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Thank you for your appreciative response, Charlene. For all those visiting this page and reading these comments, we wanted to let you know that you can immediately access free electronic copies of Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM (along with his other key books, including THE Interview) 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.)

Thanks Jane, but it needs to be stressed that no one has “been aware of this decades.” It takes time to digest, but what is unique about Jeremy Griffith’s work is that he has answered the essential question of why, when the universal ideals are to be integrative are we so disintegrative? Our endeavours in philosophy, psychology and biology have failed, until now, to provide a truthful, real, fully accountable, genuinely clarifying explanation. Answering this question required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy presents here. We suggest FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this original or new?’.

Now that we have Jeremy Griffith’s first-principle-based biological explanation of why the intellect had to defy our cooperative ‘good’ instincts (in order to search for knowledge) and become psychologically upset, or ‘bad’, we can resolve our species’ psychosis and legitimately return to the nurturing, loving and sensitive state we once lived in, and that children, in their innocence, still instinctively expect. Humanity’s necessary preoccupation with finding knowledge has compromised our ability to nurture and now that preoccupation ends we can safely acknowledge the absolute importance of nurturing in the development of children – see chapter 8:16C of FREEDOM on ‘The dire consequences of terminal levels of alienation destroying our ability to nurture our children’. So our ability to heal and nurture properly depended on deeply knowing ourselves by having the core mystery of our contradictory behaviour biologically understood.

    Thanks for your thoughts Dave. You might be interested in the following excerpt from Jeremy Griffith’s book Death by Dogma in which he explains how children are effected both by their own search for knowledge, but primarily by the accumulated ‘upset’ that is already in the world from preceeding generations' encounter with the human condition: “In terms of understanding the non-superficial, real reason for the increase in upset from one generation to the next, which was the upsetting effects of humanity’s heroic search for knowledge, there were two components. Firstly, there was the upset each person developed from their own experiments in self-management when there was no understanding of how such experiments could lead to outcomes that weren’t consistent with what our cooperative and loving instinctive self or soul expected—which, without that understanding, were coped with by defensively attacking, denying and trying to prove wrong those implied criticisms of our experiments; which, again, is the upset that self-management caused while we didn’t understand that we weren’t bad to search for knowledge and make mistakes. The second, and by far the greatest reason for the increase in upset that has occurred from generation to generation is the soul-destroying influence of the existing levels of upset in your society from all the upsetting searching for knowledge that has taken place before you arrived in the world. Each generation is born expecting to encounter the all-loving and all-sensitive world we humans originally lived in, and the more upset/​soul-corrupted the world we actually encounter is, the more bewildered, hurt and damaged our soul became by that encounter. When the great psychiatrist R.D. Laing wrote that ‘To adapt to this world the child abdicates its ecstasy’ (The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise, 1967, p.118 of 156) he was recognising how sensitive our soul is and how much it dies when it doesn’t encounter the love it expects. And the great playwright Samuel Beckett was only slightly exaggerating the brevity today of a truly loved, soulful, happy, innocent, secure, nurtured-with-unconditional-love-from-mothers-and-reinforced-with-unconditional-kindness-from-fathers, sane, human-condition-free life when he wrote, ‘They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more’ (Waiting for Godot, 1955)!”     So growing up now in a world that is already horrendously upset means that by far the greatest reason for the upset in our lives is the effects of encountering all that upset when we were infants and children.

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.

No worries Joe. What is so unique about what you are about to learn, is that it scientifically defends our so-called ‘dark side’, but by so doing it makes redundant all our defensive behaviours of anger and egocentricity. 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.

Thanks Katherine, 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!

    Clearly, while other animals have various levels of ‘awareness’, or are sentient and able to perceive or feel things, none are ‘conscious’ in the fundamental sense that none can consciously manage events like humans can. Jeremy Griffith explains in THE Interview that consciousness means being sufficiently aware of how experiences are related to attempt to manage change from a basis of understanding cause and effect, and so it is accurate to describe humans as the only animals possessing ‘fully conscious minds’, see FAQ 5.5 ‘Aren’t other animals capable of conscious thought like humans? / How can you say humans are the only fully conscious animals?’ Also we recommend Chapter 7 of Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM which provides a comprehensive explanation of how full consciousness developed in humans as a result of nurturing or the love-indoctrination process which is absolutely fascinating (summarised in FAQ 5.4 ‘What is consciousness? / Why is it that humans became conscious while other animals haven’t? / How did consciousness emerge in humans?’).     We also recommend Freedom Essay 4, in which it is explained that Paul Maclean in his ‘Triune Brain’ theory failed to explain what is it about the different ‘brain’s’, namely the inner original reptilian brain that comprises the brainstem and cerebellum; and the middle ‘limbic’ brain, which he said comprises the amygdala, hypothalamus and hippocampus; and the outer neo or cerebral cortex brain of higher mammals, that actually causes the conflict between these particular levels of the human brain. It is the understanding that Jeremy Griffith presents, that while genes can give species orientations, nerves need to understand cause and effect, that allows the conflict to be reconciled.

