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    You have come to the right place Carol. We can now see that all our anger and frustration is, at base, a result of a conflict between our intellect and our cooperative instincts. This conflict led to an undeserved sense of guilt and insecurity that caused us to become psychologically angry, alienated and egocentric, the upset state we refer to as the human condition. Now that we can explain and understand this conflict and the guilt it produced, all those insecure, defensive behaviours are obsoleted, brought to an end, and we free ourselves from the human condition.     As to the veractiy of this explanation, Albert Einstein once said that ‘truth is what stands the test of experience’. In this particular scientific study—the biological analysis of the human condition—we humans are the subjects, which means we can experience, feel and know the truthfulness or otherwise of the explanations being put forward. 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.

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

On behalf of Jeremy, thank you very much Amanda. You may be interested to know that Jeremy spent time at Jane Goodall’s Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Centre in Burundi - you can see an image on Jeremy’s biography page. In Part 8:4G of Freedom Expanded, in explaining the fragility of the ‘love-indoctrination’ process through which humans gained their all-loving moral instinctive self or soul, Jeremy describes the inspired decision by Louis Leakey, whereby he “handpicked three women to study the great apes in their natural habitat — Jane Goodall, who began her field study of chimpanzees in Tanzania in 1960; Dian Fossey, who began her field study of gorillas in Rwanda in 1967; and Birute Galdikas.” This decision was inspired because woman, being less embattled by the human condition than men, don’t find indications of cooperation in our primate relatives as confronting as men, and were therefore able to acknowledge it.

Hi Chukwuemeka, thank you so much - we would love you to assist in sharing Jeremy Griffith’s breakthrough explanation of the human condition! The Wolr dTransformation Movement’s homepage — HumanCondition.com — provides a guide to ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’, which recommends the steps to learn more and get involved — and it is all free! This includes joining and starting to get involved on the WTM Community Facebook Group, and subscribing for free weekly emails that guide you through much of the content of Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM in beautifully illustrated bite-size pieces. In terms of helping the WTM, we recommend reading our How To Help page.

    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.     What is significant about the explanation is that it 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!     Capitalism has been a symptom of our condition, not its cause. Proving we were better than someone else gave us validation and reinforcement to counter the deep insecurity we felt about having to become self-corrupted. And so competition, sustained by the incentives of materialism and capitalism, are what maintained humanity’s heroic search for knowledge, ultimately for self-knowledge. With our goodness and worth now biologically established, we no longer need to be preoccupied with proving our goodness and worth. Simply ‘preaching love’ could never do that - we had to address the source of the problem.

Thanks for your comment Norman. 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?’ where it is explained that, “The great founding prophets of religion actually looked forward to the arrival of the reconciling understanding of the human condition—which means supporters of religion shouldn’t see Jeremy’s scientific demystification of religious teachings as blasphemy, but as religious fulfillment!”

Thank you so much

    With Jeremy Griffith’s biological explanation of the human condition 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, suffer from the human condition and all its related behaviours including selfishness and egocentricity, but that all humans are equally good, worthwhile, meaningful and wonderful regardless of gender, age, religion, etc. See biologist Dr Anna Fitzgerald’s video in Video/Freedom Essay 9 how this explanation is the real liberation of women and also FAQ 8.1 ‘How does this reconcile the sexes’.     With regard to religious accounts of the human condition, we can now understand that while the corrupting search for liberating knowledge was underway religion played a significant role as both the custodian of the ideal state and as a means of solace for those exhausted by the corrupting journey. However, it follows that with the redeeming biological understanding of why we had to depart from our original innocence now found, those metaphysical, faith-based accounts that looked after us are now redundant. In fact, what people discover is Jeremy Griffith’s work actually reconciles science and religion by bringing biological understanding to pre-scientific concepts. In fact, it presents the fulfilment of a time that all religions looked forward to when we could actually explain ourselves, see FAQ 6.3 ‘Does this undermine religion/God’.

