I first watched 'The Great Guilt' video and there was so much to absorb I was incredibly happy to find the book version because I wanted - needed - to revisit so much of it. Griffith has written a lot about the 'Deaf Effect' in his earlier works but this all-encompassing, collective Guilt - THE GREAT GUILT - I don’t think has been as clearly described and it is fascinating.
The idea that we as a species carry this innate guilt and shame about who we are, how far we’ve strayed from our paradisiacal past and the great burden of guilt we now carry in our present human-condition selves as a result. It has to be at the very cutting edge of where the current psychological thinking is at. All the self help books that offer tools to cope with the world really need to be underpinned with this greater psychological burden that blankets us as a species and how we can now emerge from that shame and guilt into a most enlightened, free, happy species that Griffith describes so brilliantly in this little book: "we have been immensely, immensely lonely—feeling that we were just garbage on Earth and that everybody and everything hated us. It’s hard for us to see our situation because we are now so practiced at denial... solving the human condition, explaining why we are good and not bad, opens up a whole new world of truth... the dawn of enlightenment has arrived; the sun is finally coming up to drain away all the darkness from our lives!"