Comments on THE Interview

   Yes, but the question screaming to be answered is since this is the case why would we choose to behave in the completely opposite way? This is the point or question of the human condition and to answer it we needed to find the scientific explanation for why when these universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless are we so angry, competitive and selfish. This required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work and that is the great biological breakthrough biologist Jeremy Griffith presents.

   As Part 4, titled ‘How does the psychological rehabilitation of the human race that the arrival of understanding of the human condition finally makes possible actually occur?’ explains, 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.

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 all 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. Fixing that is the point.

   At last with Jeremy Griffith’s instinct vs intellect explanation of the human condition we can understand WHY we are so destructive, greedy and oppressive. Which means we can now explain that the more innocent or sheltered ‘races’ (ethnic groups), like indigenous peoples, have not been as exposed to humanity’s heroic battle to find knowledge as less sheltered races, and so they aren’t as psychologically upset as those less sheltered races. So yes, more sheltered races have more affinity with our instinctive soulful, cooperative way of living and nature and are therefore not as “brutal and competitive” as more upset races. However, 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 2 million years ago when the battle of the human condition first emerged. Also, most significantly, despite the differing levels of upset due to everyone’s different encounters with humanity’s heroic battle to find knowledge, we are all equally good. You might like to read our FAQ 9.1 about how this understanding puts an end to racism and for a testimonial on the power of this knowledge to end racism, we recommend the presentations from Franklin Mukakanga, of Zambia, and Refentse Molosiwa, of South Africa, in Video/Freedom Essay 8.

   Finally, in Addendum 2 of his book Death by Dogma, Jeremy explains why the Judeo-Christian Western culture, like the right-wing in politics, has been one of the main targets for rejection by the pseudo idealistic, politically correct, ‘woke’, identity politics, cancel culture movement — but that it has finally delivered the explanation of the human condition that the whole world has been so desperately waiting for.

Hi Marie. The core breakthrough of Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition is that we no longer have to be burdened by the fundamental question of whether we are good or bad because our core goodness as individuals and as a species has been biologically established. We can now know that our psychological upset was the price humans had to pay for searching for knowledge and that the human story presents the greatest, most heroic story ever told. That is the overarching comforting truth that loves and unites all humans now and we can look after ourselves and others with great compassion, love and kindness. As discussed in THE Interview, without the defence of our fundamental goodness, the human condition has been an unbearably confronting and off-limits subject so even though explanation of our condition brings tremendous relief it does introduce an entirely new framework of knowledge, a massive paradigm shift in how we view ourselves and our world, so we recommend people take it slowly in themselves as it does take time to fully digest and integrate such a shift in thinking. This caution against overly confronting the upset within us is something everyone needs to be mindful of but especially those who have struggled with psychological instability or mental health issues, as our FAQ 1.19 explains. 

Hi Magdi, 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. 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!

We suggest that the more you digest Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation, the more you will realise how accountable it is in getting to the source of all humanity’s psychological upset, which in the extreme, produces people who are capable of so called ‘evil’. Of course this breakthrough explanation doesn’t condone or sanction the horrendous atrocities humans can commit rather, through bringing compassionate understanding to the source of humans’ upset behaviour, it gives us the power to ameliorate and thus subside and ultimately eliminate it, see FAQ 1.38 ‘Does this condone ‘evil’ behaviour?’.

   Thanks for your comment Copper. It does take a little time to fully absorb what THE Interview presents as explaining ‘free will’ is central to the presentation. Using the Adam Stork story, it explains that in order to master or champion our free will the conscious mind did have to defy or ignore our instincts, and it was this defiance of our instincts that resulted in humans becoming angry, egocentric and alienated — the psychological upset state of our human condition.

   At last we can understand we have been driven by a deep insecurity about our fundamental goodness or worth and so now that our goodness is biologically established we no longer have to behave insecurely and selfishly and can legitimately return to a selfless way of living. ‘Legitimately’ because at last we have the first principle-based science which liberates us to be honest about our conflicted upset state instead of denying or transcending it.

