Comments on THE Interview

It’s wonderful to learn of your interest Naima. For those wanting a transcript of THE Interview, it is available here on our website. You can access this via the ‘TRANSCRIPT’ link under the video of THE Interview at the top of our homepage, or there is a ‘Transcripts of videos’ button under ‘The Main Videos’ also on our homepage.

Thanks A Vista. That is a good comment. We recommend our FAQs on Religion to read more about how this rational explanation of the human condition demystifies all manner of religious metaphors.

Initially some people can think that this rational explanation of the human condition and consiousness doesn’t account for their spiritual belief in the ‘oneness’ of all things, however we suggest that upon digestion you will see that it only confirms such beliefs. We recommend our FAQ 6.7 ‘How can a scientific explanation ever hope to account for and encompass the great ‘spiritual’ dimension we know exists in life? / Isn’t ‘spirituality’ beyond a purely rational explanation?’

    We are very happy to be able to tell you Joseph that many of Jeremy Griffith’s books, including THE Interview and his main book FREEDOM, along with our key Introductory Videos/Essays are all available in French! They are all free on our Translations Page on our website. Also our centres WTM Nice and WTM Switzerland present their websites in French along with these French translations!     As well you can watch all the videos on our website using the subtitles function (see the ‘cc’ icon at the bottom of the video player). To be informed of WTM developments, including new translations and WTM Centres, just subscribe to our free mailing list.

Thank you Tam, it is great you enjoyed THE Interview. While Christianity and other religions contain all manner of truths about human life, it is all from a pre-scientific view. To ultimately resolve our troubled condition and “be transformed by the renewal of our mind” we needed to find the scientific explanation for why, when the ideals are to be loving and cooperative, we are so selfish, competitive and destructive. 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 and his book FREEDOM. We suggest FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this idea original or new? which explains the unique significance of Jeremy’s work. You might also find our FAQs about religion most interesting as this biological explanation reconciles science and religion by bringing biological understanding to pre-scientific concepts.

It certainly has been Carmen but now we have 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—we can finally understand ourselves now and make sense of all the chaos, suffering and seeming madness in human life. Science has finally made it possible for the whole jigsaw of confusion and mystery about us humans to be fitted together so that it all makes sense. In particular, we can understand why we fully conscious humans corrupted our original all-loving and all-sensitive instinctive self or soul. We have found the key understanding that ends the underlying pain in our brains and allows the human race to become sound and sane again! 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?’

We certainly agree Charles and thank you for your interest. That is why the World Transformation Movement (WTM) was established as a global not-for-profit movement dedicated to transforming the individual, the human race and thus our world through bringing psychologically relieving biological understanding to the underlying problem in all human affairs of the human condition, humans’ extraordinary capacity for what has been referred to as ‘good and evil’. In particular, the WTM recognises the breakthrough redeeming and reconciling biological explanation of the human condition put forward by Australian biologist Jeremy Griffith — presented in THE Interview — and work tirelessly to promote this explanation to ensure its now desperately needed psychologically liberating and transforming effects reach every human! (See FAQ 3.1 ‘What is the WTM?’.)

Well you have come to the right place Beckie as with this critical new science human development and history can be explained truthfully for the first time. You might like to explore our FAQs about The Great Scientific Questions that are now answered with Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition. Also Jeremy’s Freedom Essays 21 to 25 cover his other key biological explanations including Freedom Essay 25 titled ‘The truthful biology: the real story of the development of life, including humans’.

Hi Donna, 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!

Thank you for your consideration Gregory and we respect people’s differing points of view. For other’s interest see our FAQ 1.10 which include answers for what scientific evidence is there for Jeremy Griffith’s instincts vs intellect explanation, is this treatise inductive or deductive science? and is this real science. Also FAQ 1.7 ‘What scientific support does Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition have?’ which explains while biologist Jeremy’s now absolutely desperately needed understanding of the human condition has received significant scientific evaluation, and, subsequent to that, growing support, mainstream science is yet to recognise and support it—but that is what occurs with paradigm-shifting, breakthroughs in science.

