of the priorities is developing the Transformed

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Lifeforce State, how to do it etc, but once that’s up and running, then what will be happening
is people will be discussing, ‘How do we fix the world? What do we do next? We’ve got
ten million people who want to come and help clean up the rubble, where do we start?’, etc.
We are sitting here talking about a way of living because it needs to be developed but there
will come a point when it is developed, and it will have a life of its own and there will be a
department for it or whatever, but there’ll also be this huge thing going on where the world’s
just being fixed up. Everyone will be transformed, like, ‘Yeah, yeah, I know how to do that,
just give me something to do! Just whatever it is, I’ll take care of it.’

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[After Nick’s presentation, the following discussion took place]
Tony Gowing: Essentially [for the world to be saved] all that’s got to happen is people
have just got to sit children down and tell them the Adam Stork story. That’s it. And be honest
enough to say, ‘Adam is me and this is all the terrible shit that I’m going to inflict on you. But
really, don’t look at me, just look at this story.’
Nick: And the children will respond saying, ‘Thanks! That all makes sense to me. I love
you for it. Good on you for doing it. It wasn’t your fault, no!’ There’s no problems any way
you look at it! The children might add though, ‘But yeah, if you wouldn’t mind just letting me
hang out with my childhood buddies!!!’ [LAUGHTER].

Section 3:12 Neil Duns (recorded September 2010)

My name is Neil Duns and I am here to give my affirmation as to the power and potential
of this explanation of the human condition. [See Video/F. Essay 3 for the explanation of the
human condition.]
The way I live my life now is really very simple. My resolve comes from the efforts of all
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be born into a world of understanding; and strength and courage from a boy’s vision—that
‘Soon from one end of the horizon to the other, an army will appear in its millions to do battle with human
suffering and its weapon will be understanding.’ (This is a phrase that has always summarised

Jeremy Griffith’s vision. He has stated it in every one of his books going back to his first
book, Free: The End Of The Human Condition which was published in January 1988, where
the quote appears on pages 37 and 40.) [See F. Essay 49 for Jeremy’s biography.]
That’s what I draw strength from now.
That’s what I call upon.
What talents I’ve got are aligned to that.
What frailties I’ve got are taken care of by this information. And what frailties I’ve got,
I get enough understanding of to enable me to be as functional and able as I could wish to be
for the new world that has begun.
I am no one special or unique. I am a 29 year old male [at the time of filming] who has
stumbled upon this and seen it for what it really is and acted upon that. I am from a regional
city in rural NSW in Australia. I grew up in a middle class family. Mum was a teacher and Dad
ran a small business. I went to a public school and then went to Sydney University [Neil was
elected Senior Student of Wesley College] and completed a science degree. I played rugby,
had a few girlfriends and travelled the world. I started and was involved with a charity for a
developing country, and when I finished studying I went off to work in a developing country
in a private enterprise. That’s just a brief background which may or may not be relevant—
maybe you’ll relate to me, maybe you won’t.
I am not here to give a profound outlook on the state of the world. Or to debate the issue
of whether the glass is half full or half empty—I am not seeking to resolve that philosophical
argument. To me the state of the world is serious and the current human state, the human
condition no less, is well worth investigating. In fact, it’s the most serious of issues we must
now face. There is a deep psychological sickness in us all which needs addressing if we are
to overcome the world’s problems. And we can only do that now thanks to where science and
the accumulation of knowledge has brought us to, but most importantly due to the soundness
of an unresigned mind and its holistic approach to piecing together the full picture that Jeremy
Griffith has had the capacity to achieve. [Again, Video/F. Essay 3 covers the explanation of
the human condition; while the role of unresigned thinkers in assembling that explanation is
explained in F. Essay 39.
I, and I think all of us, come at this variously sceptical and dubious about the claims, or
offended at the audacity of what this seeks to resolve and overcome. We, (and I’m talking
about my generation here) live with such deep cynicism and for me, prior to embracing this
information, an actual resistance and fear that there is an all-encompassing truth [see Video/
F. Essay 11 for the explanation of why humans have had to live in what Plato described as a
cave of denial of the human condition]. In fact there is even a movement in my generation

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embracing the belief that there is no deeper truth or reason to life, that existence is meaningless
and random, and that we’re selfish due to our genes—that we should just get on with life, not
look too deeply into the meaning of life [see F. Essay 55: Endgame for the human race about the
Millennial generation]. As long as we have good food, wine and coffee and are surrounded by
good friends and family, then that’s it, that is as good as it gets—just enjoy life. [See F. Essay
30 for an explanation of the psychological process of ‘Resignation’ whereby we ‘resign’ to a

life of seeking reinforcement and distraction.] That’s where we have got to and in fact that’s
where I lived. But this is just living with the blinkers on, it’s living in the dark, not living in the
true context of our time. And we just need to wake up and see this time for what it truly is. If we
can actually see that the time we are in is the start of a new world where humans live through
understanding, not under mysticism, faith, dogma, enforced ideality, or in the nothingness of
post-modernist deconstruction [see F. Essays 14, 34, 35 & 36 for an exposé of these ‘pseudo
idealistic’ movements], then overnight everything changes. As Pierre Teilhard de Chardin said,
‘The Truth has to only appear once…for it to be impossible for anything ever to prevent it from spreading
universally and setting everything ablaze’ (Let Me Explain, 1966; trs René Hague & others, 1970, p.159 of 189).

This is the most serious and important of subjects which we are dealing with but I know
that there is the most exciting of outcomes as a result of penetrating the impenetrable. That’s
what I want to talk about.
I am here to talk today about the relief, excitement, pure joy and freedom that is on offer
for everyone now, regardless of who we are, where we’re from and what we’ve done. For me,
for men, for women, for children, for all humans now. We’re all equal in this. For the older
generations, for the younger generations, for the future of the whole human race. THIS IS
BIG!! But this is the time we have arrived at—and isn’t it just incredible!!

It’s the start of the new world.
I want to talk about that relief, excitement and freedom because that’s what I know and
have experienced and it makes sense for me to talk about this and share this as my affirmation.
Because my affirmation should be about how this information, this biological understanding
of the human condition, has changed my life, and it’s through the initial investigation, the
subsequent support and, more recently, the embracing of this information that I have been able
to experience what I will describe.
The relief we can now experience as we let this information dignify and ameliorate what
we know and refer to as our upset or our afflicted state, is like feeling the sun’s warm rays
for the first time. Imagine spending, in fact we have spent, a lifetime living in the dark and
now we are feeling the warmth shine upon us. And not only are we feeling the warmth, which
is the love and ameliorating understanding which this information delivers, but we are now
seeing clearly for the first time that this information has shed light upon a whole landscape,
the whole world. Just like [WTM member] Genevieve Salter’s Sun picture below [see
Transformation Affirmation 4 for Genevieve’s affirmation].

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I love that because it also shows just how big this is compared to us individually. So we
now experience relief from being loveable, which is the sun’s warmth; relief from seeing
clearly for the first time a world of understanding; and relief in just how much we are a part
of something so much bigger than us and our small lives—the scale of this compared to us.
Getting out of our selfish preoccupied lives is an ENORMOUS relief. This is a drenching of
meaning, compassion and enlightening understanding on our world, our place in it, each
other and ourselves.
For me personally that relief was about letting go of the need to feel good about myself.
You see this information explains that we are fundamentally good—in fact that we are an
amazing species!! Letting the need to feel good be fulfilled through letting my pain and
upset state be taken care of as dealt with by this information is an enormous relief in that this
insatiable appetite, this futile quest for an unreachable goal, is now over.
That need to feel good about myself was insatiable and was simply a result of an
underlying insecurity of self I lived with since Resignation and that has defined how I lived
my life ever since. We all share this insecurity to various degrees. This became a full time
preoccupation for me as an adult as it does for everyone, and in my early to mid 20s I set off
into life seeking to overcome that feeling and expressed that urge in its extreme. I’d sleep
with as many women as I could, I set myself up in the most difficult and challenging work
environment in which to conquer and state my claim, I went to the extreme of satisfying
the urge my ego was crying out for and have experienced the emptiness and the loneliness
of that state. I now live relieved of that feeling, that burden to overcome, and that relieved
feeling is standing with my arms in the air, embracing the sun which has risen on the horizon
and feeling that warmth, being able to see for the first time and being humbled by my size
compared to this.
The excitement that opens up when we allow our preoccupied, upset state to be taken care
of by this information, to be now living relieved of that upset state, well the excitement that
opens up is just incomparable. It is just like Jeremy’s depiction in his Humanity’s Situation
drawing of the state humans experience when they take the Sunshine Highway (which is the

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embracing and supporting of this information) over the depression of the unconfrontable
truths that this information inevitably brings up, and run towards freedom with open arms.

The excitement shown in this drawing is real.

It’s the highest of highs no drug could deliver and is like electricity running through
your veins when you see and feel this. And it lasts and it stays with us unlike the feeling
from any drug or sex or win or indulgence or embellishment. This is the most exciting time
humans have ever experienced. THIS IS THE MOST EXCITING TIME HUMANS HAVE EVER
EXPERIENCED!!

And Freedom. Freedom’s like a destination we’ve been travelling towards for an eternity,
for so long we’ve forgotten where we’re going, what we’re doing. We’ve been striving for
something just out of grasp. Well, we have reached true freedom now. Think about how
incredible that is!! How ethereal and out of reach it’s been, but nonetheless we’ve held hope
we’d one day reach it. This information now sets us free—‘The Truth will set you free’ like
they say. Freedom that is like nothing before, which no humans have until now experienced,
freedom from our afflictions, insecurities and preoccupations, which liberates us and allows us
to truly live now and experience life in a totally new framework. Freedom to participate in a
new world. Jeremy’s first book in 1988 was called Free: The End of the Human Condition and
that’s what this delivers and this is the time we are now in. I should clarify that while this is
the end of the human condition, our generation will not become free of the human condition,
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as a conduit generation to get these understandings to a fresh generation who’ll one day be
born free of the human condition That’s the common goal we all now share. [F. Essays 15 &
33 explain more about the role of generations who grew up under the duress of the human

condition].
As Jeremy explained in Section 1:13 of Freedom Expanded: Book 2, ‘This Exhilarated,
Ecstatic, Enthralled-with-Existence aspect is the “Life” in “Lifeforce”; and the Empowered, WorldTransforming aspect is the “force” in “Lifeforce”, so Lifeforce covers the personal benefit and the benefit
to the world in one word.’ This is a perfect description of what we can now live with and is the

relief, excitement and freedom that I am talking about.
As I said earlier, we all approach this variously sceptical and dubious, or even offended at
the claims as to the power of this information. But I do ask you to stay open to the possibility
that there is a world that you don’t yet know about, a life that is bliss that you haven’t yet
experienced, and a future that awaits that is incredibly exciting and that you haven’t seen
coming.
Each one of us is standing at the door to something so easily obtainable, incredibly
exciting and offering unlimited potential. This fixes all the world’s problems because it deals
with the source of the problems, which is US.
The responsibility is there but don’t act on responsibility, be drawn by what’s on offer. It’s
unbeatable and I urge everyone to open their eyes to this and see the time we are now in for
what it is.
Thank you.

Section 3:13 Tony Miall (recorded December 2009)

My name is Tony Miall and I’m a founding member of the WORLD TRANSFORMATION
MOVEMENT (WTM).

This wasn’t part of what I had originally prepared but I just wanted to first talk about
something that happened a couple of days ago which was a testament, for me anyway, of just
how important it is that we get this information out to the world. In the 2009 Introductory
Video Jeremy presented the most moving thing I’ve ever seen. It was a description of a boy

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who is 15 or 16 and who has shut himself in his room as teenagers do and Jeremy acted out
that teenager holding his head in his hands with a look of utter despair, with the music blaring,
asking those deeper questions to himself at that age that no one can provide any answers for.
And that was true, that certainly happened to me when I was 16, to the extent that I can still
actually remember being in my room and going through that and sort of yelling out loud, ‘I
know I’m good!’ Unfortunately for me and my generation I couldn’t explain or understand
what was going on which, before I knew was Resignation [as is explained in F. Essay 30 and
chapter 2:2 of FREEDOM by Jeremy Griffith] led me down roads of looking at Buddhism or
Christianity and all sorts of things to try and get some answers, until I basically just gave up.
I have three children of my own now and I love them all very much. My youngest son,
who is 17 [at time of filming], said to me the other night when we were watching television,
‘Dad, I just can’t watch TV because of what you see on the news, there’s paedophiles and
there’s rape and murder and everything else, and this might sound weird but I sit here
thinking to myself, what if I’m like that?’ And that is the same question that we have all asked
ourselves and I asked myself at that same age, ‘What are we capable of, are we good or are
we bad?’ Basically that’s what he was saying too, ‘Am I good or am I bad?’ And thank—I
was going to say thank Christ but thank Jeremy for this information—because I could sit
down with my son and we talked about it for half an hour and he went to bed that night not
tormented but happy. He got the answers to the questions that all of us have asked ourselves
at that age that really do force us into this terrible state—force us into the human condition,
which is a pretty ordinary place to be most of the time. [The explanation of the human
condition is presented in Video/F. Essay 3.]
So I didn’t intend to talk about that, but for me that summed up why the information
Jeremy is presenting is so important. If we can stop the torment children go through and give
children the answers when they’re asking those questions it will be such a relief for them. You
could give them a billion dollars and it’s just nothing compared to what this understanding of
the human condition brings to their lives.
The following is what I prepared for this testimonial. I’ve been around this information
for about 10 years [at the time of filming] and I suppose up until a few months ago I really
didn’t appreciate it for what it was. I wanted to talk for a minute about what I see in these

pictures that Jeremy has drawn.

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It sums everything up for me. You can be around the information for a long time and
fool yourself that you’re supporting it, but really there is only one way to support it and
that’s free of the old world and free of all the strategies that you’ve dragged around since you
resigned. After Resignation, you give up asking questions and you end up in the first diagram,
effectively inside a bubble. In that world everything is so insular, you don’t see anything,
all you care about is yourself and you’re always tormented by that original question of ‘am
I good or am I bad?’ You spend your entire life—well up until now that is—living in this
bubble and being owned by all the grievances you’ve got, for example, ‘No one gave me any
answers’ or whatever it might be.
Basically everyone’s life, if they thought about it for a minute, consists of this total
preoccupation with proving that you’re good and not bad. This information is just so beautiful
because it doesn’t judge or condemn, it explains and dignifies the human condition.
So you spend all your life after Resignation and I certainly did, trying to prove myself.
As a teenager it’s pretty disconcerting because I can remember I was pretty good at golf and
I was asking those deeper questions and wanting to understand what the meaning of life was,
but all people cared about was the fact that I could hit a golf ball well. So you’d just basically
give up on ever getting those answers and now that this has come along it’s a second chance
for that little boy in his room to finally get the answers that he was asking for.
How I understand the second bubble in the diagram is that it shows what happens after
you come across the information. In my mind you understand the information, you do work
out that you can get out of this state of living in a bubble. You can start to recognise it and see
it for what it is and it’s a little bit unnerving in one respect. First of all you get very excited
because you can understand what’s going on in the world around you. But then you start
thinking, ‘wait a minute, this is becoming a little bit confronting, it’s cutting a bit too close to
the bone (so to speak)’, because the honesty of these understandings start to reveal the human
condition within yourself.
It’s at this stage you know the information is true but you try and use it within your resigned
selfish framework to satisfy your ego, but it can’t work because the information makes the ego
redundant. What you’re really trying to do is pick the information up and bring it back into
the first bubble and manufacture it to suit your own strategy that you adopted at Resignation.
This is what we call the Mexican Standoff. But it’s just no way to live once you understand this
information, you can’t! [Jeremy explains the ‘Mexican Standoff ’ in F. Essay 33.]
So you reach a point where you decide to fully support the information without trying to
get a ‘win’ out of it. When you do that you can see clearly the real potential of this information
and really appreciate it for what it is. For example, I haven’t prepared this, but I will randomly
pick a page in A Species In Denial [Jeremy’s 2003 bestseller] and read an extract to demonstrate
how profound this information is: ‘This acceptance and subsequent honesty fractures the hold the
resigned ‘highway’ of denial has on your mind. It releases you from being a total victim of your old resigned
strategy, where you cannot think any other way than from a base of denial’ [p.303 printed edition/p.199 online
version]. Honestly, I didn’t think I would pick one so relevant, I didn’t prepare that, I just opened

the book! Anyway, you can do that all day long, find truth after truth. I mean there’s not one
word in that book that’s not true, and there’s not one sentence that anyone could have written
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for really how big this information is, that it really does end the human condition. It really
does solve all the problems, it really will stop kids from dying inside themselves, it will just
create bliss beyond our comprehension. We can’t really imagine or know what it’s going to
be like for humans free of the human condition but in the meantime what we can do is let our
resigned state go and accept that this information explains everything and just support it. That
leads us to the third picture in the diagram, where you are truly liberated. You can finally,
legitimately leave behind all the baggage you were forced to take up at Resignation in order to
cope with the human condition. Not through some hollow form of escapism, but through true
understanding and seeing the ultimate freedom available for all humanity.
I was trying to think of a way to describe the relief that comes with that and it’s just
impossible but the nearest thing I could come up with was like having a raging bushfire chasing
you and you are running out of water and you’re running and running and running and running
and finally, you know this goes on for hours, and you’re covered in dirt and sweat, and you
finally come over a little hill and here’s a nice lagoon with green grass and you just have to jump
in and the fire goes around you and you just sit there and go ‘Phew, thank Christ that’s over’.
So, I’ve got really not much more but as far as I’m concerned it’s just the only thing on
the planet worth talking about and it’s certainly the only thing worth being involved in and
that’s it.