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

Thank you

    The human condition manifests in different ways in all of us as a result of our own experiences and exposure to the world, but the clash between instinct and intellect is the source of the overall insecurity and subsequent anger, egocentricity and alienation that underlies all human affairs, and so explaining it makes all those behaviours redundant.     For example, 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, suffer from the human condition and all its related behaviours including selfishness and egocentricity, but that all humans are equally good, worthwhile, meaningful and wonderful regardless of gender, age, religion, etc. See biologist Dr Anna Fitzgerald’s Video/Freedom Essay 9 about how this explanation is the real liberation of women and also FAQ 8.1 ‘How does this reconcile the sexes’.     In establishing the equality of all humans and brings compassionate and thus safe understanding to ALL of human behaviour — Jeremy Griffith’s breakthrough instinct vs intellect explanation of the human condition also explains the horror of racism that 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?’. Also, 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.

Thanks very much Judy. Yes, what is presented allows for a non-literal interpretation of the bible. While Christianity and other religions (including Christian Science) 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 Griffith presents in THE Interview and his book FREEDOM. This is what allows genuine reconciliation between the our moral, altruistic instincts, and our psychologically upset intellect. Through explaining the very good reason why our intellect had to defy our instincts, it makes redundant our defensive behaviours of anger, egocentricity and alienation, bringing true peace to our condition. We thought you might find our FAQs about religion of interest.

Insightful.

Jeremy has a deep respect for religious scripture which he often considers to be a repository of extremely rare denial-free truth, containing all the truth about human life albeit from a pre-science view, which his work simply brings biological understanding to. For instance, as THE Interview explains, the story of Adam and Eve is a pre-scientific metaphor for the emergence of consciousness and its clash with our pre-established, cooperative loving instincts, resulting in humans becoming psychologically upset or ‘sinful’ or ‘evil’. However, significantly we can now understand, from scientific first principles, that ‘Adam and Eve’ were actually ‘good’ to search for knowledge, not bad or ‘evil’; we humans are actually the absolute heroes of the whole story! It establishes that we are good and not bad after all. What THE Interview presents fundamentally lifts the ‘burden of guilt’ from the human race and allows us to forgive ourselves and others and finally end our psychologically troubled human condition—it couldn’t be a bigger breakthrough. You might be interested in our FAQs about religion.

    Thank you for your comment Betsy. We certainly respect people’s religious views and feel 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. He 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.     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 chapter 4 of Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM as being the integrative meaning of life. This is also explained in our FAQs about religion, especially FAQ 6.2 ‘What is God’ and FAQ 6.3 ‘Does this understanding undermine religion’.     The difference being that we can now with the benefit of science, bring clarifying, first-principle biological explanation to our so-called ‘good and evil’-afflicted human condition and why we had to depart from our original innocence, whilst religion had to rely on metaphor and a more literal interpretation.

We suggest you need to look deeper Mark because, as THE Interview explains, overpopulation, limited resources, greed, starvation and gross inequality, are symptoms of our insecure human condition, so ultimately, to reform those behaviours we have to end that underlying insecurity, get to the core of the problem and fix that which is what biologist Jeremy Griffith has done and presents here in THE Interview. Great care has been taken to present the explanation as quickly and simply as possible in Part 1. What is explained is that our emerging conscious mind came into conflict with our pre-established instincts, causing us to become insecure and psychologically upset, which we then compensate for through selfishly pursuing power, fame, fortune and glory – see FAQ 1.3 for a very brief summary of the key ‘instinct vs intellect’ concept and FAQ 1.6 which explains why understanding the human condition solves everything.

It’s wonderful Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition is bringing you such relief Andrew!! In terms of religion Jeremy stresses in his work religion has contained all manner of truth about the human condition, albeit without the benefit of science. Now, as you are seeing, with this critical new science we can understand we were not ‘sinful’ or ‘bad’ for trying to fulfil the great and important purpose of searching for knowledge. As Jeremy says in Part 2 of THE Interview, “‘No, no, that story got it wrong’. Adam and Eve are actually not just good but the heroes of the whole story of life on Earth.” What science can now add to this pre-scientific description of the human condition is that our instincts in effect criticised the emerging conscious mind’s search for knowledge, but importantly, we can now understand that the conscious mind was right, or ‘good’ to defy our instinctive self in order to fulfil its great potential to manage life. 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.