    We welcome your interest Rossana and it is wonderful you’ve started to explore biologist Jeremy Griffith’s work which is most relevant to your study. With his compassionate ‘instincts vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition we can now appreciate that humanity’s necessary preoccupation with finding knowledge compromised our ability to nurture our children as much as their instincts expect. Now, with the human condition resolved, that preoccupation ends we can safely acknowledge the absolute importance of nurturing in our species’ development (as explained in THE Interview and summarised in FAQ 5.2 ‘How did we acquire our all-loving, unconditionally selfless moral conscience or soul?’) and in the individual development of children (see chapter 8:16C of Jeremy’s main book FREEDOM on ‘The dire consequences of terminal levels of alienation destroying our ability to nurture our children’).     Jeremy’s key books are all freely available here on our homepage. This includes FREEDOM and the booklet version of THE Interview. You can also download free Kindle versions from Amazon. However, if you are particularly wanting a hard copy, you can purchase them from Amazon or other good bookstores.

    It’s great to learn how helpful you found THE Interview Waktole! You can read the transcript here on our website. You can access this via the ‘TRANSCRIPT’ link under the video of THE Interview at the top of our homepage or there is a ‘Transcripts of videos’ button under ‘The Main Videos’ also on our homepage.     You may also like to subscribe 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!

Hi Carina, as explained in this interview to master the incredible potential of the conscious mind’s ability to self-manage, or as you say the ‘conscious and free choice that makes us human’, the conscious mind had to defy our dictatorial instincts which resulted in humans becoming angry, egocentric and alienated — the upset state of our human condition. This is what is unique about Jeremy Griffith’s work. It answers the age-old question of why, when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless, are we so angry, competitive and selfish? Or to use your words why don’t we make the active choice to be wise and follow great acts and deeds of compassion? To answer this required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy presents in THE Interview — see FAQ 1.3 ‘What is biologist Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition?’ As Professor Harry Prosen wrote in his introduction to Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM, “finding the biological explanation of the human condition has been ‘the holy grail’ of the whole Darwinian revolution, the central quest in our human journey of conscious thought and enquiry.”

Thanks Murali. For those new to this work, the esteemed ecologist Professor Stuart Hurlbert wrote of Jeremy Griffith, that, "I am stunned & honored to have lived to see the coming of “Darwin II”. See our Commendations page for this and many other endorsements.

Hi Jean, 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 for our free, weekly emails, and joining our popular Facebook Group, where there is much profound and exciting discussion happening.

Thanks Steven, you won’t be disappointed. We recommend our FAQs on politics to everyone who wants to understand the left and right wings of politics, and ultimately, how this understanding brings the whole business of politics to an end.

    Great care has been taken to present the explanation as quickly and simply as possible (which is done in Part 1), however THE Interview also 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! See our FAQ 1.16 which includes the question ‘please send me an executive summary so I have some idea of what you’re trying to say?’.     Also, 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.

That comment indicates you have a deep inkling of the truth of this expanation Peter! But even though this understanding allows us to be honest about our corrupted condition, it is ultimately redeeming of it, so there is nothing to fear. As Jeremy Griffith explains in FAQ 4.6, “Being able to finally understand and defend our corrupted condition, understand the good reason for what used to be called our ‘badness’ or ‘evil’, enables us to own and acknowledge our corrupted condition. We can now understand that the situation is two sided; everyone is equally good, worthwhile and wonderful but everyone is variously corrupted.”

Hi Suzanne, thank you for your appreciation and interest! To learn more go to 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 emails, and joining our popular Facebook Group where there is much fascinating discussion and interaction.

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Thank you Barbara, you won’t be disappointed once you get the chance to listen to THE Interview! For readers of this comment, we wanted to let you know that you can download the audio or video version of THE Interview by clicking on the options provided at the very top of this page, where you will also find access to a PDF, Translations and other helpful links.