Section 3:14 Anthony Landahl (recorded December 2009)

My name is Anthony Landahl, I’m 35 years old [at the time of filming] and I’ve been part
of the WORLD TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT (WTM) for the best part of my adult life.
I grew up in Sydney, and had a pretty typical Australian upbringing, went to school, played
sport etc. You know the plans—grow up, meet a wife, get a job, have kids etc. On the surface
this is all fine and can be seen as pretty typical of a lot of family life. I wasn’t personally
searching for answers or particularly philosophical either.
Everyone can read and test this explanation of the human condition by Jeremy Griffith
themselves to see if it’s true [see Video/F. Essay 3]. My experience is that once you go on
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the culmination of humanity’s search for knowledge, so it certainly shouldn’t be dismissed
lightly. In fact what you start discovering is that it’s an incredible time in history and there is
an exciting future for humans that we can all access.
This information goes to the core in all of us of what it means to be a human and to the
heart of understanding ourselves individually and collectively. So just step back and consider
that there might be an explanation to all of the suffering, selfishness, loneliness, depression,
greed, pain and day-to-day personal battles and difficulties we humans front up to.
I’d firstly like to talk from a broader macro perspective, and then give a more personal
account about what this understanding of the human condition has done for my life.
So firstly, what does it mean for us, this explanation of the human condition?
It means collectively, with the search to find the greater dignifying understanding of self,
the need to validate ourselves, or if we go back to the Adam Stork story that Jeremy presents
in Video/F. Essay 3 and chapters 1 & 3 of FREEDOM, the need to fly off course, is over. Our
insecurity about our self worth that developed two million years ago has been dignified,
explained and truly validated by the information. Hunger for self-validation is rested with a
fundamental understanding of ourselves. So it means individually the burden of the human
condition is lifted and all that anger, egocentricity and alienation in all of us can subside. We
can leave the self-worth-focused, self-preoccupied-with-proving-I-am-good wasteland behind
now. We have had to live how we have lived, it was unavoidable as Jeremy has explained,
but now we transform from living without understanding of our fundamental worth to
living with the truth about our condition explained and dignified. [See F. Essay 15 about the
Transformation that understanding makes possible.] So it’s a massive paradigm shift in thought

and brings about a massive change to the world and to ourselves in the way we can live.

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Eventually, because of this understanding, children won’t have to resign [Resignation
being a psychological process that is explained in F. Essay 30]. But for us who have been
born into this world still afflicted by the human condition and who had no choice but to resign
and go out and assist in this search for knowledge, what happens initially is we try to bring
the resigned world, our resigned life into the truthful, denial-free world that is made possible
by understanding of the human condition. In effect, when we first hear this explanation we
continue to live in that insecure, self-preoccupied with proving our self worth, resigned state
of denial, whilst simultaneously trying to live with this truth up. It’s what we have called the
‘Mexican Standoff ’, where you live in a ‘no man’s land’, where you can’t deny the truth of
the explanation but you can’t let go of your resigned ways—in effect, you continue to live in
denial of the truth about yourself.
But that is not the way to respond to this information—it’s about seeing, accepting and
then knowing the truth about this understanding in ourselves and the world, breaking our own
denial if you like, not being a victim of our defensive reactions to the truth and instead taking
up this Transformed Lifeforce State. And the way to do that is simple. There is no need to face
down or overly confront yourself with this information, no need to hold on to our redundant
resigned ways anymore. Just support this dignifying explanation of the human condition
and ourselves and live for what is possible now and just leave that resigned, self-centred,
preoccupied-with-self-validation state that’s now redundant (because it’s been explained and
dignified) behind. Live where the human journey is at. Participate in the truthful world again
by living for the future generations when children won’t have to resign. [Again, Video/F.
Essay 15 explains the Transformation that this information makes possible; while F. Essay 33
features a discussion in which Jeremy Griffith explains the ‘Mexican Standoff ’, and how to
adopt the Transformed Way of Living.]
I’m going to talk a little bit more personally now. It’s taken me a number of years to
absorb this information. I’ve personally wrestled with the ‘Mexican Standoff ’, a state where
you know this information is true, but you’re holding onto your resigned life that we’re so
habituated to, our own strategies to life. So what I want to talk about now is what for me has
opened up this whole Transformed State, and that was understanding and accepting and
knowing in myself what it really is to be a resigned human, accepting what it is to live a
life in denial of the human condition and the soul’s truthful world.
The first time I came across the concept of Resignation, or of being resigned, was in
Jeremy’s writing on the human condition. It was a concept I’d never heard about at school,
or ever come across before. You get on with life just accepting it for what it is and from time
to time you might look at things from a slightly deeper perspective, but you never get any
real answers and so you just get on with life. Then, when I understood this explanation of
the human condition it was a big step for me to firstly understand, then accept Resignation
and say, ‘I am resigned and I’m living in denial of the human condition. I’m angry, I’m
egocentric, I’m alienated from the soul’s world, in fact I died inside myself when I resigned,
and I took up a strategy to cope with life based on validating myself ’. That was all incredibly
difficult to get my head around and accept in my core, not just intellectually. It at times has
been an extremely exposing and confronting journey. Honestly, we are so in denial of the
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anymore. [See F. Essay 21 for the explanation of how we acquired our instinctive moral soul.]
We don’t think there’s anything wrong with our lives, we just block out the horror of what’s
going on in the world and day-to-day in our lives. But when you can finally understand,
accept and know what it means to be resigned, it’s incredibly relieving and exciting and it
opens up the unbridled potential of this information.
Through the understandings that Jeremy has presented I can understand that like us
all, I was born into the world expecting it to be soulful and ideal, but it’s not. We are born
into a divisive world that we can’t reconcile with the ideals. So eventually we stop trying to
reconcile the two states, we stop asking those questions about the wrongness of the world
that we ask as children, questions that adults couldn’t answer and instead just said, ‘Oh
that’s just life, you’ll understand one day.’ But because we couldn’t reconcile it (the divisive
world with the ideals) and there were no answers, we let go of our truthful/soulful child’s
view of the world in our adolescence and resigned to the adult world and left that truthful/
soulful world behind.
Jeremy has explained to me, and through these explanations I can understand myself,
that because of my particular upbringing and because of my intellect and sensitivity, at
Resignation I could see the horror of the human condition in the world and in me, and I made
a very deep philosophical decision at that point that I would never go back there emotionally,
that means I never wanted to look at or face down the human condition in the world and
myself again. Practically, I decided I did not want to participate in or be a part of the horror
of theworld. At that point of Resignation the little boy left the soul’s world behind and died
inside of me....[struggling to speak].....this is the hard bit.........Resignation was a really awful
time for me. I was physically sick with glandular fever for about three months.........I couldn’t
get out of bed and my sister used to come home after school and lie next to me.........it’s hard
to reconnect with that actual moment, and the depth of it, but I can feel and knowthe truth
of it in terms of never wanting to look into the deeper issues of life again and not wanting
to participate in life from that point on. The way my life’s been lived since that time is a
testament to this, and I reckon everyone has a similar story of sorts to that.
So since that moment of Resignation I went into denial of the existence of the human
condition, blocked out the soul’s world, and everything I’ve ever done since has been
driven by those deep decisions I made then about how I’m going to live my life, and then I
developed a strategy for validating my life based around this. I developed an ego-centred win
system to feel good about myself, prove my worth, relieve my insecurity about ‘am I good or
bad?’, as in the Adam Stork story. I’d side with the ‘down and outers’, but wasn’t one of them,
I’d side with soul, but wasn’t soulful, I was smart but disowned my IQ, I tried to ‘out-bloke’
everyone and it goes on and on in all of us.
All my energy from that moment of Resignation was dedicated to and preoccupied with
maintaining this resigned life, to feeling better about myself. The way I talk, the way I walk
and dress, everything I do. Our lives become a tangled, insecure mess. But it was my way of
coping and validating myself, of giving me self-esteem and I loved it and it looked after me.
And everyone takes up some strategy at Resignation to validate themselves, whether it be to
be a winner at all costs, become part of a born-again movement, or drop out of the battle of
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So with the explanation of the human condition I can now understand, know and feel
what it means to be resigned. That’s who I am and I can see why my life’s been what it’s
been. That’s what’s been driving me and how I coped with resigned life. I can shake hands
with this part of me now, see it, love it, but not be a victim of it. I can see how embattled,
heroic, tired, exhausted, preoccupying and beautiful the human journey is—I can know what
the Adam Stork story is for me. And that for me is the transformation. Seeing and accepting
and knowing what it is to be resigned. Knowing and understanding what happened to me
at Resignation, what’s driven me since and that I have lived a life in denial of the human
condition and the truthful world is incredibly relieving. And with the human condition
reconciled, explained and defended—you will see we can leave it (our resigned life) behind
now. It’s a revelation and the denial-free, soulful/truthful world opens up again.
Even though I’m resigned and always will be, I can be a part of the truthful, denialfree world again now by supporting it, with my old resigned way of life able to be left
behind in a defended, dignified and loved state. I can participate in something so beautiful
and meaningful, it’s amazing. This information fulfils me and all of us. The WORLD
TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT is something to live for now and participate in.

Understanding all of this also allows me to see the difference between someone who
resigned like myself and someone who didn’t resign. Someone that didn’t have to go into
denial to cope, who could live with the human condition up-front, not buried. An unresigned
brain or a denial-free thinker or what traditionally was called a prophet, can confront and walk
around in the realm of the human condition, can think truthfully and honestly and is not in
denial of the human condition or the truthful, soul’s world. And there has been a handful of
humans throughout time who have done this: Abraham, Moses, Christ and more recently Sir
Laurens van der Post, Sir James Darling and Jeremy Griffith [see F. Essay 39 on unresigned
thinkers]. It’s not personal, it’s just part of the human story and just plain facts.
This means that the truthful, soulful, denial-free world and where these explanations
came from can be made sense of and, in fact, still exists, and the resigned world can also
be made sense of. There is a whole world that we don’t even know exists in our estranged
denial. But it exists. The denial-free, truthful world has always been there. Children and the
unresigned, denial-free people have access to that and can live there and we can too now
again. It’s real and tangible and that world can come alive again in all of us and in ourselves.
Without this information I would have been just living out my strategy to life. Or with
this information I could live in the ‘Mexican Standoff ’, which we talked about before which I
have done for many years, just living constantly in and out of exposure, defending my current
state of denial. Or by understanding and accepting and knowing I am resigned and that I can
leave that resigned life behind now brings so much peace and resolution to all of our bones.
We can truly live again.
You know at base in our day-to-day lives, I know myself, and all of us at different
times and moments get a glimpse of, just how selfish or egocentric or angry we are and how
unhappy our life has become, or how messy our life has become and without this information
we can’t cope with that, we just block that out, we soldier on, we get on with life in denial,
under the duress of the human condition if you like, using whatever strategy we could grab
onto in order to validate our lives and feel better about ourselves.

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But in taking up the Transformed Lifeforce State this all dissolves, the need to live
for self dissolves. Day-to-day having to live out our resigned strategy, trying to validate
ourselves, trying to get a win, trying to out-do the next person, all that insecurity goes with
understanding our resigned life that we have led. Your life becomes incredibly meaningful and
happy. You understand where humanity has been, you understand where you’ve been and you
also see the future and the possibility of a world that is free of the human condition. You are
living for something that is so much greater than any resigned life could ever imagine to offer.
And it doesn’t mean how we have been living has been wrong: as Jeremy has explained, we
had to march into hell for a heavenly cause. That’s the beauty of all this information, it’s all
explained. It dignifies where we’ve been and how we’ve lived.
This information explains the whole human story. The human condition exists, it is real,
and now, with this explanation here, the Transformed State is here for all humans to take up,
regardless of who you are, where you were born, what particular way you coped with your
life, whether you were born-again to religion, or a businessman, or born in the back blocks of
any country in the world, this is for everyone.
We may not always hold the clarity as clearly from one day to the next—we are coming
from two million years of that resigned way of living, and our own personal way of coping
and block out and denial—so for me that resigned state will always be there, but it’s about
not living for that anymore. It’s about understanding that, understanding the human journey,
understanding where we’ve been and understanding that that’s over. So it’s about living for
the future and for what this information can offer the future and what it can do for the world

and its potential.

You do feel like you just pop up in front of that sun in the FREEDOM poster and you
just want to help where you can with this project and I just want to help get this to everyone
where I can now.

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I was born in Brisbane and was introduced to the understandings of the human condition
by my girlfriend Annabel in my early 20s when she explained the Adam Stork picture to
me once after we had seen a movie [in Video/F. Essay 3 the human condition is explained
using the Adam Stork analogy]. I had been to art school and I had gone down a lot of roads
in myself looking for understanding of what I considered the crisis of my childhood to be,
which was meaninglessness. The world was a bleak place in terms of love. I looked out at the
world thinking, ‘Where do I fit in?’, ‘Who am I?’, ‘What is all this selfishness and aggression
about?’ Ultimately I was asking why is the world so non-ideal. You look around and you
can’t seem to make sense of anything and there are apparently no answers to these questions.
Then, as you grow up, you see that lack of ideality in yourself and that’s something that you
just cannot face down or answer and without an explanation you are left with some terrifying
conclusions that you are bad and unlovable. So, as Jeremy explained very well in chapter 2:2
of FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition [for an introduction to Resignation, we
recommend you read F. Essay 30], you just cut out at that point and you cease asking those
questions of ‘why?’ and you resign. You take up completely some artificial way of life in
order to feel good about yourself and to prove your self worth. Once I heard the Adam Stork
story, the penny dropped for me. I just knew in my bones it was true and I remember saying to
Annabel, ‘Yeah, that’s it!’
I’ve been a founding member of the WORLD TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT (WTM)
since then and I’ve been quietly digesting this information. That digestion leads you to a point
where you do know that the information is true but you have committed to a life of proving
your self worth and taken up a strategy to try and achieve that and have become massively
addicted to that way of life, which leaves you in a Mexican Standoff with this information,
where you are effectively saying, ‘Yeah Jeremy, that’s a great idea, but in lieu of not having
those answers when I was young I’ve got something going here that I’m addicted to now.
I’ve developed a strategy which gives me a lot of wins and sustenance and I’m doing pretty
well. So how do I maintain this strategy and support something that explains and ultimately
obsoletes that way of living?’ [F. Essay 33 contains an important presentation by Jeremy
Griffith on how to resolve the ‘Mexican Standoff ’.]

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But the whole point of when the dignifying understanding arrives for real is that
you can have a very serious chat with yourself and say, ‘Look, is this the truth about my
situation or not?’ It’s testable in your own life and I’ve done it and I’ve tested it and all that
meaninglessness can now be explained.
I look around at the suburb I grew up in and it is not unlike the picture Jeremy presented
of suburban California in Part 2:5 of Freedom Expanded: Book 1 and it was bleak [see below].
I remember, as I said earlier, just thinking ‘Where is something meaningful?’, ‘I’m looking
for something that isn’t here’ and people are going about life in a way that is alien to me and
there were these pieces to the puzzle of life that just didn’t connect.

This information has logically answered all those questions for me and that’s what I love
about it and it resonates in me in a purely logical way and I don’t have to defer to anything or
anyone, it’s not a stretch of your imagination or anything like that and for a boy who grew up
seeing the world as a complete mystery, now I see it through this information, everything has
been explained and therefore resolved, so whatever happened to me in my life is all explicable
in terms of this information.
Now the beautiful gift about it is, as Jeremy says, you don’t have to go and look at the
catalogue of your pain and say, ‘I’ve got to work out that, that, that, that and that’. When
the big answer comes, when the answer to ‘What is the meaning of life?’ is here, you can
say, ‘Yes that’s it, game over, we are defended’. The amazing thing that happens after you
realise that you no longer have to be preoccupied with proving your self worth because we
are defended, is that a new realm of possibility opens up that you could never imagine before.
You start thinking ‘Okay, if there isn’t any mystery to life, if everything has been explained
and if a child can have that explanation growing up when they begin to ask all those real
questions, they won’t have to resign and will grow up in a world where there isn’t any anger,
competitiveness and selfishness’.
I have wondered how the concept of ‘self worth’ will be viewed in the future and where it
will fit in? Because if you ask a child in the future, once this explanation is universal, ‘What is
the meaning of the word “worth”?’, they’ll say, ‘Um, it’s not money, it’s not material things…
what, self worth? Was that ever in question?’ and you’ll say, ‘Well, it was at one point!’

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That’s what I live for, the potential of what this can do and it’s once you can have that
chat with yourself and fully understand that this is the answer to all your problems, then a
world of unlimited possibility opens up to you. As a conduit generation, we can live through
the vision of what is possible now and that is what is happening here in real time in real life;
it’s living for an amazing future. I’m doing all I can for this information to reach the world
in honour of ‘little’ Pete who didn’t get told what the world was about and couldn’t be told
because the human condition hadn’t been explained, but now that the human condition has
been solved, anything can happen and it’s going to be so good!

Section 3:16 Prue Watson (recorded December 2009)

My name is Prue Watson and I’m 35 years old [at the time of filming] and I first got
interested in this information when I was 16 years old. I was just going to talk a little bit about
growing up because I feel like I do remember asking those real questions that children ask,
about why the world isn’t ideal and why there are so many things that are wrong in the world.
I remember hitting that point where I had been bumbling along growing up and then suddenly
I wanted to understand why all these things were the way they were. Why could people be
so mean and cruel? Why were parents getting divorced and that was making my friends so
unhappy? Why were people being abused? Why was there rape and why was there war? Why
were there all these things happening?
The next thing I remember is discovering that imperfection and non-ideality in myself.
I had feelings, for example, of jealousy and resentment, and these were non-ideal things and
that was incredibly difficult to try to understand in myself. Now that I understand the human
condition and Resignation, which Jeremy Griffith explains in chapter 2:2 of FREEDOM: The
End Of The Human Condition [for an introduction to Resignation, we recommend you read
F. Essay 30], I know that what was going on was that I was trying to face down and ask these
questions about the world and myself that there were no answers for. It is something that you
do in your own head because no one talks about it and so it is incredibly silent and lonely. You
end up resigning to the world of reality but that’s incredibly difficult to accept because I know
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you have to resign at that point. You can’t stay living trying to face that down in yourself and
survive, you can’t. I remember it was quite vivid for me because I’m the eldest child and I
have three younger sisters and they hadn’t resigned and here I was knowing that I was giving
up on everything. They were still alive inside and I knew exactly what I was going to have
to do was to block everything out that was really real, including them, and everything they
felt and all the real questions. So I resigned and I knew that meant I was taking up a false,
superficial, self-preoccupied existence, but nonetheless I did that.
The next thing I wanted to talk about was hearing the Adam Stork story when I was 16
and I remember that incredibly clearly. I was sitting there and listening to Jeremy Griffith
explain the human condition to me and explain the Adam Stork story and I spent most of the
time trying not to burst into tears because he was talking about things that no one else had
been able to talk about and not only was he acknowledging the questions, he was explaining
why adults couldn’t talk about those questions and he was explaining all the answers and it
was just an amazing, amazing time to be hearing that, it was incredible [in Video/F. Essay
3 the human condition is explained using the Adam Stork analogy]. When you’re that age

you’re so young and I don’t think I said anything probably in response but Jeremy Griffith

was talking about everything that was really going on in my head.

