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Hi Kirk, audios, and many other formats, of Jeremy Griffith’s key books (including THE Interview) are available for free on our Publications page. (We are still in the process of completing the audiobook of FREEDOM, however chapters 1-8 (to 8:14) are now available.) 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) and on Spotify.

Thanks for taking the time to comment, Peter. It’s certainly important to look at humanity through the lens of history, but the human condition actually goes much deeper than the relatively recent development of different cultures and religions, for the human condition itself dates back around 2 million years, to when our conscious intellect emerged and conflicted with our instinctive, moral conscience that up to that point had been guiding our behaviour. So these different cultural developments are not the cause of our differences and conflicts -- they are different historical expressions of, or attempts to manage, the same underlying human condition. What THE Interview provides is the biological explanation of that condition itself: the universal instinct vs intellect conflict that has left every human being psychologically upset. Once we understand that common origin, bringing humanity into alignment no longer has to take centuries or require the social constructs to mention. Understanding the human condition is what finally makes the psychological rehabilitation of the whole human race possible.

Hi Nancy, thank you for your question. 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). Our additional FAQs about religion may also be of interest.

Hi Julia, it’s great to have your interest, however, we suggest the more you digest this presentation, the more you realise that while the human condition is behind all our actions and motivations, including our greed, indifference and need for power, it is not dictated by powers above, it is a symptom of our species' 2-million-years-old insecure, human condition afflicted state. It follows that if you address that underlying insecurity, then our greed (along with all our other artificial sources of reinforcement) will be removed. And that is what this understanding does – it addresses and solves that core insecurity about our self-worth. In fact, 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, fortune and glory. You might be interested in FAQ 1.40, as it addresses the question: ‘How will understanding the human condition change the behaviour of the rich and powerful?’

It’s wonderful to have your interest Natalie. What is so significant about Jeremy Griffith’s biological treatise is it actually answers the age-old question of why, when the ideals are to be loving and selfless, are we so competitive and selfish? It is this crux question that Jeremy confronts and answers through first principle biology because only through understanding the dark side of ourselves—why we departed from our all-loving instincts and became selfish—can we free ourselves from the human condition and legitimately love ourselves and each other again. ‘Legitimately’ as we’ve needed this new science which liberates us to be honest about our conflicted upset state instead of denying or transcending it. This is the uniquely transforming and healing effect of being able to understand the human condition which is explained in Part 4 of THE Interview and also in our FAQs 1.4 to 1.6. This critical point is further explained in FAQ 6.5 ‘Is this just another self help, New Age movement?’, to quote: “There has been much talk of the need to love each other and the environment, but the real need on Earth has been to love the dark side of ourselves, to find reconciling and redeeming understanding of our species’ extraordinary capacity for brutality, selfish indifference to others, hate, anger, oppression, meanness, cruelty, devastation and destruction—to explain the psychological origins of our deeply distressed so-called human condition and by so doing heal our troubled souls and set ourselves free from our 2-million-years corrupted condition. And it is precisely that all-important explaining, redeeming, reconciling and liberating understanding of ourselves that is presented in biologist Jeremy Griffith’s work.”

Hi Kelly, in Part 1 of THE Interview Jeremy Griffith explains all humans are born with an instinctive self or soul or moral conscience that is perfectly aligned to a cooperative and selfless way of living and that humans’ upset (angry, egocentric and alienated) behaviour is not a product of savage animal instincts within us, but the result of a universal psychosis caused by the unavoidable clash between our instinct and intellect (see Part 3 and our FAQ 5.2 ‘How we acquire our moral conscience’). What is so significant about this, as Part 4 explains, is that a psychosis can be healed with understanding, so our psychologically upset human nature is fixable or changeable—not unchangeable. This is very relieving knowledge and the practical application of it is as simple as the concept itself. However, as Jeremy also explains, because we haven’t been able to explain our corrupted condition we have had to live in denial of it so it typically takes a little time to see how it fixes us and the world. So we recommend you watch Jeremy’s brand new, extremely helpful July 2026 addition to THE Interview titled Please, Please, Beware The ‘Deaf Effect’!, where Jeremy warns of — and presents the solution to — this initial ‘Deaf Effect’ difficulty of taking in or ‘hearing’ analysis of the human condition. Together, these two key presentations, at the top of our homepage HumanCondition.com, provide the ideal introduction to Jeremy’s explanation.

