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It’s wonderful to have your interest Craig! The best place to start is to watch THE Interview, in which biologist Jeremy Griffith presents his breakthrough ‘instinct v intellect’ explanation of the human condition, it’s the ideal introduction to his work. It’s at the top of the WTM homepage HumanCondition.com where you will also see the ecstatic daily responses it is receiving. 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!

Thank you for your comment Ann and yes there is a lot to take on board now we are finally able to understand the human condition!! What biologist Jeremy Griffith is presenting is a new scientific paradigm based on confronting rather than the historic practice of avoiding the issue of the human condition which entirely changes the way we view ourselves and the world. Even though, as Craig Conway observes in this interview, the fundamental genes vs nerves argument is extraordinarily simple it is “so far-reaching in its ramifications” so we encourage people to re-watch THE Interview and also watch the other three introductory videos which are here on our homepage. Also our extensive FAQ facility is very helpful as it provides answers to commonly asked questions. Sending you lots of encouragement Ann and if we can help you with questions or thoughts you’d like to share please contact us via our contact facility.

    THE Interview with biologist Jeremy Griffith presents the completely redeeming, uplifting and healing biological understanding of the core mystery and problem about human behaviour of our so-called ‘good and evil’-stricken human condition—thus ending all the conflict and suffering in human life at its source, and providing the now urgently needed road map for the complete rehabilitation and transformation of our lives and world! Also, the work of the World Transformation Movement (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 on our website.     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.     Also Chris, since 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 it can make it hard to understand all that is explained in one viewing (FAQ 1.16 explains this initial ‘deaf effect’). Wonderfully this can be overcome with patient perserverance, as is evidenced by the growing momentum of support that is building around the world which can be seen on our homepage with daily ecstatic responses to THE Interview, outstanding commendations Jeremy’s work has received from eminent scientists and thought leaders and over 80 WTM Centres that have opened across the globe!

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    Hi Karen, firstly it is important to clarify that Jeremy Griffith’s work is not an idealistic plea for utopia or for everyone to just behave cooperatively, it is a biological defence of realism. THE Interview explains why imposing artificial or pseudo idealism does not work and further explains pseudo-idealism in its current forms now actually threatens humanity because, as Jeremy explains in Part 4, it “stifled and oppressed the search for the understanding of our corrupted condition that was needed to actually free us from that state”. And it is that understanding of our so-called ‘good and evil’-stricken human condition that Jeremy presents. Until we had this solution reality did appear very complicated and we couldn’t see what was driving our mind but now we can. 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. How this healing is immediately open to us all is summarised in FAQ 1.5.     Also, in terms of your mention of “the flower children of the 60s” the following is an extract from Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM chapter 8:16A which you may like to read in full here. To quote: “...With understanding of the human condition now found the great rehabilitation of the human race from its alienated state can begin, and one of the important means to achieve that rehabilitation will be to reconnect humans with the world of their soul, which is the natural world... In the 1960s many people tried to undertake the healing process that requires reconnecting with nature. They abandoned the alienated and alienating, soul-destroying cities and tried to return to the natural world. Of course, without the explanation of the human condition that would make it possible to stop having to live a denial-based, escapist, hide-from-condemning-nature-in-cities existence, this great ‘alternative’, ‘hippie’, ‘flower power’, ‘let the sunshine in’, ‘back to nature’ revolution was a false start back to innocence and wholeness. Nevertheless, the initiatives that were being taken accurately anticipated the direction the rehabilitation of the human race needed to, and now can, take. Yes, we have to leave the alienated and alienating cities and dust off the Whole Earth Catalog and other 1960s masterpieces of new world planning and begin the real ‘Age of Aquarius’... We have found all the truth now that genuinely releases us from the binds of the human condition. As will be described in the final chapter of this book, what now emerges on Earth is not another messy, deluded false start to humanity’s freedom from the human condition, but the real, genuinely loving one."

Hi Angela, 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 Oreoco it is and at last we can. 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 extremely destructive behaviour, including extreme states of egocentricity and narcissism, known as psychopaths or power addicts. Of course this breakthrough explanation doesn’t condone or sanction the horrendous atrocities humans can commit rather, through bringing compassionate understanding to the source of humans’ upset behaviour, it gives us the power to ameliorate and thus subside and ultimately eliminate it, see FAQ 1.38 ‘Aren’t some people just born psychopathic, or even ‘evil’? / How does this explanation rehabilitate people capable of ‘evil’ behaviour? / Does this condone ‘evil’ behaviour?’

