{"id":60,"date":"2021-06-03T01:42:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T00:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wtmoslo.com\/?page_id=60"},"modified":"2024-02-19T03:03:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T03:03:07","slug":"wordsworths-poem","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wtmseljord.com\/wordsworths-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"WORDSWORTH&#8217;S POEM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h1>Wordsworth&#8217;s Fabulous Poem<\/h1>\n\t<p>&#8220;That assemblage of words in Wordsworth&#8217;s great poem &#8211; <i>&#8216;But trailing clouds of glory do we come&#8217;<\/i> &#8211; must surely be about the most beautiful description of any subject ever written, so it&#8217;s fitting that the subject the description has been reserved for also happens to be the most beautiful of subjects, namely that child within us, our species&#8217; Garden-of-Eden-nurseried, heavenly, cooperatively-nurtured-and-orientated, original, instinctive self or soul.&#8221; Jeremy Griffith <\/p>\n\t<div id=\"wordsworths-majestic-poem\" class=\"typefi\">\n        <style>\n        .bottom-note {\n        \ttext-align: center;\n        \tfont-family: Arial, Sans-serif;\n        \tfont-size: 8px;\n        \tline-height:6px;\n         \tmargin-top: -0.5px\n        }\n        .ipad-device .hyperlink-xsmll-blue-wt .em, .iphone-device .hyperlink-xsmll-blue-wt .em, .android-device .hyperlink-xsmll-blue-wt .em {\n        \t    font-size: 12.5px;\n        }\n        @media (max-width: 500px) {\n        .bottom-note {\n        \tfont-size: 6px;\n        \tline-height:4px;\n        \tmargin-top: -1.5px\n        }\n        .h4-reduce-wt {\n        \tpadding-bottom: 10px;\n        }\n\t\t.iphone-device .hyperlink-xsmll-blue-wt .em, .android-device .hyperlink-xsmll-blue-wt .em {\n        \t    font-size: 12.5px;\n        }\n        }\n    <\/style>\n    \n    <div class=\"tableborder\" style=\"max-width:100%;\">\n        <div class=\"table-row\">\n            <div class=\"table-cell\" style=\"vertical-align:top; width:100%;\">\n                <p class=\"boxed-text-2-wt\">Please note, links to all the <span class=\"body-colour1-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">Freedom Essays <\/span><\/span>are included at the end of this essay. Open any essay to <span class=\"underline\">read<\/span>, <span class=\"underline\">print<\/span>, <span class=\"underline\">download<\/span>, <span class=\"underline\">share<\/span> or <span class=\"underline\">listen to<\/span> (as an audio).<\/p>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <p class=\"space-8pt-wt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n    <p class=\"space-15pt-wt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n    <p class=\"h2-sub-1-wt\"><span class=\"body-colour1-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">Freedom Essay <\/span><\/span><span class=\"h2-sub-1-big-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">31<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n    <p class=\"space-8pt-wt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n    <h1 class=\"h2-reduce-wt\">Wordsworth&rsquo;s great honesty that<br>&ldquo;trailing clouds of glory do we come&rdquo;<\/h1>\n    <p class=\"space-8pt-wt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n    <p class=\"h2-sub-1-wt\">Written by Jeremy Griffith, <span class=\"h2-sub-1-digit-wt\">2017<\/span><\/p>\n    <p class=\"space-15pt-wt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n    <p class=\"body-para-wt\">The whole point of the presentation I gave at the launch of my book <span class=\"body-allcapbkttle-wt\"><span class=\"em\">FREEDOM<\/span><\/span><span class=\"em\">: The End Of The Human Condition<\/span> at the Royal Geographical Society <span class=\"body-allcapabbrev-wt\">(RGS)<\/span> in London in <span class=\"body-digit-wt\">2016<\/span><span class=\"long-dash-wt\">&mdash;<\/span>the transcript of which forms Parts <span class=\"body-ttledigit-wt\">1<\/span> and <span class=\"body-ttledigit-wt\">2<\/span> of the booklet <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/transform-your-life-cover\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-blue-wt\"><span class=\"em\">Transform Your Life And Save The World<\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"long-dash-wt\">&mdash;<\/span>was to make it clear how astronomically guilt-ridden the human race <span class=\"em\">has to be<\/span> after we became conscious and the resulting upset anger, egocentricity and alienation in us destroyed the paradise of our species&rsquo; original instinctive cooperative and loving soul&rsquo;s world. From an all-loving, all-sensitive and completely happy innocent life, we then<span class=\"long-dash-wt\">&mdash;<\/span>for a reason we had absolutely no understanding of<span class=\"long-dash-wt\">&mdash;<\/span>turned into ferociously selfish, competitive and aggressive monsters! <span class=\"body-allcapabbrev-wt\">NO WONDER<\/span> we chose to shamefully hide in Plato&rsquo;s metaphorical cave of darkness away from any light that would reveal our horrifically corrupted condition! (<a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/genius-of-transform-your-life\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-blue-wt\">Freedom Essay <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\">20<\/span><\/a> explains the genius of Jeremy&rsquo;s <span class=\"body-allcapabbrev-wt\">RGS<\/span> presentation.)<\/p>\n    <p class=\"space-15pt-wt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n    <div class=\"image-nomove-centre\" style=\"max-width:346px\">\n        <a class=\"fancybox\" href=\"https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/Face-looking-through-hole-with-light_WEB_691x458.jpg\"><picture><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/Face-looking-through-hole-with-light_WEB_346x229.jpg 1x, https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/Face-looking-through-hole-with-light_WEB_691x458.jpg 2x\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-no-border\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto\" src=\"https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/Face-looking-through-hole-with-light_WEB_346x229.jpg\" alt=\"A young person in the dark looks through a small hole in the wall to the light on the outside\" title=\"A young person in the dark looks through a small hole in the wall to the light on the outside\"><\/source><\/picture><\/a>\n    <\/div>\n    <p class=\"space-15pt-wt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n    <p class=\"body-para-wt\">As described in <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-evidence-of-the-three-fundamental-truths-moses-and-plato\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-blue-wt\">chapter <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\">2:6<\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-blue-wt\"> of <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-medplus-blue-wt\"><span class=\"em\">FREEDOM<\/span><\/span><\/a>, the ancient Greek philosopher Plato was absolutely right when he wrote that we were so ashamed of<span class=\"quote-wt\"> &lsquo;our human condition&rsquo;<\/span> that we would <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;often unduly discredit&rsquo;<\/span> the truth of our species&rsquo; <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;blessed&rsquo;<\/span> past<span class=\"long-dash-wt\">&mdash;<\/span>indeed of any truth that brought the <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;painful&rsquo;<\/span> issue of <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;the imperfections of human life&rsquo;<\/span> into focus. This, he continued, left us hiding <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;a long way underground&rsquo;<\/span>, <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;enshrined in that living tomb which we carry about, now that we are imprisoned&rsquo;<\/span> in a <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;cave&rsquo;<\/span>-like state of dishonest denial where there was <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;more and more forgetting <\/span><span class=\"quote-addition-wt\">[alienation]<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\">&rsquo;<\/span>, to the point where we could only <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;see dimly and appear to be almost blind&rsquo;<\/span><span class=\"long-dash-wt\">&mdash;<\/span>a development that Plato predicted would eventually lead to a state of terminal alienation and <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;universal ruin to the world&rsquo;<\/span>! (<a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/the-difficulty-of-reading-freedom\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-blue-wt\">Video\/&#8203;F. Essay <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\">11<\/span><\/a> provides analysis of Plato&rsquo;s cave allegory, while <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/the-great-guilt\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-blue-wt\"><span class=\"em\">The Great Guilt that causes the Deaf Effect<\/span><\/span><\/a> explains the extent of our shame for having destroyed our instinctive loving self or soul; and <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/endgame-for-the-human-race\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-blue-wt\">F. Essay <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\">55<\/span><\/a> describes the endgame for the human race that Plato predicted.)<\/p>\n    <p class=\"body-para-wt\">So <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;forgetting&lsquo;<\/span> and <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;blind<\/span><span class=\"quote-addition-wt\">[ing]<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\">&rsquo;<\/span> <span class=\"underline\">denial has been super precious<\/span> for the human race<span class=\"long-dash-wt\">&mdash;<\/span>but it also meant that we faced the prospect of becoming so alienated that <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;universal ruin&rsquo;<\/span> of our <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;world&rsquo;<\/span> would occur, which does mean that <span class=\"underline\">any truth would also be super precious<\/span>. There had to be <span class=\"em\">some<\/span> truth to counter all the denial\/&#8203;darkness\/&#8203;black-out<span class=\"long-dash-wt\">&mdash;<\/span><span class=\"underline\">and that&rsquo;s precisely what great literature, art, poetry and songs have provided; they allowed the light of some honesty about our corrupted human condition to escape from that dark <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;tomb&rsquo;<\/span> in which we have been hiding<\/span>.<\/p>\n    <p class=\"space-15pt-wt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n    <div class=\"image-nomove-centre\" style=\"max-width:457px\">\n        <a class=\"fancybox\" href=\"https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/FrancoisLemoyne-The-Apotheosis-of-Hercules_txtco_WEB_930x749.jpg\" title=\"The fabulous celestial light of truth in our world of darkness (Francois Lemoyne&rsquo;s $l$em$r$The Apotheosis of Hercules$l$\/em$r$, c.1736)\"><picture><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/FrancoisLemoyne-The-Apotheosis-of-Hercules_txtco_WEB_472x375.jpg 1x, https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/FrancoisLemoyne-The-Apotheosis-of-Hercules_txtco_WEB_2x_945x749.jpg 2x\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-no-border\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto\" src=\"https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/FrancoisLemoyne-The-Apotheosis-of-Hercules_txtco_WEB_472x375.jpg\" alt=\"Fran&ccedil;ois Lemoyne - L&rsquo;Apoth&eacute;ose d&rsquo;Hercule - Google Art Project\" title=\"Fran&ccedil;ois Lemoyne - L&rsquo;Apoth&eacute;ose d&rsquo;Hercule - Google Art Project\"><\/source><\/picture><\/a>\n        <p class=\"imagecaption-wt\">The fabulous celestial light of truth in our world of darkness<br>(Francois Lemoyne&rsquo;s <span class=\"em\">The Apotheosis of Hercules<\/span>, c.