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While the upset within us will take generations to be completely healed, importantly we can be immediately free of its effects. We can at last understand our behaviour has been driven by a deep insecurity about our fundamental goodness or worth and so now that our goodness is biologically established we no longer have to behave insecurely and selfishly and can legitimately return to a selfless way of living. This is the rapidly rehabilitating and transforming effect of being able to understand the human condition. This transformation is explained in Freedom Essay 15 ‘How our lives can be immediately transformed’, while the Transformation section of our website is brimming with invaluable insight, counsel and personal affirmations. You may also find our FAQ 1.40 helpful titled ‘Aren’t the problems of the world too overwhelming to ever be fixed? / Isn’t it too late to save the world? / How can you hope to transform the world? – In particular, how are you going to change the behaviour of the rich and powerful?’. It is explained there that even those who are most committed to seeking validation through gaining power and wealth, including those entrenched in positions of power, will quickly realise how empty and obsolete that strategy is now that we have the fully accountable, psychosis-addressing-and-solving, biological explanation of the human condition that establishes our worth at the most fundamental level.

    Thank you so much for your feedback, William, but as you digest this understanding, we suggest you will realise that actually isn’t Jeremy Griffith’s position at all. What he has explained is that human’s don’t have ‘some selfless and some selfish instincts’, but that our instincts are wholly loving and selfless, and that our selfishness is psychologically derived, a result of a clash between our loving instincts and our emerging conscious mind.     We recommend chapter 2:11 of Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM, which debunks the ‘multilevel selection’ theory, explaining that even though it does admit to the presence of some selfless instincts, it is still based on the idea that our selfish behaviour is ultimately the result of selfish genes, which means it is still propagating “the same old reverse-of-the-truth, escape-rather-than-confront-the-human-condition agenda—that we have villainous selfish instincts and a blameless conscious mind that has to ‘step-in’ to control them.” Moreover, chapter 2:11 also explains that the idea that the ‘internal conflict’ within each of us is the result of a clash between selfless and selfish instincts is a way of avoiding the real issue of the human condition, which is the guilt we feel for having destroyed the paradise of our all-loving instinctive self; in the multilevel section account “there is no guilt from our conscious mind’s corruption of our completely selfless moral soul.” In fact, we recommend the entirety of chapter 2:11, as it also explains why the argument that genuine altruism or cooperation can arise through selection against aggression is flawed biology because the reality is that any selfless behaviour will always be relentlessly selected against. No, the only way that genuine cooperation or selflessness could develop to “make a happy society” was through the nurturing based love-indoctrination process, which is also introduced in Part 3 of THE Interview (and which is also fully explained in FREEDOM in chapter 5.) And the only way we can return to a “happy society” is by confronting and explaining the real source of the human condition, which is our psychologically upset conscious mind, what Jeremy Griffith has done.

Hi Patrick, socialism attempted to bring about a cooperative society without first getting to the bottom of the human condition, but what Jeremy Griffith is putting forward is that for there to be a fundamental change in our human situation we had to understand the human condition – humans’ capacity for good and evil – from a biological perspective. As he explains in Part 4 of THE Interview, “there’s one more thing I should explain, which is that socialism, the new age movement, the politically correct movement, and all the other idealistic movements, were actually all false starts to a human-condition-free world because the upsetting battle to find knowledge, ultimately self-knowledge, the psychologically relieving understanding of why we are good and not bad, still had to be completed. In fact, while dogmatically insisting that everyone should be cooperative and loving could make you feel that you were doing good and be superficially psychologically very relieving, such insistence on ideal behaviour denied people the freedom they needed to be able to continue the all-important upsetting search for knowledge. These movements were pseudo idealistic movements that stifled and oppressed the search for the understanding of our corrupted condition that was needed to actually free us from that state. They were regressive, not progressive as they deluded themselves they were. It was actually the right-wing who have supported the upsetting battle to find knowledge that held the moral high ground, not the pseudo idealistic left-wing.” We suggest you visit our FAQs about politics, in particular FAQ 7.3 ‘How does the left wing explain human nature’ which focuses on the origin and progression of cooperation-not-competition-supporting, selflessness-not-selfishness-emphasising left-wing thinking, and should be read in conjunction with Jeremy’s booklet Death by Dogma.

