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The World Transformation Movement and Jeremy Griffith’s sole aim is to stop human suffering so this work is committed to helping all people. You can read about the motivation behind Jeremy’s tireless efforts in FAQ 2.1. Also FAQ 3.1 is about the WTM which is a global not-for-profit movement dedicated to transforming the individual, the human race and thus our world through bringing psychologically relieving biological understanding to the underlying problem in all human affairs of the human condition, humans’ extraordinary capacity for what has been referred to as ‘good and evil’. Therefore, due to this information’s world-saving importance, we make all our many publications freely available online for the benefit of everyone. You may like to explore our homepage which provides the perfect guide to pursue your interest.

    Thank you for your appreciative comment Ken and re-reading or re-watching THE Interview, and also looking at the video/essay series that follows it, is exactly what we recommend. All our key publications are freely available on our homepage which provides the perfect guide to pursue your interest.     In terms of your question, all the problems we’re experiencing on this planet, aside from natural phenomenon, are caused by us humans. Solving this underlying issue of our destructive behaviour won’t stop natural disasters but it will certainly help us cope with and recover from them because, as THE Interview explains, instead of being selfishly preoccupied with power, fame, fortune and glory, all our energies will be freed to truly work together and focus on doing whatever it takes to end the suffering in all the corners of the world, see FAQ 1.5.

Jeremy Griffith discusses in THE Interview, and in more detail in his definitive book FREEDOM (chapter 5), that the cooperative and gentle of the bonobo chimpanzee represent a far better model of our human ancestors than the common chimpanzee. Yes, both do share approximately 99% of their DNA with humans, however bonobo physiology, bipedality, environment, intelligence and reduced canine size, better match our human ancestors. Reduced canine size is particularly relevant as it is arguably the outstanding features of the hominin clade, and universally accepted as an indication of reduced aggression. Fossil evidence of our cooperative past, including reduced canines, has lead the prominent anthropologist C. Owen Lovejoy to write that “our species-defining cooperative mutualism can now be seen to extend well beyond the deepest Pliocene [well beyond 5.3 mya]”. No, our selfishness and aggression is not instinctive in origin; all the evidence shows that our instinctive heritage is cooperate.

Yes it is amazing to be able to scientifically understand we do have all-loving instincts but as THE Interview explains until we could explain the human condition and truthfully defend our aggressive behaviour humans had no choice but to use false excuses for it. It is this crux question of why when our instincts are to be loving and selfless are we so competitive and selfish that Jeremy Griffith answers and in doing so explains the paramount importance nurturing has played in human development. What is astonishing is now the human condition is solved we can understand it has been humanity’s necessary preoccupation with finding knowledge that has compromised our ability to nurture and now that preoccupation ends nurturing will again become humanity’s central focus. You can read more about the impact of the human condition on our ability to nurture in chapter 8:16C of Jeremy’s book FREEDOM.

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’, see FAQ 5.5 ‘Aren’t other animals capable of conscious thought like humans? / How can you say humans are the only fully conscious animals?’

We do appreciate our material can be difficult to absorb Lorraine. However, we suggest that if you persist you will come to realise that it is not the presentation but it is our fear of the subject that is preventing us ‘hearing’ what is being said. 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 going anywhere near this fundamental question can make it hard to access. We recommend Video/Freedom Essay 1 titled ‘Your block to the most wonderful of all gifts’ as it explains this initial ‘deaf effect’ which is also summarised in WTM FAQ 1.16.

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 unique breakthrough of biologist Jeremy Griffith’s work, see FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this original or new?’. Because it is a rational, accountable, scientific explanation, everyone will eventually take it up. So while it may take time for everyone to access this breakthrough (because the human condition has historically been such a fearful, off-limits topic), once this catches on through people recognising the importance of it and supporting it, the infectious enthusiasm and selfless love it liberates will spread like wildfire. And there’s already a growing momentum of support building around the world with new World Transformation Movement (WTM) centres continually opening across all corners of the globe to promote Jeremy’s work (see here) and also the ecstatic responses THE Interview is receiving each day at the top of our homepage!

Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition is freely available in many different formats HERE on our homepage — so you can read it online or download it and print your own copy immediately! Jeremy’s other key books, including the booklet version of THE Interview, are also freely available at this link and you can also download the free Kindle versions from Amazon. Otherwise you can purchase hard copies of Jeremy’s books from Amazon or other good bookstores.