This new science presents a huge paradigm shift in our thinking so it does take a little time to see how it can address your concern, Rebecca, but it actually does and will turn our dire situation around incredibly quickly because it explains and solves the underlying cause of all our selfishness, anger and egocentricity. We suggest our FAQ 1.40 which addresses amongst others, the relevant questions ‘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?’. We hope you pursue your interest by joining our Facebook Group, to see first-hand the relief and freedom this understanding brings.

    THE Interview is about both men and women. It explains the universal psychosis all humans suffer from caused by the clash between our instinct and intellect, which significantly can be healed through understanding. The female perspective is certainly not missing from Jeremy Griffith’s treatise and both the male and female contribution to the human journey are fully explained and equally acknowledged. In fact, matriarchy is finally given the recognition and honour it deserves with Jeremy’s explanation of how it was women’s maternal love that gave us our moral soul and created humanity no less! (This love-indoctrination process is further explained in Freedom Essay 21 and fully explained chapter 5 of his definitive book FREEDOM.) And what is astonishing is that despite our psychologically upset condition this biological treatise establishes all humans are equally good, worthwhile, meaningful and wonderful regardless of gender, age, religion, etc. See biologist Dr Anna Fitzgerald’s video commendation about how this explanation is the real liberation of women in Video/Freedom Essay 9 and also our FAQs on men and women.     Given your criticisms, we also recommend Jeremy Griffith’s analysis of left-wing thinking, including Critical Race Theory, in his book Death by Dogma, Jeremy explains why the white, patriarchal, Judeo-Christian Western culture, like the right-wing in politics, has been one of the main targets for rejection by the pseudo idealistic, politically correct, ‘woke’, identity politics, cancel culture movement — but that it has finally delivered the explanation of the human condition that the whole world has been so desperately waiting for.” And, “…The fact is, the postmodern, politically correct, critical theory culture, with its Critical Race and Gender Theories, Identity Politics, Wokeness, Cancel Culture and Great Reset agenda, represented the very height of dishonesty, the most sophisticated expression of denial and delusion to have developed on Earth. Terminal alienation was indeed upon us, an extinction of our species was just around the corner!”

    Thanks Troy. We can now understand with great clarity the resistance that people have to learning about the human condition, that is, until they realise that Jeremy Griffith has actually solved the human condition by explaining how, despite all appearances to the contrary, we angry, egocentric and alienated humans are actually good! We humans have lived in such fear and denial of our corrupted condition that we can find it difficult to ‘hear’ or take in discussion of it at first. For people new to this concept, we recommend Jeremy’s recent presentation The Great Guilt. This presentation comprehensively deals with our understandable fear and cynicism about confronting the human condition and provides astonishing clarification of why discussion of it causes most people to initially experience a ‘Deaf Effect’ to what’s being presented     Having said that, as Jeremy explains in chapter 9.9 of his book FREEDOM: “Although this new world for humans, which the World Transformation Movement has been established to facilitate, will, as has been stated, have a slow beginning because humans initially find it difficult even taking in or ‘hearing’ discussion about the human condition, once the WTM is discovered, word of it and what it offers every human and the world will spread like wildfire.’”

    Thank you for your thoughts Ronin. Jeremy Griffith explains 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. No, all the evidence is that we come from a cooperative, gentle bonobo-like heritage. Jeremy discusses in Part 2, and in more detail in his definitive book FREEDOM (chapter 5), that the cooperative and gentle bonobo represent a far better model of our human ancestors than the common chimpanzee. Both share approximately 99% of their DNA with humans, however bonobo physiology, bipedality, environment, intelligence and reduced canine size, better match our human ancestors. Reduced canine size is particularly relevant as it is arguably the outstanding features of the hominin clade, and universally accepted as an indication of reduced aggression. Fossil evidence of our cooperative past, including reduced canines, 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]”. No, our selfishness and aggression is not instinctive in origin; all the evidence shows that our instinctive heritage is cooperate.     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.     With regard to religion, we can now understand that it has acted as the custodian of the ideal state and as a means of solace for those exhausted by the corrupting journey. So religion has had a very important role to play during humanity’s journey to find the scientific understanding of why, when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless are we humans so angry, competitive and selfish.

