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Great to have your interest Zoey. All our publications are freely available to read, watch or listen to - just go to our FIX THE WORLD homepage. And all our videos also have an audio file you can freely download, and our many podcasts are available both on our FIX THE WORLD App (go to App Store or Google Play) as well as Spotify.

   Great to hear Susan, you won’t be disappointed! Our FIX THE WORLD homepage — HumanCondition.com — provides a wonderful road map to progress with all our key material made freely available and you can you can subscribe to our mailing list to receive all our 64 Freedom Essays (one per week) which guides you through much of the content of Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM in beautifully illustrated bite-size pieces. Also our Facebook Group provides a wonderful platform for participating in, or just observing, interesting and exciting discussion with others about how we can live with this critical new science.

You may be interested in Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of ‘Resignation’. Briefly, the human condition—which is the question of are we a fundamentally good or bad species—is something almost all people have sensibly had to live in denial of until humanity could find the answer to it. We ‘resigned’ ourselves to lives of superficiality, avoiding any deep questions, and just commiting ourselves to seeking reinforcement. And so children have grown up in an world that is terribly corrupted, but no-one could explain why. Worse, everyone pretended everything was fine, or that our selfish and aggressive behaviour was just instinctive! But we can now understand that that denial has been a heroic strategy. Jeremy explains this necessary strategy of denial as Resignation and describes it as the most significant psychological event in human life, see his Freedom Essay 30.

   It is wonderful the fundamental argument is resonating with you Ken and your question is a fair one because the selfishness, alienation and corruption in the world is so immense. However, now we can understand the human condition, we can see that everyone has suffered from it, and all our institutions, including our governments and educational systems, have been a manifestation of our insecure, psychologically upset condition. And so by getting to the source of the problem and solving it, it will not only fix our individual lives, but it will fix our governments and all the other manifestations of the human condition. As with any new scientific breakthrough in history it will take time to gain mainstream acceptance, and from there break through the bastions of power in the world. However once this information gets a foothold through enough people developing a deep appreciation and desire to support it, the selfless love and energy that will generate will solve our problems very quickly because, as THE Interview explains, instead of being selfishly preoccupied with power, fame, fortune and glory, all our energies will be freed to truly work together and focus on doing whatever it takes to end the suffering in all the corners of the world.

   We suggest these two FAQs will help as you digest this further.  FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does understanding of the human condition solve everything?’ and 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?’.

   The very nature of the human condition means discussion of it can be initially difficult to access. As THE Interview explains 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, or even attack any attempt to discuss it. And so even though people are “compassionate and often demonstrate self-sacrifice for others”, we suggest that as you digest this redeeming understanding you will realise that it is safe to connect with the fact all humans suffer from the psychologically upset state of the human condition.

   As Jeremy explains in Freedom Essay 62, “while we humans couldn’t defend our upset corrupted state, we couldn’t afford to admit we were upset. In fact, we spend our whole time putting on a brave face, smiling and carrying on as if there’s nothing basically wrong.” Certainly, some people are more ‘upset’ than others, and therefore can be more selfish than others, but the truth is that we all suffer from the human condition.

What is so powerful about the explanation is that by solving our species’ discord at its source, it brings an end to all the terrible, and seemingly overwhelmingly problems besetting the world. By explaining the very good reason why our intellect had to defy our instincts (which is that genes can orientate but nerves need to understand) means all our defensive behaviours (our anger, egocentricity and alienation) are now redundant; they can stop. We recommend reading FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does understanding of the human condition solve everything?’

   Clearly, while other animals have various levels of ‘awareness’, or are sentient and able to perceive or feel things, none are ‘conscious’ in the fundamental sense that none can consciously manage events like humans can. Jeremy Griffith explains in THE Interview that consciousness means being sufficiently aware of how experiences are related to attempt to manage change from a basis of understanding cause and effect, and so it is accurate to describe humans as the only animals possessing ‘fully conscious minds’, see FAQ 5.5 ‘Aren’t other animals capable of conscious thought like humans? / How can you say humans are the only fully conscious animals?’

   With regard to religion, the human condition is the study of humans capacity for acts of both so-called ‘good and evil’. It is the realm of inquiry where science and religion overlap, so in explaining the human condition religion is also explained. This represents a reconciliation of science and religion, see FAQ 1.15.

Hi Margaret, 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!

