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Hi Gary, 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!

   Thank you for sharing the comparison Greg. A critical distinction that needs to be made is that Jeremy’s explanation is not simply a description of how the conscious thinking self (note that The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines “ego” as “the conscious thinking self”) or human ego became conflicted; it explains, in rational biological terms, why that conflict arose and, crucially, how understanding it brings the conflict to an end.

   The significance is that once our angry, egocentric and alienated state is understood as the psychologically inevitable result of the clash between our emerging conscious mind and our original instinctive orientation, the old burden of condemnation disappears, as does the need for our defensive behaviours. The human condition is reconciled at its source.

   So while Advaita seeks freedom through recognising a deeper identity beyond the ego, Jeremy’s work explains that the human ego itself no longer needs to be escaped, suppressed or transcended once it has finally been understood and defended. That is what makes the explanation so transforming: it rationally resolves the underlying conflict rather than asking us to distance ourselves from it.

Wonderful. But take your time with this Jacinta! Having scientific understanding of the human condition represents a massive paradigm shift in our thinking. We humans have always intuitively believed we were fundamentally good, but we have never been able to explain our 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. It represents the end of faith and dogma and the beginning of knowing.

   Hi Wendy, at last we can understand we have been driven by a deep insecurity about our fundamental goodness or worth and so now that our goodness is biologically established we no longer have to behave insecurely and selfishly and can legitimately return to a selfless way of living. ‘Legitimately’ because at last we have the first principle-based science which liberates us to be honest about our conflicted upset state instead of denying or transcending it. This is the rapidly transforming practical effect of being able to understand the human condition which is fully explained and illustrated on our Transformation page.

   You can see our growing network of FIX THE WORLD centres all around the world on our Centres page, including the FIX THE WORLD West Coast of Canada Centre. Also come and join the 120,000 members on our FIX THE WORLD Facebook Group and discuss and celebrate this astonishing new understanding of ourselves!!!!!

    Finally, 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.

   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.

   In a nutshell, what is being explained is that when we humans developed a conscious mind some 2 million years ago, a battle unavoidably developed between it and our already established instincts. The result of this conflict between our instinct and intellect was that we became psychologically defensive, angry, alienated and egocentric—the upset state we refer to as the human condition. But now that we can explain and understand this conflict, all those insecure, defensive behaviours are obsoleted, brought to an end, and we free ourselves from the human condition. We suggest you listen to THE Interview again, and you will find it very quickly becomes clear.

   Finally, the work of FIX THE WORLD is a scientific pursuit and was not created for profit, so all of our information and materials (including books, videos and podcasts) are provided absolutely free of charge on our website (no email required and there is no money involved), see FAQs about FIX THE WORLD. The absolutely astonishing claims made about Jeremy Griffith’s breakthrough explanation do warrant initial extreme scepticism, but the amazing fact is that they all withstand scrutiny, see our FAQ 1.9 ‘Why people can have confidence in the bold claims made about biologist Jeremy Griffith’s work’. Also Jeremy’s work has also received outstanding commendations and reviews from leading thinkers and scientists.

Hi Yannick, you can watch all the videos on our website using the closed captions or subtitles function in any language (just click on the ‘cc’ icon at the bottom of the video player/window). And on our Translations page you can freely access all the publications that have been translated into French! FREEDOM is still in development but THE Interview, Transform Your Life And Save The World, Death by Dogma, and numerous Freedom Essays are available. You might also be interested in visiting the websites of FIX THE WORLD Centres in Nice and Switzerland as their websites are also provided in French.

   Hi Robert, we greatly appreciate your interest in Jeremy Griffith’s biological explanation of the human condition! People can find all the audios, including that of THE Interview, to listen to or download for free, on our FIX THE WORLD homepage, and also our Publications page, where you will see the audio version in the different formats available for most of the books (this will be the same in any browser). Also all of the audios are free to access in our WTM App — just search World Transformation Movement in the Apple App Store (for iOS) or the Google Play Store (for Android™).  

   You might be interested to know that our popular Freedom Essay Series, which provides a guide through much of the content of Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM, is also available in audio (audio option is at the top of each essay). You can subscribe to our free mailing list to be sent one essay per week and occasional News Flashes or access the entire series on our website or listen to it on Spotify.

   Yes the best place to start is to watch our ideal summary “masterpiece” presentation THE Interview and its extremely helpful 2026 addition, Please, Please, Beware The ‘Deaf Effect’!. Together, these two key presentations, at the top of our homepage, provide the ideal introduction to Jeremy’s explanation . Happy listening Robert!

