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Yes Kara, Fyodor Dostoevsky certainly was a great Russian novelist! For those who aren’t aware in THE Interview biologist Jeremy Griffith includes a wonderful description of the incredible sensitivity and togetherness that our bonobo-like ape ancestors lived in, prior to us becoming conscious and the upset state of the human condition emerged, given by Dostoevsky when he penned this intuitive remembrance of that wonderful existence: “The grass glowed with bright and fragrant flowers. Birds were flying in flocks in the air, and perched fearlessly on my shoulders and arms and joyfully struck me with their darling, fluttering wings. And at last I saw and knew the people of this happy land. They came to me of themselves, surrounded me, kissed me. The children of the sun, the children of their sun—oh, how beautiful they were!…Their faces were radiant…in their words and voices there was a note of childlike joy…It was the earth untarnished by the Fall; on it lived people who had not sinned…They desired nothing and were at peace; they did not aspire to knowledge of life as we aspire to understand it, because their lives were full. But their knowledge was higher and deeper than ours…but I could not understand their knowledge. They showed me their trees, and I could not understand the intense love with which they looked at them; it was as though they were talking with creatures like themselves…and I am convinced that the trees understood them. They looked at all nature like that—at the animals who lived in peace with them and did not attack them, but loved them, conquered by their love…There was no quarrelling, no jealousy among them…for they all made up one family” (The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, 1877). How enthralled and excited would Dostoevsky have been with this critical new science that explains how humans acquired our instinctive moral conscience or soul!! You might find these FAQs fascinating Kara: FAQ 1.26 ‘What is Soul’ and FAQ 5.2 ‘How did we humans acquire our all-loving, unconditionally selfless moral conscience?’

Hi Alicia, 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 our other three introductory videos and other steps to pursue your interest. This includes subscribing to our mailing list where you will receive one email per week and occasional News Flashes. 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!

It’s great to have you on board Michael!! Once people get through their historic fear of looking into the human condition they quickly see explanation of it brings profound relief and excitement precisely because our psychotic behaviour isn’t genetic and therefore can be corrected with understanding (see FAQ 1.1 ‘What exactly is the human condition? / And why have humans been so fearful of it? / And why do most people suffer from a ‘Deaf Effect’ when they try to read or listen to discussion of the human condition?’). As Jeremy Griffith explains in Part 1 of THE Interview: “And 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.” The other good news is this fear or initial ‘deaf effect’ people can have to analysis of the human condition can be overcome allowing people to easily access the solution to the human condition. This is illustrated in The Great Guilt that causes the Deaf Effect presentation, that follows THE Interview, where people talk about how they overcame the deaf effect and Jeremy further explains just how relieving and healing finally being able to understand the human condition is and how it actually lifts The Great Burden Of Guilt from the human race!

Hi Zlatko, thank you for your comment. The good news is biologist Jeremy Griffith explains that our self-interested, compromising behaviour is not instinctive, rather it is psychological in origin, the result of a clash between our emerging conscious mind, and pre-established loving instincts. Most importantly, psychoses can be healed with understanding, so that’s the importance of the psychosis-addressing-and-solving, explanation of the human condition presented in THE Interview — it brings a complete and permanent end to our insecurity-driven behaviour, clears our mind and completely transforms all humans into secure, generous and happy beings, see FAQ 1.3 ‘What is biologist Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition?’

It’s wonderful to learn you enjoyed THE Interview Ofelia! What Jeremy Griffith presents is immensely interesting and relieving but it introduces a massive paradigm shift in how we view ourselves and our world so it does take a little time to fully grasp. The transformation is based on the biological explanation of the human condition. We can now understand that our behaviour has been driven by a deep insecurity about our fundamental goodness, so now that our goodness is biologically established we no longer have to behave insecurely and selfishly and can legitimately return to our soul’s natural way of living and be loving and selfless (see FAQ 1.4 ‘How can everyone’s lives be immediately transformed?’ and FAQ 1.26 ‘What is soul’). ‘Legitimately’ because we have the first principle science which liberates us, allowing us to be honest about our conflicted upset state instead of denying or transcending it (FAQ 6.5 explains this critical difference between Jeremy’s work and the New Age Movement).This rapidly transforming effect is certainly something to celebrate with music and song but music isn’t the source of the lasting transformation this information brings about. You might find Jeremy’s Freedom Essays about what we can now understand about art most revealing, see Freedom Essay 44 ‘Art makes the invisible visible’ and Freedom Essay 45 ‘Prophetic Songs — and the symbolism of the rising sun’.