Yes, Buddhism certainly provided guidance on dealing with the symptoms of the human condition, but ultimately we needed to find the scientific explanation for why we deviated; for why, when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless, we are so angry, competitive and selfish? There have been thousands of years of different techniques to try and achieve enlightenment by calming, repressing and even transcending our psychologically upset human condition and deferring to the soundness of our soul in one form or another, but none of them have brought an end to the upset state of the human condition — it’s still rampant everywhere. The reason is because they don’t solve the human condition. They don’t deal with the source of our species’ corrupted condition and bring relieving understanding to it. This is what Jeremy Griffith’s treatise does and why it is heralded as the biological breakthrough that can save the world.

   Thank you very much for your interest Padmanayana. In India, there is a recognition of our species' time of innocence, which survives as Satya Yuga – a Golden Age of truth and love – while in the Bhagavad Gita the struggle to preserve righteousness reflects our ancient orientation to selfless behaviour. The Upanishads describe love (prem) as the essence of being, while Western thought enshrines the same ideal in the innocence of Eden.

   Although Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition is science, it recognises, 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.

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

   Importantly, religion and philosophy alike have spoken of the later loss of that innocence, a separation from our original harmony. In India this is the rise of avidya (ignorance) and the decline from Satya Yuga into Kali Yuga; in Western scripture, it is ‘the Fall’. The Bhagavad Gita portrays it through Arjuna’s anguish on the battlefield – a conflict between moral conscience and the necessity of struggle. Griffith biologically explains this “separation” from our original cooperative and loving “divine” state: as our fully conscious mind began managing life through understanding our inflexible instinctive orientations, established through natural selection over countless generations, were inevitably intolerant of its experiments in self-management – free will ran into dictatorial instincts. Without the redeeming explanation that genes can only orientate while nerves need to understand, our conscious mind had no way to counter this sense of condemnation except to attack it, prove it undeserved, and block it from awareness.

   This, Griffith says, was the genesis of our psychologically upset human condition – the anger, egocentricity and alienation that characterise human life. It allows us to see that humanity’s so-called adharma – our capacity for selfishness and aggression – was not evil, but the misunderstood result of our species’ heroic struggle to reconcile instinct with intellect. With this understanding, the age-old conflict between soul and mind can at last be healed.

Hi Joe, thanks for commenting, we’re very pleased you listened to THE Interview to access the very good news it contains! And no, it is certainly not an AI write-up but rather the distillation of Jeremy Griffith’s over 40 years of addressing, writing about and ultimately resolving the human condition. Jeremy has now published over 20 books, and numerous essays and video presentations, so we encourage you to pursue your interest by visiting the top of our FIX THE WORLD homepage at HumanCondition.com, where 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.

That’s great, Fatima. 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. 

   Thanks for your comment Uwe. Explanation of the human condition does produce a huge paradigm shift in our thinking so it takes a little while to see how it all works, but what is so extraordinary about this breakthrough is we can now understand the fundamental reason why people want more than they need. We have had to compensate for the insecurity of the human condition through pursuing “money, greed, power”. What is so important about Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition is that it finally explains the real reason for why humans’ competitive and power-hungry behaviour became an unavoidable, indeed necessary, part of human life. And so even though it has been terribly destructive, money, materialism and power gave us validation and reinforcement to counter the deep insecurity we felt about having to become self-corrupted – they sustained humanity’s heroic search for knowledge. But with our goodness and worth now biologically established, all our defensive, ‘harmful’ ‘destructive’ behaviours (essentially our anger, egocentricity and alienation) are made redundant; we can actually stop the destruction of ourselves and save the world.

   We suggest these two FAQs will help as you digest this further.  FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does understanding of the human condition solve everything?’ and 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?’

   We recommend Freedom Essay 30: Resignation, which explains that in the absence of understanding of the human condition, complete block-out or denial of it was the only option available. Jeremy Griffith explains that “the overall and fundamental situation that the human race has been living in, which was set out in Video/F. Essay 4: The ‘instinct vs intellect’ treatise is obvious, needs to be re-iterated. In that essay it was described how cooperative, loving and gentle our bonobo-like ape ancestors were—the instinctive memory of which is our moral soul—and how unbearably depressing it has been for us fully conscious, psychologically upset, soul-corrupted, ‘fallen’, angry, egocentric and alienated humans to not be able, until now, to explain and understand why we corrupted our all-loving innocent soul. That video/essay made it clear that the feeling of unworthiness, shame and guilt from not being able to understand why we had seemingly destroyed such a loving existence and turned utopia into dystopia has been so great that since the upset state of the human condition became extreme (basically since the advent of agriculture some 11,000 years ago) every generation of humans has had no choice but to resign themselves to living in denial of the unbearably depressing issue of their extremely corrupted condition.”

   So, yes, we have had to ‘resign’ ourselves to living in a “profoundly sick society”. As Jeremy goes onto explain: “Delving deeper into how the journey toward ‘Resignation’ unfolds will make it clear why resigned humans became so superficial and artificial—so alienated/soul-dead—in their behaviour and thinking.

