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Hi Deborah, 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 which allows us to fundamentally understand what sin is, where it comes from and how we are not bad for having become self-corrupted – this is, in fact, the very essence of Jeremy’s treatise. For example, in Part 2 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” or “evil”. However, significantly we can now understand, from scientific first principles, that ‘Adam and Eve’ were ‘good’ to search for knowledge, not bad; we humans are actually the absolute heroes of the whole story! This understanding fundamentally lifts the ‘burden of guilt’ from the human race. It establishes that we humans are good and not bad after all. With this understanding we can finally end our psychologically troubled “fallen” human condition — it couldn’t be a bigger breakthrough. This is further explained in our FAQ’s about religion.

No wonder Fatos as it is such an exciting breakthrough! Please see our reply to Sonya below who also asked for more information.

Great to learn of our interest Sonya and we appreciate you asking for more information! The WTM’s homepage — HumanCondition.com — has it all there for you with a guide to ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’ which recommends the steps to learn more — and it is all free! This includes joining our popular WTM Community Facebook Group and subscribing to our free mailing list, where you will recieve one email per week presenting the main topics of Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM in easily digestible bite-sized blocks along with occasional News Flashes, and notifications for our Live Events.

    Thank you for exploring some of Jeremy Griffith’s work Robert. As is explained in THE Interview this critical new science does introduce a new scientific paradigm, based on confronting rather than the historic practice of avoiding the issue of the human condition, which leads to so many new concepts such as that the human race lived in an original state of innocence (see Freedom Essays 2 & 4), that nurturing created our moral soul (see Freedom Essay 21), and that there is an integrative meaning to existence (see Freedom Essay 23). We respectfully suggest that the more one digests this understanding, the more they realise that the ‘instinct vs intellect’ clash, and resulting psychologically upset state, is fundamental to any understanding of human behaviour. It is important to point out that because we were unable to defend our non-loving, divisive behaviour, admitting our core instinctive orientation was to be loving and cooperative left us unbearably condemned, and so mechanistic science employed the false excuse that we have ‘savage instincts’ like other animals. This is explained in THE Interview and further in FAQ 1.2 ‘How does science currently explain the human condition?’ But this breakthrough instinct vs intellect explanation of the human condition brings compassionate and thus safe understanding to all human behaviour – including why the horror of prejudice has existed under the duress of the human condition and, most importantly, finally brings it to an end (see FAQ 9.1). As distinguished psychiatrist Professor Harry Prosen (who wrote the introduction to Jeremy’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).     So Jeremy’s is not putting forward that we have “now descended into a crude and non-spiritual present”. Ultimately, only rational understanding of the human condition “will improve the brain of ‘man’” as Jeremy explains in chapter 9:6 of 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.” Also see 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?’     In terms of the religious person’s comment you mention the human condition is the study of humans’ capacity for so-called ‘good and evil’ and is therefore the realm of inquiry where science and religion overlap, so in explaining the human condition religion is demystified and explained. Jeremy’s treatise actually reconciles science and religion by bringing biological understanding to pre-scientific concepts. With regard to religious doctrine, with this explanation we can understand the more upset people became, the more they needed to try to obey or “adopt” the “Godly” ideals or “principles” of life that religions taught, but the problem was such condemnation of upset behaviour could be extremely terrorising and oppressive. Obviously what was desperately missing was reconciling understanding of our upset behaviour and the Godly ideals; reconciling understanding of the human condition in fact — which is exactly what Jeremy presents us with. So no longer does anybody have to be terrorised by religious dogma. They can understand what such religious doctrine was providing and the great role religions played in humanity’s journey (see FAQ 6.3 about understanding religion).

That’s wonderful you’ve come across our videos Marla and the best way to begin is to watch our four Introductory Videos on our homepage starting with this interview. In this presentation Jeremy Griffith explains our human condition is a psychological condition derived from our biology (summarised in FAQ 1.29). So we can now understand our mental health issues are not a product of environmental influences or conditioning but the result of a universal psychosis, caused by the clash between our instinct and intellect (see FAQ 1.44 ‘What is the source of the mental health epidemic’). And, significantly, a psychosis is changeable as it can be healed through understanding so the solution is simple and all-powerful. As distinguished psychiatrist Professor Prosen’s wrote about the healing power of this explanation: “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 about how this helps our mental health).