   Thank you for your comment Linda and it’s wonderful to have your interest. For a short summary of what the term human condition actually refers to, it is explained in FAQ 1.1 ‘What exactly is the human condition’ that, “It is not uncommon for people to think that the term ‘human condition’ refers to the state of poverty and inequality and other practical hardships and imperfections in human life, but such problems are only superficial manifestations and aspects of the human condition. Much less superficial interpretations of what the term human condition means are that it refers to ‘the riddle of why we humans are competitive and selfish not cooperative and loving’, and ‘the issue of good and evil in our make-up’, and even, ‘the issue of why we are the way we are’. However, the human condition is actually a much, much deeper issue than even these last interpretations.

   As I [Jeremy Griffith] explained in THE Interview and in all my other presentations, we humans once lived in a nurtured-with-unconditional-love, cooperative, selfless and loving innocent state, which the bonobo species of ape is presently on the threshold of achieving (see FAQ 5.2 for the explanation of how we humans acquired our all-loving, unconditionally selfless moral conscience). If we stand back and think about this original cooperative, selfless and loving state and then think about how competitive, selfish and aggressive we humans are now, the contrast between the two states couldn’t be greater. And if we think about that extreme contrast and then think about the situation we have been stuck in for some 2 million years where we haven’t been able to explain our so-called ‘fall from grace’, the corruption of our original all-sensitive and all-loving, innocent instinctive self or soul, then how deeply traumatised with guilt and shame must we humans have been all that time! Certainly, we learnt to block the horror of this situation out of our mind, but that has been the underlying psychological predicament we humans have been enduring. So having had to live with this insufferable, unbearably depressing guilt and shame for having destroyed the magic world of our soul is what the human condition really is!”

   We encourage you to pursue your interest Linda by first watching THE Interview as it’s the ideal introduction to this breakthrough ‘Instinct vs Intellect’ and from there, don’t miss the brand new, extremely helpful July 2026 must-watch addition to THE Interview, Please, Please, Beware The ‘Deaf Effect’!, where Jeremy warns of—and presents the solution to—the initial ‘Deaf Effect’ difficulty of taking in or ‘hearing’ analysis of the human condition. Both these presentations are at the top of our homepage HumanCondition.com. We are a not-for-profit organisation and make all our material and publications free to read online, watch, listen to and even download and print!

There’s certainly no better news to hear Patrick than the human condition has at last been solved and therefore we can fix the world! At the top of our homepage HumanCondition.com you can watch THE Interview, in which biologist Jeremy Griffith presents his breakthrough ‘Instinct vs Intellect’ explanation of the human condition. From there, don’t miss the brand new, extremely helpful July 2026 must-watch addition to THE Interview titled Please, Please, Beware The ‘Deaf Effect’! that warns of, and solves, the difficulty virtually everyone initially has taking in or ‘hearing’ analysis of the once—but no longer—unbearably confronting subject of the human condition. Together, these two key presentations, free to watch or read at the top of our homepage, provide the ideal introduction to Jeremy’s explanation. We also encourage people to includes subscribe to our mailing list (to 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!

Thank you for your consideration Dr Kamara. 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 (Part 3 especially evidences this). He then explains all humans are born with all-loving moral instincts but now variously suffer from a psychosis that has been compounding ever since our instinct and intellect clashed some 2 million years ago. In biological terms, our instincts were in effect intolerant of our emerging intellect’s need to find understanding, which resulted in us becoming psychologically defensive, angry, alienated and egocentric. So human behaviour isn’t driven by survival instincts adapting to the environment, it is driven by a psychosis which all the problems in the world like over population, environmental devastation, gross inequality, polarised politics and drug abuse are all symptoms of (see FAQ 1.6). And, most significantly, as Part 4 explains a psychosis can be healed with understanding, so our psychologically upset human condition is fixable or changeable—not unchangeable. 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.”

   Hi Barbara, thank you for your interest. Jeremy Griffith’s work doesn’t ignore, exclude or contradict a belief in God or religion. It simply brings biological understanding to all those pre-scientific concepts. In fact, in terms of Christianity 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 as the Negative-Entropy-driven integrative meaning of existence (or love). He discusses this in Part 3 of THE Interview and refers the audience to chapter 4 ‘The Meaning of Life’ of his definitive book FREEDOM — which is summarised in FAQ 6.2 ‘What is ‘God’? / Does the scientific explanation of ‘God’ really contain all the attributes of religion’s metaphysical ‘God’?’ We also suggest FAQ 6.3 ‘Aren’t all Griffith’s demystifications of religious teachings going to be seen by supporters of religion as blasphemy? / Does understanding of the human condition undermine a faith in religion or God? / How does this affect my personal religious practice?’ .

   In dealing with such a historically difficult subject for us humans, these biological explanations of the human condition are very confronting by nature and in addition, although ultimately a fulfilment of religion, they do demystify religious concepts which some people can find incredibly challenging and we encourage everyone to take their time investigating what’s being presented.