Absolutely Moses! Jeremy Griffith’s work addresses the source of the endless horrific-beyond-description examples in history of racism and prejudice, and, significantly, because Jeremy’s instinct vs intellect explanation of the human condition establishes the equal worth of all humans we can now acknowledge the differences between us and bring desperately needed reconciling understanding to the relationships between all groups of people. To explore this further we recommend our Freedom Essay 28, ‘The end of racism’ and for testimonials on the power of this information to end racism, see those from Franklin Mukakanga, founder of WTM Zambia and Refentse Molosiwa, founder of WTM Mahikeng, in Video/Freedom Essay 8.

From the beginning of the interview I believe there is no difference about others religion and philosophy what is not really a discovery cause Buddhism explain the human behavior as a result of our actions and the explanation about Adan and Eve as in terms of innocence is probably because they were happy and when they discovered the truth about the knowledge of themselves as humans everything change I’m not expert in religion or human behaviour but what I think is that the concept of this story can associates with evil or good human beings we are the result of the past experiences of the condition that societies impose and we are missing the part that belongs to our religion beliefs I need to watch the other parts of this interview and compare with others

Angela, there is a lot to digest here, but what is so different to what Bregman is presenting, which is just that deep down humans are ‘good’, is that this understanding defends our so-called ‘dark side’. Yes, despite our competitive and selfish behaviour, deep down we humans have always intuitively believed we were fundamentally good, but we have never before been able to explain this contradictory, conflicted condition. That is the great breakthrough presented here. And paradoxically, by explaining the very good reason why our intellect had to defy our instincts, and suffer becoming a corrupted angry, egocentric and alienated sufferer of the human condition, it makes redundant all those defensive behaviours, allowing us to finally become the cooperative and loving species that we once were, and we have all dreamed of becoming again.

Hi Kinky, we certainly respect people’s religious views but we felt it was important to mention that Jeremy Griffith’s work doesn’t contradict a belief in God or religion — please see our reply to Glenna directly below which explains this. Further, we maintain that humans belief in a supernatural God is a product of our psychological upset or insecurity and the biology of this is explained in THE Interview: that all humans are born with loving moral instincts but we all now variously suffer from a psychosis due to clash between our cooperative instincts and our intellect or consciousness (see FAQ 5.4 for ‘How did consciousness emerge in humans?’). This instinct vs intellect explanation of the human condition at last reconciles science and religion by bringing biological understanding to pre-scientific concepts. It demystifies the supernatural God we have needed until we could truthfully explain the human condition, explain the good reason why we humans have been divisively behaved rather than integratively behaved. As Jeremy briefly explains in Part 3 of THE Interview ‘God’ is the personification of the Negative-Entropy-driven integrative meaning of existence, see FAQ 6.2 ‘What is ‘God’?’ As well, 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?’.

    Thank you for your comment Glenna. THE Interview is a summary presentation, however in Part 3 biologist Jeremy Griffith does briefly define the concept of ‘God’ and then refers the audience to his full explanation in chapter 4 of his book FREEDOM. 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 FREEDOM chapter 4 as being the integrative meaning of life. See also FAQ 6.2 ‘What is ‘God’?’ and FAQ 6.3 ‘Does understanding of the human condition undermine a faith in religion or God?’.     The human condition is the study of humans’ capacity for acts of both so-called ‘good and evil’ it is the realm of inquiry where science and religion overlap, so in explaining the human condition religion is demystified and explained by bringing biological understanding to pre-scientific concepts. For instance Jeremy explains in Part 2 the Biblical story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden 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’. So in terms of Christianity and Christ, Jeremy considers the Bible to be a repository of extremely rare denial-free truth, containing all the truth about human life albeit from that pre-science view, and he has written about Christ’s life and its phenomenal importance in humanity’s journey in his Freedom Essay 39.

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

Our 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?’ It explains that “Even those who were most committed to defensively seeking validation through gaining power and material goods, including those entrenched in positions of power, will quickly realise how empty and obsolete that strategy is now that we have the fully accountable, psychosis-addressing-and-solving, real biological explanation of the human condition that proves our worth at the most fundamental level.”

