Comments on THE Interview

   Thank you for your comment Liam. Certainly, many animals display levels of social cooperation and apparent altruism, including wolves, elephants, whales and other primates. Jeremy does not deny that. The distinction he makes in THE Interview, however, is between those forms of cooperation and the genuinely unconditional selflessness that he argues developed in our human forebears.

   As Jeremy explains, cooperation in other animals is normally limited by the genetically selfish strategies of kin selection and reciprocity — helping relatives who share your genes, or helping others where there is ultimately some reciprocal benefit. In that sense, such cooperation can be highly sophisticated while still operating within the normal genetic imperative to reproduce one’s own genes. What Jeremy’s ‘love-indoctrination’ explanation addresses is how humans were able to overcome that normal genetic limitation and develop genuinely selfless, all-loving moral instincts. Bonobos are particularly important in THE Interview because they show that nurturing-based process developing to a lesser degree.

   The human condition is not simply a matter of highly intelligent animals having to regulate competing drives such as hunger, fear, reproduction or aggression for the good of the group. Jeremy has explained that a unique psychological conflict arose when our emerging conscious mind began experimenting in self-management in the presence of already-established loving, cooperative instincts. The resulting criticism from those instincts produced the guilt and insecurity that led to our angry, egocentric and alienated condition.

   So while animal cooperation and altruism have certainly been studied for many decades, what Jeremy is presenting is a very different explanation: how humans acquired genuinely selfless moral instincts, and then why our conscious intellect came into conflict with those instincts to produce the human condition.

   Part 3 of THE Interview, FAQ 5.2 and Freedom Essay 21 explain in more detail how those loving, selfless instincts were able to develop in the first place.

   Thank you for your comment Gilles. What is so wonderfully exciting is that we don’t actually have to wait for biological evolution or natural selection to slowly produce a more loving humanity. Our original instincts are already loving and cooperative (see Freedom Essay 21); what has caused our destructive behaviour is the psychologically upset state produced by the human condition. And because that upset is psychological, it can be healed through understanding.

   As Jeremy explains, this is not a revolution imposed on people, but a peaceful “revolution of the mind” through the power of logic, knowledge and understanding. We humans are conscious, rational beings, and ultimately we respond to knowledge. Once the human condition is understood, the old angry, egocentric and alienated way of living becomes obsolete, and the transformed, cooperative way of living becomes the logical and immensely relieving response.

   And regarding your very understandable concern about the cruelty, greed and power in the world stopping this change, FAQ 1.40 specifically addresses that question: “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 most committed to gaining validation through power and material wealth will eventually recognise how empty and obsolete that strategy is once their fundamental worth is securely established by understanding of the human condition.

   So while there is certainly resistance and habituation to overcome, the reality is that we are not waiting for evolution to make us loving — understanding now allows us to return to the loving, cooperative state that is already our deepest instinctive heritage.

Yes, bonobos provide a fascinating insight into our own distant ancestors, and evidence the nurturing based love-indoctrination process. As Jeremy Griffith explains, this process requires ‘ideal nursery conditions’. In chapter 5:4 of his definitive book FREEDOM he explains: “The successful nurturing of infants therefore required ample food, comfortable conditions and security from external threats over an extended period.” So what we find with bonobos, is that on their side of the Congo river they do not have many predators. There are snakes and leopards to some extent, but they are not a great threat, and the love-indoctrination process was not imperilled. It is clear, and the evidence is included in chapter 5 of FREEDOM, that our distant ape ancestors developed in a similar environment. Importantly, the further a species advances along the love-indoctrination process, the more selfless it becomes, and so threats would be dealt with selflessly i.e. members of the group would protect the group by putting the groups welfare above that of themselves.

   It’s great to have your interest, Caroll. Yes, FIX THE WORLD has an extensive library of audio presentations, including the 64 Freedom Essays, which you can subscribe to receive for free on a weekly basis. Also, all the hundreds of audios of most of our books, essays and videos are available 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.

   On our homepage it states ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’ and guides you through the steps to pursue your interest. 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, it all starts with loving yourself, and what Jeremy’s explanation has finally given us is the understanding that allows us to do that securely and unconditionally.