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From there it was really exciting—understanding so much about the world and
understanding the human condition and being able to make sense of myself and everything
around me. But I got back to living out my resigned life and that went on for probably six
years.
The next experience that was quite significant for me was when I was at university and
I was having a great time and doing very well at living out a superficial existence. One day
it just dawned on me I suppose that I was going to live out this resigned life, I was going
to do that completely with no problems at all and that was 100 percent what my mind was
committed to—but I did also know that this information answered all the real questions. I
knew that it solved the human condition and that means that it is going to be able to stop all
the suffering. I realised that I had to make a decision then about whether I would continue to
live out my selfish existence and deny the potential of this information. I really didn’t want to
do that because I absolutely knew this information that Jeremy Griffith had synthesised did
solve the human condition and I knew that it dealt with the crux issue on Earth and I knew
that that meant that all the suffering could stop and so I decided to support this all-important
information. I have included the following piece of writing (something that I wrote about 10
years ago), which summarises what I decided to do and explains where I got to in myself in
terms of this information:

‘It’s very simple. I basically just know that I can’t face down or confront this
information—I am born after two million years of the human condition and I’m
buggered if I’m going to look into all of that upset inside me. And what I do is I
just live for the future and the day that children can come into the world free of pain
and suffering—and it makes my life so exciting and fulfilling to be in on this time
in history. Humans, and men especially, are finally going to be free of the human
condition and I can’t ask for anything better than that in my life. And I know that
it is up to me—do I want to work all my life out and heal myself and only end up
crippling myself, or do I want the future to make it across the finishing line? And
it is as simple as that. I mean of course many days I struggle mightily and I am up
against my resigned self which doesn’t care—but I don’t want my resigned self in
the way of the future. I also keep in my head the overview—which is the incredibly
heroic story of humans and that the courage of every human that has lived is
something to be so proud of. This information brings so much real love to humans it
makes your heart tingle.’

And I suppose that’s something that always comes home to me when I watch the
Introductory Videos and listen to Jeremy talking about the Adam Stork story. It really is the
most amazing story, and like Jeremy says the most heroic story is that of humans and what
that little picture does is really incredible. I do know that because of this information we can
build a new world that is free of pain and suffering and that’s the world that children are going
to be able to come into.

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Section 3:17 Monica Kodet (recorded December 2009)

My name is Monica Kodet. I’ve been a founding member of the WORLD
TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT (WTM) for 15 years [at the time of filming], since I was 23.

These explanations do confront us with the extent of our upset and our current
superficial, artificial, empty lives, but the whole point of them and the completely liberating
and significant thing about them is that we can finally see the totally necessary, beautiful,
courageous and meaningful story behind it all now and our own place in that. [See Video/
F. Essay 3 for the explanation of the human condition Monica is referring to.] And then
we can see that the need for our superficial, egocentric existence has been made redundant
and that we are in fact free of it to take up an all-fulfilling, all-exciting and meaningful life
of supporting something that can really save the world—getting these explanations out to
future generations.
It feels awkward talking about personal details which become so irrelevant in the scale of
what you discover as you digest this material, but in thinking about what I would say today,
my own life is the starkest example and evidence to me of the desperate need for the ability
to fully understand ourselves; the liberating and transforming power of these explanations;
and the danger that lies in new age/pseudo idealistic movements in their claims to solve the
world’s problems [see F. Essays 14, 34, 35 & 36]. I’ve heard people say that they think the
state of the world is improving, which is a pretty frightening statement given the terrifying
atrocities being committed and the undeniable levels of stress in the world, and I presume
it’s because of the rise of these new age movements and things like people wanting to reduce
their carbon footprint on the planet, etc. [See F. Essay 55: Endgame for the human race for a
presentation of the real situation humanity is now in.] Such movements have been necessary
in countering the destructive effects of our behaviour, but they are the complete opposite of
what’s needed to truly save ourselves and our planet.
From the age of about 16 to 23 I became increasingly paralysed by my own self-doubt
over my ability to operate in the world. I carried massive shame and self-hate surrounding
that, feeling completely useless and worthless in the world. The most help I got from anyone
apart from my mum, three close friends and children, was from a taxi driver who articulated

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for me how I felt, when he said, ‘There is no room or place for shy people in this world’. I
think the worst thing about it was that there was this thing that was happening to me that I
couldn’t talk about, understand or explain and no one else could help me with it or wanted
to know about it and it was all spinning out of control. It was really frightening and the
only thing I could do was to keep trying to pretend it wasn’t happening and so I would just
disappear inside myself and I became more and more crippled by it and disconnected from
myself and the world around me. It was hell on Earth, especially as I wanted to participate in
life so much but I was like the walking dead. I was so numb and so uncaring about anyone
or anything around me. I became completely self-absorbed, preoccupied with searching for
answers, I guess, and driven by the need to heal myself and find the soul I so lacked in myself.
I pretty much searched the world and exhausted every option I think and the realisation
that there was nothing out there was indescribable. I had to look seriously to myself to do
something about it and literally six weeks before I got my hands on Beyond The Human
Condition by Jeremy Griffith [Jeremy’s 1991 book], on my way home from overseas, I
learnt meditation in a Buddhist temple in Thailand. I applied myself to meditation intensely
until I transcended the crippling and depressing effects of my insecurities, to the point
where I actually managed to forget about them! I became artificially confident and had all
sorts of grand delusions, like I was actually a soulful, selfless person. It scares me when I
think about it, given how much I was struggling just weeks before, but that’s the power of
denial for you and thank God for it because it allowed me to cope and got me to the very
thing I was searching for!
A friend gave me a copy of Beyond The Human Condition by Jeremy Griffith when I
returned from my 12-month trip overseas. I absolutely devoured it in one sitting and I knew
instantly that I had found the answers to everything I and everyone else needed to know about
the world and myself. I was amazed by its ability to explain our fundamental goodness in
concrete terms and so relieved that someone was finally breaking the silence and being honest
about the extent of the horror and pain in the world.
I had to see through my own delusions though, and I had been seduced by the seemingly
powerful effect that meditation had had on me. Bear in mind however, that I had to practice it
very regularly in order to maintain its effect, so you can see that it’s a management tool that
transcends your pain but doesn’t actually deal with it or solve it. There are lots of spiritual
type movements out there claiming to lead us to enlightenment but, in fact, they are dedicated
to shutting down your brain and extinguishing your ego, rather than fulfilling it. The whole
point of being a conscious human—of having a brain—is that we have to and need to
understand ourselves, as well as the world we live in. In essence, these movements are about
escaping from our condition, rather than thinking about and dealing with it. Instead of leading
humanity to peace, they are leading us away from it. It’s scary that people are being seduced
by these claims because the truth and the crucial need for the truth gets buried under all our
denial, delusion and artificiality that we’ve needed to cope with our situation. [Again, see F.
Essays 14, 34, 35 & 36 for an exposé of pseudo idealism.]
I guess that’s why I wanted to share my story because I know very deeply in my bones
that it’s ONLY the honesty of these explanations that saved my life and if I had the benefit of
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wouldn’t have occurred. As Jeremy has written, ‘What happened in our lives was not the problem
so much as our inability to understand why it was happening’ (Beyond The Human Condition, Jeremy Griffith,
1991, p.78 of 203). I know that it’s only the honesty of these explanations that can give children the

answers they need to stay alive inside themselves and that is what will save this planet. Children
can see through all our delusions and fake happiness through to our upset and they can see and
feel their own upset and it’s only acknowledgment and full compassionate explanation of our
madness and non-ideal state that can really reassure and love them and let them know that it’s
their world that is the true and real world. The fact is that if at that point—when that adolescent
is trying at the peak of their thinking ability to make sense of it all—it gets the answers it needs,
that changes and reverses EVERYTHING! It ends the need for denial and alienation from
ourselves, each other and the real world and it breaks the cycle of pain and destruction. It allows
real healing of our planet to take place. Humanity is free and can return to its all-loving, allsensitive world. Soul and intellect have been reconciled. How amazing is that!
The trouble is that we are completely committed to avoiding the subject of self and
denying the horror of our universal psychosis, so much so that we can’t let ourselves see it
[see Video/F. Essay 11 on the so-called ‘deaf effect’ and Plato’s cave allegory]. That is why we
struggle so mightily to embrace these explanations and recognise the solution, and that’s what
keeps us enslaved to our artificial, superficial and egocentric existence, when we don’t need
to be anymore. We’ve heard people say ‘Yeah this explanation makes sense, but so what?’,
‘How does that affect me?’ or ‘I’m perfectly happy over here thanks’. These explanations
are enormously confronting and do go into our ‘no-go-zone’ but they do so because they can
and do bring so much love to every human and humanity as a whole. And that is what brings
about profound change to our situation. Initially I felt massively confronted and exposed
by the truth of my own dishonesty in the delusion that I had taken up to cope; and by the
fact that I wasn’t selfless and soulful but massively alienated and selfish. But the thing is I
can now love what I had to do to cope with my particular equation under the duress of the
human condition, and not be ashamed at all of who I am, because I can understand the very
good reason for my upset. I am enormously upset but the point is I don’t need to worry about
my worth as a person anymore. It’s all been taken care of by these explanations. And it was
really important for me to understand and learn that I couldn’t use this information to look
into my personal pain or confront the extent of my upset and that it was actually completely
unnecessary. So the fact that I can love myself now, in effect through these explanations, is the
very thing that unlocks our universal psychosis and releases the hold our upset state has over
us and the need we feel to live it out. It dissolves all the insecurity surrounding our massively
upset state and is the very thing that frees us from our self-confined, artificial worlds and the
need to keep convincing ourselves that we love it, when the truth is we never wanted to take
up that existence in the first place—we were forced into it—and we have had no idea what
real happiness feels like under the duress of the human condition.

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But with these explanations, our human-conditioned existence is over and now real life
and true happiness is available for every single human, whether we realise it or not.
The best thing about the liberated and Transformed Lifeforce State for me is that I am
still the upset person I was but I don’t feel the need anymore to fix my upset state and all the
energy that went into defending and proving my self worth is now freed up and can be put
behind an all-effective solution to the world’s and my own problems! These explanations
love us so incredibly much, like love you have never known or experienced before and it was
realising and accepting that the macro truth of the Adam Stork story [see Video/F. Essay 3]
and that the process of Resignation [see F. Essay 30] applies to me personally that liberated
me and allowed me to really access the compassion this information brings and its power to
transform the world. All you want to do from there is support its ability to do that in whatever
way you can and that is what you get to live off—the enormous excitement and meaning of
knowing that if we just look after this information it will solve every problem that plagues this
planet at an individual and global level. You are liberated to become a force for life! I don’t
think anyone other than humanity’s true, denial-free thinkers have ever experienced the gift
of being free to live for something other than themselves, let alone something as awesome as
this. Every man can legitimately do this now for the very first time in human history and that
is so incredibly exciting.
These ideas are so simple and obviously true, as Jeremy has explained. It’s only our
cleverly disguised denial that complicates it and prevents us from really understanding it at
first, but if you do keep persisting and following the logic in front of you, it will erode your
denial for you. For me, it’s like a thick dark fog gradually lifting and ever-clearing, enabling
me to see the birds, the trees, the sun and the sky for the very first time. It is endlessly
fascinating and everything takes on new meaning, or actually has meaning for the first time
as things are explained to you not from a position of needing to deny the greater truths
in life but being able to safely access them now. This most incredible meaningful world
opens up. The real world becomes visible for the very first time and that has a profound
impact on your life. It has completely changed how I viewed the world and my emotions
surrounding that. I’ve moved from a completely victimized position to an objective position.
I basically disliked my father before I came across these explanations and blamed him for
my problems. But being able to understand his role and responsibility as a man in this world
dissolved my anger into compassion and a respect for him, and men in general, that I would
never have imagined possible [see F. Essay 26 for the brief explanation of men’s role under
the duress of the human condition].
If you do persist with this information and explanation of how the Transformed State
works, everything will be here for you and you will discover the beauty and power of its
simplicity and its ability to look after you. You will then discover that you are free of your selfconfined existence. Free to live and enjoy the incredibly exciting gift of supporting the WTM!

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Something that expresses the inexpressible for me, and that’s why I love it so much, is
this picture that WTM member Genevieve Salter drew [see Transformation Affirmation 4
for Genevieve’s affirmation], and that the WORLD TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT and
FREEDOM posters are based on, with herself, this little girl, who is standing tiny and free with

her arms raised in awe and excitement over the blazing beauty, scale and magnificence of the
sun before her—a symbol of the freedom and potential that these explanations allow for all
humans and all of our planet.

Section 3:18 Anthony Clarke (recorded December 2009)

My name is Anthony Clarke and I’m a founding member of the WORLD
TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT (WTM).

I can remember a moment, one afternoon back in 1993, whilst I was living on the Gold
Coast in Queensland [Australia]. I was sitting in my bedroom, listening to the radio, and there
were two songs that stuck in my head. One song was by World Party, called Is it like Today?,

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and the other was by Spy vs. Spy, called Comes a Time. Both songs were reflecting on the lessthan-ideal state of the world and how we personally adopted different ways of blocking it out.
So I remember thinking about the world’s problems—about the human dilemma and thinking,
‘Someone will work it out. I don’t know when it will happen, but someone will work it out.’
Little did I know at the time that it had already been worked out! Two years later I heard about
Jeremy Griffith and his ideas through the media and I was very curious. I read Beyond The
Human Condition [Jeremy’s 1991 book] and it just blew me away because it answered so many
of the questions that I had struggled to find answers to—as well as questions that I had not even
thought of asking! The information made the world around me transparent and explainable. It
was so profound, it made perfect sense, it dignified all humans and it gave hope for a real repair
of ourselves and our planet [see Video/F. Essay 3 for the explanation of the human condition].
So I made contact with the World Transformation Movement (WTM) and kept in touch,
making the occasional weekend visit. I was quite excited that I had access to this worldchanging information and initially tried getting others interested, but to no avail. I’m pretty
sure looking back that at the time I was trying to get superficial reinforcement out of the fact
that I had access to the information.
It didn’t take long before I came up against what we call the ‘Mexican Standoff ’ in
myself—where the information was making my old strategies to life look decidedly flawed
[see F. Essay 33 for an explanation of the ‘Mexican Standoff ’]. But, being stubborn, I
persevered with them. Some of the strategies or causes that I’ve used throughout my adult life
to make myself feel worthwhile were: trying to get wins out of playing sport and supporting
sporting teams; gambling on horse-racing; trying to achieve personal financial freedom;
getting into a lot of self-improvement courses; dabbling with alternative and new age feelgood philosophies; and, in general, trying to be the so-called ‘nice guy’.
Over those years I would often think of the possibility of becoming a member of the
WTM, but I would always write it off thinking, ‘I’m just not made of the right stuff.’ So after

many years of this I basically reached a point where I was disenchanted with where I was at. I
was in a rut in many areas of my life—nothing was working out! After a weekend visit to the
WTM in May 2006 I got excited again about where the project was heading and I decided the

time was right to make the move to Sydney to become a member and be able to support the
project more directly.
Now that I look back on those first two and a half years in Sydney, I see that I was still
ruled by many of my old strategies and insecurities. I hadn’t made any real fundamental
changes in terms of my priorities or my attitude. I remember being confused about the
Transformed Lifeforce State that the people who were in it talked about. It all seemed very
out of reach for me.
Things changed earlier this year though [2009]. We had two really good transformation
meetings that left me buzzing. Also, I started to get back to regularly listening to some good
WTM talks and reading Jeremy’s books and some of the old WTM Newsletters on my trips

to and from work. So I was feeling much more connected, very positive and as if something
was ticking away. I just knew that I had to listen again to a compilation of WTM member
Jοhn Bіggs’s best talks [see Transformation Affirmation 9 for Jοhn Bіggs’s affirmation]. I had
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Video/F. Essay 11 on the ‘deaf effect’ and its solution]. I was probably too confronted by it
back then. So, there I was on a bus on my way to work and I was able to zone out enough to
focus on what was being said.
There were many crucial points that John made but there were five that really hit home
for me:
1. The quotes from A Species In Denial [Jeremy’s 2003 book] about the explanation of the
extreme dysfunctionality of the resigned mind.
2. His [John’s] observation that, being resigned, we are basically mad, unable to think
effectively.
3. The need for honesty is Step 1 of the Transformation Process, which leads to making
the decision to do what’s right!
4. We can trust in the information 100 percent.
5. For the Transformation Process to work we need to keep it simple!
I decided to be brutally honest with myself about my own corrupted, selfish resigned
state. It was time to get real! I had not yet fully bottomed out on the whole concept of
Resignation, that, I am a resigned human [see F. Essay 30 on Resignation]. I AM that tortured
wretch on the front cover of A Species In Denial. It’s as though, before, I thought that
Resignation was something that others had gone through, but not me. I had only been paying
lip service to the whole subject. This was a key realisation and felt like a major roadblock

had been removed.

The cover of Jeremy’s 2003 bestseller A Species In Denial
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I remember being on that bus, in my own little world, all the usual buildings flashing past,
with visions of the Australian Anzac soldiers at Gallipoli (in Turkey during the First World
War) in my head and I just literally felt like parts of me were being stripped away. It was a
really pure and peaceful feeling! A few days later at a smaller group meeting I spoke more
about my realisations and a lot more honesty flowed out. That was when I felt a wave of relief
and joy. I remember lying in bed that night and just feeling lighter. I couldn’t sleep! All these
different songs were going through my head. I remember thinking, ‘This really is simple, if I
can do it anyone can. Who’s next?!’
This next stage that we are about to embark on is just so exciting and I know that I am
so lucky to be involved. Time is of the essence, so I have no intention whatsoever of getting
bogged down trying to analyse or unravel all the details and complexities and causes of my
personal condition. As I look back on my life and on the distractions I have chosen, the things
that have consumed a lot of my time, when I break them down they were just ways for me to
try to block-out, to maintain a sense of self worth and to find some sort of happiness. What we
have in our hands NOW is a real source of happiness!
Looking back, I feel like the Transformation Process requires a change of heart. But
it’s a personal thing and the change of heart has to be made willingly. The decision to make
the change will be your best friend and you will never forget the day that you made it. The
decision will be the rock that underpins the rest of your life. You will never stray far from it.
It will be like the first rung on the ladder of the most meaningful of lives. You can now start
afresh, unburdened, with a clarity of mind and purpose, to willingly go and serve humanity
now and to participate in the most important project the world has ever seen!
I can tell the difference in my attitude now—it’s like chalk and cheese, where I can be
doing some sort of task and I’m doing it willingly rather than doing it begrudgingly. It’s like
flicking a switch.
I really think too that the confusion I had felt before, towards the Transformed State was
simply procrastination in disguise. I’ve always been an expert at procrastination and what
makes it easier to procrastinate is when you are unable to look at the big picture. And the big
picture now is the true magnificence of what we have in our hands, namely supporting the
information that has solved the human condition.
This is a true win-win situation. Everyone wins! This is a thousand times bigger than my
old collection of reinforcements, strategies and empty causes. Now I really just want to live
it. To be a part of the conduit generation which will pass on the understandings—intact—to
the next generation, leading to a race of humans who will be totally unresigned. the Universal
Beings who are just around the corner. There WILL BE Peace on Earth!
The band U2 has an older song called Acrobat and part of the lyrics say ‘I’d join the
movement, if there was one I could believe in…’. Well, this is it! The WORLD TRANSFORMATION

MOVEMENT!