   So what happened at around 14 or 15 years of age for virtually all humans growing up under the duress of ‘the imperfections’ of ‘our human condition’ was that to avoid the suicidal depression that accompanied any thinking about the issue of our species’, and our own, seemingly extremely imperfect, soul-corrupted condition, there was simply no choice but to stop grappling with the answerless question. And so despite the human condition being the all-important issue of the meaningfulness or otherwise of our existence, there came a time when adolescents reached the age of about 14 or 15 that they were forced to put the whole depressing subject aside once and for all and just hope that one day in the future the explanation and defence for our species’, and thus our own, apparently horrifically flawed, seemingly utterly disappointing, sad, soul-devastated state would be found, because then, and only then, would it be psychologically safe to even broach the subject. (And since that all-precious explanation of our corrupted condition has now been found, we can safely admit and address the subject of Resignation.)”

   Importantly, the ‘instinct vs intellect’ biological explanation of the human condition reveals how utterly defended, heroic and redeemed we as a species are now, and that our future is full of true happiness and excitement, security and deep fulfillment like has never been seen on this planet before. 

Hi Jay, with more digestion we suggest you will see it isn’t too late to save the world as long as people, who do appreciate its truth, support it. It is certainly the 11th hour, but as Jeremy Griffith explains, once this takes off, this information will turn things around almost overnight - see FAQ 1.4. We recommend Jeremy’s Freedom Essays about ‘Do we fail or do we make it?’ (see F. Essays 55—58). These present a fearlessly honest analysis of the state of the world followed by how the extraordinary transforming power of this information can save the world.

Religion has allowed us to be honest about our psychologically upset ‘sinful’ state, but we now have the rational, accountable scientific defence of our ‘fallen’ state, the truth of which does set us free. Please see our FAQs about religion that clarify the difference between the work of Jeremy Griffith and FIX THE WORLD, and religions.

Great to have your interest, Leimana. To learn more, at the 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.

   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. What is so significant 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 at last understand the source of our upset and bring great compassion and kindness to ourselves and others. And that could not be more significant, so even though we haven’t yet reached the tipping point in terms of awareness of this great breakthrough, you can see from the excitement and relief in our ecstatic responses to THE Interview, we are well on our way! Also, on our FIX THE WORLD homepage, you can see the rapidly growing appreciation and support for Jeremy’s work with outstanding commendations from thought leaders and FIX THE WORLD Centres all over the world!

   With regards to other animals being “self-aware”, clearly while other animals have various levels of ‘awareness’, or are sentient and able to perceive or feel things, none are ‘conscious’ in the fundamental sense that none can consciously manage events like humans can. Jeremy Griffith explains in THE Interview that consciousness means being sufficiently aware of how experiences are related to attempt to manage change from a basis of understanding cause and effect, and so it is accurate to describe humans as the only animals possessing ‘fully conscious minds’, see FAQ 5.5 ‘Aren’t other animals capable of conscious thought like humans? / How can you say humans are the only fully conscious animals?’

Yes, the collection of quotes from profound thinkers about the human condition is truly incredible. We recommend going through the index of Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM to easily see and access just who is quoted.

   Your description of ‘Godrails’ is interesting Mike. We can now understand that while the corrupting search for liberating knowledge was underway religion played a significant role as both the custodian of the ideal state and as a means of solace for those exhausted by the corrupting journey - see our FAQs about religion. Importantly however, we can now understand that that our egocentricism isn’t instinctive at all. Unable to properly defend our angry, egocentric and alienated state, we employed the ‘excuse’ that our instinctive mind, contained primitive selfish ‘savage’ urges that the conscious mind has to control, whereas Jeremy has now explained that our instinctive self is completely loving and cooperative, and that our aggressive and selfish behaviour is psychological in origin, the result of a clash between our instincts and intellect.

   Ultimately we needed to find the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that clarifying difference means we can now understand that we had to defy our instincts, which is why this great breakthrough is described as ‘redeeming’. It follows that by finding the good reason we had to defy our instincts, we can reconcile ourselves with them, because all our defensive behaviours (our anger, egocentricity and alienation) are now redundant. We no longer need them because we have the real defense for why we had to defy our instincts.

We greatly appreciate your comment, Mary Rose, and we very much encourage you re-watch THE Interview and then watch or read the ‘Deaf Effect’ video you refer to, namely Jeremy Griffith’s brand new addition to THE Interview titled Please, Please, Beware The ‘Deaf Effect’!, as it provides invaluable advice from Jeremy and anecdotes from others on how to overcome the deaf effect as well as descriptions of the extraordinary world that understanding the human condition makes possible for every human! Both presentations are at the top of our homepage HumanCondition.com and together they provide the ideal introduction to Jeremy’s explanation.

