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Thanks for your comment George. As our FAQ 1.9 ‘Should people be sceptical’ explains, the astonishing claims being made about Jeremy Griffith’s work do warrant initial scepticism however they all withstand scrutiny as what he presents is 100% logic. It is true that up to now, science’s attempts to explain consciousness and human psychology failed, and always veered into pseudo-science. That is because living in denial of the human condition meant that science was hopelessly hamstrung. With the instinct vs intellect explanation of the human condition Jeremy has brought scientific understanding to all these previously opaque, seemingly mysterious concepts. As the eminent ecologist Professor Stuart Hurlbert has said, “I am stunned & honored to have lived to see the coming of “Darwin II”. I say this because after Darwin’s theory of Natural Selection explained the variety of life, Jeremy Griffith has gone on to solve the other four main questions science had to answer about our world and place in it. They are: 1) the dilemma of the human condition, which his instinct vs intellect explanation in chapter 3 of his main, seminal book FREEDOM finally solves; 2) how we humans became fully conscious when other species haven’t, which he answers in chapter 7; 3) the origins of humans’ unique moral nature, which he answers in chapter 5, which it turns out American philosopher John Fiske had already explained in 1874 but mechanistic science had ignored; and 4) the truth of the Integrative Meaning of existence (which we have personified as ‘God’), in chapter 4, which only a rare few thinkers in history have been able to recognize. A most phenomenal scientific achievement!” We have added links so you can confirm for yourself that all these things are now explained completely rationally.

Hi Charlie, explanation of the human condition presents a huge paradigm shift in how we view ourselves and the world so there is a to take in as you say. So re-watching THE Interview and then watching the next introductory video The Great Guilt that causes the Deaf Effect as you are about to do is exactly what we recommend! The Great Guilt is very revealing and helpful as it outlines more comprehensively the definition of our human condition, and why engagement with the subject causes most people to initially experience a ‘Deaf Effect’ to what’s being presented and it includes examples of people overcoming this in the presentation. (People can watch it here on our website.) So take your time absorbing these two videos as peace of mind will come because what is so significant about Jeremy’s explanation of the human condition is we no longer have to be burdened by the fundamental question of whether we are good or bad because our core goodness as individuals and as a species has been biologically established. We can know our psychological upset was the price humans had to pay for searching for knowledge and that the human story presents the greatest, most heroic story ever told. So we can now look after ourselves with great compassion and kindness and we don’t have to overly confront the upset within us.

Hi Christine, in this interview biologist Jeremy Griffith makes the point that from ancient times many thinkers have identified the elements of instinct and intellect involved in creating the human condition, however the great breakthrough this new science provides is the clarifying explanation of the nature of the conflict between them. Understanding that the gene-based learning system can orientate a species, but that the nerve-based learning system is insightful, allows us to understand that the conscious mind was right to defy our instinctive self to search for understanding which produces our psychologically upset condition. Without that explanation the conflict could not be resolved. That is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy presents and why it is heralded as being able to save the world. We suggest FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this idea original or new? / How does biologist Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition differ from other theories that recognise these elements?’ which explains the unique significance of Jeremy Griffith’s work and you can see the outstanding commendations his work has received from eminent scientists and thinkers here on our homepage.

    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 subject can make us ‘deaf’ to what is being presented. We can think “He does not seem to have said anything”, but the falsity of this is very easily verified by looking at the transcript of THE Interview. For example, in it Jeremy Griffith answers the fundamental question of why, when the ideals are to be loving and cooperative, we are so selfish and competitive. He explains, “If we think about it, if an animal was to become fully conscious, like we humans became, then that animal’s new self-managing, understanding-based conscious mind would surely have to challenge its pre-existing instinctive orientations to the world, wouldn’t it? A battle would have to break out between the emerging conscious mind that operates from a basis of understanding cause and effect and the non-understanding instincts that have always controlled and dictated how that animal behaves.” And further, using the analogy of a migrating stork, he explains how we “became defensively angry, egocentric and alienated because he [we] couldn’t explain why he [we] was defying his instincts, so now that we can explain why, those defensive behaviours are no longer needed and can end!” It couldn’t be a bigger breakthrough!     We recommend Jeremy’s presentation The Great Guilt that causes the Deaf Effect as it provides astonishing clarification of why lifting The Great Burden Of Guilt from the human race causes most people to initially experience a ‘Deaf Effect’ to what’s being presented.

