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    Thanks Kim. We have to say that that sounds like a very simplistic presentation of what actually happened. For example, consciousness would have emerged over millions of years, so the clash between it and our pre-established instincts would have been very gradual to begin with, which means that the upset state that characterises the human condition would only have emerged very gradually as well.     In terms of altering our habits, what is so significant about Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition is that it defends our so-called ‘dark side’ and explains that despite all appearances to the contrary, all humans are ‘good’. And 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. 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.

While it will take generations to completely heal the human race, it won’t take as long to get the world to embrace this understanding - and the change in behaviour that results. As Jeremy says in Freedom Essay 15, “It is this particular undeniable consequence of the arrival of understanding of the human condition of the transformation of our lives from living selfishly and competitively to living selflessly and cooperatively that is going to eventually catch on as being the right response now for everyone and when it does, it will spread like wildfire across our planet, and save the world. And it is not a revolution that involves warfare and bloodshed like so many revolutions in the past, but a peaceful revolution that is driven by irrefutable knowledge/understanding. We humans are conscious beings and what consciousness needs is understanding, and now we have it. Ultimately, we humans respond to knowledge—anything less was bound to be ineffective. This is the real and lasting transformation that the human race has lived in hope, faith and trust would one day occur. It is the revolution of our minds.”

    Thank you for your comment. To be clear at the outset: there is no “stealing” involved. What is being presented in THE Interview is not a reworking of spiritual or philosophical traditions, but a scientific explanation that seeks to account for the psychological conflict those traditions were grappling with.     The thinkers you mention are significant.     Adi Shankaracharya articulated Advaita Vedānta (non-dualism) — the metaphysical view that ultimate reality (Brahman) and the individual self (Atman) are not separate. It is a spiritual philosophy concerned with the nature of consciousness and liberation.     Rabindranath Tagore, in The Religion of Man, offered a humanistic spiritual vision emphasising unity, moral development, and the flowering of human creativity.     Deendayal Upadhyaya developed Integral Humanism, a socio-political framework arguing that human beings must be understood as integrated wholes — material, intellectual and spiritual — rather than reduced to economic or political units.     These traditions — and many others across cultures — contain profound truths about human life. However, they arose from a pre-scientific framework. They describe ideals, unity, harmony, and integration, but they do not biologically explain why humans so consistently fail to live up to those ideals.     The key unresolved question has always been: if our universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless, why are we so often angry, competitive and selfish? Answering that required identifying the clarifying difference between how instincts operate (as genetically encoded orientations) and how the conscious intellect operates (as a reasoning, experimental system). The resulting conflict between these two systems is the biological explanation Jeremy Griffith presents in THE Interview and in his book FREEDOM.     Jeremy Griffith’s work does not appropriate earlier traditions — it attempts to scientifically explain the human condition they were intuitively addressing. We recinnebd FAQ 1.13, ‘Is this original or new?’, which directly discusses the question of originality and situates the work in relation to prior thought.

That’s wonderful Steve! Sharing THE Interview is the best way to help this critical new science so we greatly appreciate your efforts. For many other simple ways you can help support this human-race-saving understanding of the human condition you can visit our How To Help page on our website.

    Hi Reima, yes, on our Translations page you can freely access all our Dutch translations. These include THE Interview, Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM, its condensation, Transform Your Life And Save The World, and Freedom Essays 1-14. You can also watch all the videos on our website, using the closed captions or subtitles function in any language (just click on the ‘cc’ icon at the bottom of the video player/window).     You may also be interested to know that we have FIX THE WORLD Centres in The Netherlands - see our FIX THE WORLD Centres page.