    Hi Rod, it’s great to learn you found THE Interview so informative. As Jeremy Griffith points out in Part 2 of this interview, the issue of the human condition has been such a denied and off-limits subject that confronting it represents the “biggest of all blasphemies” so it does take a little time to consider all that is presented.     We assume the primate you are asking about is the bonobo Jeremy discusses in THE Interview. These cooperative and gentle primates mainly have a vegetable diet but studies show that they do occasionally capture and eat small game to supplement their diet with protein; however they do not routinely hunt down and eat large animals such as colobus monkeys, like common chimpanzees do.     As is explained in THE Interview bonobos represent a close model of our human ancestors and evidence the ‘love indoctrination’ process that accounts for both their cooperative behaviour and that of our ancestors – this is fully explained in FAQ 5.2 ‘What do the nurtured and cooperative bonobos tell us about our own evolutionary heritage?’ However, as is explained, bonobos have not yet completed the ‘love indoctrination’ process which explains why there are vestiges of meat eating (and sexual opportunism) in their behaviour. In contrast, skull examinations of early hominins the australopithecines reveal they were vegetarian, which is just one of the pieces of evidence that our ancestors actually did complete the love-indoctrination process, and became completely loving and cooperative. (In chapter 5:5 of his definitive book FREEDOM, Jeremy presents the evidence for our loving and cooperative past, including reduced canine size, which is particularly relevant as it is universally accepted as an indication of reduced aggression. The evidence has lead the prominent anthropologist C. Owen Lovejoy to write that “our species-defining cooperative mutualism can now be seen to extend well beyond the deepest Pliocene [well beyond 5.3 mya]”. )     It is worth noting that the reason humans later went on to develop meat eating and hunting some 2 million years ago was because of their upset psychology (see Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM chapter 8, especially chapter 8:7). You might also find this WTM blog article ‘The ancient human diet and why we departed from it’ of interest.

Hi Greg, this critical new science does eliminate our egocentricity by explaining that it’s source is driven by our psychology rather than competitive instincts. Biologist Jeremy Griffith explains in this interview that all humans are born with all-loving, selfless instincts but we now suffer from a universal psychosis caused by the clash between our instinct and intellect. We became psychologically defensive, angry, alienated and egocentric, or psychologically upset, because of our conscious mind’s necessary, and indeed heroic, search for knowledge. Significantly however we can “eliminate” this psychological upset, as Jeremy explains in Part 1 of THE Interview, “it is actually really good news that our behaviour is due to a conscious-mind-based psychologically troubled condition because psychoses can be healed with understanding. If our competitive and aggressive behaviour was due to us having savage instincts then we would be stuck with that born-with, hard-wired, innate behaviour.” So 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. It couldn’t be a bigger breakthrough!! See FAQ 1.4 ‘How does being able to understand the human condition end the upset anger, egocentricity and alienation of the human condition?’

It is important to mention that Jeremy Griffith’s work doesn’t contradict a belief in God or many mystical accounts of humanity and its struggles. It simply brings biological understanding to all those pre-scientific concepts. And so, 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. We suggest that the more you digest this explanation, the more you will see that it does not rob life or explanations of life of its ‘spiritual’ dimension. We thought you might find our FAQs about religion of interest, in particular 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?’

Hi Dean, it’s great to have your interest. At the 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 recieve our free weekly ‘Freedom Essay’ emails, and joining our popular Facebook Group, where there is much profound and exciting discussion happening.

Thanks for your interest Tammy and yes, as Jeremy Griffith explains the world is facing the terrifying end play threat of terminal levels of psychosis which is certainly daunting. 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 (see FAQ 1.5)! 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! Also, on our homepage, you can see the rapidly growing appreciation and support for Jeremy Griffith’s work with outstanding commendations from thought leaders and WTM Centres opening all over the world!

As Jeremy explains in Part 2 of THE Interview: “the Biblical story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden that Moses wrote so long ago in about 1,500 BC actually perfectly describes the psychologically upsetting battle that emerged between our instincts and conscious intellect. It says Adam and Eve/we humans took the ‘fruit’ (Genesis 3:3) ‘from the tree of knowledge’ (Gen. 2:9, 17) and were ‘disobedient’ (the term widely used in descriptions of Gen. 3). In other words, we developed a conscious mind and free will. But in that pre-scientific story it says Adam and Eve then became ‘evil’ (Gen. 3:22) perpetrators of ‘sin’ (Gen. 4:7) because they became angry, egocentric and alienated, and as a result Moses said they were ‘banished…from the Garden of Eden’ (Gen. 3:23) state of cooperative and loving innocence.” With the benefit of science, thankfully we can now explain that they, we humans, weren’t bad at all; in fact, we are the heroes of the story of life on Earth! You might be interested in the WTM’s FAQs about religion which explain that religion deserves praise for being a repository of extremely rare denial-free truth, containing all the truth about human life albeit from a pre-scientific view.