    Thank you Rev Tinshu for your kind comment. At the top of our homepage—HumanCondition.com—it states ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’ and guides you through the steps to pursue your interest! This includes registering for our free, live events with Jeremy Griffith and others and joining our popular Facebook Group. Also our Transformation page (which follows on from Part 4 of THE Interview) is about the Transformed Way of Living or how we live in support of this understanding. To quote “We now 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—thus ending all the conflict and suffering in human life at its source, and providing the now urgently needed road map for the complete rehabilitation and transformation of our lives and world!” Also our FAQ 4.1 importantly explains how this new Transformed Way of Living is fundamentally different to all the previous ways, including religion, in which we abandoned our upset life and lived instead in accordance with more cooperative and selfless principles. So there is no ‘discipleship’ or deference to a person involved; this is a deference to the logic of the biological ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition (also see FAQ 3.13).     Also Reverend, we thought you would be most interested in our FAQs about religion. These summarise how explanation of the human condition demystifies religion by bringing biological understanding to pre-scientific concepts.

Thank you for your comment Marianne. Yes we aren’t dominated by our instincts because we had to defy them to fulfil our conscious mind’s necessary search for knowledge. As THE Interview explains this defiance of our pre-established, cooperative loving instincts, resulted in humans becoming angry, egocentric and alienated—the upset state of our human condition. We can now understand this upset was the price humans had to pay for searching for knowledge and that the guilt and shame we carry for departing from our all-loving instincts and becoming so upset is finally relieved. Jeremy Griffith’s work fundamentally lifts the ‘burden of guilt’ from the human race. It establishes that we are good and not bad after all by resolving the conflict between our intellect and instinct and making possible our collective harmony—it couldn’t be a bigger breakthrough! You may be interested in the response that Professor Prosen, a former President of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, made to the question ‘How does understanding the human race’s condition help with an individual’s depression and psychosis?’ (this response forms the basis of WTM FAQ 1.34).

Thank you for your comment Michael. Yes we are certainly in critical need of a deeper understanding of ourselves so we can put an end to all the suffering and horror that our condition creates. 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. What Jeremy is putting forward is that for there to be a fundamental change in our human situation we had to understand the human condition – humans’ capacity for good and evil – from a biological perspective.

With more digestion Grace we suggest you will see it most certainly will change the world as long as people, who do appreciate its truth, support it. As Jeremy Griffith explains, once the extraordinary transforming power of this understanding takes off, it will turn things around almost overnight, see FAQ 1.4. And this momentum of support is underway with new World Transformation Movement (WTM) centres continually opening around the world to promote this information (see our centres here). Through people recognising the importance of this world-saving explanation and supporting it, the infectious enthusiasm and selfless love this liberates will see it spread like wildfire. To become involved and help bring this world-saving information to the attention of others, see how to become part of the WTM here on our Transformation page.

The human condition is made whole by God through Jesus Christ. Great men of science like Galileo, Mendel, Newton, Kepler, Pasteur, Copernicus, Descartes understood the conscience mind and believed and professed faith in God.

Great to learn of your enthusiasm for our work Kristen! At the top of our homepage—HumanCondition.com—it states ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview above?’ and guides you through the steps to pursue your interest! This includes registering our free, live, interactive events with Jeremy Griffith and others, joining our popular Facebook Group and visiting our WTM Community page. Also our Transformation page (which follows on from Part 4 of THE Interview) and is about the Transformed Way of Living or how we put this all-compassionate but all-confronting knowledge into practice. To quote “We now 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—thus ending all the conflict and suffering in human life at its source, and providing the now urgently needed road map for the complete rehabilitation and transformation of our lives and world!” All that the Transformation page explains is summarised in our FAQ 4.1 and includes references to Freedom Essays and Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM.

Thank you for your thoughts Bob. The explanation of the human condition does take time to digest but as THE Interview explains our anger, egocentricity, and alienation from our all-loving instincts and resulting disconnect from nature, isn’t the result of “competition with resources and the desire to control them”, rather it is the result of a psychosis, caused by the clash between our instinct and intellect (which Video/Freedom Essay 3 further explains). Significantly a psychosis is changeable as it can be healed through understanding so the solution is simple and all-powerful (see FAQ 1.4). Also, you can read an in-depth description of the history of competition emphasising biology and left wing, cooperation emphasising biology in Jeremy Griffith’s booklet Death by Dogma (see the section titled ‘The progression of biological arguments that led to the rise of Critical Theory’. This section also deals with the view that the source of human selfishness and greed was the accumulation of possessions following the advent of agriculture and a sedentary society.

Thank you for your comment Brett. In terms of the question you raise in Part 3 of THE Interview Jeremy Griffith explains consciousness is a result of our biology and directs the audience to chapter 7 of his definitive book FREEDOM for how we humans became fully conscious (summarised in FAQ 5.4 ‘What is consciousness? / Why is it that humans became conscious while other animals haven’t? / How did consciousness emerge in humans?). Here Jeremy explains becoming conscious was dependent on being able to think meaningfully, and because the underlying theme of the universe is integration (see FAQ 5.3 ‘What is the meaning of life?), that meant our distant ape ancestors had to first become selfless, which occurred through the nurturing based love-indoctrination process (see FAQ 5.2 ‘How did we humans acquire our all-loving, unconditionally selfless moral conscience?’).

