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Hi Daniel, 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 MV. The key point Jeremy Griffith makes is that the old idea that humans are fundamentally driven by brutish, savage and aggressive instincts is actually a false explanation of our behaviour.

   As THE Interview explains, humans have a cooperative, loving instinctive heritage, not a savage and aggressive one. You can read more in Freedom Essay 21.

   The source of our aggression is the instinct–intellect clash that arose when our emerging conscious intellect came into conflict with our already-established loving instincts, which began some 2 million years ago, and produced the insecure, angry, egocentric and alienated state we call the human condition. So that is where humanity “went wrong” — not because we inherited savage instincts, but because our conscious mind necessarily had to defy our loving instincts in its search for knowledge and understanding.

   The further back we go before that conflict developed, the more cooperative and loving our ancestors were. That is the cooperative heritage Jeremy is referring to.

   Thank you for your wonderful comment Elizabeth, and it’s great to hear how deeply THE Interview has resonated with your lifelong search to understand the big questions of why we are here and what human life is all about.

   What Jeremy Griffith’s work offers is the all-important biological understanding of the human condition that brings so many of those previously confusing questions about ourselves and our lives together and makes sense of them.

   And yes, there is certainly a great deal more to explore! Having watched THE Interview twice, you are very well placed to move on to the material that follows it. Our homepage has a ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’ section that 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 suggest that as you digest this understanding, and begin to gain more appreciation of just how historically off-limits the subject of the human condition has been, and therefore how much denial everyone has put in place to cope with it, that you will come to appreciate the approach that THE Interview takes. Because of this denial, people have difficulty ‘hearing’ discussion about the human condition (see the helpful addition Please, Please Beware The ‘Deaf Effect!’), and so Jeremy Griffith has learnt through decades of trial and error that simply starting with the instinct vs intellect premise does not work, because people won’t even admit that the human condition exists!

   And so what Jeremy does at the outset of THE Interview is establish that the human condition is real, which is really done incredibly quickly, and following that he then raises – and exposes – the common excuse that many people use for our selfish behaviour, which is that we have ‘savage’, must-reproduce-our-genes instincts. It is only with those two issues taken care of that people are then in a position to ‘absorb’ the fundamental ‘instinct vs intellect’ premise. That being said, the essential ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation is presented in Part 1 using the Adam Stork analogy, so it does appear as soon as possible.

Thanks AV. Yes, Jeremy Griffith’s biological explanation of the human condition reconciles science and religion by bringing biological understanding to pre-scientific concepts. In fact, Jeremy considers the Bible to be a repository of extremely rare denial-free truth, containing all the truth about human life albeit from that pre-science view, and he has written about Christ’s life and its phenomenal importance in humanity’s journey in Freedom Essay 39. Our FAQs about religion are also helpful.

While Buddhism and other religions contain all manner of truths about human life, it is all from a pre-scientific view. Ultimately we needed to find the scientific explanation for why when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless are we so angry, competitive and selfish. Answering this question required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy presents in THE Interview and his book FREEDOM. We suggest FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this original or new?’ which explains the unique significance of Jeremy Griffith’s work.

   Thank you very much for your feedback, Colin. The fundamental ‘Instinct vs Intellect’ is concisely presented in Part 1 of THE Interview. However, it needs to be born in mind that 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. The result of this ‘Deaf Effect’ is that people can wrongly think that the presentation is poorly written or unduly repititious - please see our FAQ 1.16 ‘Why do I find this material impenetrably dense, repetitive, tedious and boring?’.

   With regard to the length of Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM, it needs to be born in mind that the ramifications of the explanation of the human condition reach into our understanding of every aspect of our lives; and so it is necessarily a large book.