The absolutely astonishing claims being made about biologist Jeremy Griffith’s work warrant initial extreme scepticism because the realm of the human condition is the most ‘muddied of pools’ with deluded charlatans everywhere. However what Jeremy Griffith is presenting is all first principle-based, rational, testable, biological understanding of the human condition which has attracted the support of eminent scientists and thinkers (see our homepage). There is no hidden agenda, dogma, faith or belief involved. It’s all about knowledge that either stacks up or it doesn’t — and if it doesn’t you should throw it over your shoulder and reject it. Just pursue your interest and see what you think.

Mary, we suggest that the more you digest this scientific explanation of our condition, that even though it is rooted in biology and is a completely rational explanation for our existence, the more you will see that it actually encompasses the ‘spiritual’ dimension of life. 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?’

The left is evil and should be destroyed, but the right is wonderful, even though they help NO ONE but themselves. I call Bullshit to you! Most of this is interesting and believable, but to say that socialism and the left, those that help people are bad is nuts. So we let people suffer and die for generations, until the right magically becomes enlightened?! I watched this to become enlightened. I am a good person who seeks knowledge and helps people when I get nothing in return. I am cooperative. I am on the left. The right has now banned abortion, made helping the homeless illegal, and removed the rights of browns, blacks, and women of all color. Go hang with Elon.

Hi Darryl, 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!

     Some people have promoted the idea that on his death bed Darwin denounced natural selection and expressed a belief in the existence of God, however it is not correct. This idea originates from a story told by Lady Elizabeth Hope to a devotional meeting in 1915, 30 years after Darwin’s death. Even ignoring the 30 year delay, the actual words that Lady Hope claims Darwin uttered do not reveal that he disowned his theory of natural selection. According to Lady Hope, Darwin said, “I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion of them.”      It also needs to be pointed out that nowhere in his autobiography, written in the years before his death, does Darwin disown his theory. With regard to a belief in God, he wrote, “I for one must be content to remain an Agnostic [a person who believes that nothing is known or can be known about the nature of God].”      What is of much more importance is that since Darwin’s death, accumulating evidence has only cemented the truth of natural selection. To that point where, as was reported in Scientific American in 2009, “No educated person any longer questions the validity of the so-called theory of evolution, which we now know to be a simple fact. Likewise, most of Darwin’s particular theses have been fully confirmed, such as that of common descent, the gradualism of evolution, and his explanatory theory of natural selection.” (Ernst Mayr, Darwin’s influence on Modern Thought)      It is worth considering that with the human condition solved, a lot of things can be demystified and explained properly, and that does include ‘evolution’. We can now understand and admit that ‘development’ is a more accurate word than ‘evolution’, for while evolution implies that organisms do change or evolve it avoids acknowledging that there is a direction and purpose to that change, which is to develop the order of matter, a process that is driven by the physical law of Negative Entropy. Until we could defend our apparently divisive human condition, we have not been able to admit to this Integrative Meaning of existence, and so mechanistic science in particular has not been able to admit that evolution is a ‘developmental’ process not a random one. You can read more about this in Jeremy’s Freedom Essay 25 ‘The truthful biology: the real story of the development of life, including humans’. Similarly, we can finally understand that ‘God’ is our deification of the underlying theme of all existence of the integration of matter. You can read more about this topic in FAQ 6.2.

Hi Rodge, thank you for your interest and what you are sensing is spot on! Being able to understand the human condition at last does give us the means to stop the destruction of our world and the disintegration of society that is happening everywhere we look! We suggest you watch THE Interview as it is the best introduction to Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition. Also you might like to read our response to Kevin F. Walsh below and the links included in that reply. Happy exploring Rodge!