We have collected every variety of question that we have received about Jeremy Griffith, his biological explanation of the human condition and the World Transformation Movement and put them and our responses into our FAQ facility, so it’s a very helpful resource. The FAQs are presented in the following sections: 1. ABOUT THE HUMAN CONDITION AND ITS RESOLUTION 2. ABOUT BIOLOGIST JEREMY GRIFFITH 3. ABOUT THE WORLD TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT 4. ABOUT THE TRANSFORMED STATE 5. THE GREAT SCIENTIFIC QUESTIONS 6. ABOUT RELIGION AND THE NEW AGE/WOKE MOVEMENT 7. ABOUT POLITICS 8. ABOUT MEN & WOMEN 9. ABOUT RACISM

    The central tenet of Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition is that humans have a cooperative, loving instinctive heritage, not a brutish, savage and aggressive one, and that the source of our aggression is a psychosis that has been compounding ever since the instinct and intellect clashed some 2 million years ago. It follows then that the further back in history we go, the less psychologically upset a race of people will be, and so the more cooperative, loving and in touch with the natural world they will be – and we can see evidence of this in many indigenous cultures. However, it needs to be born in mind that peoples such as the native Americans are only relatively innocent compared with other races; they are still members of the extremely upset stage of humanity, H. sapiens sapiens, so they are still psychologically upset angry egocentric and alienated. See Freedom Essay 28 ‘The End of Racism’ on different levels of upset between races.     It is only with the intellect defended for why it had to defy our loving instincts and become angry, egocentric and alienated, can we legitimately return to the cooperative, sensitive, connected-with-nature state we once lived in.

    Good question Leigh. It is true that while the corrupting search for knowledge was going on it was not possible to find a permanent balance between cooperation and selfishness. These fluctuations are evident in the action of democracy — as Jeremy Griffith writes in chapter 3.9 of FREEDOM, under democracy “the proper balance is sought between the need to maintain a degree of selfless, loving, soulful, cooperative ‘ideal’ behaviour for society to function, and the need for there to be sufficient freedom from the imposition of the expectation of such ‘ideal’ behaviour, for people to be able to carry on the corrupting search for knowledge.”     As Jeremy further explains in Death by Dogma, the problem is when people adopt this desire to make society cooperative in order to make themselves feel better: “the culture of the Left makes people superficially feel good but it is extremely dangerously dishonest. Being concerned for others and the world is very important, but doing that to make yourself feel good is a dangerously selfish sickness, indeed it’s the most seductive and destructive of all drug addictions—and it’s been taking over the world. Dogma is not the cure, it’s the poison.”     The fundamental philosophical explanation of the left and right wings is, as THE Interview explains, that freedom of thought and individualism, sustained by the incentives of materialism and capitalism which right-wing constitutions uphold, are what maintained humanity’s heroic search for knowledge, ultimately for self-knowledge. And so paradoxically it was the right-wing that actually held the moral high ground and the left-wing that posed the real threat to humanity due to the fact that its dogmatically imposed pseudo-idealism gravely endangers freedom of thought and the search for understanding. Now the core mystery and problem about human behaviour of our so-called ‘good and evil’-stricken human condition has at last been solved we can understand the real merits and liabilities of both the left and right wings of politics and bring the whole necessary but ugly business of politics to an end (see our FAQs about politics).

Thanks Rhonda. As it says at the bottom of all our webpages: “This is a scientific pursuit and was not created for profit. For this reason, all information and materials are provided free of charge.”