Hi Anita, what Jeremy Griffith presents is all first principle-based, rational, testable, biological explanation of the human condition. It is 100% logically and accountable so you can watch our ideal introductory presentation THE interview (at the top of our homepage) and judge for yourself! This is fully explained in our FAQ 1.9 ‘Why people can have confidence in the bold claims made about biologist Jeremy Griffith’s work’ It might also help you to read the daily ecstatic responses THE Interview is receiving on our homepage and the commendations Jeremy’s work has received from eminent scientists and thinkers (on our Commendations page).

Hi E.V. and thank you for your comment. As biologist Jeremy Griffith explains in THE Interview humans have been terrified of the human condition because, without understanding its biological cause, we had no defence against the shame of our corruption of our species’ original cooperative and loving innocent state. So there has been a very legitmate reason for people’s “blank look” and given the world’s escalating mental health crisis and the growing turmoil, conflict and distress everywhere, this understanding could not be more urgently needed! In Jeremy’s extremely helpful addition to THE Interview, titled Please, Please, Beware The ‘Deaf Effect’! (both are available for free at the top of our homepage), that massive problem and its solution is exactly what is described and delivered. Jeremy 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! We also suggest our FAQ 1.1 ‘What is the human condition?’. 

Thank you for your comment Tom and explanation of the human condition does present a massive paradigm shift in our thinking so your approach of keeping an open mind while maintaining your faith is exactly what we recommend people do as this does take time to absorb and reconcile with our current interpretation of the world. We certainly respect people’s religious views and feel it is important to mention that Jeremy Griffith’s work doesn’t contradict a belief in God or Christianity. It simply brings biological understanding to all those pre-scientific concepts which is further explained in our reply to Alice Markewitz directly below. 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 ‘What is God’). And as our FAQ 6.3 ‘Does understanding undermine a faith in religion or God?' explains “Obviously what was desperately missing was the reconciling understanding of our upset behaviour and the Godly ideals; reconciling understanding of the human condition in fact”. So 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. Also, as we explain in the above FAQ, in dealing with such a historically difficult subject for us humans, these biological explanations of the human condition are, by nature, very confronting and although ultimately represent a fulfilment of religion, they do demystify religious concepts which some people can find very challenging, so we encourage everyone to take their time investigating what’s being presented. For instance this quote reinforces your approach Tom: “...it naturally will take time to absorb and reconcile the two interpretations in our mind. We suggest that what is required is to hold onto your more ethereal, metaphysical faith while patiently continuing to think about all the scientific explanations of our meaning and place in the world—because those understandings (if they are truly accountable, which we are sure all the evidence will indicate they are) will eventually confirm every aspect of your faith.”

It is wonderful this understanding is resonating so deeply with you Alice. While Christianity and other religions do contain all manner of extraordinarily profound truth about human life, it is from a pre-scientific view. Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition brings biological understanding to religious accounts of our condition and at last reconciles science and religion (see FAQ 1.15 ‘If this is biology, why the religious references’) which is so valuable and amazing! For instance, as you will have watched, in Part 2 of THE Interview Jeremy explains the Biblical story of Adam and Eve is a pre-scientific metaphor for the emergence of consciousness and its clash with our pre-established, cooperative loving instincts, resulting in humans becoming psychologically upset or ‘sinful’ or ‘evil’. However, significantly we can now understand, from scientific first principles, that ‘Adam and Eve’ were ‘good’ to search for knowledge, not ‘bad’ or ‘evil’; we humans are actually the absolute heroes of the whole story! So this explanation fundamentally lifts the ‘burden of guilt’ from the human race and allows us to forgive ourselves and others and finally end our psychologically troubled human condition—it couldn’t be a bigger breakthrough! You might be interested in our FAQs about religion, especially FAQ 6.3 ‘Does this understanding undermine religion’. Also there are Jeremy’s Freedom Essays 38 – 41 about the demysification of religion which are absolutely fascinating.

   Hi Kaye, thank you for your comment. Yes, in Part 3 of THE Interview, biologist Jeremy Griffith explains the significance of the extraordinarily cooperative and nurturing bonobos to our species development. Also see FAQ 5.2 ‘How did we humans acquire our all-loving, unconditionally selfless moral conscience?/ What do bonobos tell us about our own evolutionary heritage?’

   What is so extraordinary about Jeremy’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition 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. 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, see our FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does understanding of the human condition solve everything?’. 