Absolutely mind blowing

Thanks for your comment Bruce and we hope you do explore it - you won’t be disappointed. Just go our homepage - www.humancondition.com - and you will see instructions on how best to follow your interest. We also wanted to draw your attention to the ‘ship at sea’ position Jeremy talks about which you may or may not relate to. Freedom Essay 30 titled ‘Resignation’ explains that some adolescents refuse to properly resign and take up the strategy of denial of the issue of the human condition that almost everybody else does. They courageously keep facing it, refuse to ‘pull into a port’, as it were, and escape the storms of confrontation with the real horror of the human condition, which does produce an honest, although torturous existence.

Hi Micheal. Only very superficially. There is a fundamental difference between Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition and Freud’s theory of the Id, Ego and Superego. While Jeremy acknowledges Freud’s courageous recognition that humans carry negative, repressed elements of our personality, a ‘repressed unconscious’, beyond that, there is very little similarity. Freud believed that the ‘ID’, our unconscious, instinctive mind, contained primitive selfish ‘savage’ urges that the conscious mind or ‘ego’ has to control, whereas Jeremy has now explained that our instinctive self is completely loving and cooperative, and that our aggressive and selfish behaviour is psychological in origin, the result of a clash between our instincts and intellect. Freud also believed that our morals are learnt and held by the superego, whereas Jeremy has now explained that they are the expression of our loving, cooperative moral soul or instincts. By starting from the false basis that we have ‘savage instincts’ that the ego had to control and mediate meant that Freud was not able to explain the ultimate source of human’s psychological problems.

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. However many people have deluded themselves that this liberated state could be achieved through people artificially restraining, sublimating and 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 it all, not transcendence, that could fulfil Richard Bach’s allegoral quest for perfection. See FAQ 6.5 about the profound difference between this an ‘New Age’ movements.

    Yes, this will start to make sense of everything Angellynne. For example, as you allude to, we can now understand that 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 ‘good’ to search for knowledge, not bad or ‘evil’; we humans are actually the absolute heroes of the whole story! 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.     In terms of Christianity and Christ, we should say that Jeremy does consider the Bible to be a repository of extremely rare denial-free truth, containing all the truth about human life albeit from that pre-science view, and he has written about Christ’s life and its phenomenal importance in humanity’s journey in Freedom Essay 39. Our FAQs about religion are also helpful.

There is absolutely no pseudo-science involved in Jeremy Griffith’s treatise, and in that respect it bears no comparison to writers such as Rupert Sheldrake and his concept of ‘morphic resonance’. Ultimately, only rational understanding of the human condition can fix up ourselves and our world; as Jeremy explains in chapter 9:6 of his definitive book FREEDOM, “we needed brain food not brain anaesthetic; we needed knowledge—specifically the dignifying, uplifting, healing, ameliorating, relieving, peace-bringing understanding of the human condition. Anything else was an abrogation of the fundamental responsibility that came with our greatest capacity and nature’s greatest invention: our species’ fully conscious, thinking, self-managing, self-adjusting mind.” If you want a fully rational, accountable explanation of life on earth, we recommend Freedom Essay 25 ‘The truthful biology of life’.

Thank you for your comment Teresa. We certainly respect people’s religious views however we felt it was important to mention that while religious assurances, such as ‘God loves you’ in Christianity, provided comfort, they failed to explain why we are lovable, and it is that missing explanation that this breakthrough provides. We maintain that now we can understand that the conscious mind was right, or ‘good’ to defy our instinctive self in order to fulfil its great potential to manage life, humanity’s great ‘burden of guilt’ has been removed. ‘Adam and Eve’ were not “wrong” to search for knowledge in the face of their dictatorial instincts, they were demonstrably heroes. For those interested in exploring this further we suggest FAQ 6.3 ‘Does this undermine religion/God’.

    Thank you very much for your thoughts Meron. Yes, humanity has certainly lost much of “the quality of nature and innate human values”, but we can now understand and defend our ‘dark side’ – our “chaos and greed of money” as you put it. Jeremy’s thesis 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 end the perpetuation of our destructive behaviour!     As is explained in Part 4 of THE Interview, with our goodness now 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. 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?’

