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Hi Neil, THE Interview is 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 notifications 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 a not-for-profit organisation and make all our material and publications free to read online, watch, listen to and even download and print!

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Nina, being able to understand the human condition, we can now see that everyone has suffered from it, and all our institutions, including governments, have been a manifestation of our insecure, psychologically upset condition. As distinguished psychiatrist Professor Harry Prosen (who wrote the Introduction to Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM) said: “What Griffith is presenting is understanding of the source insecurity that the whole human race suffers from for having destroyed our species’ innocent soul. It is a universal self-blame that his understanding at last provides healing insight into. All human behavior is saturated with that universal insecure, depressing state and resulting anger, egocentricity and alienation that has developed from it, but we finally have the compassionate foundation insight needed to dismantle all that ‘upset’/psychosis. So the real psychotherapy of our collective and individual psychoses can begin” (see FAQ 1.34). Only solving the human condition can stop the disintegration of society and the destruction of our world that is happening everywhere we look.

    Thanks very much for the feedback Mulu. Jeremy Griffith’s key books, including THE Interview and FREEDOM, are freely available on our homepage here to read online, print and download. You can also download free Kindle versions from Amazon. Amazon also sell and ship hardcopies to most places around the world.     You might also be interested in seeing our African WTM Centres, which you can find on our WTM Centres page.

Thank you Marty. Our homepage — HumanCondition.com — provides a wonderful road map to progress with all our key material made freely available and you can register for free weekly emails about this immensely relieving understanding. 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.

Wow what an amazing interview, Jeremy is a very clever man and this explanation and the science behind it could change the world. Could stop global warming, wars, all the bad in the world if the world would listen. You now have to merge with right people that the masses might listen to and a way to still have a money system that works for the people like the macroeconomic theory and then work out how to bring this in to society so the people with more right now don’t feel like there being robbed of what they have showing these traits we have developed and stopping this amazing thing from happening

Thanks very much Eden, this really is the understanding that we have all yearned for! We will email you with details about getting a copy of Jeremy’s book FREEDOM, but for those reading here, the book is free to read online or download HERE on our homepage with no email registration required. The work of the WTM is a scientific pursuit and was not created for profit, so all of our information and materials (including books, videos and podcasts) are provided absolutely free of charge. You can also download free Kindle versions from Amazon. Otherwise, if you particularly want a hard copy, you can purchase them from Amazon or other good bookstores.

Your prayer has been answered Susan. What is being presented here is the rational, fully accountable, scientific explanation of our psychologically upset condition – the “true understanding of ourselves” – that allows humanity to return to a state of selfless cooperation. 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. 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.

Yes, as Professor Harry Prosen, a former President of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, and Patron of the WTM, has said, “The fastest growing realization is that humanity cannot go on the way it is going.” However, what is unique about what Jeremy Griffith has done 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. Most wonderfully, by explaining the very good reason why our intellect had to defy our instincts (which is that genes can orientate but nerves need to understand) our defensive behaviours of anger, egocentricity and alienation are made redundant, which means we are finally in a position to bring about the Transformation we all want – “Selfishness has to be selflessness”. In Part 4 of THE Interview, Jeremy explains how the psychological rehabilitation of the human race that the arrival of understanding of the human condition finally makes possible, actually occurs.

There is a bit to take in here Jim. 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. That is the great breakthrough presented here; see FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this original or new?’ as it explains the unique significance of Jeremy’s work.

Take your time – keep exploring and digesting it all Chris. With regard to the lives of our ancestors, the bonobos, with their food rich, predator scarce environment, provide a wonderful insight. We recommend chapter 5 of Jeremy Griffith’s defintive book FREEDOM, for more on bonobos as well as fossil evidence into the ‘love indoctrination’ process that shaped the loving, cooperative instinctive self or soul of our hominid ancestors.

Very excited to hear this valuable info

Hi Athena, key to biologist Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition is an understanding of the difference between our instincts and intellect, and the effect that difference has had on our behaviour. He explains in THE Interview how the result of the conflict between our instinct and intellect was an undeserved sense of guilt and insecurity that caused us to become psychologically ‘upset’ or selfish, greedy and egocentric. To alleviate this insecurity we have been on a competitive, selfish and aggressive bid for the reinforcement we could gain from winning power, fame, fortune and glory. But now that we can explain and understand this conflict and the guilt it produced, all those selfish and greedy behaviours are obsoleted, brought to an end, and we free ourselves from the human condition and heal ourselves and our world. It couldn’t be a bigger breakthrough for humanity that is for sure! If you would like to explore this further our FAQs about the human condition and its resolution are most helpful, particular to your question is FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does understanding the human condition solve everything?’