   As Professor Harry Prosen, a former President of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, says in his Introduction to FREEDOM, “I once read that the great philosophers each had an acute grasp of their own small piece of an unthinkably huge and interlocking puzzle, but nobody has ever put the pieces together into a single coherent system. Well, that is no longer the case because Jeremy provides that great unifying, make-sense-of-everything synthesis—for not only does his treatise explain the human condition—our species’ capacity for what has been called ‘good’ and ‘evil’ (in chapters 1 and 3)—his ability to plumb the great depths of this most foreboding of all subjects has meant that he has also been able to provide the fully accountable explanation of the other great outstanding mysteries in science of the meaning of human existence (chapter 4), the origin of our unconditionally selfless moral instincts (chapters 5 and 6), and why humans became conscious when other animals haven’t (chapter 7). And in unlocking those insights, he has in turn been able to make sense of every other aspect of our troubled human condition, including the strained relationship between men and women, sex as humans practice it, the origin and nature of politics, religion, and so many other human phenomena (chapter 8). Indeed, preposterous as it must seem, what this book effectively does is take humanity from a state of bewilderment about the nature of human behavior and existence to a state of profound understanding of our lives. It truly is a case of having got all the truth up in one go.”

   Thank you, Kenneth. That fear you describe is very understandable because the human condition has historically been the most confronting of subjects for us to face. The wonderful significance of Jeremy’s explanation is that it has at last explained and made safe the human condition itself—because it reveals why we became angry, egocentric and alienated, and in doing so removes the old burden of shame and condemnation.

   As Professor Harry Prosen, former President of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, wrote: “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.”

   That is why, the more you listen and become familiar with the explanation, the more the old fear can give way to understanding, relief and compassion for ourselves. Thank you so much for your heartfelt message, and do keep going at your own pace.

When he said we can go back to being a loving caring peaceful type of society, I knew then it was a lie.

   Thank you for sharing your concerns. Part of what is so relieving about now being able to understand the human condition is that we can now understand that governments, institutions and social systems aren’t the source of our problems; they are ultimately expressions of the human condition. Everything has been driven by our insecurity about our worth and goodness. From that insecurity came the need to prove ourselves through power, status, wealth, recognition and control — and, when frustrated, through anger and aggression.

   FAQ 1.40 addresses the understandable question of how even the rich and powerful could ever change. The answer is that once our fundamental worth is finally established through understanding of the human condition, that old need to prove ourselves through power, wealth and material possessions becomes empty and obsolete.

   So the transformation does not depend on a scientist or biologist governing a country. It depends on this understanding spreading through humanity and removing the insecurity that has driven our destructive behaviour in the first place. As that psychology changes, the institutions and systems created by it can change too.

That’s great Diane as there is nothing more exciting and meaningful than learning about the solution to the human condition! Our reply to Mark below shows you the best way to introduce yourself to this amazing understanding of ourselves!

Hi Mark, it’s wonderful that you can’t wait to watch THE Interview, in which 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 HumanCondition.com. Our homepage also guides you through the steps to progress your understanding. This includes subscribing to our mailing list where you will receive one email per week and occasional News Flashes and joining our Facebook group (with 120,000 members) to learn more about this amazing, human-condition-resolved new world!

Take heart Bennie because as you can see from the thousands of impressive commendations on our website from thought leaders and members of the public, and the over 80 FIX THE WORLD Centres that have opened across the globe, the relief and excitement of finally being able to make sense of human life is turning into a tidal wave of world-saving support!! As Part 4 of THE Interview and FAQ 1.40 ‘ Isn’t it too late to save the world?’ explain, while the world is fast approaching a point of no return, this understanding will turn things around incredibly quickly, because it explains and solves the underlying cause of all our selfishness, anger and egocentricity. We also recommend reading FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does understanding of the human condition solve everything?’ and Freedom Essay 15: ‘How understanding the human condition can immediately transform your and every other human’s life and save the world’.

