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   Thanks very much for your consideration Jameson. We suggest that you can know that Jeremy Griffith has at last got to the bottom of the human condition and found the redeeming explanation of it, because as he explains in paragraph 73 of FREEDOM, the ultimate test of any hypothesis is how accountable it is of our own lives – as the greatest of all physicists, Albert Einstein, once said that ‘truth is what stands the test of experience’. And so you can know that this is the breakthrough explanation of the human condition because once you understand the explanation and begin to apply it, you will discover it is so able to make sense of human behaviour it makes it transparent. This transparency of ourselves and our world—for example, the exposure of all our falseness—that this understanding of the human condition brings, is the ultimate ‘test of experience’ that confirms that the understanding being presented here is the long-sought explanation of the human condition. 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, fantastic a claim as it may seem, you will find that what is being presented here is the long-sought-after, desperately needed, psychosis-addressing-and-resolving, human race-transforming explanation of the human condition.

   And as is explained in FAQ 1.10: “Throughout FREEDOM it is demonstrated how the ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation demystifies not just the human condition, but all aspects of human behaviour. It quickly becomes clear that not only are the facts and logic underlying the ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation established and unarguable, the theory also has an extraordinary ‘explanatory power’, which is one of the essential qualities of a scientific theory.”

   Thanks Paul. We suggest that the instinct vs intellect concept is actually very simple, however we humans have lived in such fear and denial of our corrupted condition that we can find it difficult to ‘hear’ or take in discussion of it. For people new to this concept, we recommend Jeremy’s recent presentation The Great Guilt, which explains this ‘Deaf Effect’ in depth. If you want a good quick summary, we recommend FAQ 1.3 ‘What is biologist Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition?’

   That being said, the ramifications of this central insight are considerable (to say the least), and do take time to absorb!

   Thanks for your thoughts Jim. Regarding the consciousness of other animals, clearly while they have various levels of ‘awareness’, none can consciously manage events like humans can, and so it is accurate to describe humans as the only animals possessing fully conscious minds. 

   It is possible to argue about the exact definition of what constitutes the ego and conscious mind, however the Concise Oxford Dictionary did define ‘ego’ as “the conscious thinking self”. What is more important is that the ‘ego’ or ‘conscious mind’ did become insecure, psycholgoically upset, and preoccupied with proving its worth. 

   Regarding your criticism that what is being presented is restricted by “reason and logic”, we suggest that the more you digest this explanation, the more you will see that it does not rob life or explanations of life of its ‘spiritual’ dimension. We thought you might find our FAQs about religion of interest, in particular FAQ 6.7 ‘How can a scientific explanation ever hope to account for and encompass the great ‘spiritual’ dimension we know exists in life? / Isn’t ‘spirituality’ beyond a purely rational explanation?’

Hi Hatim, it’s great you’ve watched THE Interview as it’s the ideal introduction to Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of “our reality”, which we can now describe as ‘the human condition’. From there, at top of our FIX THE WORLD 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.

   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 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!” For example, Buddha looked forward to the arrival of the amelioration of the human condition when he said that “In the future they will every one be Buddhas [meaning in the future everyone will be free of psychosis] / And will reach Perfect Enlightenment / In domains in all directions / Each will have the same title [there will be no more distorting alienation] / Simultaneously on wisdom-thrones / They will prove the Supreme Wisdom” (Buddha [Siddartha Gautama] 560–480 BC, The Lotus Sutra, ch.9; tr. W.E. Soothill, 1987, p.148 of 275). In the Bible, Moses similarly anticipated a time when we ‘will be like God, knowing’ (Gen. 3:5)." 

   In this interview Jeremy Griffith explains the key biological distinction between humans and other animal species is that humans suffer from the conscious-mind-based, psychologically troubled human condition, not the genetic-opportunism-based, animal condition. So humans behaviour isn’t driven by survival instincts. It is driven by a psychosis that was caused by the clash between their instinct and intellect and, significantly, a psychosis IS changeable as it can be healed through understanding. Jeremy also 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.