Hi Manuel, thank you for your interest. THE Interview is freely available to read or downloaded as a transcript (ebooks or PDFs) HERE on our homepage; you can also download free Kindle versions from Amazon - or you can purchase copies from bookshops, including Amazon.

Thanks Delores. At last we can understand we have 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 at last we have the first principle-based science which liberates us to be honest about our conflicted upset state instead of denying or transcending it. This is the rapidly transforming practical effect of being able to understand the human condition which is fully explained and illustrated on our Transformation page. Also FAQs 1.4 to 1.6 explain the far-reaching application of this explanation and Freedom Essay 15 is all about ‘How understanding the human condition can immediately transform your and every other human’s life and save the world’.

    Thanks for your thoughts Noah. We suggest that as you digest this understanding you will come to see that the insecurity caused the instinct vs intellect clash is actually the cause of why we are all selfish and egocentric, rather than “the recognition that we die”. The rational mind (if it were truly rational) should be able to manage the recognition of our mortality, and the “overlap of desire” without becoming psychologically upset. No, there is a huge insecurity over our self-worth that is driving our behaviour.     And regarding the idea that becoming conscious of our mortality must have been “essentially traumatic”: this does not take into account that our ancestors were not originally psychologically upset and at odds with their instinctive self and the rest of the universe which was aligned with that instinctive self, and therefore were not afraid 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.” Yes, fear of death followed the advent of the human condition, it did not cause it, and when we humans are no longer tortured by the human condition, it will go.

As THE Interview 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 psychologically upset—so competitive and aggressive as to want to dominate and control others. We can also explain that all ‘races’ (ethnic groups) fall somewhere on the spectrum of either being more sheltered from humanity’s heroic battle to find knowledge, or more exposed to it, and so are either more innocent or more psychologically upset. We can see that at this point of time Caucasians fall somewhere in the middle, with more psychologically embattled races having ‘peaked’ earlier, and less psychologically embattled races yet to peak (see chapter 8:16E of Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM), however, the truth is that all humans are now part of the extremely upset stage of humanity, H. sapiens sapiens, and are therefore nowhere near as innocent as humans were some 2 million years ago when the battle of the human condition first emerged. So the more upset have been overthrowing the less upset since the human condition emerged. However, what is most important is that despite the differing levels of upset due to everyone’s different encounters with humanity’s heroic battle to find knowledge, we are all equally good. Now we can understand the human condition we can see that no person or race is superior or inferior. This desperately needed reconciling understanding of the relationship between races is further explained in Freedom Essay 28 and for a testimonial on the power of this information to end racism, we recommend watching/reading the presentations from Franklin Mukakanga and Refentse Molisiwa in Video/Freedom Essay 8.

Thank you Genevieve. Just to be clear, Darwin’s theory of natural selection to explain the variety of life on Earth is true; however when people started saying that our behaviour was the result of naturally selected ‘survival of the fittest’ ‘savage instincts’, that was, as Jeremy explains in Part 1 of THE Interview, a contrived excuse we had to resort to until we found the real explanation for our behaviour, which is ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation that is presented here.

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    Thank you for your thoughts Pierre. Yes, in Part 3 of THE Interview Jeremy Griffith explains that bononbos show something of what it was like for our distant ape ancestors before the emergence of consciousness and our resulting psychologically troubled human condition; and that they also evidence the nurturing based ‘love-indoctrination’ process that created our all-loving instinctive self or ‘soul’. With regard to chimpanzess, the key biological distinction between humans and other animal species is that humans suffer from the conscious-mind-based, psychologically troubled human condition, not the genetic-opportunism-based, animal condition. And so the source of our selfish aggressive behaviour is not ‘animal instincts’ such as the chimpanzees display.     Without the defence of our aggressive behaviour we have not been able to admit how cooperative our heritage is, and therefore how entirely cooperative and loving our instincts are. However, we now have that redeeming biological defence of our condition, and with that defence, it does become very clear that the idea that we have savage instincts is just an excuse that we used. You might be interested in FAQ 5.2 ‘What do bonobos tell us about our own evolutionary heritage?’