    As THE Interview makes clear, there is no “opinion” or dogma or belief involved. What is presented is an accountable scientific, first principle-based, rational, testable understanding of the human condition, which has attracted the support of eminent scientists and thinkers around the world, see the Commendations on our homepage.     You can know that Jeremy Griffith has at last got to the bottom of the human condition and found the redeeming explanation of it, because as he explains in paragraph 73 of FREEDOM, the ultimate test of any hypothesis is how accountable it is of our own lives – as the greatest of all physicists, Albert Einstein, once said that ‘truth is what stands the test of experience’. And so you can know that this is the breakthrough explanation of the human condition because once you understand the explanation and begin to apply it, you will discover it is so able to make sense of human behaviour it makes it transparent. This transparency of ourselves and our world — for example, the exposure of all our falseness—that this understanding of the human condition brings, is the ultimate ‘test of experience’ that confirms that the understanding being presented here is more than just another “opinion”. Fantastic a claim as it may seem, you will find that what is being presented here is the long-sought-after, desperately needed, psychosis-addressing-and-resolving, human race-transforming explanation of the human condition.

There is a lot to digest here, but we suggest that this ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation really does get to the bottom of the human condition in all its different manifestations. You might be interested in our FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does understanding of the human condition solve everything?’

    Thanks for your comment Roy. Firstly, everybody should be aware that what is presented here is not “common knowledge”, so it is not suprising that people who are ‘employed fighting racism are unwaware of the cause’. While it takes some time to digest, 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.     It is only with this breakthrough that we can at last understand that due to each ‘races’’ (ethnic groups) different encounter with humanitys heroic battle to find knowledge 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 a testimonial on the power of this knowledge to end racism, we recommend the presentations from Franklin Mukakanga and Refentse Molosiwa in Video/Freedom Essay 8.

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Although this is science, it is based on a ‘spiritual’ nature in the sense of recognising, like all the great spiritual traditions 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?’

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Yes, while religious assurances, such as ‘God loves you’ in Christianity, provided comfort, they failed to explain WHY we are lovable, and it is that missing explanation that this breakthrough provides. And significantly, by bringing biological understanding to pre-scientific concepts it at last reconciles science and religion — but rather than threatening religions, what people discover is it is the fulfilment of a time that all the great prophets looked forward to when we could actually explain ourselves (see our FAQs about religion).

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 on our website (no email required and there is no money involved), see FAQs about the WTM. The absolutely astonishing claims made about Jeremy Griffith’s breakthrough explanation do warrant initial extreme scepticism, but the amazing fact is that they all withstand scrutiny, see our FAQ 1.9 ‘Should people be sceptical about these claims’. Also Jeremy’s work has also received outstanding commendations from leading thinkers and scientists, which you can read on our homepage here.

    Hi Eileen, thank you very much for your interest in propagating this breakthrough understanding! 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). You may also like to read our FAQ 3.4 on ‘How can I help the WTM?’.     In terms of your own journey with the information, 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 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.

    Without this understanding, all humans are insecure victims of the human condition, all trying to prove our self-worth because of the basic instinct vs intellect clash. In the extreme, this clash produces people who are so ‘psychologically upset’ that they are addicted to power, creating the “despots” you describe. We recommend our 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 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? / Won’t the greedy and power-hungry simply ignore this?’

    Thanks for your comment Michael. Firstly you can immediately access free electronic copies of Jeremy Griffith’s key books, including his definitive book FREEDOM, to read, listen to or download here on our homepage. You can also download free Kindle versions from Amazon. (Otherwise you can purchase hard copies from Amazon or other good bookstores.)     In terms of there being ‘good’ and ‘bad’ people we can now understand, as Jeremy explains in THE Interview, all humans are born with loving moral instincts but we all now variously suffer from a psychosis brought about by the conscious mind’s necessary yet corrupting search for knowledge. While it is true that due to their circumstances, some individuals have less exposure to the human condition than others, and are therefore less psychologically upset than others, by this stage of the human journey everyone suffers from the human condition. What is so important about this is that it finally explains the real reason for our selfish and greedy behaviour and why it became an unavoidable, indeed necessary, part of human life and by so doing establishes our fundamental goodness. So as a species, we became angry, egocentric and alienated, or in a word ‘upset’ so all humans suffer, to varying degrees, from the human condition, to quote Jeremy in Part 2 “everyone is naturally variously psychologically upset from their different encounters with humanity’s battle to find knowledge”. As the highly respected psychiatrist Professor Harry Prosen, a former President of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, wrote: “the beauty of Griffith’s treatise is that the healing starts at the macro level of the universal human condition; the healing of the shame and blame that the whole human race has suffered from…It brings the greater context and love to all human psychosis and suffering, and then, from under the umbrella of that safe position, everyone can gradually work inwards to their particular experience of all the imperfections in human life that have now, finally, been made sense of.” (FAQ 1.34).     So take heart Michael as the transformation of the world is totally possible — see FAQ 1.40 which addresses the questions of ‘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?’ It explains that even those who are most committed to seeking validation through gaining power and wealth, including those entrenched in positions of power, will quickly realise how empty and obsolete that strategy is now that we have the fully accountable, psychosis-addressing-and-solving, biological explanation of the human condition that establishes our worth at the most fundamental level.