Hi Zukhra, Jeremy’s books and essays are being translated into many languages around the world, thanks to wonderful efforts from the WTM’s ever-expanding global network of support. Unfortunately we don’t yet have any Russian translations but our Translations page shows all languages that are available. Also people can watch THE Interview (and all the videos on our website) using the closed captions or subtitles function in their native language. The subtitles icon ‘cc’ is at the bottom of the video player, and you can choose languages using the ‘cog’ setting next to it: Select the ‘cog’, then select ‘Subtitles/CC’, then select ‘Auto translate’ where a list of languages come up from which you choose the language you would like the subtitles to appear in. Press ‘play’ on the video and your chosen subtitles should then appear.

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

There is a huge amount to get your head around Deb, 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 leaders (and in fact, institutions, including our governments and media), are just manifestations of our insecure, psychologically upset condition. Only solving the human condition, addressing the source of our selfish psychological upset (what historically has been termed ‘evil’), 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?’

That’s wonderful you are going to watch THE Interview Gayle! The world is desperately looking for hope but we can do much, much more than just be hopeful now because at last we have the fundamental explanation of the human condition we have been in search of!! As Jeremy Griffith says in this interview: “We humans have absolutely lived in hope, faith and trust that one day, somewhere, some place, all the efforts of everyone—but of scientists in particular—would finally produce the completely redeeming, uplifting and healing understanding of us humans. I know it must seem outrageous to claim that this goal of goals has finally been achieved, but it has. In fact, the human condition is such a difficult subject for us humans to confront and deal with that I couldn’t be talking about it so openly and freely if it hadn’t been solved.” Our FAQ 1.5 explains how having the explanation of the human condition transforms our lives! You can watch, read, listen to or download and/or print THE Interview at the top of HumanCondition.com. The WTM is a scientific pursuit and was not created for profit, so all of our information and materials (including books, videos and podcasts) are provided absolutely free of charge.

Hi Paul, it’s great to have your interest. Yes this critical new science is truly amazing in it’s ability to solve the problems and issues caused by the human condition! As Craig Conway observes in this interview, the fundamental genes vs nerves argument is extraordinarily simple but is “so far-reaching in its ramifications”! You might enjoy reading our FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does understanding of the human condition solve everything? and we encourage you to subscribe to our mailing list to be sent one Freedom Essay each week. For example Essays 1 to 16 further introduce the explanation and resolution of the human condition — you can see the entire Freedom Essay series here on our website.

    Thank you very much for your appreciation Michael! Yes Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition truthfully explains who we are as a species and also brings biological understanding to religious accounts of our condition, which means we can at last reconcile science and religion (further explained in FAQ 1.15). In fact this understanding is so powerful it actually reconciles all the polarities of human life. To quote Jeremy from his book FREEDOM chapter 4 titled ‘The Meaning of Life’: “Yes, the instinct vs intellect explanation of the human condition makes sense of and reconciles all the unresolved manifestations of the polarities of the human situation — ‘good’ vs ‘evil’, idealism or ‘God’ vs human’s non-ideal existence, religion vs science, holism vs mechanism, altruism vs egotism, communism vs capitalism, conscience vs conscious, and so on—thus ameliorating or healing, and finally ending, the psychologically upset, divisive way we have been living!”     In terms of your last point, 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. This is further explained in our helpful FAQ 1.40 which answers the question ‘How can you hope to transform the world?’