   When all the evidence of human behaviour seems to suggest that we are selfish, competitive, angry and flawed, it has been extraordinarily difficult for humans to genuinely love and accept themselves. What Jeremy’s explanation does is reveal why we had to become that way, and why beneath all that upset we are fundamentally good. That is what removes the deep insecurity and self-condemnation at the heart of the human condition.

   Thank you for such a lovely and uplifting reflection, and at 90 years of age it is wonderful to hear such gratitude, openness and enthusiasm for life.

   Thank you very much for your feedback Sondra. The fundamental explanation is actually very simple and not beyond the most basic of educations, however the very nature of the human condition means explanation of it can be initially difficult to access as it 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 we have necessarily lived in almost total denial of it.

   For people new to this concept, we recommend Jeremy’s helpful addition to the THE Interview, the presentation Please, Please, Beware The ‘Deaf Effect!’ Following the transcript of THE Interview, you’ll find the video and transcript of this important second presentation 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.

Remember to love yourself!

YES you can watch THE Interview on our YouTube channel or our on our website. It is the best place to begin as in THE Interview Jeremy presents his breakthrough ‘Instinct vs Intellect’ explanation of the human condition. From there, don’t miss its extremely helpful 2026 addition, 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. Together, these two key presentations provide the ideal introduction to Jeremy’s explanation and can be found at the top of our homepage at HumanCondition.com or on our YouTube channel.

   Hi Richard, it is wonderful this understanding is resonating with you and thank you for your comment. Explanation of the human condition opens up an entirely new way of thinking about humans which takes a little time to fully absorb. For instance, biologist Jeremy Griffith explains all humans are born with all-loving, moral instincts, not savage animal instincts, but we now suffer from a universal psychosis caused by the clash between our instinct and intellect. We became psychologically upset and alienated from our original selfless, loving state because of our conscious mind’s necessary, and indeed heroic, search for knowledge. Jeremy also explains in THE Interview the human condition has been the most terrifying of subjects because it is the issue of whether we are fundamentally good or bad as a species. So much so we have necessarily lived in almost total denial of it and got on with the noble but corrupting task of searching for knowledge. However now that knowledge is found, and our fundamental goodness is biologically established, that forbidden realm has now been made safe and our behaviour will change naturally as a result. As Jeremy explains in Part 4 titled ‘How does the psychological rehabilitation of the human race that the arrival of understanding of the human condition finally makes possible actually occur?’: “Well, what this real—and actually very obvious—instinct vs intellect explanation of the human condition fundamentally does is lift the ‘burden of guilt’ from the human race. It establishes that we humans are good and not bad after all. While we are all inevitably variously angry, egocentric and alienated from our different encounters with humanity’s heroic battle to find knowledge, ultimately self-knowledge, understanding of our corrupted condition, we can now know that every human is fundamentally good. And this ability to understand and know there was a good reason why the human race became psychologically upset, is the key, relieving understanding we have been in search of ever since we became conscious some 2 million years ago and our corrupted condition emerged. That is the key relief for our mind—being finally able to understand that we are good and not bad is what brings us the greatest psychological relief of all.” That is the core breakthrough of Jeremy’s explanation, we can now know that our psychological upset was the price humans had to pay for searching for knowledge and that the human story presents the greatest, most heroic story ever told. That is the overarching comforting truth that loves and unites all humans now and we can look after ourselves and each other with great compassion and kindness, and, most importantly, we don’t have to overly confront the upset within us. As psychiatrist Professor Harry Prosen, a former President of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, wrote: “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... [trauma caused humans] to establish a disconnect between their conscious rational mind and their repressed subconscious emotional distressed state. So that disconnect or denial isn’t easily eroded, but the beauty of Griffith’s treatise is that the healing starts at the macro level of the universal human condition; the healing of the shame and blame that the whole human race has suffered from, which is non-personal and thus more easily confronted, absorbed and accepted. It brings the greater context and love to all human psychosis and suffering, and then, from under the umbrella of that safe position, everyone can gradually work inwards to their particular experience of all the imperfections in human life that have now, finally, been made sense of” — see FAQ 1.34 ‘How does understanding the human race’s condition help with an individual’s depression and psychosis?’ and also FAQ 1.35 on ‘Does this heal anxiety?’.