We certainly respect people’s differing opinions Doug and thank you for your comment. There is a lot to absorb with this new paradigm and people have every right to be sceptical that humans are beyond understanding. However we maintain that biologist Jeremy Griffith’s treatise is a first-principle, testable, scientific understanding of and solution to the human condition. This is supported by the outstanding commendations Jeremy’s work has received from eminent scientists and thinkers, which people can explore on our Commendations page of our website. For instance Professor Stuart Hurlbert, esteemed ecologist and Professor Emeritus of Biology, San Diego State University, said: “I am stunned & honored to have lived to see the coming of ‘Darwin II’. I say this because after Darwin’s theory of Natural Selection explained the variety of life, Jeremy Griffith has gone on to solve the other four main questions science had to answer about our world and place in it. They are: 1) the dilemma of the human condition, which his instinct vs intellect explanation in chapter 3 of his main, seminal book FREEDOM finally solves; 2) how we humans became fully conscious when other species haven’t, which he answers in chapter 7; 3) the origins of humans’ unique moral nature, which he answers in chapter 5, which it turns out American philosopher John Fiske had already explained in 1874 but mechanistic science had ignored; and 4) the truth of the Integrative Meaning of existence (which we have personified as ‘God’), in chapter 4, which only a rare few thinkers in history have been able to recognize. And having been able to solve those primary issues he has, in chapter 8, using first principle and fully accountable biological explanations been able to resolve all the secondary problems like: the polarized state of politics; the rift between men and women; the schism between science and religion; the conflict between individuals and between races (thus ending aggression and war at its source); and, above all, bring an end to the threat of terminal psychosis and our species’ extinction! A truly phenomenal, beyond description, scientific achievement!” 

Hi Kezang, as you describe the issue of ‘self’ is the issue of our contradictory behaviour. Biologist Jeremy Griffith explains in THE Interview that all humans are born with loving moral instincts (our soul or “inner” self) but we all now variously suffer from a psychosis brought about by the conscious mind’s necessary yet corrupting search for knowledge. Significantly we can now understand that having to become psychologically upset (angry, egocentric and alienated), and carry the burden of guilt, shame and insecurity we felt for having to leave and corrupt our original loving state was the responsible thing to do while we continued the search for knowledge. That is the great paradox of the ‘good and evil’ human condition – we humans had to defy our all-loving instincts and become corrupted in self in order to find healing understanding of the human condition. As the highly respected psychiatrist Professor Harry Prosen, a former President of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, wrote: “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… 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). You might also find FAQ 6.5 helpful as it clarifies that this understanding is not another new age-type false start to a new world for humans that can’t and doesn’t last.

Hi Marily, life under the duress of the human condition has certainly been a lonely and alienated existence but now that the human condition is resolved, all the confusion, frustration and suffering in human life is solved at its source. We can 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. 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. 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. Also our FAQ 6.5 also clarifies that this understanding is not another new age-type false start to a new world for humans that can’t and doesn’t last and FAQ 1.40 addresses the questions of ‘Aren’t the problems of the world too overwhelming to ever be fixed? / Isn’t it too late to save the world? / How can you hope to transform the world? — In particular, how are you going to change the behaviour of the rich and powerful? / How are you going to reach the bastions of power? / Won’t the greedy and power-hungry simply ignore this?’. So while, as with any new scientific breakthrough in history, it may take time for people to realise this is the universal solution we have all sought to all the problems we face, once it catches on—through people recognising the importance of it — the infectious enthusiasm and selfless love it liberates will spread like wildfire, and people won’t be the least bit interested in anything except the human condition free world, and this is starting to happen! You can see this growing appreciation and support for FIX THE WORLD with outstanding commendations from eminent scientists and thought leaders for Jeremy’s work and over 80 FIX THE WORLD Centres around the globe. We suggest once you explore this explanation further you will get a true sense of the speed in which this healing knowledge can turn humanity in the right direction and fix the world! You can immediately access free copies 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. 

Hi Phillip, it is wonderful to have your interest. If you haven’t already we recommend first watching 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 and free to watch or read at the top of our homepage HumanCondition.com. From there our homepage guides you through the steps to progress your understanding. This includes subscribing to our mailing list where you will receive one email per week and occasional News Flashes and joining our Facebook group (with 120,000 members) to learn more about this amazing, human-condition-resolved new world.