    Thank you for comment Eelke but we disagree. The female perspective is certainly not missing from Jeremy Griffith’s treatise and both the male and female contribution to the human journey are fully explained and equally acknowledged. In fact matriarchy is finally given the recognition and honour it deserves with Jeremy’s explanation of how it was women’s maternal love that gave us our moral soul and created humanity no less! (This love-indoctrination process mentioned in THE Interview is summarised in FAQ 5.2 ‘How did we humans acquire our all-loving, unconditionally selfless moral conscience?’.)     Also with this ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition, we can now appreciate that while humanity’s necessary preoccupation with finding knowledge compromised our current ability to nurture, now that that preoccupation ends we can safely acknowledge the absolute importance of nurturing in our species’ development and in its future, allowing nurturing to once again become humanity’s central focus. As Jeremy explains in Part 3 of THE Interview: “Well, just like the obvious truth that our species once lived cooperatively and lovingly, this truth that we acquired our moral instincts through nurturing has been an unbearable truth while we couldn’t explain why we humans became angry, egocentric and alienated and as a result lost the ability to adequately nurture our offspring with unconditional selflessness or love. The truth of our species’ Edenic all-loving and all-sensitive innocent past, and the truth that nurturing is what made us human, have both been impossible truths to accept while we couldn’t truthfully explain our present immensely corrupted human condition, explain why our species became so corrupted and lost the ability to fully nurture its offspring. As it’s been observed, ‘parents would rather admit to being an axe murderer than a bad mother or father’! (John Marsden, Sunday Life, The Sun-Herald, 7 Jul. 2002).”     Astonishingly with this explanation we can at last understand and reconcile the huge gulf that has existed between men and women. We can also understand why men especially, but also women as you acknowledge, suffer from the human condition and all it’s related behaviours including selfishness and egocentricity, but that ALL HUMANS ARE EQUALLY GOOD and equally heroic! See molecular biologist Dr Anna Fitzgerald’s video commendation about how this explanation is the real liberation of women. Also we suggest our FAQ 8.1 ‘How does this reconcile men and women’ and FAQ 8.4 which includes the questions ‘Is this work sexist? / Does this work ignore women? / Isn’t it time to move on and be more inclusive?’

    It’s wonderful to have your interest Paul. After watching THE Interview, we recommend you watch the three other Intro Videos on our homepage — The Great Guilt that explains the difficulty of the ‘Deaf Effect’ that reading about the human condition initially causes, then The Great Transformation about how understanding the human condition actually transforms the human race, then the Sermon On The Beach , Jeremy’s inspired description of how the human race now leaves the horror of the human condition forever! All these presentations are available as books, which you can immediately access free electronic copies of 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.)     Also we encourage everyone to subscribe to our mailing list to receive one email per week, occasional News Flashes and notifications of our Live Events and join our Facebook Group as these are great ways to learn more about this amazing, human-condition-resolved new world.

    Hi Gaby, the last 15 mins of THE Interview is dedicated to explaining how understanding why humans are fundamentally good will save the world. This Part 4 is titled ‘How does the psychological rehabilitation of the human race that the arrival of understanding of the human condition finally makes possible actually occur?’ and presents the answer to how this understanding allows us to transform our lives. It explains that it will take a number of generations for the upset within us to be completely healed but it also stresses importantly we can be immediately free of its effects. Certainly there is habituation to overcome and humans do find change difficult but at last we can understand our behaviour has been driven by a deep insecurity about our fundamental goodness or worth and so now that our goodness is biologically established we no longer have to behave insecurely and selfishly and can legitimately return to a selfless way of living. ‘Legitimately’ because we have the first principle science which liberates us to be honest about our conflicted upset state instead of denying or transcending it. So instead of being focused on power, fame, fortune and glory, all our energies will be freed to truly work together on doing whatever it takes to end the suffering and save our world. How this healing is immediately open to us all is also explained in FAQ 1.4 and FAQ 1.40 addresses the questions of ‘How can you hope to transform the world? — In particular, how are you going to change the behaviour of the rich and powerful? / How are you going to reach the bastions of power? / Won’t the greedy and power-hungry simply ignore this?’.     Further Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition allows us to understand the real merits and liabilities of both the left and right wing. His work certainly recognises the destructive brutality of the right-wing; indeed he brings understanding to the whole extremely destructive angry, egocentric and alienated human condition. He also recognises the failing of the Left, which is that its dogmatic insistence on cooperative, selfless and loving behaviour stifled and oppressed the freedom of expression and individualism needed to find knowledge, ultimately self-knowledge, the redeeming understanding of our seemingly destructive human condition that thankfully he has now found and presents in his book FREEDOM. Basically his work brings profound understanding to both sides, which ultimately brings to an end the whole ugly business of politics. This is fully explained in our FAQs about politics.     Your questions about the ‘fall’ are answered in Part 1 of THE Interview and summarised in our FAQ 1.3 ‘What is biologist Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition?’