Hi Merel, what we suggest is the more you absorb this understanding the more you will see the huge and fundamental difference between the two. To solve the human condition required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy Griffith has found and which is endorsed by leading scientists and thinkers here on our homepage. So the World Transformation Movement presents the explanation of how the upset state of the human condition came about and the real healing solution to it, whereas the many new age healing type courses and theories out there, like A Course in Miracles, only offer a way of managing it. They don’t deal with the source of the problem nor do they biologically establish our fundamental goodness as a species, which is what Jeremy has done and what we desperately need to save the world, as explained in this important FAQ 6.5.

Sorry, found nothing new in this talk!

As it turns out, we are not insatiable. What we only ever wanted was the redeeming understanding of why we destroyed our innocent past. Through finding the good reason that we had to defy our all-loving, but dictatorial, instincts, all our defensive behaviours (our anger, egocentricity and alienation) are now redundant. We no longer need them because we have the real defense for why we had to defy our instincts.

This is just how our ancestors lived. Indigenous Australia.

    We suggest you should evaluate Jeremy Griffith’s treatise on its merits. Every concept presented in it is supported by accountable first-principle scientific argument. And you can know that he has at last got to the bottom of the human condition, because the ultimate test of any hypothesis is how accountable it is of our own lives. Once you understand the explanation and begin to apply it, you will discover it is so able to make sense of human behaviour it makes it transparent. This transparency of ourselves and our world — for example, the exposure of all our falseness — that this understanding of the human condition brings, is the ultimate ‘test of experience’ that confirms that the understanding being presented here is the long-sought explanation of the human condition.     Regarding Darwin, we will just mention that as recently as last year, Discovery magazine wrote, “His [Darwin’s] work revolutionized scientific thought and remains largely intact to this day.”

Hi Dottie, what is so extraordinary about Jeremy Griffith’s instinct vs intellect explanation of the human condition is that it explains the real reason for why humans’ competitive behaviour became an unavoidable, indeed necessary, part of human life. Rather than being idealistic, it is actually a defence of reality! That is why it is so powerful: it actually allows us all to reconcile the selfish madness of the world, and in ourselves, with ideality. And 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, which is what makes it totally different to pseudo idealistic demands that we all just behave cooperatively.

Thank you Dave. Yes, we can now understand that Marxism was pseudo-idealistic, and actually hampered the all important search to find knowledge. We recommend Jeremy Griffith’s book Death by Dogma, which is freely available on our homepage. It sets out clearly the biological reason for why left-wing ideology is so dangerous. It also summarises the whole history of pseudo idealism going back to when the upset state of the human condition first emerged some 2 million years ago. In it Jeremy emphasises that while it is easy to identify with the ideal of everyone being cooperative and loving, the whole objective of the human journey was, as mentioned, to find understanding of why humans have not been cooperative and loving and instead so divisively competitive and aggressive. That is the great riddle of the human condition that had to be explained, and what is finally revealed with Jeremy’s biological explanation is that there has been an all-important, good reason for that divisive behaviour. It’s always been easy to side with idealism and denigrate realism, but the left wing’s insistence on ideal behaviour had the effect of oppressing and thus regressing, not ‘progressing’, the all-important search for knowledge. Now at last we can understand the real world humans have been living in where we have had to be competitive, aggressive and selfish, and, most wonderfully of all, by revealing that reason, ending the need for that divisive behaviour.

The WTM’s homepage—HumanCondition.com—provides a guide to ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’ which recommends the steps to learn more and get involved—and it is all free! This includes joining our popular WTM Community Facebook Group and registering for free, weekly emails which serve as a wonderfully comprehensive course as it guides you through much of the content of Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM in beautifully illustrated bite-size pieces.