   The scientific evidence that our past was peaceful and cooperative is now incontrovertible. We suggest you re-watch Part 3 of THE Interview where Jeremy explains that genetic selfishness normally means that animals have to be competitive (in order to ensure that their genes reproduce) however 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. This is further explained and evidenced in FAQ 5.2 ‘How did we humans acquire our all-loving, unconditionally selfless moral conscience?’.

Yes, with our angry, egocentric and alienated human condition now safely defended and explained as a psychological state, we can admit the evidence all confirms our cooperative past, not a savage, ‘red in tooth and claw’ past as is commonly held. For example, in chapter 5 of his definitive book FREEDOM, Jeremy Griffith evidences that the cooperative and gentle bonobo represent a far better model of our human ancestors than the common chimpanzee. Both share approximately 99% of their DNA with humans, however bonobo physiology, bipedality, environment, intelligence and reduced canine size, better match our human ancestors. Reduced canine size is particularly relevant as it is arguably the outstanding features of the hominin clade, and universally accepted as an indication of reduced aggression. Fossil evidence of our cooperative past, including reduced canines, has lead the prominent anthropologist C. Owen Lovejoy to write that “our species-defining cooperative mutualism can now be seen to extend well beyond the deepest Pliocene [well beyond 5.3 mya]”. Yes, our selfishness and aggression is not instinctive in origin; all the evidence shows that our instinctive heritage is cooperative.

Jeremy Griffith’s work is about confronting and solving the human condition, and given our historic way of coping with the human condition has been to avoid it at all costs, Jeremy’s REAL path to our species’ returning to our natural loving way of living is a tough one to initiate. However humanity’s uptake of the explanation of the human condition has a fast finish, because, as he explains in chapter 9 of his definitive book FREEDOM, once people start having the legitimate ‘change of heart’ that this information allows, the selflessness that it liberates will not only quickly solve all the problems on the planet including teaching other people about this redeeming information, but the excitement and joy it brings means everyone will want to get on board as quickly as they can! For example, Jeremy writes in paragraph 1253, “Materialism and greed are old baggage now, discarded rubbish to be left on the garbage tip. No one is going to buy them anymore. Their power to seduce is gone because the most magnificent alternative has arrived to transport everyone to a world of soul, real love, real meaning, real togetherness and real happiness. Everyone, every Peruvian, every Kenyan, every Chinese person, every Indian, every American, every European, all people on Earth, can now join the great exodus from the, in truth, terrible human-condition-afflicted, materialistic, greedy, selfish existence. NO ONE WILL WANT THAT ANYMORE WHEN THE TRUTH GETS OUT ABOUT WHAT IS ON OFFER NOW!”

   The only way to actually end suffering was to deal with the source of our species’ corrupted human condition and bring relieving understanding to it, which is what Jeremy Griffith’s treatise does and why it is heralded as the biological breakthrough that can save the world. In FAQ 1.6 it is explained that, “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.

   Only the psychosis-addressing-and-solving, real explanation of the human condition can stop the destruction of our world and the disintegration of society that is happening everywhere we look. And it is precisely this realpsychologically redeeming, relieving and transforming explanation that biologist Jeremy Griffith has delivered in his first principle-based biological understanding of the human condition."

   As with any new scientific breakthrough it will take time to reach the whole world, and because the human condition has historically been such a terrifying realm, no-where is this resistance greater than when attempting to bring understanding to the human condition – but with enough people developing a deep appreciation and desire to support it our problems will be solved very quickly (see FAQ 1.40), and as the ecstatic responses at the top of our homepage show, every day more people are discovering the astonishing explanatory power of this understanding.

Good on you Alfre, you wont be dissapointed. Start with THE Interview, as that is the best introduction to Griffith’s work. Then, if you go to the top of our homepage—HumanCondition.com—it states ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’ and guides you through the steps to pursue your interest. This includes subscribing 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.