Explanation of the human condition produces a huge paradigm shift in our thinking, which takes time to digest, so re-watching THE Interview Lonnie Roy, and also watching the video series that follows it, is exactly what we recommend. In terms of your question Jeremy Griffith’s work at last reconciles science and religion by bringing biological understanding to pre-scientific concepts. You might find our FAQs about religion helpful. Also Jeremy’s Freedom Essays 38 – 41, which decipher religion, are absolutely fascinating. In fact this understanding is so powerful it actually reconciles all the polarities of human life. To quote Jeremy’s book FREEDOM chapter 4: “Yes, the instinct vs intellect explanation of the human condition makes sense of and reconciles all the unresolved manifestations of the polarities of the human situation—‘good’ vs ‘evil’, idealism or ‘God’ vs human’s non-ideal existence, religion vs science, holism vs mechanism, altruism vs egotism, communism vs capitalism, conscience vs conscious, and so on—thus ameliorating or healing, and finally ending, the psychologically upset, divisive way we have been living!”

    THE Interview explains this is not some pseudo idealistic vision of utopia, rather it is a first-principle biological explanation for why we haven’t been cooperative. It is only with the intellect defended for why it had to defy our ‘idealistic’ instincts and become ‘realistic’, that the cooperative world becomes possible, or even legitimate. FAQ 6.5 further explains this critical difference between this work and pseudo idealistic movements.     Also, Jeremy Griffith explains we suffer from the conscious-mind-based, psychologically troubled human condition, not the genetic-opportunism-based, animal condition, and, most importantly, this psychosis can be healed with understanding. Politics emerged to manage our psychosis, it is not the cause of it. It does take time to digest, but this breakthrough instinct vs intellect explanation at last reconciles the polarities of life including left and right wings of politics, see FAQ 7.1.

As THE Interview discusses there is a psychological dimension to our behaviour, that we humans have suffered not from the genetic-opportunism-based, non-psychological animal condition, but the conscious-mind-based, psychologically troubled human condition. Jeremy Griffith explains that to fulfil the great potential of our fully conscious mind we had to defy our cooperative moral instincts. This defiance or battle resulted in humans’ psychologically upset state and, in the extreme, that upset produces murderous or what we have historically termed ‘evil’ behaviour. What is so utterly exonerating and psychologically healing about our ability to now understand this is that we can finally appreciate that there was a very good reason—indeed heroic reason—for such dark volcanic forces in us humans. Importantly, as Jeremy stresses, this understanding of why we became upset as a species does not condone or sanction ‘evil’, rather, through bringing understanding to humans’ upset behaviour, it gives us the power to ameliorate and thus subside and ultimately eliminate it (see FAQ 1.38).

You can purchase hard copies of Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM, THE Interview and his other key books from Amazon or other good bookstores. You can also download the free Kindle versions from Amazon. If you want to read or acquire a copy immediately all Jeremy’s books are freely available, in many different formats, HERE on our homepage! So you can read it online or download it and print your own copy straight away!

    Thank you for your comment John. Certainly there is a lot here to digest, but we suggest that the more you do, the more you will appreciate just how accountable and evidenced, and explanatory – just how ‘true’ – the ‘how, when and why’ of Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition actually is.     With regard to reversing this affliction on a universal scale, once people gain an appreciation for how all-clarifying, all-reconciling and all-liberating this knowledge is, the reversal of our psychosis happens quickly, as evidenced by the ecstatic responses at the top of our homepage! What is difficult though is breaking through the historic fear we understandably have to discussion of the human condition and also the resistance humans have to change (see Video/Freedom Essay 1 which follows THE Interview in our Main Videos). So, as with any new scientific breakthrough in history, it will take time to implement this reversal universally but once this information gets a foothold, through enough people developing a deep appreciation and desire to support it, the selfless love and energy that will generate will solve our problems very quickly. As Part 4 of THE Interview explains, instead of being selfishly preoccupied with power, fame, fortune and glory, all our energies will be freed to truly work together and focus on doing whatever it takes to end the suffering in all the corners of the world. Part 4 also explains, even though it will take generations for the upset within us to be completely healed importantly we can be immediately free of its effects (also see FAQ 4.1 and FAQ 4.4 and our Transformation page).