Hi Ron, it’s great you’ve watched THE Interview as it’s the ideal introduction to Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition. From there, at top of our homepage HumanCondition.com, it states ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’ and guides you through the steps to pursue your interest. This includes subscribing to our mailing list where you will receive one email per week, occasional News Flashes, and notificatons for our Live Events. We also encourage people to join our Facebook Group to learn more about this amazing, human-condition-resolved new world. We are not-for-profit organisation and make all our material and publications free to read online, watch, listen to and even download and print! Happy exploring Ron!

Well you have come to the right website Steven! What Jeremy Griffith presents solves the human condition and gives us the ability to understand every aspect of human behaviour. As FAQ 1.6 explains this biological explanation unravels the seemingly impenetrable and insoluble confusion of human life and it will stop the destruction of our world and the disintegration of society that is happening everywhere we look. To learn more please also see our FAQ 1.11 ‘What is the best way to start learning about the human condition?’

    What is so extraordinary about this breakthrough Jack is that we can now understand the fundamental reason why people want more than they need. Such “imbalance” in the world, like gross inequality, starvation, environmental devastation, genocide, terrorism, mass displacement of peoples, polarised politics, rampant corruption, family breakdown and epidemic levels of obesity, chronic anxiety, depression, unhappiness and loneliness, are all symptoms of a deeper problem. So to truly solve the world’s problems we need to address and fix the underlying issue responsible for these problems, the human condition – our corrupted, psychologically upset state. Only the psychosis-addressing-and-solving, real explanation of the human condition can stop the destruction of our world and the disintegration of society that is happening everywhere we look, and this is precisely what biologist Jeremy Griffith has delivered with his first principle-based biological understanding of the human condition. You may find these FAQs helpful: FAQ 1.6 ‘Why understanding the human condition solves everything’ and FAQ 1.40 ‘How can you hope to transform the world? — In particular, how are you going to change the behaviour of the rich and powerful? / How are you going to reach the bastions of power? / Won’t the greedy and power-hungry simply ignore this?’     Also, given you mention the effects of AI, you may be interested in one of Jeremy’s latest books AI & Aliens: the truthful analysis, is a human-condition-confronting-not-avoiding, truthful analysis of the dangers of Artificial Intelligence. You can freely access this along with all of Jeremy’s key books here on our homepage.

Hi Bridget, thanks for your thoughts. I’m not sure if you have watched THE Interview but if you haven’t we suggest you will find it most revealing as it explains the whole objective of the human journey was to find understanding of our contradictory behaviour. What is the sum of what we have done as a species? Why are we capable of selfless and loving behaviour (as to humbly care and look after others) but also be so selfish and destructive? That is the great riddle of the human condition that had to be explained and the great breakthrough biologist Jeremy Griffith presents in this interview. Very briefly, he explains all humans are born with all-loving moral instincts but now variously suffer from a psychosis due to the human condition caused by the conscious mind’s necessary search for knowledge. So we can at last understand why as a species we have become so psychologically upset—angry, egocentric and alienated—as to nearly destroy our own planet. But now we can explain and understand this necessary conflict, all those insecure, defensive behaviours are obsoleted, and we free ourselves from the human condition. See this FAQ 1.3 for a nutshell explanation.