   We are very, very sorry to hear about the abuse you have suffered Shauna Lee and are appreciative of your interest. Life under the duress of the human condition has absolutely been such a deeply, deeply tragic journey full of so much unthinkable pain and suffering. We firstly wanted to stress explanation of the human condition does not, in any way, condone the horrific acts humans can commit. As THE Interview explains all humans are born with loving moral instincts (not savage animal instincts) but we all now variously suffer from a psychosis due to the human condition and, in the extreme, that psychologically conflicted upset state can produce shocking acts of cruelty, sadism, hate, murder and war. Importantly, this breakthrough explanation does not condone or sanction such horrendous atrocities (what historically has been termed ‘evil’) rather, through bringing compassionate understanding to the source of humans’ upset behaviour, it gives us the power to ameliorate and thus subside and ultimately eliminate it. We suggest our FAQ 1.38 ‘Aren’t some people just born psychopathic, or even ‘evil’? / How does this explanation rehabilitate people capable of ‘evil’ behaviour? / Does this condone ‘evil’ behaviour?’ 

   So the significance of this explanation, and what brings about the change we all long for, is that by bringing reconciling understanding to our conflicted selves we will ultimately be able to truly heal everyone’s psychologically upset condition. We can understand humans psychological upset was the price our species had to pay for searching for knowledge so the human story is the greatest, most heroic story ever told. That macro comforting truth looks after all humans now and we can treat ourselves with great compassion and kindness, and most significantly, we don’t have to overly confront the upset within us. This is summarised in our FAQ 1.19 ‘A caution about the danger of over-exposure’. As the distinguished psychiatrist Professor Harry Prosen (who wrote the Introduction to Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM) said: “What Griffith is presenting is understanding of the source insecurity that the whole human race suffers from for having destroyed our species’ innocent soul. It is a universal self-blame that his understanding at last provides healing insight into. All human behavior is saturated with that universal insecure, depressing state and resulting anger, egocentricity and alienation that has developed from it, but we finally have the compassionate foundation insight needed to dismantle all that ‘upset’/psychosis. So the real psychotherapy of our collective and individual psychoses can begin” (see FAQ 1.34). 

It is wonderful to have your interest Carol! Solving the human condition solves all the confusion, frustration and suffering in human life at its source. We can now understand that our behaviour has been driven by a deep insecurity about our fundamental goodness, so now that our goodness is biologically established we no longer have to behave insecurely and selfishly and can legitimately return to a selfless way of living, which is explained in Part 4 of THE Interview. This is the rapidly transforming effect of being able to understand the human condition, however because it presents a huge paradigm shift in our thinking it does take a little time to fully grasp. As well as Part 4 our FAQs 1.4 to 1.6 are helpful as they talk about the far-reaching practical applications of this understanding. For the most detailed explanation of the transformation that is now possible we recommend Jeremy’s two seminal presentations on the topic: The Great Transformation and Sermon On The Beach. It is worth mentioning, in terms of your question, FAQ 6.5 clarifies that this is not another new age-type false start to a new world for humans that can’t and doesn’t last because we have the first principle science which liberates us to be honest about our conflicted upset state instead of denying or transcending it. Also joining our Facebook group (with 120,000 members) is highly recommended because there is so much helpful, practical and inspired discussion taking place there about living with this immensely relieving knowledge! 

   Thank you for your comment Oronde. Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition brings biological understanding to religious accounts of our condition, which means we can at last reconcile science and religion. For example in Part 2 of 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 ‘sinful’ or ‘evil’. He then explains “all our religions and most of our mythologies have recognised the basic conflict within us—that the emergence of ‘consciousness’ caused our ‘Fall’ from ‘innocence’”. However, significantly we can now understand, from scientific first principles, that Adam and Eve were ‘good’ to search for knowledge, not ‘bad’; we humans are actually the absolute heroes of the whole story! This is what Jeremy’s treatise establishes and in so doing fundamentally lifts the ‘burden of guilt’ from the human race and allows us to forgive ourselves and others and finally end our psychologically troubled human condition. As FAQ 6.3 ‘Does understanding undermine a faith in religion or God?' explains “Obviously what was desperately missing was the reconciling understanding of our upset behaviour and the Godly ideals; reconciling understanding of the human condition in fact". Also FAQ 1.15 ‘If this is biology why are there religious references’ explains the human condition is the realm of inquiry where science and religion overlap, so naturally in explaining the human condition religious references will be used, and through scientific explanation, finally demystified and reconciled.

   So ultimately we needed to find the scientific explanation for why when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless are we so angry, competitive and selfish. Answering this question required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy presents in THE Interview (see FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this idea original or new?’) and why it is praised as such by leading scientists and thinkers around the world, see our Commendations page on our website.