Also, there is a more recent U2 song called Unknown Caller. Here’s part of it and for
me it sums up part of what the Transformed State is all about: ‘Go, shout it out, rise up / Escape
yourself, and gravity…Force quit and move to trash…Restart and re-boot yourself / You’re free to go /
Shout for joy if you get the chance.’

Thank you.

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Section 3:19 Polly Watson (recorded December 2009)

I’m Polly, I’m 30 [at the time of filming] and I have been living in Sydney for
about four years, looking closer into the work of Jeremy Griffith and the Foundation
for Humanity’s Adulthood (FHA), now known as the WORLD TRANSFORMATION
MOVEMENT (WTM). I have put this information to the test every day since knowing about

it and it has proved to me over and over again that it is in fact the naked but dignifying
truth about humans, and therefore about me, and that it will save our species if we let
it. I have explored these ideas and discovered that what is explained does make sense of
the crazy world we live in and there are no doubts in my mind that this is the key to the
future and therefore I am dedicating my life to supporting it. [See Video/F. Essay 3 for the
explanation of the human condition.]
I know that nobody wants to admit or talk about our alienation: ‘Why am I so insecure
and fragile?’ ‘Why am I selfish?’ ‘Why am I so competitive?’ ‘Why is everyone getting
cancer?’ ‘Why are children not being loved properly by their parents?’ ‘Why are so
many people dreadfully unhappy, depressed, suicidal and lonely?’ Up until I found these
understandings I couldn’t even begin to think about those questions because the answers
were superficial—or not there at all. We are habituated to blocking out and denial, which has
enabled us to survive, but that all ends now [Video/F. Essay 11 discusses humanity’s historic
denial of the human condition].
Because the human condition is the cause of all the pain on Earth, and the human
condition exists in all of us, I am as capable as the next person to perform the most brutal
atrocity on the planet if placed in the right circumstances; and I am as responsible as the next
person to do what I can to fix that when a solution arrives. And now, thank God, the real
solution has arrived. The answer to absolutely everything is here, not only the cure for our
human condition, but the prevention of it for the future.

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I know there are a lot of weird movements in the world claiming to be ‘the one’ and we
all have a right to be sceptical of the huge claims being made about these understandings, but I
urge anyone new to this to just consider the possibility that it is true. You have a responsibility
to question it and listen to what Jeremy explains about our denial. Consider what it means to
go through Resignation [as is explained in F. Essay 30 and chapter 2:2 of FREEDOM: The End
Of The Human Condition] and put the effort into putting these ideas to the test.
Before I looked into these understandings I wasn’t walking around looking for answers. I
had resigned myself to a life in denial and I had my simple life planned out in order to allow
me to get on with that. But I could not abandon this information once I knew about it because
I discovered that it was true and I know so strongly in my gut, more than anything else, that
this is right. What I discovered when I looked into the explanation that Jeremy Griffith has
written about was that for the first time in my life I could look honestly around the world and
into myself and with these understandings I could now logically and rationally understand
it all. This information is tangible, it’s not dogma or belief—it’s understanding, and that, I
couldn’t ignore. I understand the pain, I understand that every fibre of my being is etched
with the result of two million years of the human condition in my heritage. I can accept that
because I know why it has occurred, I can live in honesty about that predicament in myself
and in the world and I can dedicate my time and energy to ensuring the rest of the world gets
that opportunity. With the WTM as a vehicle for these understandings the pain and suffering
can stop here and that will be a transformed world.
If everyone on the planet can be secure in their alienation, be secure in their insecurity, be
honest about our state then it will allow the preoccupation to subside enough to look beyond
the needs of ourselves to the needs of the planet, and the world will instantly be a different
place. That is what being a Transformed Lifeforce allows you to do. I can transform my life
from an insular, insecure, self-proving, pain-reproducing existence, to a Lifeforce that can
look around the world and live with knowledge about it, be secure in my alienation, let go the
preoccupation with proving my self worth and put a stop to the pain. The second I realised
that the future suddenly looked promising, the relief came flooding out of me and the potential
for a bright future for the world became possible. And seeing that difference was what really
confirmed for me how this understanding can actually save the world. That is the beauty of
the WTM—not only do I get the gift of being able to understand myself and the world around
me but I get the opportunity and the great privilege to participate in the solution to it all. And
that is available to all humans now. How lucky are we?! I get to look pain and suffering in
the eye and know that to contribute to putting an end to all of it, all I have to do is support
this by living like it is true and participate in the fight for every human on the planet to have
the opportunity to realise that potential. And that is the most wonderful gift any human could
have, a beautifully free way to live. To live like that means that today is meaningful, and
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So to finish I would just like to refer to Jeremy’s proposition slide [see next image; these
propositions are introduced in Part 2:5 of Freedom Expanded: Book 1] and tell you from my
experience what these understandings will achieve:
1st Proposition—This understanding will transform the world for its complete betterment

[ticks the box].
2nd Proposition—That this understanding will bring complete hope to what can seem

hopeless [ticks the box].
3rd Proposition—That this understanding does give rise to a movement that will sweep

the world [ticks the box].
4th Proposition—That this understanding will introduce a new paradigm of understanding

around which all knowledge can be integrated [ticks the box].
5th Proposition—That this understanding will reconcile all the opposites in the human

situation [ticks the box].

That is my experience with this information and why I wouldn’t want to be
anywhere else other than right here as a very thankful and proud member of the WORLD
TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT!

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Section 3:20 Connor Fitzgerald (recorded February 2015)

G’day, my name is Connor FitzGerald, I’m 35 [at the time of filming] and I’ve been
around these understandings as put forward by Australian biologist Jeremy Griffith for
about 10 or 11 years—just over a decade. Today I just want to have a chat about what this
information means for the world, obviously, but also just talk personally about how this
information has impacted my life and hopefully portray just what that means to me and maybe
that’ll help people watching.
I just wanted to start with this quote by Jeremy which I just absolutely love, ‘The point
of all this is to stop the suffering’. People that are watching this video online and are wondering

what the WORLD TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT (WTM) is all about—that’s it. That’s
basically the end goal here and there’s a lot of content on the website that you can look up
about the understandings that Jeremy has put forward that you will discover makes this end
to suffering possible. [See Video/F. Essay 3 for an introduction to the explanation of the
human condition.]
This particular talk that I’m going to try and give today is about the Transformation
process, which is how you go from living a totally preoccupied, shut down, deeply numb state
to a transformed, preoccupation-free state, effectively free, of the human condition. So, it’s
pretty exciting. I’ve got a few things to talk about, it might be a bit of a dog’s breakfast but
we’ll see how it goes!!
I just want to emphasise that there’s a lot of content on the WTM website, have a look at
it, it’s very, very good.
In a speech made in 1950, Geelong Grammar School Headmaster Sir James Darling
said, ‘selfishness is, as it has ever been, the ultimately destructive force in a society, and there are only
two cures for selfishness—the regimented state which we all profess to dislike, and the change of heart,
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which to make it. The need for decision [to have a ‘change of heart’ and live selflessly] is serious and
urgent, and the sands [of time] are running out’ [GGS Speech Day address in 1950, Light Blue Down Under, by
Weston Bate, 1990, p.219 of 386]. So, that’s just a good summation of the situation in the world at the

moment and Jeremy talks a lot about how it’s been our inability to be selfless, up until now,
which has been a fairly major handbrake on humanity eventually rehabilitating, and you don’t
have to go far to see the madness that’s out there—turn on the television, watch the news—it’s
all pretty awful and it’s been humans’ inability to live selflessly in a universal context that’s
been the problem. What’s so amazing about this information and this Transformation process
is that it does allow us to live selflessly.
So, I suppose I should explain a little bit about myself. As I say, I’ve been around these
understanding for about 10 years and I first came across them through a very good friend of
mine, Will Salter. We were both working in the bush [Australian countryside] at the time and
we would drive around and he’d talk to me about this information and it was just incredible,
particularly when you first come across it; it is just amazing in that it explains absolutely
everything about us—men and women [see F. Essay 26], religion [see F. Essays 35 & 39]—all
the topics that are just seemingly inexplicable are explained by this—What is love [see F.
Essay 27]? What is our soul [see F. Essay 21]? How did we become conscious [see F. Essay
24]?—so, it’s incredibly exciting when you first come across it. It’s just as WTM member

Genevieve Salter said in her Affirmation [see Transformation Affirmation 4], it’s like being
drunk on knowledge. All of sudden there’s all these things that you didn’t understand and you
can now explain—it’s really amazing.
To quickly summarise my journey. So I come across the information, it’s amazing, it
stacks up, it makes a lot of sense, but there’s a whole bunch of stuff that I didn’t fully realise
the implications of at the time—for example, Resignation [when in our teenage years we
tried mightily to understand the human condition—tried to reconcile upset behaviour with the
ideals of life—but we couldn’t, so to cope we took up a strategy of simply denying the human
condition existed; see F. Essay 30]. This resigned strategy is something that is completely
at odds with the information so when you come across it you can enter what’s called the
‘Mexican Standoff ’ where you can’t deny the logic but you are fearful of letting go of your
resigned strategy [see F. Essay 33] but eventually there comes a point in the journey with this
information where you can see through your strategy enough, realise enough is enough and
that it is safe to put your strategy aside and just live the way this information says you actually
can. Then the real, truthful world opens up, which is all about honesty about our corrupted
selves, but this information also loves and explains us like our strategies never could. Letting
the information take care of my resigned upset self is the most therapeutic, natural and
rational thing to do.
So, that’s what this is really all about.
So, just to provide a bit more context. You’ve probably heard in other videos, and seen
on the website, that there’s a lot of talk about Resignation. This is pretty important because
it’s the most significant psychological event in anyone’s life and yet up until 1983 when
Jeremy’s first book was published it went completely unacknowledged. That’s the problem,
it’s the silence of the adult world that makes it incredibly difficult and incredibly confusing for
children. And children blame themselves, that’s sort of where this psychosis that we develop,
that the following picture illustrates, starts.

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Detail from Michelangelo’s The Last Judgement, 1537–1541

A picture tells a thousand words so that’s sort of what Resignation is like. I can’t really
connect with what it was like day to day during my teenage years but I certainly found it a
very confusing and disorienting time; I can’t remember what went on in my head but I do
remember becoming increasingly distressed and estranged from myself and everyone around
me. It’s the most distressing, confusing, sort of maddening situation, however, I can now
understand what I was struggling with. Basically, what was happening at that time was that
I was struggling mightily with trying to reconcile all the imperfections and wrongness in
myself with all my natural childhood expectations of a peaceful, happy world [see F. Essay
21 for the origin of our all-loving instinctive soul]. The bottom line was that life simply

wasn’t turning out like it was supposed to. I certainly wasn’t peaceful and happy, I was
becomingly increasingly selfish and angry as I tried to reconcile my reality with ideality and
with no explanation at my disposal at that time I had no choice but to resign myself to a life
of denial of the human condition and consequently take up a strategy to make myself feel
good, to prove my self worth by simply being nothing but ‘good’ or ideal and burying my
‘bad’ or upset self so deep that it no longer existed. We all take up a strategy, everyone’s got
their different colour of it—in my case it was to be a nice guy, be a good person, save the
environment, you know and this was all driven by my high IQ. I’ve got a massive pride in
my intellect, my ability to think (or rather not think about the human condition), so I really
cranked that up to the point where I believed my born-again-to-idealism strategy was actually
my authentic real self [see F. Essays 14, 34, 35 & 36 for the complete exposé of ‘pseudo
idealism’]. At this point, I’ll read out a quote that I think relates to what I was saying earlier
about how having a strategy which is based on misreadings and misunderstandings and then
coming across the whole truth about humans can be a bit turbulent. Particularly in my journey,
having a born-again, ‘nice guy’ strategy has added an extra layer of fog or dissociation
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information just absolutely smashed my belief that I was ideal to pieces. Of course, I then
tried harder to be ‘nicer’ which doesn’t work because I’m still being dishonest about my
resigned psychosis, and the whole thing gets into a vicious cycle and I get stuck in the
‘Mexican Standoff ’. [In chapter 8 of FREEDOM, when talking about the 40-year-old pseudo
idealistic equivalent stage of the human race, Jeremy explains that:
‘…so desperate were they [the born-again] for relief from the horror and guilt of
their situation that their mind decided to focus so completely on the positive that they
were good when they behaved in a cooperative, civilised, ideal, loving way that they
deluded themselves that they weren’t actually corrupted, that they weren’t massively
upset human-condition-afflicted people. They convinced themselves that the mask or
facade of civility was not actually a mask or facade at all, but a true representation
of their real self: ‘I am behaving in a cooperative, loving way, therefore, I am an
upset-free, guilt-free, human-condition-eliminated, thoroughly good, cooperative,
loving, sound human.’ It was an extraordinarily false/dishonest/‘phony’/‘fake’/deluded
interpretation, but the depression from feeling guilty/bad/worthless about being so
upset was so great that their mind was well and truly capable of making such a grand
delusion.’ (par. 881)
‘…while being civilised—that is, using self discipline to restrain and contain your
upset so it didn’t show—did help contain destructive behaviour and provide its
practitioners immense relief from doing so, what happened during the 40-year-old
stage, for both humanity and humans individually, was that this relieving, ‘feel good’,
‘warm inner glow’, ‘blissed out’ positive of having restrained your upset and behaved
in a ‘good’/ideal/cooperative way became the entire focus of existence. In the end,
as we will see, when humans became extremely upset–saturated with the problem of
the corrupted state of the human condition–their whole mental preoccupation became
one of searching for situations and opportunities where, through doing ‘good’, they
could derive ‘the rush’ of relief from the condemning issue and truth of their corrupted
state.’ (par. 883)].
The point is it doesn’t matter, we’ve all got strategies that we had to develop in light of
not having any understanding when we were little and that was just my particular one.
Jeremy refers to this quote in one of the earlier chapters of FREEDOM [chapter 2:3] by
a Danish philosopher called Søren Kierkegaard and he says, ‘…there is not a single human being
who does not despair at least a little, in whose innermost being there doesn’t dwell an uneasiness, an
unquiet, a discordance, an anxiety in the face of an unknown something, or a something he doesn’t even
dare strike up acquaintance with…he goes about with a sickness, goes about weighed down with a sickness
of the spirit, which only now and then reveals its presence within, in glimpses, and with what is for him an
inexplicable anxiety’ (Sickness Unto Death tr. A. Hannay, 1989).

I guess what I’m trying to say is that it’s all a bit heavy but the beauty of this information
is that the whole human story is explained and I just absolutely love the following picture
because in here is the whole human story from start to finish, and this is any of your particular
stories from start to finish.

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Section 3:20 This is my story from start to finish and the reason that’s so wonderful is because there’s a
reason for all these stages. There’s context, we’ve never had the full truth about humans from
start to finish so naturally we’re not used to it—but this is it.
The best part, as WTM member Doug Lobban said in his affirmation [see Transformation
Affirmation 10], is that you just don’t have to worry about the fact that you’re a corrupted,
resigned human. This information will take care of it, you hang in there with its logic and
eventually you reach a stage where you realise that enough is enough of your strategy and
you see it for what it is. For me particularly, that stage felt really important, being able to
break my denial and blow the lid on my resigned upset state and the strategy that I was using
to cope with that and once I was able to see that it was quite incredible. I could see that I’ve
got this strategy that I developed when I was a kid and it’s been with me the whole time and
it’s been absolutely necessary and it kept me safe and all these things. Then you come into
contact with this information which is this whole truthful story about humans and it makes our
strategies transparent and redundant and it makes us feel very uncomfortable about the way
we’re promenading and posturing and trying to just get by. Basically, all that I was doing from
Resignation onwards was just making myself feel good, whatever that was, the way I dressed,
the way I talked, ‘be smart, be good’, whatever it was, it was just all about me trying to make
myself feel better. Again, when I was a kid I didn’t have any understandings and in a world
without that you adopt a psychosis and away you go.
Then this information comes along and there’s a bit of an upheaval but the beauty is that
at some point you do realise that you don’t need to use your strategy to cope with all that pain
and upset and hurt anymore. I just don’t have to, because this information, which I happen to
have been supporting for a long time, completely, explains that, it’s got that totally covered
and actually seeing what’s been driving me all this time, getting some transparency on that
resigned madness and then letting the information, this truthful framework, completely look
after me so that I don’t have to be preoccupied with my pain, with my hurt, with my upset
anymore, was the most amazing moment. It does get to a point where we do have to have a
‘change of heart’, that’s been the problem, we haven’t been able to have a ‘change of heart’ up

until now because we were yet to understand ourselves, but now we can.
Tony Gowing wrote a really good blog post about this feeling because it is such a
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to not have to pretend all the time or worry about your divisive behaviour, trying to prove all
the time that, ‘No, I’m not that, I’m not that, I’m not that’. There’s so much time, energy and
preoccupation that goes into trying to prove to yourself and everyone else that you’re a good
person and this information actually does it and it’s logical and makes sense so it’s completely
legitimate to allow the information to just cover all that and that’s the relief. I just don’t have
to worry about that ever again. Of course, I’m still an upset person—the fact that I’m upset
is not the problem, it was the preoccupation with the upset that was the issue and now I just
don’t have to worry about it. It’s just the most life-changing transformation, I literally went
from being totally preoccupied, I was so preoccupied I didn’t even know I was preoccupied,
to the whole world opening up, it’s sort of like you can breathe again. So, Tony wrote this
which I really like: ‘…this is my best attempt at explaining it: It’s like winning the World Cup after
scoring the winning points right on the final buzzer; it’s like falling into the deepest and most enthralling
first love imaginable; it’s like being eight years old again and being an hour or two into a fully fledged
adventure to catch frogs in your local creek with your best mate; it’s like coming home after some massive
natural disaster and finding all your family alive and well; it’s like being drunk for the first time in your
life and your favourite song comes on and you dance with the most carefree and excited freedom that
you have ever felt; it’s like waking up from that dream where everything has gone completely and utterly
wrong and finding out that none of it actually happened and everything is okay–YES! It’s like all of those
tiny moments in your life combined!!!’ (Feb. 2014, www.worldtransformation.com/the-excitement-is-here-waiting-forus-right-now) [See Transformation Affirmation 7 for Tony’s affirmation.]

So, the point is, I’m not free of upset, I’m still a massively upset person, I just don’t
have to worry about covering that because the honesty of this information does and that’s
what’s so good.
I was just going to read out something I wrote a little while ago:
‘Now that the human condition is solved and human upset has been totally explained and
exonerated the Truth is that I am still massively upset but I am good—which means I don’t have to
pretend and delude myself that I am not—this is very relieving and honest and real and it’s the truth
anyway! Everything else has been just resigned falseness to survive—which is incredibly heroic but now
totally useless. All that has happened is that I have seen my upset state for what it is and totally let the
information deal with all of it.’

