Comments on THE Interview

Hi Bella, yes humans do find change difficult but, to quote WTM Freedom Essay 5 about the transformation and freedom this understanding brings us: “Humans are thinking, rational beings so when all the logic points in one direction then there is really no choice but for every single human to take that path, and eventually they will. It will be slow for a start because humans hate and resist change, but nonetheless change does happen when an idea’s time has come”. And this change is happening! Just read the ecstatic responses THE Interview is receiving on our homepage and scroll down to see the rapidly growing appreciation and support for the WTM with outstanding commendations from thought leaders and WTM Centres all over the world! Also, more people each day are joining our WTM Facebook Group and registering for our live events with Jeremy and others to share in this all-clarifying, all-redeeming, all-reconciling, all-healing and all-liberating knowledge!

Thank you for your query Janina. For people with impaired hearing they can watch THE Interview, and all our videos, using closed captions function or subtitles (see the ‘cc’ icon at the bottom of each video player/window and follow the prompts). Also THE Interview is available to read as a transcript here or you can purchase copies from bookshops, including Amazon.

Thank you for your wonderful feedback Liliana. People can watch THE Interview (and all the videos on our website) using the closed captions or subtitles function in their native language (just click on the ‘cc’ icon at the bottom of the video player/window). Jeremy Griffith’s books and essays are being translated into many languages around the world, thanks to wonderful efforts from the WTM’s ever-expanding global network of support, see WTM FAQ 3.9 for what translations are available. At this point we don’t have any Portuguese translations but you can subscribe to our free mailing list to be kept informed of such developments.

Yes, ultimately we needed science to explain the human condition, the essential question of why when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless are we so angry, competitive and selfish and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy Griffith presents in THE Interview. To clarify Jeremy’s reference to 150 years is in regard to science’s ability to explain the human condition, not scientific knowledge as a whole. To quote: “Precisely, it’s only in the last 150 years or so that science has given us A: the ability to know that the gene-based natural selection process gives species orientations to the world; and B: the knowledge of our nerves and how they are able to remember events, which, much developed, has led to our mind being able to sufficiently understand the relationship between cause and effect to become conscious of, or aware of, or intelligent about those relationships.”

Thank you for your interest Marie. You will be happy to learn Jeremy Griffith’s books and essays are being translated into many languages around the world, thanks to wonderful efforts from the WTM’s ever-expanding global network of support, see WTM FAQ 3.9 for what translations are available. This includes our WTM Sweden Centre website which is presented in Swedish and you can contact WTM Sweden via this website. Also people can watch THE Interview (and all the videos on our website) using the closed captions or subtitles function in their native language (just click on the ‘cc’ icon at the bottom of the video player/window).

    Thank you for your comment Corinne. Firstly biologist Jeremy Griffith’s reference to 150 years is in regard to science’s ability to explain the human condition, not scientific knowledge as a whole. To quote: “Precisely, it’s only in the last 150 years or so that science has given us A: the ability to know that the gene-based natural selection process gives species orientations to the world; and B: the knowledge of our nerves and how they are able to remember events, which, much developed, has led to our mind being able to sufficiently understand the relationship between cause and effect to become conscious of, or aware of, or intelligent about those relationships.”     Jeremy also acknowledges ancient wisdom and cultures recognise the universal integrative meaning in existence but this has not solved our ongoing troubled human condition. To bring about the lasting transformation we seek we needed to answer the essential question of why, when the universal ideals are to be integrative are we so disintegrative? It is this question of questions that Jeremy has solved with his instinct vs intellect explanation that’s presented in THE Interview.     Explanation of the human condition does produce a huge paradigm shift in our thinking, so this critical new science does takes time to digest so we recommend people re-watch THE Interview and also explore our homepage which provides all our key material to consider.

Jeremy Griffith’s biological explanation of the human condition reconciles science and religion by bringing biological understanding to pre-scientific concepts. In terms of Christianity and Christ, Jeremy does consider 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, especially 6.2 ‘What is God’ and 6.3 ‘Does this understanding undermine religion’.