   We hope this helps with your thoughts Richard and it is important to mention that we do actually caution people, in all our main publications, about the unavoidably confronting nature of the subject of the human condition, because it can be destablising, especially for people with a history of psychological instability or extreme trauma. We urge people to seek or continue the ongoing support of professional help and point out that any information we do provide should not be used as, or as a substitute for, professional counselling so it is excellent you are going to discuss your interest with your psychologist and psychiatrist. This is summarised in FAQ 1:19 ‘A caution about the danger of over-exposure / Advice for people with mental health issues’ which we encourage you to read. 

   Thanks Dee. You have finally found what you are looking for. As you keep absorbing THE Interview and the material on our website, you will appreciate the critical distinction between this explanation and the many spiritual approaches people have understandably explored in search of peace. While spiritual practices can help people step back from, quieten or transcend the troubled, egocentric mind, Jeremy’s explanation of the human condition is something different: it explains why that troubled state arose in the first place and resolves it at its source.

   We are thinking beings, so ultimately our conscious mind needs rational, accountable answers. What Jeremy’s work provides is the biological explanation for why the clash between our instinct and intellect caused us to become angry, egocentric and alienated, and why our conscious mind was nevertheless fundamentally good and heroic in pursuing knowledge.

   So rather than needing to escape or suppress the mind, the mind can finally understand and be reconciled with itself. That is the great unlocking point this explanation provides, and the basis for the lasting personal and global transformation you are looking for.

   Thank you for your comment. Dostoyevsky was certainly an extraordinary thinker, and, like a number of great thinkers throughout history, he perceived important elements of the human condition with remarkable insight.

   However, 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 FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this original or new?’ and Video/Freedom Essay 4, which expands further on other thinkers, both ancient and contemporary, who have recognised instinct and intellect elements involved in creating the human condition.

   And this understanding also allows us to make an important distinction in relation to Dostoyevsky’s observation that excessive consciousness could be seen as a “disease”. We can now understand that although the emergence of our conscious mind was what precipitated the conflict with our pre-established instincts, consciousness itself was not the problem or a disease. Quite the opposite: our conscious mind had to defy those instincts in order to search for knowledge and understanding, so the conscious mind was ultimately the hero of the story, not the villain.

   Jeremy is in fact obviously deeply appreciative of Dostoyevsky’s extraordinary insight. In THE Interview he quotes at length from Dostoyevsky’s The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, describing it as “such a wonderful intuitive remembrance of our species’ bonobo-like time in an alienation-free, all-sensitive and all-loving state of innocence”. Dostoyevsky wrote of a time when people “did not aspire to knowledge of life as we aspire to understand it”, lived without quarrelling or jealousy, and were so loving that even the animals were “conquered by their love”.

   Jeremy points out how strikingly this parallels modern observations of bonobos, and how accurately Dostoyevsky intuitively recognised both our original loving condition and the significance of humanity’s later search for knowledge. So Dostoyevsky’s insights are very much acknowledged; what Jeremy’s work adds is the clarifying biological explanation of why that transition to consciousness produced the human condition, and why understanding it finally resolves the conflict.

It’s wonderful you found THE Interview so enlightening Dayna! You don’t have the wait to order the book as you can immediately access free copies of THE Interview and Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM (to read, listen to, download and even print) on the FIX THE WORLD homepage under the ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’ section. Also you can freely access all of Jeremy’s books on our website. As well you can download free Kindle versions from Amazon. However, if you are particularly after a hardcopy of Jeremy’s books they are available to purchase from Amazon and other good bookstores. Also we encourage you 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!

   Thanks for your comment, and for sharing your experience with Orissor. We understand Orissor to be a philosophy that encourages free thinking, questioning established conditioning and beliefs, and applying practical, common-sense thinking to questions about life and its purpose.

   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. So while there may well be ideas in THE Interview that seem familiar from Orissor or other philosophies, we suggest the crucial new element is this biological explanation of the underlying cause of the human condition — the instinct–intellect clash — and the reconciling understanding it provides.