That’s the thing about this transformation—just the realness of it, you can be sceptical
about it and think, ‘Well, are you sure about all that?’, but the amazing thing is that it is
real because this information is true. I mean, I’ve tested and applied it in my life and it’s
completely made sense of my life and everything that I am about and that everyone else I
know is about and everything else that I see in the world. So this Transformation process is
just the logical, rational, natural way that humanity can go from living selfishly to selflessly.
That’s why it’s incredible because the human condition is a universal problem [see Video/F.
Essay 10] and this transformation is also the universal solution, it means that this applies to
every single person regardless of race, creed, colour, this applies to you. The human condition
applies to everyone, therefore, this amazing Transformed State that is on offer now is also
available for everyone and that means the world and that means a world which can start
to rehabilitate from the God-awful stuff going on at the moment [see F. Essay 55 about the
‘endgame’ state the human race has now reached].

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I’d just like to read a couple of things. One is from Jeremy’s latest work, FREEDOM, in
chapter 9, and it’s just a really good summation of this transformation process:
‘Yes, we can all now know that our insecure, egocentric need to validate ourselves
through winning power, fame, fortune and glory is obsoleted. We can understand that
it is no longer necessary to prove that we are good and not bad through demonstrations
of our worth because our goodness has now been established at the most fundamental
level through first-principle-based, biological explanation. We can know that with
the arrival of understanding of the human condition our whole competitive, selfpreoccupied, selfish, must-win-power-fame-fortune-and-glory way of living has been
made redundant. In fact, the fundamental situation we are now in is that the resigned,
competitive way of living has become pointless, meaningless, because it doesn’t
progress the human race to greater knowledge as it once did because the key piece of
knowledge that we needed to find of understanding of the human condition has been
found. Furthermore, living out that self-preoccupied, competitive, selfish existence
is now unnecessarily destructive of our relationships with our fellow humans, and of
our world in general. We can now know that the resigned, egocentric, competitive,
selfish and aggressive way of living is finished with, which means we can, and, in fact,
should, simply cast aside that way of living, and take up, in its place, a new way of
living that is available to humans now where we live in support of a reconciled, noncompetitive, selfless, loving existence.’ (par. 1163)
‘And, most wonderfully, what happens when we give up our old way of living and
take up the new way of living that understanding of the human condition has made
possible is we become transformed from a competitive and selfishly behaved human
to a cooperative and selflessly behaved one. Yes, even though we are not yet free
of the upset state of our own personal human condition, we can immediately have a
change of attitude and decide not to live out that upset state that remains within us. The
overall effect in our lives is that, despite our retention of the upset state of the human
condition, we are effectively free from its hold and its influence, which is an absolutely
fabulous transformation to have made in an instant–in one simple decision!’ (par. 1164)
Secondly, Jeremy talks a lot about Australia. He refers to Australia quite a bit in his books
[see also F. Essay 50: Australia’s role]. Jeremy grew up in Australia and this is just a really
nice poem called Song of the Future by Banjo Paterson and I’ll just include throughout the
reading of this poem some of Jeremy explanations:
‘Tis strange that in a land [Australia] so strong, so strong and bold in mighty youth [innocence],
we have [in 1889] no poet’s voice of truth to sing for us a wondrous song [explain the human

condition]…[However,] we yet may find achievements grand within the bushman’s quiet life.
Lift ye your faces to the sky, ye far blue mountains of the west…Tis hard to feel that years went
by before the pioneers broke through your rocky heights and walls of stone, and made your
secrets all their own [broke through the wall of denial blocking access to the truth about the

human condition]. For years the fertile western plains were hid behind your sullen [alienated]
walls, your cliffs and crags…Between the mountains and the sea, like Israelites with staff in hand,
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and go with gorgeous golden afterglow that made the west a fairyland, and marvelled what that
west might be of which such wondrous tales were told…At length the hardy pioneers by rock and
crag found out the way, and woke with voices of today, a silence kept for years and years [brought

an end to the silence of the resigned world of denial]…The way is won! The way is won! And
straightway from the barren coast there came a westward-marching host, that aye and ever
onward prest with eager faces to the west along the pathway of the sun…Could braver histories
unfold than this bush story, yet untold–the story of their westward march [liberation from the

human condition]…And it may be that we who live in this new land apart, beyond the hard old
world grown fierce and fond and bound by precedent and bond [bound up in sophisticated,

intellectual denial], may read the riddle [of the human condition] right [synthesise the
liberating truth from science’s hard won insights into our world] and give new hope to those
who dimly see [those who are embedded in blind denial/alienation], that all things may be yet
for good and teach the world at length to be one vast united brotherhood.’ [Section 4:1, Freedom
Expanded: Book 2]

And that’s it.
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[After Connor’s presentation, the following discussion took place between WTM
members]
Doug Lobban: It’s just so amazing that we don’t have to live through those strategies
anymore, you can just let it all go as Connor says, you just let the information take care of
that because we’ve spent our whole time since resigning, preoccupied with that strategy and
keeping everything in place with it. It’s 100% pre-occupation every day, every minute, every
second and that’s where the relief and the time aspect comes into it because all of a sudden,
you let your resigned way of living go and you realise, ‘God, that’s what I was doing the
whole time’, and all of sudden you have all this time on your hands and you have all this
mental space and it’s amazing this freedom, it’s incredible. It always blows my mind—holy
cow we can just let that go, you know! We don’t have to face it, we don’t have to deal with
it, we don’t have to go through it, we don’t have to confront it, we don’t have to spend years
trying to pick through and explain it all and you can, just as one big bundle, let it go and move
away from it and the freedom and excitement from that is incredible just as you’ve talked
about, Con. [See Transformation Affirmation 10 for Doug Lobban’s affirmation.]
Connor: And just how legitimate that is too, to do. I wanted to say that at the end of my
Affirmation, that this is such a legitimate change, it’s just so far from being dogma-based
or a leap of faith or anything—it’s nothing to do with any of that because it’s all based on
understanding. It’s all based on this incredible story of the human journey, our story—why
we behave the way we do, how we got here, if you like, that’s what so incredible. It’s actually
100% real and the old way of living and coping with life is now redundant, it’s done its job.

Doug Lobban: It is unreal.

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Connor: Yeah, it now becomes unreal, that’s actually not real that way of behaving in light
of this whole truthful framework that’s laid out for us. That way of behaving is now an unreality.
That’s what I just love about it—just the realness of it. Nick Shaw talks a lot about the logic
of it [see Transformation Affirmation 17 for Nick’s affirmation]. It does explain us, that’s not
a throwaway line, it does. I also just love what Jeremy says about this being a change that any
species would have had to go through from an instinct controlled state to an intellect controlled
state—this same wrestle, if you like. Until we found the full story about it there was this horrific
battle and the psychosis and neurosis that resulted from that was unavoidable. So, it’s just an
adjustment, it’s all fine, everything’s fine, nothing is out of place.
Everything has got a place in this journey. This [pointing to the figure sitting on the hill
in Jeremy’s Humanity’s Journey to Enlightenment picture] is a 12 year old, you know, just
thinking so deeply in light of not having understanding and the world around him is crazy and
he doesn’t have any explanation and so he just retreats and that’s the beginning of the end for
that little fella. But Jeremy is saying that this is us as a species, as the line from The Man of
La Mancha says, we had to ‘march into hell for a heavenly cause’. [Connor reads the following
text from the Humanity’s Journey to Enlightenment picture] ‘Adolescence: a dying world of ever
increasing and accumulating anger, egocentricity and alienation’. That’s certainly my adolescence

and certainly humanity’s adolescence but then, booyahh! We go up into here [pointing to the
last part of the picture where humanity enters adulthood]!
But what’s so good about this is that it is underpinned by all that logic. As Nick said, if
the resigned, upset state or world wants to debate this it can go crazy doing that because it’s
all over! The old world doesn’t hold any sway because of this logic. So it is just an adjustment
period, I suppose, for the world, for us and once the human condition is explained it’s just a
numbers game.
James West: As Jeremy says in in chapter 9 of FREEDOM, humans are ultimately rational
creatures and when the rationale is that the human condition is explained, humans will go that
way [The actual quote from FREEDOM, par. 1206, reads: ‘It is this fact that there is no longer any
reason to keep living out the battle to champion the ego that has the potential now to change the world
so rapidly from one of conflict and suffering to a world of peace and happiness. The explanations being
presented in this book are all rational, there is no dogma or mysticism or abstract concept involved. As
such, we can know if what is being presented is accountable and true or not, and since this information
does explain the human condition there is no longer any justification for continuing the upsetting battle to
champion the ego, so it follows that no one can argue against taking up the Transformed Way of Living, so
when everyone does take up that way of living our world will be completely transformed. We are rational
creatures, and so when all the logic says there is only one response we can make, namely the Transformed
State, then that is the response the human race will take.’]. That is the new situation, it’s just the

size of the change of paradigm that’s hard to get your head around and takes adjustment but
it encapsulates the strength of the underpinning of the whole thing which Nick [Shaw] keeps
coming back to. The whole game has just fundamentally changed for all of humanity at its
deepest level. You can’t get a more solid base to come off. And to think that these incredible,
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believe, it’s just too good to be true but it is true. So we’ve just got this banquet of positives
waiting for us to just adjust to [see Transformation Affirmation 2 for James West’s affirmation].
Connor: A negative to a positive. [Again, pointing to the Humanity’s Journey to
Enlightenment picture and reading the text] ‘Once over the shock of change.’
Nick Shaw: Good summary.
Doug Lobban: Yeah, we’ve already done the hard bit. We’re onto the easy bit.
Connor: That’s right, that’s right—this [the horror of humanity’s adolescence, drawn as a
wasteland in the above picture] is all done and now we’re here [the new world/Adulthood at
the right of the above picture].

Section 3:21 Sally Edgar (recorded March 2013)

Hello everyone, my name is Sally. I would like to speak about my journey with the
Transformation process and how all-powerful the change of heart it brings about in humans
is. Every day we live with the golden truth of Integrative Meaning [see F. Essay 23] we learn
and appreciate more about the development of humans and their resulting, understandable
upset condition and naturally we also learn more about how that has played out at a personal
level. As I nurtured and loved this process along, I had some realisations about my life as a
resigned human [see F. Essay 30: Resignation] and I saw very clearly how necessarily and
understandably how I had to live, until now, under the duress of the human condition [see
Video/F. Essay 10 for an explanation of exactly what the human condition is]. While these
realisations are about my personal story, I wanted to share the main one with you in the event
that you might be able to relate and that that somehow might help you on this exciting journey
on the Sunshine Highway that we are all on to the Transformed Lifeforce State and our
freedom from the chains of the human condition, that state of despair, confusion and agony of
not knowing if we were good or bad.

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I wanted to preface that the only reason I was able to gain this clarity was through
making the fundamental decision to live my life in support of and for this information
and project instead of continuing to live out my resigned strategy. And to further preface
how wonderful and exciting that this is actually all possible now due to the awe-inspiring
scientific, biological breakthrough that Jeremy Griffith has been able to provide about the
issue of the human condition [see Video/F. Essay 3]. I really can’t say it any better than
these words which feature on the World Transformation Movement’s letterhead: ‘Finally,
the Dreamed-of Biological Explanation of The Human Condition that Ends Our Species’ Underlying
Psychosis and Transforms The Human Race’.

Also, because I’m going to talk about my personal situation I thought it’s important to
reinforce what Jeremy says in Section 2:1 of Freedom Expanded: Book 2 [see also chapter 9:7
of FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition], about how we, as the transition/conduit
generation need to act responsibly with this information and why the Transformed State is
so powerful and necessary. To quote, and Jeremy has underlined it: ‘Very importantly, while
we each should investigate these understandings of the human condition sufficiently to verify to our own
satisfaction that they are the understandings of the human condition, we shouldn’t investigate them to the
extent that we start to become overly exposed and confronted by the truths they are revealing.’

The first important step for me was to get proactive. I actively decided to let this
information in, by which I mean I actively decided to use my brain to really understand
what this information is saying and applied that to my life. By this I mean that I decided
to trust my understanding and knowingness that this logical, biological explanation of
the human condition is the truth about humans, that while we humans appear to be
bad, destructive UPSET forces, we are in truth fundamentally worthwhile—our UPSET
developed for a very good reason but it doesn’t define us or the meaning of life—we
are worthwhile and, as we can now understand, the meaning of life is to be selfless
and loving. I thought it was important to explain here why I have used the word ‘trust’
because it can get confused with faith when this information is the opposite to that—it is
rational, testable, logical biology. As Jeremy explains throughout his work: ‘The challenge
is to think, question and understand, a process that is the very opposite of abandoning thought and
deferring to some form of dogma, faith or belief ’ (A Species In Denial, p. 74 of print edition). And that this

information is ‘brain food not brain anaesthetic’. Our false, resigned framework is so powerful
and it was something we have trusted and had to hold onto since resignation that using
the word ‘trust’ helped me to recognise that while previously in that resigned framework
I was trusting a lie over the truth, now in the Transformed State of mind I have switched
sides effectively to trust the truth over the lie. Anyway this focus allowed me to shift from
someone competitively and defensively thinking that the Transformed Lifeforce State was
a place to ‘get to’ in order to prove my goodness and worth, to someone drenched in relief
seeing that the Transformed Lifeforce State is a secure logical response to recognising that
the insecure-driven human condition paradigm is over, allowing me to actually accept my
upset state and then focus outwardly on repairing the world now, beginning with taking this
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As Jeremy so beautifully explains in these three extracts from Freedom Expanded: Book
2, Section 2:1, about the Transformed Lifeforce State:

“You can know now that all the upset in ourselves and in the world from two million
years of humanity’s heroic journey through ignorance is explained and defended.
With that knowledge we are now free to leave the issue of all that upset behind as
being dealt with and focus all our attention on developing a human-condition-free new
world. The relief of being able to leave the issue of our upset state behind as dealt with
and the excitement of knowing a human-condition-free new world is coming and that
we can all fully participate in bringing that about is so absolutely incredibly relieving
and exciting it will transform all humans. From being a human-condition oppressed
and depressed alienated person all humans can and will now be transformed [and
I love this bit] into Redeemed, Liberated from the Human Condition, Exhilarated,
Ecstatic, Enthralled-with-Existence, Transfigured, Empowered, World-Transforming
Lifeforces. This description can be distilled down to Liberated from the Human
Condition, Transformed and Empowered Lifeforces, which can be further distilled
down to Transformed Lifeforces. This Exhilarated, Ecstatic, Enthralled-with-Existence
aspect is the ‘Life’ in ‘Lifeforce’; and the Empowered, World-Transforming aspect is
the ‘force’ in ‘Lifeforce’, so Lifeforce covers the personal benefit and the benefit to the
world in one word.”
“Now that we have the truth up all that matters is that it is kept alive and that it is
disseminated to all people, because it alone can heal the human race and save the
world. All everyone must do now is support the truth about the human condition
and it will achieve everything everyone has ever dreamed of. If we look after this
information it in turn will look after the world. That is the mantra of the new world
that understanding of the human condition brings about.
Having grown up in ‘the dark’, without understanding of the human condition, the
priority of existing generations is to get these insights to new, fresh generations so that
they won’t have to adopt all the artificial ways of coping with the human condition—
all the dishonest denials, all the egocentric means of seeking compensation for the
injustice of being unfairly condemned, and all the angry retaliations needed against the
unjust condemnations—that existing generations have had to employ. We, the existing
generations, are now the conduit generations: the generations who will connect the old
dead world to the new living world.”
“The new Transformed Lifeforce State is not only all-powerful in its ability to heal
the world, it is also all-exciting. When yesterday the prospects for the world looked
hopeless, suddenly—and I have said this in every major document I have ever written—
from one end of the horizon to the other an army in its millions will appear to do battle
with human suffering, its weapon understanding, and its outcome world reparation.”

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So to get to my main realisation that allowed me to access the Transformed Lifeforce
State. This realisation is my version of the honesty that Jeremy explains is key to being able to
truly consider letting your selfish resigned way of living go and take up the Transformed State.
Until I was able to use the full defence and therefore let go of my resigned way
of defending myself, I was unable to see that I was actually feeling criticised by this
information. This really astounded me because I knew the defence of our upset that this
explanation provides is the very thing that liberates us but I realised that I wasn’t really
embracing that defence on a deeply personal level. Our resigned states are necessarily so
insecure and sensitive to any perceived criticism that they can wrongly feel that the truth
about the human condition is just another attack, is further criticism and confirmation
that we are bad. Being able to see how I was misreading the liberating defence as more
criticism from the world that I felt I had to defend myself against was my unlocking point.
I was not seeing that yes this truth is naked but it is also dignifying. I was blind to the fact
that I was actually being confronted by the information. How much we can’t cope with
confronting the extent of our upset is something that Jeremy constantly warns us of and
what the Transformed Way of Living solves for the transition generation [see F. Essay 33 in
which Jeremy explains the so-called ‘Mexican Standoff ’ this confrontation creates, and the
all-exciting way to overcome it]. The Transformed State allows us to productively support
this information without overly confronting our upset. Trying to support this information
while continuing to try to convince yourself that you are not an upset human is an extremely
difficult and illogical thing to do. I know very well. But it’s incredibly exciting when you
realise that you and all humans don’t have to live that way anymore. Accepting your upset
state is the most liberating decision which frees you up and gives you access to live in the
all-out excitement that the future now holds.
Initially I didn’t stop and use my brain and let this information in to defend myself. I
didn’t use it to say in my case, ‘Yes I am an angry, defensive, doubting, indecisive woman
who is very strong and has been at war with the world, but there’s a very good reason for all
of that and it had to happen, BUT I can truly let it all go now because the fight to prove we
are good is over, it has been won and I can now relax, rest and put my strength behind the
information that has made this remarkable, fabulous situation now possible so that people
today and in the future can see that they too can at last be truly happy and at peace with
themselves. We can repair all the pain and upset that has plagued us and the future will be free
of the human condition and the agony, trauma and terror of not knowing if we are good or
bad. Not being loved as we expected and deserve to be loved and therefore not being able to
love others.’
Now I and all humans can love the way we had to live, the way we survived in the world
without this precious understanding, but it is SO OVER and it doesn’t define the way we live
now. The Transformed Lifeforce State is truly the best, most powerful technology the world
has or will ever see for our transition generation. And even better than that is that it is SO SO
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‘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…’ (in conversation, 2012). It all comes

under the ‘of course that was life under the duress of the human condition’ banner and none
of it matters now. All of us have a choice now. We can choose to remain in the vortex of
terminal alienation, as depicted in Jeremy’s amazing The Abyss of Depression and the Sunshine
Highway to Freedom drawing (pictured below), or we can wrap it all up in a golden sheet, tie
it with a golden bow, put it in a golden box and place it in a golden hospital, give ourselves
a really big golden hug and walk across the golden bridge of the Sunshine Highway to the
sun and live truly defended and understood and live for and in support of this information to
bring about a golden, human-condition-free present and future for humanity. The information
explains the fundamental misreading we all have as resigned humans—that we are good
and not bad. For me personally I realised that the world wasn’t against me, that no-one was
attacking me, that I wasn’t a bad person for being an upset person and understanding that freed
me from that torment and made me so happy. If an angry, defensive, doubting and indecisive
person like me can be happy then imagine what’s possible for all humans. What a blessing.
Thank god for this life-saving information. It is all that matters and humanity can move
onward, forward and upwards. To draw on a wonderful analogy that WTM member Tony Miall
has told me and that I love, that was my particular bowl of dirt and gravel that I have been
chewing my way through thinking it was ice-cream when in fact the real ice-cream was sitting

right under my nose. [See Transformation Affirmation 13 for Tony Miall’s affirmation.]

