A great new article by Jack Soden, published in the FIX THE WORLD Medium publication.
Jack draws a parallel between a solar eclipse and the human condition, exploring the idea that understanding does not change the phenomenon itself, but can completely change our relationship with it.
Thoughtful, engaging writing and well worth a read.
I was 9 when my Aunt blamed me for my parents marriage ending. I remember how hurt I was and I ran outside and sat beside a tree much like this one. I couldn't for the life of me, understand how I was responsible for all of the suffering and turmoil. I left the best part of me at that tree. I knocked on a neighbor's door and never returned to that house again. That neighbor took me in for the next 2 years. I was 12 before I returned to my mother and we moved away. I know now, had I stayed with my neighbor, I would have fully resigned but because I went back to my mother, I fought resignation. My defiance only grew stronger as I grew older. Jeremy Griffith explains this most import event in every human life and has termed it, Resignation and it is explained in this essay as well as the ‘ship at sea’ strategy where for various reasons, people refuse to properly resign and take up the strategy of denial of the issue of the human condition that almost everybody else does, see https://www.humancondition.com/freedom-essays/resignation/ ). During chapter 8 of Freedom, the End of the Human Condition, I recall imagining that I returned to that tree for my innocence, for that little girl inside me that had no answers. There I was, waiting. I remember hugging myself and telling myself, "it's safe now". I took my little hand and we walked out of the forest and never looked back. That's what this understanding does. It takes you by the hand and explains that you are completely defended. You are completely safe. The battle has ended and you can reunite with your soul and become whole. Not just can but you do reunite with your soul. We are home, of course as Jeremy explains in FAQ 1.26 “this healing or rehabilitation of our soul, which will allow us to re-access all its incredible sensitivity, will take time, generations in fact, but… we can all live free of the upset state of the human condition even though we still suffer from the upset angry, egocentric and alienated state of the human condition. This means that while that long process of ameliorating our upset is going on we will all be variously alienated from our soul and all its wonderful sensitivities and truth. Everyone’s coming home to an integrated self now”.
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This part of Jeremy’s Masterpiece, Freedom Essay 62 is such a gem. I wanted to share it in relationship with this song an video.
"So now with our species’ upset corrupted state explained and defended this whole situation changes. Once we can admit how upset and mad we are, real therapy at last becomes possible. All the lies and silence, all the denial and delusion ends and relieving truth and understanding can flood through every situation, most especially through our ability to understand our own lives and all the upset that happened to us. Innocence can be reconciled with upset, the child within us can be talked to and embraced by the upset adult instead of being repressed and pushed under because we couldn’t confront, be honest about and deal with its pain. We coped by blocking it out which just accentuated the problem, making it even more repressed. We can, as it were, and this is very important, talk to the upset excruciatingly hurt child within us, tell it all about our mad world, and we will be astonished how it can hear us and come back to life, and cry with the relief that we, our conscious self, has at last come down to talk to it. We can bring peace and calm to the panicking and terrified-that-it’s-evil child, and the relief that comes to that child is truly incredible. Able to be honest and all explaining now, real therapy is finally possible; ‘parenting’ is what I call it. [See Jeremy’s book Therapy For The Human Condition
to read more about the real therapy that is now possible.]
‘Parenting’, taking the adult/the now fully understanding truthful secure reassuring position, is possible now for both the human race, as I do in FREEDOM, and for individual humans, as I’ve done for many of the members of our Sydney WTM group. I go back to the source of their extreme trauma and guilt and resulting extreme block-out, and from there get the truth up in a fully understood and contexted way. Whether it’s childhood sexual abuse, or parents’ lack of love, or a father who was authoritarian and terrifying, and replace defensive, dishonest block-out and terrible fear with calm, relieving, loving and fully accountable understanding. What is astonishing is how the child within us knows what we are saying to it is the truth, because our innocent child self within us is incredibly knowing of what is truth and what is cave-speak dishonesty. And it just loves all this out-of-the-cave truth of the understanding of the human condition in FREEDOM.
That is astonishing, because we practice repressing the hurt child because we can’t deal with it, so imagine the turnaround when you actually stop and say “No, I want to go back and talk to this child-part of myself.” And it is actually like it’s waiting there for you, and it actually responds, and it’s incredible. And the more truth you talk to it, the better/happier it is and it comes back to life, because it’s just been repressed all this time, so it is incredibly habituated. This is what I call ‘parenting’. It’s a very important word because ‘parenting’ means you take the adult situation, which is an understanding one, an exceptionally understanding one now because we understand the human condition. But already in the old world that’s what parents did to a child that was panicking and distressed. You would go up to the child and calmly just hold it by the shoulders and say “Sweetheart, it’s all right, it’s all right, settle down, it’s all right”, and with that reassurance the child would just calm down, and the parent’s security of self reaches the child and settles the child down. So that’s what ‘parenting’ is; it’s about taking a more understanding state that an adult has to the child’s situation and giving that child that real love of that understanding and calmness. It’s in the parent and it settles the child down."
https://www.humancondition.com/freedom-essays/jeremys-masterpiece-presentation-feb-2019/