   Finally, it is important to mention that Jeremy Griffith’s work doesn’t contradict a belief in God or Christianity. It simply brings biological understanding to all those pre-scientific concepts. People may like to explore our FAQs about religion, in particular FAQ 6.3 ‘Does this undermine religion/God’.

Thank you for your interest Jesse. In THE Interview biologist Jeremy Griffith not only explains what sin is and where it comes from, but also how we are not bad for having become self-corrupted – this is, in fact, the very essence of his treatise. For example, in Part 2 Jeremy explains how the story of Adam and Eve is a pre-scientific metaphor for the emergence of consciousness and its clash with our pre-established, cooperative loving instincts, resulting in humans becoming psychologically upset or ‘sinful’ or ‘evil’. However, significantly we can now understand, from scientific first principles, that ‘Adam and Eve’ were ‘good’ to search for knowledge, not bad; we humans are actually the absolute heroes of the whole story! This understanding fundamentally lifts the ‘burden of guilt’ from the human race. It establishes that we humans are good and not bad after all. With this understanding we can finally end our psychologically troubled human condition—it couldn’t be a bigger breakthrough. We suggest our FAQs about religion and also our blog post What is ‘Sin’. It is important to clarify that this explanation does not condone upset or so called sinful behavior; the full compassionate understanding ameliorates it, allowing such behavior to subside, see FAQ 1.38 ‘Aren’t some people just born psychopathic, or even ‘evil’? / Does this condone ‘evil’ behaviour?’.

In knowing we are pschologically damaged it would take a lot of time and effort to correct this. I co not believe humans will ever get together to serve this. I know it is pessimistic but people are individually damaged emotionally.

Thank you for your very moving comment Adam and it is wonderful you’ve come across THE Interview as yes finally being able to understand the battle between our instinct and intellect is immensely relieving. The burden of the human condition has caused so much unbearable suffering for humans it has been a deeply tragic reality. It has required so much courage which you obviously have lots of. The core breakthrough of Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition is that we no longer have to be burdened by the fundamental question of whether we are good or bad because our core goodness as individuals and as a species has been biologically established. We can now know that our psychological upset was the price humans had to pay for searching for knowledge and that the human story presents the greatest, most heroic story ever told. That is the overarching comforting truth that loves and unites all humans now and we can look after ourselves and others with great compassion, love and kindness. As discussed in THE Interview, without the defence of our fundamental goodness, the human condition has been an unbearably confronting and off-limits subject so even though explanation of our condition brings tremendous relief it does introduce an entirely new framework of knowledge, a massive paradigm shift in how we view ourselves and our world, so we recommend people take it slowly in themselves as it does take time to fully digest and integrate such a shift in thinking. This caution against overly confronting the upset within us is something everyone needs to be mindful of but especially those who have struggled with psychological instability or mental health issues, as our FAQ 1.19 explains. Sending you all our good wishes Adam and thank you again for sharing your experience with this understanding.

Yes, C.S. Lewis was an extraordinarily insightful writer and thinker, but we suggest that our endeavours in art, philosophy, psychology and biology have failed, until now, to provide a fully accountable, genuinely clarifying explanation for why, when the ideals are to be loving and cooperative, are we so selfish and divisive. 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 Video/Freedom Essay 4 which expands further on other thinkers (both ancient and contemporary) who have recognised instinct and intellect elements involved in creating the human condition.

And the “coincidence” can be explained. 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. Read more in our FAQs on relgion.

We recommend our FAQ 1.1 ‘What is the human condition?’ in which it is explained 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. Humans have been terrified of the human condition because, without understanding its biological cause, we had no defence against the shame of our corruption of our species’ original cooperative and loving innocent state.

Thanks for the great comment Charles. Yes, what people discover is Jeremy Griffith’s work actually reconciles science and religion by bringing biological understanding to pre-scientific concepts. In fact, it presents the fulfilment of a time that all religions looked forward to when we could actually explain ourselves, see FAQ 6.3 ‘Does this undermine religion/God’.