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An aspect of all this that absolutely thrills me is the fact that the pain and horror of
the human condition stops with us, that is our job, our wonderful privilege and legacy. The
destiny of the human race is NOT terminal alienation, it is FREEDOM from the horror of the
human condition—humans will NEVER have to live in agonising terror of the fear that we are
bad. Because of what Jeremy has been able to do, and with our Transformed Lifeforce State
support of that truth, this will happen and it has to happen, now, urgently. We are so lost, so
alienated from ourselves but that all ends now, simply with changing our state of mind. [See
F. Essay 55 for analysis of the ‘endgame’ state of alienation the human race has reached.]
So let’s celebrate!! I love watching the affirmations, and in particular get a real kick out
of The Denialators’ two songs that are on the top of the homepage as part of the Introductory
Video Series [the WORLD TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT has its own band called The
Denialators that play at our various functions—see Video/F. Essay 6], so I thought it might
be a good way to end with their ‘Understanding is the Key, we were dead dead dead but now we are
FREE FREE FREE’ song:

T he Door’s Wide Open

How sweet is the morning / After such a long night / The relief drains my body / With this
awesome spreading of light / The shadows are lifting / The horizon is clear / I want to scream
to the heavens / A new time is here
Chorus:
The door’s wide open, / Understanding is the key / The door’s wide open, / Understanding is
the key / We’ve been so dead, dead, dead / But now we’re FREE, FREE, FREE
The sun has now risen, / It is strong bright and clear / I know the whole story / I’ve got
nothing to fear / The shit’s been unravelled / The battle’s been won / It’s all been made sense
of / The new time has begun
Chorus repeated
But the battle’s still raging, / People don’t know / It’s gone on so long, / It’s hard to let go
But the door IS wide open / And the future IS clear / The party starts NOW / We’re gonna blast
out of here
Chorus repeated
The door’s wide open, / Understanding is the key / We’ve been so dead, dead, dead /
But now we’re FREE, FREE, FREE, FREE, FREE, FREE / We’ve been so dead, dead, dead /
But now we’re FREE, FREE, FREE
Go WTM!

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[After Sally’s presentation, the following discussion took place with WTM member Lee
Jones]
Lee Jones: Sal, I just wanted to say that was just awesome and I loved how you finished
with The Denialators videos and also just getting up in front of everyone and sharing all
that with us, it was just great. There is just so much in what you said to think about and I’ve
noticed that with all the affirmations of the Transformed Lifeforce State. I have started to
actually print out the transcripts, because each time, and even watching them again there
is just so much in them. But just something that came to mind when you were talking was,
there is a quote in [Jeremy’s book] The Great Exodus where Jeremy just says something
like, ‘Understanding the human condition…allows us to love ourselves and each other fully, equally
and without reservation.’ (The Book—The Great Exodus, 2006, Part 18, p. 90 of 222). I just think that is an

amazing quote because we have never had the truth that explains and defends us and in our
resigned state, like you said, we don’t actually let that truth in and let the information carry
that burden and take care of who we are.
There was so much in what you said but another thing you said that I really liked when
you were talking was about how this is such a powerful technology and you said how you do
have to be proactive with it and you have to go to the information, and that really hit home to
me. Because, in the resigned state, from being a resigned human you see the truth as hurtful
and oppressive, and to get past that misreading, there is always a resistance about going to the
truth. But if you go to the truth, and actually start engaging in it and get proactive with what
it’s saying it actually comes to you and holds your hand.
The other thing that I liked, you said something like our false resigned framework is so
powerful and it’s something that we have had to trust since resignation. And you talk about
that you have got to have that mind switch 100% from trusting that resigned state to trusting
the information and what it says. I just loved that too and it was all through the affirmations
too. So that was great.
And I think the last thing in all of that was the point you said something about ‘I was
misreading the liberating defence as more criticism from the world’, and then getting beyond
that and actually just accepting rather than fighting the reality that you are an upset human and
letting the information in. Anyway I am just rambling a bit but I just thought it was awesome
so thanks heaps, Sal!
Sally: Oh, it’s this information and how powerful it is and the Transformed Lifeforce
State is just that all-powerful technology that we all live now. That’s how we live now with it
in the world and it’s just fabulous and it can solve all of human pain and upset.
Lee Jones: Yeah, that’s the thing that I was thinking. I just remember when I was a
little girl before I got taken out with all the preoccupation and having to resign myself, all I
wanted was for that suffering to end in my family, and the fact that we can do that now is just
incredible. And that every human deserves this you know. It’s for everyone.

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The WORLD TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT has its own band called The Denialators
that play at our various functions. These are the lyrics of the two Denialator songs that can
be watched at <www.humancondition.com/denialators>, lyrics by Tony Gowing, music by Pete
Storey.

Let’s Go!
It’s here it’s now for you and me / I’m ready to rock and I feel so free / My veins are pumping,
this is it / Unbelievable, Holy Shit, C’MON!
It’s over I’m gone, I’m through the door / Good and evil aren’t at odds anymore / It’s all
explained they’re reconciled / Tell every adult and every child, C’MON!
Chorus:
Let’s go, let’s go, scream and shout / We humans now know what we’re all about / Let’s go,
let’s go we’ve broken through / Our lives have meaning, and we all know what to do
Science with soul has delivered the truth / Dignified our journey and given us proof / So start
asking questions in the answers you’ll see / How awesome the world is — how now it can be,
C’MON

The deserts are flooding the skies are all clear / The oceans are calm and the animals cheer / I
want to just live it just breath it all in / The new world is here now let’s just let it begin
Chorus repeated
Liberate, Liberate, Liberation / Liberate, Liberate, Liberation
Liberate, Liberate, Liberation / Liberate, Liberate, Liberation

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So join liberation leave darkness behind / The all-radiant truth will enlighten your mind /
Live in the moment for the future we see / The human condition is solved — we’re all free —
YEAH!

Chorus repeated
Let’s go, scream and shout / We humans now know what we’re all about / Let’s go, let’s go
we’ve broken through / Our lives have meaning, and we all know what to do. C’MON!

The Door’s Wide Open
How sweet is the morning / After such a long night / The relief drains my body / With this
awesome spreading of light / The shadows are lifting / The horizon is clear / I want to scream
to the heavens / A new time is here
Chorus:
The door’s wide open, / Understanding is the key / The door’s wide open, / Understanding is
the key / We’ve been so dead, dead, dead / But now we’re FREE, FREE, FREE
The sun has now risen, / It is strong bright and clear / I know the whole story / I’ve got
nothing to fear / The shit’s been unravelled / The battle’s been won / It’s all been made sense
of / The new time has begun
Chorus repeated
But the battle’s still raging, / People don’t know / It’s gone on so long, / It’s hard to let go
But the door IS wide open / And the future IS clear / The party starts NOW / We’re gonna blast
out of here
Chorus repeated
The door’s wide open, / Understanding is the key / We’ve been so dead, dead, dead /
But now we’re FREE, FREE, FREE, FREE, FREE, FREE / We’ve been so dead, dead, dead / But
now we’re FREE, FREE, FREE.
Go WTM!

Section 4
Membership of the
World Transformation Movement
The following is an expanded transcript of Jeremy Griffith’s immensely exciting ‘Introduction
to the Transformation’ video which was filmed in Sydney in October 2011. You can view this
video at <www.humancondition.com/2011-intro-to-the-transformation>.

Section 4:1 ‘Along the pathway of the sun’ to ‘The vision splendid of the sunlit
plains extended’, by Jeremy Griffith
I want to begin this presentation about membership by restating the fabulous situation
you, and all other humans, are now in.
I’ve just got to begin by playing some of Jerry Lee Lewis’ Long Tall Sally from his
famous 1964 performance at the Star Club in Hamburg, Germany, which ‘many music
journalists…regard…as one of the…greatest rock and roll concert[s]…ever’ (Wikipedia 2011).

[Music plays]

I know that such excitement and happiness may seem insensitive to all the suffering in the
world, but this joy and enthusiasm is not out of place because ‘the cavalry is coming’—well,
that is the phrase used in ‘Cowboys and Indians’ folklore; in more contemporary ‘Star Wars’
terms, ‘the Force’ is with us—everything is possible now, help is on its way to every person
in every corner of the world. Love has come to the world in its absolute purest form, namely
as relieving understanding. We humans are free now of the agony of the human condition.
Everyone in every situation and predicament can now rise up as radiant new beings from their
corpse-like state. A great rising up of humans will now occur across the world. Everyone is
now able to come back to life—to wake up from a human-condition-afflicted torpor and look
outwards and see each other and the world for the first time, and move across and help each
other, and do anything and everything that needs doing to end the suffering and pain that
plagues this planet.
The great awakening of the human race is on! We humans have, in truth, all been
asleep, owned by so much pain and suffering. Certainly we are going to be in shock for a
little while absorbing the realisation that we have finally won our freedom from the agony of
the human condition—but it’s on, the great awakening, the rising up of the human race from
its deep slumber.
From the festering, stalled state it has been in for far too long, waiting for these liberating
understandings of the human condition, the human race is finally on its way. What did Doug
Lobban say in his Affirmation in Section 3:4? ‘I’ve got this image of marching straight forward with
incredible purpose, straight out of a massive swamp into long green grass with flowers and butterflies and
sunshine, and never ever looking back, just keep marching forward. Everyone together, we are going to
have so much fun.’ (You can watch or read Doug’s testimonial in Transformation Affirmation 10.)

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now; we can all break out of our chrysalis, our human-condition-afflicted straitjacket, where
we have been constrained, letting the wings of our great potential unfold in the sunshine of
relieving understanding to reveal the fabulously beautiful creatures we really are.
As explained in Part 3:4 of Freedom Expanded: Book 1, our species’ original, natural
instinctive state is to be cooperative, selfless and loving. We have a cooperative, loving,
instinctive, moral soul, which means that serving others is our original, innate, natural
inclination, but this instinctive aspect of ourselves has had to be ruthlessly oppressed by our
conscious intellect because of its naive, unjust criticism of our conscious mind’s search for
knowledge—but thankfully our intellect has been championed, soul and intellect are at last
reconciled and so that horrible and tragic situation is now over, which means our original,
natural, soulful, true self can re-emerge. Behaving selflessly is our natural inclination. It’s a
capacity that has been sitting inside us waiting for the time when it could be liberated, which
has at last arrived.
This amazing situation will, at first, seem a little odd because it has taken such a long
time, two million years in fact, to get to this point where we could genuinely abandon
the upsetting battle that the human race has been involved in and let our unconditionally
selfless, all-loving soulful, true selves free. So it does take a little bit of effort to let go of
our habituated but now obsoleted egocentric, must-prove-ourselves, power-fame-fortuneand-glory-seeking way of living and bring the incredibly loving side of ourselves to the fore.
However, it’s really not that difficult a step to take. Once a few people discover this amazingly
free, alive, all-meaningful, sensitive-to-and-aware-of-everything-for-the-first-time-in-ourlives TRANSFORMED LIFEFORCE WAY OF LIVING—a discovery that has already occurred in the
WTM as all the Affirmations by members in Section 3 evidence—it will catch on and spread

like wildfire. As the Jesuit priest and scientist Teilhard de Chardin recognised: ‘The Truth has to
only appear once…for it to be impossible for anything ever to prevent it from spreading universally and
setting everything ablaze’ (Let Me Explain, 1966; tr. René Hague & others, 1970, p.159 of 189).

It’s on, humanity is coming home—our real self is going to come thundering through to
the forefront now and the world will open up for everyone, and everyone will help everyone
else. We CAN leave our old ego-embattled lives behind now and metamorphose into free,
empowered lifeforce beings.
This is not some dream I’m having; I haven’t lost my mental marbles or something. It’s
100% dinky-di, true-blue, fair-dinkum, solid-gold, ice-diamond-real what I’m saying. WE

ARE FREE NOW.
Listen to Jerry Lee again! [Short burst of music plays.]
I’ll tell you something: when I had my furniture business I lived near a country town
where there was a large Seventh-Day Adventist Christian community. Living for their faith
rather than for themselves, and selflessly supporting and helping each other, and working
together, it was amazing how functional and successful they were. I think they ran most of the
successful businesses in town and owned a lot of the real estate—and yet, the overall situation
in the valley where the town was located was, like everywhere else in the world, essentially
sad and lonely, with ‘the good old boys’ of the town huddled together in pubs drowning their
angst with alcohol and betting on horseraces to try to get a win for their embattled egos, with
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and sparrows. Well, imagine you’re in that valley walking around those depressed streets,
where, sure, there is a group of Seventh-Day Adventists defying the great oppressive shadow
of life under the duress of the human condition by getting together and being selfless and thus
to some degree functional, but basically life for humans is still all drab and depressed—and
then you look up towards the skyline and you see something absolutely amazing coming
towards you. From one end of the horizon to the other an army in its millions appears of
TRANSFORMED, human-condition-liberated, empowered people living for each other and

for the world—because their old egocentric existence has finally been understood and thus
obsoleted, put away forever, gone, done-its-job, finished with.
The point is, in all the false starts to a human-condition-free world (and they were ‘false
starts’ because the upsetting battle to find liberating understanding of the human condition
still had to continue), such as in the communal functionality of the Seventh-Day Adventist
community, or in the example I mentioned in Section 1:12 of the functionality of Ned Flanders’
Christian life compared to Homer Simpson’s embattled one, we can see the rudiments, the
prototype, of the huge potential of the selfless, ego-eliminated TRANSFORMED LIFEFORCE
WAY OF LIVING. There have been many examples of the cooperative, amazingly functional

way of living in all the false starts to a new world for humans that have been occurring
regularly throughout history (humanity has certainly been chaffing at the bit to get to the
new world!), but it is only now that the upsetting battle to find liberating understanding of the
human condition has been won that the human race as a whole leaves the old individualistic,
egocentric, power-fame-fortune-and-glory-seeking way of living. It is only now that we are
going to see the true power of all-out and all-pervading selfless communalism come into being.
Again, this vision I’ve described of the liberation of the whole human race from the
horror of the self-obsessed, must-prove-our-worth, egocentric way of living is not some
mad dream I’m having—it is a vision, a hope and faith that the whole of the human race has
firmly held onto since our journey to overcome ignorance about our true worth as humans
first began some two million years ago! As I have mentioned before, in the Bible the prophet
Joel perfectly articulated the vision of our species’ liberation from the human condition when
he said, ‘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 have the appearance of horses; they gallop along like cavalry.
With a noise like that of chariots…like a mighty army…They all march in line, not swerving from their
course. They do not jostle each other’ (Joel 2).

The exact same vision of our species’ liberation from the human condition and the
emergence of an amazingly cooperative, loving, selfless, functional, empowered, nothing-istoo-difficult new world was also given by the prophet Isaiah when he said: ‘He lifts up a banner
[that is, the human race finds understanding] for the distant nations, he whistles for those at the ends of
the earth. Here they come, swiftly and speedily! Not one of them grows tired or stumbles, not one slumbers
or sleeps; not a belt is loosened at the waist, not a sandal thong is broken. Their arrows are sharp, all their
bows are strung; their horses’ hoofs seem like flint, their chariot wheels like a whirlwind. Their roar is like
that of the lion, they roar like young lions; they growl as they seize their prey and carry it off with no-one
to rescue. In that day they will roar over it like the roaring of the sea [there will be immense excitement,

enthusiasm and commitment]’ (Isa. 5:26–30).

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(Please note, for the sake of brevity, only some of the following songs by contemporary
musicians have been included in this video. Also, more on the Australian character is included
in this transcript than appears in the video.)
And the same vision appears in the Irish band U2’s songs: in God Part II (1988) Bono
sang of wanting to ‘kick the darkness [of denial/alienation] till it bleeds daylight [the truth]’; and in
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For (1987), where he sang, ‘I believe in the Kingdom
Come when all the colours will bleed into one’; and in Where The Streets Have No Name (1987),

which says, ‘I want to tear down the walls [of our prison of having to live in denial/alienation] that
hold me inside, I want to reach out and touch the flame [I want the truth even though it’s going to be

searing], where the streets have no name [where humans no longer have to egocentrically own and
name everything]. I want to feel sunlight [of liberating enlightenment] on my face, see that dust cloud [of
all the destructive effects of our upset] disappear without a trace, I want to take shelter from the poison
rain, where the streets have no name…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…Then there will
be no toil or sorrow, then there will be no time of pain’; and in Love Rescue Me (1988), which can

be read as ‘Truth Rescue Me’ because the ultimate love for humans is really the truth, Bono
sang, ‘Love [truth] rescue me, come forth and speak to me, raise me up and don’t let me fall [give me
the relieving, reconciling explanation of the human condition]. No man is my enemy [I don’t want to
be living with so much hate inside me anymore], my own hands imprison me [but I’m imprisoned by
the unbearable dilemma of my own flawed, imperfect human condition], love [truth] rescue me… the
sun in the sky, makes a shadow of you and I [exposes the imperfection of our lives]…In the cold mirror
of a glass, I see my reflection pass, I see the dark shades of what I used to be [see the depressing contrast

of what I am now with my lost state of innocence]…Yeah I’m here without a name, in the palace of
my shame, I said love rescue me. [At this point in the song there is a very long pause, then suddenly

the song picks up again but this time describing a whole new situation and world.] 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, love rescue me [I have finally found the redeeming, reconciling and

thus TRANSFORMING understanding of myself]’; and in When Love Comes To Town (1987), which

includes the lines, ‘I was a sailor, I was lost at sea, I was under the waves…But I did what I did before
love [truth/understanding] came to town…I’ve seen love [truth] conquer the great divide [between ‘good

and evil’]…When love comes to town I’m gonna jump that train’—because, as the singer-songwriter

Cat Stevens foresaw (in his 1971 song Peace Train), ‘out on the edge of darkness there rides a
peace train’ that has at last arrived to ‘take’ us ‘home again’.

