What is the Human Condition?
And why you want to transcend it
“We are giving up an extraordinary life that is immense; that is extraordinarily beautiful; of unfathomable depth and we spend our lives from 9-5. Society demands it, governments demand it, wives demand it. So in the whole structure of society, our ethos is to work. And we miss the great depth of life.“ Krishnamurti
In my prior article I suggested that all humans are in the process of waking up and raising our levels of consciousness. We are all in the process of breaking through the “illusion of separation’ and freeing ourselves of the Human Condition. As we shift, so do our families, cultures and the whole planet. We together shift from experiencing pain and suffering to our natural state of peace, joy and abundance.
In this article I explain how the Human Condition works, its impact on you, and why it’s important to transcend it - and live a more blissful life.
What is the Human Condition?
The Human Condition is mental state that prevents human beings from seeing the full extent of reality. In this state we are blind to who we are and what is actually going on. It’s like a software program that acts as a screening device for our physical minds. It’s like a control center that filters information going in an out of our psyches.
It has been said that the Human Condition emerged thousands of years ago (see my prior article). At that time, humans began to think that they were separate from God/Source/Consciousness. As Master Waysun Liao says,
“We started to have ideas that we could create a better harmony of our own outside of God’s harmony. We forgot we were part of God’s power. Instead, we thought we possessed this power independently on our own.”
So, as a survival mechanism, our minds had to make sense of this new reality by shifting perspectives. It also had to create a new false identity in the psyche. These distortions and the false identity have been the cause of all human suffering, as explained here:
“Just like the Garden of Eden, everything in our world was originally designed to unfold perfectly and naturally, and to run smoothly and harmoniously. It went off track when we human players got “smart”. … “We started to think and act independently. We detached from the feeling of oneness and connectedness to God’s power. We separated from the universal dream of God looking for something better, only to find out that the self-directed life we chose has become a nightmare” Master Waysun Liao
What does the Human Condition do?
Although no one knows why we suffer from this condition, it has been suggested that it is a necessary evolutionary protection. Because our physical bodies and small brains can only handle a limited amount of information, some believe that this device is necessary to prevent us from being overloaded.
For example, our minds create the concept of time and space to slow things down and create a psychological sequence of events. As well, our minds apply labels and categories to all we see so that we can understand reality in bite-sized chunks. In other words, it protects us and keeps us from ruin, as described here:
“Our physical bodies need our minds to prevent overwhelm. Its like a control center, so we don’t go mad. Although we think of our mind as our brain or perhaps intelligence, it is much more than that. It receives massive amounts of information and feeds it, edits and projects 60,000 thoughts a day. The mind is not the problem, it’s the state of mind – it’s a fearful teenager.” Linda Nardelli
So, the only way out is to wake up and connect back to that Source. It requires work, but there is a way.
Stay tuned
In my next entries I talk about:
The six mental distortions of the Human Condition.
Where did the Human Condition come from?
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