As Part 4 of THE Interview explains, the new age practice of leaving or transcending our competitiveness and just imposing cooperative behaviour wasn’t the solution. To quote “These movements were pseudo idealistic movements that stifled and oppressed the search for the understanding of our corrupted condition that was needed to actually free us from that state. They were regressive, not progressive”. This critical difference is further deal with in FAQ 6.5 ‘Is this just another self-help, New Age, pseudo idealistic, superficial-treatment-of-psychosis type movement?’

   Thanks for your thoughtful comment. As THE Interview explains, once we understand the human condition — the underlying insecurity and resulting defensiveness in humans — we can begin to make sense of why people differ so greatly in their views about what is “wrong” and what is acceptable.

   Importantly, Jeremy Griffith’s explanation is not about imposing another set of dogmatic rules or moral codes. Historically, because confronting the human condition was so psychologically difficult, humans tended to rely on rigid ideologies, religions, political systems or social conventions to determine right and wrong. But these approaches could never fully resolve the underlying issue.

   What Jeremy Griffith’s “instinct vs intellect” explanation does is provide the biological understanding of why humans became upset and defensive in the first place. With that understanding comes the ability to become genuinely less angry, egocentric and alienated, and therefore more naturally loving, tolerant and truthful.

   So rather than there being an “official guideline” in the traditional sense, the real measure becomes whether behaviour is helping to genuinely heal and unite the human race now that the human condition has been explained and resolved, or whether it is still arising from our upset, insecure and defensive condition. As understanding of the human condition grows, humans become less driven by denial, upset and divisive moralising, and more able to put fixing the world first through compassion, honesty and understanding.

Hi Edith, audios, and many other formats, of Jeremy Griffith’s key books (including The Human Condition) are available on the Jeremy Griffith’s Books page. Just click ‘Download or Listen to the free Audio version’. Also, all the hundreds of audios of most of our books, essays and videos are now in the FIX THE WORLD App (which you can download for free and there is no sign in required at App Store or Google Play – see our Main Menu) and on Spotify.

Hi Geoffrey, it will certainly will. Essentially we needed to find the scientific explanation for why when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless are humans 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. The human condition manifests in different ways in all as a result of our own experiences and exposure to the world, but the clash between instinct and intellect is the source of all our insecurity and subsequent anger, egocentricity and alienation, and so explaining it makes all those defensive behaviours redundant. 

Thank you for your encouragement Richard, however, we suggest that comparisons with ‘new age spirituality’ are missing the point. Ultimately our thinking mind needed understanding—specifically, scientific understanding of why when the ideals are to be loving and selfless are we so competitive and selfish? This is what Jeremy Griffith’s treatise does and why it is heralded as the breakthrough that can save the world. We recommend FAQ 6.5, which explains the difference between Jeremy’s explanation and new age spirituality, and FAQ 1.13, which explains the originality of his work.

Thank you Richard for another very appreciative comment, it’s wonderful how much you are accessing the explanatory power of this understanding. Yes humanity has been searching and waiting for this solution to the human condition that’s for sure! Our thinking mind needed understanding—specifically, scientific explanation of why humans are fundamentally good and not bad, evil, worthless beings. That is what THE Interview presents and why it is heralded as being able to fix the world. As mentioned in Part 1 Professor Harry Prosen, psychiatrist and former president of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, said: “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. This is the book we have been waiting for, it is the book that saves the world”. For readers of these comments we wanted to clarify Jeremy Griffith’s treatise doesn’t ignore, exclude or contradict a belief in Christianity or the Bible. It simply brings biological understanding to all those pre-scientific concepts. In fact, Jeremy considers the Bible to be a repository of extremely rare denial-free truth, containing all the truth about human life albeit from a pre-science view. Readers may find our FAQ 6.3 ‘Does this undermine a faith in religion or God?’ helpful as it explains religions aren’t being threatened by the arrival of dignifying understanding of the human condition—they are being fulfilled. Also we thought it helpful to include our FAQ 1.15 which explains the human condition is the realm of inquiry where science and religion overlap, so naturally in explaining the human condition religious references will be used, and through scientific explanation, finally demystified and reconciled. The acclaimed physicist Charles H. Townes summed up this ultimate reconciliation of science and religion best when he wrote, “they [science and religion] both represent man’s efforts to understand his universe and must ultimately be dealing with the same substance. As we understand more in each realm, the two must grow together…converge they must.”