Along with U2’s Bono, and also The Beatles’ John Lennon and The Doors’ Jim Morrison,
the other awesomely prophetic songwriter of our times is, of course, Bob Dylan, whose lyrics
also contain exactly the same vision of our species’ liberation from the human condition.
Firstly, like Bono describing our present lost, seemingly meaningless, desolate, drowned
situation as being ‘beaten and blown’ and ‘trampled in dust’, ‘lost at sea’ ‘under the waves’, Dylan
wrote in Like A Rolling Stone (1965), ‘how does it feel to be on your own with no direction home, like
a complete unknown, like a rolling stone’; and in Mr. Tambourine Man (1964), ‘I’m not sleepy and
there is no place I’m going to…I’m branded on my feet, I have no one to meet, and the ancient empty
street’s too dead for dreaming…Then take me disappearin’ through the smoke rings of my mind, down
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a song for me.’ And then, in When The Ship Comes In (1963), Dylan anticipated our liberation

from the human condition, singing, ‘Oh the time will come up when the winds let up and the breeze
will cease to be breathing, like the stillness in the wind before the hurricane begins, the hour that the
ship comes in [when the all-liberating but, at the same time, all-exposing understanding of the human

condition arrives]. And the sea will split and the ships will hit, and the sands on the shoreline will be
shaking, and the tide will sound and the waves will pound, and the morning will be a-breaking [again,

when the liberating but also all-exposing and confronting truth about humans finally arrives]. The
fishes will laugh as they swim out of the path, and the seagulls they’ll be a-smiling, and the rocks on the
sand will proudly stand, the hour that the ship comes in [nature is going to be so relieved by the ending

of human upset]. And the words that are used for to get the ship confused [all our false denials], will not
be understood as they’re spoken [the denials will be seen through]. For the chains [holding the truth

back] of the sea will have busted in the night and be buried on the bottom of the ocean [the denial will
try to reimpose itself but the truth will fight back and the lies won’t be allowed to succeed]…Oh the
foes will rise with the sleep still in their eyes, and they’ll jerk from their beds and think they’re dreaming.
But they’ll pinch themselves and squeal and they’ll know that it’s for real, the hour that the ship comes
in. And they’ll raise their hands saying “we’ll meet all your demands”, but we’ll shout from the bow
“your days are numbered”, and like the Pharaoh’s tribe they’ll be drowned in the tide [of enthusiasm

and excitement], and like Goliath [all our denials] they’ll be conquered.’ And also in The Times They

Are A-Changin’ (1963), when Dylan anticipated how ‘the [human-condition-afflicted] present
now will later be past’; and in All Along the Watchtower (1968), when he demanded that ‘There
must be some way out of here…There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief…There are many here
among us who feel that life is but a joke…So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late. All along
the watchtower, princes kept the view [waiting and watching for the time when understanding of the

human condition would finally arrive]…Two riders were approaching [the approaching duality of the
wonderfully all-liberating but at the same time all-exposing truth about our human condition], the wind
began to howl [the arrival of the storm of liberating but at the same time all-exposing truth—as Christ

said in the Bible, you will know when the truth about the human condition arrives because it will be
‘like the lightning, which flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other’ (Luke 17:24 & Matt. 24:27)]’;

and, finally, in Blowin’ In The Wind (1962) Dylan pleaded, ‘how many years can some people exist
before they’re allowed to be free?’

(Note, many more songs that anticipate humanity’s liberation from the human condition
are included in Part 3:12 of Freedom Expanded: Book 1.)
In Australian mythology this vision of the liberation of humanity from the human
condition is incredibly strong—and it’s not just the vision of that liberation, it is also a vision
of that liberation being initiated here in Australia!
As I have mentioned before, the Australian rock band Hunters and Collectors’ 1993 song
Holy Grail perfectly described the vision of humanity’s liberation: ‘Woke up this morning from
the strangest dream, I was in the biggest army the world had ever seen, we were marching as one on
the road to the Holy Grail [to liberating understanding]. Started out seeking fortune and glory, it’s a
short song but it’s a hell of a story, when you spend your lifetime trying to get your hands, on the Holy
Grail. Well have you heard about the Great Crusade? We ran into millions but nobody got paid [selfless

cooperation replaced selfish greed], yeah we razed four corners of the globe for the Holy Grail. All
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there’d be nothing left to plunder when we stumbled on the Holy Grail? We were so full of beans but
we were dying like flies [humans were pretending to be happy but in truth they were all but dead with

alienation], and those big black birds, they were circling in the sky, and you know what they say, yeah
nobody deserves to die [humanity was entering the end play state of terminal alienation]. Oh but I’ve
been searching for an easy way, to escape the cold light of day [I have tried to live in denial]. I’ve been
high and I’ve been low [I have lived a manic depressive, bipolar existence of oscillating between being

able to block out the reality of my immensely corrupted condition enough to feel some relief, and
being unable to block it out], but I’ve got nowhere else to go [trying to live through denial had run its
course]. There’s nowhere else to go! I followed orders [I have tried to live through deferment to laws,
rules and faith], God knows where I’ve been, but I woke up alone, all my wounds were clean [I woke up
in the human-condition-reconciled, liberated, TRANSFORMED state].’

Banjo Paterson is one of Australia’s most celebrated poets and in his 1889 poem Clancy
of The Overflow he, like Bono and Dylan, described the world as it currently really is when he
wrote, ‘I am sitting in my dingy little office, where a stingy ray of sunlight struggles feebly down between
the houses tall, and the foetid air and gritty of the dusty, dirty city through the open window floating,
spreads its foulness over all…I can hear the fiendish rattle of the tramways and the buses making hurry
down the street, and the language uninviting of the gutter children fighting, comes fitfully and faintly
through the ceaseless tramp of feet. And the hurrying people daunt me, and their pallid faces haunt
me, as they shoulder one another in their rush and nervous haste, with their eager eyes and greedy, and
their stunted forms and weedy.’ Then, from this ‘foul’, ‘foetid’, ‘dingy little office’ world, Paterson

envisioned the liberation of humanity from the human condition, writing, ‘In my wild erratic
fancy visions come to me…[from] the bush [the source of innocence, which] hath friends to meet…and
their kindly voices greet…[and where you hear] the murmur of the breezes and the river on its bars, and

[from there are able to]…see…the vision splendid of the sunlit [truth-filled] plains extended and at night
the wondrous glory of the everlasting stars [everlasting truth].’ Incidentally, the wonderful phrase
‘vision splendid’ was also used by William Wordsworth in his incredibly honest 1807 poem

Intimations of Immortality.
Paterson was even more explicit in his anticipation of the liberating understanding of the
human condition emerging from the Australian bush (innocent countryside) in another of his
works from 1889, his aptly titled poem Song of the Future. Using the analogy of the pioneers
who finally forged the path through our eastern coastal mountain range (appropriately enough
called ‘The Great Dividing Range’) that had barred the way to Australia’s interior during
the early days of white settlement, Paterson envisaged ‘the future’ heroic, Australian-led
expedition humanity would take from the alienated bondage of the human condition to the
fertile, sun/understanding-drenched freedom of a human-condition-resolved new world. These
are the key verses: ‘Tis strange that in a land [Australia] so strong, so strong and bold in mighty youth
[innocence], we have [back then in 1889] no poet’s voice of truth to sing for us a wondrous song [explain
the human condition]…We have no tales of other days, no bygone history to tell. Our tales are told where
campfires blaze at midnight, when the solemn hush of that vast wonderland, the Bush, hath laid on every
heart its spell [sheltered innocence]. Although we have no songs of strife, of bloodshed reddening the
land, we yet may find achievements grand within the bushman’s quiet life. Lift ye your faces to the sky,
ye far blue mountains of the west, who lie so peacefully at rest enshrouded in a haze of blue; ’Tis hard
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made your secrets all their own [broke through the wall of denial blocking access to the truth about

the human condition]. For years the fertile western plains were hid behind your sullen [alienated] walls,
your cliffs and crags and waterfalls all weatherworn with tropic rains. Between the mountains and the
sea, like Israelites with staff in hand, the people waited restlessly: They looked towards the mountains
old and saw the sunsets come and go with gorgeous golden afterglow that made the west a fairyland,
and marvelled what that west might be of which such wondrous tales were told…At length the hardy
pioneers by rock and crag found out the way, and woke with voices of today, a silence kept for years and
years [brought an end to the silence of the resigned world of denial]…The way is won! The way is won!
And straightway from the barren coast there came a westward-marching host, that aye and ever onward
prest with eager faces to the west along the pathway of the sun [what a lovely phrase: the pathway of the
sun—the pathway to understanding]…Could braver histories unfold than this bush story, yet untold—
the story of their westward march…Our willing workmen, strong and skilled, within our cities idle stand
and cry aloud for leave to toil. The stunted children come and go in squalid lanes and alleys black [the

end-play state of terminal alienation that humanity has arrived at prior to breaking through to selfunderstanding]…And it may be that we who live in this new land apart, beyond the hard old world grown
fierce and fond and bound by precedent and bond [bound up in sophisticated, intellectual denial], may
read the riddle [of the human condition] right and give new hope to those who dimly see [those who are

embedded in blind denial/alienation], that all things may be yet for good and teach the world at length to
be one vast united brotherhood. So may it be, and he who sings in accents hopeful, clear, and strong, the
glories which that future brings shall sing, indeed, a wondrous song.’

While these two poems by Banjo Paterson are extraordinarily prophetic I have not yet
included his most prophetic work, which is his 1895 poem The Man From Snowy River.
Undoubtedly our most celebrated literary work, the poem lies at the very heart of Australian
mythology—in fact, Australia’s $10 note (pictured above) features Paterson’s image and,
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endure if they contain a resonating deep truth and The Man From Snowy River certainly does.
Ostensibly the poem is about a great and potentially dangerous ride undertaken by mountain
horsemen to recapture an escaped thoroughbred that joined the brumbies (wild horses) in
the mountain ranges, but what the poem is really recognising is that it is from the Australian
bush that the answers about the human condition would finally emerge. In The Man From
Snowy River, the character Clancy (the fictional stockman of Paterson’s aforementioned poem
Clancy of the Overflow reappears in this poem) persuades the station owner Harrison to let
a ‘stripling’ ‘lad’—a boy—on his ‘hardy mountain pony’ join their expedition to retrieve the
escaped thoroughbred; Clancy argues, ‘I warrant he’ll be with us when he’s wanted at the end.’ A
boy is the embodiment of the innocence that is needed ‘at the end’ of humanity’s heroic journey
of accumulating sufficient scientific understandings of the mechanisms and workings of our
world to make it possible for innocence to assemble the denial-free explanation of the human
condition. In fact, the story of David and Goliath in the Bible that Dylan referred to is actually
another anticipation of this time when innocence, represented in that instance by David, would
slay Goliath, would overcome the monstrous, all-pervading and all-powerful hold denial has
on the world. Hans Christian Andersen’s 1837 fable The Emperor’s New Clothes contains
the same truth that it would take a small boy to break the spell of the denial that has enslaved
the human race—in that fable a child breaks the spell of the emperor’s, and everyone else’s,
delusion that the emperor is clothed in fabulous garments by pointing out that the emperor
is, in fact, naked; he was not the secure, confident person he was pretending to be but in fact
an alienated wreck. So, in The Man From Snowy River, when ‘the best and boldest riders’ (the
resigned, alienated adults) finally ‘took a pull’ on their reins at the edge of a ‘terrible descent’ of
a steep mountainside where the brumbies had gone and where ‘any slip was death’, the ‘stripling’
‘lad’ ‘let his pony have his head, and swung his stockwhip round and gave a cheer, and raced him down the
mountain like a torrent down its bed, while the others stood and watched in very fear’—the innocent was

able to confront the truth that so terrified resigned adults. The boy then ‘ran [the brumbies]…till
their sides were white with foam. He followed like a bloodhound on their track till they halted, cowed and
beaten—then he turned their heads for home’ and ‘brought them back’—he fought all the denial and

its alienation that has been enslaving the world to a standstill until it finally gave up the truth,
which is what I had to do to find understanding of the human condition. Again, as I emphasised
in Section 1:14, while it is a great story and one that had to be told so that we understand how
the human condition was solved, being innocent enough to solve the human condition doesn’t
make me special, not in the slightest. Who is innocent and who is not innocent just doesn’t
matter anymore because we can now understand that all humans are equally good—and we
are also all free of the human condition now. That old way of thinking about who is good and
who is bad, who is better or worse, superior or inferior, is all cast on the rubbish heap of history
now. In fact, as I said before, if you are determined to think in those obsoleted terms then
those most upset, most alienated, least innocent are the true heroes/legends/stars of the world
because they necessarily have been most involved in humanity’s great battle to overthrow
ignorance. I am relatively innocent, and I needed to be to solve the human condition, but I’m
the very last person in the order of greatness of humans if you are determined to judge in those
terms. But really, as I say, that sort of thinking is all over now; it’s redundant. I am just another
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end of the spectrum of alienation that naturally exists among humans after our species’ heroic
two million year journey through ignorance—but we do have to get the truth up about all that
happened and how it happened, so that we can move on from it.
Banjo Paterson also wrote the words of Australia’s national anthem—well, it should be
Australia’s national anthem, at least it is widely-regarded as our unofficial national anthem—
namely Waltzing Matilda. This ballad is really about the core characteristic of the Australian
character: non-conformity with the sophisticated, intellectual, bullshit, false world of denial.
Convicts formed the basis of European settlement in Australia (especially in the eastern states)
and many of them were essentially non-conformists—often fey Irish (like our folk hero Ned
Kelly) who wouldn’t go along with the artificial, sophisticated, intellectual, resigned world
of denial and, as a result, ended up as petty criminals. Waltzing Matilda tells the story of a
non-conformist petty criminal ‘swagman’, or hobo, who chose to drown in a ‘billabong’, or
waterhole, rather than fall into line with the bullshit, sophisticated, establishment ‘squatter’/
station owner mounted on his bullshit, sophisticated ‘thoroughbred’ and backed up by the
bullshit, sophisticated, establishment troopers ‘one, two, three’.
I won’t include the words of Waltzing Matilda because they are well-known, but before
describing the next anticipation from Australia of humanity’s liberation I might mention that
the Australian journalist Stuart Rintoul recognised the influence of the Irish in the Australian
make-up when he wrote, ‘The distinctive Australian identity was not born in the bush, nor at Anzac
Cove: these were merely situations for its expression. No; it was born in [the relatively innocent,

truthful, instinctual, Celtic] Irishness protesting against the extremes of [the more alienated, dishonest,
intellectual, Anglo-Saxon] Englishness’ (Weekend Australian, 7–8 Nov. 1998). This resistance to the

sophisticated, intellectual, world of denial that was so strong in the Australian character while
I was growing up helped me enormously to hold onto my denial-free way of thinking. In fact,
this characteristic has been so precious to me that I have even designed an Australian flag
(see next image, on the left) that features Ned Kelly’s famous bullshit/denial/intellectualismdeflecting armour that he ingeniously and self-sufficiently forged out of plough shears and
in which he fought his last great battle against the establishment at Glenrowan in Victoria in
1880. I know people once visited Australia just to savour its irreverent, no-bullshit, so-called

‘fair-dinkum’ character—it’s the same reason people still want to visit Ireland. The Irish are
probably the most loved race in the world and with good reason: they have simply refused
to embrace the sophisticated intellectual world of denial. Australia has been an amazing last
bastion of soundness in the world, and what a crucial role it has played in being able to, as
Banjo Paterson anticipated, ‘read the riddle right and give new hope to those who dimly see…and
teach the world at length to be one vast united brotherhood.’

I should explain that the reason I said that this denial-defying characteristic ‘was’ and ‘has
been’ so strong in the Australian character is because while, as Richard Reid, senior curator
of the National Museum of Australia, reported, ‘up until 1945 [the year I was born], up to one-third
of Australians had some ancestral connection to Ireland’, ‘proportionately…more people of Irish descent
than any other spot outside of Ireland’ (‘A celebration of Irish-Australian culture’, Australian Geographic mag. 17
Mar. 2010), Australia has now merged into the great melting pot of alienation in the world. The

innocence didn’t last long, as it rarely does, but in that brief period ‘achievements grand’ were
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such, Australia’s flag now is part of the world flag, which has the words ‘human condition’
writ large across it, from corner to corner. Thank heavens a new world flag can now be hoisted
for the whole exhausted human race—a flag that shows human-condition-liberated humans of
all degrees of upset, hand-in-hand and jumping for joy in front of an immense rising sun, with
the words FREEDOM written across it! Again, it has to be emphasised that while we couldn’t
explain and defend the upset state of the human condition, we couldn’t admit who was upset/
alienated/had lost their innocence without leaving them condemned as bad or unworthy, but,
now that we can explain and defend upset, it’s both safe to acknowledge it and also necessary
to acknowledge it if we are to understand, make sense of, and by so doing heal human
behaviour. As Christ said, only ‘the truth will set you free’ (Bible, John 8:32)—but of course it had to
be the full truth that explained the good reason why the human race lost its innocence. When
Christ said that ‘the meek…inherit the earth’ (Matt. 5:5) he was recognising that a time would come
when we would be able to safely recognise who is meek/innocent/sound, and who is not.
As the science historian Jacob Bronowski once said, ‘Self-knowledge is our destiny’ (The Ascent of
Man, 1973, p.437 of 448), but, again, it had to be the compassionate all-encompassing truth about

our variously upset states. Much more is said about the inevitably different degrees of upset

amongst humans in Part 7:4 of Freedom Expanded: Book 1.

With regard to innocence not lasting long, but long enough to deliver the liberating
understanding of the human condition, the French Algerian Albert Camus, who won a Nobel
Prize for literature, wrote a phenomenally prophetic essay in 1940 titled The Almond Trees
precisely about how, despite all the upset, all the corruption of soul in the world, in ‘those
shining lands where so much strength is still untouched’ that ‘shining’ innocence would still last ‘just
long enough to prepare the fruit’—find the world-saving liberating understanding of the human

condition. He wrote that ‘men have never ceased to grow in the knowledge of their destiny. We have
not overcome our condition [the human condition], and yet we know it better. We know that we live in
contradiction [between good and evil], but that we must refuse this contradiction and do what is needed
to reduce it. Our task as men is to find those few first principles [biological understanding] that will
calm the infinite anguish of free souls. We must stitch up what has been torn apart [find the reconciling

understanding of the human condition]…Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But tasks are called
superhuman when men take a long time to complete them, that is all. Let us then know our aims, standing
steadfast on the mind…The first thing is not to despair…When I lived in Algiers, I would wait patiently
all winter because I knew that in the course of one night, one cold, pure February night, the almond trees
of the Vallée des Consuls would be covered with white flowers. I was then filled with delight as I saw this
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enough to prepare the fruit. This is not a symbol. We shall not win our happiness with symbols. We shall
need something more weighty. All I mean is that sometimes, when life weighs too heavily [with depression]
in this Europe still overflowing with its misery [alienation], I turn towards those shining [innocent] lands
where so much strength is still untouched. I know them too well not to realize that they are the chosen
lands where courage [to defy all the dishonest denial in the world] and contemplation [denial-free,

honest thought] can live in harmony…Before the vastness of the undertaking, let no one in any case forget
strength of character. I do not mean the one accompanied on electoral platforms by frowns and threats.
But the one that, through the virtue of its whiteness [innocence] and its sap [soul strength], stands up to
all the winds from the sea [stands up to all the denial]. It is that which, in the winter for the world, will
prepare the fruit [find the liberating understanding of the human condition]’ (Summer, 1954, pp.33-35 of 87).