Thanks Makbere. Yes, the powers that be have failed to solve the human condition, but we would point out that those in power or the institutions that appear to run the world are just a reflection of what we all suffer from - the human condition is a universal condition. With regard to the human condition having been “inexplicably explained”, it is true, that while we couldn’t explain our angry, destructive behaviour, we haven’t been able to admit, so finally having someone confront it and explain does seem “inexplicable”. But we can now understand that someone sufficiently nurtured, and therefore innocent of the corrupted state of the human condition, could face it, and therefore solve it. We recommend chapter 9:11 of Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM for more on this.

Thank you for your thoughts Roger. For an understanding of who Jeremy Griffith is, and how he was able to confront and solve the riddle of the human condition, we recommend Jeremy’s biography, or for a summry, Professor Harry Prosen’s Introduction to Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM, in which he writes, “...How could humans possibly be considered good when all the evidence seems to unequivocally indicate that we are a deeply flawed, bad, even ‘evil’ species? But as my profession has taught me only too well, for most people, trying to think about this ultimate of questions of whether humans are fundamentally good or not has been an unbearably self-confronting exercise. Indeed, while the term ‘human condition’ has become fashionable, its superficial use masks just how profoundly unsettling a subject it really is. Again, the truth is, the issue of the human condition has been so depressing for virtually all humans that only a rare few individuals in history have been sound and secure enough in self to go anywhere near what the human condition really is. So for Jeremy to so freely and accurately talk about it as he does in this book, he clearly must be one of those rare few. Nurtured by a sheltered upbringing in the Australian ‘bush’ (countryside), Jeremy’s soundness and resulting extraordinary integrity and thus clarity of thought, coupled with his training in biology, has enabled him to successfully grapple with this most foreboding of all subjects for the human mind of the human condition and produce the breakthrough, human-behavior-demystifying-and-ameliorating explanation of it.”

This is already making good sense and I feel I must learn more. Thankyou ppl

Wonderful to have your interest Aive and having the human condition solved is certainly is a new breakthrough for us all!! You can freely access all the different electronic formats of THE Interview HERE on our homepage where you can also freely access Jeremy Griffith’s other key books. Our homepage also provides a guide through the steps to pursue your interest, including subscribing to receive our free weekly emails, and joining our Facebook Group, which provides a wonderful platform for participating in, or just observing, interesting and exciting discussions with others about this amazing, human-condition-resolved new world.

It’s great you want to learn more, John! At the 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 for our free, weekly ‘Freedom Essay’ emails, and joining our booming Facebook Group.

We aren’t sure if you fully understand what has been presented Rob, but up until now it actually hasn’t been ‘right’ to make the “change needed” while the corrupting journey to find understanding had yet to be completed. We have ‘had’ to be angry, egocentric and alienated because that has been the price for finding knowledge. What is so extraordinary about Jeremy Griffith’s treatise is that it logically and accountably defends human selfishness and egocentricity and with this defence of our ‘dark side’ now achieved all our defensive, destructive behaviours are now redundant. We no longer need them because we have the real defence for our psychologically upset behaviour. This is the essence of the transformation that is now available; everyone can immediately choose to live in accord with that understanding, which is what is so immensely exciting – see FAQ 4.1 to read all about the Transformed State.

Certainly there are biochemical flow-on effects of being able to understand the human condition at last, but the real relief comes from understanding that we are basically good. It is the ability to understand that brings profound relief from all manner of anxiety such as our need for distraction.