   The problem is not that we don’t have the technical ability to provide for everyone on the planet, its that we don’t have the will. Everyone is preoccupied with proving their own self-worth. And as you extrapolate from that, you can clearly see that all the problems in the world that we are facing like over-population, environmental devastation, genocide, terrorism, mass displacement of peoples, starvation, runaway diseases, gross inequality, ‘racial’ and gender oppression, polarised politics, rampant corruption and other crimes, drug abuse, family breakdown, and epidemic levels of obesity, chronic anxiety, depression, unhappiness and loneliness, are symptoms of a deeper problem. We are suggesting that to truly solve the world’s problems we need to address and fix the underlying issue responsible for these problems, which is the human condition – our corrupted, psychologically upset state.

   This interview provides the ideal summary presentation to watch Michael and you might also find FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does understanding of the human condition solve everything?’ helpful.

Thanks for your question Trevor. We suggest the more you absorb what is presented in THE Interview, the more you will realise that it explains humans’ selfish compulsion for material wealth, or the competition and warring between countries, is not driven by instincts to “survive” but the product of a universal psychosis, caused by the clash between our instinct and intellect, and a psychosis is changeable as it can be healed through understanding. Basically, saying our selfish and aggressive behaviour is a manifestation of survival or selfish instincts was just a convenient excuse while we searched for the psychosis-addressing-and-solving real explanation of our divisive behaviour. It takes time to see how this biological understanding stops our selfishness and aggression but because it addresses the core insecurity that has been driving it, it actually does (see FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does understanding of the human condition solve everything?’. We also recommend FAQ 1.40 ‘How can you hope to transform the world? — In particular, how are you going to change the behaviour of the rich and powerful? / How are you going to reach the bastions of power?’)

Thanks Robert, please pursue that interest, you won’t be disappointed! Our FIX THE WORLD homepage — HumanCondition.com — provides a wonderful road map to progress with all our key material made freely available and you can subscribe 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. 

Yes Rik that has been the age-old question about humans: why when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless are we so angry or warlike, competitive and selfish. Answering this required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy Griffith presents here in THE Interview. He explains all human aggression and anger, in our individual lives right through to international conflicts, is ultimately an expression of our psychologically upset angry, egocentric and alienated human condition. We suggest Freedom Essay 29 ‘Can human conflict ever be brought to an end’ of which this is an extract, “The truth is that in a world in crisis, the only way real and lasting peace can be achieved is to deal with the primary cause of all human conflict, which is us humans, our destructive behaviour—our human condition, in fact.” You might also find our FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does understanding of the human condition solve everything?’ helpful as it explains “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.”

   Hi Shanta, the issue of the human condition, of why we corrupted our original all-loving soul, has been a question with such terrible implications that we have had to consign it to our unconscious. What this means is that despite our apparent ability to make sensible choices and direct our lives, we have still been driven by a great subconscious insecurity that manifests in our psychologically upset angry, egocentric and alienated behaviour, and so couldn’t bring any peace to our fundamental situation, which is why the world is in such a critical state.

   However, as the distinguished psychiatrist Professor Harry Prosen (who wrote the Introduction to Jeremy Griffith’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).

Hi Steve, 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 FIX THE WORLD 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.

Thanks for your considered feedback Tex. Certainly it won’t happen over night, but it is important to mention that Jeremy Griffith’s work doesn’t contradict a belief in God or Christianity, or the Bible’s content. 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. 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 as being the integrative meaning of life (see FAQ 6.2). In fact, as Jeremy writes in paragraph 1217 of FREEDOM, “religions aren’t being threatened by the arrival of dignifying understanding of the human condition — they are being fulfilled." Our additional FAQs about religion may also be of interest.