Yes Javier that is how most people thought before they watched THE Interview — that our uncivilised behaviour was due to us having animal instincts but as biologist Jeremy Griffith explains in this interview that was just a convenient excuse while we searched for this critical new science. We can now understand that all humans are born with all-loving, moral instincts but we now suffer from a universal psychosis caused by the clash between our instinct and intellect. We became psychologically upset and alienated from our original selfless state because of our conscious mind’s necessary, and indeed heroic, search for knowledge. Now we have this psychosis-addressing-and-solving real explanation of our destructive and brutal behaviour we can legitimately smile again because we can be honest about our conflicted upset state instead of denying or transcending it (FAQ 6.5 explains the huge difference between Jeremy’s work and the New Age Movement).

Meditation and other practices have been necessary and invaluable tools in helping us manage and cope with our psychological upset under the duress of the human condition. They calm the troubled mind and help us access our truthful moral soul (see FAQ 1.26 ‘What is soul, have we all got one, has it been repressed, and if so, how do we rehabilitate it?’) but these techniques don’t address and solve the agony of the human condition. Fundamentally they are about escaping the pain in our brains, rather than directly addressing and dealing with the cause which Jeremy’s treatise does. Our conscious minds ultimately needed rational, reconciling understanding of our conflicted selves (the core issue of the human condition) to truly heal and re-unite with our truthful soul, so it is only now with Jeremy’s scientific explanation of the human condition that we can relieve ourselves of our psychologically upset state or condition and stop the destruction of our world and the disintegration of society that is happening everywhere we look. This critical difference is explained in FAQ 6.5 ‘Is this just another self-help, New Age, pseudo idealistic, superficial-treatment-of-psychosis type movement?’

We are respectful of everyone’s beliefs, but do suggest that while religions contained extraordinary truth about human life, it was all from a pre-scientific view, and that 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 clarifying difference means we can now understand that we had to defy our instincts, which is why this great breakthrough is described as ‘redeeming’. It follows that by finding the good reason we had to defy our instincts, we can reconcile ourselves with them, because 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. We recommend reading FAQ 6.3 ‘Does this undermine religion?’

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. This is of great importance because having found the good reason that we had to defy our instincts means all our defensive, ‘bad’ behaviours (our anger, egocentricity and alienation) are now redundant. There couldn’t be a bigger breakthrough. As 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” — see FAQ 1.34 ‘How does understanding the human race’s condition help with an individual’s depression and psychosis?’

This breakthrough instinct vs intellect explanation of the human condition establishes the equality of all humans and brings compassionate and thus safe understanding to ALL of human behaviour — including why the horror of racism has existed under the duress of the human condition and, most importantly, finally brings it to an end, see FAQ 9.1 ‘How do you explain racism?’. For a testimonial on the power of this information to end racism, we recommend watching/reading the presentation from Franklin Mukakanga of Zambia, and Refentse Molosiwa from Mahikeng, South Africa, in Video/Freedom Essay 8.

Yes, in THE Interview it is explained that the idea that we have ‘savage instincts’, an idea that most people adhere to and which is widely taught, is not right – the truth is that our instinctive legacy, and therefore our species' history, is loving, cooperative and compassionate. With this compassionate understanding of our current corrupted condition we can now admit the truth about our loving past because it no longer condemns us.

    Thanks Connie, that is certainly what we recommend. Its worth bearing in mind though, that 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.

Thanks very much Frederick. We just wanted to say that the issue with Gen Z not being able to ‘take in’ or ‘absorb’ this information is not because it is not simmple, but because, as explained in THE Interview, it does open up the historically off-limits subject of the human condition, so people can initially struggle to access or ‘hear’ what is being explained. FAQ 1.16 further explains this initial ‘deaf effect’. However, as momentum grows, everybody will shake off their fear of this subject, and realise that what is being offered is not only simple to understand, but the compassionate and redeeming explanation for our corrupted state that humanity has been searching for for so long.