Absolutely they can Aruna and, as a first step, we encourage you to join our over 70,000 members in our WTM Community Facebook Group as it’s proving to be such an effective platform to maximise interaction amongst our global supporters, for everyone to benefit from each others’ questions and responses, and from our guidance, and it’s where all the latest thought-provoking cutting edge discussions about this biological explanation of the human condition are taking place and it’s a wonderful place to share in all the excitement and wonder about this new paradigm of understanding ourselves! We also encourage you to subscribe to our mailing list and our homepage provides a wonderful guide on the best way to learn more — and it is all free! This includes, after THE Interview, the other three Introductory Videos, our Main Videos and Jeremy Griffith’s Key Books. From there our WTM Community page includes more about how to get involved in this amazing, human-condition-resolved new world!

    Thank you for your comment Stewart but the evidence is that Neanderthals were not extremely violent and aggressive, they were sensitive and peaceful. As presented in THE Interview the core of Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition is that humans have a cooperative, loving instinctive heritage, not a brutish, savage and aggressive one, and that the source of our aggression is a psychosis that has been compounding ever since the instinct and intellect clashed some 2 million years ago. It follows then that the further back in history we go, the less psychologically upset our ancestors were. As is mentioned in THE Interview, the anthropologist C. Owen Lovejoy reported that “our species-defining cooperative mutualism can now be seen to extend well beyond the deepest Pliocene [which is well beyond 5.3 million years ago]”. In chapter 8 of Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM, the whole human journey is explained, showing that humans lived in a cooperative state for at least 5 million years before the emergence of the human condition some 2 million years ago. It is this period of our history that emerges as an instinctive memory of a ‘Golden Age’ as recorded by writers such as Hesiod, Plato and Moses.     In chapter 8:11C of FREEDOM, and especially paragraph 830, Jeremy beautifully explains how much ‘creative and spiritual sensitivity’ was demonstrated by these early Homo species, as shown through the fossil remains including “a Neanderthal burial site at the Shanidar Cave in Iraq…contains traces of pollen grains, indicating that bouquets of flowers were buried with the corpses. The creative and aesthetic sense of our ancestors of nearly half a million years ago, as indicated by the pigments and paint grinding equipment, suggests that the creative and spiritual sensitivities demonstrated by the Neanderthals were in existence long before their time.” A discovery in 2024 showed that a Neanderthal band cared for a child with Down Syndrome until it was 6 years old – not violent and aggressive behaviour at all! A reduction in brain size in Homo Sapiens accounted for through changes in overall body size; not suprisingly some parts of the Homo brain associated with higher cognition functions have actually increased in size.     Finally, Jeremy explains that Homo Sapiens displaced other species through being more psychologically upset angry, egocentric and alienated. In Part 3 of THE Interview Jeremy explains how consciousness developed some 2 million years ago as a result of nurturing or the love-indoctrination process and refers the viewer to Chapter 7 of FREEDOM for a comprehensive explanation. Since then there has been only one major development going on and that was the psychological one. As more upset examples of Homo emerged they inevitably displaced more innocent, older versions, just as in our own time more ‘primitive’ races have been displaced by the more upset. You might be interested in paragraph 907 of chapter 8:15 of FREEDOM, which discusses “Anthropology now evidences this progression in upset, with the more innocent Neanderthals [which lived from 400,000 to 40,000 years ago], Denisovans, Flores man and Red Deer Cave people being replaced around this time by more upset modern humans.”

That’s fantastic Jacob!! Everything on the WTM website is freely available to share, including THE Interview where there is a ‘SHARE’ button underneath the video player at the top of the homepage HumanCondition.com. As well all our publications include a share button along with the other options for audio, downloading, printing, translations, commenting etc.

Leo, we suggest that the more you digest this explanation, the more you will see that it does not rob life or explanations of life of its ‘spiritual’ dimension. We thought you might find our FAQs about religion of interest, in particular 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?’

Hi Judy, 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 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!

YES Cesar we do have many of Jeremy Griffith’s publications translated into Spanish including THE Interview and his definitive book FREEDOM chapters 1-7 of its 9 chapters!! These are freely available on the WTM website here and our FAQ 3.9. Also, we have a WTM Centre in Madrid (the Spanish version is coming soon-- y próximamente la versión en español) which was founded by David Garcia. WTM Madrid website includes David’s absolutely wonderful and helpful video where he so clearly relays his experience in discovering Jeremy Griffith’s scientific breakthrough. And the WTM Colombian Centre presents its website in Spanish, including centre founder Carlos Cruz Blanco’s welcome video, so there is a feast of Spanish material available!