To return now to the Australians who anticipated the emergence of understanding of the
human condition in Australia.
Henry Lawson, who was introduced in Section 1:4 when his poem about Resignation,
The Voice from Over Yonder, was included, is another of Australia’s greatest poets, and he too
wrote about the role of the ‘strength of character’ of the ‘fragile’, ‘still untouched’, ‘pure’, innocent,
‘shining’ ‘chosen land’ of Australia to ‘stand up to’ all the denial in the world and ‘find those few
first principles that…stitch up what has been torn apart’, which weren’t able to be found in the

upset, corrupted, soul-exhausted ‘winter for the world’ of ‘Europe [which is] still overflowing with
its misery’ of alienation. Making the same insights, employing the same comparisons and using

the same imagery as the other songs and poems that have been mentioned, Lawson wrote in
one of his poems of 1892, the appropriately titled When the Bush Begins to Speak, that ‘They
know us not in England yet, their pens are overbold. We’re seen in fancy pictures that are fifty years too
old. They think we are a careless race—a childish race, and weak. They’ll know us yet in England, when
the bush begins to speak [when innocence makes its contribution]…“The leaders that will be”, the men
of southern destiny, are not all found in cities that are builded by the sea. They learn to love Australia
by many a western creek. They’ll know them yet in England, when the bush begins to speak…All ready
for the struggle, and waiting for the change, the army of our future lies encamped beyond the [coastal]
range. Australia, for her patriots, will not have far to seek, they’ll know her yet in England when the bush
begins to speak…We’ll find the peace and comfort that our fathers could not find, or some shall strike the
good old blow that leaves a mark behind. We’ll find the Truth and Liberty [the truth about the human

condition that brings liberating understanding to humanity] our fathers came to seek, or let them know
in England when the bush begins to speak.’

In another extraordinarily prescient work (which again has the same insights,
comparisons and imagery), the Australian poet A.D. Hope also wrote of the role of the
relatively innocent continent of Australia in delivering liberating understanding of the human
condition. In his 1931 poem, actually titled Australia, Hope wrote of ‘A nation of trees, drab
green and desolate grey…Without songs, architecture, history…And her five cities, like five teeming sores,
each drains her, a vast parasite robber-state, where second-hand Europeans pullulate timidly on the edge
of alien shores. Yet there are some like me turn gladly home from the lush jungle of [alienated, dishonest,

intellectual] modern thought, to find the Arabian desert of the human mind, hoping, if still from the
deserts the prophets [innocent, unresigned, denial-free, truthful, profound, effective thinkers] come.
Such savage and scarlet as no green hills dare, springs in that waste, some spirit which escapes the learned
doubt, the [dishonest, intellectual as opposed to the honest, instinctual] chatter of cultured apes which is
called civilization over there [in England].’

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In his exceptionally prophetic 1995 book, Edge of the Sacred, the Australian academic
David Tacey similarly anticipated Australia’s pivotal role in lifting the siege humanity has
been under of the dilemma of the human condition. In the book’s final chapter, titled ‘The
Transformation of Spirit’, Tacey wrote: ‘Australia is uniquely placed not only to demonstrate this
world-wide experience but also to act as a guiding example to the rest of the world. Although traditionally
at the edge of the world, Australia may well become the centre of attention as our transformational
changes are realised in the future. Because the descent of spirit has been accelerated here by so many
regional factors, and because nature here is so deep, archaic, and primordial, what will arise from this
archetypal fusion may well be awesome and spectacular. In this regard, I have recently been encouraged
by Max Charlesworth’s essay “Terra Australis and The Holy Spirit”. In a surprisingly direct—and
unguarded?—moment, Charlesworth says: “I have a feeling in my bones that there is a possibility of a
creative religious explosion occurring early in the next millennium with the ancient land of Australia at
the centre of it, and that the Holy Spirit [denial-free thinking—‘holy’ actually has the same origins

as the Saxon word ‘whole’, which means ‘well, entire, intact’, so ‘holy’ is actually a recognition of
soundness, of lack of alienation, of lack of separation from the truth, of lack of denial] may come home
at last to Terra Australis”. I am pleased that this has already been said, because if Charlesworth had not
said it, I would have been forced to find within myself exactly the same prophetic utterance’ (p.204 of 224).

(I should clarify that while the arrival of understanding of the human condition brings about
an incredible spiritual awakening in humans—as if rising from the dead—it does not bring a
‘religious explosion’. As was explained in Section 1:10, in a religion you do give up living out

your upsets and instead defer to and live through your support of the sound life and words
of the prophet around whom the religion is founded, which is similar to the TRANSFORMED
WAY OF LIVING, which involves letting go of living out your upset state, however, in the new
TRANSFORMED WAY OF LIVING you are giving your support not to the embodiment of the ideal

state in the form of a religion’s prophet, but to the understanding of the ideal state and the
good reason for our species’ historic departure from it. This is all about the end of faith and
dogma and the beginning of knowing. And as we will discover, living through a framework
based on actual scientific understanding of our human condition—the complete explanation
and defence of each of us no matter who we are or what we have done—is like nothing we or
the world has ever experienced. The relief and happiness that will flow through our veins and
through the world now is almost incomprehensible.
This ‘prophetic’ anticipation by Tacey and Charlesworth of the ‘transformational’ liberation
of humanity from the human condition being initiated in Australia reinforces U2’s lead singer
Bono’s intuition (which was mentioned in Section 1:14) that ‘in Australia…a new society [is] being
dreamt up…to lead the world’.

The vision, the hope, the faith, the belief in humanity’s eventual liberation from the
human condition has existed within us all since time immemorial—and all the false starts
to that fabulous future that have been occurring throughout history serve to reveal just
how much humanity has hungered for its arrival. They also serve to show how gloriously
functional an ego-less existence for humans is going to be. The apostle St Paul gave possibly
the best sales pitch ever for Christianity when he compared Christianity (where deferment to
the embodiment of the ideals in Christ made you feel you were good or ‘righteous’) with the
previous best way of coping with the upset state of the human condition, which was Moses’

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Ten Commandments (where you restrained your upsets out of fear of punishment). St Paul
said, ‘Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory
[glorious because those laws restrained excessive upset and by so doing brought society back from
the brink of destruction]…fading though it was [there was no sustaining positive in having discipline
imposed on you], will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious? If the ministry that condemns
men is glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry that brings righteousness! For what was glorious
has no glory now in comparison with the surpassing glory’ (2 Cor. 3:7–11). Well, if religion was an

infinitely more ‘glorious’ way of living to living out of fear of punishment, the new ‘surpassing
glory’ to religion of the TRANSFORMED LIFEFORCE WAY OF LIVING, which the ending of the

battle to find understanding of the human condition brings, is so wonderful, so ‘glorious’ that
it is completely beyond comparison with any way of living conscious humans have ever
experienced. The ‘glory’ that comes to the human race now is unimaginably exciting—well,
what did Beethoven’s symphony say? ‘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!’

So the message is clear: become a member of the WORLD TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT and
‘Join in our jubilation!’—don’t miss out on the most exciting event in the history of the world!

Section 4:2 The TRANSFORMATION of the world, by Jeremy Griffith
The brief description I’m about to give of just how exciting and world-changing this
new TRANSFORMED LIFE for humans is going to be is mostly a condensation of what I have
presented in Section 2:3.
A number of founding members of the WTM, including myself, my brother Simon and
Tim Macartney-Snape, benefited from the influence of Australia’s greatest ever educator,
Sir James Darling, as students at Geelong Grammar School (GGS) in Victoria. Described as
‘a prophet in the true biblical sense’ in his 1995 full-page obituary in The Australian newspaper
(view Sir James’ obituary at <www.humancondition.com/darling-obituary>), Sir James was certainly an

extraordinarily profound, denial-free, truthful thinker whose words I refer to often in my
writing. In one of his famous speeches, Sir James said, ‘selfishness is, as it has ever been, the
ultimately destructive force in a society, and there are only two cures for selfishness—the regimented
state which we all profess to dislike, and the change of heart, which we refuse to make. That is the choice,
believe me, for each one of us, and we have not much time in which to make it. The need for decision [to

have a ‘change of heart’ and live selflessly] is serious and urgent, and the sands [of time] are running
out’ (GGS Speech Day address in 1950, Light Blue Down Under, by Weston Bate, 1990, p.219 of 386).

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we needed brain food, not brain anaesthetic. Our thinking mind needed understanding—
specifically, understanding of why we humans are fundamentally good and not bad, evil,
worthless beings. In short, we needed the dignifying, redeeming and TRANSFORMING
understanding of the human condition. But what Sir James also recognised in this passage was
that, despite the urgency, we would ‘refuse to make’ the ‘change of heart’ from living selfishly
to living selflessly until humanity achieved that breakthrough. And he was right—until the
liberating understanding of why humans are fundamentally good and not bad was found we
had no choice but to keep on trying to achieve some relief from the insecurity of our condition
by finding superficial ways to prove we are good and not bad, such as through winning power,
fame, fortune and glory. We had no choice but to be ‘ego-centric’—we had no choice but
for our conscious thinking self (which is how the Concise Oxford Dictionary defines ‘ego’)
to be focused or ‘centred’ on trying to prove it/we are not bad, worthless and meaningless.
It is only now with the fundamental, trustable, knowable, first-principle-based, dogma-free
biological understanding of why we humans are not bad that we can afford to stop trying to
prove we are not bad all the time—that we can stop being egocentric; let go of being so selfworth-preoccupied; live for the human-condition-understood world FREE of that old insecure
existence; TRANSFORM from being selfish to selfless; have the ‘change of heart’ that Sir James
recognised was so ‘serious and urgent’.
Since materialistic luxuries, like glittering dresses, sparkling diamonds, bubbling
Champagne, huge chandeliers, silver tea sets, big houses, swimming pools and shining,
pretentious cars gave us the fanfare and glory we knew was due us, but which the world in
its ignorance of our true goodness would not give us, materialism was one of the important
means by which we could sustain our sense of self-worth while the upsetting search for the
liberating understanding of why we are good and not bad was being carried out. In fact,
when we only had our ability to win power, fame, glory and fortune (and, with that fortune/
money/wealth/capital, acquire materialistic luxuries) to sustain our sense of self-worth
while the upsetting search for understanding of our worth was being carried out, those
relieving artificial forms of reinforcement were the only engines driving the old insecure
world—the only rewards sustaining the all-important search for self-understanding (which
is why socialism, which sought to replace the engine of greed with the idealism of selfless
cooperativeness before we had found self-understanding, couldn’t and didn’t work). So, this
egocentric, self-centred, individualistic, selfish, greedy, competitive, power-fame-fortune-andglory-seeking existence was also a ‘constructive force’ as well as the inequality-producing,
human-suffering-causing, Earth-destroying ‘destructive force’ that Sir James so aptly described
it as. Yes, there was truth indeed in the saying ‘Greed is good.’ The demonstrations against
greed and capitalism that we have been witness to in 2011 and 2012 are in truth naive, pseudo
idealistic, make-yourself-feel-good-but-don’t-solve-anything protests against the reality of
the insecurity of life under the duress of the human condition. Of course, this constructive and
destructive, ‘good and bad’ aspect of our behaviour is the core paradox (or ‘riddle’, as Banjo
Paterson referred to it in Song of the Future) of the human condition that we are now at last
able to explain and understand.
Nevertheless, while the ‘selfishness’ of the old egocentric, self-centred, individualistic,
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kept the all-important search for the relieving understanding of why we humans are good
and not bad going, and was thus a ‘constructive force’, it was, as Sir James said, the ‘ultimate’
‘destructive force in a society’ because in the end only a selfless way of living works. Ultimately

human condition, namely reconciling understanding, materialism was ‘the best revenge’ we
had. So, it is going to be an enormous relief now for the planet and for humankind—in fact,
it is going to make all the difference—that, through the finding of understanding of why we
humans are good and not bad, we can finally let go of our selfish, egocentric, have-to-proveour-worth, materialistic, power-fame-fortune-and-glory-seeking way of living and take up
the TRANSFORMED, human-condition-liberated, selfless existence; again, have that ‘change of
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constructed in a functionally satisfactory, simple way, how much energy, labour, time and
expense will be freed up to care for the wellbeing of the less fortunate and the planet. These
TRANSFORMATIONS are all going to occur.

Again, while we needed the individualistic, materialistic world to sustain our sense of
self-worth while we couldn’t establish it through understanding, now that we have established
it that old way of living is obsoleted. Recall how, having adopted the TRANSFORMED STATE,
Doug Lobban’s only desire was to fix the world, starting with his shower curtain! He had let
go of his egocentric mindset when he became TRANSFORMED. The finding of understanding
of the human condition naturally brings about a whole new way of living. There’s no dogma
involved, like there was in socialism—this is about the end of dogma and also of faith, and the
beginning of understanding.
It will certainly take time, in fact, a few generations, for us humans to sufficiently absorb
the understanding of the human condition for our underlying insecurity to be fully ameliorated
or healed and thus the need for some artificial reinforcement from materialism, etc, etc, to
completely disappear, but once you adopt the TRANSFORMED STATE, while you haven’t
eliminated the insecure state of the human condition within yourself, you have completely
changed your mind’s focus from living an ego-embattled, selfish life to living selflessly—you
have had that ‘change of heart’, the fundamental change of direction, that Sir James recognised
was so urgently needed to fix the world.
Importantly, the more this ‘change of heart’ TRANSFORMATION catches on, the easier it
will be for people to move from the old insecure, ego-centric way of living to the new secure,
ego-less way of living. The old egocentric way of living has had such a powerful hold on
humans because while there was no understanding of the human condition all we had was the
superficial reinforcement we gained from seeking power, fame, fortune and glory, but once
that relieving understanding is found, as it has been, that old egocentric way of living quickly
loses its power—so quickly, in fact, that everyone will be amazed by how quickly their need
for the old artificial forms of reinforcement falls away.
The great ‘change of heart’ is on! Imagine when we no longer have to dress to impress,
deceive and disguise—especially when women no longer have to be preoccupied with being
sex objects—how much freedom that is going to unleash, and how much time, energy and
resources it will save? Imagine when communication technology is used only to spread
reconciling truth rather than truthless, alienated, escapist, superficial drivel, as it is currently
doing—how much relief that is going to bring to humans and thus our world? End the human
condition and you end all the big problems of the world—and thus all the little problems too.
The overall point I’m making is of the immense power of cooperative selflessness to
solve all our problems. If we were all selfless we could solve the AIDS epidemic literally
overnight because all it would take would be for everyone to agree to be tested for the AIDS
virus and those who tested positive to agree to not have sexual relationships with anyone who
doesn’t have the virus. When everyone is selfless we will be able to solve the greenhouse
gases, global warming problem almost overnight by everyone agreeing to hold every third
breath or something—that’s obviously not going to work, but the point is we will be able to
do whatever it takes! Actually, the most effective control mechanism we have available to us
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all the threats to our world. It is the capacity to be selfless that has been missing from the
human situation.
Understandably, this power of selflessness has not been something we humans wanted
to acknowledge or think about because it has been too confronting of our present massively
embattled, ego-hungry, desperately-needing-self-gratification-and-glorification, selfish, greedy,
materialistic existence. We have had to live an alienated, escapist, materialistic life because we
haven’t been able to live a secure, honest, spiritualistic life, but now, with the human condition
explained, we can. Earlier, I used the example of a Seventh-Day Adventist community to
illustrate the power of cooperation, but its power is actually most apparent in ant and bee
colonies—truly, as King Solomon advised, ‘Go to the ant…consider its ways and be wise’ (Proverbs
6:6). The 2004 award-winning documentary Ants—Nature’s Secret Power admitted the power

of selfless cooperation when it concluded that ‘The secret of ant societies is their cooperation…[it’s
what has enabled them to] act as a superorganism…[and become] nature’s true world power’ (produced by
Adi Mayer Films, ORF Austrian Broadcasting Company with Docstar and WDR). It is us self-adjusting, conscious

humans who—now that we no longer have to live an insecure, selfish existence and can live a
selfless, cooperative existence—will now become ‘nature’s true world power’.
As I have previously said, the main reward for members of the WORLD
TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT is the anticipation and the excitement of being effectively free

of the human condition—the joy and happiness of being liberated from the burden of your
insecurities and self-preoccupations; the awesome meaning and power of finally being aligned
with the truth and participating in the magic true world; the wonderful empathy and equality
of goodness and fellowship that understanding of the human condition now allows you to
feel for your fellow humans; the freedom now to effectively focus on repairing the world;
and, above all, the radiant aliveness from the optimism that comes with knowing our march
through hell has finally ended.
This WORLD TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT has a slow beginning because humans
initially find it difficult even taking in or ‘hearing’ discussion about the human condition,
but it won’t be long before our website is discovered and then word of it and what it offers
every human and the world will spread like wildfire—as de Chardin said, ‘The Truth has to only
appear once…for it to be impossible for anything ever to prevent it from spreading universally and setting
everything ablaze.’ Before long we will be marketing our own human-condition-free, world-

saving products, providing our own all-exciting and meaningful, denial-free, honest, humancondition-understood films, documentaries and books, launching our own TV station—and
our website will be the biggest in the world, bigger than Google or any other existing site.
And all this is not deluded hubris, or wild guessing, it is simply the logical truth of what
happens when the dignifying, redeeming and healing understanding of the human condition is
finally found—as all the quotes from prophets, songwriters and poets included earlier testify.
The bottom line truth is that only the finding of the reconciling understanding of the
human condition and the ‘change of heart’, TRANSFORMED STATE for humans that it finally
makes possible can save the human race. The WORLD TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT
provides the only path forward for humankind. All else is ever-increasing, excruciating,
unthinkable suffering and ultimately doom for our species. So become a MEMBER of the
WORLD TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT!

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