Video & Transcript of Alistair Paterson’s
FIX THE WORLD Galashiels Centre

 

(To learn more about Alistair Paterson, see www.fixtheworldgalashiels.org)

 

 

Hi everyone. I hope you’re well, or the best it can be wherever you are in the world. My name’s Alistair and I’m here on the Scottish borders in the UK. I’ve been here all my life and I’m grateful for the place I’ve kind of grown up in and still stay in and enjoy each day. It’s a lovely place to be.

Anyway, I’m here to talk about Mr Jeremy Griffith. I’ve been following Jeremy’s work and that of FIX THE WORLD (formerly World Transformation Movement) for a couple years now after watching THE Interview, and I have been in contact with other people who are trying to raise awareness of Jeremy’s breakthrough understandings of our human condition.

There has been many commendations made about this information and for me to be here to witness this extraordinary and remarkable breakthrough in human psychology, it blows my mind of the importance and the magnitude of these findings.

This commendation from Professor Stuart Hurlbert for me sums up how I feel about this incredible breakthrough in our understanding of our human evolution: ‘I am stunned & honoured to have lived to see the coming of “Darwin II”.’

So after chatting a few times with one of the founding members of FIX THE WORLD and agreeing to, I’m humbled and the same time thrilled, be opening another FIX THE WORLD Centre here in the UK, to help them in their efforts to raise awareness of these remarkable understandings. But I feel grateful be given the opportunity to support something that is just truly wonderful. It really is.

This breakthrough is huge for us humans, and that’s an understatement, and I’m lucky enough to be here to witness it, albeit for a brief moment.

This is a pivotal moment in our human lineage, where we take a quantum leap in our evolutionary journey, if we have the courage to take it.

I feel this has to be the biggest thing to have happened to us since we first became fully conscious beings. Everything we have had to endure up to this moment on our evolutionary journey that has come before these understandings has just been a prelude to this moment.

We were not given a program for the computer in our heads, instead we were left alone to get on with it; and now, we have done it. We have finally found the breakthrough understanding we have needed to move on to the next phase in our evolution with our conscious mind. And the possibilities now are infinite and so exciting. It doesn’t sound like I’m excited, does it? [Laughs] It’s pretty serious really. I mean, it’s just mind-blowing at the same time.

I’ve had to write down what I’m saying to formulate my thoughts, as you’ve probably guessed, because this stuff in [Jeremy Griffith’s main book] FREEDOM: The End of The Human Condition is so full on. I can easily see myself getting carried away with my imagination of possibilities. To me, the statements I’ve just made about Jeremy’s work can feel so out there, but at the same time in my heart I totally believe it. It makes so much sense. So I can easily imagine to someone else who is hearing this for the first time, it could feel like what the f**k is he going on about; “He’s off his head!” That’s Scottish for being crazy or mad or whatever. But I could see it anyway.

All my life I have struggled with trying to make sense of or figure out why people are so divisive, and that’s putting it mildly. I won’t elaborate further on that, but I’m sure you know what I’m talking about, it’s everywhere. And it’s been everywhere for a long, long time. But now all our contradictory nature has been fully and honestly explained, with this mind-blowing, but at the same time so simple and redeeming explanation that has been found. It’s that simple an explanation, it feels like to me that the answer has been sitting there all the time, right in front of us, right there, just waiting for someone to come along and pick it up.

That is what Australian biologist Jeremy Griffith has done in his definitive book FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition, and he has done it and presented it in such a way that we can all make sense of and understand it. These breakthrough understandings give me a great sense of peace and hope for our future generations.

I love the way Craig Conway said it in his introduction to THE Interview he did with Jeremy: ‘I don’t care what you’re doing, in fact I don’t care what you’re doing the rest of your life, you just need to stop and listen to this.’ The interview is pretty impressive, if you are able to keep an open mind about the subject matter in hand.

There’s another reason why I’m doing this. It’s because I feel a moral responsibility to do what I can now to help keep this precious information alive, and not allow it get swamped by all the rhetoric of denial that is standing in its way. There’s another quote from FREEDOM from a science historian, Thomas Kuhn, I’d like to share, which again really sums up why I feel this way about Jeremy’s work, and why I need to support it. ‘In science…ideas do not change simply because new facts win out over outmoded ones…Since the facts can’t speak for themselves, it is their human advocates who win or lose the day.’ (Shirley C. Strum, Almost Human, 1987. Strum’s references are to Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, second edn, 1970). That’s pretty impressive as well.

I have never been one for posting videos or pictures of myself on social media, never liked it; can’t even look in the mirror when I’m shaving! Anyway, I just see myself getting old! But I feel by putting myself out there for everyone to see, and hopefully see how comfortable I am talking freely and openly about this historically forbidden subject of our human condition, that it might well give others the confidence to look into this liberating truthful understandings more thoroughly for themselves.

On a personal note, I want to acknowledge and say how grateful I am to all who have fearlessly shared their insights with me over the past 28 years, in dealing with some of the specific symptoms of the upsetting nature of the human condition, prior to discovering Jeremy’s work. Because with their help and support, my mind has been freed to take on board these wonderful and truthful insights that are presented in FREEDOM.

These people showed me that we are capable of behaving selflessly in spite of our own insecurities and fears, and that of others, by recognising and accepting that we are dealing with an illness—which in turn resulted in creating defects of character within us. It was in a sense at the time a leap of faith for me, because without these liberating understandings that Jeremy has presented in FREEDOM, the missing piece of my jigsaw puzzle I was trying to build—I needed to fully understand the underlying problem of my insecurities and divisive behaviours that resulted from the illness in myself as well as others—I would been left with the big question of what is this illness? And where did this illness come from?

And as a good friend of mine would say, “Not anymore!” Thanks to Jeremy, now I do know, and I do understand, and because of that, how much more amazing is it going to be for everyone, once we all get on board with these understandings and we do something about it.

I guess to some people, that might sound a little ambiguous that last bit, and I don’t mean it to be, but it’s the forbidden realm of the subject matter of what we are dealing with here that I have to respect. Hopefully for some of the people who know me, that are watching, will one day understand.

Jeremy’s profound insights are in a way the legacy I have been seeking for about half my life now, something I guess I’d always hoped and dreamt of finding to pass on to my children, but never really thought I would find in my lifetime. But now’s it here and this is what I want to pass onto my children. It’s just brilliant.

Thank you, Jeremy, for your breakthrough understanding, and all who supported him by trying to help him raise awareness of his work so far, till I was able to find it. Now I want to do the same with what time I have left.

I will finish with this one, and it’s my favourite quote from the book FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition, where Jeremy quotes from T.S. Eliot who wrote, ‘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’ (Four Quartets, from Part 5 of Little Gidding, 1942). That’s pretty amazing.

Anyway, thanks for watching, and check out Jeremy’s work on the FIX THE WORLD website. It’s just amazing the work that they’ve put into it, it’s just pretty impressive, and you won’t regret it. And as I often say, if I can get it, anybody can! It’s pretty powerful stuff, but it’s just so liberating at the same time. Take care, and I wish you well. Bye just now.