All Jeremy Griffith’s key books, including THE Interview, are FREE AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE to read online or download HERE on our homepage with no email registration required!! The work of the WTM is a scientific pursuit and was not created for profit, so all of our information and materials (including books, videos and podcasts) are provided absolutely free of charge. You can also download free Kindle versions from Amazon. (Otherwise, if you particularly want a hard copy, you can purchase them from Amazon or other good bookstores.) To pursue your interest Claudia you may also like to subscribe to our mailing list and join our ever-growing Facebook Group.

Yes, we agree Vaughn, explanation of the human condition is the story to tell!! To learn more just go to the top of our homepage HumanCondition.com and you will see the ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’ guide which takes you through the steps to pursue your interest and it also provides this ‘Share’ link which makes sharing THE Interview super easy!!

We welcome your interest Ertha and you can learn all about the WTM on our homepage and our FAQ 3.1 ‘What is the World Transformation Movement (WTM)?’. Also our homepage guides you through our other introductory material and all our key presentations — and they are all completely free!

That’s marvellous Jeremy Griffith’s explanation is resonating so much with you Robert! Yes as THE Interview explains all humans are born with loving moral instincts but we now variously suffer from a psychosis due to the human condition and, in the extreme, that psychologically conflicted upset state produces destructive and aggressive behaviour, including bullying and extreme states of egocentricity and narcissism, known as psychopaths or power addicts. Of course this breakthrough explanation doesn’t condone or sanction such behaviour but 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. This is explained in 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?’ and also dealt with in FAQ 1.40 ‘How can you hope to transform the world? / Won’t the greedy and power hungry simply ignore this?’. To read about the psychology behind the creation of psychopathic, ‘power-addicted’ and narcissistic behaviour, see chapter 8:16D of Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM. Also, Jeremy further elaborates on this need for power, control and domination in Freedom Essay 62 where he gives a full presentation of the entire human journey and how understanding of the human condition now makes possible the real therapy and rehabilitation of the human race.

The transcript of THE Interview is available here on our website. You can access this via the ‘TRANSCRIPT’ link under the video of THE Interview at the top of our homepage or there is a ‘Transcripts of videos’ button under ‘The Main Videos’ also on our homepage. Happy reading Kath!!

Hi James, what Jeremy Griffith explains in THE Interview is that all humans are born with loving moral instincts but we all now variously suffer from a psychosis due to the human condition that manifests in angry, egocentric and alienated behaviour. So our ‘dark side’ was an unavoidable consequence of humans’ necessary search for self-knowledge not the consequence of us having animal survival ‘predator vs prey’ instincts. Ultimately to resolve our ‘fallen’ state we needed to find the scientific explanation for why, when the ideals are to be loving and cooperative, we are so selfish, competitive and destructive. And it is this crux question that Jeremy confronts and answers through first principle biology because only through understanding why we departed from our all-loving instincts and became selfish can we free ourselves from the human condition and legitimately love ourselves and each other again. ‘Legitimately’ because at last we have this explanation that liberates us to be honest about our conflicted upset state instead of denying or transcending it (see FAQ 6.5 which explains this critical difference between Jeremy’s work and the New Age Movement).