<span class=\"imagecaption-digitallcap-wt\">1736<\/span>)<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n    <p class=\"space-15pt-wt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n    <p class=\"body-para-wt\"><a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/rising-sun-represents-arrival-of-liberating-understanding\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-blue-wt\">F. Essay <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\">45<\/span><\/a> about prophetic songs documents such instances in music of truth escaping that darkness. Well, <span class=\"underline\">in the realm of poetry there surely cannot be a more amazing and wonderful and majestic bursting out of truth about our species&rsquo; original <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;blessed&rsquo;<\/span> state of innocence and the present state of extreme <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;imperfections of human life&rsquo;<\/span> than in the great English poet laureate William Wordsworth&rsquo;s <span class=\"body-digit-wt\">1807<\/span> poem <span class=\"em\">Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n    <p class=\"body-para-wt\">And now that the human condition has been explained and our upset state defended (see <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/the-interview\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-medplus-blue-wt\"><span class=\"em\">THE<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-blue-wt\"><span class=\"em\"> Interview<\/span><\/span><\/a> and <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/the-explanation-of-the-human-condition\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-blue-wt\">Video\/&#8203;F. Essay <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\">3<\/span><\/a>), full acknowledgement of our species&rsquo; past state of innocence (see <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/how-did-we-humans-acquire-our-altruistic-moral-conscience\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-blue-wt\">F. Essay <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\">21<\/span><\/a>) and present corrupted condition can, and indeed <span class=\"em\">must<\/span>, be acknowledged if we are to free ourselves from living in Plato&rsquo;s awful, soul-dead cave of darkness<span class=\"long-dash-wt\">&mdash;<\/span>which makes all the truth about our past innocence and present corrupted condition in Wordsworth&rsquo;s great poem even more precious!<\/p>\n    <p class=\"space-15pt-wt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n    <div class=\"image-nomove-centre\" style=\"max-width:353px\">\n        <a class=\"fancybox\" href=\"https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/Wordsworth-painting_txtco_WEB_668x800.jpg\" title=\"William Wordsworth (1770&ndash;1850)\"><picture><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/Wordsworth-painting_txtco_WEB_368x433.jpg 1x, https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/Wordsworth-painting_txtco_WEB_2x_736x866.jpg 2x\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-no-border\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto\" src=\"https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/Wordsworth-painting_txtco_WEB_368x433.jpg\" alt=\"Painting of William Wordsworth with arms crossed in contemplation as an older man by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842\" title=\"Painting of William Wordsworth with arms crossed in contemplation as an older man by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842\"><\/source><\/picture><\/a>\n        <p class=\"imagecaption-wt\">William Wordsworth <span class=\"imagecaption-digitallcap-wt\">(1770&ndash;1850)<\/span><\/p>\n    <\/div>\n    <p class=\"space-30pt-wt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n    <h3 class=\"h4-reduce-wt\"><span class=\"underline\">This is Wordsworth&rsquo;s description <span class=\"long-dash-wt\">&mdash;<\/span> surely one of, if not the most, beautiful ever written <span class=\"long-dash-wt\">&mdash;<\/span> of our species&rsquo; fabulous past state of innocent cooperation, love and togetherness, and of our subsequent unspeakably tragic departure from that state, in his poem <span class=\"em\">Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood<\/span><\/span>:<\/h3>\n    <p class=\"body-para-wt\" id=\"readmore\"><span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;There was a time when meadow, grove, and streams <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> The earth, and every common sight <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> To me did seem <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Apparelled in celestial light <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> The glory and the freshness of a dream <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> It is not now as it hath been of yore <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Turn wheresoe&rsquo;er I may <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> By night or day <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> The things which I have seen I now can see no more <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> The Rainbow comes and goes <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> And lovely is the Rose <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> The Moon doth with delight <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Look round her when the heavens are bare <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Waters on a starry night <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Are beautiful and fair <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> The sunshine is a glorious birth <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> But yet I know, where&rsquo;er I go <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> That there hath past away a glory from the earth.&rsquo;<\/span><\/p>\n    <p class=\"body-para-wt\">Wordsworth went on to describe how nature and the innocence of youth helped resuscitate his soul by reminding him of this lost paradise that the human race once lived in, writing that, while <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;To me alone there came a thought of grief <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> A timely utterance gave that thought relief <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> And I again am strong <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> The cataracts blow their trumpets from the steep <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> No more shall grief of mine the season wrong <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> I hear the Echoes through the mountains throng <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> The Winds come to me from the fields of sleep <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> And all the earth is gay &hellip; <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Thou Child of Joy <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Shout round me, let me hear thy shouts, thou happy Shepherd-boy! <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Ye to each other make; I see <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> The heavens laugh with you in your jubilee <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> &hellip;&#8203;While Earth herself is adorning <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-source-wt\"> <\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\">This sweet May-morning <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> And the Children are culling <\/span><span class=\"quote-addition-wt\">[calling]<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> On every side <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> In a thousand valleys far and wide.&rsquo;<\/span><\/p>\n    <p class=\"body-para-wt\">However, he was then, again, thrown back into depression by being reminded of his own loss of innocence, and of the alienation from our species&rsquo; innocent soul in humans everywhere: <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;But there&rsquo;s a Tree, of many, one <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> A single Field which I have looked upon <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Both of them speak of something that is gone <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> The Pansy at my feet <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Doth the same tale repeat <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Whither is fled the visionary gleam? <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Where is it now, the glory and the dream? <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> The Soul <\/span><span class=\"quote-addition-wt\">[which, again, is the instinctive memory of our species&rsquo; past all-loving, selfless and cooperative existence, the origin of which is explained in <\/span><a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/how-did-we-humans-acquire-our-altruistic-moral-conscience\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\">F. Essay <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-smll-blue-wt\">21<\/span><\/a><span class=\"quote-addition-wt\">]<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> that rises with us <\/span><span class=\"quote-addition-wt\">[that we are born with]<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\">, our life&rsquo;s Star <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Hath had elsewhere its setting <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> And cometh from afar <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Not in entire forgetfulness <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> And not in utter nakedness <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> But trailing clouds of glory do we come <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> From God <\/span><span class=\"quote-addition-wt\">[the integrative state &ndash; see <\/span><a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/the-integrative-meaning-of-existence\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\">F. Essay <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-smll-blue-wt\">23<\/span><\/a><span class=\"quote-addition-wt\">]<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\">, who is our home <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Heaven lies about us in our infancy! <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Shades of the prison-house begin to close <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Upon the growing Boy <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> &hellip;&#8203;And by the vision splendid <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Is on his way attended <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> At length the Man perceives it die away <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> And fade into the light of common day <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> &hellip;&#8203;Forget the glories he hath known <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> And that imperial palace whence he came.&rsquo;<\/span><\/p>\n    <p class=\"space-15pt-wt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n    \n    <p class=\"space-30pt-wt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n    <h3 class=\"h4-reduce-wt\"><span class=\"underline\">While Wordsworth&rsquo;s description of our species&rsquo; time in innocence is sublime, other great thinkers and writers have managed to give powerful accounts<br>of it<\/span>:<\/h3>\n    <p class=\"body-para-wt\"><span class=\"underline\">Plato<\/span> also wrote of <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;a time when&hellip;&#8203;we beheld the beatific vision and were initiated into a mystery which may be truly called most blessed <\/span><span class=\"quote-addition-wt\">[the fully integrated state]<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\">, celebrated by us in our state of innocence, before we had any experience of evils to come, when we were admitted to the sight of apparitions innocent and simple and calm and happy, which we beheld shining in pure light, pure ourselves and not yet enshrined in that living tomb which we carry about, now that we are imprisoned&rsquo;<\/span>, and when we lived a <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;blessed and spontaneous life&hellip;&#8203;<\/span><span class=\"quote-addition-wt\">[where] <\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\">neither was there any violence, or devouring of one another, or war or quarrel among them&hellip;&#8203;And they dwelt naked, and mostly in the open air&hellip;&#8203;and they had no beds, but lay on soft couches of grass&rsquo;<\/span>. <span class=\"quote-source-wt\">(see <\/span><a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-evidence-of-the-three-fundamental-truths-moses-and-plato\/#par158\"><span class=\"hyperlink-xsmll-blue-wt\">pars <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-xxsmll-blue-wt\">158<\/span><\/a><span class=\"quote-source-wt\"> <\/span><span class=\"quote-source-allcapfull-wt\">&amp;<\/span><span class=\"quote-source-wt\"> <\/span><a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-evidence-of-the-three-fundamental-truths-moses-and-plato\/#par170\"><span class=\"hyperlink-xxsmll-blue-wt\">170<\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-xsmll-blue-wt\"> of <span class=\"em\">FREEDOM<\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"quote-source-wt\">)<\/span><\/p>\n    <p class=\"body-para-wt\">Some <span class=\"body-digit-wt\">400<\/span> years before Plato, his Greek compatriot <span class=\"underline\">Hesiod<\/span> also gave this description of the lives of our distant innocent, cooperative and loving bonobo-like (see <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/how-did-we-humans-acquire-our-altruistic-moral-conscience\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-blue-wt\">F. Essay <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\">21<\/span><\/a>) ancestors: <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;When gods alike and mortals rose to birth <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> A golden race the immortals formed on earth&hellip;&#8203;Like gods they lived, with calm untroubled mind <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Free from the toils and anguish of our kind <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Nor e&rsquo;er decrepit age misshaped their frame&hellip;&#8203;Strangers to ill, their lives in feasts flowed by&hellip;&#8203;Dying they sank in sleep, nor seemed to die <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Theirs was each good; the life-sustaining soil <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Yielded its copious fruits, unbribed by toil <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> They with abundant goods &rsquo;midst quiet lands <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> All willing shared the gathering of their hands&rsquo;<\/span>. <span class=\"quote-source-wt\">(see <\/span><a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-further-evidence-of-the-three-fundamental-truths\/#par180\"><span class=\"hyperlink-xsmll-blue-wt\">par. <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-xxsmll-blue-wt\">180<\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-xsmll-blue-wt\"> of <span class=\"em\">FREEDOM<\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"quote-source-wt\">)<\/span><\/p>\n    <p class=\"space-15pt-wt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n    <div class=\"image-nomove-centre\" style=\"max-width:507px\">\n        <a class=\"fancybox\" href=\"https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/Bonobo-group-of-four_txtco_WEB_1028x609.jpg\" title=\"The matriarchal, nurturing, gentle, relaxed, peaceful, cooperative and loving bonobos as &lsquo;they dwelt naked, and mostly in the open air&hellip;and&hellip;lay on soft couches of grass&rsquo;. Just how perfectly the above photo equates with Plato&rsquo;s description evidences how aware we are, if we are thinking honestly rather than evasively, of what life was like before the upset state of the human condition emerged. (see F. Essay 21, and chapter 5:6 of $l$em$r$FREEDOM$l$\/em$r$)\"><picture><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/Bonobo-group-of-four_txtco_WEB_522x304.jpg 1x, https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/Bonobo-group-of-four_txtco_WEB_2x_1043x609.jpg 2x\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-no-border\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto\" src=\"https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/Bonobo-group-of-four_txtco_WEB_522x304.jpg\" alt=\"A group of Bonobos relaxing close to each other on green grass.\" title=\"A group of Bonobos relaxing close to each other on green grass.\"><\/source><\/picture><\/a>\n    <\/div>\n    <p class=\"imagecaption-move-wt\">The matriarchal, nurturing, gentle, relaxed, peaceful, cooperative and loving bonobos as<br><span class=\"quote-imagecaption-wt\">&lsquo;they dwelt naked, and mostly in the open air&hellip;and&hellip;lay on soft couches of grass&rsquo;<\/span>. Just how<br>perfectly the above photo equates with Plato&rsquo;s description evidences how aware we are, if<br>we are thinking honestly rather than evasively, of what life was like before the upset state<br>of the human condition emerged. <span class=\"quote-imagecaption-source-wt\">(see <\/span><a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/how-did-we-humans-acquire-our-altruistic-moral-conscience\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-xxsmll-blue-wt\">F. Essay 21<\/span><\/a><span class=\"quote-imagecaption-source-wt\">, and <\/span><a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-bonobos-show-living-evidence-of-love-indoctrination\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-xxsmll-blue-wt\">chapter 5:6 of <span class=\"em\">FREEDOM<\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"quote-imagecaption-source-wt\">)<\/span><\/p>\n    <p class=\"space-15pt-wt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n    <p class=\"body-para-wt\">The great South African philosopher, <span class=\"underline\">Sir Laurens van der Post<\/span> was another who bravely recognised our species&rsquo; past all-loving, innocent state when he wrote these beautiful words: <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;This shrill, brittle, self-important life of today is by comparison a graveyard where the living are dead and the dead are alive and talking <\/span><span class=\"quote-addition-wt\">[through our instinctive self or soul] <\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\">in the still, small, clear voice of a love and trust in life that we have for the moment lost&hellip;&#8203;<\/span><span class=\"quote-addition-wt\">[there was a time when] <\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\">All on earth and in the universe were still members and family of the early race seeking comfort and warmth through the long, cold night before the dawning of individual consciousness in a togetherness which still gnaws like an unappeasable homesickness at the base of the human heart&rsquo; <\/span><span class=\"quote-source-wt\">(see <\/span><a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-further-evidence-of-the-three-fundamental-truths\/#par186\"><span class=\"hyperlink-xsmll-blue-wt\">par. <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-xxsmll-blue-wt\">186<\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-xsmll-blue-wt\"> of <span class=\"em\">FREEDOM<\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"quote-source-wt\">).<\/span> (See <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/sir-laurens-van-der-posts-vision\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-blue-wt\">F. Essay <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\">51<\/span><\/a> for explanation of Sir Laurens&rsquo; immense contribution to understanding the human condition.)<\/p>\n    <p class=\"body-para-wt\">And the following are further accounts from great writers that describe our species&rsquo; time in Africa in the Garden-of-Eden-nurseried state of cooperative and loving innocence. The poet <span class=\"underline\">Henry Vaughan<\/span> wrote, <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;My soul, there is a country far beyond the stars&rsquo;<\/span>, and the poet <span class=\"underline\">Lord Byron<\/span> similarly stated that <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source&rsquo;<\/span>, while the philosopher <span class=\"underline\">Nikolai Berdyaev<\/span> said that <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;The memory of a lost paradise, of a Golden Age, is very deep in man&rsquo;<\/span>. <span class=\"underline\">John Milton<\/span> titled his epic <span class=\"body-digit-wt\">1667<\/span> poem <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;Paradise Lost&rsquo;<\/span>, and the philosopher <span class=\"underline\">Jean-Jacques Rousseau<\/span> wrote that <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;nothing is more gentle than man in his primitive state&rsquo;<\/span>. It should also be mentioned that <span class=\"underline\">Australian Aborigines<\/span> have their strong <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;memory&rsquo;<\/span> of a <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;Dreamtime&rsquo;<\/span>. <span class=\"quote-source-wt\">(see <\/span><a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-further-evidence-of-the-three-fundamental-truths\/#par181\"><span class=\"hyperlink-xsmll-blue-wt\">pars <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-xxsmll-blue-wt\">181-182<\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-xsmll-blue-wt\"> of <span class=\"em\">FREEDOM<\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"quote-source-wt\">)<\/span><\/p>\n    <p class=\"body-para-wt\">Our nostalgia for our species&rsquo; fabulous time in innocence in Africa is captured in the following comments. The polymath <span class=\"underline\">Sir Thomas Browne<\/span> wrote, <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;We carry with us the wonders we seek without us: there is all Africa and her prodigies in us&rsquo;<\/span>, and <span class=\"underline\">Shakespeare<\/span> similarly wrote in his play <span class=\"em\">Henry <span class=\"body-allcapbkttle-wt\">IV<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;A foutra for the world and worldlings base! I speak of Africa and golden joys&rsquo;<\/span>. In her <span class=\"body-digit-wt\">1967<\/span> book, the aptly titled <span class=\"em\">A Glimpse of Eden<\/span>, the poet <span class=\"underline\">Evelyn Ames<\/span> recorded her experiences of an African safari: <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;We thought we knew what to expect. Several friends had been there and told us about it&hellip;&#8203;but we discovered that nothing, really, prepares you for life on the East African Highlands. It is life (I want to say), making our usual existences seem oddly unreal and other landscapes dead; that country in the sky is another world&hellip;&#8203;It is a world, and a life, from which one comes back changed. Long afterwards, gazelles still galloped through my dreams or stood gazing at me out of their soft and watchful eyes, and as I returned each daybreak, unbelieving, to my familiar room, I realized increasingly that this world would never again be the same for having visited that one. Nor does it leave you when you go away. Knowing its landscapes and sounds (even more in silence), how it feels and smells<span class=\"long-dash-wt\">&mdash;<\/span>just knowing it is there<span class=\"long-dash-wt\">&mdash;<\/span>sets it forever, in its own special light, somewhere in the mind&rsquo;s sky<\/span><span class=\"quote-source-wt\"> <\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\">&hellip;&#8203;Each day in Africa my heart had almost burst with Walt Whitman&rsquo;s outcry: &ldquo;As to me, I know of nothing else but miracles&rdquo;.&rsquo;<\/span> A sign at the entrance to the <span class=\"underline\">Serengeti National Park<\/span> in Tanzania reads, <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;This is the world as it was in the beginning&rsquo;<\/span>. And in another wonderful description of how much our soul yearns to return home, <span class=\"underline\">Sir Laurens van der Post<\/span> wrote, <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;We need primitive nature, the First Man in ourselves, it seems, as the lungs need air and the body food and water&hellip;&#8203;I thought finally that of all the nostalgias that haunt the human heart the greatest of them all, for me, is an everlasting longing to bring what is youngest home to what is oldest, in us all.