The world is fast reaching its 11th hour, but this biological understanding will turn things around incredibly quickly because it explains and solves the underlying cause of all our selfishness, anger and egocentricity; see our FAQ 1.40 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?’. And we are getting there! For the growing momentum of support that is building around the world for biologist Jeremy Griffith’s breakthrough explanation of the human condition, see the thousands of impressive commendations Jeremy’s work has received from thought leaders and members of the public and the over 80 FIX THE WORLD Centres that have opened across the globe. Joining our Facebook Group (with 100,000 members) is highly recommended because there is so much helpful, practical and inspired discussion taking place there about living with this immensely relieving knowledge! You might also like to subscribe to our Mailing List where you will receive one email per week and occasional News Flashes. 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 Walter, to learn about the human condition and how its resolution gives us the means to fix the world we strongly recommend everyone first familiarise themselves with biologist Jeremy Griffith’s introduction to the human condition in THE Interview he did with Craig Conway, and in the description of the human condition in his book The Human Condition: What exactly is it, what caused it, and how the human race has finally liberated itself from the horror of it. All our books and videos are freely available to watch, read or download on FIX THE WORLD homepage at HumanCondition.com.     For a short summary of what the term human condition actually refers to please see our FAQ 1.1 ‘What exactly is the human condition’ where Jeremy Griffith explains that the human condition is the immensely mentally insecure and psychologically distressed state that all humans have suffered from as a result of a clash between our species’ original non-understanding, dictatorial, instinctive orientations to the world, and our newer fully conscious mind that needs to understand the world to operate.     Also FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does understanding of the human condition solve everything?’ is very helpful, to quote: “While issues such as the environment have dominated concerns in recent times, the obvious truth is that we have only been focusing on the symptoms; everything to date has been nothing more than a band-aid. All the problems we’re experiencing on this planet, aside from natural phenomenon, are caused by us humans. We are the ones who are egocentric, selfish, greedy, materialistic, fake, angry as hell. And so it’s that underlying issue — our destructively behaved, so-called human condition — that really has to be addressed and fixed if we are to solve the world’s problems.”

    Thank you for your comment Subrata. Religions have been a repository of truth during humanity’s long corrupting search to find knowledge but importantly, as THE Interview explains, while religious accounts may describe our condition ultimately we needed to find the scientific explanation for it. Specifically 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 here. We suggest FAQ 1.13 which explains it was only through finding the rational, accountable, scientific understanding of our condition that we could finally bring peace to it. In fact, what people discover is that this represents a 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’.     Also Jeremy’s Video/Freedom Essay 53 expands on thinkers (both ancient and contemporary) who, while they could not explain it, did recognise the instinct and intellect elements involved in creating the human condition. It includes the following passage about human’s original ‘golden age’ of instinctive innocence from the Mahabharata (of which the Bhagavad Gita is a part): ‘The Hindus of the Brahmanic period preserved the following in the Mahābharata: “The Krita Yuga was so named because there was but one religion, and all men were saintly; therefore they were not required to perform religious ceremonies. Holiness never grew less, and the people did not decrease. There were no gods in the Krita Yuga, and there were no demons… Men neither bought nor sold; there were no poor and no rich; there was no need to labor, because all that men required was obtained by the power of will; the chief virtue was the abandonment of desires… In those times, men lived as long as they chose to live, and were without any fear of Yima (the god of Death)… Being all like gods, they ascended to the sky and returned at will… Self-subdued and free from envy, they beheld the gods and the mighty prophets, and had a clear perception of all duties.” …And in the Vaya Purāna it is written: “They were characterized neither by righteousness nor unrighteousness…they moved about at will and lived in continual delight.”’

    You will be very happy to know Jean-Francois that THE Interview and many of Jeremy Griffith’s books and essays have already been translated into many languages which you can explore on the FIX THE WORLD Translations page. These translations also appear on many of our over 80 FIX THE WORLD Centre websites (see FAQ 3.3 ‘How do I contact my nearest Centre?’) and new translations are regularly becoming available thanks to the wonderful efforts of FIX THE WORLD’s ever-expanding global network of support! To be informed of new developments, including translations and Centres, just subscribe to our free mailing list.     Also people can watch THE Interview (and all the videos on our website) using the closed captions or subtitles function in their native language. The subtitles icon ‘cc’ is at the bottom of the video player, and you can choose languages using the ‘cog’ setting next to it.

    We welcome your interest Maureen and thank you for your comment. 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, people find it helpful to be aware that 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. Then, not knowing why we can’t take in what’s being written, we blame the presentation, believe it’s boring or needs summarising. Wonderfully, however, this ‘deaf effect’ can be overcome with patient perseverance and everyone can access this most amazing of all gifts of understanding the human condition! This is fully explained in our FAQ 1.16 about this ‘deaf effect’ and Jeremy Griffith’s astonishingly revealing presentation, The Great Guilt that causes the Deaf Effect is highly recommended.