Yes, it is precious to know that we have “loving moral instincts”, but what is truly key about what Jeremy Griffith presents in THE Interview is that we can now defend our non-loving, im-moral behaviour. We can now understand why our intellect had to defy our “loving moral instincts” and suffer becoming psychologically upset as a result. It is only this that allows us to “become capable of accepting” the truth of our loving heritage, otherwise it just made us feel guilty about our non-loving, im-moral behaviour. Yes, ultimately, only this defence of our ‘dark side’ and with that our ability to love it could bring love and compassion back to the world; it couldn’t be a bigger breakthrough! Again, we recommend as a start point our FAQs 1.4 to 1.6 which explain the far-reaching application of this information. You might also be interested in our FAQ 1.40 ‘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? / How are you going to reach the bastions of power? / Won’t the greedy and power-hungry simply ignore this?’

Thank you Kylie: yes, it is an amazing interview. There is a huge amount to get your head around, which takes a little time, but now we can understand the human condition, we can see that everyone has suffered from it, and all our institutions, including our governments and media, have just been a manifestation of our insecure, psychologically upset condition. There is no ‘us and them’; it is all us. But with the human condition now solved, everything changes – our FAQs 1.4 to 1.6 may be helpful as they talk about the rapidly transforming effects of this new, world-changing knowledge.

Hi Frank, as Jeremy Griffith explains in THE Interview, humans are born with loving moral instincts but we all now variously suffer from a universal psychosis caused by the clash between our instinct and intellect and, in the extreme, that psychologically conflicted upset state produces extremely destructive behaviour, or what has historically been called ‘evil’. Of course this breakthrough explanation doesn’t condone or sanction the horrendous atrocities humans can commit rather, through bringing compassionate understanding to the source of humans’ upset behaviour, it gives us the power to ameliorate and thus subside and ultimately eliminate it, see FAQ 1.38 ‘Aren’t some people just born psychopathic, or even ‘evil’? / How does this explanation rehabilitate people capable of ‘evil’ behaviour? / Does this condone ‘evil’ behaviour?’. With this instinct vs intellect explanation of the human condition we can also now explain that the more innocent or sheltered ‘races’ (ethnic groups) have not been as exposed to humanity’s heroic battle to find knowledge as less sheltered races (including “the white race” that you mention) and so they aren’t as psychologically upset as those less sheltered races, see FAQ 9.2 ‘Are some races more innocent?’. However, all humans are now part of the extremely upset stage of humanity, H. sapiens sapiens, and are therefore nowhere near as innocent as humans were some 2 million years ago when the battle of the human condition first emerged. Also, most significantly, despite the differing levels of upset due to everyone’s different encounters with humanity’s heroic battle to find knowledge, we are all equally good. You might like to read our FAQ 9.1 about how this understanding puts an end to racism and for a testimonial on the power of this knowledge to end racism, we recommend the presentations from Franklin Mukakanga, of Zambia, and Refentse Molosiwa, of South Africa, in Video/Freedom Essay 8.

Thank you for your comment Leonard, the world certainly is in a terrifying endgame situation and this breakthrough has arrived at the 11th hour. At last we have the greater understanding and solution to our selfish and destructive human condition. We can know we actually do have loving moral instincts but, as a result of our conscious mind having to search for knowledge, we humans unavoidably and necessarily become angry, egocentric and alienated, and as a result we are more than capable of destroying each other and our environment. The relieving news is we can turn this doomed situation around and quickly! We suggest FAQ 1.40 ‘How can you hope to transform the world?’ and FAQ 1.9 ‘Should people be sceptical’ explains the astonishing claims being made about Jeremy Griffith’s work do warrant initial scepticism however they all withstand scrutiny as what he presents is 100% logic so we encourage you to watch THE Interview and judge for yourself!