Hi Andrei, we suggest you need to look deeper because, as THE Interview explains, our fear, greed, need for power, money and ownership, are symptoms of our insecure human condition, so ultimately, to reform those behaviours we have to end that underlying insecurity, get to the core of the problem and fix that which is what biologist Jeremy Griffith has done here and what is so “revealingly revolutionary”. Jeremy’s work is not an idealistic plea for everyone to just be “good” at all, it is a biological defence of realism. (In fact in this interview he explains why imposing artificial or pseudo idealism does not work and further explains pseudo-idealism in its current forms now actually threatens humanity because it “stifled and oppressed the search for the understanding of our corrupted condition that was needed to actually free us from that state” see FAQ 6.5.) Also you may find these FAQs helpful: FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this idea original or new’ and FAQ 1.40 ‘How can you hope to transform the world? — In particular, how are you going to change the behaviour of the rich and powerful? / How are you going to reach the bastions of power? / Won’t the greedy and power-hungry simply ignore this?’. FAQ 1.40 explains that “Even those who were most committed to defensively seeking validation through gaining power and material goods, including those entrenched in positions of power, will quickly realise how empty and obsolete that strategy is now that we have the fully accountable, psychosis-addressing-and-solving, real biological explanation of the human condition that proves our worth at the most fundamental level.”

Part 4 of THE Interview, titled ‘How does the psychological rehabilitation of the human race that the arrival of understanding of the human condition finally makes possible actually occur?’, presents the answer to how this understanding allows us to transform our lives. It explains that it will take a number of generations for the upset within us to be completely healed but it also stresses importantly we can be immediately free of its effects. Certainly there is habituation to overcome and humans do find change difficult but at last we can understand our behaviour has been driven by a deep insecurity about our fundamental goodness or worth and so now that our goodness is biologically established we no longer have to behave insecurely and selfishly and can legitimately return to a selfless way of living. ‘Legitimately’ because we have the first principle science which liberates us to be honest about our conflicted upset state instead of denying or transcending it. So instead of being focused on power, fame, fortune and glory, all our energies will be freed to truly work together on doing whatever it takes to end the suffering and save our world. How this healing is immediately open to us all is summarised in FAQ 1.5 and FAQ 1.40 addresses the questions of ‘How can you hope to transform the world? — In particular, how are you going to change the behaviour of the rich and powerful? / How are you going to reach the bastions of power? / Won’t the greedy and power-hungry simply ignore this?’.

Thank you very much for your feedback, Ewan. You might be interested in reading Jeremy’s FAQs on religion, which summarise how explanation of the human condition demystifies religion by bringing biological understanding to pre-scientific concepts. Also Jeremy’s Freedom Essays 38 – 41 are absolutely fascinating as they further explain the role religion has played as the custodian of the ideals while humanity undertook the corrupting search for knowledge.

    While religions contain all manner of truths about human life, it is all from a pre-scientific view. Ultimately we needed to find the scientific explanation for why when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless are we so angry, competitive and selfish. Answering this question required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy presents in THE Interview and his book FREEDOM.     With regard to “people like Eckhart Tolle”, if you do start to digest what Jeremy Griffith’s is presenting, you will realise that there is a huge distinction between it and what Tolle etc are propounding. Understanding the human condition is the great unlocking point in the human journey of conscious thought and enquiry and its resolution leads, at last, to the real basis for personal and global transformation. While the New Age movement, and its proponents like Tolle, focus on teaching us to restrain and transcend our anger, alienation and selfish egocentricity, the obvious truth is we needed to resolve it at its source and that is the great breakthrough Jeremy’s work presents. We are thinking beings, we need brain food not brain anaesthetic; we needed answers for our conscious thinking mind, without that all else is ultimately futile. You can read more about this in FAQ 6.5 which explains the difference between the WTM and pseudo-idealistic movements (in addition to Part 4 of THE Interview).

What is being explained is that as a result of a core insecurity about our self-worth, all humans are now psychologically upset angry, egocentric and alienated. As upset increased it eventually reached a level where we had no choice but to civilize or restrain it. However, being more civilised does not indicate that everyone isn’t psychologically upset; if we are honest with ourselves, we would admit that almost every minute of every day is about making ourselves feel better. In fact, as Jeremy says in THE Interview, “While we have learnt to significantly restrain and conceal—‘civilise’ as we refer to it—the phenomenal amount of upset within us, under the surface we all must be boiling with rage, and sometimes, when our restraint can no longer find a way to contain it, that anger must express itself—hence our capacity for shocking acts of cruelty, sadism, hate, murder and war.”