It’s wonderful you enjoyed THE Interview so much Audrey as it’s the ideal introduction to Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition! To learn more go to the top of our FIX THE WORLD homepage at HumanCondition.com, as it states ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’ and guides you through the steps to pursue your interest. This includes reading the two expansions: Jeremy’s mid-length 2025 book The Human Condition, and his definitive book, FREEDOM. Along with watching or reading those 3 titles, it is very helpful to watch the 3 Intro Videos, which are The Great Guilt, The Great Transformation, and Sermon On The Beach. Also, the 16 main videos are very instructive. We also encourage people to subscribe to our mailing list, where you will receive one email per week and occasional News Flashes, and join our Facebook Group to learn more about this amazing, human-condition-resolved new world. We are a not-for-profit organisation and make all our material and publications free to read online, watch, listen to and even download and print!

What is so significant about the explanation of the human conditon is that this understanding brings ‘love’ to our so-called ‘dark side’ and explains that despite all appearances to the contrary, all humans are ‘good’. And paradoxically, through bringing compassionate understanding to the source of humans’ upset behaviour, it makes redundant our defensive behaviours of anger, egocentricity and alienation, allowing us to end the perpetuation of our destructive behaviour!

It’s wonderful you’ve watched THE Interview Shemirah as it’s the ideal introduction to Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition. To learn more go to the top of our FIX THE WORLD homepage at HumanCondition.com, as it states ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’ and guides you through the steps to pursue your interest. This includes subscribing to our mailing list where you will receive one email per week and occasional News Flashes. We also encourage people to join our Facebook Group to learn more about this amazing, human-condition-resolved new world. We are a not-for-profit organisation and make all our material and publications free to read online, watch, listen to and even download and print! 

It’s absolutely marvellous you’ve discovered us Leslie and thank you for sharing your experience with Jeremy Griffith’s work. Honestly finding understanding of the human condition is the game-changer the world has been waiting for as it provides the key insight to answer all the questions we’ve all been asking about human life - it couldn’t be a bigger breakthrough! If you haven’t already you might like to explore our extensive FAQ facility here on our website. Sending you all our good wishes and thank you again for your comment Leslie.

Well you have come to the right place Luzindana to learn all about humanity and the human condition! The best place to start is to watch THE Interview, in which biologist Jeremy Griffith presents his breakthrough ‘Instinct vs Intellect’ explanation of the human condition, as it’s the ideal introduction to his work. From there, ideally you would read the two expansions: Jeremy’s mid-length 2025 book The Human Condition, and his definitive book, FREEDOM. Along with watching or reading those 3 titles, it is very helpful to watch the 3 Intro Videos, which are The Great Guilt, The Great Transformation, and Sermon On The Beach. Also, the 16 main videos are very instructive. All our videos and books are freely available to watch, read or download at HumanCondition.com and you can also subscribe to our free mailing list where you will receive one email per week and occasional News Flashes. We also encourage you to join our FIX THE WORLD Facebook Group where people benefit enormously from the general discussion, interaction and support structure provided there.

Thank you for your interest Biddy! Yes Jeremy Griffith is of Irish and Welsh ancestry which you can read about in Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM par 1036 where he writes: “I do know my great-great-great grandfather John? Griffith was an Anglican who lived in Cootehill, County Cavan in Ireland. (Also, my grandfather Lionel Griffith married Louisa Bevan who was the daughter of Frederick Bevan, a Canon in the Anglican church who came to Australia from Ireland and whose ancestors came from Wales in the latter half of the 1600s during The Plantations period.) And I know that my great-great grandfather Thomas Griffith adventured from Ireland to the Caribbean (where the homestead on his sugarcane plantation in St Croix is now a museum), and that the generation that followed after him came to Australia where in the country town of Albury my great grandfather Charles Griffith built the biggest stock and station agency outside of the capital cities, and that two generations after that, my father Norman Griffith (who was a bold Z Special Unit commando sent to thwart the Japanese advance at Manus Island, north of New Guinea in the Second World War) set out without any financial inheritance and developed a sheep station near Mumbil in central west New South Wales and managed to send his four sons to the then soul-cultivating and prestigious (and expensive) Geelong Grammar School in Victoria.”