Hi Antoinette and thank you so much for your comment. This breakthrough explanation of the human condition presents a massive paradigm shift in our thinking so it’s natural to need to take time to digest all it reveals. As Jeremy Griffith describes, the human condition has historically been such a fearful, off-limits topic and the mind simply needs time to ride out the initial shock or ‘deaf effect’ of having it broached and all manner of mystery unlocked. We encourage re-watching THE Interview and looking at its companion presentation The Great Guilt that causes the Deaf Effect (you can freely access these Introductory videos here on our homepage) because the more you do absorb this explanation, the more you realise just how all-clarifying, all-redeeming, all-reconciling, all-healing and all-liberating it is! Also our reply to Nikki below gives an overview of the key ‘instinct vs intellect’ concept which will be helpful to read.

It’s wonderful to have your interest Nikki and thank you for your question. We encourage you to watch THE Interview (at the top of our homepage) as it is the ideal introduction to Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition and Part 1 presents the explanation as quickly and simply as possible. Also our 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.

Hi Seth, great to have your interest in Jeremy Griffith’s work which introduces so many unknown insights! You can immediately access free electronic copies of Jeremy’s key books, including his definitive book FREEDOM, to read, listen to or download here on our homepage. You can also download free Kindle versions from Amazon. (Otherwise you can purchase hard copies from Amazon or other good bookstores.)

    Hi Arthur, this critical new science brings about a change or transformation that has never before been possible and there is definitely no infringement of human rights involved. This change is driven by logical self-understanding which is a complete empowerment and fulfilment of our human potential or free will. Certainly throughout history, under the duress of the human condition, we have had to varying degrees impose discipline or restraint of our upset so that society could continue to function and our species could keep progressing toward finding an answer to our corrupted condition. Thankfully, with this redeeming solution to the human condition now found, rather than having to control our behaviour through discipline or a code of living, our psychological upset can actually subside, and we can truly be liberated from the human condition.     To elaborate, it does take a little time to fully absorb the significance of finally being able to explain the human condition but 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 — see FAQ 1.5 ‘Why is this explanation important to my life’. 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, restraining 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 and Freedom Essay 15 is all about ‘How our lives can be immediately transformed’.

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    That’s wonderful you’re enjoying THE Interview Kristopher! The essential ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation is presented in Part 1 by Jeremy Griffith with his Adam Stork analogy. Also, as he further explains in Part 2, it is the story of Adam and Eve that is a pre-scientific metaphor for the emergence of consciousness and its clash with our pre-established, cooperative loving instincts, resulting in humans becoming psychologically upset or ‘sinful’ or ‘evil’. However, significantly we can now understand, from scientific first principles, that ‘Adam and Eve’ were ‘good’ to search for knowledge, not bad or ‘evil’; we humans are actually the absolute heroes of the whole story! You may find these FAQs helpful in your consideration. FAQ 1.41 ‘What are instincts and what is consciousness, and how do they differ?’and also FAQ 1.42 ‘Why does having loving instincts actually make the instinct vs intellect clash worse?’ which explains that our species having loving and cooperative instincts, what Jeremy terms the ‘double and triple whammy’, is what compounded the human condition.     Finding understanding of the human condition at last makes it possible to explain and demystify all mythology, including all the parables and stories in the Bible. For instance in terms of your question about the Cain and Able story, in Freedom Essay 39 Jeremy explains that the Cain and Abel story is a metaphor for the fundamental truth that humanity has progressed from a state of innocence to a state of upset, and how, following the advent of agriculture, that progression eventually led to warfare so I’m sure you will find that most interesting.