Hi George, the extraordinary claims about biologist Jeremy Griffith’s work — such as Professor Prosen stating it is “the holy grail of insight we have sought for the psychological rehabilitation of the human race” — naturally invite scepticism. Yet they stand up to scrutiny as what Jeremy presents is 100% logic. This is discussed in our FAQ 1.9 ‘Why people can have confidence in these claims’ (which also directs people to all the outstanding commendations Jeremy’s work has received from leading thinkers and scientists). What is so extraordinary about this breakthrough is that we can now understand the fundamental reason why people want more than they need; we can now understand the source of our greed, and more generally, materialism. When the conscious mind went in search of knowledge a conflict between our instinct and intellect broke out, leading to an undeserved sense of guilt and insecurity that caused us to become psychologically defensive, angry, alienated and egocentric — the upset state we refer to as the human condition, a state we sought to alleviate through a competitive, selfish and aggressive bid for the reinforcement we could gain from winning power, fame, fortune and glory. This is the underlying source of our greed and corrupted behaviour. But now that we can explain and understand this conflict and the guilt and insecurity it produced, all those defensive behaviours are obsoleted, brought to an end, and we free ourselves from the human condition. If you would like to explore this further we suggest 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?’ 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? / Won’t the greedy and power-hungry simply ignore this?’.

We welcome your interest Penny and send you lots of encouragement to finish watching THE Interview as it’s the ideal introduction to biologist Jeremy Griffith breakthrough ‘Instinct vs Intellect’ explanation of the human condition. From there, don’t miss the brand new, extremely helpful July 2026 must-watch addition to THE Interview, Please, Please, Beware The ‘Deaf Effect’!, where Jeremy warns of—and presents the solution to—the initial ‘Deaf Effect’ difficulty of taking in or ‘hearing’ analysis of the human condition. 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! 

   It’s wonderful to learn of your enthusiasm for FIX THE WORLD’s work Candice! Despite our competitive and selfish behaviour, we humans 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 we are fundamentally good—answer the age-old question of why when the universal ideals or values are to be loving, cooperative and selfless are we so angry, competitive and selfish. Answering this required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work and that is what Jeremy’s treatise does and why it is heralded as the breakthrough that can fix the world. You can see the praise Jeremy’s work has received from extremely eminent scientists and thinkers in the Commendations page on the FIX THE WORLD website.

   We have a very informative guide on our website for people who want to help and join FIX THE WORLD, see our FAQ 3.4 ‘How to Help’. We also have a thriving FIX THE WORLD Community with over 80 FIX THE WORLD Global Centres and our Facebook Community Group with over 110,000 members from all over the world (which we encourge you to join) so you can see this is certainly “catching on”! We are a not-for-profit organisation (see FAQ 3.1 ‘What is FIX THE WORLD’) and make all our material, publications, subscription and membership free on our website and provide a structure to support participation in the incredible transformation this understanding brings about – which is the path forward for all humans to help FIX THE WORLD! You can learn all about this on our Transformation page and also our FIX THE WORLD Community page. 

   In terms of progressing your understanding, now you’ve watched THE Interview, don’t miss the brand new, extremely helpful July 2026 must-watch addition to THE Interview, Please, Please, Beware The ‘Deaf Effect’!, where Jeremy warns of—and presents the solution to—the initial ‘Deaf Effect’ difficulty of taking in or ‘hearing’ analysis of the human condition. From there, ideally you would read the two expansions of THE Interview: Jeremy’s mid-length 2025 book The Human Condition, and his definitive book, FREEDOM. Along with watching or reading those three titles, it is very helpful to watch the three Intro Videos, which are The Great Guilt, The Great Transformation, and Sermon On The Beach. Also, the 16 main videos are very instructive and, as mentioned, these are all free to watch, read or download on the FIX THE WORLD website at HumanCondition.com. Sending you all our encouragement to pursue your interest Candice and please contact us via our contact facility with any thoughts you would like to share or questions you may have as we are here to help you help FIX THE WORLD! 

Thank you for your comment Henry. Jeremy Griffith’s work explains all humans are born with loving moral instincts but we all now variously suffer from a psychosis brought about by the conscious mind’s necessary yet corrupting search for knowledge. In getting to the heart of our psychologically upset angry, egocentric and alienated human condition and solving it, all the symptoms of our condition are also ameliorated. We can now see that war is a symptom of this psychosis and by bringing peace to the core issue of the human condition, these symptoms will become a thing of the past, and humanity will be able to legitimately return to a loving cooperative existence. This interview provides the ideal summary presentation to watch Henry, and you might also find this FAQ helpful: 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?’. It is explained there that even those who are most committed to seeking validation through gaining power and wealth, including those entrenched in positions of power, will quickly realise how empty and obsolete that strategy is now that we have the fully accountable, psychosis-addressing-and-solving, biological explanation of the human condition that establishes our worth at the most fundamental level. 