   We can now see that racism is a symptom of the human condition, not its cause or “a major hurdle in fixing the human condition.” What is explained in THE Interview is that the longer an individual human, or even a ‘race’ (ethnic group) of humans, was exposed to the great battle that humanity has been heroically waging against ignorance, the more they would suffer from the upset state of the angry, egocentric and alienated human condition. While it is true that some European ‘races’ have been more exposed to the battle than some other ‘races’, it is not correct to say that the human condition is a “white” person, or European condition – 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 2 million years ago when the battle of the human condition first emerged. Also, most significantly, despite the differing levels of upset due to everyone’s different encounters with humanity’s heroic battle to find knowledge, we are all equally good. You might like to read our FAQ 9.1 about how this understanding puts an end to racism and for a testimonial on the power of this knowledge to end racism, we recommend the presentations from Franklin Mukakanga, of Zambia, and Refentse Molosiwa, of South Africa, in Video/Freedom Essay 8.

   Also, in Addendum 2 of his book Death by Dogma, Jeremy explains why the Judeo-Christian Western culture, like the right-wing in politics, has been one of the main targets for rejection by the pseudo idealistic, politically correct, ‘woke’, identity politics, cancel culture movement — but that it has finally delivered the explanation of the human condition that the whole world has been so desperately waiting for.

What is unique about Jeremy Griffith’s work is that he has answered the essential question of why, when the universal ideals are to be integrative are we so disintegrative? Our endeavours in philosophy, psychology and biology have failed, until now, to provide a truthful, real, fully accountable, genuinely clarifying explanation. Answering this question required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy presents here. We suggest FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this original or new?’ and Video/Freedom Essay 4 which expands further on other thinkers (both ancient and contemporary) who have recognised instinct and intellect elements involved in creating the human condition.

Hi Andre, 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. 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!

   That is absolutely fine Aubrey – we want people to honestly discuss this idea. With regard to the idea that you can “only fix you, you cannot fix the world”, we suggest the more you digest this presentation, the more you realise that the human condition is behind all our actions and motivations, including our greed, indifference, need for power and general destructiveness. The point is that all that destrucitve behaviour is a symptom of our insecure, human condition afflicted state, something we all suffer from. It follows that if you address that underlying insecurity, then all our destructive behaviour will subside. And that is what this understanding does – it addresses and solves that universal core insecurity about our self-worth.

   Secondly, once this starts to catch on, it will catch on like wildfire because nothing in the world can compare to the excitement and joy of finally being liberated from the human condition. Certainly there is habituation to overcome and humans do find change very 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.

   Hi Sandra, it’s great you’ve watched THE Interview as it’s the ideal introduction to Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition. In particular, Part 4 of THE Interview explains how the psychological rehabilitation of the human race that the arrival of understanding of the human condition finally makes possible, actually occurs.

   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.

   The explanation does represent a bit of a paradigm shift Cynthia, so you need to take you time to absorb it. Yes, what is being explained is that our original instincts are cooperative and loving, but then when the intellect emerged, those cooperative and loving instincts could not help but resist the intellect’s necessary experiments in self-management. In the face of that ‘criticism’ from the instincts, the intellect became insecure and defensive. We became angry toward the criticism; we became preoccupied with trying to prove our worth ie we became egocentric; and we tried to block that criticism out - we became alienated.

   With regard to quantum physics and consciousness, we suggest that until the humans’ apparently divisive behaviour was defended, we haven’t been able to properly acknowledge the integrative meaning behind existence, and 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. (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).

Thanks for your question Jacalyn. 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. With regard to the characterisation of man as “evil” in the book of Genesis, as THE Interview explains, the story of Adam and Eve from the book of Genesis is a pre-scientific metaphor for the emergence of consciousness and its clash with our pre-established, cooperative loving instincts. When the conscious mind emerged, we had to search for knowledge in order to learn how to use this wonderful tool for self, management, however, when we inevitably deviated from our naturally selected orientations, those instincts in effect criticised the conscious mind, resulting in humans becoming psychologically upset or ‘sinful’ or ‘evil’. However, significantly we can now understand, from scientific first principles, that ‘Adam and Eve’ were ‘good’ to search for knowledge, not bad or ‘evil’; we humans are actually the absolute heroes of the whole story! You can read about the reconciliation of science and religion that is now possible in FAQ 1.15, and you might be interested in all our FAQs about religion.