Christina, even though the instinct vs intellect concept is actually very simple, we humans have lived in such fear and denial of our corrupted condition that we can find it difficult to ‘hear’ or take in discussion of it. For people new to this concept, we recommend Jeremy’s recent presentation The Great Guilt, which explains this ‘Deaf Effect’ in depth. If you want a good quick summary, we recommend FAQ 1.3, in which it is explained that, “Essentially, when we humans developed a conscious mind some 2 million years ago, a battle unavoidably developed between it and our already established cooperative instincts. The result of this conflict between our instinct and intellect was that we became psychologically defensive, angry, alienated and egocentric – the upset state we refer to as the human condition. But now that we can explain and understand this conflict, all those insecure, defensive behaviours are obsoleted, brought to an end, and we free ourselves from the human condition.”

Hi Tammy. You can immediately access a copy at the top of our homepage just under THE Interview! You will see an image of FREEDOM with the text ‘Free Copy’ so click on that to access your free electronic copy to read, listen to or download. You can also download free Kindle versions from Amazon. If you are particularly after a hardcopy of Jeremy Griffith’s books they are available to purchase from Amazon and other good bookstores.

Thank you Betty. Yes, what Jeremy Griffith presents actually reconciles science and religion by scientifically explaining and demystifying pre-scientific concepts. For example, Part 2 of THE Interview explains how 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’. Yes, there have been “dark days” aplenty since the emergence of the human condition some 2 million years ago, and with it our ‘good and evil’ stricken condition, but with the redeeming, reconciling understanding found, the sunlight of healing understanding can now stream in!

From the beginning after Adam and Eve messed up, now we have a breakthrough to keep man awake.

Thank you so much for your comment and interest, David. To learn more and progress your understanding here are our recommended next steps: • Subscribe to our free Mailing List where you will receive one email per week, occasional News Flashes, and notifications for our Live Events. • Watch the Main Videos where Jeremy Griffith (& others) talk you through the explanation of the human condition. Totally free, no registration required. • Read the Key Books by Jeremy Griffith. Totally free to download, no registration required. • Join and participate in our Facebook Group to learn about this amazing, human-condition-resolved new world. • Help this critical new science by sharing it!

    Thanks for your interest Ralph. With regard to your question about whether humanity’s redemption is beyond the capabilities of humansto bring about, and that therefore we need a “saviour”, we would reiterate what we replied to LaVerne, which is that 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. Yes, as is explained in THE Interview, it is understanding that is the savior – science’s discovery of the way genes and nerves work has finally made it possible for the liberation of humanity from the horror of the human condition.     We are rational creatures, and so when all the logic points to there being only one response we can make, namely the human-condition-resolved, upset-obsoleted, transformed new way of living, then that is the response the human race has to take. 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 everyone to transform their 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.

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Hi Melissa, the work of the WTM is a scientific pursuit and was not created for profit, so all of the information and materials (including books, videos and podcasts) provided on the website are absolutely free of charge (with no email required to access everything), and that also applies to our mailing list, if you would like to receive one email per week, occasional News Flashes, and notifications for our Live Events.

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While Buddhism and other 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. We suggest FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this original or new?’ which explains the unique significance of Jeremy Griffith’s work.

Certainly there has been a recognition in literature (and by profound thinkers generally) that there must be something better than our current human condition afflicted state and that someone had to be prepared to stand apart from the crowd in order to find it. However, many people have deluded themselves that this ‘liberated’ state could be achieved through people artificially restraining, sublimating or even transcending their upset, corrupted condition. But the truth is that this state could only be achieved by confronting, truthfully thinking about, and finally explaining and thus solving the human condition at its source, which is what Jeremy Griffith has done. In the end it was only getting to the bottom of the human condition, not transcending it, that could fulfil Richard Bach’s allegorical quest for perfection.

Thank you Mary. Our homepage — HumanCondition.com — provides a wonderful road map to progress with all our key material made freely available and you can register for our free weekly emails presenting this immensely relieving understanding in bite-size portions! 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.

    Yes, in hindsight, it all just seems so simple and common sense! But while the fundamental explanation is very simple, the very nature of the human condition means explanation of it can be initially difficult to access as it has been the most terrifying of subjects to face because it is the issue of whether we are fundamentally good or bad as a species, and we have necessarily lived in almost total denial of it.     And you are right, it does reconcile the scientific and the spiritual. Although what is being presented is rational, fully accountable science, it recognises, 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. The more that people digest this explanation, the more they see that it does not rob life or explanations of life of its ‘spiritual’ dimension. People might be interested in reading our FAQ 6.7 ‘How can a scientific explanation ever hope to account for and encompass the great ‘spiritual’ dimension we know exists in life? / Isn’t ‘spirituality’ beyond a purely rational explanation?’