Wonderful to have your interest Marcelline. You can immediately access a copy of THE Interview or Jeremy Griffith’s main book FREEDOM on the FIX THE WORLD homepage under the ‘WHAT NEXT’ section. You will see you can freely access an 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 wonderfully appreciative comment Susan and yes it is ‘a stand out’ to now be able to understand the danger of pseudo-idealism. We suggest Jeremy Griffith’s book Death by Dogma, which is freely available here on our website, as it expands on what Jeremy explains in THE Interview that now the real issue of the human condition is resolved we can see the danger presented by left wing pseudo-idealism, which is that its insistence on ideal behaviour oppresses the corrupting, but critcally important search for knowledge, whereas the right wing, through its support of selfish individualism, supported that all-critical search. Our FAQs about politics are also very revealing and given your interest in anthropology Freedom Essay 22 titled ‘Fossil discoveries evidence our nurtured origins’ is a must read!

Hi Robert, as THE Interview explains, the human condition is the most fearful of subjects because it’s the issue of whether we are fundamentally good or bad and our fear of this interface can make it hard to understand all that is explained in one viewing. Our FAQ 1.16 explains what is needed to overcome this initial ‘deaf effect’ is a preparedness to re-read and/or re-listen to what is being written or said and when people do this they find they can access the explanation much more easily. Also reading FAQ 1.3 is very helpful as it 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. This couldn’t be a bigger breakthrough so we send you lots of encouragement Robert to pursue your interest as it will be worth it!

It is great you’ve discovered biologist Jeremy Griffith’s work Charles and thank you for your dedication and service to your country. Essentially Jeremy Griffith explains that when humans developed a conscious mind some two 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 an undeserved sense of guilt and insecurity that caused us to become psychologically upset — angry, egocentric and alienated — 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. While each of us lives out our own individual form of it depending on our own encounter with the human condition, which includes our upbringing and our culture, we can now see that we’re all wrestling with the same internal conflict. But now that we can explain and understand this conflict and the guilt it produced, all those insecure, defensive, egocentric behaviours are obsoleted, brought to an end, and we free ourselves from the human condition. You might find FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does understanding of the human condition solve everything?’ helpful to read.

    Hi Kevin, while great care has been taken to present the explanation as quickly and simply as possible (which is done in the 15 minute Part 1 of THE Interview) it is important to note that 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—which leads to so many new concepts such as that the human race lived in an original state of innocence, that nurturing created our moral soul, and that there is an integrative meaning to existence—it does require some studying and digestion time to reasonably comprehend aspects of the new paradigm. 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.     Your scepticism is understandable but as FAQ 1.9 ‘Why people can have confidence in these claims’ explains, Professor Harry Prosen, a former president of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, has endorsed the significance of Jeremy Griffith’s treatise, saying “I have no doubt Jeremy Griffith’s biological explanation of the human condition is the holy grail of insight we have sought for the psychological rehabilitation of the human race.” So while initial scepticism is warranted about the astonishing claims being made about this work the amazing fact is that they all withstand scrutiny. A person can begin reading the book and the more they read into it the more they will realise the claims being made are actually true as is evidenced by the ecstatic responses at the top of FIX THE WORLD homepage, HumanCondition.com, and the outstanding commendations this work has received from eminent scientists and thought leaders on our Commendations page.