As our FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does understanding of the human condition solve everything?’ explains, all the problems in the world like overpopulation, 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 etc etc, are all symptoms of a deeper problem. So to truly solve the world’s problems we need to address and fix the underlying issue responsible for these problems, the human condition —our corrupted, psychologically upset state. 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 this is precisely what biologist Jeremy Griffith has delivered with his first principle-based biological understanding of the human condition. As well as Part 1 of THE Interview a brief summary of this understanding can be found in Video/Freedom Essay 3. We hope you pursue your interest Jonas. 

Thank you Waldo. Yes, you will find that Jeremy Griffith’s treatise will resonate with your familiarity with religious scripture, because it reconciles science and religion by bringing biological understanding to pre-scientific concepts such as innocence, sin and ‘Judgment Day’, etc. In fact, what people discover is it is the fulfilment of a time that all religions looked forward to when we could actually explain ourselves – see our FAQs on religion.

Thank you for your comment Bernice. While great care has been taken to present the explanation as quickly and simply as possible (which is done in Part 1) THE Interview also explains the very nature of the human condition means discussion of it can be initially difficult to access. This is because historically the issue of whether we are fundamentally good or bad has been the most terrifying of all subjects to face, and so we have necessarily lived in almost total denial of it, which means our minds can initially struggle to hear and absorb discussion about it. Wonderfully however, this ‘deaf effect’ can be overcome with patient perseverance, and everyone can access this most wonderful of all gifts of understanding the human condition! This is further explained our FAQ 1.16 ‘Why can’t I understand what this is all about, please send me an executive summary’ and we also suggest FAQ 1.3 which 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. Sending you lots of encouragement Bernice and we hope you have these FAQs helpful.

Thank you for you thoughts Joseph but we suggest you need to look deeper because, as THE Interview explains, our inability to love and our capacity to hate, are symptoms of our insecure human condition, so ultimately, to reform those behaviours we have to end that underlying insecurity, get to the core of the problem and fix that which is what Jeremy Griffith has done and presents here in THE Interview. What is explained is that our emerging conscious mind came into conflict with our pre-established all-loving and moral instincts, causing us to become insecure and psychologically upset – see FAQ 1.3 for a nutshell summary. 

Thank you for your comment Biswanath. While ancient texts can contain all manner of truths about human life, it is all from a pre-scientific view. Solving the human condition required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great biological breakthrough that Jeremy Griffith presents in THE Interview and why so many herald it as being able to save the world. (You can see the commendations Jeremy’s work has received from eminent scientists and thought leaders on our Commendations page). As Jeremy explains in Part 2 of THE Interview, “while it has been recognised—even from ancient times—that the emergence of our conscious mind somehow caused us to ‘fall from grace’, or however you want to describe the corruption of our original innocent cooperative, selfless and loving instinctive state, it wasn’t until science revealed the difference between the gene-based and nerve-based learning systems—which is that genes can orientate but nerves need to understand—that we were finally in a position to explain the good reason for our angry, egocentric and alienated human condition… we’ve had to live in denial of our corrupted, psychologically upset condition while we couldn’t explain it.” You might find our FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this idea original or new? / How does biologist Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition differ from other theories that recognise these elements?’ of interest.

   YES Marietta we have many German translations!! They are all freely available on our Translations page and also our main website is available in German HERE and it provides written translations and voice-overs for THE Interview along with other key videos, essays and FAQs about the human condition and its resolution. Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition is also available in German! You might like to visit one of our FIX THE WORLD Centres in Germany, Austria and Switzerland as they also provide these translations (our over 80 Centres are HERE on our website). So there is a feast of German material freely available! 