Humans by themselves will never achieve that, we need a savior.

Thank you very much for your comment James and your good faith and open mind will not be disappointed. Firstly everything is completely free of charge, there is absolutely no cost involved as this is a scientific pursuit and was not created for profit, see FAQ 3.1 ‘What is the World Transformation Movement?’ Secondly, as our FAQ 1.9 ‘Should people be sceptical’ explains, the absolutely astonishing claims made about Jeremy Griffith’s treatise, such as Professor Harry Prosen (former president of the Canadian Psychiatric Association) saying “I have no doubt Jeremy Griffith’s biological explanation of the human condition is the holy grail of insight we have sought for the psychological rehabilitation of the human race”, all withstand scrutiny. A person can begin reading the explanation and the more they read into it the more they will realise the claims are actually true, and in time become deeply appreciated for their forthright honesty in indicating where the solution to our problems lies.

Yes Ann, as the interviewer Craig Conway observes, the fundamental genes vs nerves argument is very simple but is “so far-reaching in its ramifications” so re-watching THE Interview is exactly the way to fully grasp all that flows from the explanation. Also, as we suggest HERE our homepage, after watching THE Interview we recommend you watch The Great Guilt video that explains the difficulty of the ‘Deaf Effect’ that reading about the human condition initially causes, and then The Great Transformation video about how understanding the human condition actually transforms the human race. As Craig goes on to say “...I mean it is world-changing is what it is, because it truly enables ‘the psychological rehabilitation of the human race’! I mean that is just wonderful.” Also subscribing to our free mail list and joining our popular Facebook Group are other great ways to learn more about how all-encompassing this explanation is.

Thank you for your perceptive comment Jimmi. The question of the human condition has been the hardest because it asks are we fundamentally good or bad. So the human condition has been the most important, but also the most fearful, of subjects. The most wonderful news is now that question is answered, as it is in THE Interview, the subject becomes safe and not just safe but gloriously freeing of our mind and soul! We no longer have to live in denial and fear of this subject, and in Part 4 Jeremy Griffith discusses just how liberating this knowledge is: “being finally able to understand that we are good and not bad is what brings us the greatest psychological relief of all…at last we can…reconcile and heal our split selves.”

    Oh that is wonderful you want to help your son with this understanding Theress as it does bring such relief to all our troubled minds because it resolves the source of the conflict between our instincts and intellect and stops the “inner critic” as you so well decribe the effect of the struggle. To quote Jeremy Griffith from Part 4 in THE Interview: “Well, what this real—and actually very obvious—instinct vs intellect explanation of the human condition fundamentally does is lift the ‘burden of guilt’ from the human race. It establishes that we humans are good and not bad after all. While we are all inevitably variously angry, egocentric and alienated from our different encounters with humanity’s heroic battle to find knowledge, ultimately self-knowledge, understanding of our corrupted condition, we can now know that every human is fundamentally good. And this ability to understand and know there was a good reason why the human race became psychologically upset, is the key, relieving understanding we have been in search of ever since we became conscious some 2 million years ago and our corrupted condition emerged. That is the key relief for our mind—being finally able to understand that we are good and not bad is what brings us the greatest psychological relief of all.”     We highly recommend you and your son also watch the companion presentation to THE Interview titled The Great Guilt. It is an astonishingly beautiful and revealing presentation that takes you back to when the human condition first emerged in humans and comprehensively explains the shame and guilt we have felt for having corrupted our all-loving and sensitive soul and how this lifts the great burden of guilt from the human race! You can access it HERE on our website. We also wanted to mention all of Jeremy’s books, including THE Interview and his main book FREEDOM, are freely available HERE on our website.

Great to have your interest John! As THE Interview explains, despite our competitive and selfish behaviour we have always intuitively believed we were fundamentally good, but we have never been able to explain our contradictory, conflicted condition — until now. Using first principle-based biology, Jeremy Griffith explains that only understanding why the intellect had to defy our cooperative ‘good’ instincts and become psychologically upset, or ‘bad’, could we resolve our species’ psychosis. Having the conflict between our instincts and intellect explained is all-important because it is only this clarifying, redeeming and reconciling explanation of the nature of the struggle between our instinctive self and conscious self that at last brings peace to our divided selves, and transforms the human race, see FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this idea original or new?’. In terms of how this knowledge will spread and educate the world as with any new scientific breakthrough in history it may take time for people to realise this is what it says it is but once this catches on — through people recognising the importance of it — the infectious enthusiasm and selfless love it liberates will spread like wildfire, see FAQ 1.40 ‘How can you hope to transform the world?’.