    Hi CC, and it’s great you found THE Interview so awakening! The practical application of this understanding is as simple as the concept itself but the reality is that we are so used to living in denial of the human condition that it typically takes a little more time to bring the explanation back to yourself and see how it applies to our everyday lives. We suggest you watch the companion presentation to THE Interview titled The Great Guilt (here on our website) as it explains our historic fear of the human condition and why we have had to live in denial of it. However solving the human condition solves all the confusion, frustration and suffering in human life at its source. 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 a selfless way of living. This is the rapidly transforming effect of being able to understand the human condition, however because it presents a huge paradigm shift in our thinking it does take a little time to fully grasp. Our FAQs 1.4 to 1.6 are helpful as they talk about the far-reaching practical applications of this understanding. For the most detailed explanation of the transformation and how to apply it we recommend Jeremy’s two seminal presentations on the topic: The Great Transformation and Sermon On The Beach.     Jeremy Griffith also explains in THE Interview and further in his main book FREEDOM the crucial role that nurturing has played in the maturation of our species and continues to play in our individual upbringing today. This reality has been another of those unbearable truths that humans couldn’t face until we could explain our divisive, unloving or ‘neglectful’ behaviour caused by the human condition, which in the extreme can cause us to self-harm. You might enjoy reading chapter 6:13 of FREEDOM titled ‘Nurturing now becomes a priority’. To quote: “...it needs to be emphasised that having found the compassionate biological understanding of the upsetting battle that humans have had to wage against the ignorance of our instinctive self as to the fundamental goodness of our conscious self, our species’ preoccupation with that battle can at last end and focus return to the nurturing of our children. Further, now that we have found that very good reason why parents have been unable to nurture their children with anything like the unconditional love children instinctively expect and need, it is no longer necessary to deny the importance of nurturing both in the maturation of our species and in our own lives. Yes, with the arrival of understanding the terrible guilt that parents have felt for not being able to adequately nurture their offspring departs. Parents can now understand that their inability to adequately love their offspring is not their fault, but the product of the ever-accumulating levels of upset in the human race as a whole that resulted from our species’ heroic 2-million-year search for knowledge, specifically for self-knowledge, understanding of why we conscious humans are good and not bad. So yes, we can finally now admit the importance of nurturing and turn our attention back to the nurturing of our offspring—in fact, it now becomes a matter of great urgency that we do both these things.”

    Jeremy Griffith’s work opens up a new way of thinking so it takes a little time to fully absorb this new paradigm. THE Interview reveals the human condition is a psychosis, caused by the clash between our instinct and intellect, not “the leftist and rightist”.     Politics, and democracy in particular, has been a way of managing the human condition while we searched for the liberating understanding of it - it is not the cause of it. As Jeremy Griffith writes in chapter 3.9 of FREEDOM, under democracy “the proper balance is sought between the need to maintain a degree of selfless, loving, soulful, cooperative ‘ideal’ behaviour for society to function, and the need for there to be sufficient freedom from the imposition of the expectation of such ‘ideal’ behaviour, for people to be able to carry on the corrupting search for knowledge.” Thankfully, through bringing a profound understanding to the human condition, it will ultimately bring an end to the whole ugly business of politics.

Until the humans’ apparently divisive behaviour was defended, we haven’t been able to properly acknowledge the integrative meaning behind existence, and traditional science in particular, with its mechanistic, reductionist approach, has denied this negative entropy driven Integrative Meaning. Being subconsciously aware that mechanistic science hasn’t been presenting the full truth, many people embraced quantum physics with its recognition of entanglement and interconnectedness to fill that void. However, as THE Interview explains, the real issue that had to be dealt with if we were to solve the world’s problems and heal the human race was our destructively behaved, so-called human condition. We needed science to answer the essential question of why, when the universal ideals are to be integrative are we so disintegrative? It is this age-old question of questions that biologist Jeremy Griffith has solved with his instinct vs intellect explanation. This required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy presents. With our apparently divisive behaviour explained and defended, we humans can now safely recognise the reality of Integrative Meaning, without being confronted by it. You can read more about Integrative Meaning in Freedom Essay 23.

Jeremy Griffith’s work doesn’t ignore, exclude or contradict a belief in God, or Christianity. It simply brings biological understanding to all those pre-scientific concepts. 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 as being the personification of integrative meaning of life; see Freedom Essay 23. We also think you might find our FAQs about religion of interest, especially FAQs ‘What is God’ and ‘Does this understanding undermine religion’.

There is a lot to digest here Rosalind, so we advise everyone to take their time and advance slowly. We can now understand, for example, that our core instinctive orientation is to be loving and cooperative. However, 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 excuse we have had to use until we had the real defence for our condition. We recommend reading or watching Video/Freedom Essay 14 about just how pervasive this excuse for our behaviour is. 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 selfish behaviour, completely transforming all humans into secure and happy beings.