Hi Kevin, this is a revelation of great knowledge but we wanted to clarify that it has nothing at all to do with the new world order or NWO. What Jeremy Griffith is presenting is first-principle biological understanding of the human condition that finally makes sense of the paradox of our behaviour, how we humans are good when we appear to be the complete opposite, see FAQ 1.3 ‘What is the explanation of the human condition?’. With the dark side of our nature truthfully explained and defended we can begin to heal and stop the destruction of our world and the disintegration of society that is happening everywhere we look. So, in a world fast going crazy from the effects of the human condition, this is the now desperately needed reconciling understanding that brings about a new world for humans FREE of the agony of the human condition. This is the understanding that ends human suffering at its source, and unites the human race, see FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does understanding of the human condition solve everything?’

Hi Lwanga and it’s wonderful you want to explore more information about the human condition! Our homepage—HumanCondition.com—has it all there for you and it is all 100% FREE (no registration required)! At the top it states ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’ and guides you through the steps to pursue your interest, which includes: Jeremy Griffith’s key books and main videos; our free mailing list (you’ll receive one email per week, occasional News Flashes and notifications for our Live Events) and we encourage you to join and participate in our Facebook Group to learn about this amazing, human-condition-resolved new world.

That’s fabulous Glora! You can watch THE Interview, which is the ultimate tool for quickly understanding Jeremy Griffith’s paradigm-shifting work, at the top of our homepage HumanCondition.com where you will also see the ecstatic daily responses it is receiving and there’s over 15,000 and also outstanding commendations for Jeremy’s work from leading scientists and thinkers here on the homepage!

Great to have your interest Ian! To find out or understand our behaviour we needed to answer the age-old question of why when the ideals are to be loving and selfless, are we so competitive and selfish and this is what biologist Jeremy Griffith has answered with this instinct vs intellect explanation. So yes for the first time we can understand every aspect of human behaviour in ourself and in everyone else, and most importantly our behaviour changes naturally as a result. We suggest our FAQs 1. 4 to 1.6 which explain the far-reaching application of this explanation and if you visit our Transformation page you can learn all about the rapidly transforming practical effect of being able to understand the human condition !

Hi Renard, what is so significant about Jeremy Griffith’s work presents the first-principle, rational, testable, scientific understanding of the human condition that finally makes sense of the paradox of the human condition, how we humans are good when we appear to be the complete opposite. Certainly a natural lifestyle with help your body and mind but the real brain food we need is biological understanding of why humans have become so upset and destructive and it is that that can change human behaviour and bring about the transformation that we and the world so desperately need. Thank you for your comment and you are welcome to contact the WTM via our contact facility.

It’s truly wonderful this explantion of the human condition has given you hope John! As Jeremy Griffith explains in Part 4 of THE Interview it will take a number of generations for the upset within us to be completely healed but he also stresses importantly we can be immediately free of its effects! Certainly there is habituation to overcome and humans do find change difficult but at last we can understand our behaviour has been driven by a deep insecurity about our fundamental goodness or worth and so now that our goodness is biologically established we no longer have to behave insecurely and selfishly and can legitimately return to a selfless way of living. ‘Legitimately’ because we have the first principle science which liberates us to be honest about our conflicted upset state instead of denying or transcending it. So instead of being focused on power, fame, fortune and glory, all our energies will be freed to truly work together on doing whatever it takes to end the suffering and save our world. How this healing is immediately open to us all is summarised in FAQ 1.5 ‘Why is this important to my life’ and 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?’. Also, we wanted to clarify that what the WTM is not a religion which is explained in FAQ 1.4 ‘How can everyone’s lives be immediately transformed?/ How do you let go of your ego? / What is the transformed state? / How is the transformation that this information brings about different to deferring to a religion?’

Thank you for very much your appreciation of Jeremy Griffith’s work and what it means for the world Rimma! Yes at last we can return to our instinctive loving way of being but that depended on bringing biological understanding to what love is which is unconditional selflessness, which is a truth we couldn’t safely admit until we could explain the human condition—explain why our human behaviour has often been so unloving. 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 in THE Interview. In terms of your question “How long will it take for people to realise this salvation has arrived?”: as with any new scientific breakthrough in history it will take time to gain mainstream acceptance and from there break through the bastions of power in the world. However, once this information gets a foothold through enough people developing a deep appreciation and desire to support it, the selfless love and energy that will generate will solve our problems very quickly because, as THE Interview explains, instead of being selfishly preoccupied with power, fame, fortune and glory, all our energies will be freed to truly work together and focus on doing whatever it takes to end the suffering in all the corners of the world (you might enjoy reading FAQ 1.40 about ‘How can you hope to transform the world / How are you going to reach the bastions of power?’). And this transformation is well underway as you can see from the ecstatic responses THE Interview is receiving on our homepage and scroll down to see the rapidly growing appreciation and support for the WTM with outstanding commendations from thought leaders and WTM Centres all over the world!