Thank you for your comment Michelle. Yes finally having explanation of the human condition means we can work together and rehabiliate ourselves and our world! As Jeremy Griffith explains, the source of our fear is our fear of the issue of the human condition – the insufferable, unbearably depressing guilt and shame for having destroyed the ‘comfort’ of our all-sensitive world of our soul or ‘authentic self’ and becoming psychologically upset — which means we are terrified of opening the door on the subject at all. That is until now because, as Jeremy explains, the human condition is borne out of the unavoidable clash between our all-loving instincts and our intellect, namely that our emerging conscious mind had to defy our instincts in order to find the knowledge we needed to understand the world and our place in it. We think you will especially love watching the companion presentation to THE Interview titled The Great Guilt that causes the Deaf Effect (here on our website) which outlines more comprehensively the definition of our human condition and why engagement with the subject has been so fearful it can be initially hard to grasp.

Hi Ernest and thank you for your thoughts. We suggest the more one digests Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation the more they see that our unhappiness and “flawed” behaviour and need for stimulants are merely symptoms of our condition and which will not change until we solve this dilemma of the human condition, and bring self-understanding to the human situation. You may find reading FAQ 1.5 ‘Why is understanding the human condition important to my life?’ and FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does understanding solve everything?’ helpful.

Thankfully at last we do have the answer to the question of what is the meaning of life and human suffering Tibor. 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. (You might find our FAQs about religion of interest, in particular FAQ 6.2 ‘What is the meaning of life? / What is the Integrative Meaning of existence? / What is ‘God’?) In this interview Jeremy Griffith explains how humans were born with all-loving, moral instincts and how we now suffer from a universal psychosis caused by the clash between our instinct and intellect. We became psychologically upset and alienated from our original selfless state because of our conscious mind’s necessary search for knowledge and it is this upset that has caused all the suffering you describe. What is so significant about this is we can now understand we rightly left our loving, soulful instinctive state and suffered becoming corrupted in soul in order to fulfil the great potential of our conscious mind. So at last we can understand just how heroic the human journey to find knowledge has been and we no longer have to carry the immense burden of guilt and shame for having corrupted our original innocent state. It establishes that we are good and not bad after all and 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 and therefore all the suffering it caused. So with this solution we now have the ultimate benefit of the completely redeeming, uplifting and healing biological understanding of the core mystery and problem about human behaviour of our so-called ‘good and evil’-stricken human condition—thus ending all the conflict and suffering in human life at its source, and providing the now urgently needed road map for the complete rehabilitation and transformation of our lives and world! There is much to consider and absorb here Tibor so we suggest you watch our four key introductory presentations, which begins with THE Interview, HERE on our homepage and also read one of Jeremy’s latest books OUR MEANING which explains ‘How being able to know and fulfil the great objective and meaning of human existence finally ends human suffering’.

    Hi Margie, while great care has been taken to present the explanation as quickly and simply as possible (which is done in Part 1 of THE Interview), opening up the underlying issue in all human affairs of the human condition does mean that there are several absolutely critical questions to be answered, which make up Parts 2, 3 & 4 of THE Interview. However, FAQ 1.3 presents a very brief summary of the key ‘instinct vs intellect’ concept. Essentially, when we humans developed a conscious mind some 2 million years ago, a battle unavoidably developed between it and our already established 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.     We certainly respect people’s religious views and Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition doesn’t actually contradict a belief in God or Christianity. It simply brings biological understanding to all those pre-scientific concepts. In fact, Jeremy considers the Bible to be a repository of extremely rare denial-free truth about human life albeit from that pre-scientific view. You might find our FAQs about religion of interest, especially FAQs ‘What is God’ and ‘Does this understanding undermine religion’.