We welcome your curiosity Scott! The best place to start is to watch THE Interview (at the top of the World Transformation Movement homepage HumanCondition.com), in which biologist Jeremy Griffith presents his breakthrough ‘instinct v intellect’ explanation of the human condition. Part 1 of this interview presents the explanation as quickly and simply as possible and 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. Hope you enjoy it Scott!

Hi Fumiya, Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition biologically establishes the equal goodness of all humans which brings about a profound reconciliation to all aspects of human life. This transforming power lies in the fact that we can now understand that having to become psychologically upset and carry the burden of guilt we felt for having to leave and corrupt our original harmonious state was the responsible thing to do while we continued the search for knowledge. What is so extraordinary about this is it actually defends the conscious mind for becoming so divisive. That is the great paradox of the human condition – we humans had to defy our all-loving instincts and become corrupted in self in order to find understanding of the human condition. Now with that found we can at last reconcile our divides selves and our divided world. To quote FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does understanding solve everything’: “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.” We also suggest FAQ 1.15 about how this reconciles science and religion, FAQ 7.1 about how this ends the polarised world of politics, FAQ 8.1 about how this reconciles men and women and FAQ 9.1 about how this insight explains and ends racism.

So nice

Hi John, it certainly is the 11th hour, but as Jeremy Griffith explains, once this breakthrough explanation takes off, it will turn that dire situation around, and very quickly, see FAQ 1.6. We also recommend reading Jeremy’s Freedom Essays 55-58 as they focus on this issue of ‘Do we fail or do we make it?’. These essays present a fearlessly honest analysis of the state of the world followed by how the extraordinary transforming power of this understanding can bring real peace to ourselves and neighbours, and save the world.

It does take some time to get your head around the paradox of the human condition, John, and in particular, how it applies to politics. We recommend Jeremy Griffith’s book, Death by Dogma, which is freely available here on our homepage. In it Jeremy emphasises that its always been easy to side with idealism and denigrate realism, but now at last we can understand the real world humans have been living in where we have had to be competitive, aggressive and selfish, and, most wonderfully of all, by revealing that reason, ending the need for that divisive behaviour. That is the final paradox of the human condition: through the right wing upholding the selfishness needed to persevere with the search for knowledge, we all now become left-wing (as it were, although the truth is that the whole ugly business of politics is now brought to a close).

Thanks Karega. Certainly humans have felt great peace and freedom when on those rare occassions we have managed to transcend our psychologically upset state and perform pure acts of love or selflessness, but such moments were extraodinarily rare. Ultimately we needed to find the scientific explanation for why when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless are we so angry, competitive and selfish. Answering this question required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy Griffith presents in THE Interview.

Hi Linda, we assume you watched THE Interview as it’s the ideal introduction to Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition. From there, at top of our World Transformation Movement homepage at 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!

Hi Melaney. As Part 4 of THE Interview explains, this understanding of the human condition liberates us from an underlying insecurity and resulting psychosis that all humans have suffered from since we became a fully conscious species some 2 million years ago, which allows the immediate transformation of everyone’s life because, as Jeremy Griffith explains, “while it will take a number of generations to heal all the upset in us humans, everyone can immediately live free of their upset. The reason we can live free of it is that while we lacked the real defence and reinforcement of understanding of our corrupted condition, we absolutely needed the artificial defences and reinforcements of attacking any criticism of our corrupted condition, of denying and blocking it out, and of finding any positive reinforcement we could—anger, alienation and egocentricity are what sustained us—but now that we have the real defence and reinforcement of our fundamental goodness, all these artificial defences and reinforcements are obsoleted, they are no longer needed.” You can read more about the immediate transformation this understanding makes possible in FAQ 4.1.