That’s wonderful you enjoyed THE Interview Tim and that you are sharing it with others. You can immediately access free copies of THE Interview, Jeremy Griffith’s mid-length 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. It is helpful to watch THE Interview a few times as it does require some digestion time to absorb this new scientific paradigm and to appreciate the critical difference between Jeremy’s work and that of spiritual, new age type movements for example. To quote from our FAQ 6.5: “There has been much talk of the need to love each other and the environment, but the real need on Earth has been to love the dark side of ourselves, to find reconciling and redeeming understanding of our species’ extraordinary capacity for brutality, selfish indifference to others, hate, anger, oppression, meanness, cruelty, devastation and destruction—to explain the psychological origins of our deeply distressed so-called human condition and by so doing heal our troubled souls and set ourselves free from our 2-million-years corrupted condition ... There have been thousands of years of different techniques for calming, restraining, repressing, and even transcending our psychologically upset human condition, which have been very valuable in managing our upset, but none of them have brought an end to the upset state of the human condition—it’s still rampant everywhere—and the reason is because they don’t solve the human condition, bring relieving understanding to it.” We hope this is helpful for your journey of understanding Tim and thank you for your enthusiastic comment and for sharing this knowledge with others.

Thanks for commenting, Barry. Yes, the human condition has long been considered one of science’s most important questions — as the renowned biologist E.O. Wilson wrote, ‘The human condition is the most important frontier of the natural sciences’ — but it is also one of the most difficult and confronting for humans to face for it deals with the issue of ‘self’ and our less-than-ideal existence. As a result, even though a redeeming and relieving explanation has now been found by Jeremy Griffith, our historic fear of the subject can initially make it difficult to take in or ‘hear’ that explanation. And this is why Jeremy has now published here the extremely helpful addition to THE Interview, titled Please, Please Beware The ‘Deaf Effect’! it explains why the ‘Deaf Effect’ occurs and how patience and perseverance can overcome it, allowing everyone to access the redeeming, reconciling and transformative understanding it provides. It includes some great examples from people all over the world describing their experiences with the ‘Deaf Effect’, with others describing their relief in “getting this” world-saving insight. Together, these two key presentations provide the ideal introduction to Jeremy’s explanation and so are highly recommend!

Hi Merilyn, Jeremy Griffith’s work doesn’t contradict a belief in Christianity or the teachings of Christ. 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. You might find our FAQs about religion of interest, in particular FAQ 6.2, ‘What is the meaning of life? / What is the Integrative Meaning of existence? / What is ‘God’? / Does the scientific explanation of ‘God’ really contain all the attributes of religion’s metaphysical ‘God’?’

It’s wonderful you’ve enjoyed THE Interview, Sheila. Please see our reply to Barry below about how to obtain your free copy of any of Jeremy Griffith’s books! We also encourage you to subscribe to our free mailing list where you will receive one email per week and occasional News Flashes and also join our Facebook Group to learn more about this amazing, human-condition-resolved new world!

   We respect people’s differing opinions, Diane, and thank you for your comment.

   In THE Interview Jeremy Griffith explains the key biological distinction between humans and other animals is that humans suffer from the conscious-mind-based, psychologically troubled human condition, not the genetic-opportunism-based, animal condition. Words used to describe our human behaviour such as egocentric, arrogant, inspired, depressed, deluded, pessimistic, optimistic, artificial, hateful, cynical, mean, sadistic, immoral, brilliant, guilt-ridden, evil, psychotic, neurotic and alienated, all recognise the involvement of OUR species’ fully conscious thinking mind. They demonstrate that there is a psychological dimension to our behaviour; that we don’t suffer from a genetic-opportunism-driven ‘animal condition’, but a conscious-mind-based, psychologically troubled HUMAN CONDITION.

   And in THE Interview Jeremy also explains that the development of consciousness was gradual, occurring over millions of years. Specifically in Part 3 he refers the audience to chapter 7 of his definitive book FREEDOM for a more in-depth explanation of how we humans became fully conscious. This is also summarised in FAQ 5.4 ‘‘What is consciousness? How did consciousness emerge in humans?’ on our website.