    We certainly respect your right to an alternate view, Etienne, but your comment is uninformed as comments on this long thread, and all our other threads of comments, reflect a fair representation of the feedback we receive. This includes counter opinion, and critical and negative feedback, however, we do reserve the right to moderate the comments to ensure the thread is as constructive as possible, as is explained on our website. Also Jeremy Griffith’s biological treatise of the human condition has received significant scientific evaluation, and, subsequent to that, scientific support from eminent scientists and thinkers (see here on our homepage) but is not yet widely accepted by the mechanistic scientific establishment. This is not unexpected given it is a human-condition-confronting, holistic and induction-derived scientific work; see our FAQ 1.7 ‘What scientific support does Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition have?’.     When you say ‘outdated beliefs of bonobo behaviour’ if you are referring to the 2024 study, led by Boston University’s Dr Maud Mouginot, about bonobo aggression, we recommend reading our FAQ 5.2 titled ‘How did we humans acquire our all-loving, unconditionally selfless moral conscience?/ What do the nurtured and cooperative bonobos tell us about our own evolutionary heritage? / How do you account for reports that bonobos hunt and kill, and even that male bonobos are more aggressive than chimpanzee males?’. You will see there an analysis of that report, including that ‘the types of aggression counted were often mild…[and]…there is a world of difference between bonobo and chimpanzee ‘aggression’: male chimpanzees use violence to coerce females into sex, regularly kill competing males, practice infanticide and form troops that raid and kill members of neighbouring chimpanzee groups; whereas in bonobo society, females rule and choose their mates, males bicker but have never killed another bonobo, and whole groups mingle peacefully with neighbouring groups.’     It needs to be emphasised that the subject of the human condition that Jeremy Griffith’s treatise addresses is the most important but also the most difficult and thus contentious of all subjects for humans to address because it deals with the ultimate confronting issue of ‘self’. When the renowned Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson wrote, ‘There is no grail more elusive or precious in the life of the mind than the key to understanding the human condition’ (The Social Conquest of Earth, 2012, p.1), he was making this point that while ‘understanding the human condition’ is the most ‘precious’ ‘grail’ of science, it is also the most ‘elusive’ ‘grail’ because the subject is the most difficult of all subjects for humans to engage with. It therefore has to be expected that Jeremy’s treatise on the human condition can cause hostile unfair attacks on it.     With that consideration in mind, we strongly recommend that anyone, such as yourself, who has concerns about the scientific validity of Jeremy’s treatise on the human condition, read FAQ 1.10 as it addresses the full range of criticisms his treatise has attracted from those accustomed to science’s prevailing human-condition-avoiding, mechanistic paradigm—answering as it does, the questions of ‘Why does mechanistic science ignore, even attack, Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition? / Is this pseudo-science? / If this is real science, why isn’t it published in ‘peer-reviewed’ journals? / Does this treatise present new data and is it testable; in fact is it science at all? / Is this treatise inductive or deductive science? / What historical evidence is there for the ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation? / How does science confirm the ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation? / Does the treatise have ‘explanatory power’?/ Is this a ‘non-falsifiable’, circular argument?’

Hi Gladys, it does take a little time to fully absorb the significance of finally being able to explain the human condition. What it means is we now have the ability, for the first time, to understand every aspect of human behaviour and our behaviour will change naturally as a result. 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. In Part 3 especially Jeremy evidences this key biological distinction that humans suffer from the conscious-mind-based, psychologically troubled human condition, not the genetic-opportunism-based, animal condition. And, most importantly, as Part 4 explains a psychosis can be healed with understanding, so our psychologically upset human nature (or selfish behaviour) is fixable or changeable—not unchangeable, which is what it would essentially be if our competitive and aggressive nature was instinctive; if it was something that is in our genes and we were born with. That is the power of this understanding but you are right in the sense that people still need to choose to use it but the more people do, the more people will want to, as that choice brings a complete and permanent end to our insecurity-driven selfish behaviour, completely transforming humans into secure and happy beings, which is further explained and illustrated on our Transformation page!

That’s marvellous Theresa that Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ treatise has touched you so deeply and yes we can legitimately return “home” to our original cooperative, loving and nurturing instinctive selves because the human condition has been confronted and solved! It is only with the intellect defended for why it had to defy our loving instincts and become angry, egocentric and alienated, do we have the foundation to truly become “whole” again; that is, return to that non-upset ideal state or home we’ve longed for, but with understanding, in a fully conscious way; as the poet T.S. Eliot anticipated, “We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time” (Little Gidding, 1942). Also, now we can biologically explain what our soul is we are sure you will enjoy reading FAQ 1.26 ‘What is soul, have we all got one, has it been repressed, and if so, how do we rehabilitate it?’.