   As well you can watch all the videos on our website using the subtitles function (see the ‘cc’ icon at the bottom of the video player). You can also see our Main Video library here. To be informed of FIX THE WORLD developments, including new translations and Centres, just subscribe to our free mailing list and you might like to join our Facebook Group where there is over 100,000 members, from all over the world, participating in fascinating and excited discussions about this critical new science.

   Thanks for the feedback Tara. We did want to say that there is a huge difference between Jeremy Griffith’s biological treatise and the various “spiritual paths” you mention, for example the ‘Course in Miracles’ beyond just providing a scientific explanation of the “spiritual entities as the ground of our being”. This profound difference is articulated in this comment on Video/Freedom Essay 9 by subscriber Lesley Davies. Lesley said: “I can now see why A Course in Miracles didn’t work for me. I completed the 365 day course three years running to try and heal myself from deep depression and anxiety. After reading essay 15 and studying Freedom it becomes clear that without the explanation of WHY we are so upset ACIM can only act as a sticky plaster with the ‘scream’ still going on underneath.”

   FAQ 6.5 further explains how our enlightenment depended on confronting and biologically explaining why we became so upset and stresses this huge difference between Jeremy’s work and the new age movement.

   That’s right Dixie. The truth is that solving the human condition is the key to solving all the problems on the planet, because 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.

   It was only by confronting and addressing the source of our aggressive destructive behaviour, which is what biologist Jeremy Griffith has done, that behaviour can finally be brought to an end. Through removing the insecurity that was driving our behaviour our defensive anger, egocentricity and alienation is made redundant, and we can legitimately return to the cooperative and loving state humanity once lived in and we all long for.

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.

We now have the ability, for the first time ever, to understand every aspect of human behaviour and our behaviour will change naturally as a result. 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 at last we have the first principle-based science which liberates us to be honest about our conflicted 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.

   We certainly respect people’s religious views however we felt it was important to mention that Jeremy Griffith’s work doesn’t contradict the Bible. It simply brings biological understanding to all those pre-scientific concepts. In fact Jeremy considers the Bible to be a repository of extremely rare denial-free truth, containing all the truth about human life albeit from a pre-science view. The real issue is if people prefer a more literal fundamentalist interpretation of scripture rather than our more biological, science-based interpretation.

   For those interested in exploring this further we suggest FAQ 6.3 ‘Does this undermine religion/God’.

Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition brings biological understanding to religious accounts of our condition, which means we can at last reconcile science and religion. For instance, as THE Interview explains, the story of Adam and Eve is a pre-scientific metaphor for the emergence of consciousness and its clash with our pre-established, cooperative loving instincts, resulting in humans becoming psychologically upset or ‘sinful’ or ‘evil’. However, significantly we can now understand, from scientific first principles, that ‘Adam and Eve’ were ‘good’ to search for knowledge, not bad or ‘evil’; we humans are actually the absolute heroes of the whole story! It establishes that we are good and not bad after all. What THE Interview presents fundamentally lifts the ‘burden of guilt’ from the human race and allows us to forgive ourselves and others and finally end our psychologically troubled human condition.

What is so extraordinary about this breakthrough is we can now understand the fundamental reason why people want more than they need; we can now understand the source of greed and competition and the need for power. When the conscious mind went in search of knowledge a conflict between our instinct and intellect broke out, leading to an undeserved sense of guilt and insecurity that caused us to become psychologically defensive, angry, alienated and egocentric, the upset state we refer to as the human condition—a state we sought to alleviate through a competitive, selfish and aggressive bid for the reinforcement we could gain from winning power, fame, fortune and glory. But now that we can explain and understand this conflict and the guilt it produced, all those insecure, defensive behaviours are obsoleted, brought to an end, and we free ourselves from the human condition. You might find these two FAQs helpful: FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does understanding of the human condition solve everything?’ and FAQ 1.40 ‘How can you hope to transform the world? — In particular, how are you going to change the behaviour of the rich and powerful? / How are you going to reach the bastions of power? / Won’t the greedy and power-hungry simply ignore this?’.

Awesome Marunga! 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.

Great that it is resonating with you Therse. 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 here 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.