It is wonderful to have your interest Glenda. In THE Interview biologist Jeremy Griffith reveals humans’ selfish, competitive and vicious behaviour is not a product of unchangeable savage animal instincts within us, but the result of a psychosis, caused by the clash between our instinct and intellect. What is so significant about this is a psychosis can be healed with understanding so human behaviour is not unchangeable or immutable – a revelation that transforms the human race. As Jeremy stresses in Part 1, “And it is actually really good news that our behaviour is due to a conscious-mind-based psychologically troubled condition because psychoses can be healed with understanding. If our competitive and aggressive behaviour was due to us having savage instincts then we would be stuck with that born-with, hard-wired, innate behaviour. It would mean we could only ever hope to restrain and control those supposedly brutal instincts. But since our species’ divisive behaviour is due to a psychosis, that divisive behaviour can be cured with healing understanding. So that is very good news. In fact, incredibly exciting news, because 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.” You may find following FAQs helpful in your consideration of this treatise: FAQ 1.3 ‘What is the explanation of the human condition?’ 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?’.

That’s wonderful you intend to re-visit THE Interview Jane because it is very profound information and as is explained, the human condition is the most fearful of subjects because it’s the issue of whether we are fundamentally good or bad and our fear of this interface can make it hard to understand all that is explained in one viewing. And Jeremy Griffith has just released an exciting and extremely helpful addition to THE Interview titled Please, Please, Beware The ‘Deaf Effect’!. In this addition he warns of the difficulty virtually everyone initially has taking in or ‘hearing’ analysis of the once—but no longer—unbearably confronting subject of the human condition. He then shows how patience and perseverance in reading or listening to the all-redeeming explanation of the human condition enables everyone to overcome the ‘Deaf Effect’ and discover the beyond-description-exciting, life-resuscitating, human-race-fixing, safe new world for the human race! Together, these two key presentations provide the ideal introduction to Jeremy’s explanation and they are both free to watch or read at the top of our homepage HumanCondition.com. Sending you all our encouragement to keep listening Jane and you might also like to subscribe to our mailing list, where you will receive one email per week and occasional News Flashes, and join our Facebook Group where people benefit enormously from the general discussion, interaction and support structure provided there. 

Thank you for your comment Jill and we welcome your interest. Yes while religions contained all manner of truths about human life, it is all from a pre-scientific view. To actually solve the human condition we required first-principle-based insights into the workings of our world, and from there, find the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy Griffith presents in THE Interview. For instance Jeremy’s treatise brings new insight to the Biblical story of Adam and Eve, clarifying that while in the pre-scientific story Adam and Eve were portrayed as ‘bad’ or even ‘evil’ to take the fruit of knowledge, and treated as ‘sinful’, we can now understand that humans were ‘good’, even heroic, to search for knowledge, even though it caused us to become psychologically upset angry, egocentric and alienated sufferers of the human condition. As Jeremy says in Part 2 of THE Interview, “‘No, no, that story got it wrong’. Adam and Eve are actually not just good but the heroes of the whole story of life on Earth.” What science can now add to that pre-scientific description of the human condition is that our instincts in effect criticised the emerging conscious mind’s search for knowledge, but importantly, we can now understand that the conscious mind was right, or ‘good’ to defy our instinctive self in order to fulfil its great potential to manage life. While religious assurances, such as ‘God loves you’ in Christianity, provided comfort, they failed to explain WHY we are lovable, and it is that missing explanation that this breakthrough provides. And significantly, by bringing biological understanding to pre-scientific concepts it at last reconciles science and religion — but rather than threatening religions, what people discover is it is the fulfilment of a time that all the great prophets looked forward to when we could actually explain ourselves (see our FAQs about religion especially FAQ 6.3 ‘Does understanding of the human condition undermine religion’).

Thank you for your comment Brenda. This breakthrough presents a massive paradigm shift in our thinking but at last we can understand the real reason why we have had to employ denial and close our minds. In THE Interview Jeremy Griffith explains the human condition has been the most terrifying of subjects to face because it is the issue of whether we are fundamentally good or bad as a species, and to quote Jeremy from Part 2, “we’ve had to live in denial of our corrupted, psychologically upset condition while we couldn’t explain it”. Thankfully we can now explain it and understand that humans are born with loving, moral instincts but we all now variously suffer from a psychosis due to clash between those loving, but dictatorial instincts, and our emerging intellect. This psychosis manifests in angry, egocentric and alienated or ‘upset’ behaviour. The wonderful news is that understanding why we had to defy our instincts, and corrupt our original instinctive self or soul, removes the guilt and associated defensive reactions that are the source of our upset behaviour and denial. If you haven’t already don’t miss the brand new addition to THE Interview of 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 provide the ideal introduction to Jeremy’s explanation and they are both free to watch or read at the top of our homepage HumanCondition.com.