   Thank you for your thoughts Garett, we greatly appreciate your interest. As biologist Jeremy Griffith explains in THE Interview, and its 2026 addition Please, Please, Beware The ‘Deaf Effect’!, the human condition is the most fearful of subjects because it’s the issue of whether we are fundamentally good or bad and our fear of this interface can make it hard to understand all that is explained in one viewing. Wonderfully however this ‘deaf effect’ can be overcome with patient perseverance and everyone can access this most wonderful of all gifts of understanding the human condition! This is comprehensively explained in Please, Please, Beware The ‘Deaf Effect’! and it includes testimonials from others which you might find particularly encouraging. 

   While understanding mental elasticity or neuroplasticity gives us tools to manage our damaged upset selves it does not address the human condition itself which is what Jeremy’s treatise does. He introduces a new scientific paradigm—based on confronting rather than the historic practice of avoiding the issue of the human condition—which gives us an understanding of, and solution to, the actual source of our damaged upset human condition and this is what is so unique about his work and why it can save and fix the world for all future generations (see FAQ 6.5 ‘Is this just another self-help, New Age, pseudo idealistic, superficial-treatment-of-psychosis type movement?'). 

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

Hi Jordan, explanation of the human condition does produce a huge paradigm shift in our thinking, so this critical new science does take time to digest, but as explained in Part 4 of THE Interview explains, we can at last 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. This is the rapidly rehabilitating and transforming effect of being able to understand the human condition. Our FAQ 1.40 titled ‘Aren’t the problems of the world too overwhelming to ever be fixed? / Isn’t it too late to save the world? / How can you hope to transform the world? – In particular, how are you going to change the behaviour of the rich and powerful?’ is relevant. It is explained there that even those who are most committed to seeking validation through gaining power and wealth, including those entrenched in positions of power, will quickly realise how empty and obsolete that strategy is now that we have the fully accountable, psychosis-addressing-and-solving, biological explanation of the human condition that establishes our worth at the most fundamental level.

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 in THE Interview and his book FREEDOM.

   Yes, once it is pointed out, the basic instinct–intellect conflict can seem remarkably obvious.

   But humanity first had to develop enough scientific understanding of the mechanisms and workings of the world to be able to explain that conflict properly. We needed to understand genes, instincts, nerves, consciousness and evolution before the human condition could be accounted for from first principles.

   And in fact, many great thinkers throughout history did recognise elements of the instinct–intellect conflict long before science was able to explain it. Freedom Essay 4 looks at a number of those thinkers, both ancient and modern, who perceived aspects of the problem.

   What is unique about Jeremy Griffith’s work is that he has identified the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and used that difference to explain why the clash between them produced the psychologically upset human condition. That is the biological breakthrough that finally explains and defends the human condition.

   Hi Merline, the world is in dire straits so Jeremy Griffith’s psychologically rehabilitating and thus world-fixing explanation is urgently needed!

   And yes, the Introduction and right through to chapter 8:14 of FREEDOM is now freely available as an audiobook. We’re working hard on recording the remainder of chapter 8 and the book’s final chapter 9, so they will be available soon! Also, the audio of this ideal introductory presentation, THE Interview, is available on FIX THE WORLD’s Publications page, where you will also see Jeremy Griffith’s other key books and all their different formats, including audio.

   Our popular Freedom Essay Series, which provides a guide through much of the content of FREEDOM, is also available in audio (the audio option is provided at the top of each essay). Please subscribe to our mailing list to be sent these essays.

   And, lastly, all of these audios are free to access from our FIX THE WORLD App, which you can download from the Apple App Store (for iOS), or from the Google Play Store (for Android™).