Hi Glenn, thank you for your comment and it’s great Jeremy Griffith’s work is resonating with you. We have normalised being driven by selfishness with the idea that we have savage animals instincts but, as Jeremy explains in this interview, that was an excuse to keep the confronting and therefore fearful issue of the human condition at bay until we could resolve it. 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—which leads to so many new concepts such as that the human race lived in an original state of innocence, that nurturing created our moral soul, and that there is an integrative meaning to existence—so it does require some studying and digestion time to see it’s full significance. For instance Jeremy makes the point in THE Interview that from ancient times many thinkers have identified the elements of instinct and intellect involved in creating the human condition, however the great breakthrough science can now provide is the clarifying explanation of the nature of the conflict between them (also see FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this idea original or new?’. 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 and search for understanding. Without that explanation the conflict could not be resolved (you might be interested in Video/Freedom Essay 4 where this is explained in more detail). We suggest the more one appreciates that in the absence of the fully accountable, true understanding of the human condition it did look like the human condition couldn’t be overcome by everyone but in fact now with this critical new science the entire world can be transformed which Part 4 of THE Interview, chapter 9 of Jeremy’s main book FREEDOM 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?’ fully explains. As Annette Williamsen, the co-founder of WTM Canada West Coast Centre said at the end of her centre video: “I especially encourage you to watch the introductory videos and read the most astonishing book on the planet, FREEDOM, as I can assure you ignorance is not bliss but FREEDOM is—so Let’s GO!”

Thank you, Gail. Yes, we certainly do! Our homepage provides the ultimate course or guide to how best learn more — and it is all completely free! This includes, after THE Interview, the other three Introductory Videos, our Main Videos and Jeremy Griffith’s Key Books. Also you can subscribe to our mailing list to recieve our weekly ‘Freedom Essay’ emails, a course that guides you through much of the content of Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM in beautifully illustrated bite-size pieces. We also encourage you to join our over 70,000 members in our WTM Community Facebook Group as it’s where much thought-provoking cutting edge discussions about this biological explanation is taking place!

Hi Marie, good to hear that your interest has been piqued - you won’t be disappointed! THE Interview is the place to start, adnd then 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 our mailing list, which you have done, and 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!

Thank you Patricia. It is worth noting that people can watch THE Interview (and all the videos on our website) using the closed captions or subtitles function. The subtitles icon ‘cc’ is at the bottom of the video player (and you can choose languages using the ‘cog’ setting next to it). Press ‘play’ on the video and your subtitles should then appear.

We recommend Jeremy Griffith’s book, Death by Dogma, which is freely available here on our homepage. Jeremy Griffith’s work opens up a new way of thinking so it takes a little time to fully absorb this new paradigm – and the human condition does present the ultimate paradox! The biological ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition allows us to understand the real merits and liabilities of both the left and right wing. His work identifies that the problem of the right-wing is its destructiveness, however, through its support of egocentricity and selfishness, it does encourage the search for knowledge to continue. However the left wing’s insistence on ideal behaviour had the effect of oppressing and thus regressing, not ‘progressing’, the all-important search for knowledge. Most importantly, this understanding brings a profound understanding to both sides which ultimately will bring an end to the whole ugly business of politics. This is fully explained in our FAQs about politics.

    Thanks for your considered thoughts Nozar. Yes, the ‘instinct vs intellect’ clash within each individual obviously creates psychological upset, but as you allude to, there is another aspect to this which is the impact of the accumulating upset in the world, which Jeremy Griffith does explain gets passed on through generations through its effect on our ability to nurture our offspring, as well as through the general impact of an ‘upset’ world on each new generation. You might be interested in FAQ 1.37 in which Jeremy explains the impact of these differing ‘sources’ of ‘upset’ (which all ultimately come from the one “evolutionary” source, which is the instinct vs intellect clash).     There is no doubt that the insecurity or “subconscious fear” that we are not ‘good’, which is at the heart of the human condition, then manifests in our need for reinforcement, whether that be power or glory or material wealth. You can read about the “power addict” state in chapter 8:16D of Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM.

An all-loving world will be “Heaven on Earth” Anthony! Everyone can get a hint of what this ‘new world’ that will emerge from being able to understand the human condition will be like from our Transformation page, with its examples of people and families who have had their lives completely changed by this liberating understanding. We also recommend chapter 9 of Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM.