   Yes Henry the world is in a terrifying endgame situation, however we suggest, with more digestion you will see it isn’t too late to fix the world — as long as people who do appreciate the truth of this explanation of the human condition support it. So it is certainly the 11th hour, but as Jeremy Griffith explains in Part 4 of THE Interview this understanding will turn things around incredibly quickly because it explains and solves the underlying cause of all our selfishness, anger and egocentricity, see 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?’. And, as we explain in our reply to Hélène below (which we hope you’ll read) we are getting there! For the growing momentum of support that is building around the world for this breakthrough, see the thousands of impressive commendations Jeremy’s work has received from thought leaders and members of the public, and the over 80 FIX THE WORLD Centres that have opened across the globe. (FAQ 6.5 also clarifies that this understanding is not another new age-type, false start to a new world for humans that can’t and doesn’t last.)

   We also recommend Jeremy’s Freedom Essays about ‘Do we fail or do we make it?’ (F. Essays 55—58). These present a fearlessly honest analysis of the state of the world followed by how the extraordinary transforming power of this information can fix the world!

   That’s all absolutely wonderful Hélène!! We’re so delighted to receive such a special and deeply appreciative response to Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition which you’ve easily ‘heard’! It truly is humans greatest hope, and it is extraordinary, to finally understand the underlying issue of the human condition and the integrative meaning of life (for other readers of these comments see FAQ 5.3 ‘What is the Integrative Meaning of life or ‘God’?’). Having this biologically explained is astonishingly powerful as it unravels the seemingly impenetrable and insoluble confusion of human life and brings lasting freedom to us all! It’s exciting that you’ve watched our videos and read two of Jeremy’s books, including his definitive book FREEDOM — in French and now English!! (People can go to our Translations page to see all our many translations.)

   You can take heart Hélène as this precious information (as you describe it) will, and is starting to, sweep the world! As with any new scientific breakthrough in history, it will take time for people to realise that this is what it says it is, but as the support and momentum continues to build—through people such as yourself recognising the importance of it and also the commendations from thought leaders that keep coming in for Jeremy’s work— the selfless love and energy that will generated will spread like wildfire and solve our problems very quickly because instead of being preoccupied with power, fame, fortune etc, all our energies will be freed to truly work together and focus on doing whatever it takes to end the suffering in all the corners of the world. To quote FREEDOM chapter 9:9 ‘How the Transformed Lifeforce Way of Living will quickly repair the world’: “Although this new world for humans, which FIX THE WORLD has been established to facilitate, will, as has been stated, have a slow beginning because humans initially find it difficult even taking in or ‘hearing’ discussion about the human condition, once FIX THE WORLD is discovered, word of it and what it offers every human and the world will spread like wildfire.” And as Tony Gowing says in Video/Freedom Essay 5, “Really, the transformation of the world is already a fait accompli, a certainty—sure, it will take a little time to get started, but what will win the day is logic. Humans are thinking, rational beings so when all the logic points in one direction then there is really no choice but for every single human to take that path, and eventually they will. It will be slow for a start because humans hate and resist change, but nonetheless change does happen when an idea’s time has come.” You can see this support and momentum building with people expressing their relief and excitement about finally making sense of human life in the daily ecstatic responses to THE Interview (on our homepage), the thousands of outstanding commendations Jeremy’s work has received from leading scientists and thinkers and the over 80 FIX THE WORLD Centres that have opened across the globe including in Canada! 

   It is wonderful you are sharing this with your family, especially now you can also share Jeremy’s brand new addition to THE Interview of Please, Please, Beware The ‘Deaf Effect’! that warns of, and solves, the difficulty most people initially have taking in or ‘hearing’ analysis of the human condition (it’s underneath THE Interview). Together, these two key presentations provide the ideal introduction to Jeremy’s explanation.

   To be updated on new developments at FIX THE WORLD just subscribe to our free mailing list where you will receive one email per week and News Flashes. We also suggest people join our Facebook Group, with over 110,000 members, for cutting edge discussions about this explanation and to join in all the excitement and fellowship this new paradigm of understanding generates!