Hi Attasha, 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 and occasional News Flashes. 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!

There is a lot to digest here Kola, but we hope you persevere, because it does provide the ulimate answer to why there is so much “pain and suffering around the world”. The answer hasn’t been to replace men with women because it turns out that men have been engaged in the most important task on the planet, which is to defy our instincts and continue the corrupting search for knowledge, because in the end, it was only this knowledge that could bring peace to our divided state. So what is so significant about the explanation of the human conditon that Jeremy Griffith is presenting 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!

Ndidi, that is excellent. 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.

Thank you for your thoughts Dimakatso. In THE Interview biologist Jeremy Griffith explains what our mind needs is the answer to the age old question of humanity’s extremely paradoxical nature: why when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless are we so angry, competitive and selfish?! Without this answer we have heroically tried different techniques for calming, restraining, repressing, and even transcending our psychologically upset human condition, including trying to embrace a positive self-aware or mindful mindset. This has been very valuable in managing our upset, but none of them have stopped the destruction of our world and the disintegration of society that is happening everywhere we look. The reason is because they don’t solve the human condition and they can’t because they don’t deal with the source of our species’ corrupted condition and bring relieving understanding to it. This is what Jeremy’s treatise does and why it is heralded as the biological breakthrough that can save the world. To quote from our FAQ 6.5 which explains this critical difference between Jeremy’s work and self-help or new age type movements, “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.” So our mind needs answers or knowledge—anything less was bound to be ineffective. What this critical new science provides os 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.

Yes Kim these are absolutely wonderful insights that explain our origins from some 12 million years ago! At last we can explain the entire human journey and the fundamental goodness of humans which reconciles and unites all races and cultures and certainly brings a deep appreciation our own heritage. We can now understand that the human race started out innocent and then became increasingly corrupted as a result of the heroic search for knowledge. This key insight allows us to understand that indigenous ‘races’, who have been relatively sheltered from humanity’s heroic battle to find knowledge, will be more ‘innocent’, or less psychologically upset, than those ‘races’ more exposed to the battle. This explains why indigenous peoples have so much affinity with humans instinctive cooperative way of living, their ancestors and the natural world; however, even indigenous peoples are only ‘relatively’ innocent, because all humans are now part of the extremely upset stage of humanity, H. sapiens sapiens, and are therefore nowhere near as innocent as humans were some two million years ago when the battle of the human condition first emerged. But, what is most significant, is that despite the differing levels of upset due to everyone’s different exposure to humanity’s heroic battle to find knowledge, we can now understand that we are all equally good! Jeremy Griffith’s treatise also reconciles science and religion which demystifies abstract concepts such as God and explains, from first principle biology, that God or the nature or meaning of life is integration or order, see FAQ 5.3 ‘What is the meaning of life? / What is the Integrative Meaning of existence? / What is God?’

Yes Richard THE Interview and all of Jeremy Griffith’s presentations and books are immediately available for free here on our website — and in many formats!!

That’s exactly what we want and encourage people to do Erik – judge this for themselves as it is first-principle, testable, scientific explanation of the human condition! Also, we understand the astonishing statements made about Jeremy Griffith’s work, such as Professor Prosen claiming it “solves the human condition and saves the world”, warrant initial scepticism however these statements withstand scrutiny because this is all 100% logic — which is explained in our FAQ 1.9 ‘Should people be sceptical of the claims made about biologist Jeremy Griffith’s work?’