Thank you for your comment Anne. We certainly respect people’s religious views however we felt it was important to mention that Jeremy Griffith’s work doesn’t contradict the Bible. It simply brings biological understanding to all those pre-scientific concepts. In fact Jeremy considers the Bible to be a repository of extremely rare denial-free truth, containing all the truth about human life albeit from a pre-science view, and he has written about Christ’s life and its phenomenal importance in humanity’s journey in Freedom Essay 39. The real issue is if people prefer a more literal fundamentalist interpretation of scripture rather than our more biological, science-based interpretation. For those interested in exploring this further we suggest our FAQs about Religion, in particuular FAQ 6.3 titled ‘Aren’t all Griffith’s demystifications of religious teachings going to be seen by supporters of religion as blasphemy? / Does understanding of the human condition undermine a faith in religion or God? / How does this affect my personal religious practice? / How can you reconcile the explanation of the human condition that defends the upset state with religious teachings that condemn upset?’

What a wonderful response to THE Interview Simon as what it explains truly is the universal solution to the human condition!! In terms of the problem you foresee the fundamental explanation is actually very simple and obvious and not beyond the most basic of educations — see FAQ 1.3 for a very brief summary of the key ‘instinct vs intellect’ concept. As Jeremy explains in THE Interview the real problem is the very nature of the human condition means discussion of it can be initially difficult to access for many people. 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 people’s 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! Our FAQ 1.16 explains this phenomenon and its solution in greater detail and includes the section ‘deaf to the Deaf Effect’ which is written by someone like yourself, who can easily access this understanding, and he naturally also struggled to account for why others found it harder so that might be very helpful for you to read. Also, the presentation that follows THE Interview, titled The Great Guilt that causes the Deaf Effect is a must watch as it comprehensively deals with this understandable fear and cynicism about confronting the human condition. It includes examples of people overcoming the deaf effect and it is an astonishingly revealing presentation. As well, you might like to explore our ‘How to Help’ page on our website which includes many suggestions to help promote this understanding. Of course we welcome people’s ideas and you can contact us via our contact facility on our website but you may like you explore these suggested links first. Thanks again Simon for your wonderful comment.

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    Just follow your interest John, and it will either make sense or it won’t. If it doesn’t, throw it over your shoulder. But as you are already picking up on, it does address the fundamental issue of whether we humans are good or not. How do we explain our destructive, seemingly evil behaviour. What you will find in the ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition is a rational, fully accountable explanation of this riddle of riddles. And it is life changing!     We should also mention that 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 on our website (no email required and there is no money involved).

Thanks very much for your thoughts Martin. Yes, we have a selfless moral conscience – the “Moral Law” that C.S. Lewis wrote of; but whereas Lewis had to put his faith in Christianity in order to be able to live with our ‘disobedience’ to that ‘Law’, we now have the scientific understanding to explain away the guilt and shame we’ve carried for corrupting and becoming alienated from our soul — for living at odds with our “Moral Law”. It couldn’t be a bigger breakthrough.

    It’s absolutely wonderful you’ve rediscovered Jeremy Griffith’s work Nicole!! Also you can take heart, because as you can see from the thousands of impressive commendations on our homepage from scientists, thought leaders and members of the public, and the over 80 WTM Centres that have now opened across the globe, the relief and excitement of finally being able to make sense of human life is turning into a tidal wave of world-saving support!!     In terms of you experiencing others not wanting to hear or know about the human condition we suggest you will find our FAQ 1.16 most helpful. It explains the very nature of the human condition means discussion of it can be initially difficult to access for many people. 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 people’s 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! Our FAQ 1.16 explains this phenomenon and its solution in greater detail and includes the section ‘deaf to the Deaf Effect’ which is written by someone like yourself who can easily access this understanding but had trouble accessing why others found it harder so that might be very revealing for you to read.     We suggest you first watch our widely praised introductory presentation THE Interview (at the top of our homepage) and from there Jeremy Griffith’s other three introductory videos here on our homepage. This presents a feast of answers and the transformation they bring about is all logic-driven and allows for truly independent, open and free thinking for the first time, obsoleting any need for adherence to faith or dogma of any kind so there’s no “magical concoction” involved! Also see our FAQ 6.5 which explains the difference between Jeremy’s biological explanation and pseudo-idealism or the new age movement which you may also find most helpful.