&rsquo;<\/span> <span class=\"quote-source-wt\">(see <\/span><a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-a-golden-race-formed-on-earth\/#par472\"><span class=\"hyperlink-xsmll-blue-wt\">par. <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-xxsmll-blue-wt\">472<\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-xsmll-blue-wt\"> of <span class=\"em\">FREEDOM<\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"quote-source-wt\">)<\/span><\/p>\n    <p class=\"body-para-wt\">In the case of religious scripture, there is <span class=\"underline\">Moses<\/span>&rsquo; account of Adam and Eve&rsquo;s innocent time in the Garden of Eden, and the Bible also contains a passage in <span class=\"underline\">Ecclesiastes<\/span> that reads, <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;God made mankind upright <\/span><span class=\"quote-addition-wt\">[uncorrupted]<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\">, but men have gone in search of many schemes <\/span><span class=\"quote-addition-wt\">[conscious understandings]<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\">&rsquo;<\/span>, and there are the references <span class=\"underline\">Christ<\/span> made to a time when God <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;loved <\/span><span class=\"quote-addition-wt\">[us]<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> before the creation of the <\/span><span class=\"quote-addition-wt\">[&lsquo;upset&rsquo;, &lsquo;fallen&rsquo;, corrupted]<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> world&rsquo;<\/span>, and a time of <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;the glory&hellip;&#8203;before the <\/span><span class=\"quote-addition-wt\">[corrupted]<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> world began&rsquo;<\/span>. <span class=\"underline\">Taoist<\/span> scripture also features a description of our distant forebears as being <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;the Men of Perfect Virtue&rsquo;<\/span>, while <span class=\"underline\">Zen Buddhism<\/span> similarly speaks of the loss of an uncontaminated, pure state as a result of the intervening conscious mind, referring to <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;the affective contamination (<span class=\"em\">klesha<\/span>)&rsquo;<\/span> or <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;the interference of the conscious mind predominated by intellection (<span class=\"em\">vij&ntilde;&#257;na<\/span>)&rsquo;<\/span>. <span class=\"quote-source-wt\">(see <\/span><a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-further-evidence-of-the-three-fundamental-truths\/#par180\"><span class=\"hyperlink-xsmll-blue-wt\">par. <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-xxsmll-blue-wt\">180<\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-xsmll-blue-wt\"> of <span class=\"em\">FREEDOM<\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"quote-source-wt\">)<\/span><\/p>\n    <p class=\"space-15pt-wt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n    <div class=\"image-nomove-centre\" style=\"max-width:532px\">\n        <a class=\"fancybox\" href=\"https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/Michelangelo-FallExpulsionAdamEve_WEB_1064x533.jpg\" title=\"$l$em$r$The Fall and Expulsion from the Garden of Eden$l$\/em$r$ by Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel\"><picture><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/Michelangelo-FallExpulsionAdamEve_WEB_532x267.jpg 1x, https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/Michelangelo-FallExpulsionAdamEve_WEB_1064x533.jpg 2x\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-no-border\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto\" src=\"https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/Michelangelo-FallExpulsionAdamEve_WEB_532x267.jpg\" alt=\"Painting of Adam and Eve&rsquo;s fall and expulsion from the Garden of Eden by Michelangelo\" title=\"Painting of Adam and Eve&rsquo;s fall and expulsion from the Garden of Eden by Michelangelo\"><\/source><\/picture><\/a>\n        <p class=\"imagecaption-wt\"><span class=\"em\">The Fall and Expulsion from the Garden of Eden<\/span> by Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n    <p class=\"space-15pt-wt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n    <p class=\"body-para-wt\">Indeed, the author <span class=\"underline\">Richard Heinberg<\/span> wrote that <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;Every religion begins with the recognition that human consciousness has been separated from the divine Source, that a former sense of oneness&hellip;&#8203;has been lost&hellip;&#8203;everywhere in religion and myth there is an acknowledgment that we have departed from an original&hellip;&#8203;innocence and can return to it only through the resolution of some profound inner discord&hellip;&#8203;the cause of the Fall is described variously as disobedience, as the eating of a forbidden fruit <\/span><span class=\"quote-addition-wt\">[from the tree of knowledge]<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\">, and as spiritual amnesia <\/span><span class=\"quote-addition-wt\">[forgetting, blocking out,<\/span><span class=\"quote-addition-wt\"> <\/span><span class=\"quote-addition-wt\">alienation\/&#8203;psychosis]<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\">&rsquo;<\/span>.<span class=\"quote-wt\"> <\/span><span class=\"quote-source-wt\">(see <\/span><a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-further-evidence-of-the-three-fundamental-truths\/#par181\"><span class=\"hyperlink-xsmll-blue-wt\">par. <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-xxsmll-blue-wt\">181<\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-xsmll-blue-wt\"> of <span class=\"em\">FREEDOM<\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"quote-source-wt\">)<\/span> (Note, <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/the-instinct-vs-intellect-explanation-is-obvious\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-blue-wt\">F. Essay <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\">53<\/span><\/a> has a fabulous collection of mythological and historical descriptions of our species&rsquo; past time in innocence.)<\/p>\n    <p class=\"space-30pt-wt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n    <h3 class=\"h4-reduce-wt\"><span class=\"underline\">Wordsworth&rsquo;s honest recognition of the human race&rsquo;s present soul-corrupted, &lsquo;fallen&rsquo;, alienated condition <span class=\"long-dash-wt\">&mdash;<\/span> which was that while <span class=\"h4-reduce-smll-wt\">&ldquo;Heaven lies about us in our infancy! <\/span><span class=\"h4-reduce-smllplus-nobold-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"h4-reduce-smll-wt\"> Shades of the prison-house begin to close <\/span><span class=\"h4-reduce-smllplus-nobold-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"h4-reduce-smll-wt\"> Upon the growing Boy <\/span><span class=\"h4-reduce-smllplus-nobold-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"h4-reduce-smll-wt\"> &hellip; At length the Man perceives it die away <\/span><span class=\"h4-reduce-smllplus-nobold-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"h4-reduce-smll-wt\"> And fade into the light of common day <\/span><span class=\"h4-reduce-smllplus-nobold-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"h4-reduce-smll-wt\"> &hellip;&#8203;Forget the glories he hath known <\/span><span class=\"h4-reduce-smllplus-nobold-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"h4-reduce-smll-wt\"> And that imperial palace whence he came&rdquo;<\/span> <span class=\"long-dash-wt\">&mdash;<\/span> is, like his recognition of our species&rsquo; innocent past, also echoed by other great writers and thinkers<\/span>:<\/h3>\n    <p class=\"space-8pt-wt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n    <div class=\"image-nomove-centre\" style=\"max-width:599px\">\n        <a class=\"fancybox\" href=\"https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/Plato-Laing-Isaiah_txtco_WEB_1200x487.jpg\" title=\"Plato, R.D. Laing, and Michelangelo&rsquo;s painting of Isaiah\"><picture><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/Plato-Laing-Isaiah_txtco_WEB_614x246.jpg 1x, https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/Plato-Laing-Isaiah_txtco_WEB_2x_1228x492.jpg 2x\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-no-border\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto\" src=\"https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/Plato-Laing-Isaiah_txtco_WEB_614x246.jpg\" alt=\"Triptych showing Plato, R.D. Laing and Isaiah\" title=\"Triptych showing Plato, R.D. Laing and Isaiah\"><\/source><\/picture><\/a>\n        <p class=\"imagecaption-wt\">Plato, R.D. Laing, and Michelangelo&rsquo;s painting of Isaiah<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n    <p class=\"space-15pt-wt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n    <p class=\"body-para-wt\">Firstly, as has been mentioned, <span class=\"underline\">Plato<\/span> said we have been so ashamed of<span class=\"quote-wt\"> &lsquo;our human condition&rsquo;<\/span> that we would <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;often unduly discredit&rsquo;<\/span> the truth of our species&rsquo; <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;blessed&rsquo;<\/span> past and any other truth that brought the <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;painful&rsquo;<\/span> issue of <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;the imperfections of human life&rsquo;<\/span> into focus, leaving us hiding <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;a long way underground&rsquo;<\/span>, <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;enshrined in that living tomb which we carry about, now that we are imprisoned&rsquo;<\/span> in a <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;cave&rsquo;<\/span>-like state of dishonest denial where there was <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;more and more forgetting <\/span><span class=\"quote-addition-wt\">[alienation]<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\">&rsquo;<\/span>, to the point where we can only <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;see dimly and appear to be almost blind&rsquo;<\/span>, and face a situation of <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;universal ruin to the world&rsquo;<\/span>.<\/p>\n    <p class=\"body-para-wt\">As described in <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/rdlaings-fearless-honesty\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-blue-wt\">F. Essay <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\">48<\/span><\/a>, the Scottish psychiatrist <span class=\"underline\">R.D. Laing<\/span> admitted that <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;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&hellip;&#8203;The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one&rsquo;s mind, is the condition of the normal man&hellip;&#8203;between us and It <\/span><span class=\"quote-addition-wt\">[<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\">our true selves<\/span><span class=\"quote-addition-wt\"> or soul]<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> there is a veil which is more like fifty feet of solid concrete&hellip;&#8203;The outer divorced from any illumination from the inner is in a state of darkness. We are in an age of darkness&rsquo;<\/span>.<span class=\"quote-wt\"> <\/span><span class=\"quote-source-wt\">(see <\/span><a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-our-resistance-to-analysis-of-the-human-condition\/#par123\"><span class=\"hyperlink-xsmll-blue-wt\">par. <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-xxsmll-blue-wt\">123<\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-xsmll-blue-wt\"> of <span class=\"em\">FREEDOM<\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"quote-source-wt\">)<\/span><\/p>\n    <p class=\"body-para-wt\">This observation by the Biblical prophet <span class=\"underline\">Isaiah<\/span> is also mentioned in F. Essay <span class=\"body-ttledigit-wt\">48<\/span>: <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;From the sole of your foot to the top of your head there is no soundness<span class=\"long-dash-wt\">&mdash;<\/span>only wounds and welts and open sore&hellip;&#8203;Your country is desolate&hellip;&#8203;the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness used to dwell in her&rsquo;<\/span>, and<span class=\"quote-wt\"> &lsquo;the world languishes and withers&hellip;&#8203;The earth is defiled by its people; they have disobeyed the laws <\/span><span class=\"quote-addition-wt\">[become divisively rather than integratively behaved]<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\">&hellip;&#8203;In the streets&hellip;&#8203;all joy turns to gloom, all gaiety is banished from the earth&rsquo;<\/span>, and <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;This people&rsquo;s heart has become calloused <\/span><span class=\"quote-addition-wt\">[alienated]<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\">; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes <\/span><span class=\"quote-addition-wt\">[hence the problem of the &lsquo;deaf effect&rsquo; described in <\/span><a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/the-difficulty-of-reading-freedom\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\">Video\/&#8203;F. Essay <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-smllplus-blue-wt\">11<\/span><\/a><span class=\"quote-addition-wt\">]<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\">&rsquo;<\/span>. <span class=\"quote-source-wt\">(see <\/span><a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-further-evidence-of-the-three-fundamental-truths\/#par182\"><span class=\"hyperlink-xxsmll-blue-wt\">pars 182<\/span><\/a><span class=\"quote-source-wt\"> <\/span><span class=\"quote-source-allcapfull-wt\">&amp;<\/span><span class=\"quote-source-wt\"> <\/span><a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-why-how-and-when-did-consciousness-emerge-in-humans\/#par681\"><span