All the problems in the world like overpopulation, environmental devastation, genocide, terrorism, mass displacement of peoples, starvation, runaway diseases, gross inequality, ‘racial’ and gender oppression, polarised politics, rampant corruption and other crimes, drug abuse, family breakdown, and epidemic levels of obesity, chronic anxiety, depression, unhappiness and loneliness etc etc, are all symptoms of a deeper problem. So to truly solve the world’s problems we need to address and fix the underlying issue responsible for these problems, the human condition —our corrupted, psychologically upset state. Only the psychosis-addressing-and-solving, real explanation of the human condition can stop the destruction of our world and the disintegration of society that is happening everywhere we look, and this is precisely what biologist Jeremy Griffith has delivered with his first principle-based biological understanding of the human condition, see FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does understanding of the human condition solve everything?’ and FAQ 1.40 ‘Aren’t the problems of the world too overwhelming to ever be fixed? / Isn’t it too late to save the world? / How can you hope to transform the world?’. Also, 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 solves the world’s problems. As renowned psychiatrist Professor Harry Prosen 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” and there are many more commendations from eminent scientists and thought leaders here on our website attesting to the explanatory power of Jeremy Griffith’s treatise.

   It’s wonderful to hear your enthusiasm for sharing this understanding Candis. We completely agree that everyone should have the opportunity to hear about it.

   THE Interview provides the ideal introduction to Jeremy Griffith’s work, so we encourage people to share it on their social media channels, or simply direct others to HumanCondition.com where they can watch it and explore the wider explanation.

   As more people recognise the importance of this understanding and support it, the enthusiasm and selfless love it liberates can spread like wildfire. You might also be interested in our ‘How To Help’ page.

   Biologist Jeremy Griffith explains in THE Interview that consciousness means being sufficiently aware of how experiences are related to attempt to manage change from a basis of understanding cause and effect. Clearly, while other animals have various levels of ‘awareness’ none can consciously manage events like humans can, and so it is accurate to describe humans as the only animals possessing fully conscious minds. It is also worth noting that Jeremy explains that developing consciousness depended on overcoming the competitive, selfish ‘animal condition’ and becoming orientated to selflessness, so if a species is still preoccupied with selfish, competitive dominance, as other animals are, they can’t become fully conscious. We recommend our FAQ 5.5 ‘How can you say humans are the only fully conscious animals?’.

   Also THE Interview, and its 2026 addition Please, Please, Beware The ‘Deaf Effect’!, explain that the very nature of the human condition means discussion of it can be initially difficult to access. This is because historically the issue of whether we are fundamentally good or bad has been the most terrifying of all subjects to face, and so we have necessarily lived in almost total denial of it, which means our minds can initially struggle to hear and absorb discussion about it. So since what is being introduced is a new scientific paradigm—based on confronting rather than the historic practice of avoiding the issue of the human condition—which leads to so many new concepts such as that the human race lived in an original state of innocence, that nurturing created our moral soul, and that there is an integrative meaning to existence—it does require some studying and digestion time to reasonably comprehend aspects of the new paradigm.  

   Thank you for your thoughtful comment, and it’s good to hear that you recognise the explanation of the development of consciousness and the instinct–intellect relationship as a genuine contribution to understanding the human condition.

   We also understand your concern that hatred, war, racism, famine and the other terrible conditions in the world seem to require something more than explanation alone.

   The central point Jeremy Griffith makes, however, is that these are not separate problems with separate underlying causes. THE Interview explains that all the dysfunction and destruction in the world are manifestations of the psychologically upset state produced by the clash between our instinct and intellect. That conflict created the deep insecurity that has expressed itself through anger, egocentricity, alienation, competition and aggression, and in their extreme forms the hatred, cruelty and warfare you mention.

   And importantly, as Part 4 of THE Interview explains, once the source of our upset is understood and our fundamental goodness is biologically established, the insecurity driving those defensive behaviours is relieved and they become redundant.

   So the significance of the explanation is both that it identifies the underlying cause of the destructive conditions you list, and that by resolving that cause it provides the basis for their eventual elimination.

Good on you Brian, you wont be dissapointed. THE Interview is 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.