    Hi Angelique, Jeremy Griffith’s biological explanation of the human condition reconciles science and religion by bringing biological understanding to pre-scientific concepts. 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 Freedom Essay 39. Our FAQs about religion are also helpful. work, and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy Griffith presents.     We might also mention that you can find translations of key publications in Dutch (as well as many other languages) on our Translations page. Also people can watch THE Interview (and all the videos on our website) using the closed captions or subtitles function in their native language (just click on the ‘cc’ icon at the bottom of the video player/window).

    Hi Patrick, there is a lot to absorb here, so be patient! With regard to the transforming effect of being able to at last understand the human condition, as Part 4 of THE Interview explains, this understanding liberates us from an underlying insecurity and resulting psychosis that all humans have suffered from since we became a fully conscious species some 2 million years ago. As Jeremy Griffith explains, “while it will take a number of generations to heal all the upset in us humans, everyone can immediately live free of their upset. The reason we can live free of it is that while we lacked the real defence and reinforcement of understanding of our corrupted condition, we absolutely needed the artificial defences and reinforcements of attacking any criticism of our corrupted condition, of denying and blocking it out, and of finding any positive reinforcement we could—anger, alienation and egocentricity are what sustained us—but now that we have the real defence and reinforcement of our fundamental goodness, all these artificial defences and reinforcements are obsoleted, they are no longer needed.” You can read more about the immediate transformation this understanding makes possible in FAQ 4.1.     With regard to learning more, you’ll see at the top of the World Transformation Movement homepage — HumanCondition.com — that 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.

What is so extraordinary about Jeremy Griffith’s instinct vs intellect explanation of the human condition is that it removes the insecurity that has been driving behaviours such as “greed”. We can now understand the battle between our intellect and our cooperative instincts caused us to become psychologically defensive – angry, alienated and egocentric, the upset state we refer to as the human condition. Now that we can understand this conflict all those insecure behaviours, such as greed, are obsoleted, brought to an end, and we free ourselves from that state and can legitimately return to a cooperative way of living. We suggest FAQ 1.40 which 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.”

Yes! Jeremy explains that while we couldn’t admit that our selfish, aggressive behaviour was psychological in origin we have had to come up with all sorts of theories to account for our good and evil stricken condition, and the idea that we are selfish because we have savage animals instincts is the main an excuse we have had to use until we had the real defence for our condition – which is what is presented here in THE Interview.

Thank you, Sandra, for your question. Part 4 of THE Interview, titled ‘How does the psychological rehabilitation of the human race that the arrival of understanding of the human condition finally makes possible actually occur?’, presents the answer to how this understanding allows us to bring this understanding into our lives and transform both our lives and our world. 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 summarised in FAQ 1.5.

Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition is supported by several converging lines of evidence. First, it passes what Einstein called the ultimate scientific test: experience. Once understood, it makes human behavior transparent — explaining why we feel and act as we do. Second, its explanatory power is vast: like Darwin’s theory of natural selection, it accounts for an extraordinary range of phenomena, from our altruism and aggression to teenage angst, mental illness, religion, art, politics, and even myths. Third, it aligns with both history and modern science. Thinkers from Plato to Richard Heinberg recognized that the emergence of consciousness conflicted with instinct, while neuroscience and evolutionary biology now confirm the difference between genetic instinct and conscious reasoning systems. Importantly, evidence from primatology — especially the cooperative, gentle bonobo, whose physiology, environment, intelligence, and reduced canine size make it a better model for our ancestors than the aggressive common chimpanzee — shows that humanity’s evolutionary heritage was rooted in cooperation, meaning our current aggressive behaviour can’t be instinctive. Finally, Griffith’s explanation reconciles science and religion by showing that both were grappling with the same underlying conflict. The breadth, coherence, lived confirmation, and cross-disciplinary support are what many scientists and commentators regard as compelling evidence for its truth. You might be interested in FAQ 1.10.