   In terms of the Tower of Babel story that you mention, we thought you would find this extract from Jeremy’s book Freedom Expanded: Book 1, Part 10:1 helpful: “It has to be emphasised again what an absolutely exceptional prophet Moses was and what an incredibly important role he has played for humanity. Moses presented the complete denial-free history of humanity—all the major stages that humankind has progressed through. The story of Adam and Eve described how the human race once lived in an uncorrupted, innocent state and then, when we became fully conscious, our upset angry, egocentric and alienated state appeared. Included in this story of the appearance of upset is the acknowledgment that humanity became patriarchal, or male-role led, and the acknowledgment that sex became perverted, with all the consequences of that. Then, in the story of Cain and Abel, Moses acknowledged the emergence of the different degrees of upset, of innocence and alienation, amongst humans, and how the development of upset became so great that the more upset turned on the more innocent and began to oppress, attack and even kill them for their unjust condemnation of the more upset state. The story of Cain and Abel also described how compassion appeared, and how the rapidly developing upset had to be contained or ‘master[ed]’. Then, in the story of Noah, Moses recognised the advent of that most significant of all events in human life under the duress of the human condition of Resignation to a life of denial of the issue of the human condition. The story of Noah also recognised that after Resignation upset intensified to the point where we had to learn stronger forms of restraint and how only prophets with their ability to think truthfully were left to lead humanity in the development of such restraints. Moses then described the first two of the three stages of the prophet-led journey to the liberation of humanity, which was his contribution of the Imposed Discipline of the Ten Commandments and the development of the Religion of deferring to a one true God that Abraham had begun. (Plato contributed the third stage, namely of initiating and orientating the actual search for understanding of the human condition.) With these developments sufficient order and functionality in society could be maintained so as to allow humanity to spread across the world, progress depicted by Moses’ story of the Tower of Babel. In describing the work of the great prophets who preceded him, Moses also provided humanity with a truthful account of their lives. With the ability now to understand Moses’ stories and descriptions of the extraordinary nature and work of prophets we can understand what an absolutely incredible achievement Moses’ contribution to humanity was.”

It certainly is Philip! As biologist 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!"

   As THE Interview explains, despite our competitive and selfish behaviour we have always intuitively believed we were fundamentally good, but we have never been able to explain this contradictory, troubled nature. Most people just spend their lives blocking out that agonising contradiction (see Freedom Essay 30 titled ‘Resignation’); while some people live with an awareness of it, and it may be that you are one of them Justin.

   What is unique about Jeremy Griffith’s work is that he has answered this 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.

Hi James, 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 Michelle, as Jeremy Griffith explains, the world is facing the terrifying end play threat of terminal levels of psychosis, manifesting in all the terrible crises that the world is facing, which is certainly daunting.

   In THE Interview Jeremy describes and explains the source of the ferociously angry dark side in humans, our ‘volcanic anger’, which has meant we are capable of such horrific acts that you describe. To quote Part 4 “While we have learnt to significantly restrain and conceal—‘civilise’ as we refer to it—the phenomenal amount of upset within us, under the surface we all must be boiling with rage, and sometimes, when our restraint can no longer find a way to contain it, that anger must express itself—hence our capacity for shocking acts of cruelty, sadism, hate, murder and war.” Essentially Jeremy answers the age old question of humanity’s extremely paradoxical nature, how we humans could be good when all the evidence appears to indicate we are bad or even ‘evil’. Most importantly this explanation does not condone or sanction such upset, rather, through bringing understanding to humans’ upset behaviour, it gives us the power to ameliorate and thus subside and ultimately eliminate it.

Hi Claudia, it is explained 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. You can read more about the nurturing-based love-indoctrination process in Freedom Essay 21.

   Hi Wendy, it’s so great to hear you are finding THE Interview so fascinating; we encouarge you to take your time as you digest Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition, as it does present a huge paradigm shift in our thinking.

   You can immediately access free copies of all of Jeremy’s books, including THE Interview and his main book FREEDOM (to read, listen to, download and even print) on the FIX THE WORLD website on the Publications page. 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. FIX THE WORLD is a not-for-profit, so all information and materials are provided free of charge, so we hope you find the format you are after. So please pursue your “new venture” by visiting our website, where you will find a guide to the recommended steps after watching THE Interview.

   We certainly respect your faith Cathy, but suggest that while religions contain all manner of truths about human life, it is all from a pre-scientific view. Ultimately we needed to find the scientific explanation for why when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless are we so angry, competitive and selfish. Answering this question required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy Griffith presents. You may be interested in our FAQs on Religion.