Hi Richard, Jeremy Griffith’s work opens up a new way of thinking so it takes a little time to fully absorb this new paradigm – and the human condition does present the ultimate paradox! The biological ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition allows us to understand the real merits and liabilities of both the left and right wing. His work identifies that the problem of the right-wing is its destructiveness, however, through its support of egocentricity and selfishness, it does encourage the search for knowledge to continue. However the left wing’s insistence on ideal behaviour had the effect of oppressing and thus regressing, not ‘progressing’, the all-important search for knowledge. Most importantly, this understanding brings a profound understanding to both sides which ultimately will bring an end to the whole ugly business of politics. This is fully explained in our FAQs about politics.

   Thanks Shannon. The central tenet of Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition is that humans have a cooperative, loving instinctive heritage, not a brutish, savage and aggressive one, and that the source of our aggression is a psychosis that has been compounding ever since the instinct and intellect clashed some 2 million years ago. It follows then that the further back in history we go, the less psychologically upset a race of people will be, and so the more cooperative, loving and in touch with the natural world they will be – and we can see evidence of this in indigenous cultures as you have identified (however, it needs to pointed out that even so-called ‘primitive’ races are still members of the extremely upset stage of humanity, H. sapiens sapiens, so they are still psychologically upset angry egocentric and alienated). Also, most significantly, despite the differing levels of upset due to everyone’s different encounters with humanity’s heroic battle to find knowledge, we are all equally good. You might like to read our FAQ 9.1 about how this understanding puts an end to racism and for a testimonial on the power of this knowledge to end racism, we recommend the presentations from Franklin Mukakanga, of Zambia, and Refentse Molosiwa, of South Africa, in Video/Freedom Essay 8.

   To ultimately return to a loving, cooperative state, we needed to find the scientific explanation for why we left that cooperative state. Why, when the ideals are to be loving and cooperative, we are so selfish, competitive and destructive? 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 in THE Interview and his definitive book, FREEDOM.

Wonderful to have your interest Sarah! There is so much to explore about the human condition, and we hope Jeremy Griffith’s explanation has given you plenty to think about. There is also a great deal more material on our FIX THE WORLD website for you to keep exploring.

Good on you Barbara! We greatly appreciate you persevering because, as you can see from the ecstatic responses THE Interview has received at the top of our homepage, it is certainly worth it! This critical new science presents a huge paradigm shift in our thinking so it does take a little time to fully grasp all it reveals. We explain this to Brian directly below so we suggest you might find our reply to him very helpful. Our homepage also guides you through the steps to pursue your interest including subscribing to our mailing list, where you will receive one email per week and occasional News Flashes, and joining our Facebook Group to learn more about this amazing, human-condition-resolved new world. We are a not-for-profit organisation and make all our material and publications free to read online, watch, listen to and even download and print! 

   It is wonderful you are keen to persist Brian and yes something is obviously deeply resonating with you if you can’t get it out of your head! The very nature of the human condition means discussion of it can be initially difficult to access. This is because historically the issue of whether we are fundamentally good or bad has been the most terrifying of all subjects to face, and so we have necessarily lived in almost total denial of it, which means our minds can initially struggle to hear and absorb discussion about it in one viewing. Wonderfully, however, this ‘Deaf Effect’ can be overcome with patient perseverance and everyone can access this most amazing of all gifts of understanding the human condition! So as well as re-watching THE Interview we highly recommend watching its extremely helpful 2026 addition Please, Please, Beware The ‘Deaf Effect’! In this presenation Jeremy warns of—and presents the solution to—this initial ‘Deaf Effect’ and it includes many testimonials from others which you might find particularly encouraging. Together, these two key presentations provide the ideal introduction to Jeremy’s explanation and can be found at the top of our homepage HumanCondition.com where all our videos, including our other introductory videos, and books are available for free to watch, read or download.