Hi Dottie, it’s wonderful you watched THE Interview and would like to know more about Jeremy Griffith’s work! Firstly don’t miss Jeremy’s extremely helpful 2026 addition to THE Interview titled 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. These two key presentations are at the top of the FIX THE WORLD homepage HumanCondition.com and together provide the ideal introduction to Jeremy’s explanation. From there our homepage guides you through the steps to learn more and get involved which includes subscribing to our mailing list where you will receive one email per week and occasional News Flashes and joining our Facebook Group where people benefit enormously from the general discussion, interaction and support structure provided there. We also recommend our FAQs 1.4 to 1.6 are helpful as they talk about the far-reaching practical applications of this understanding, and 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. Also our FAQ 6.5 clarifies that our ability to heal depended on confronting and biologically explaining our ‘good and evil’ stricken human condition and stresses the huge difference between Jeremy’s work and the new age movement.

Jeremy Griffith’s books and essays are being translated into many languages around the world, thanks to wonderful efforts from FIX THE WORLD’s ever-expanding global network of support. Unfortunately we don’t yet have any Kiswahili (Swahili) translations but our Translations page shows all the languages that are available. Also 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. Also Yefta you might like to explore our over 80 FIX THE WORLD Centres that have opened across the globe, including many in Africa.

That’s great Sylvester! Just go to the top of the FIX THE WORLD homepage, HumanCondition.com, where 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 its extremely helpful 2026 addition, 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. Together, these two key presentations provide the ideal introduction to Jeremy’s explanation. Our homepage also guides you through the steps to pursue your interest. This includes subscribing to our mailing list where you will receive one email per week and occasional News Flashes. We also encourage people to join our Facebook Group to learn more about this amazing, human-condition-resolved new world. We are a not-for-profit organisation and make all our material and publications free to read online, watch, listen to and even download and print! 

We welcome your interest Rosemary. While Christianity and other religions contain all manner of truths about human life, it is all from a pre-scientific view. Ultimately what we have needed is 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 which actually reconciles science and religion. You might be interested in our FAQs about religion. For instance FAQ 6.3 ‘Does understanding of the human condition undermine a faith in religion or God?’ explains: “The whole objective of our conscious mind has been to replace ignorance, mystery, superstition and dogma with knowledge and understanding. But, in order to search for knowledge and comply with our almost universal need to deny the human condition, we needed both science and religion. This is because science took up the responsibility of inquiring into the mechanisms and workings of our world in a denial-complying, mechanistic (not-holistic) way, while religion became the custodian of the integrative, ‘Godly’, cooperative ideals of life while the search for the liberating understanding of humans’ ‘fallen’ condition was underway. (Integrative Meaning, which we have personified as ‘God’, is explained in chapter 4 of biologist Jeremy Griffith’s definitive work, FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition, and in Freedom Essay 23.)... 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” which is exactly what Jeremy presents in THE Interview and his definitive book FREEDOM. 

Yes Debora we desperately need love, but as biologist Jeremy Griffith explains in THE Interview until we found the redeeming understanding of our dark side it has not been possible to love ourselves, each other or the world properly. Thankfully that understanding has now been found, and we can finally heal ourselves and fix the world! It might help you to read our FAQ 6.5 ‘Is this just another self-help, New Age, pseudo idealistic, superficial-treatment-of-psychosis type movement?’ which begins, “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.” Also, most significantly, Jeremy explains what love actually is, which is unconditional selflessness, and why it so important in our lives and in the development of humanity. There is actually a clear theme or purpose or meaning of existence, which is the ordering or integration of matter, a process that is driven by the physical law of Negative Entropy – see FAQ 5.3 ‘What is the Integrative Meaning of life or ‘God?’’. Also Jeremy explains that humans developed moral instincts through prolonged nurturing, which over time hardwired selfless love into our biology — the real origin of our ‘moral soul’ - see FAQ 5.2 ‘How did we acquire our moral soul?’. As well Jeremy has written an essay titled ‘What is Love’ in his book The Book Of Real Answers To Everything! on our website. FIX THE WORLD a not-for-profit organisation and make all our material and publications free to read online, watch, listen to and even download and print!