    The absolutely astonishing claims being made about biologist Jeremy Griffith’s work warrant initial extreme scepticism - and beyond the claims, the realm of the human condition is the most ‘muddied of pools’ with deluded charlatans everywhere. However what Jeremy is presenting is all first principle-based, rational, testable, biological understanding of the human condition which has attracted the support of eminent scientists and thinkers (see our Commendations & Reviews page).     It also needs to be born in mind that while being able to explain the human condition is astonishingly powerfu, it presents a massive paradigm shift in our thinking so it’s natural to need to take time to digest all it reveal. As Jeremy explains, the human condition has historically been such a fearful, off-limits topic and the mind simply needs time to ride out the initial shock of having it broached and all manner of mystery unlocked.

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

While 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.

Thanks Carmelita. 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?’.

    Hi Kod, it’s great you’ve watched THE Interview as it’s the ideal introduction to Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition. The answer to your question is that preceeding generations didn’t get it wrong. What is so significant about the explanation of the human conditon is that this understanding defends our so-called ‘dark side’ and explains that despite all appearances to the contrary, all humans are ‘good’. We had to suffer becoming corrupted in order to persevere with the search to find knowledge, ultimately understanding of the human condition. 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!     With regard to ‘whether the next guy even wants to try’, as Jeremy says in Freedom Essay 15, “It is this particular undeniable consequence of the arrival of understanding of the human condition of the transformation of our lives from living selfishly and competitively to living selflessly and cooperatively that is going to eventually catch on as being the right response now for everyone and when it does, it will spread like wildfire across our planet, and save the world. And it is not a revolution that involves warfare and bloodshed like so many revolutions in the past, but a peaceful revolution that is driven by irrefutable knowledge/understanding. We humans are conscious beings and what consciousness needs is understanding, and now we have it. Ultimately, we humans respond to knowledge—anything less was bound to be ineffective. This is the real and lasting transformation that the human race has lived in hope, faith and trust would one day occur. It is the revolution of our minds.”     For further reading, at top of our Fix The World homepage at HumanCondition.com, we recommend you read The Human Condition, which serves as a powerful short-in-length bridge between THE Interview and FREEDOM. From there you can watch (or read) the 3 other Intro Videos on our homepage — The Great Guilt video that explains the difficulty of the ‘Deaf Effect’ that reading about the human condition initially causes, then The Great Transformation video about how understanding the human condition actually transforms the human race, then the Sermon On The Beach video, Jeremy’s inspired description of how the human race now leaves the horror of the human condition forever! All these presentations are available as books, which you can immediately access free electronic copies of to read, listen to or download here on our homepage. You can also download free Kindle versions from Amazon. (Otherwise you can purchase hard copies from Amazon or other good bookstores.)

Hi Geoffrey, thank you for your interest in Jeremy Griffith’s resolution of the human condition. All of Jeremy’s books are freely available on our Books & Publications page to read online, download or print your own copy (no email required). You can also download free Kindle versions from Amazon. You will find all these options next to each book at the link above, including instructions for printing and even binding your own copy. If you’d like to, we encourage you to subscribe to our mailing list to receive one free email per week and occasional updates. We also recommend joining our FIX THE WORLD Facebook group (which has nearly 100,000 members) for helpful and thought-provoking discussions about how we can all live now we have this critical new understanding of ourselves.