   In THE Interview essentially Jeremy explains all humans are born with an all-loving, cooperative instinctive self or soul which is the very sensitive, pure and true moral part of ourselves. In order to find knowledge we had to defy our cooperation-demanding instincts which resulted in us becoming psychologically upset or angry, egocentric and alienated from this all-knowing but not-understanding world of the soul. So the wonderful thing is that explanation turns out to be redeeming as we can now understand that all that competitive, aggressive, even destructive, behaviour was an unavoidable, indeed necessary, part of human life. This understanding defends our so-called ‘dark side’; and by explaining the very good reason why our intellect had to defy our instincts, it makes redundant our defensive behaviours of anger, egocentricity and alienation, allowing us to return to a loving state. As Jeremy says in Part 1 of THE Interview: "Basically suffering psychological upset was the price we conscious humans had to pay for our heroic search for understanding. In the words from the song The Impossible Dream from the musical the Man of La Mancha, we had to be prepared to ‘march into hell for a heavenly cause’ (lyrics by Joe Darion, 1965). We had to lose ourselves to find ourselves; we had to suffer becoming angry, egocentric and alienated until we found sufficient knowledge to explain ourselves.“ And in Part 4: ”Basically, with the ability to understand ourselves, we can return to our original cooperative and loving state, but this time fully conscious. As the poet T.S. Eliot anticipated, ‘We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time’ (Little Gidding, 1942)."

   So, when humanity goes from living in denial of the unexplained human condition to living with the human condition explained and defended, an obvious and natural adjustment occurs. The arrival of understanding of our species’ corrupted condition means that we can now finally understand and admit that while everyone is variously psychologically upset from their different encounters with humanity’s heroic battle to find knowledge, all humans are equally good. Everyone’s variously corrupted condition is no longer considered bad or unworthy, instead it is able to be understood as being a good, heroic condition. We hope this response helps Brian and we send you all our encouragement to continue exploring this critical new science. 

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

It is wonderful to have your interest Manu. 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. 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. This is fully explained in Part 4 of THE Interview so we suggest you re-watch that. Also 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. And for the growing momentum of support that is building around the world for this breakthrough explanation of the human condition, you can see the thousands of impressive commendations Jeremy’s work has received from thought leaders and members of the public, and the over 80 FIX THE WORLD Centres that have opened across the globe on our website.

Thank you for your heartfelt comment Florence. Now we have the completely redeeming, uplifting and healing biological understanding of the core mystery and problem about human behaviour of our so-called ‘good and evil’-stricken human condition all the conflict and suffering in human life can end and we can become strong in our thinking and be able to work together to fix the world! See our FAQ 1.5 ‘Why is understanding the human condition important to my life?’

   Hi James, taking your time to ponder this explanation is exactly what we recommend people do as it does introduce a entirely new way of thinking about ourselves and the world. You can immediately access all of biologist Jeremy Griffith’s books, including THE Interview and his definitive book FREEDOM, on the Publications page on our website where they are all free to read online, listen to, download and print. You can also download the free Kindle versions from Amazon. Otherwise you can purchase hard copies from Amazon or other good bookstores.

   The human condition is the study of humans’ capacity for acts of both so-called ‘good and evil’. It is the realm of inquiry where science and religion overlap, so in explaining the human condition religion is also explained. So you will be happy to know Jeremy’s work doesn’t ignore, exclude or contradict a belief in God or religion. It simply brings biological understanding to all those pre-scientific concepts — see FAQ 1.15 ‘If this is biology, why the religious references’. In fact, in terms of Christianity Jeremy considers the Bible to be a repository of extremely rare denial-free truth, containing all the truth about human life albeit from a pre-science view. Although this is science, it is based on a ‘Godly’ nature in the sense of recognising, like all the great religions do, that we humans once lived in a pre-human-condition-afflicted state of original innocence where we were perfectly instinctively orientated to the cooperative, selfless, loving, ‘Godly’ ideals of life; ‘God’ being explained as the Negative-Entropy-driven integrative meaning of existence (or love). He discusses this in Part 3 of THE Interview and refers the audience to chapter 4 ‘The Meaning of Life’ of FREEDOM — which is summarised in FAQ 6.2 ‘What is ‘God’? / Does the scientific explanation of ‘God’ really contain all the attributes of religion’s metaphysical ‘God’?’. We also suggest FAQ 6.3 ‘Aren’t all Griffith’s demystifications of religious teachings going to be seen by supporters of religion as blasphemy? / Does understanding of the human condition undermine a faith in religion or God? / How does this affect my personal religious practice?’. So take your time James, especially given in dealing with such a historically difficult subject for us humans, these biological explanations of the human condition are very confronting by nature and in addition although ultimately a fulfilment of religion they do demystify religious concepts which some people can find incredibly challenging and we encourage everyone to take their time investigating what’s being presented.