That’s great, Barry. You can immediately access a free copy of FREEDOM (to read, listen to, download and even print) on FIX THE WORLD’s homepage under the ‘WHAT NEXT’ section. And you can freely access all Jeremy’s books here on our website. You can also download free Kindle versions from Amazon. If you are particularly after a hardcopy of Jeremy’s books they are available to purchase from Amazon and other good bookstores. 

Wonderful to have your interest, Lorraine. Yes, despite our competitive and selfish behaviour, we humans 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 we are fundamentally good—answer the age-old question of why when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless are we so angry, 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 presents here. In summary, the eternal battle for humans has been to validate ourselves, establish once and for all that we are fundamentally good and not bad, and it’s that deepest and most important of all battles that has finally been won!

Thank you for your consideration, Tim. Because the human condition comes down to human biology it is ultimately a question for biologists to answer. However, philosophers and also religions, like Buddhism, have certainly grappled with this most profound of questions of whether humans are intrinsically good or bad, and one of the remarkable things about Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM is just what an extraordinary collection of profound thought from all ages and fields of endeavour it contains. But it goes the other way too; because not only is philosophy and religion used to evidence the truth about our human condition, the biological explanation of the human condition allows us to fully understand so much of the profundity in non-scientific thought that we previously could only intuitively recognise. Again though, as Jeremy stresses in Part 2 of THE Interview, finding the answer to the human condition, which is the only thing that can allow us to really change our behaviour, ultimately depended on being able to explain our biology: “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.”

   Hi Sue, our human condition has caused all manner of horrific situations that humanity has so courageously endured, but the wonderful news is that we can now understand that our destructive behaviour (to others, and ourselves for example through harmful addictions) is the product of a psychosis, caused by the clash between our instinct and intellect, and a psychosis is changeable as it can be healed through understanding — a revelation that has the power to transform the individual and thus the human race. As biologist Jeremy Griffith says in THE Interview “with understanding we can finally end our psychologically troubled human condition. It’s the understanding of ourselves that we needed to heal the pain in our brains and become sound and sane again”.

   We also thought you may find helpful psychiatrist Professor Harry Prosen’s response to the question ‘How does understanding the human race’s condition help with an individual’s depression and psychosis?' (in FAQ 1.34); and also FAQ 1.35 ‘Does this heal anxiety?’. What is explained in those FAQs is that what is so significant about having the human condition resolved is 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 know 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. So we can now look after ourselves with great compassion and kindness.

Thanks for commenting S.E. Davis. While Baha’i and other religions contain all manner of truths about human life, it is all from a pre-scientific view. Ultimately, to change our condition 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.

Hi Melinda, while it takes some to digest, what is so extraordinary about Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ treatise is that it actually brings about the “return to true cooperative human existence” by defending men’s upset angry, egocentric and alienated state!!! Men, it turns out, have not been villains, but the absolute heroes of the whole story of life on earth. It was only through finding the good reason that we had to defy our cooperative and nurturing instincts, which women represented, that all our defensive, ‘bad’ behaviours (our anger, egocentricity and alienation) could be made redundant and the defiance and oppression of our soul could end. Ultimately, we had to end the underlying insecurity that was driving all the destructive behaviour, which is exactly what Jeremy’s explanation of the human condition in THE Interview does. And because this biological treatise establishes all humans are equally good, worthwhile, meaningful and wonderful regardless of gender, age, religion, etc. We recommend watching biologist Dr Anna Fitzgerald’s video commendation about how this explanation is the real liberation of women, and reading our FAQ 8.1 ‘How does this reconcile the sexes’.

As THE Interview explains, the human condition is the most fearful of subjects because it’s the issue of whether we are fundamentally good or bad and our fear of this question can make it hard to understand all that is explained. However, we all subconsciously know there is a massive metaphorical elephant in the room, this fundamental question, that no one was confronting or admitting, which is why you are so intrigued. What is needed to overcome this initial ‘deaf effect’ is a preparedness to re-read and/or re-listen to what is being written or said. This process erodes our historic denial thereby allowing the compassionate and immensely relieving insights to become accessible.

Thank you very much for your comment, Saskia. Yes, Jeremy Griffith’s instinct vs intellect explanation of the human condition explains how our conscious mind became alienated from our loving, cooperative instinctive self, or ‘soul’, resulting in a universal psychosis. As he points out in THE Interview, the word ‘psychosis’ literally means ‘soul-illness’ and ‘psychiatry’ literally means ‘soul-healing’ (derived as they are from psyche meaning ‘soul’, osis meaning ‘abnormal state or condition’ and iatreia meaning ‘healing’). And, significantly, a psychosis is changeable as it can be healed through understanding! 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?’