    First up Michael this is first-principle biological explanation of our human condition not some ‘feel good’ motivational escapism. To quote Jeremy Griffith: “the world out there is absolutely chock-a-block full of pseudo-idealistic, [the motivational speaker] Tony Robbins-types, ‘how to feel good about yourself’, ‘go to the ashrams in India’, pseudo-idealism. They’re all about patching up, only dealing with the symptoms of the problem, actually avoiding the issue of the human condition, making you feel together, calm and connected, but they’re not really dealing with the human condition at all ... the mind’s still unresolved. Half of the human head is brain and it wants understanding, so dogma, like the pseudo-idealistic New Age movement, or the politically correct movement, aren’t dealing with the human condition, they’re actually avoiding it. They’re a way to make you feel good about yourself without dealing with the human condition, it’s an escape.” (From Freedom Essay 61, Part 3)     Also we encourage people to be sceptical and look into this new science. As our FAQ 1.9 ‘Should people be sceptical’ explains, the astonishing claims being made about Jeremy’s work do warrant initial scepticism however they all withstand scrutiny as what he presents is 100% logic. People find once they begin exploring the explanation the more they do the more they realise the claims are actually true, and in time become appreciated for their forthright honesty in indicating where the solution to our problems lies — as the commendations on our homepage Jeremy’s work has received from eminent scientists and thinkers attest.     In terms of what this knowledge can do for you solving the human condition solves all the confusion, frustration and suffering in human life at its source. We can now understand our behaviour has been driven by a deep insecurity about our fundamental goodness, 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 transforming effect of being able to understand the human condition, however because it presents a huge paradigm shift in our thinking it does take a little time to fully grasp. We suggest you watch Part 4 of this interview and also Video/Freedom Essay 15 which briefly outlines ‘How understanding the human condition can immediately transform your and every other human’s life and save the world’ which also explains why this transformation is NOT another dishonest, deluded way of adopting a more cooperative and selfless way of living. From there our Transformation page has everything you need to know about the transformation progress and what it can do for you and the world.

Your enthusiasm to learn more about the human condition is wonderful Julie and yes there is absolutely no money 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, podcasts and membership) are provided absolutely free of charge on our website (no email required). Your suggestion of people listening to a subliminal message after hearing THE Interview may be referring to the challenge of fully absorbing all that is presented. We suggest our FAQ 1.16 as it explains the very nature of the human condition means discussion of it can be initially difficult to access. This is because historically the issue of whether we are fundamentally good or bad has been the most terrifying of all subjects to face, and so we have necessarily lived in almost total denial of it, which means our minds can initially struggle to hear and absorb discussion about it. Wonderfully, however, this ‘deaf effect’ can be overcome with patient perseverance and everyone can access this most wonderful of all “gifts” of understanding the human condition — so no subliminal message is required! We also recommend watching Jeremy Griffith’s astonishingly revealing presentation The Great Guilt that causes the Deaf Effect (which is the companion presentation to THE Interview) and you can access it HERE on our website.

    It is wonderful you found THE Interview enlightening Trevor and we appreciate you commenting. What is being introduced is a new scientific paradigm, based on confronting rather than the historic practice of avoiding the issue of the human condition, so we suggest it does take some time to fully digest and see that it is indeed very new. As the eminent psychiatrist Professor Harry Prosen says this is “the most important interview of all time” because it “is the holy grail of insight we have sought for the psychological rehabilitation of the human race…that saves the world”. So Jeremy Griffith’s work couldn’t represent a more significant breakthrough as it presents the psychosis-addressing-and-solving real explanation of the human condition that can finally relieve and heal our deeply conflicted and troubled upset state. You may find FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this idea original or new? / How does this instinct vs intellect explanation of the human condition differ from other theories that recognise these elements?’ of interest.     Jeremy is in the process of writing the new Freedom Essays 63: ‘Pseudo Therapy/Healing’ and Freedom Essay 64: ‘Real Therapy/Healing’ (an outline of which is at each of these links) that cover the work of Joe Dispenza, Bruce Lipton and others and the huge difference between what they are promoting, which is essentially an extremely dishonest and superficial, human-condition-avoiding, pseudo therapising angle, and Jeremy’s instinct vs intellect treatise. As THE Interview explains it is our destructively behaved, so-called human condition that really has to be dealt with if we are to solve the world’s problems and heal the human race — bring about a lasting “re-uniting of our mind and heart”. To do this we had to answer the age-old question of why, when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless, are we so angry, competitive and selfish?, and this required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy presents.

Thanks Elijah. THE Interview provides the ideal introduction to Jeremy Griffith’s work, so please share the WTM’s homepage (the homepage is the best place to send people for them to watch or read THE Interview, because that way they get the full context of the website). To share the homepage, simply click on the ‘share this page’ symbol at the bottom of the page. We also encourage people to share our Facebook Group (which we encourage you to join). You may also like to read our How To Help page.