What is so important about Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition is that it finally explains the real reason for why humans’ competitive and power-hungry behaviour became an unavoidable, indeed necessary, part of human life. Proving we were better than someone else gave us validation and reinforcement to counter the deep insecurity we felt about having to become self-corrupted. And so competition, sustained by the incentives of materialism and capitalism, are what maintained humanity’s heroic search for knowledge, ultimately for self-knowledge. With our goodness and worth now biologically established, we no longer need to be preoccupied with proving our goodness and worth. Solving the human condition solves all the confusion, frustration and suffering in human life at its source so we can actually stop the destruction of ourselves and save the world.

Thanks Melinda. Yes, what is so extraordinary about Jeremy Griffith’s treatise is that it logically and accountably defends human selfishness and egocentricity. What this defence of our ‘dark side’ means is that all our defensive behaviours (our anger, egocentricity and alienation) are now redundant; we no longer need them because we have the real defence for why we had to defy our instincts. Which means that for the first time ever, humanity is in a position to freely choose to have the change of heart from “bad to good” to which you refer. Certainly it will take some generations for all our hurt and trauma to subside, but people can immediately choose to behave in line with a set of principles any time they want – they do it all the time in religions (although the ‘change of heart’ this information allows is based rational scientific knowledge, not faith). This is the essence of the transformation that is now available. To fully heal the human race will take generations, but everyone can immediately choose to live in accord with that understanding, which is what is so immensely exciting – see FAQ 4.1 to read all about the Transformed State.

Yes, Jeremy’s work brings biological understanding to religion’s pre-scientific descriptions of our condition (see our FAQs about religion). For example, as explained in Part 2 of THE Interview, the book of Genesis story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden describes the primary situation involved in our human condition of the psychologically upsetting battle that emerged between our instincts and our conscious intellect’s search for knowledge. So ‘the fall’, if you want to use religious terminology, was caused by the emerging conscious mind’s search for knowledge, which was in effect criticised by our pre-established instincts which were ‘intolerant’ of those experiments in self-management. Understanding that the conscious mind is an insightful learning tool, and therefore needs to find understanding to operate, removes the burden of guilt from humanity. Rather than being ‘sinful’ for taking the fruit from the tree of knowledge, we can now understand that we conscious humans are heroes, not villains. Having found the good reason that we had to defy our instincts means all our defensive behaviours (our anger, egocentricity and alienation) are now redundant. This is the essence of the transformation that is now available.

Hi Harold, yes, you can immediately access a copy of Jeremy Griffith’s book FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition (and his other key books), on the World Transformation Movement homepage under the ‘WHAT NEXT’ section. 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’s books they are available to purchase from Amazon and other good bookstores.

Un buen Tema [A good topic (translated from Spanish)]

    What is so significant about Jeremy Griffith’s instinct vs intellect explanation of the human condition is it reveals our selfish and competitive behaviour is not a product of our instincts, but the result of a psychosis, caused by the clash between our instinct and intellect. What is more, our instincts are loving and cooperative, not aggressive and selfish, as mechanistic science has dishonestly claimed. However, as a result of the psychosis caused by this instinct vs intellect clash, our ‘all-loving instinctive self’ is now buried deep within us. As Jeremy writes in FAQ 1.26, “because our original cooperative, selfless and loving instinctive self or soul has been so condemning of our conscious mind’s angry, egocentric and upset state, our conscious mind has had no choice but to block out that condemning and confronting soul, which is our alienation from it…So the original innocent child within us, if we like to think of it like that, is now deeply denied and repressed inside of us. We are split from our soul because we couldn’t bear its confronting and condemning expectation that we should behave cooperatively and lovingly.”     So, our behaviours are not instinctive, they are a result of a psychosis caused by the instinct vs intellect clash. Obviously the way this psychosis expresses itself is moderated by the particular cultural mores of the society we live in, and the parental values we are taught as we grow up.