Thank you for your feedback Linda. Please take your time with this information as it represents a massive paradigm shift in our thinking. We suggest that what you will discover is Jeremy Griffith’s work reconciles science and religion by bringing biological understanding to pre-scientific concepts. And in fact, what people discover as they digest this information is that it actually represents the fulfilment of a time that all the great faiths looked forward to when we could actually explain ourselves, defend our ‘dark side’, and thus bring about the loving world that we have all longed for; a “heaven” on Earth if you like! Jeremy’s work simply brings biological understanding to religion’s pre-scientific descriptions of our human condition (see our FAQs about religion).

Jeremy Griffith’s breakthrough instinct vs intellect explanation of the human condition establishes the equality of all humans and brings compassionate and thus safe understanding to ALL of human behaviour — including why the horror of racism has existed under the duress of the human condition and, most importantly, finally brings it to an end, see FAQ 9.1 ‘How do you explain racism?’. Also, for a testimonial on the power of this knowledge to end racism, we recommend the presentations from Franklin Mukakanga and Refentse Molosiwa in Video/Freedom Essay 8.

   We greatly appreciate your interest in Jeremy Griffith’s treatise on the human condition.

   With regard to your criticism that there is a contradiction “saying it will happen now that you figured out the problem immediately, and yet you said it will be a slow transformation spanning the course of generations”, Part 4 of THE Interview, titled ‘How does the psychological rehabilitation of the human race that the arrival of understanding of the human condition finally makes possible actually occur?’, presents the answer to how this understanding allows us to transform our lives immediately. It explains that it will take a number of generations for the upset within us to be completely healed but it also stresses importantly we can be immediately free of its effects. Certainly there is habituation to overcome and humans do find change difficult but at last we can understand our behaviour has been driven by a deep insecurity about our fundamental goodness or worth and so now that our goodness is biologically established we no longer have to behave insecurely and selfishly and can legitimately return to a selfless way of living. ‘Legitimately’ because we have the first principle science which liberates us to be honest about our conflicted upset state instead of denying or transcending it.

   With regard to your accusation that what is presented is not “scientific” and that it is “incomplete and unreal” and that it is “VASTLY incomplete and nonintegral with the totality of a human consciousness”, as is explained in FAQ 1.10 titled ‘Why Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition is verifiable, testable science’: “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.”

   Lastly, with regard to your criticism that “Nearly every animal species of live bearing offspring loves their babies just as humans”, what is explained is that the original genetic instinct for maternalism is a naturally selected instinctive orientation that evolved because it promotes the perpetuation of its genes through better protecting its offspring. HOWEVER, in Part 3 of THE Interview it is explained that over time, through the love indoctrination process, maternalism became a case of mothers actively loving their offspring — which was to prove the unlocking point for our species to develop our altruistic, moral instinctive self or soul, and our unique consciousness. And being semi-upright from living in trees, and thus having their arms free to hold a dependent infant, it was the primates who have been especially facilitated to support a prolonged and deeply connected mother infant relationship and so develop this nurtured, loving, cooperative nature. You can read more about the nurturing-based love-indoctrination process in chapter 5 of Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM.

While it takes some time to digest, we suggest that what is unique about Jeremy Griffith’s work is that he has answered the essential question of why, when the universal ideals are to be integrative are we so disintegrative? Our endeavours in philosophy, psychology and biology have failed, until now, to provide a truthful, real, fully accountable, genuinely clarifying explanation. Answering this question required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy presents here. We suggest 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.

   Key to the emergence of consciousness is ‘Integrative Meaning’ or the law of physics known as ‘negative entropy’ (see FAQ 5.3). Under the auspices of this law, matter grows more and more complex or ‘integrated’. In paragraph 337 of Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM, Jeremy quotes Teilhard de Chardin, who describes how this process ultimately gives rise to the emergence of consciousness, “life can no longer be regarded as a superficial accident in the universe: we must look on it as…ready to seep through the narrowest fissure at any point whatsoever in the cosmos—and, once it has appeared, obliged to use every opportunity and every means to reach the furthest extremity of everything it can attain: the ultimate, externally, of complexity, internally of consciousness.”

   Basically, Jeremy’s work doesn’t ignore, exclude or contradict a belief in God, or Christianity, which is what we think you are suggesting. 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 as being the personification of integrative meaning of life; see Freedom Essay 23. We also think you might find our FAQs about religion of interest, especially FAQs ‘What is God’ and ‘Does this understanding undermine religion’.