Hi D Franklin, the human condition is the study of humans’ capacity for so-called ‘good and evil’ and is therefore the realm of inquiry where science and religion overlap, so in explaining the human condition religion is demystified and explained. Jeremy Griffith’s treatise actually reconciles science and religion by bringing biological understanding to pre-scientific concepts. With regard to religious doctrine, with this explanation we can understand the more upset people became, the more they needed to try to obey the ‘Godly’ ideals of life that religions taught, but the problem was such condemnation of upset behaviour could be extremely terrorising and oppressive. Obviously what was desperately missing was reconciling understanding of our upset behaviour and the Godly ideals; reconciling understanding of the human condition in fact—which is exactly what Jeremy presents us with. So no longer does anybody have to be terrorised by religious dogma. They can understand what such religious doctrine was providing (even though it could be hurtful) and the great role religions played in humanity’s journey (see FAQ 6.3 about understanding religion). What is also so significant and relieving about Jeremy’s explanation 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 represents the greatest, most heroic story ever told. So with these understandings we can be free from the human condition at last!!

We suggest that as you digest this ‘instinct vs intellect’ understanding of the human condition you will see that it gets to the bottom of why there has been prejudice between cultures. at last we can understand that while all humans are now fully conscious and 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, there are more innocent or sheltered ‘races’ (ethnic groups), and there are races that have been more exposed to the battle than others, which resulted in endless prejudice where the more innocent would think the more upset were ‘bad’, and the more upset would be confronted by the less upset and oppress them in return, creating all sorts of mental anguish and trauma. However, the key, compassionate insight that upset is not ‘bad’ allows us to reconcile the more upset with the less upset, which puts an end to all prejudices and oppression; in other words, 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 puts an end to racism and for testimonials on the power of this knowledge to end racism, we recommend the presentations from Franklin Mukakanga and Refentse Molosiwa in Video/Freedom Essay 8.

    Thanks for your thoughts, Em. As THE Interview explains, the source of the human condition is the ‘instinct vs intellect’ clash; and we can now appreciate that religion has played a significant role as both the custodian of honesty about the ideal state and our ‘fall’ from it; as well as a means of solace for those exhausted by the corrupting journey to find the liberating understanding of condition took place. Certainly all religions provide different slants on our condition depending on the state of the society in which they exist, with some focussing on humanity’s ‘fallen state’ more than others; however, as author Richard Heinberg says (quoted in THE Interview): “Every religion begins with the recognition that human consciousness has been separated from the divine Source, that a former sense of oneness… has been lost… everywhere in religion and myth there is an acknowledgment that we have departed from an original… innocence and can return to it only through the resolution of some profound inner discord.” It is this resolution of the source of the separation and discord that Jeremy Griffith’s instinct vs intellect explanation of the human condition provides and why it is praised as such a great breakthrough by thought leaders and the general public around the world which you can see here on our homepage.     You may be interested in our FAQs about the demystification of religion may be of interest.

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 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.

It’s great you want to read Jeremy Griffith’s book FREEDOM which is free on our homepage here to read online or download. (You can also download the free Kindle version from Amazon, otherwise you can purchase hard copies from Amazon or other good bookstores.)

I want to read this book

In Part 3 of THE Interview Jeremy Griffith explains how we became fully conscious which developed as a result of nurturing or the love-indoctrination process. The glaring question when considering the question of how humans became conscious is why no other animals have developed it, given it is such an incredible advantage. Answers to this have suggested that it is because the brain is too energy ‘greedy’, however that does not stand up to scrutiny; natural selection reguarly selects for incredibly costly adaptations, such as a peacocks tail. No, Jeremy explains that developing consciousness depended on overcoming the competitive, selfish ‘animal condition’ and becoming orientated to selflessness, so if a species is still preoccupied with selfish, competitive dominance, as other animals are, they can’t become fully conscious. He refers the viewer to chapter 7 of his definitive book FREEDOM which provides a comprehensive explanation — a summary of which is in FAQ 5.4.

You have brought clarity to humanity.

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.

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