Yes — many of us have always sensed that we live distracted, surface-level lives because there’s a deeper question we couldn’t face: the human condition, the question of whether we’re fundamentally good or bad. What’s different now is that this issue is finally explained in a fully accountable, biological way. As that understanding spreads, even those most committed to denial will realise how empty and obsolete avoidance and validation-seeking really are compared with the meaning and excitement that is now on offer. As Jeremy Griffith says in Freedom Essay 15, “It is this particular undeniable consequence of the arrival of understanding of the human condition of the transformation of our lives from living selfishly and competitively to living selflessly and cooperatively that is going to eventually catch on as being the right response now for everyone and when it does, it will spread like wildfire across our planet, and save the world. And it is not a revolution that involves warfare and bloodshed like so many revolutions in the past, but a peaceful revolution that is driven by irrefutable knowledge/understanding. We humans are conscious beings and what consciousness needs is understanding, and now we have it. Ultimately, we humans respond to knowledge—anything less was bound to be ineffective. This is the real and lasting transformation that the human race has lived in hope, faith and trust would one day occur. It is the revolution of our minds.”

    Clearly, while other animals have various levels of ‘awareness’, or are sentient and able to perceive or feel things, none are ‘conscious’ in the fundamental sense that none can consciously manage events like humans can. Jeremy Griffith explains in THE Interview that consciousness means being sufficiently aware of how experiences are related to attempt to manage change from a basis of understanding cause and effect, and so it is accurate to describe humans as the only animals possessing ‘fully conscious minds’, see FAQ 5.5 ‘Aren’t other animals capable of conscious thought like humans? / How can you say humans are the only fully conscious animals?’     As Jeremy Griffith then explains in Part 1 of THE Interview, “If we think about it, if an animal was to become fully conscious, like we humans became, then that animal’s new self-managing, understanding-based conscious mind would surely have to challenge its pre-existing instinctive orientations to the world, wouldn’t it? A battle would have to break out between the emerging conscious mind that operates from a basis of understanding cause and effect and the non-understanding instincts that have always controlled and dictated how that animal behaves.”     From this perspective, the “fall” described in the Adam and Eve story isn’t a moral failure so much as the unavoidable turmoil that came with the emergence of consciousness — before we had an explanation for what was happening. Responsibility becomes meaningful only once that conflict is understood and reconciled, rather than treated as a simple failure of will.

It has been madness, but no longer. As it says on the FIX THE WORLD homepage: “FIX THE WORLD is a global not-for-profit charity that promotes Australian biologist JEREMY GRIFFITH’s breakthrough resolution of the underlying problem in all human affairs of the HUMAN CONDITION — thereby ending human conflict and suffering at its source, and providing the now urgently needed road map for the complete transformation of our lives and world! To elaborate, Charles Darwin’s concept of natural selection explained the origin of the great variety of life on Earth, but there science has been stalled, unable to take the next step and explain the origin of human nature, in particular explain our ‘good and evil’-conflicted human condition — as Sir Isaac Newton said about this monumental deficiency in science, ‘I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.’ But humanity is stalled no longer because biologist Jeremy Griffith has finally solved this age-old riddle of riddles of the human condition! And, most wonderfully, his answer, which is all available for free here on this website, defends and dignifies humans in the most remarkable way. It lifts the burden of guilt, making possible our species’ psychological rehabilitation. It brings about the real repair, in fact, the transformation of ourselves and our planet. It fixes the world!”

    Hi Salim, we have the ability to bring about such a transformation, because, for the first time, we can understand every aspect of human behaviour and our behaviour will change naturally as a result! 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 corrupted upset state instead of denying or transcending it. This is the rapidly transforming practical effect of being able to understand the human condition which is fully explained and illustrated on our Transformation page.     As with any new scientific breakthrough in history it will take time to gain mainstream acceptance, and from there break through the bastions of power in the world. However, once this information gets a foothold through enough people developing a deep appreciation and desire to support it, the selfless love and energy that will generate will solve our problems very quickly because, as THE Interview explains, instead of being selfishly preoccupied with power, fame, fortune and glory, all our energies will be freed to truly work together and focus on doing whatever it takes to end the suffering in all the corners of the world.     Rest assured that we here are totally devoted to getting this world-saving understanding out, and even though we haven’t yet reached the tipping point we are well on our way as you can see from the excitement and relief in our daily ecstatic responses to THE Interview! Also, on our homepage, you can see the rapidly growing appreciation and support for Jeremy’s work with outstanding commendations from thought leaders and FIX THE WORLD Centres all over the world!