class=\"hyperlink-xxsmll-blue-wt\">681<\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-xsmll-blue-wt\"> of <span class=\"em\">FREEDOM<\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"quote-source-wt\">)<\/span><\/p>\n    <p class=\"space-15pt-wt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n    <div class=\"image-nomove-centre2\" style=\"max-width:599px\">\n        <a class=\"fancybox\" href=\"https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/Shelley-Beckett-Bacon_WEB_1198x445.jpg\" title=\"Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Beckett and Francis Bacon\"><picture><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/Shelley-Beckett-Bacon_WEB_599x223.jpg 1x, https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/Shelley-Beckett-Bacon_WEB_1198x445.jpg 2x\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-no-border\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto\" src=\"https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/Shelley-Beckett-Bacon_WEB_599x223.jpg\" alt=\"Images of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Beckett and Francis Bacon\" title=\"Images of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Beckett and Francis Bacon\"><\/source><\/picture><\/a>\n        <p class=\"imagecopyright-wt\"><\/p>\n    <\/div>\n    <p class=\"bottom-note\"><span class=\"copyright\">Wikimedia Commons; John Deakin 1962 &copy; The Estate of Francis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n    <p class=\"imagecaption-wt\">Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Beckett and Francis Bacon<\/p>\n    <p class=\"space-15pt-wt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n    <p class=\"body-para-wt\">The following are other honest descriptions of our now immensely alienated human condition. The poet <span class=\"underline\">Percy Bysshe Shelley<\/span> wrote that <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;Our boat <\/span><span class=\"quote-addition-wt\">[our being] <\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\">is asleep on Serchio&rsquo;s stream, its sails are folded like thoughts in a dream&rsquo;<\/span>, while the playwright <span class=\"underline\">Samuel Beckett<\/span> described the brevity of a soulful life for humans now when he wrote, <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it&rsquo;s night once more&rsquo;<\/span>. The artist <span class=\"underline\">Francis Bacon<\/span>&rsquo;s description of this soul-death was even more visceral, saying <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;the shadow of dead meat is cast as soon as we are born&rsquo;<\/span>. In another quote from R.D. Laing, he also pointed out that <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;To adapt to this world the child abdicates its ecstasy.&rsquo;<\/span> In the <span class=\"body-digit-wt\">1993<\/span> film <span class=\"em\"><span class=\"underline\">House of Cards<\/span><\/span>, one of the characters makes the following intuitive comment about how sensitive and vulnerable innocent children have been to the horror of the alienated world that the human race is now living in: <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;I used to watch Michael <\/span><span class=\"quote-addition-wt\">[a character in the film]<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> about two hours after he was born and I thought that at that moment he knew all of the secrets of the universe and every second that was passing he was forgetting them <\/span><span class=\"quote-addition-wt\">[he was having to live in denial of them]<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\">.&rsquo;<\/span> The prophet <span class=\"underline\">Job<\/span> also recognised that under the duress of the human condition <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;Man&hellip;&#8203;springs up like a flower and withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure&rsquo;<\/span>. <span class=\"quote-source-wt\">(see <\/span><a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-nurturing-origins-of-our-moral-soul-too-condemning\/#par495\"><span class=\"hyperlink-xsmll-blue-wt\">pars <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-xxsmll-blue-wt\">495<\/span><\/a><span class=\"quote-source-wt\"> <\/span><span class=\"quote-source-allcapfull-wt\">&amp;<\/span><span class=\"quote-source-wt\"> <\/span><a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-why-how-and-when-did-consciousness-emerge-in-humans\/#par681\"><span class=\"hyperlink-xxsmll-blue-wt\">681<\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-xsmll-blue-wt\"> of <span class=\"em\">FREEDOM<\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"quote-source-wt\">)<\/span><\/p>\n    <p class=\"body-para-wt\">Yes, as Wordsworth said, <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;trailing clouds of glory do we <\/span><span class=\"quote-addition-wt\">[humans]<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> come, From God <\/span><span class=\"quote-addition-wt\">[the integrative state]<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> who is our home&rsquo;<\/span>, but tragically, under the duress of the human condition, the <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon&rsquo;<\/span> the <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;life&rsquo;s Star&rsquo;<\/span> of our <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;Soul&rsquo;<\/span> as we both individually, and collectively as a species, <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;grow&rsquo;<\/span>, actually die in soul<span class=\"long-dash-wt\">&mdash;<\/span>but now that we have compassionate understanding of ourselves we can reverse all this and come back home to the <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;celestial light&rsquo;<\/span> and <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;imperial palace&rsquo;<\/span> of our soul&rsquo;s sound world of health and happiness. As the great poet T.S. Eliot wrote, <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time&rsquo;<\/span>. <span class=\"quote-source-wt\">(see <\/span><a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-the-dawn-of-our-emancipation\/#par1147\"><span class=\"hyperlink-xsmll-blue-wt\">par. <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-xxsmll-blue-wt\">1147<\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-xsmll-blue-wt\"> of <span class=\"em\">FREEDOM<\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"quote-source-wt\">)<\/span><\/p>\n    <p class=\"space-15pt-wt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n    \n    <p class=\"space-8pt-wt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n    \n    \n    <div class=\"image-nomove-centre\" style=\"max-width:331px\">\n        <a class=\"fancybox\" href=\"https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/VanGogh-PrisonersExercising_WEB_625x800.jpg\" title=\"Vincent van Gogh&rsquo;s $l$em$r$The Prisoners$l$\/em$r$ provides a good depiction of Wordsworth&rsquo;s horrible &lsquo;prison-house&rsquo; where the human race has most tragically been forced to live&mdash;until now.\"><picture><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/VanGogh-PrisonersExercising_WEB_331x424.jpg 1x, https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/VanGogh-PrisonersExercising_WEB_663x849.jpg 2x\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-no-border\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto\" src=\"https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/VanGogh-PrisonersExercising_WEB_331x424.jpg\" alt=\"Painting of prisoners in line trudging in a circle bounded by high brick walls in Van Gogh&rsquo;s painting &lsquo;The Prisoners&rsquo;\" title=\"Painting of prisoners in line trudging in a circle bounded by high brick walls in Van Gogh&rsquo;s painting &lsquo;The Prisoners&rsquo;\"><\/source><\/picture><\/a>\n    <\/div>\n    <p class=\"imagecaption-move-wt\">Vincent van Gogh&rsquo;s <span class=\"em\">The Prisoners<\/span> provides a good depiction of Wordsworth&rsquo;s horrible<br><span class=\"quote-imagecaption-wt\">&lsquo;prison-house&rsquo;<\/span> where the human race has most tragically been forced to live<span class=\"long-dash-wt\">&mdash;<\/span>until now.<\/p>\n    <p class=\"space-8pt-wt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n    <div class=\"image-nomove-centre\" style=\"max-width:44px\">\n        <a class=\"fancybox\" href=\"https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/Icon-Arrow-pointing-down_WEB_88x88.png\"><picture><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/Icon-Arrow-pointing-down_WEB_44x44.png 1x, https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/Icon-Arrow-pointing-down_WEB_88x88.png 2x\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-no-border\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto\" src=\"https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/Icon-Arrow-pointing-down_WEB_44x44.png\" alt=\"Arrow pointing down\" title=\"Arrow pointing down\"><\/source><\/picture><\/a>\n    <\/div>\n    <p class=\"space-8pt-wt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n    <div class=\"image-nomove-centre\" style=\"max-width:511px\">\n        <a class=\"fancybox\" href=\"https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/Summit_celebration2_txtco_WEB_1037x574.jpg\"><picture><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/Summit_celebration2_txtco_WEB_526x287.jpg 1x, https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/Summit_celebration2_txtco_WEB_2x_1052x574.jpg 2x\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-no-border\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto\" src=\"https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/Summit_celebration2_txtco_WEB_526x287.jpg\" alt=\"Two people stand on the summit with arms raised with a golden sun in the background\" title=\"Two people stand on the summit with arms raised with a golden sun in the background\"><\/source><\/picture><\/a>\n    <\/div>\n    <p class=\"space-30pt-wt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n    <h3 class=\"h4-reduce-wt\"><span class=\"underline\">Amazingly, in <span class=\"em\">Intimations of Immortality<\/span>, Wordsworth even recognised the underlying instinct vs intellect cause of our corrupted condition <span class=\"h4-reduce-smllplus-nobold-wt\">(the origin of which was explained in <\/span><\/span><a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/the-interview\/\"><span class=\"underline\"><span class=\"hyperlink-xsmll-blue-wt\"><span class=\"em\"><span class=\"h4-reduce-smllplus-nobold-wt\">THE Interview<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"underline\"><span class=\"h4-reduce-smllplus-nobold-wt\"> and in <\/span><\/span><a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-ch3-the-real-explanation-of-the-human-condition\/\"><span class=\"underline\"><span class=\"hyperlink-xsmll-blue-wt\"><span class=\"h4-reduce-smllplus-nobold-wt\">chapter 3 of <span class=\"em\">FREEDOM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"underline\"><span class=\"h4-reduce-smllplus-nobold-wt\">)<\/span><\/span><span class=\"underline\">, and even that humans have had to resign to living in denial of the issue of the human condition <span class=\"h4-reduce-smllplus-nobold-wt\">(see <\/span><\/span><a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/resignation\/\"><span class=\"underline\"><span class=\"hyperlink-xsmll-blue-wt\"><span class=\"h4-reduce-smllplus-nobold-wt\">F. Essay 30<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"underline\"><span class=\"h4-reduce-smllplus-nobold-wt\"> and <\/span><\/span><a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-resignation-reveals-mortal-fear-of-human-condition\/\"><span class=\"underline\"><span class=\"hyperlink-xsmll-blue-wt\"><span class=\"h4-reduce-smllplus-nobold-wt\">chapter 2:2 of <span class=\"em\">FREEDOM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"underline\"><span class=\"h4-reduce-smllplus-nobold-wt\">)<\/span><\/span><span class=\"underline\">, and, finally, he even recognised the need for a denial-free, truth-seeing, <span class=\"h4-reduce-smll-wt\">&ldquo;Eye among the blind&rdquo;<\/span> <span class=\"h4-reduce-smll-wt\">&ldquo;prophet&rdquo;<\/span> who can <span class=\"h4-reduce-smll-wt\">&ldquo;read&hellip;&#8203;the eternal deep&rdquo;<\/span> of the human condition and find the relieving understanding of that condition<\/span>:<\/h3>\n    <p class=\"body-para-wt\">Even though Wordsworth wasn&rsquo;t able to provide &lsquo;the genes-can-orientate-but-the-intellect-needs-to-understand&rsquo; actual explanation for <span class=\"em\">why<\/span> the upset state of the human condition emerged, he did recognise that our upset condition arose from a clash between our high-minded moral instincts and our guilty conscious intellect, when, in <span class=\"em\">Intimations of Immortality<\/span>, he referred to our <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;High instincts before which our mortal <\/span><span class=\"quote-addition-wt\">[conscious] <\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\">Nature <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised.&rsquo;<\/span> <span class=\"quote-addition-wt\">(<\/span>You can read in <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/the-instinct-vs-intellect-explanation-is-obvious\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-blue-wt\">F. Essay <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\">53<\/span><\/a> a short history of some of the many thinkers, including Wordsworth, who recognised the true &lsquo;instinct vs intellect&rsquo; elements involved in the human condition.)<\/p>\n    <p class=\"body-para-wt\">In <span class=\"em\">Intimations of Immortality<\/span>, Wordsworth also recognised that our inability to explain the human condition inevitably led to having to resign to living in denial of the issue, such that we <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;fall&rsquo; <\/span>away and <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;vanish&rsquo;<\/span> into a state of <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;Blank misgivings of a Creature&rsquo;<\/span>, when he referred to <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;those obstinate questionings <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Of sense and outward things <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Fallings from us, vanishings <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Blank misgivings of a Creature <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Moving about in worlds not realised&rsquo;<\/span>.<\/p>\n    <p class=\"body-para-wt\">He then said that despite <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;those obstinate questionings&rsquo;<\/span> that we had to allow to become <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;Fallings from us&rsquo;<\/span>,<span class=\"quote-wt\"> &lsquo;vanishings&rsquo;<\/span>, we did retain some precious access <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;for those first affections <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Those shadowy recollections <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Which, be they what they may <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Are yet the fountain-light of all our day <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Are yet a master-light of all our seeing <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> &hellip; Hence in a season of calm weather <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Though inland far we be <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Which brought us hither <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Can in a moment travel thither <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> And see the Children sport upon the shore <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Then sing, ye Birds, sing, sing a joyous song!&rsquo;<\/span><\/p>\n    <p class=\"body-para-wt\">Yes, in rare moments when the human mind managed to find some relief from the agony of the human condition<span class=\"long-dash-wt\">&mdash;<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;a season of calm weather&rsquo;<\/span><span class=\"long-dash-wt\">&mdash;<\/span>we could, <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;in a moment&rsquo;<\/span> of inspiration from <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;see<\/span><span class=\"quote-addition-wt\">[ing]<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> the Children sport upon the shore&rsquo;<\/span>, be reconnected to the greater truth of our species&rsquo; destiny of one day finding relieving understanding of our condition, at which time we would be able to <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;hear the mighty waters rolling evermore&rsquo;<\/span><span class=\"long-dash-wt\">&mdash;<\/span>namely know and be able to savour the all-wonderful, human-condition-free world<span class=\"long-dash-wt\">&mdash;<\/span>which now that the human condition has been solved we all can! (See the <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/transformation\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-blue-wt\">Transformation<\/span><\/a> page on the <span class=\"body-allcapabbrev-wt\">WTM<\/span> website and <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-ch9-the-transformation-of-the-human-race\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-blue-wt\">chapter <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\">9<\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-blue-wt\"> of <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-medplus-blue-wt\"><span class=\"em\">FREEDOM<\/span><\/span><\/a>.)<\/p>\n    <p class=\"body-para-wt\">Remarkably, in <span class=\"em\">Intimations of Immortality <\/span>Wordsworth even acknowledged that only a denial-free thinker or <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;prophet&rsquo;<\/span> could plumb the depths of the much repressed, denied and forgotten soul-infused, light-filled realm where the truths we need if we are to think effectively about the human condition reside: <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;Thou best Philosopher, who yet dost keep <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Thy heritage, thou Eye among the blind <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> That, deaf and silent, read&rsquo;st the eternal deep <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Haunted for ever by the eternal mind <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Mighty Prophet! Seer blest! <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> On whom those truths do rest <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Which we are toiling all our lives to find <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> In darkness lost, the darkness of the grave.&rsquo;<\/span> The <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;darkness of the grave&rsquo;<\/span> and <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;prison-house&rsquo; <\/span>perfectly equate with Plato&rsquo;s <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;living tomb&rsquo; &lsquo;cave&rsquo;<\/span> where <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;we are imprisoned&rsquo;<\/span> <span class=\"quote-source-wt\">(see <\/span><a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-the-pathway-of-the-sun\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-xsmll-blue-wt\">chapter <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-xxsmll-blue-wt\">9:11<\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-xsmll-blue-wt\"> of <span class=\"em\">FREEDOM<\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"quote-source-wt\">)<\/span>. (A demystifying explanation of the role of prophets is provided in <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/christ-explained\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-blue-wt\">F. Essay <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\">39<\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-blue-wt\">: <span class=\"em\">Christ explained<\/span><\/span><\/a>.)<\/p>\n    <p class=\"body-para-wt\">In terms of Wordsworth&rsquo;s personal journey of trying to confront the human condition, he is recorded as saying, <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;Many times while going to school have I grasped at a wall or tree to recall myself from this abyss of idealism to the reality. At that time I was afraid of such processes. In later periods of life I have deplored, as we have all reason to do, a subjugation of an opposite character, and have rejoiced over the remembrances&rsquo; <\/span><span class=\"quote-source-wt\">(<span class=\"em\">The Fenwick Notes of William Wordsworth<\/span>, dictated to Isabella Fenwick in <\/span><span class=\"quote-source-digitallcapabrv-wt\">1843<\/span><span class=\"quote-source-wt\">)<\/span>. Yes, having to resign to living in denial of the depressing <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;idealism&rsquo;<\/span> vs <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;reality&rsquo;<\/span> issue of the human condition was something we <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;deplored&rsquo;<\/span> having to do, and what little <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;remembrances&rsquo;<\/span> we could retain of our soul&rsquo;s true world was truly something to <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;have rejoiced over&rsquo;<\/span>. (I have drawn the following picture of the <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;abyss&rsquo;<\/span> of depression associated with trying to confront the human condition, which is also reproduced at the beginning of <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-humanitys-overall-situation-now\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-blue-wt\">chapter <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\">9:10<\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-blue-wt\"> of <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-medplus-blue-wt\"><span class=\"em\">FREEDOM<\/span><\/span><\/a>.)<\/p>\n    <p class=\"space-15pt-wt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n    <div class=\"image-nomove-centre\" style=\"max-width:449px\">\n        <a class=\"fancybox\" href=\"https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/HumanitysSituation_txtco_WEB_574x800.jpg\" title=\"Humanity&rsquo;s Situation: the Sunshine Highway to Freedom, the Abyss of Depression, our Cave-like Dead Existence and the Spiralling Pit of Terminal Alienation\"><picture><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/HumanitysSituation_txtco_WEB_464x642.jpg 1x, https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/HumanitysSituation_txtco_WEB_2x_928x1283.jpg 2x\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-no-border\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto\" src=\"https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/HumanitysSituation_txtco_WEB_464x642.jpg\" alt=\"Drawing by Jeremy Griffith depicting humans escaping a &lsquo;cave-like dead existence&rsquo; on a bridge over a chasm to a sunlit land\" title=\"Drawing by Jeremy Griffith depicting humans escaping a &lsquo;cave-like dead existence&rsquo; on a bridge over a chasm to a sunlit land\"><\/source><\/picture><\/a>\n    <\/div>\n    <p class=\"imagecaption-move-wt\">Humanity&rsquo;s Situation: the Sunshine Highway to Freedom, the Abyss of Depression,<br>our Cave-like Dead Existence and the Spiralling Pit of Terminal Alienation<\/p>\n    <p class=\"space-15pt-wt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n    <p class=\"body-para-wt\">Wordsworth concluded his absolutely extraordinarily honest poem with this description of the agony of the human condition: <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;The Clouds that gather round the setting sun <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Do take a sober colouring from an eye <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> That hath kept watch o&rsquo;er man&rsquo;s mortality <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> &hellip;&#8203;To me the meanest flower that blows can give <\/span><span class=\"quote-slash-wt\">\/<\/span><span class=\"quote-wt\"> Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.&rsquo;<\/span> Wordsworth is saying that our anxiety over our mortality now is due to us being insecure about our life&rsquo;s value and worth<span class=\"long-dash-wt\">&mdash;<\/span>hence the reference in the poem&rsquo;s title to the <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;intimations of <span class=\"underline\">im<\/span>mortality&rsquo;<\/span> we had during our species&rsquo; pre-&lsquo;fallen&rsquo;, pristine, innocent, uncorrupted, sound and secure, loved-and-loving <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;early childhood&rsquo;<\/span>. The thoughts that became buried so deep that they were beyond the reach of our everyday emotional selves (they are <span class=\"quote-wt\">&lsquo;too deep for tears&rsquo;<\/span>) are the thoughts about our species&rsquo; present corrupted state that the beauty of even the plainest flower has been able to remind the human race of, if we let it<span class=\"long-dash-wt\">&mdash;<\/span>if we have not practised mentally denying and burying the issue deeply enough.