   Thank you again Hélène for sharing your experience with and appreciation for Jeremy’s work. As you say it does bring about such huge paradigm shift, and there’s no bigger paradigm shift than having the human condition confronted and explained, and Jeremy and FIX THE WORLD have experienced persecution for doing that (which people can read about in FAQ 3.11 ‘Why has FIX THE WORLD at times been persecuted’). Also, given your admiration for other thinkers you might like to read Jeremy talking about ’The Golden Thread' (in his 2025 book The Human Condition) and the sequence of denial-free, prophetic thinkers that goes all the way back to Plato to bring this liberating understanding of the human condition to the world. 

Hi Roberta, Jeremy Griffith presents an entirely new framework of human-condition-confronting-and-solving, holistic science which means that at last we are able to look at evolution in an honest way. In his definitive book FREEDOM chapter 4:4 Jeremy explains the word ‘evolution’ needs to be replaced with the word ‘development’ for while evolution implies that organisms do change or evolve it avoids acknowledging that there is a direction and purpose to that change, which is to develop the order of matter. In Part 3 of THE Interview Jeremy refers to this Negative-Entropy-driven integrative meaning of existence, which he explains in depth in FREEDOM chapter 4. (For a summary see FAQ 5.3 ‘What is the Integrative Meaning of life or ‘God’?’.) We suggest that it is only now, with our apparently divisive human condition understood and defended, that we can acknowledge that evolution has been a integrative process. We also suggest FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this idea original or new? / How does this instinct vs intellect explanation of the human condition differ from other theories that recognise these elements?’ which explains the unique significance of Jeremy’s work.

It’s wonderful to learn of your interest Patricia! The transcript of THE Interview, and it’s extremely helpful July 2026 addition Please, Please, Beware The ‘Deaf Effect’!, is available HERE on our website. You can access this via the ‘TRANSCRIPT’ link under the video of THE Interview at the top of our homepage HumanCondition.com or there is a ‘Transcripts of videos’ button under ‘The Main Videos’ also on our homepage.

Absolutely Angela! The search is over! As Jeremy Griffith says in Part 4 of THE Interview: “So finding understanding of the human condition brings to an end the insecure, upset, artificial-reinforcement-dependent angry, egocentric and alienated world. A new human-condition-resolved, cooperative, selfless and loving world now emerges. Light comes streaming into the dark cave-like world of denial that we have been living in, and it will all be like waking up from a nightmare!” To pursue your interest at top of our FIX THE WORLD homepage HumanCondition.com, it states ‘WHAT NEXT’ after watching THE Interview and it’s brand new addition Please, Please, Beware The ‘Deaf Effect’! This section guides you through our recommended next steps which includes subscribing to our mailing list where you will receive one email per week and occasional News Flashes and joining our Facebook Group to learn more about this amazing, human-condition-resolved new world. Thank you for your wonderfully appreciative comment Angela and we send you all our encouragement to explore all our introductory material on our website.

   This new science presents a huge paradigm shift in our thinking but what is so extraordinary about Jeremy Griffith’s treatise is that it logically and accountably defends human egocentricity. Also saying ‘our ego is the problem’ is a way of avoiding talking about the real issue of the human condition, which is what is so fearful for humans. Yes we’re egocentric, but what’s the issue driving our egocentric behaviour? — it is the terrifying issue of our conflicted, non-ideal, corrupted, alienated, insecure human condition! Throughout the ages there have certainly been many ways of trying to minimize or transcend the ego as a way of coping, such as meditation or prayer or focusing only on the present moment, but understanding its fundamental nature is absolutely vital, because until we understood the origins of our egocentric nature we were in no position to genuinely deal with and resolve it which is what Jeremy’s work does. It finally explains the real reason for why humans’ selfish and egocentric behaviour became an unavoidable, indeed necessary, part of human life. Proving we were better than someone else gave us validation and reinforcement to counter the deep insecurity we felt about having to become self-corrupted. And so seeking power, fame, fortune and glory are what maintained humanity’s heroic search for knowledge, ultimately for self-knowledge. With our goodness and worth now biologically established, and the ego is championed, we no longer need to be preoccupied with proving our goodness and worth and we can return to our natural selfless and loving state. That is what is ahead of humanity now. 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 fix the world.

   If you would like to explore this further we recommend you watch the new addition to THE Interview titled Please, Please, Beware The ‘Deaf Effect’! which comprehensively explains the human condition is such a fearful subject that our mind can find it difficult to initially ‘hear’ discussion of it. We also suggest FAQ 1.4 ‘How does this understanding end the upset anger, egocentricity and alienation of the human condition?' 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?’.

Great to have your interest Anna and yes with this critical new science the real problem of the human condition is finally solved and we can ACTUALLY fix the world! You might find our FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does understanding of the human condition solve everything?’ helpful. 