Jeremy Griffith presents first principle-based, rational, testable, biological understanding of the human condition. There is no faith or belief involved, it’s all about knowledge. This realm of inquiry is, however, where science and religion overlap — as the Nobel prize-winning physicist Charles H. Townes recognised, science and religion “both represent man’s efforts to understand his universe and must ultimately be dealing with the same substance. As we understand more in each realm, the two must grow together…converge they must.” We recommend FAQ 6.1 ‘Is this a religion?’

Hi Balthazar, it’s great to have your interest. At the top of our FIX THE WORLD 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. 

  With regard to therapy, as Professor Prosen said, “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.” In the short term, as Jeremy Griffith explains in Part 4 of THE Interview, while it will take generations for the upset within us to be completely healed, importantly we can be immediately free of its effects. 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. See our Transformation page.

  As for religion and myth, while they 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.

That’s fantastic Haile!! All the ways to become part of FIX THE WORLD, after watching our ideal summary presentation THE Interview at the top of our homepage — HumanCondition.com— is to visit our rapdily growing FIX THE WORLD Community page. This includes subscribing to our mailing list, joining the over 110,000 other members of our Facebook Group and benefit immensely from all the discussion, interaction and support there, become a FIX THE WORLD member, and join or start a FIX THE WORLD Centre in your area!!

We appreciate your interest Lisa and thank you for your comment. If you haven’t already the best place to start is to watch our ideal introductory presentation THE Interview at the top of our homepage. From there on our homepage you will see our ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’ section which 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 and joining our Facebook Group to learn more about this amazing, human-condition-resolved new world. Also, our FAQ 1.3 ‘What is the explanation of the human condition?’ presents a brief summary of the key ‘instinct vs intellect’ concept presented in THE Interview. 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. It couldn’t be a bigger breakthrough!

Thanks for your comment Kevin. While this biological understanding of the human condition really is the universal solution to all the problems we face, it does have a slow start-up phase. It will take some time to break through fixed patterns of thought, as well as the bastions of power in the world, but once this information gets a foothold through enough people developing a deep appreciation and desire to support it, the selfless love and energy it will generate will solve our problems very quickly because instead of being preoccupied with seeking relief and power, all our energies will be freed to truly work together and focus on doing whatever it takes to end all the suffering and fix the world. The essential point is that all the dysfunction and destruction in the world is a reflection of the conflict within us. What is so important about what Jeremy Griffith presents with the ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition, is that it actually solves that discord by reconciling the instinct and intellect. So the issue isn’t a lack of intelligence, or politics or religion, but rather our psychological upset. This is further dealt with in our FAQ 1.40 ‘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?’. Also as THE Interview stresses, finding this answer actually reconciles all the polarities of human life. To quote Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM chapter 4: “Yes, the instinct vs intellect explanation of the human condition makes sense of and reconciles all the unresolved manifestations of the polarities of the human situation—‘good’ vs ‘evil’, idealism or ‘God’ vs human’s non-ideal existence, religion vs science, holism vs mechanism, altruism vs egotism, communism vs capitalism, conscience vs conscious, and so on—thus ameliorating or healing, and finally ending, the psychologically upset, divisive way we have been living!” As FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does this understanding solve everything?’ explains “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.”

   What an incredible and heartfelt response to THE Interview Tony! Thank you so much for sharing it along with a little about your courageous story. Life under the duress of the human condition has certainly been horrific-beyond-description and the only way real and lasting peace can be achieved is to deal with the primary cause of all human conflict, which is us humans, our destructive behaviour—our human condition—so yes it is immensely relieving knowing that is exactly what Jeremy Griffith has done in resolving the human condition. You might like to read Jeremy’s Freedom Essay 9 ‘Can human conflict ever be brought to an end?’. It includes this response to Jeremy’s work from distinguished psychiatrist Professor Harry Prosen (who wrote the Introduction to Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM) : “What this book of books, in fact this greatest of all books, does is take humanity from a state of bewilderment about the nature of human behavior and existence to a state of profound understanding of our lives—understanding that drains away all the pain, suffering, confusion and conflict from the world. This is the book we have been waiting for, it is THE BOOK THAT SAVES THE WORLD!”