An amazing insight into the human condition. Does leave some questions unanswered though. If our closest relatives that he was talking about lived in large groups with some form hiaracahal organisation then naturally the individual apes at time will want to move up the ranking system. Thus causing one apes to possed against another for self preservation and self gain. Does this not point towards competition within the group which would cause negative acts to one another. Also if another group came into a groups territory would there then not be conflict between both group but not only the but between the hiaracahal apes who posses a position power within their own group. Dont get me wrong I think this understanding goes along way in answering a number question within the human condition but so also opens up a number of new questions that need answering

    Thank you for your thoughts Vincent. As WTM FAQ 1.9 ‘Should people be sceptical’ explains, the absolutely astonishing claims made about Jeremy Griffith’s treatise, such as Professor Harry Prosen (former president of the Canadian Psychiatric Association) saying “I have no doubt Jeremy Griffith’s work is the holy grail of insight we have sought for the psychological rehabilitation of the human race”, do warrant initial extreme scepticism, but the amazing fact is that they all withstand scrutiny. A person can begin reading the explanation and the more they read into it the more they will realise the claims are actually true, and in time become appreciated for their forthright honesty in indicating where the solution to our problems lies rather than being ‘all too grand’.     Max Ehrmann’s poem Desiderata provides wonderful wisdom on how to live with the human condition, but ultimately the only thing that could stop the ever increasing levels of alienation was actually solving it. That is what is unique about Jeremy Griffith’s treatise. He at last answers the essential question of our so-called ‘good and evil’-stricken human condition—why when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless are we so angry, competitive and selfish, so much so that we are destroying ourselves and our world, see FAQ 1.6 Why understanding the human condition solves everything.

Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition is not an intellectual distraction from the business of renunciation of self, it is the explanation of why ‘self’ got in the way of the ‘kingdom of love’ in the first place. It is the fulfilment of a time that all the great prophets looked forward to when we could actually explain ourselves, see FAQ 6.3 ‘Does this undermine religion/God’ and FAQ 6.2 ‘What is God’. Also Jeremy’s Freedom Essays 38 – 41, which decipher religion, are absolutely fascinating.

Thank you for your wonderful feedback Yorick-Alexander!! You will be happy to learn Jeremy Griffith’s books and essays are being translated into many languages around the world, thanks to wonderful efforts from the WTM’s ever-expanding global network of support, see WTM FAQ 3.9 for what translations are available. Also we have over 50 WTM Centres around the world, with some presented in their native language which you can also see in this FAQ. Also people can watch THE Interview (and all the videos on our website) using the closed captions or subtitles function in their native language (just click on the ‘cc’ icon at the bottom of the video player/window). We encourage people to register for our free live events with Jeremy Griffith and join our fabulous Facebook Group where there is much fascinating and excited discussion taking place.

Yes, ultimately we needed science to explain the human condition, the essential 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 in THE Interview and his book FREEDOM. There have been thousands of years of different techniques for calming, restraining, repressing, and even transcending our psychologically upset human condition, but none of them have brought an end to the upset state of the human condition—it’s still rampant everywhere. The reason is because they don’t solve the human condition. They don’t deal with the source of our species’ corrupted condition and bring relieving understanding to it. This is what Jeremy Griffith’s treatise does and why it is heralded as the biological breakthrough that can save the world (see FAQ 6.5 which further explains this critical difference between this work and pseudo idealistic techniques/ movements).

Thank you very much, Tony, for your appreciative comment; yes, Jeremy Griffith’s instinct vs intellect explanation of the source of our species’ psychosis is the ‘blueprint’ that will ameliorate or heal, and finally end the psychologically upset, divisive way we have been living.

Yes Tania, 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 instincts (which we can now admit were cooperative and loving – see Freedom Essay 21), resulted in humans becoming angry, egocentric and alienated — the upset state of our human condition. But because we now have, as you say, the “tools to understand” that this ‘upset’ state was the price humans had to pay for searching for knowledge, that guilt and shame we have carried for departing from our all-loving instincts and becoming so destructive, so seemingly ‘bad’, is finally relieved. In essence, Jeremy Griffith’s work fundamentally lifts the ‘burden of guilt’ from the human race; by resolving the conflict between our intellect and instinct it establishes that we are good and not bad after all, making possible our collective harmony — it couldn’t be a bigger breakthrough!