It’s great you are going to watch THE Interview Kathy as yes the world is fast reaching its 11th hour and we need answers urgently and thankfully, at last, we have them with this resolution of the human condition! As Jeremy Griffith says in this interview: “We humans have absolutely lived in hope, faith and trust that one day, somewhere, some place, all the efforts of everyone—but of scientists in particular—would finally produce the completely redeeming, uplifting and healing understanding of us humans. I know it must seem outrageous to claim that this goal of goals has finally been achieved, but it has. In fact, the human condition is such a difficult subject for us humans to confront and deal with that I couldn’t be talking about it so openly and freely if it hadn’t been solved.” Our FAQ 1.6 summarises how understanding the human condition solves everything!

    While the understanding of the human condition makes the “lie” (which is essentially living a psychologically upset angry, egocentric and alienated life) visible, this understanding also enables us to at last understand that the “lie” has been necessary, and actually heroic. It was what enabled humanity to continue with the corrupting journey to find knowledge, ulimately self-knowledge, understanding of the human condition. Certainly we have come from an innocent and cooperative, “egalatarian” past, where “inequity” was an anathema, however competition and materialism have been necessary. As THE Interview explains, freedom of thought and individualism, sustained by the incentives of materialism and capitalism which right-wing constitutions uphold, are what maintained humanity’s heroic search for knowledge.     To assist with understanding this analysis, we suggest looking at Jeremy’s short booklet Death by Dogma because it sets out clearly the biological reason why trying to enforce cooperative behaviour have been so dangerous. It summarises the whole history of ‘pseudo idealism’ going back to when the upset state of the human condition first emerged some 2 million years ago. In it Jeremy emphasises that while it is easy to identify with the ideal of everyone being cooperative and loving, the whole objective of the human journey was, as mentioned, to find understanding of why humans have not been cooperative and loving and instead so divisively competitive and aggressive. That is the great riddle of the human condition that had to be explained, and what is finally revealed with Jeremy’s biological explanation is that there has been an all-important, good reason for that divisive behaviour. It’s always been easy to side with idealism and denigrate realism, but now at last we can understand the real world humans have been living in where we have had to be competitive, aggressive and selfish, and, most wonderfully of all, by revealing that reason, ending the need for that divisive behaviour.

The WTM is a global not-for-profit movement supported by the efforts of members and supporters from around the world. As explained in our FAQ 3.1, “Founded in Sydney in 1983, the WTM is a global not-for-profit movement dedicated to transforming the individual, the human race and thus our world through bringing psychologically relieving biological understanding to the underlying problem in all human affairs of the human condition, humans’ extraordinary capacity for what has been referred to as ‘good and evil’...The WTM works tirelessly to promote this explanation of the human condition to ensure its now desperately needed psychologically liberating and transforming effects reach every human. Indeed, it is called the World Transformation Movement because the most marvellous effect of having understanding of the human condition is that all our species’ psychologically upset angry, egocentric and alienated behaviour can now, immediately, be put aside, and eventually, over a few generations, completely disappear, thus bringing about the complete rehabilitation and transformation of the human race and thus of our planet.”

Solving the human condition will certainly remove our fear of death. As Jeremy explains in Part 5.2 of Freedom Expanded Book 1, “When we were innocent we were so in tune with everything around us and so happy inside and so alive that death was not an issue. Death is only an issue when we live a wretched life, where we become so selfish that it matters if we die or not. Fear of death is a product of selfishness, which in turn is a product of alienation, which in turn is the loss of the generosity and meaning we once had before we became upset.” With the human condition solved and future humans no longer at odds with our all-loving instinctive self or soul, which we can now understand is in complete harmony with Integrative Meaning (see Freedom Essay 23), which is the theme of the universe, it follows that they will be in harmony with the universe. Plato in his dialogue Phaedo described our all-loving soul, writing that humans have “knowledge, both before and at the moment of birth…​of all absolute standards…[of] beauty, goodness, uprightness, holiness…​our souls exist before our birth”, describing “the soul” as “the pure and everlasting and immortal and changeless…realm of the absolute…[our] soul resembles the divine [God]”.