    Yes Hector, the explanation of the human condition unravels and makes sense of the whole seemingly impenetrable and insoluble confusion of human life—and does so in such a simple way—it does appear ‘self obvious’ or evident. It brings to mind Thomas Huxley’s famous response to Darwin’s idea of natural selection: ‘How extremely stupid of me not to have thought of that!’ However, In THE Interview Jeremy answers the question of, ‘if the ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation is so obvious, why weren’t we taught this at school?’; and similarly our FAQ 1.14 explains that the answer to the question of, ‘Why aren’t these ideas mainstream?’, is that the human condition has historically been an off-limits subject, and as a result people can find it initially difficult to take in or ‘hear’ discussion of it.     You may already be aware of all our Spanish translations, including THE Interview and some of Jeremy Griffith’s books, including his main book FREEDOM, but if not they are on our homepage or visit our Translations page. Also, we have a WTM Centre in Madrid which was founded by David Garcia and the website includes David’s absolutely wonderful and helpful video where he so clearly relays his experience in discovering Jeremy Griffith’s scientific breakthrough. And the WTM Colombian Centre presents its website in Spanish, including centre founder Carlos Cruz Blanco’s welcome video, so there is a feast of material available!

Absolutely Rosita!! We wanted to ensure you are aware of our WTM Sweden centre which presents their website in Swedish and includes a lot of WTM information and also videos from the centre founders, who you can also contact via their contact page. Swedish translations of THE Interview and our Introductory Videos are underway but people can watch all our videos with subtitles in their native language using the closed captions function (see the ‘cc’ icon at the bottom of each video player). You can see our other translations in our FAQ 3.9.

YES James it is! THE Interview is freely available in many formats including an eBook here on our website. At this link you will see all of Jeremy Griffith’s books and other presentations which are also freely available.

Thank you for your thoughts April. 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, see chapter 8:16D of Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM. 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?’. 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 so we hope that brings you comfort and hope April.

Yes this certainly is great news Lucas!! 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 which makes possible the psychological rehabilitation of the human race. For instance in Part 3 of THE Interview Jeremy explains that our human instincts are loving and cooperative – that is our natural “Garden of Eden”-like state; and in Part 4, it is explained how, with the human condition now solved, all humans will be able to return to that state, but with understanding, in a fully conscious way. To learn more our homepage provides the perfect guide to all our introductory material and we also have an extensive FAQ facility, for example FAQ 1.3 provdies very brief summary of the key ‘instinct vs intellect’ concept.

We certainly respect people’s religious views Joye but it is important to mention that Jeremy Griffith’s work doesn’t contradict a belief in God or Christianity. It simply brings biological understanding to all those pre-scientific concepts. In fact Jeremy considers the Bible to be a repository of extremely rare denial-free truth, containing all the truth about human life albeit from a pre-science view. You may find our FAQs about religion intereesting, especially 6.2 ‘What is God’ and 6.3 ‘Does this understanding undermine religion’. Jeremy also considers Christ to be one of the greatest, most sound (still able to access the truthful world of his soul), denial-free thinking prophets in history and has written about Christ’s life and its phenomenal importance in humanity’s journey in Freedom Essay 39. We also suggest 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?’ which is most revealing and addresses your main point.

Thank you for your thoughts Denis and yes we encourage you to consider what is presented here in this interview. What is so extraordinary about this breakthrough is that we can now understand the fundamental reason people become greedy and envious; we can now understand the source of our greed, and more generally, materialism. When the conscious mind went in search of knowledge a conflict between our instinct and intellect broke out, leading to an undeserved sense of guilt and insecurity that caused us to become psychologically defensive, angry, alienated and egocentric — the upset state we refer to as the human condition, a state we sought to alleviate through a competitive, selfish and aggressive bid for the reinforcement we could gain from winning power, fame, fortune and glory. This is the underlying source of our greed. But now that we can explain and understand this conflict and the guilt and insecurity it produced, all those defensive behaviours are obsoleted, brought to an end, and we free ourselves from the human condition, see our FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does this understanding solve everything’. You may also find our FAQ 1.40 helpful titled ‘Aren’t the problems of the world too overwhelming to ever be fixed? / Isn’t it too late to save the world? / How can you hope to transform the world? — In particular, how are you going to change the behaviour of the rich and powerful? / How are you going to reach the bastions of power? / Won’t the greedy and power-hungry simply ignore this?’