   You might be interested in our FAQ 1.52 ‘How does knowing biologist Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition help me if I am being attacked or persecuted?’, which explains that understanding the human condition doesn’t immediately stop suffering, but it helps make sense of human behaviour, allowing more effective responses to conflict or persecution. It provides insight into both ourselves and others, improving our ability to manage difficult situations.

   We greatly appreciate you spreading the word, especially to the young men you mention, so they too can experience the relief and meaningfulness of being able to understand the human journey and that the ultimate battle for self-understanding has been won which all humans have bravely contributed to. We also recommend you read our FAQ 3.4 ‘How to help Fix The World’ which includes all sorts of ways to help share this precious knowledge and also further your understanding of the human condition.  

Thanks for you consideration Brian. While it takes some time to digest, we suggest that what is unique about biologist 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 the instinct and intellect elements involved in creating the human condition.

It’s wonderful to have your interest John and we agree this explanation is brilliant! Given this is new science it takes time to see how universal this solution is, especially since we have never before seen the power of finally being able to understand the human condition. Certainly there is habituation to overcome and humans do find change difficult but, to quote Video/Freedom Essay 5 about the transformation and freedom this understanding brings us: “Really, the transformation of the world is already a fait accompli, a certainty—sure, it will take a little time to get started, but what will win the day is logic. Humans are thinking, rational beings so when all the logic points in one direction then there is really no choice but for every single human to take that path, and eventually they will. It will be slow for a start because humans hate and resist change, but nonetheless change does happen when an idea’s time has come…And with all the crises and suffering and mental agony in the world now, this idea’s time has most certainly come! So, as more and more people catch on to this logical, rational, fully accountable explanation of the human condition, the transformation will begin to sweep the world. When the word gets out about this awesome breakthrough there’s going to be an absolute stampede—it’s going to be on for young and old!”. And this is happening! Just read the ecstatic responses THE Interview is receiving on our homepage and scroll down to see the rapidly growing momentum of support that is building around the world for this breakthrough with outstanding commendations from leading scientists and thought leaders and the over 80 FIX THE WORLD Centres that have opened across the globe!

   Yes June the world is fast reaching its 11th hour, but this understanding will turn things around incredibly quickly because, as you are seeing, it explains and solves the underlying cause of all our selfishness, anger and egocentricity. How this fixes the world is summarised in Part 4 of THE Interview and is further explained in FAQ 1.4 ‘How does this understanding transform the world?’. And this turn around is happening! For the growing momentum of support that is building around the world for this breakthrough explanation of the human condition, see the thousands of impressive commendations Jeremy Griffith’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. 

   Also we recommend Jeremy’s Freedom Essays about ‘Do we fail or do we make it?’ (see Freedom Essays 55—58). These present a fearlessly honest analysis of the state of the world followed by how the extraordinary transforming power of this information can fix the world. So come and help us do exactly that June! Good first steps are to subcribe to our mailing list to receive one free essay each week along with occasional updates and join our Facebook Group where there is so much helpful, practical and inspired discussion taking place there about living with this immensely relieving knowledge! 

We appreciate your consideration Charles, that’s exactly what we want people to do.