Thank you for your appreciative comment Cherie, and it is wonderful to see the relief the interview is bringing you. We just wanted to draw your attention to the ‘ship at sea’ position Jeremy talks about which you may or may not relate to. Freedom Essay 30 titled Resignation explains that some adolescents refuse to properly resign and take up the strategy of denial of the issue of the human condition that almost everybody else does. They courageously keep facing it, refuse to ‘pull into a port’, as it were, and escape the storms of confrontation with the real horror of the human condition, which does produce an honest, although torturous existence.

Yes, as someone said about Jeremy’s contribution in one of the commendations on the homepage, “He nailed it, nailed the whole thing, just like the world going from FLAT to ROUND, BOOM the WHOLE WORLD CHANGES, no joke.” However, while innocence was required to assemble the explanation of the human condition at the end, as Jeremy explains in THE Interview, “science is the liberator, the so-called ‘messiah’ or ‘redeemer’ of humankind, as we always hoped it would be!”

    Hi An, and thank you for your comments. It does take time to absorb how significant the instinct vs intellect explanation for the human condition is. For example, when you factor in that different individuals and Ethnic groups have different levels exposure to the human condition (due to their circumstances, some individuals or races have been more sheltered than others), you can see that the basic instinct vs intellect clash does account for all the different varieties of psychosis and prejudice and dysfunctional, destructive behaviour we see around us. Which then allows us to explain racism for example – see FAQ 9.1. And we can now see that the genders have had different roles under the duress of the human condition, which explains sexism – see FAQ 8.1. And you will see that Jeremy Griffith does acknowledge the huge role that nurturing plays in establishing levels of psychological upset, but that our ability to nurture is actually just another aspect of our lives that is determined by the extent to which we have been exposed to the battle of the human condition – see chapter 8:16 of Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM.     Yes, the more you digest the core intellect vs instinct explanation, the more you will see that it does actually explain the variety of behaviour between individuals and groups that we see.

    At last we can understand where humans’ psychopathic, what historically has been termed ‘evil’, behaviour comes from. As THE Interview explains humans are born with loving moral instincts but we all now variously suffer from a psychosis due to the human condition and, in the extreme, that psychologically conflicted upset state produces extremely destructive behaviour. Of course this breakthrough explanation doesn’t condone or sanction the horrendous attrocities humans can commit 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, see 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?’     Also being able to understand the human condition, we can now see that everyone has suffered from it, and all our institutions, including our educational systems, have been a manifestation of our insecure, psychologically upset condition. Only solving the human condition can stop the destruction of our world that is happening everywhere we look, see FAQ 1.6.

The great question has always been 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. We recommend FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this idea original or new? / How does this instinct vs intellect explanation of the human condition differ from other theories that recognise these elements?’, as it explains the unique significance of Jeremy’s work.

Thanks for your wonderful encouragement Mattie and don’t worry this understanding of humans is unstoppable as evidenced by the ecstatic responses THE Interview is receiving on our homepage! And, if you scroll down our homepage, you will see the rapidly growing appreciation and support for the WTM with outstanding commendations from scientists and thought leaders as well as WTM Centres popping up all over the world! Also, every day more people join our Facebook Group and register for our live events with Jeremy Griffith to share in this all-redeeming, all-reconciling, all-healing and all-liberating knowledge!

The great question has always been 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. We recommend FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this idea original or new? / How does this instinct vs intellect explanation of the human condition differ from other theories that recognise these elements?’, as it explains the unique significance of Jeremy’s work.