<\/p>\n    <p class=\"space-15pt-wt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n    <div class=\"image-nomove-centre\" style=\"max-width:307px\">\n        <a class=\"fancybox\" href=\"https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/Wordsworth-meanest-flower_WEB_614x694.jpg\"><picture><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/Wordsworth-meanest-flower_WEB_307x347.jpg 1x, https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/Wordsworth-meanest-flower_WEB_614x694.jpg 2x\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-no-border\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto\" src=\"https:\/\/images.wtmfiles.com\/Wordsworth-meanest-flower_WEB_307x347.jpg\" alt=\"William Wordsworth quote: &ldquo;the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears&rdquo;\" title=\"William Wordsworth quote: &ldquo;the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears&rdquo;\"><\/source><\/picture><\/a>\n    <\/div>\n    <p class=\"space-15pt-wt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n    <p class=\"body-para-wt\">So Wordsworth&rsquo;s fabulous poem <span class=\"em\">Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood<\/span> truthfully canvassed the full range of issues about our human condition, and he described it all with wonderfully evocative poetry. His poem truly is one of the great milestones in the human journey of conscious thought and enquiry.<\/p>\n    <p class=\"space-8pt-wt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n    <p class=\"centred-line-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">&ndash; &ndash; &ndash; &ndash; &ndash; &ndash; &ndash; &ndash; &ndash; &ndash; &ndash; &ndash; &ndash; &ndash; &ndash; &ndash; &ndash; &ndash;<\/span><\/p>\n    <p class=\"body-para-wt\">Watch Jeremy Griffith present the breakthrough redeeming explanation of the human condition in <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/the-interview\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-medplus-blue-wt\"><span class=\"em\">THE<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-blue-wt\"><span class=\"em\"> Interview<\/span><\/span><\/a>; for a fuller explanation read <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-ch3-the-real-explanation-of-the-human-condition\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-blue-wt\">chapter <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\">3<\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-blue-wt\"> of <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-medplus-blue-wt\"><span class=\"em\">FREEDOM<\/span><\/span><\/a>; and for a summary presentation of the key &lsquo;instinct vs intellect&rsquo; explanation watch <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/the-explanation-of-the-human-condition\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-blue-wt\">Video\/&#8203;F. Essay <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\">3<\/span><\/a>; and much more about the human condition in <span class=\"body-allcapbkttle-wt\"><span class=\"em\">FREEDOM<\/span><\/span>&rsquo;s other chapters.<\/p>\n    <p class=\"space-15pt-wt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n    <p class=\"body-no-indent-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">Discussion<\/span> or <span class=\"strong\">comment<\/span> on this essay is welcomed<span class=\"long-dash-wt\">&mdash;<\/span>see below.<\/p>\n    <p class=\"space-15pt-wt\">&nbsp;<\/p><div id=\"placeholder_link_bank_wt_sc\" class=\"typefi\">\n    <p class=\"space-8pt-wt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n    <h1 class=\"h4-reduce-wt\"><span class=\"underline\">Please Note<\/span>, if you are online you can read, print, download or listen to (as a podcast) <span class=\"body-colour1-wt\"><span class=\"em\">THE Interview<\/span><\/span>,<span class=\"body-colour1-wt\"><span class=\"em\"> The Great Guilt<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"body-colour1-wt\"><span class=\"em\">The Great Transformation<\/span><\/span> or any of the following <span class=\"body-colour1-wt\">Freedom Essays<\/span> by <span class=\"hyperlink-smll-blue-wt\">clicking on them<\/span>, or you can find them all at <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-smll-blue-wt\">www.humancondition.com<\/span><\/a>.<\/h1>\n    <p class=\"space-8pt-wt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n    <p class=\"link-bank-wt\"><span class=\"body-med-allcapabbrev-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">INTRODUCTION TO THE EXPLANATION &amp; RESOLUTION OF THE HUMAN CONDITION:<\/span><\/span> <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/the-interview\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-smllplus-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\"><span class=\"em\">THE<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\"><span class=\"em\"> Interview<\/span><\/span><\/span> <span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"><span class=\"em\">That Solves The Human Condition And Saves The World!<\/span><\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/the-great-guilt\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\"><span class=\"em\">The Great Guilt<\/span><\/span> <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"><span class=\"em\">that causes the Deaf Effect<\/span><\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/the-great-transformation\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\"><span class=\"em\">The Great Transformation<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"><span class=\"em\">: How understanding the human condition actually transforms the human race<\/span><\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/your-block-to-most-wonderful-gift\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">Freedom Essay 1<\/span> <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\">Your block to the most wonderful of all gifts<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/the-false-savage-instincts-excuse\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">2<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> The false &lsquo;savage instincts&rsquo; excuse<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/the-explanation-of-the-human-condition\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">3<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"hyperlink-smll-black-wt\">THE EXPLANATION<\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> of the human condition<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/the-instinct-vs-intellect-explanation-is-obvious-short\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">4<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> The &lsquo;instinct vs intellect&rsquo; explanation is obvious &ndash; short<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/the-transformation-of-the-human-race\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">5<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> The transformation of the human race<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/wonderfully-illuminating-discussion\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">6<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> Wonderfully illuminating interview<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/professor-prosen-affirms-freedoms-significance\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">7<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> Praise from Prof. Prosen<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/the-end-of-racism\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">8<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> &ldquo;How this ends racism forever&rdquo;<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/ending-war-between-sexes\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">9<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> &ldquo;This is the real liberation of women&rdquo;<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/what-exactly-is-the-human-condition\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">10<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> What exactly is the human condition?<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/the-difficulty-of-reading-freedom\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">11<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> The difficulty of reading <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-smllplus-black-wt\"><span class=\"em\">FREEDOM<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> and the solution<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/one-hour-introductory-talk\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">12<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> One hour summarising talk<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/the-wtm-deaf-effect-course\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">13<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> The <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-smllplus-black-wt\">WTM<\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> Deaf Effect Course<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/false-savage-instincts-excuse-leads-to-extinction\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">14<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> Dishonest biology leads to human extinction<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/how-everyones-lives-can-now-be-transformed\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">15<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> How your life can immediately be transformed<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/the-shock-of-change\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">16<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\">The Shock Of Change<\/span><\/a> | <span class=\"body-med-allcapabbrev-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">THE BOOKS:<\/span><\/span> <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/commendations\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">17<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\">Commendations <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-smllplus-black-wt\">&amp;<\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> <span class=\"body-digit-wt\">WTM<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> Centres<\/span><\/a><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> <\/span>| <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/freedom-chapter-synopses\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">18<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"hyperlink-smllplus-black-wt\"><span class=\"em\">FREEDOM<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> chapter synopses<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/freedoms-significance-by-professor-prosen\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">19<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"hyperlink-smllplus-black-wt\"><span class=\"em\">FREEDOM<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\">&rsquo;s significance by Prof. Prosen<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/genius-of-transform-your-life\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">20<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> The genius of <span class=\"em\">Transform Your Life<\/span><\/span><\/a> | <span class=\"body-med-allcapabbrev-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">THE OTHER KEY BIOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS:<\/span><\/span> <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/how-did-we-humans-acquire-our-altruistic-moral-conscience\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">21<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> How did we humans acquire our altruistic moral conscience?<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/fossil-discoveries\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">22<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> Fossil discoveries evidence our nurtured origins<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/the-integrative-meaning-of-existence\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">23<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> Integrative Meaning or &lsquo;God&rsquo;<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/how-did-consciousness-emerge-in-humans\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">24<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> How did consciousness emerge in humans?