Hi David, we welcome your interest and thank you for your comment. Biologist Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition gives us the ability, for the first time ever, to understand every aspect of human behaviour in ourselves and in everyone else with 100% clarity and confidence. The explanation changes how we view humans, and most importantly ourselves, and our behaviour changes naturally as a result. We can at last understand that our behaviour has been driven by a deep insecurity about our fundamental goodness or worth and 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 now have the first principle science which liberates us to be honest about our conflicted upset state instead of denying or transcending it, see our FAQ 1.5 ‘Why is understanding the human condition important to my life?’.

It’s wonderful you’ve enjoyed THE Interview Sharon and you can’t wait to hear more! After THE Interview, we recommend you watch (or read) the 3 other Intro Videos on our homepage — The Great Guilt video that explains the difficulty of the ‘Deaf Effect’ that reading about the human condition initially causes, then The Great Transformation video about how understanding the human condition actually transforms the human race, then the Sermon On The Beach video, Jeremy’s inspired description of how the human race now leaves the horror of the human condition forever! All these presentations are also available as books, which you can immediately access free electronic copies of to read, listen to or download here on our homepage. You can also download free Kindle versions from Amazon. (Otherwise you can purchase hard copies from Amazon or other good bookstores.) We also encourage you to subscribe to our free mailing list where you will receive one email per week and occasional News Flashes and also join our Facebook Group to learn more about this amazing, human-condition-resolved new world!

We have the deepest respect for people’s religious views Tim and it is important to clarify that biologist Jeremy Griffith 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. So his work does not contradict a belief in God or Christianity. It simply brings biological understanding to religious accounts of our condition and at last reconciles science and religion. For instance, in THE Interview Jeremy 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 ‘fallen’, ‘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! While religious assurances, such as ‘God loves you’ provided comfort, they failed to explain WHY we are lovable, and it is that missing explanation that this breakthrough provides. Additionally, it can now be explained scientifically 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. (Our FAQs about religion include FAQ 6.2 ‘What is God’ and FAQ 6.3 ‘Does this undermine religion/God’.) The difference being that we can now with the benefit of science, bring clarifying, first-principle biological explanation to our so-called ‘good and evil’-afflicted human condition and why we had to depart from our original innocence, whilst religion had to rely on metaphor and a more literal interpretation.

Thank you Sue for sharing your experience with Jeremy Griffith’s explanation so far and we look forward to hearing more from you once you’ve completed listening to THE Interview!

We welcome your curiosity Bambi! The best place to start is to watch THE Interview (at the top of our homepage HumanCondition.com) in which biologist Jeremy Griffith presents his breakthrough ‘instinct v intellect’ explanation of the human condition. Part 1 of this interview presents the explanation as quickly and simply as possible and FAQ 1.3 ‘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 Bambi and if you find you would like to pursue your interest you can subscribe to our mailing list at to receive one free email per week and occasional updates about other exciting developments. We also recommend joining our Facebook group (with over 110,000 members) for helpful and thought-provoking conversations.

Hi Carl, thank you for your thoughts. For a short summary of what the term human condition actually refers to, it is explained in FAQ 1.1 ‘What exactly is the human condition’ that, “we humans once lived in a nurtured-with-unconditional-love, cooperative, selfless and loving innocent state, which the bonobo species of ape is presently on the threshold of achieving. If we stand back and think about this original cooperative, selfless and loving state and then think about how competitive, selfish and aggressive we humans are now, the contrast between the two states couldn’t be greater. And if we think about that extreme contrast and then think about the situation we have been stuck in for some 2 million years where we haven’t been able to explain our so-called ‘fall from grace’, the corruption of our original all-sensitive and all-loving, innocent instinctive self or soul, then how deeply traumatised with guilt and shame must we humans have been all that time! Certainly, we learnt to block the horror of this situation out of our mind, but that has been the underlying psychological predicament we humans have been enduring. So having had to live with this insufferable, unbearably depressing guilt and shame for having destroyed the magic world of our soul is what the human condition really is!”. So we can now understand that the human condition arose from a conflict between our moral instincts and emerging intellect. The result of this conflict was that we became psychologically defensive, angry, alienated and egocentric, and yes that did drive our behaviour, but we can now understand this psychological upset became an unavoidable, indeed necessary, part of human life. Proving we were better than someone else gave us validation and reinforcement to counter the deep insecurity we felt about having to become self-corrupted. And so our egocentric behaviour sustained 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. These FAQs may be of interest: FAQ 1.5 ‘Why is this explanation important to my life’ 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?’.

   Thank you for your comment Plum, your interest is appreciated. 