   Thank you for your thoughtful questions. Jeremy’s work is certainly scientific, but it is not intended to reduce God’s word to a merely materialist or behaviourist explanation.

   Rather, it is based on recognising—just as all the great religions do—that humanity once lived in a pre-human-condition-afflicted state of original innocence, where we were instinctively orientated to the cooperative, selfless, loving, ‘Godly’ ideals of life. Jeremy’s explanation is that what has traditionally been understood as ‘God’ is the integrative meaning of life itself, and that the human condition arose when our conscious intellect had to depart from our instinctive orientation in humanity’s necessary search for knowledge.

   So yes, Jeremy does offer a new understanding of the story in Bereshit (Genesis), but one that seeks to explain and deepen its meaning rather than diminish it. We suggest that the more you digest this explanation, the more you will see that it does not rob life—or our understanding of life—of its profound spiritual dimension.

   If these questions are of interest, you may enjoy our FAQs on religion, particularly FAQ 6.7, ‘How can a scientific explanation ever hope to account for and encompass the great “spiritual” dimension we know exists in life? / Isn’t “spirituality” beyond a purely rational explanation?’

   Thank you again for your thoughtful comment.

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, with support from those who appreciate this understanding, the truth is that this redeeming, uplifting and healing explanation of the human condition is SO liberating and SO exciting that it won’t be long be everyone realises that it is completely pointless to keep trying to compensate for their insecurity through the pursuit of power and glory. You might be interested in FAQ 1.40, which addresses the questions of ‘Aren’t the problems of the world too overwhelming to ever be fixed? / Isn’t it too late to save the world? / How can you hope to transform the world? — In particular, how are you going to change the behaviour of the rich and powerful? / How are you going to reach the bastions of power? / Won’t the greedy and power-hungry simply ignore this?’

Thank you for your question Michael. What biologist Jeremy Griffith explains is that our selfish and destructive behaviour is not learned or a result of any environmental conditioning but rather a result of a universal psychosis caused by the clash between our cooperative instincts and our intellect. So the source of our human condition is psychological, not cultural, social, physiological or genetic, and significantly, a psychosis is changeable as it can be healed through understanding. Certainly, being born into a world that is already drenched with anger, egocentricity and alienation has a terrible effect on young people growing up, resulting in even higher levels of psychological ‘upset’ – so it is a compounding situation. Jeremy explains this in Part 2 of THE Interview. To quote: “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 Essays 55 & 59 on our FIX THE WORLD’s website describes this terrifying end play threat of terminal levels of psychosis.” To solve this situation of the human 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 presents. So, in a world fast going crazy from the effects of the human condition, this is the now desperately needed reconciling understanding that ends human suffering at its source, and unites the human race, see FAQ 1.5 ‘Why is understanding the human condition important to my life?’.

In THE Interview Jeremy Griffith explains 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. So this understanding explains that the tragic cost of the search for knowledge was that we became psychologically angry, egocentric and alienated, to the point where we can commit murder and war. Throughout his writings Jeremy explains that religion is a repository of profound truth about our condition and so yes Vicky this world is like the story of Cain and Able. In his Freedom Essay 39 Jeremy explains this story is a metaphor for the fundamental truth that humanity has progressed from a state of innocence to a state of upset, and how, following the advent of agriculture, that progression eventually led to warfare. To quote: “As described in par. 906 of FREEDOM [Jeremy’s definitive book], ‘Abel kept flocks [he lived the nomadic, hunter-forager-like life of a shepherd, staying close to nature and innocence], and Cain worked the soil [he cultivated crops and domesticated animals and as a result was able to become settled and through greater interaction with other humans became increasingly upset]… Cain was [became] very angry, and his face was downcast [he became depressed about his upset state and so]… Cain attacked his [relatively innocent and thus unwittingly exposing, confronting and condemning] brother Abel and killed him’ (Gen. 4:2, 5, 8). In fact, using stories like these and others, Moses was able to summarise the essential features of humanity’s entire journey from innocence to Resignation, through to the extremely upset state where humans began killing each other in wars.”