Our homepage — HumanCondition.com — provides a wonderful road map to progress with all our key material made freely available and you can register to recieve free weekly Freedom Essays each week explaining this immensely relieving understanding in bite size pieces. Also our Facebook Group provides a wonderful platform for participating in, or just observing, interesting and exciting discussion with others about how we can live with this critical new science.

Hi Joan, we recommend our FAQ 1.33: ‘Isn’t our situation getting better not worse?’, in which Jeremy Griffith explains that although we attempt to ‘civilize’ our anger and egocentricity, the truth is that levels of psychological upset are increasing, to the point that the world is facing terminal alienation.

It is true that under the duress of the human condition humans have needed to be selfish and egocentric – we have needed our own “spectrum” and “unique behaviour”, and the challenge has always been to balance that selfishness against the cooperation needed for society to function. This however, has just been a ‘holding pattern’. Ultimately we needed to find the scientific explanation for why when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless are humans so angry, competitive and selfish. Answering this question required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy presents in THE Interview. So it is true that the human condition manifests in different ways in all as a result of our own experiences and exposure to the world, but the clash between instinct and intellect is the source of all our insecurity and subsequent anger, egocentricity and alienation, and so explaining it makes all those defensive selfish behaviours redundant, and allows a fundamental change to a cooperative world.

not sure I agree 100 percent.. additional info needed..

Hi Laura, Jeremy’s books and essays are being translated into many languages around the world, thanks to wonderful efforts from the WTM’s ever-expanding global network of support. Unfortunately we don’t yet have any Romanian translations but our Translations page shows all languages that are available. Also people can watch THE Interview (and all the videos on our website) using the closed captions or subtitles function in their native language (just click on the ‘cc’ icon at the bottom of the video player/window).

    Biologist Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition allows us to understand the real merits and liabilities of both the left and right wing. His work certainly recognises the destructive brutality of the right-wing; indeed he brings understanding to the whole extremely destructive angry, egocentric and alienated human condition. He also recognises the failing of the Left, which is that its dogmatic insistence on cooperative, selfless and loving behaviour stifled and oppressed the freedom of expression and individualism needed to find knowledge, ultimately self-knowledge, the redeeming understanding of our seemingly destructive human condition that thankfully he has now found and presents in his book FREEDOM. Basically his work brings profound understanding to both sides, which ultimately brings to an end the whole ugly business of politics. This is fully explained in our FAQs about politics.     With regard to a more ‘simplified’ presentation, as THE Interview explains, the human condition is the most fearful of subjects because it’s the issue of whether we are fundamentally good or bad and our fear of this interface can make it hard to understand all that is explained in one viewing. Our FAQ 1.16 explains what is needed to overcome this initial ‘deaf effect’ isn’t a more simplified version but rather a preparedness to re-read and/or re-listen to what is being written or said. This process erodes our historic denial thereby allowing the compassionate and immensely relieving insights to become accessible.

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We are pleased you found THE Interview so helpful Troy and assume, from what you have written, it is because Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition brings biological understanding to religious accounts of our condition, which means we can at last reconcile science and religion (see FAQ 1.15 ‘If this is biology, why the religious references?’). For instance, as THE Interview explains, the story of Adam and Eve is a pre-scientific metaphor for the emergence of consciousness and its clash with our pre-established, cooperative loving instincts, resulting in humans becoming psychologically upset or ‘sinful’ or ‘evil’. However, significantly we can now understand, from scientific first principles, that ‘Adam and Eve’ were actually ‘good’ to search for knowledge, not bad or ‘evil’; we humans are actually the absolute heroes of the whole story! It establishes that we are good and not bad after all! What THE Interview presents fundamentally lifts the ‘burden of guilt’ from the human race and allows us to forgive ourselves and others and finally end our psychologically troubled human condition—it couldn’t be a bigger breakthrough. For those who are interested our FAQs about religion expand on this, especially 6.2 ‘What is God’ and 6.3 ‘Does this understanding undermine religion’.