No, you would not be aware of the ‘Instinct vs Intellect’ explanation of the human condition. Our endeavours in philosophy, psychology and biology have failed, until now, to provide a truthful, real, fully accountable, genuinely clarifying answer to the essential question of why, when the universal ideals are to be integrative are we so disintegrative? Answering this question required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy presents here. We suggest FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this original or new?’ and Video/Freedom Essay 4 which expands further on other thinkers (both ancient and contemporary) who have recognised instinct and intellect elements involved in creating the human condition.

James, there is a lot to digest here, but we hope you persevere, because what is so significant about the explanation of the human conditon is that this understanding defends our so-called ‘dark side’ and explains that despite all appearances to the contrary, all humans are ‘good’. And paradoxically, by explaining the very good reason why our intellect had to defy our instincts, it makes redundant our defensive behaviours of anger, egocentricity and alienation, allowing us to end the perpetuation of our destructive behaviour! So there is no oppresive, forced, ‘giving up of “individual humanity”’; as Jeremy says in Freedom Essay 15, “It is this particular undeniable consequence of the arrival of understanding of the human condition of the transformation of our lives from living selfishly and competitively to living selflessly and cooperatively that is going to eventually catch on as being the right response now for everyone and when it does, it will spread like wildfire across our planet, and save the world. And it is not a revolution that involves warfare and bloodshed like so many revolutions in the past, but a peaceful revolution that is driven by irrefutable knowledge/understanding. We humans are conscious beings and what consciousness needs is understanding, and now we have it. Ultimately, we humans respond to knowledge—anything less was bound to be ineffective. This is the real and lasting transformation that the human race has lived in hope, faith and trust would one day occur. It is the revolution of our minds.”

I was amazed. Very clear conception of the human specie. Love conquers all. Thank you Jeremy.

Understanding the human condition has two aspects to it. One is that we can see that we humans have had to become corrupted; that it is a heroic state. The other aspect is that we can now see just how corrupted we have become, and it has been a terrible journey for humanity, and the amount of pain and suffering that is still in the world warrants tears. But we suggest that it won’t be long before your predominant emotion is laughter and celebration. We have made it through hell. You might be interested in Jeremy’s FAQ 4.1, which explains that ‘We can, and must if we are to save the human race, now own both the positive and negative aspects of our condition’.

As Jeremy Griffith explains, our competitive and aggressive behaviour is not due to us having savage instincts like other animals, rather it is due to us having a conscious-mind-based, psychologically troubled condition that can be healed through understanding the biological origins of that troubled, guilt-stricken, conscious-mind-based state. Once you solve that issue, the “main problem, overpopulation, & overproduction without proper disposal” can be easily solved. What is absolutely unique about Jeremy Griffith’s work is that he has answered the essential question of why, when the universal ideals are to be cooperative are we so selfish and competitive? 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.

Thank you for your comment, Rebecca. Yes, the human condition has certainly been a deeply confusing reality for anyone looking on with any degree of honesty. However, the core breakthrough of Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition is that the core goodness of ourselves as individuals and as a species has been biologically established. We can know our psychologically trobled existence 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 and others with great compassion and kindness. Importantly, we don’t have to overly confront the upset within us or the world, as FAQ 1.19 ‘A caution about the danger of over-exposure / Advice for people with mental health issues’ summarises.

You could argue that being “fully conscious” would encompass being able to understand the human condition, so on that basis, it is probably fair enough to say that humans haven’t been “fully conscious”. However, we respectfully suggest you are missing the point. As Jeremy Griffith explains in THE Interview, consciousness simply means being sufficiently aware of how experiences are related to attempt to manage change from a basis of understanding, and we humans are certainly able to do that, having sent people to the moon for example. But the real point is, once an animal does achieve that level of consciousness, it is inevitable that it will clash with its pre-established instinctive orientations. Which is the clash that created the human condition, which is what Jeremy Griffith has explained.

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

It’s wonderful to have your interest, Danielle, and yes, please share avidly! (The WTM’s homepage https://www.humancondition.com 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.) The great question Jeremy answers in THE Interview and in all of his publications is why are we so personally, socially and globally troubled as a species? Why isn’t the world full of compassion and love, why are we so disconnected? To answer that we needed to find the scientific explanation for why when these universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless are we so angry, competitive and selfish. As Part 4 of THE Interview explains, leaving or transcending our psychologically upset condition wasn’t the solution to that question. Ultimately we needed to confront and explain the source issue, which is what Jeremy has done with the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work. It couldn’t be more significant because at last we can explain away the guilt and shame we carried for not living peacefully — for living at odds with our selfless moral conscience.

That’s great Grant. 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. You may also like to read our How To Help page for lots of other ideas.