Thank you for your comment Lateef and it is wonderful to have your interest. We would clarify that the human condition is a universal condition all humans and therefore cultures and societies suffer from to varying degrees. As the distinguished psychiatrist Professor Harry Prosen (who wrote the Introduction to Jeremy Grffiths’s definitive book FREEDOM) said: “What Griffith is presenting is understanding of the source insecurity that the whole human race suffers from for having destroyed our species’ innocent soul. It is a universal self-blame that his understanding at last provides healing insight into. All human behavior is saturated with that universal insecure, depressing state and resulting anger, egocentricity and alienation that has developed from it, but we finally have the compassionate foundation insight needed to dismantle all that ‘upset’/psychosis. So the real psychotherapy of our collective and individual psychoses can begin”, see FAQ 1.34.

In Part 1 of THE Interview biologist Jeremy Griffith explains that the idea that we have ‘savage‘, ’survival of the fittest' instincts, an idea that most people adhere to and which is widely taught, is not right and is the main excuse we have had to use until we had the real defence for our condition. Jeremy evidences the truth is that our instinctive legacy is cooperative and selfless or as he describes it in Part 2 a “state of cooperative and loving innocence”. He explains that genetic selfishness normally means that animals have to be competitive in order to ensure that their genes reproduce or survive. However in Part 3 of the interview Jeremy explains that our ancestors overcame this genetic selfishness through the love-indoctrination process and developed love and cooperation, a process the fossil record and the bonobos evidence. Significantly, Jeremy’s work reveals our “fall from innocence” is not a product of unchangeable survival animal instincts within us, but the result of a psychosis, caused by the clash between our instinct and intellect. And a psychosis is changeable as it can be healed through understanding—a revelation that transforms the human race. We suggest FAQ 1.3 ‘What is the explanation’ and FAQ 5.2 ‘How did we humans acquire our all-loving, unconditionally selfless moral conscience?/ What do the nurtured and cooperative bonobos tell us about our own evolutionary heritage?’

Hi Bill, it’s great you’ve read 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 and occasional News Flashes. 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!

Very fascinating thank you for sharing your insights

Your knowledge is profoundly valuable

While Buddhism and other religions contain all manner of truths about human life, it is all from a pre-scientific view. 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 presents in THE Interview and his book FREEDOM. We suggest FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this original or new?’ which explains the unique significance of Jeremy Griffith’s work.

Hi Ron, we suggest the more you digest this presentation, the more you realise that the human condition is behind all our actions and motivations, including our aggression. The point is that all our behaviours, whether anger, or preoccupation with ourself, or striving for approval or success, or greed, or even attempts to feel good about ourselves by ‘doing good’ etc etc, are symptoms of our insecure, human condition afflicted state. It follows that if you address that underlying insecurity, then all our other artificial sources of reinforcement will be removed. And that is what this understanding does – it addresses and solves that core insecurity about our self-worth.

Hi Maria, 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!

Hi Beverly, it’s wonderful you’ve watched THE Interview and it’s resonated with you so deeply. A common reaction when people hear the explanation of the human condition for the first time, is that the explanation rings true — that despite our competitive and selfish behaviour, we have always intuitively believed we were fundamentally good, but we have never been able to explain this contradictory, conflicted condition. That is the great breakthrough Jeremy Griffith presents here — and it is bringing light to the darkness you speak of! We encourage you to keep exploring our website; you’ll see at the top of the homepage — HumanCondition.com — that it states ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’ and guides you through the steps to pursue your interest. We would particularly encourage you to join our booming Facebook Group because there is so much helpful, practical and inspired discussion taking place there night and day about this immensely relieving knowledge!

    While it takes some time to digest, we suggest what is presented here answers the fundamental question of why humans are greedy; why the wealthy want to control the poor; why people are hungry for power over others; why that is addictive. What is absolutely unique and groundbreaking about Jeremy Griffith’s work is that he has answered the essential question behind all the examples you list 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.     You may also find our FAQ 1.40 helpful titled ‘Aren’t the problems of the world too overwhelming to ever be fixed? / Isn’t it too late to save the world? / How can you hope to transform the world? – In particular, how are you going to change the behaviour of the rich and powerful?’. It is explained there that even those who are most committed to seeking validation through gaining power and wealth, including those entrenched in positions of power, will quickly realise how empty and obsolete that strategy is now that we have the fully accountable, psychosis-addressing-and-solving, biological explanation of the human condition that establishes our worth at the most fundamental level.