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Hi Kerri, thank you for your comment but we disagree. Jeremy Griffith explains in this interview that all humans are born with all-loving moral instincts – not savage, survival-of-the-fittest animal instincts – but now variously suffer from a psychosis due to the human condition caused by the conscious mind’s necessary search for knowledge. Part 3 especially evidences this key biological distinction that we suffer from the conscious-mind-based, psychologically troubled human condition, not the genetic-opportunism-based, animal condition. And, most significantly, as Part 4 explains a psychosis can be healed with understanding, so our psychologically upset human nature is fixable or changeable—not unchangeable. So we can at last understand what has been driving our evolution or development as a species and know our freedom is not some “mythical creature”.

Yes Julie Ann as Craig Conway observes in this interview, this fundamental ‘genes vs nerves’ explanation is extraordinarily simple, but that can leave one wondering how it applies to all the problems we see around us, but, if we can explain and address the source of the problem we can solve it and that is exactly what Jeremy Griffith has done! It just takes a little time to see how it all works so we suggest you re-watch THE Interview, especially Part 4 titled ‘How does the psychological rehabilitation of the human race that the arrival of understanding of the human condition finally makes possible actually occur?’, which presents the answer to how this understanding allows everyone to transform their lives.

Thank you for your heartfelt comment Betty and many people tell us the relief of finally having understanding of the human condition brings tears to their eyes and hope to their hearts! We imagine from your response you have seen how Jeremy Griffith’s treatise actually reconciles science and religion by bringing biological understanding to pre-scientific concepts. For instance although this is science, it is based on a Godly nature in the sense of recognising, like all the great religions do, that we humans once lived in a pre-human-condition-afflicted state of original innocence where we were perfectly instinctively orientated to the cooperative, selfless, loving, ‘Godly’ ideals of life; ‘God’ being explained in as being the integrative meaning of life. (Our FAQs about religion include FAQ 6.2 ‘What is God’ and FAQ 6.3 ‘Does this undermine religion/God’.) The difference being that we can now with the benefit of science, bring clarifying, first-principle biological explanation to our so-called ‘good and evil’-afflicted human condition and why we had to depart from our original innocence, whilst religion had to rely on metaphor and a more literal interpretation. In terms of sending your article we do receive a lot of feedback and submissions which we appreciate and do endeavour to give some consideration and a response to. However, being a still small, largely self-funded and self-sufficient organisation with the immensely difficult pioneering task of holding at bay the whole entrenched, all-dominating, human-condition-avoiding, mechanistic scientific paradigm, we are not in a position to properly evaluate all these different submissions (see FAQ 1.45).

Hi Philip, that is great you are keen to read Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book, FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition. We wanted to let you know that it is freely available in many different formats HERE on our homepage — so you can read it online or download it and even print your own copy immediately! Jeremy’s other key books, including the booklet version of this summary presentation in THE Interview, are also freely available at this link and you can also download the free Kindle versions from Amazon. Otherwise you can purchase hard copies of Jeremy’s books from Amazon and other good bookstores.

Hi Hellen, we appreciate the difficulty accessing Jeremy Griffith’s understandings in languages other than English, so we have created a Translations page on our website where you can find key publications in other languages, including Dutch. Also people can watch THE Interview (and all the videos on our website) using the closed captions or subtitles function in their native language (just click on the ‘cc’ icon at the bottom of the video player/window).

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Great to have your interest, Tabitha. Explanation of the human condition does produce a huge paradigm shift in our thinking so there is much to absorb and re-watching THE Interview is exactly what we recommend people do! You also might like to explore our homepage which provides all our key material to consider, including our other Main Videos.