Thank you for your thoughts Gary. 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. We suggest with time, what people discover is how this biological explanation unravels the great paradox of human life, of how we are fundamentally good and lovable, indeed the most heroic species on Earth, when we are we so angry, competitive and selfish, so much so that we are destroying ourselves and our world. We all variously suffer from the human condition, and we can now understand that in the extreme that psychologically upset state produces extremely destructive behaviour which does account for the horrendous atrocities humans can commit (what we’ve historically termed ‘evil’). Our FAQ 1.38 ‘Aren’t some people just born psychopathic, or even ‘evil’? / How does this explanation rehabilitate people capable of ‘evil’ behaviour? / Does this condone ‘evil’ behaviour?’ explains how biologist Jeremy Griffith’s breakthrough explanation does not condone or sanction ‘evil’, rather, through bringing understanding to the source of humans’ upset behaviour, it gives us the power to ameliorate and thus subside and ultimately eliminate it. Also in Part 4 of THE Interview Jeremy explains how the psychological rehabilitation of the human race, that this understanding makes possible, actually occurs. We also recommend FAQ 1.40 ‘How can you hope to transform the world? — In particular, how are you going to change the behaviour of the rich and powerful? / How are you going to reach the bastions of power? / Won’t the greedy and power-hungry simply ignore this?’ 

We welcome your curiosity Jonathan! The best place to start is to watch THE Interview (at the top of our homepage) 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 ‘What is the explanation of the human condition?’ presents a very brief summary of the key ‘instinct vs intellect’ concept. Essentially, Jeremy explains that the human condition arose from a conflict between our instincts and emerging intellect. The result of this conflict was that we became psychologically defensive, angry, alienated and egocentric. Now that we can understand the conflict, all those defensive behaviours are obsoleted, and we free ourselves from the human condition. Happy exploring Jonathan!

Hi Rob, THE Interview is free to watch, read online, listen to, download and even print at the top of the FIX THE WORLD homepage — HumanCondition.com — where you can also read over 20,000 ecstatic responses THE Interview has received! From there, our homepage 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.

Hi Sherry, it’s wonderful to have your interest. Yes at last we can understand the source of our species’ capacity for destructive behavour which is immensely relieving. As biologist Jeremy Griffith explains in THE Interview, all humans are born with loving, moral instincts (not savage animal instincts as mechanistic science teaches) but we now variously suffer from a psychosis caused by the conscious mind’s necessary search for knowledge, or the clash between our instincts and intellect. And, in the extreme, that psychologically conflicted upset state produces extremely destructive behaviour, so such behaviour does all make sense now. 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 heal 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?’

   Thank you for sharing your feelings Valerie. Firstly, and most importantly, Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of our human condition does not 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?’. As the late Professor Harry Prosen, psychiatrist and former president of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, said: “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.”

   There is much to digest, but explanation of the human condition reveals 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 our instinctive soulful, cooperative way of living 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 and the horror of the human condition can end.

   We suggest people read our FAQ 9.1 ‘How do you explain Racism’; and for testimonials on the power of this knowledge to end racism and unite the human race, we recommend those from Franklin Mukakanga, founder of FIX THE WORLD Zambia and Refentse Molosiwa, founder of FIX THE WORLD Mahikeng, in Video/Freedom Essay 8 ‘How this ends racism forever’. In this presentation Franklin understandably describes how he feel before he came across Jeremy’s understanding of the human condition, saying he “hated what [Caucasians] had done and continue to do to my people in the process of bringing us ‘civilisation’. This led to a deep resentment and to my treating Caucasians with a cool, guarded ambivalence.” And after reading Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM he said: “From my own experience I can say with absolute certainty that, as the word gets out, FREEDOM will provide the key to healing poor or strained ‘race relations’ throughout the world. Basically, this understanding of the human condition will end all prejudices, like racism, forever.”

You will be very happy to know Charrel that THE Interview, along with many of Jeremy Griffith’s publications, including his main book FREEDOM, have already been translated into French. They are all free to access, all along with other languages, on the FIX THE WORLD Translations page. Also our centres FIX THE WORLD Nice and FIX THE WORLD Switzerland present their websites in French along with these French translations!

Thanks Dhing. In terms of helping FIX THE WORLD with this all-important project we recommend reading our How To Help page which includes all the ways you can support, including joining our fabulous Facebook Group where there is much fascinating discussion taking place.