Hi William, certainly various thinkers have identified a clash between two different parts of our brain, an ancient instinctive part and the more recently developed intellectual part as being critical to understanding the human condition — see for example Freedom Essay 4 which includes an analysis of Paul MacLean’s triune brain theory. This essay discusses that while many have identified the elements of instinct and intellect involved in creating the human condition, the biological breakthrough Jeremy Griffith’s treatise provides is the clarifying explanation of the nature of the conflict between them and explains without that explanation the conflict could not be resolved. This key biological distinction reveals our aggressive behaviour comes from the conscious-mind-based, psychologically troubled human condition, not the genetic-opportunism-based, animal condition or our reptilian brain.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts Collena about the book you are writing about our “journey through innocence” and that “we are meant to be one and a Intelligent Human Race”. The question screaming to be answered is WHY when we are born innocent with loving instincts do we become so alienated and cruel and have to live a life of distraction and denial?! As biologist Jeremy Griffith discusses in Part 2 of THE Interview religion and mythology all recognise a ‘golden age’ of innocence from which we have departed. To quote “Indeed, as the researcher Richard Heinberg summarised in his 1990 book Memories & Visions of Paradise (underlinings are Jeremy’s emphasis), ‘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… the cause of the Fall is described variously as disobedience, as the eating of a forbidden fruit [from the tree of knowledge], and as spiritual amnesia [forgetting, blocking out, denial, alienation, which is our psychosis]’ (pp.81-82 of 282). So 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’.” Ultimately we needed to find the scientific explanation for why when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless are we so angry, competitive and selfish. Answering this question required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy presents in THE Interview and his main book FREEDOM, which is explained further in 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?’ So with this critical new science we can understand how humans are born with all-loving moral instincts (not ‘savage’ animal instincts) but that we now variously suffer from a psychosis due to the human condition caused by the conscious mind’s necessary search for knowledge. What is so important about this explanation is that it finally explains the real reason for why humans’ selfish, competitive and destructive behaviour became an unavoidable, indeed necessary, part of human life. This understanding defends our so-called ‘dark side’ and explains that despite all appearances to the contrary, all humans are ‘good’. And by explaining the very good reason why our intellect had to defy our instincts, it makes redundant our defensive behaviours of anger, egocentricity and alienation, allowing us to return to that state of “being One Physically Spiritually Emotionally Mentally Connecting” that you crave! As distinguished psychiatrist Professor Harry Prosen (who wrote the introduction to 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.

Hi Heidi, the human condition has caused so much suffering for humans it has certainly been a deeply tragic reality. In THE Interview, which you can watch at the top of our homepage HumanCondition.com if you haven’t already, Jeremy Griffith presents his ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition. The core relieving breakthough is we no longer have to be burdened by the fundamental question of whether we are good or bad because our goodness as individuals and as a species has been biologically established. We can know the human condition and our resulting psychological upset was the price humans had to pay for searching for knowledge and that the human story presents the greatest, most heroic story ever told. So we can now look after ourselves with great compassion and kindness and we don’t have to overly confront the upset within us (as FAQ 1.19 summarises).

Awesome that you want to be a part of it Chibuoke. Now that we have the ability, for the first time, to understand every aspect of human behaviour our behaviour will change naturally as a result. 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. Also FAQs 1.4 to 1.6 explain the far-reaching application of this explanation and Freedom Essay 15 is all about ‘How understanding the human condition can immediately transform your and every other human’s life and save the world’.