Yes, ultimately we needed to find the scientific explanation for why when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless are we so angry, competitive and selfish. Answering this question required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy Griffith presents here and his book FREEDOM. Understanding why our intellect had to defy our instincts defends our so-called ‘dark side’ and explains that despite all appearances to the contrary, all humans are ‘good’. And paradoxically, by explaining the very good reason why our intellect had to defy our instincts, it makes redundant our defensive behaviours of anger, egocentricity and alienation, allowing us to finally bring about the cooperative world we have all longed for!

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    Thanks for your thoughts Von. We can now understand that since consciousness emerged and came into conflict with our preestablished instincts some 2 million years ago, humanity has become ever more psychologically upset. With regard to your situation, we highly recommend chapter 8 of Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM. In it, he traces the development of an individual’s life alongside humanity’s development (ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny). Chapter 8:14 covers the final years of Homo sapiens sapiens’ 0.2 million (200,000) year reign and the individual now 50 plus years old, and in it, Jeremy explains why men in particular become extremely psychologically upset when they get to 50 years old. For example, he writes that “The ‘Hollow Final Adulthood Stage’ (of Humanity’s Adolescence) represents the time when many resigned post-40-year-olds become disillusioned with the treacherous, weak and cowardly, completely selfish, extremely dishonest and deluded ‘do good to feel good’ born-again existence and return to the upsetting battle to champion the ego over the condemning instincts. But as a result of this return to participating in the upsetting battle, they become even more upset, embattled and frustrated than they were when they were driven to adopt the pseudo idealistic way of living. In the context of the aforementioned extraordinarily honest Japanese proverb that described the stages of maturation under the duress of the human condition—‘At 10 man is an animal, at 20 a lunatic, at 30 a failure, at 40 a fraud and at 50 a criminal’—this is the 50-year-old ‘criminal’ stage where men in particular become so soul destroyed, so horrifically angry, punch-drunk, ego-unsatisfied, bitter and vengeful that they brutally and completely repress the condemning voice of their ideal-behaviour-demanding, cooperatively orientated soul, leaving themselves adrift in an empty, hollow, soul-less wilderness.”     What is presented here really is unique Von; it is the only way to truly bring an end to all the escalating “domination”, “hurt”, “pain” and “utter chaos” by addressing it at its source!

While it takes some time to digest, we suggest that what is unique about Jeremy Griffith’s work is that he has answered the essential question of why, when the universal ideals are to be integrative are we so disintegrative? Our endeavours in philosophy, psychology and biology have failed, until now, to provide a truthful, real, fully accountable, genuinely clarifying explanation. Answering this question required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy presents here. We suggest FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this original or new?’ and Video/Freedom Essay 4 which expands further on other thinkers (both ancient and contemporary) who have recognised instinct and intellect elements involved in creating the human condition.

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Thank you for your thoughts Dora. We suggest what is so extraordinary about this breakthrough is that we can now understand the fundamental reason why people want more than they have; we can now understand the source of greed, and more generally, materialism. When the conscious mind went in search of knowledge a conflict between our instinct and intellect broke out, leading to an undeserved sense of guilt and insecurity that caused us to become psychologically defensive, angry, alienated and egocentric, the upset state we refer to as the human condition—a state we sought to alleviate through a competitive, selfish and aggressive bid for the reinforcement we could gain from winning power, fame, fortune and glory; this is underlying source of ‘greed’. So we can now see the biblical term ‘sin’ is describing our psychologically ‘upset’ state’, which was an unavoidable – and heroic – product of our search for knowledge. So now that we can explain and understand this conflict and the guilt and upsest it produced, all those insecure, defensive behaviours are obsoleted, brought to an end, and we free ourselves from the human condition. We suggest FAQ 1.6 ‘Why understanding the human condition solves everything’ and also FAQ 6.3 ‘How can you reconcile the explanation of the human condition that defends the upset state with religious teachings that condemn upset?’.