    In THE Interview, biologist Jeremy Griffith explains the major question facing our species, and each of us in our lives is our psychologically troubled ‘good and evil’ stricken so-called human condition; and more particularly, our inability to answer the question of why we humans are the way we are, so brutally competitive, selfish and aggressive that human life has become all but unbearable.     In FAQ 1.1 this stricken state is explained in detail: "It is not uncommon for people to think that the term ‘human condition’ refers to the state of poverty and inequality and other practical hardships and imperfections in human life, but such problems are only superficial manifestations and aspects of the human condition. Much less superficial interpretations of what the term human condition means are that it refers to ‘the riddle of why we humans are competitive and selfish not cooperative and loving’, and ‘the issue of good and evil in our make-up’, and even, ‘the issue of why we are the way we are’. However, the human condition is actually a much, much deeper issue than even these last interpretations. As I explained in THE Interview and in all my other presentations, we humans once lived in a nurtured-with-unconditional-love, cooperative, selfless and loving innocent state...If we stand back and think about this original cooperative, selfless and loving state and then think about how competitive, selfish and aggressive we humans are now, the contrast between the two states couldn’t be greater. And if we think about that extreme contrast and then think about the situation we have been stuck in for some 2 million years where we haven’t been able to explain our so-called ‘fall from grace’, the corruption of our original all-sensitive and all-loving, innocent instinctive self or soul, then how deeply traumatised with guilt and shame must we humans have been all that time! Certainly, we learnt to block the horror of this situation out of our mind, but that has been the underlying psychological predicament we humans have been enduring. So having had to live with this insufferable, unbearably depressing guilt and shame for having destroyed the magic world of our soul is what the human condition really is!"

It needs to be born in mind that THE Interview is only an introductory text. In Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM (see chapter 8:15) it is explained that religions have provided humanity with incredible guidance, comfort and love under the duress of the human condition. Ultimately however, to resolve and liberate ourselves from our conflicted human condition our conscious brain needed to understand why when the universal ideals of life are to be loving and cooperative are we also so hateful and competitive. To do this required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great breakthrough that biologist Jeremy Griffith has found. Whereas religions were a means of managing our condition, with this knowledge we can at last advance the human race from a human-condition afflicted state to a state completely free of that terrible affliction. You might like to explore our FAQs about religion.

I am convinced, mankind can no longer live in this environment.

Certainly, as Professor Harry Prosen, a former President of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, and Patron on the WTM wrote, “the fastest growing realization everywhere is that humanity can’t go on the way it is going.” However, until the redeeming and reconciling explanation of the human condition was found, humanity had no other option but to continue the upsetting search to find self-understanding, with the result that we became ever more psychologically upset angry, egocentric and alienated, to the point that we have now reached, where the world is at end play. Finally, as you say, we have found the answer that means all that madness and violence can end!

So interested because I believe this is true

    Thank you for your comment Chelsea. Your experience dealing with eyesight has certainly provided you with a wonderful metaphor for the truth that “a lot of our behaviour is originated from unconscious or subconscious mind”. However, what we can now understand is that it is not correct that our “aggressive and selfish behavior are survival mechanisms”, or that the cause of our behaviour is our “toxic society” which has caused “trauma” that has thrown our “sympathetic nerve system” into a heightened state, although this is certainly a symptom of the problem.     In this presentation biologist Jeremy Griffith explains our selfish and aggressive behaviour is the result of a psychosis caused by humanity’s heroic, but corrupting, search for knowledge. Further it is explained that all humans are born with an all-loving, cooperative instinctive self or soul which is the very sensitive, pure and true moral part of ourselves. In order to find knowledge we had to defy our cooperation-demanding instincts which resulted in us becoming psychologically upset or angry, egocentric and alienated from this all-knowing but not-understanding world of the soul, which we suppressed to our subconscious. In biological terms, our naturally selected instinctive orientations were in effect intolerant of our emerging intellect’s need to experiment with different behaviours in order to find understanding, which resulted in us becoming psychologically upset or angry, alienated and egocentric. Most importantly, this psychosis can be healed with understanding as is illustrated and evidence on our Transformation page!