Hi Krystin, it is wonderful you have come across THE Interview as it presents the understanding you are looking for! Ultimately we needed to find the scientific explanation for why when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless are we so angry, competitive and selfish. Answering this question required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy Griffith presents and why it is heralded as being able to fix the world (see our Commendations page). At last we have the science that explains the real reason for why humans’ competitive and power-hungry behaviour became an unavoidable, indeed necessary, part of human life. Proving we were better than someone else gave us validation and reinforcement to counter the deep insecurity we felt about having to become self-corrupted. And so competition, sustained by the incentives of materialism and capitalism, are what maintained humanity’s heroic search for knowledge, ultimately for self-knowledge. With our goodness and worth now biologically established, we no longer need to be preoccupied with proving our goodness and worth. Thankfully, with this redeeming answer to the human condition rather than controlling our behaviour through discipline or a code, our psychological upset can actually subside, and we can truly be liberated from the human condition. This is further explained in 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?’.

That’s wonderful Matthew as that’s exactly what we suggest people do. Our reply to Graham directly below explains the understandable difficulty people can have fully grasping explanation of the human condition on their first introduction to it and the exciting solution to that initial ‘deaf effect’.

We greatly appreciate your comment Graham and the wonderful news is there is a solution to the obstacle of the ‘deaf effect’! which virtually everyone initially suffers from to varying degrees. This is presented in Jeremy Griffith’s brand new addition to THE Interview titled Please, Please, Beware The ‘Deaf Effect’! (both presentations are at the top of our homepage HumanCondition.com). To quote: “What will become understandable is why, as soon as discussion of the human condition begins, the minds of most people subconsciously ‘switch off’ from wanting to go anywhere near this core issue of the human condition—the issue of why we humans are capable of extraordinary empathy, cooperation, kindness, creativity and love, yet also capable of extreme insensitivity, violence, cruelty, destruction and hate. It is a dilemma that has historically been referred to as ‘good and evil’ in our make-up—the question of why we are the way we are, seemingly horrifically flawed, ‘soul-corrupted’, ‘fallen’, even ‘evil’, and as a result of this apparent extreme imperfection, deeply psychologically troubled beings! Yes, the issue of the human condition has historically been so unapproachable and off-limits for virtually everyone that most people initially find it difficult to take in or ‘hear’ the redeeming explanation of it” (Section 1, pars 136 & 137). However now the human condition is biologically explained it is no longer an unbearably confronting subject and Please, Please, Beware The ‘Deaf Effect’! “shows how patience and perseverance in reading or listening to the compassionate, redeeming, reconciling and rehabilitating explanation of the human condition—which, as Professor Prosen said, is ‘the holy grail of insight’ of all human endeavour—enables everyone to overcome this ‘Deaf Effect’ and discover the beyond-description-exciting, ‘we can at last make sense of the world’, mind-clearing, life-resuscitating, human-race-fixing, safe new world for the human race!” (Summary, par 131). Sending you all our encourgement to watch both THE Interview and Please, Please, Beware The ‘Deaf Effect’! a few times Graham as together these two key presentations provide the ideal introduction to Jeremy’s explanation.

Yes Anthony this new scientific paradigm, that confronts and solves the human condition, brings a massive change to our thinking! At last we now have the ability, for the first time, to understand every aspect of human behaviour and our behaviour will change naturally as a result of this logic as you say. 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 “let go” of that upset behaviour and 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 (see FAQs 1.4 to 1.6). To quote Jeremy Griffith, from Part 4 of THE Interview: “while it will take a number of generations to heal all the upset in us humans, everyone can immediately live free of their upset… In fact, to continue using the old artificial defences of retaliation, denial and the search for relieving power, fame, fortune and glory when our fundamental goodness has been established is not only clearly pointless but also unnecessarily destructive of ourselves, everyone around us and our planet. That way of living is now completely obsoleted, finished with.” With regard to spirituality and religion, the human condition is the study of humans’ capacity for so-called ‘good and evil’ and is therefore the realm of inquiry where science and religion overlap, so in explaining the human condition religion is demystified and explained. Jeremy’s treatise actually reconciles science and religion by bringing biological understanding to pre-scientific concepts. See our FAQs about religion and new age movement. 

Hi Ethel, thank you for your comment. It’s wonderful you have discovered Jeremy Griffith’s work and that it is reasonating with you. It can take a little time to really bottom out on the significance of this explanation as it presents a huge paradigm shift in our thinking so it’s great you are exploring our website. Ultimately we have 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. Why have we lost our natural ability to be empathetic and joyful and become so self-corrupted and toxic! 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 and what is unique about his work. You might find FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this idea original or new?’ revealing as it discusses there have been many other thinkers, both contemporary and ancient, who have recognised that our divisive human condition is a product of a clash between our instincts and intellect. However, what was missing from the analysis of all these other thinkers was the ability to explain WHY this conflict occurred.