Wonderful to hear Steve. After watching THE Interview and its new addition Please, Please, Beware The ‘Deaf Effect’! (which provide the ideal introduction to Jeremy Griffith’s explanation) ideally you would read the two expansions: Jeremy’s mid-length 2025 book The Human Condition and his definitive book FREEDOM. Along with watching or reading those 4 titles, it is very helpful to watch the 3 Intro Videos, which are The Great Guilt that discusses The Deaf Effect with an audience, and the 2 very important videos about how understanding the human condition transforms your life, which are The Great Transformation and Sermon on the Beach. Also, our original, pre-2020 introductory series of 16 videos are very instructive. All these presentations and more are available for free to watch, read or download at HumanCondition.com. Also we encourage you 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.

Hi Blossom, it’s wonderful to have your interest. You can immediately access free copies of THE Interview and FREEDOM (to read, listen to, download and even print) on the FIX THE WORLD homepage under the ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’ section. Also you can freely access all of Jeremy Griffith’s books on our website. As well you can download free Kindle versions from Amazon. If you are particularly after a hardcopy of Jeremy’s books they are available to purchase from Amazon and other good bookstores. You might find our FAQ 1.13 'Is this idea original or new? / How does biologist Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition differ from other theories that recognise these elements?’ fascinating. It explains, as is discussed in THE Interview, many other thinkers throughout history who, like Jeremy, have recognised that our divisive, competitive and aggressive 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. Answering this question, as Jeremy has done, is all-important because it is only this clarifying, redeeming and reconciling explanation of the nature of the struggle between our instinctive self and conscious self that at last brings peace to our divided selves. Also, as author Richard Heinberg wrote (quoted in Part 2 of THE Interview): “Every religion begins with the recognition that human consciousness has been separated from the divine Source, that a former sense of oneness… has been lost… everywhere in religion and myth there is an acknowledgment that we have departed from an original… innocence and can return to it only through the resolution of some profound inner discord”. So it is this resolution of the source of the separation and discord that Jeremy’s instinct vs intellect explanation of the human condition provides and why it is praised as such a great breakthrough by thought leaders and the general public around the world which you can see on our Commendations page on our website. 

  Thank you JSH. You are certainly right that competition has become deeply embedded in much of modern society, including education. But THE Interview makes the important point that education is not the ultimate source of our competitive behaviour.

   As Jeremy Griffith explains, the real source was the unavoidable clash that developed between our emerging conscious intellect and our already established cooperative, loving instincts. That clash produced the psychologically upset state of anger, egocentricity and alienation that has been compounding ever since — and competition became one of the ways humans sought to prove and reinforce their worth.

   It follows that the further back in humanity’s history we go, the less psychologically upset people were, and so the more cooperative and loving they were — something we can still see evidence of in relatively innocent indigenous or so-called ‘primitive’ cultures.

   So while education and social structures can certainly encourage or discourage competitiveness, the only thing that could truly end our competitive, egocentric state was the reconciling understanding of why we became that way in the first place. That is the great biological breakthrough presented in THE Interview. With our fundamental goodness and worth now biologically established, we no longer need to keep proving ourselves through competition, and can finally return to a genuinely cooperative and loving way of living.

   Thanks Greg, given your particular interest in Advaita (expressed in your comment below) and what you describe as a further inquiry into the Self, you may find this FAQ especially relevant 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?’

   As THE Interview explains, all humans are born with an all-loving and compassionate soul or instinctive self, from which our spirituality is sourced, but we became alienated from that original soulful state because of the conscious mind’s necessary search for knowledge. So we suggest that, with further digestion, you may find that liberating us from the psychosis of the human condition does in fact explain and encompass our spirituality, rather than spirituality necessarily requiring a further step beyond this explanation. You might also like to explore our FAQs about the Transformed State which explain how this understanding opens up a whole denial-free, truthful, human-condition-confronting-not-human-condition-avoiding paradigm that frees us from the agony and horror of the human condition and fixes the world! See in particular FAQ 4.1 ‘How does understanding the human condition transform the world?’. 

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.