The practical application of this understanding is as simple as the concept itself but the reality is that we have necessarily had to live in denial of the human condition for so long that even though you understand the concept, it typically takes a little more time to bring the explanation back to yourself and see how it does work in our everyday lives (Video/Freedom Essay/ 1 explains our historic fear of the human condition and how we have had to live in denial of it). It is wonderful you have watched THE Interview several times (that is exactly what we would suggest people do) and that you want to persevere to gain this deeper appreciation of how it applies to our lives. So we’d recommend FAQs 1.4 to 1.6 as they explain the far-reaching practical applications of this understanding and Freedom Essay 15 ‘How our lives can be immediately transformed’. Also our Transformation page is brimming with invaluable insight and personal affirmations as to the ‘how to’. We’d especially recommend you join our Facebook Group and register for our live events with Jeremy Griffith because there is much helpful and practical discussion taking place about this immensely relieving knowledge! We send you all our encouragement to continue exploring this understanding and feel free to email [email protected] with any questions or thoughts, we’re here to help in any way we can.

This certainly is a ‘true treasure trove’ as you say Kevern! The great question has always been 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 definitive book FREEDOM. So the answer to your question is that the relief this brings is far deeper and more profound than just being a reflection of the dark age we live in (dire though that age is); this liberation is a day we have dreamed of since the battle between instinct and intellect emerged some 2 million years ago and condemned us to lives of insecurity and guilt. However, this long-awaited arrival of the truth about us represents such a huge paradigm shift in our thinking that the relief does take time to fully absorb. You may find FAQs 1.4 to 1.6 helpful as they further explain the far-reaching practical applications of this understanding.

In Part 3 of THE Interview Jeremy Griffith explains how, uniquely amongst mammals, our human ancestors developed all-loving, moral instincts through the nurturing based love-indoctrination process. If we have loving instincts, not ‘savage’ ‘animal’ instincts that ‘need to be tempered’, then the question that raises, is what is the source of our aggressive, selfish behaviour? Jeremy explain that humans suffer from the conscious-mind-based, psychologically troubled human condition, not the genetic-opportunism-based, animal condition. He also explains that in the absence of the fully accountable, true understanding of the human condition—the explanation for why we behave divisively instead of cooperatively and lovingly—it makes sense that we humans needed to come up with some excuse, such as we have savage animal instincts, in order to cope with the negative implications of our behaviour, see FAQ 1.2. Most importantly, this psychosis can be healed with understanding—a revelation that transforms the human race! As the late 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. This is the book we have been waiting for, it is the book that saves the world’ (mentioned in Part 1 of THE Interview).

Omg!! Goosebumps! Goosebumps!! Very enlightening, been struggling with anxiety and this really making me feel different🙂 looking forward to learning more

Thank you for your wonderful feedback Shaunna!! You will be happy to learn Jeremy Griffith’s books and essays are being translated into many languages around the world, thanks to wonderful efforts from the WTM’s ever-expanding global network of support, see WTM FAQ 3.9 ‘Are translations available’. Also we have over 50 WTM Centres around the world, with some presented in their native language which you can also see in this FAQ. We encourage people to register for our free live events with Jeremy Griffith and join our fabulous Facebook Group where there is much fascinating and excited discussion taking place. Also you may be interested in FAQ 3.4 ‘How can I help the WTM?’ as we agree everybody immediately needs this beautiful message!

It is all about our freedom from the human condition, which is the source of all the suffering and despair in the world, so our freedom depends on it and NO ONE HAS TO WAIT TO READ OR ACQUIRE A COPY!! Jeremy Griffith’s book FREEDOM 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! You can also download the free Kindle version from Amazon. Otherwise you can purchase hard copies from Amazon or other good bookstores. Jeremy’s other key books, including the booklet version of THE Interview, are also freely available at the above link.

You might be interested in Jeremy Griffith’s wonderful Freedom Essay 31 titled: ‘Wordsworth’s great honesty that “trailing clouds of glory do we come”’, which is a reference to the all-loving, moral, ‘Godly’ instincts we are born with. Also WTM FAQ 1.26 ‘What is soul, have we all got one, has it been repressed, and if so, how do we rehabilitate it?’ is absolutely fascinating.

Thanks ❤️ so Nice feeling in my soul after this interview. One divine love

The booklet version of THE Interview and Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition is free on our homepage here to read online or download. You can also download the free Kindle versions from Amazon. Otherwise you can purchase hard copies from Amazon or other good bookstores.