Thank you so much for your comment Rodney. Yes, levels of mental distress have reached frightening levels, and it is heartbreaking what it is doing to younger generations. As you intimate, the problem is ultimately about self-worth; everyone feels ‘bad/evil or not beautiful or insufficient.’ Humanity has tried the New Age method of self-affirmation, but ultimately the only thing that could stop the ever increasing levels of upset and bring true affirmation was the rational, biological explanation of why we are worthwhile, which is what Jeremy Griffith has presented. You may be interested in FAQ 1.34, which is directed to the question ‘How does understanding the human race’s condition help with an individual’s depression and psychosis?’ and is written by Professor Harry Prosen, the former President of the Canadian Psychiatric Association. Part of what Professor Prosen writes is that, “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.”

    Thank you for your question Maria and it is astonishing to finally be able to make sense of human life! Once people gain an appreciation for how all-clarifying, all-reconciling and all-liberating this knowledge is the transformation and healing happens quickly as you can see from the ecstatic responses at the top of our homepage! What is challenging is breaking through the historic fear we understandably have to discussion of the human condition and also the resistance humans have to change (see Video/Freedom Essay 1 which follows THE Interview in our Main Videos). So, as with any new scientific breakthrough in history, it will take time to implement the change universally but once this information gets a foothold through enough people developing a deep appreciation and desire to support it all the distress in the world with subside and the world will heal—see FAQ 1.5.     Even though THE Interview is only a summary presentation, Part 4 does explain that for the upset within us to be completely healed it will take generations but importantly we can be immediately free of its effects (also see FAQ 4.1). This is further explained on our Transformation page and also comprehensively answered in Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM chapter 9.

Thank you for your comment Brian. Yes, a great shift in our thinking will take place. Being able to understand the human condition, namely that our emerging conscious mind had to defy our instincts in order to find the knowledge needed to manage life, means that we no longer have to be insecure about our seemingly destructive behaviour. There is no longer any ‘condemnation’; this is the redeeming information we needed. As you say, despite appearing to be ‘bad’, it turns out that the conscious mind is the hero of the whole story.

With more digestion we suggest you will see it isn’t too late to save the world as long as people, who do appreciate its truth, support it. It is certainly the 11th hour, but as Jeremy Griffith explains, once this takes off, this information will turn things around almost overnight, see FAQ 1.4. We recommend Jeremy’s Freedom Essays about ‘Do we fail or do we make it?’ (see F. Essays 55—58). These present a fearlessly honest analysis of the state of the world followed by how the extraordinary transforming power of this information can save the world. So come and help us do exactly that and register for our live events with Jeremy Griffith and join our WTM Community Facebook Group to share in this transforming knowledge.

THE Interview is only a summary presentation, however rather than ‘stay away from the word sin’ as you suggest, it not only explains what sin is and where it comes from, but also how we are not bad for having become self-corrupted – this is, in fact, the very essence of Jeremy Griffith’s treatise. For example, THE Interview explains how 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’. 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 understanding fundamentally lifts the ‘burden of guilt’ from the human race. It establishes that we humans are good and not bad after all. With this understanding we can finally end our psychologically troubled human condition—it couldn’t be a bigger breakthrough. We suggest our FAQs about religion and also Jeremy’s Freedom Essays 38 – 41, which decipher religion, are absolutely fascinating.

We suggest you look deeper as THE Interview explains humans’ psychological upset, or what we have historically called ‘evil’, is not a product of unchangeable savage animal instincts within us, of ‘bad seeds’, but the result of a universal psychosis, caused by the clash between our instinct and intellect, and a psychosis is changeable as it can be healed through understanding. See FAQ 1.6 summaries how this understanding ends human suffering at its source and unites the human race. Also see FAQ 1.38 ‘Aren’t some people just born psychopathic, or even ‘evil’?’

Key to the emergence of consciousness is ‘Integrative Meaning’ or the law of physics known as ‘negative entropy’ (see FAQ 5.3). Under the auspices of this law, matter grows more and more complex or ‘integrated’. In paragraph 337 of Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM, Jeremy quotes Tielhard de Chardin, who describes how this process ultimately gives rise to the emergence of consciousness, “life can no longer be regarded as a superficial accident in the universe: we must look on it as…ready to seep through the narrowest fissure at any point whatsoever in the cosmos—and, once it has appeared, obliged to use every opportunity and every means to reach the furthest extremity of everything it can attain: the ultimate, externally, of complexity, internally of consciousness.” If you would like to gain a better understanding of exactly how consciousness was liberated in our distant ancestors, FAQ 5.4 gives an overview of what consciousness is, its origins and how humans acquired consciousness when other animals couldn’t. You’ll see at the end of that FAQ that you can read Jeremy’s more detailed explanations about all of this in Freedom Essay 24 titled ‘How did consciousness emerge in humans’ and in chapter 7 of FREEDOM, titled ‘What is Consciousness, and Why, How and When Did Humans’ Unique Conscious Mind Emerge?’