Hi Judi, 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!

Hi Irfan, 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 hope you are able to finish watching THE Interview, and afterwards we suggest reading FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this idea original or new?' which explains the unique significance of Jeremy’s work.

Hi Oliver, thank you for your enthusiastic response to THE Interview. Regarding your question, what is so extraordinary about Jeremy Griffith’s instinct vs intellect explanation of the human condition is that it defends our so-called ‘dark side’. We can understand the battle between our intellect and our cooperative instincts caused us to become psychologically angry, alienated and egocentric, the upset state we refer to as the human condition. Now that we can understand this conflict all those insecure behaviours, such as greed, are obsoleted, brought to an end, and we free ourselves from that state and can legitimately return to a cooperative way of living. We suggest reading FAQ 1.40 which addresses the questions of ‘How can you hope to transform the world? — In particular, how are you going to change the behaviour of the rich and powerful? / How are you going to reach the bastions of power? / Won’t the greedy and power-hungry simply ignore this?’ It explains that “Even those who were most committed to defensively seeking validation through gaining power and material goods, including those entrenched in positions of power, will quickly realise how empty and obsolete that strategy is now that we have the fully accountable, psychosis-addressing-and-solving, real biological explanation of the human condition that proves our worth at the most fundamental level.”

Hi Marven, we think you will find Jeremy Griffith’s writings on religion, Christianity and the life of Christ fascinating. We especially direct you, in the first instance, to Freedom Essay 39: ‘Christ Explained’, as in it Jeremy emphasises that finding understanding of the human condition at last makes it possible to explain and demystify not just all mythology, including all the parables and stories in the Bible, it also allows us to fully understand the prophets in the Bible themselves, including Abraham, Moses, and Christ, the latter of whom Jeremy considers to be one of the greatest, most sound (still able to access the truthful world of his soul), denial-free thinking prophets in history. (It is important to note here that Jeremy’s work doesn’t contradict the Bible it simply brings biological understanding to its pre-scientific concepts. In fact, Jeremy considers the Bible to be a repository of extremely rare denial-free truth about human life, albeit from a pre-science view; see also Freedom Essay 38: ‘Noah’s Ark Explained’ and Freedom Essay 40: ‘Judgment Day Explained’)

   Hi Emanuela, people can watch THE Interview (and all the videos on our website) using the closed captions or subtitles function in their native language. The subtitles icon ‘cc’ is at the bottom of the video player, and you can choose languages using the ‘cog’ setting next to it: Select the ‘cog’, then select ‘Subtitles/CC’, then select ‘Auto translate’ where a list of languages come up from which you choose the language you would like the subtitles to appear in. Press ‘play’ on the video and your chosen subtitles should then appear.

   Also, THE Interview and many of Jeremy Griffith’s books and essays have already been translated into many languages, which you can explore on FIX THE WORLD’s Translations page. These translations also appear on many of our over 80 FIX THE WORLD Centre websites (see FAQ 3.3 ‘How do I contact my nearest FIX THE WORLD Centre?’) and new translations are regularly becoming available thanks to the wonderful efforts of FIX THE WORLD’s ever-expanding global network of support! To be informed of FIX THE WORLD developments, including new translations and FIX THE WORLD Centres, just subscribe to our free mailing list.

Thank you for your appreciative comment, Deogratias — yes, the world desperately needs this revolutionary understanding. And while this necessarily has a slow start, humanity’s uptake of the explanation of the human condition has a fast finish as the selflessness it liberates in people will not only quickly solve all the problems on the planet, but the excitement and joy it brings means everyone will want to get on board as quickly as they can (see FAQ 1.5: Why is understanding the human condition important to my life?)! And so even though we haven’t yet reached the tipping point we are well on our way, as you can see from the excitement and relief in our daily ecstatic responses to THE Interview! Also, on our homepage, you can see the rapidly growing appreciation and support for Jeremy Griffith’s work with outstanding commendations from thought leaders and FIX THE WORLD Centres opening all over the world!

   A great comment, James. Yes, the core of the argument is very simple in the sense of understanding the difference between two learning systems. That is what is so significant about this breakthrough: Jeremy Griffith has answered the essential question of why, when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless are we so angry, competitive and selfish by explaining the difference between the way the intellect and instincts work. As he explains in Part 2 of THE Interview: "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.”

   As mentioned to Kirk below, all of Jeremy’s books can be accessed free of charge on the Publications page so we encourage you to “get a hold” of it straight-away!