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“Essentially, what has happened is that humans have become so habituated to living in Plato’s dark cave of denial that when finally given the means to exit the cave and stand in the warm, healing sunshine of self-understanding,”
― FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition
― FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition
“The human condition is the immensely mentally insecure and psychologically distressed state that all humans have suffered from as a result of a clash between our species’ original non-understanding, dictatorial, instinctive orientations to the world, and our newer fully conscious mind that needs to understand the world to operate.”
― The Human Condition: What exactly is it, what caused it, and how the human race has finally liberated itself from the horror of it.
― The Human Condition: What exactly is it, what caused it, and how the human race has finally liberated itself from the horror of it.
“We can finally transition from living in a dreadful state of denial and delusion to living in a wonderfully TRANSFORMED STATE of freedom from all the dishonesty and delusion that made human life so fraudulent, mad, destructive and chaotic.”
― The Human Condition: What exactly is it, what caused it, and how the human race has finally liberated itself from the horror of it.
― The Human Condition: What exactly is it, what caused it, and how the human race has finally liberated itself from the horror of it.
“Bonobos provide the perfect evidence for how our distant ape ancestors became cooperative and loving.”
― The Interview: How We Can Finally End All the Turmoil & Suffering in the World!
― The Interview: How We Can Finally End All the Turmoil & Suffering in the World!
“The journalist Richard Neville was frighteningly accurate when, in summarising the desperate state of our species’ situation, he wrote that ‘We are locked in a race between self destruction and self discovery’. ONLY ‘self discovery’ — this reconciling, ameliorating, psychologically healing understanding of ourselves — can save us from ‘self destruction’.”
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
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