<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/truthful-biology\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">25<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> The truthful biology of life<\/span><\/a> | <span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\">&bull;<\/span> <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/survey\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\">Survey seeking feedback<\/span><\/a> | <span class=\"body-med-allcapabbrev-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">MEN &amp; WOMEN RECONCILED:<\/span><\/span> <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/men-and-women-reconciled\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">26<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> Men and women reconciled<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/human-sex-explained\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">27<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> Human sex and relationships explained<\/span><\/a> | <span class=\"body-med-allcapabbrev-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">THE END OF RACISM:<\/span><\/span> <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/the-end-of-racial-prejudice\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">28<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> The end of racism<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/can-human-conflict-be-brought-to-an-end\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">29<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> Can conflict ever end?<\/span><\/a> | <span class=\"body-med-allcapabbrev-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">RESIGNATION:<\/span><\/span> <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/resignation\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">30<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> Resignation<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/wordsworths-majestic-poem\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">31<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> Wordsworth&rsquo;s all-revealing great poem<\/span><\/a> | <span class=\"body-med-allcapabbrev-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">MORE ON THE TRANSFORMATION:<\/span><\/span> <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/more-on-the-transformation\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">32<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> More on the Transformation<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/jeremy-on-how-to-become-transformed\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">33<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> Jeremy on how to become transformed<\/span><\/a> | <span class=\"body-med-allcapabbrev-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">THE END OF POLITICS:<\/span><\/span> <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/understanding-human-condition-brings-end-to-politics\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">34<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> This understanding ends the polarised world of politics<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/march-of-pseudo-idealism-to-terminal-alienation\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">35<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> Death by Dogma left-wing threat<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/saving-western-civilisation\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">36<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> Saving Western civilisation from left-wing dogma<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/superhero-disaster-films\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">37<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> The meaning of superhero and disaster films<\/span><\/a> | <span class=\"body-med-allcapabbrev-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">RELIGION DECIPHERED:<\/span><\/span> <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/noahs-ark\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">38<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> Noah&rsquo;s Ark explained<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/christ-explained\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">39<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> Christ explained<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/judgment-day-explained\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">40<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> Judgment Day finally explained<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/is-sciences-scorn-religion-legitimate\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">41<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> Science&rsquo;s scorn of religion<\/span><\/a> | <span class=\"body-med-allcapabbrev-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">MEANING OF ART &amp; CULTURE:<\/span><\/span> <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/cave-paintings\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">42<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> Cave paintings<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/ceremonial-masks-reveal-truth-about-human-condition\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">43<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> Ceremonial masks explained<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/power-of-art\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">44<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> Art makes the invisible visible<\/span><\/a> | <span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\">&bull;<\/span> <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/second-feedback-survey\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\">Second survey seeking feedback<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/rising-sun-represents-arrival-of-liberating-understanding\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">45<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> Prophetic songs<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/anne-franks-belief-human-goodness\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">46<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> Anne Frank&rsquo;s faith in human goodness fulfilled<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/humour-swearing\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">47<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> Humour and swearing explained<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/rdlaings-fearless-honesty\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">48<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-smllplus-black-wt\">R.D.<\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> Laing&rsquo;s fearless honesty<\/span><\/a> | <span class=\"body-med-allcapabbrev-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">ABOUT BIOLOGIST JEREMY GRIFFITH:<\/span><\/span> <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/jeremy-biography\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">49<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> Jeremy&rsquo;s biography<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/australias-role\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">50<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> Australia&rsquo;s role<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/sir-laurens-van-der-posts-vision\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">51<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> Sir Laurens van der Post&rsquo;s fabulous vision<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/jeremys-childrens-book\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">52<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> Jeremy&rsquo;s children&rsquo;s book <span class=\"em\">A Perfect Life<\/span><\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/the-instinct-vs-intellect-explanation-is-obvious\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">53<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> The &lsquo;instinct vs intellect&rsquo; explanation is obvious &ndash; long<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/the-accusation-of-hubris\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">54<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> The accusation of hubris<\/span><\/a> | <span class=\"body-med-allcapabbrev-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">DO WE FAIL OR DO WE MAKE IT?<\/span><\/span> <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/endgame-for-the-human-race\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">55<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> Endgame for the human race<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/attacks-on-the-wtm\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">56<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> Why there have been ferocious attacks on the <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-smllplus-black-wt\">WTM<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/the-magnificence-of-the-transformed-state-video-1\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">57<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> Magnificence of the Transformed State &ndash; video <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-smllplus-black-wt\">1<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/the-magnificence-of-the-transformed-state-video-2\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">58<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> Magnificence of the Transformed State &ndash; video <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-smllplus-black-wt\">2<\/span><\/a> | <span class=\"body-med-allcapabbrev-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">MARKETING:<\/span><\/span> <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/shouldnt-the-wtm-website-be-toned-down\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">59<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> Shouldn&rsquo;t the WTM&rsquo;s website be toned down?<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/the-crime-of-ships-at-sea-pocketing-the-win\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">60<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> The crime of &lsquo;ships at sea&rsquo; &lsquo;pocketing the win&rsquo;<\/span><\/a> | <span class=\"body-med-allcapabbrev-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">GENERAL DISCUSSIONS BY JEREMY:<\/span><\/span> <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/general-discussion-by-jeremy-aug-2018\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">61<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> General Discussion by Jeremy Aug. <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-smllplus-black-wt\">2018<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/jeremys-masterpiece-presentation-feb-2019\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">62<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> Jeremy&rsquo;s Masterpiece Presentation Feb. <\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-smllplus-black-wt\">2019<\/span><\/a> | <span class=\"body-med-allcapabbrev-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">HEALTH &amp; HEALING:<\/span><\/span> <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/pseudo-therapy-and-healing\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">63<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> Pseudo therapy\/healing<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays\/real-therapy-and-healing\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">64<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hyperlink-med-black-wt\"> Real therapy\/healing<\/span><\/a> | <a class=\"eventOpen-page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humancondition.com\/freedom-essays-transformation-affirmations\/\"><span class=\"hyperlink-med-blue-wt\"><span class=\"strong\">From here on are Transformation Affirmations and More Good Info Emails<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"placeholder_credit_acknowledge_wt_sc\">\n  <p class=\"space-15pt-wt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n  <p class=\"space-8pt-wt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n  <p class=\"body-med-centre-wt\">These essays were created in <span class=\"body-med-digit-wt\">2017<\/span>-<span class=\"body-med-digit-wt\">2024<\/span> by Jeremy Griffith, Damon Isherwood, Fiona<br>Cullen-Ward<span class=\"body-med-allcapabbrev-wt\">, <\/span>Brony FitzGerald <span class=\"body-med-allcapabbrev-wt\">&amp;<\/span>    Lee Jones of the Sydney <span class=\"body-med-allcapabbrev-wt\">WTM<\/span> Centre. All filming and<br>editing of the videos was carried out by Sydney <span class=\"body-med-allcapabbrev-wt\">WTM<\/span> members James Press <span class=\"body-med-allcapabbrev-wt\">&amp;<\/span>    Tess Watson<br>during <span class=\"body-med-digit-wt\">2017<\/span>-<span class=\"body-med-digit-wt\">2024<\/span>. 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