Thank you Jean. What you will find as you digest this understanding is that you will begin to see that we have all 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. This knowledge will make you more secure and less in need of proving your worth. What Jeremy also explains though (see Sermon On The Beach for example), is that this process of healing will take generations and the priority is to save the world. So what this biological understanding of our fundamental goodness means is that we immediately choose to legitimately return to a selfless way of living. ‘Legitimately’ because at last we have the first principle-based science which liberates us to be honest about our conflicted upset state instead of denying or transcending it. This is the rapidly transforming practical effect of being able to understand the human condition which is fully explained and illustrated on our Transformation page. Also FAQs 1.4 to 1.6 explain the far-reaching application of this explanation and Freedom Essay 15 is all about ‘How understanding the human condition can immediately transform your and every other human’s life and save the world’.

    Yes Dana, solving the core insecurity that has been driving all our destructive behaviour is the key to ‘changing the world’. FAQs 1.4 to 1.6 are helpful as they talk about the far-reaching practical applications of this understanding. Joining our Facebook Group is also highly recommended because there is so much helpful, practical and inspired discussion taking place there about how this immensely relieving understanding fixes the world.     We also recommend our How To Help page which includes all the ways you can help support this critical breakthrough and help bring that change about!

    It does take a little time to fully absorb the significance of finally being able to understand the human condition and how our behaviour will naturally change as a result, so we do counsel patience. We suggest as you do digest this, what you will realise is that being able to understand that we have been driven by a deep insecurity about our fundamental goodness means that with our goodness now biologically established we no longer have to behave insecurely and selfishly and can legitimately return to a selfless way of living. ‘Legitimately’ because at last we have the first principle-based science which liberates us to be honest about our conflicted upset state instead of denying or transcending it. This is the rapidly transforming practical effect of being able to understand the human condition which is fully explained and illustrated on our Transformation page.     Certainly this project necessarily has a slow start, however humanity’s uptake of the explanation of the human condition has a fast finish as the selflessness it liberates in people will not only quickly solve all the problems on the planet but the excitement and joy it brings means everyone will want to get on board as quickly as they can! And so even though we haven’t yet reached the tipping point we are well on our way as you can see from the excitement and relief in our daily ecstatic responses to THE Interview!     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.

Thanks Jo. You can immediately access free electronic copies of all Jeremy Griffith’s books, including THE Interview and his definitive book FREEDOM, to read, listen to or download here on our homepage. You can also download free Kindle versions from Amazon. (Otherwise you can purchase hard copies from Amazon or other good bookstores.)

Two things Marieke. The first is to continue to learn about this redeeming understanding. If you viist our homepage, at HumanCondition.com, you will find a guide of ‘‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’, which includes the steps to learning more (such as joining our ever-growing Facebook Group and subscribing to our free, weekly ‘Freedom Essay’ emails). The second is to help spread the word of this incredible breakthrough. If you visit our How to Help page, you will see many ways to get involved and promote this human-race-saving information.

    Thank you for your question Susan. The psychiatrist Professor Harry Prosen’s response to the question ‘How does understanding the human race’s condition help with an individual’s depression and psychosis? – see FAQ 1.34 – is illuminating. Professor Prosen explains, “While we can expect instances of neurochemical/neurobiological based conditions, in my experience we can’t underestimate how much our psychology affects our biology. 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.”     Yes, we can at last understand the source of our upset and bring great compassion and kindness to ourselves and others and, most significantly, we don’t have to overly confront the upset within us — as FAQ 1.19 ‘A caution about the danger of over-exposure / Advice for people with mental health issues’ summarises. This FAQ explains that everyone and especially those with mental health issues need to manage their exposure to this very confronting information, and any information we do provide should not be used as, or as a substitute for, professional counselling.

Thank you Satyandandan. We are not aware of the event you refer to, but in the extreme, humanity’s psychological upset has caused terrible atrocities. Thank God humanity can now begin the process of rehabilitating itself.

There is a huge amount to get your head around, which takes a little time, but now we can understand the human condition, we can see that everyone has suffered from it, and all our institutions, including our governments, have been a manifestation of our insecure, psychologically upset condition. Only solving the human condition, addressing the source of our selfish psychological upset, could we achieve real and lasting change and stop the destruction of our world that is happening everywhere we look. You may find these FAQs helpful, FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does understanding solve 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?’