   Firstly, 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 there is an integrative meaning to existence; that the human race lived in an original state of innocence; and that women’s remarkable mothering or nurturing in fact biologically created our selfless moral loving soul, indeed created humanity — it does require some studying and digestion time to reasonably comprehend aspects of the new paradigm and not be left with simplistic and literal misunderstandings. 

   As Jeremy Griffith explains in THE Interview, our competitive and aggressive behaviour is not due to us having savage, must-reproduce-our-genes animal instincts, it is due to us having a conscious-mind-based, psychologically troubled condition that can be healed through understanding the biological origins of that troubled, guilt-stricken, conscious-mind-based state. This compassionate and redeeming explanation of the human condition reveals the remarkably heroic and meaningful, albeit soul-corrupting, journey that humanity has been on and means we are finally in a position to effectively therapise our psychologically upset condition, and end our 2 million years of distress and alienation. This includes being able to understand why nurturing was so biologically significant to our ape ancestors (Part 3 explains genes are unavoidably selfish however humans biologically overcame this limitation through what Jeremy identifies as the ‘love-indoctrination’ process), and as a result of the human condition, why we lost the ability to selflessly love ourselves and each other, including our ability to adequately nurture our offspring with unconditional selflessness or love (again see Part 3), and through that understanding bring selfless love back to all our lives. The truth is that the crucial role that nurturing has played in the maturation of our species and continues to play in our individual upbringing today, has been one of those unbearable truths that humans couldn’t face until we could explain our divisive, unloving human condition which thankfully has now occured.

   You may find this extract from chapter 6:13 of Jeremy’s main book FREEDOM, titled, ‘Nurturing now becomes a priority’ helpful, “now that we have found that very good reason why parents have been unable to nurture their children with anything like the unconditional love children instinctively expect and need, it is no longer necessary to deny the importance of nurturing both in the maturation of our species and in our own lives. Yes, with the arrival of understanding the terrible guilt that parents have felt for not being able to adequately nurture their offspring departs. Parents can now understand that their inability to adequately love their offspring is not their fault, but the product of the ever-accumulating levels of upset in the human race as a whole that resulted from our species’ heroic 2-million-year search for knowledge, specifically for self-knowledge, understanding of why we conscious humans are good and not bad. So yes, we can finally now admit the importance of nurturing and turn our attention back to the nurturing of our offspring—in fact, it now becomes a matter of great urgency that we do both these things.” 

   You might find it similarly helpful to listen to molecular biologist Dr Anna Fitzgerald talking about how this explanation presents the real liberation of women. To quote “because Griffith’s work establishes the equal worth or goodness of all humans we can now understand the different roles that men and women have traditionally played in the human journey and this is actually the unlocking point, this is what brings about deep empathy for each other, it heals the divide” (see Video/Freedom Essay 9 ‘This is the real liberation of women’).

Hi Atilla, it’s great you’ve watched our ideal introductory presentation THE Interview and have Jeremy’s Griffith’s main book FREEDOM (all of Jeremy’s books are freely available here on our website). To learn more, 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 because this truly is the understanding that ends human suffering at its source, and unites the human race, see FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does understanding of the human condition solve everything?’.

Hi Tony, it is wonderful you found THE Interview so enlightening. 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. 

   Ha! Very funny Nikki! Yes, as is explained in THE Interview, 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 ‘fall’ or them becoming psychologically upset or ‘sinful’. However as Jeremy stresses, we can now understand, from scientific first principles, that ‘Adam and Eve’ were ‘good’ to search for knowledge, not bad or ‘evil’.

   You might be interested in chapter 8:11B of Jeremy’s book FREEDOM, about the relationship between men and women. In it, he explains why Eve was ‘blamed’ for Adam taking the apple. At paragraph 794 it is explained that: “lust and the hope of falling in love have assumed such importance that many people, including the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, have been deceived into believing that sex actually rules our lives. Two of the best examples of this conviction are found in interpretations of Moses’ story of the Garden of Eden, in which Eve is blamed for tempting Adam to take the apple from the tree of knowledge...”

Hi Kimberly, 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!

Thanks Kate, yes we all need to share and celebrate this critical new science as much as we possibly can! Everything on the FIX THE WORLD website is freely available to share, including THE Interview where there is a ‘SHARE’ button underneath the video player at the top of our FIX THE WORLD homepage at HumanCondition.com. As well all our publications include a share button along with the other options for audio, downloading, printing, translations, commenting etc.

Jeremy’s work doesn’t contradict a belief in God or Christianity. It simply brings biological understanding to all those pre-scientific concepts (see our FAQs about religion). So 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 - which is the source of our conscience; ‘God’ being explained in chapter 4 of FREEDOM as being the integrative meaning of life.

Hi Ottis, 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.