THE Interview explains our soul or instinctive self is perfectly aligned to a cooperative and selfless way of living so that is innate in all humans but the critical question is why did we leave and corrupt that original loving state? 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. 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 here and his book FREEDOM. As the eminent Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson acknowledged, “The human condition is the most important frontier of the natural sciences” and that “There is no grail more elusive or precious in the life of the mind than the key to understanding the human condition.”

Yes Paul, we can now understand that our intstincts are loving and cooperative, and our intellect has been angry, egocentric and alienated, but with Jeremy’s explanation of the human condition we can now know that the intellect was ‘good’ to defy our instincts, because our instincts could not help but criticise the intellect’s necessary search for knowledge, and that this is the reason the intellect became angry, egocentric and alienated. With this redeeming explanation all that psychologically upset behaviour can now subside and heal and we can come ‘home’ with our instincts and intellect at last reconciled!

   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 and loving they will be.

   To quote Jeremy from Part 2 of THE Interview: “While we’ve had to live in denial of our corrupted, psychologically upset condition while we couldn’t explain it, the truth is that on a graph showing the ever-increasing levels of upset in humans, those levels, especially of psychosis and alienation, have been increasing so rapidly lately that the line tracking their rise is near vertical with the amount of upset virtually doubling now in each new generation! Freedom Essay 55 on our FIX THE WORLD website describes this terrifying end play threat of terminal levels of psychosis.”

   Superficial appeasement offered no real, sustaining solution to our problems. Our thinking mind needed understanding—specifically, scientific explanation of why humans are fundamentally good and not bad, evil, worthless beings. That is what THE Interview presents and why it is heralded as being able to save the world because only the psychologically dignifying, redeeming and transforming understanding of the human condition can save our species from the terminal levels of alienation and superficiality that is leading to endgame for the human race.

Good on you Mark. We recommend reading our How To Help page which includes all the ways you can support, including 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.

   Jeremy Griffith’s work at last reconciles the duality of our instinct and intellect that causes our unbalanced or upset state of mind and, as Part 2 of THE Interview stresses, finding this answer actually reconciles all the polarities of human life. To quote Jeremy’s book FREEDOM chapter 4: “Yes, the instinct vs intellect explanation of the human condition makes sense of and reconciles all the unresolved manifestations of the polarities of the human situation—‘good’ vs ‘evil’, idealism or ‘God’ vs human’s non-ideal existence, religion vs science, holism vs mechanism, altruism vs egotism, communism vs capitalism, conscience vs conscious, and so on—thus ameliorating or healing, and finally ending, the psychologically upset, divisive way we have been living!”

   Adolph, you can immediately access free copies of THE Interview, Jeremy Griffith’s latest book The Human Condition and his main book FREEDOM (to read, listen to, download and even print) on the FIX THE WORLD homepage under the ‘WHAT NEXT’ section. Also you can freely access all Jeremy’s books on our website. As well you can 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.

   In FAQ 5.5 ‘Aren’t other animals capable of conscious thought like humans? / How can you say humans are the only fully conscious animals?’, it is explained how most animals haven’t developed consciousness because natural selection resists altruism, blocking the selfless, truthful thinking needed to understand cause and effect. However, it is explained that nurturing developed selfless instincts in our ancestors, allowing a new, truthful mind to emerge — overcoming the mental block that prevented consciousness in other animals.

   Also we recommend Chapter 7 of Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM which provides a comprehensive explanation of how full consciousness developed in humans as a result of nurturing or the love-indoctrination process which is absolutely fascinating.

Hi Isaac, you can immediately access free copies of THE Interview, Jeremy Griffith’s latest book The Human Condition and his main book FREEDOM (to read, listen to, download and even print) on the FIX THE WORLD homepage under the ‘WHAT NEXT’ section. Also you can freely access all Jeremy’s books on our website. As well you can 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. 

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’ greed, competitive and power-hungry behaviour became an unavoidable, indeed necessary, part of human life. Accumulating wealth 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.