   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 fix the world. It explains while there is habituation to overcome and humans do find change difficult, at last we can understand our behaviour has been driven by a deep insecurity about our fundamental goodness or worth and so now that our goodness is biologically established we no longer have to behave insecurely and selfishly and can legitimately return to a selfless way of living. ‘Legitimately’ because we have the first principle science which liberates us to be honest about our conflicted upset state instead of denying or transcending it. So instead of being focused on power, fame, fortune and glory, all our energies will be freed to truly work together on doing whatever it takes to end the suffering and save our world.

It’s wonderful you have come across THE Interview Richard as what it presents truly is the long-awaited scientific breakthrough in understanding ourselves that ends human suffering at its source and unites the human race! As 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.”

   Thank you for your comment Darren and it is wonderful you are gaining more and more insight through Jeremy Griffith’s work. Carl Jung was forever saying, “wholeness for humans depends on the ability to own our own shadow”. But we can now see that Jung’s great discovery of the shared-by-all ‘collective unconscious’ failed to acknowledge what our ‘collective’, shared-by-all, instinctive ‘unconscious’ actually is, which is our species’ instinctive memory of once living in a cooperative and loving state. Jung was also able to highlight a clash between instinctual drives and consciousness, however he did not explain the source of the clash (which is that our instincts were intolerant of our conscious mind’s experiments in self-management) or that the fundamental nature of our psychosis was our conscious mind’s repression of our loving and cooperative instincts. So while Jung made a great contribution to humanity’s journey toward self-understanding, what Jeremy has provided in THE Interview is the all-important clarifying, redeeming, reconciling and psychologically rehabilitating explanation for why the conflict between our instincts and our consciousness occurred. This is discussed in our FAQ 1.47 ‘How is this different to Freud and Jung?’. 

   So we maintain rather than poor nutrition being the cause of our compromised thinking it is the psychosis that the human condition caused in us to varying degrees. As Jeremy says in THE Interview “It makes perfect sense that the extreme guilt and shame from having corrupted our species’ original all-loving, moral, innocent instinctive self or soul would have been so unbearably depressing to think about, and thus so psychologically terrifying to confront, that we had no choice but to live in denial of the issue of our soul-corrupted, ‘fallen’ state, which, again, is the issue of the human condition.” So we’ve lived in incredible psychosis, with ‘osis’ meaning ‘abnormal state or condition’ and ‘psyche’ meaning soul, so psychosis means soul repression—and neurosis, with ‘neuron’ meaning nerves, the conscious mind, so neurosis means the state of upset; so we’ve been psychotic and neurotic. This is illustrated in Jeremy’s new addition to THE Interview titled Please, Please, Beware The ‘Deaf Effect’!, where he 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 free to watch or read at the top of our homepage HumanCondition.com.

We greatly appreciate your interest Eliane and thank you for your comment. 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 demystified and explained by bringing biological understanding to pre-scientific concepts, see FAQ 1.15 ‘If this is biology why are there religious references?’. So yes Jeremy Griffith brings fresh insight to the story of Adam and Eve which is a pre-scientific metaphor for the emergence of consciousness and its clash with our pre-established, cooperative loving instincts, resulting in humans becoming psychologically upset or ‘sinful’ or ‘evil’. Significantly we can now understand, from scientific first principles, that ‘Adam and Eve’ were ‘good’ to search for knowledge, not bad or disobedient; we humans are actually the absolute heroes of the whole story! It establishes that we are good and not bad after all. To quote Jeremy from Part 2: “You see, not knowing how naturally selected instincts differ from cause and effect-operating consciousness, this story of Adam and Eve becoming conscious could only conclude that the angry, egocentric and alienated condition that emerged when we became conscious was a bad, evil, sinful state, but this scientific presentation says, ‘No, no, that pre-scientific story got it wrong’. Adam and Eve are actually not just good but the heroes of the whole story of life on Earth—because surely the conscious mind is nature’s greatest invention and to be given the task of searching for understanding while the whole world’s condemning you was the hardest and toughest of tasks—because that condemnation was universal.” What THE Interview presents fundamentally lifts the ‘burden of guilt’ from the human race and allows us to forgive ourselves and others and finally end our psychologically troubled human condition — it couldn’t be a bigger breakthrough! 

Yes Phillip explanation of the human condition introduces a completely new paradigm of understanding so there is a great deal to read, consider and digest! Also Jeremy Griffith has created an extremely helpful 2026 addition to THE Interview titled Please, Please, Beware The ‘Deaf Effect’!, where he warns of — and presents the solution to — the 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, provide the ideal introduction to Jeremy’s explanation and from there our homepage guides you through the steps to learn more! Sending you all our encouragement and good wishes Phillip.