Hi Daniëlle, thank you for your comment. The subject of the human condition asks the age-old question of 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 (summarised in FAQ 1.3). We strongly recommend that everyone, such as yourself, who has concerns about the scientific validity of Jeremy’s treatise on the human condition read our FAQ 1.10 which include answers for what scientific evidence is there for Griffith’s instincts vs intellect explanation, and is this real science. Also the outstanding commendations Jeremy’s work has received from extremely eminent scientists and thinkers can be seen here on our homepage. For instance Prof. David J. Chivers, Cambridge anthropologist and former President of the Primate Society of Great Britain, wrote about Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM (THE Interview provides a very short summary of its contents) “FREEDOM is the necessary breakthrough in the critical issue of needing to understand ourselves.”

Hi Jill, 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 hope this helps Jill and encourages you to pursue your interest in learning about the human condition.

That’s great you are eager to explore this understanding further Edee and subscribing to receive one of our Freedom Essays each week is one of the best ways to do that!! This Freedom Essay series serves as a wonderfully comprehensive course as it guides you through much of the content of Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM in beautifully illustrated bite-size pieces. Also our Facebook Group provides a wonderful platform for participating in, or just observing, interesting and exciting discussion with others about how we can live with this critical new science so we encourage you to join here.

You can watch, read, listen to or download and/or print THE Interview at the top of WTM’s homepage — HumanCondition.com!! From there Jean you will see 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.

That’s wonderful Ann and we welcome your participation! We have a thriving WTM Community which you can learn all about here on our website. This includes becoming a member, subscribing to our mailing list and joining and interacting with us on our Facebook Group where we have a thriving community — and everything is completely free. We also have 80 WTM Centres around the world which you can explore here on our homepage. So feel free to join and share in the discussion, excitement and fellowship that’s available!

Hi Dan, great to have your interest. Yes the fundamental explanation that our angry and selfish behaviour is not due to us having savage animal instincts but rather is the result of a psychosis caused by the ‘instincts and intellect’ clash is very simple. This key biological distinction that humans suffer from the conscious-mind-based, psychologically troubled human condition, not the genetic-opportunism-based, animal condition is all-powerful because a psychosis can be healed through understanding. 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. It would mean we could only ever hope to restrain and control those supposedly brutal instincts. But since our species’ divisive behaviour is due to a psychosis, that divisive behaviour can be cured with healing understanding. So that is very good news. In fact, incredibly exciting news, because with understanding we can finally end our psychologically troubled human condition. It’s the understanding of ourselves that we needed to heal the pain in our brains and become sound and sane again.”

Yes that is the key breakthrough of Jeremy Griffith’s work Kimshiree — it provides the much needed understanding of “why we have become so greedy and nasty”. That is what is so extraordinary about his treatise, it logically and accountably defends human selfishness and egocentricity. It is that defence of our ‘dark side’, through finding the good reason that we had to defy our loving instincts, that means all our defensive behaviours (our anger, egocentricity and alienation) are now redundant. We no longer need them because we have the real defense for why we had to defy our instincts. As our FAQ 6.5 ‘Is this just another self-help, New Age, pseudo idealistic, superficial-treatment-of-psychosis type movement?’ explains, “There has been much talk of the need to love each other and the environment, but the real need on Earth has been to love the dark side of ourselves, to find reconciling and redeeming understanding of our species’ extraordinary capacity for brutality, selfish indifference to others, hate, anger, oppression, meanness, cruelty, devastation and destruction—to explain the psychological origins of our deeply distressed so-called human condition and by so doing heal our troubled souls and set ourselves free from our 2-million-years corrupted condition. And it is precisely that all-important explaining, redeeming, reconciling and liberating understanding of ourselves that is presented in biologist Jeremy Griffith’s work.”

We totally agree Lakop Winnie and that is why the World Transformation Movement (WTM) is a scientific pursuit that was not created for profit, so all our information and materials (including books, videos and podcasts) are provided completely free of charge (no email required).