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As with any new scientific breakthrough in history it will take time to gain mainstream acceptance, and from there break through the bastions of power in the world. However, with support from those who appreciate this understanding, the truth is that this redeeming, uplifting and healing explanation of the human condition is SO liberating and SO exciting that it won’t be long be everyone realises that it is completely pointless to keep trying to compensate for their insecurity through the pursuit of power, fame, fortune and glory. You might be interested in FAQ 1.40, which 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?’. It explains that “Even those who were most committed to defensively seeking validation through gaining power and material goods, 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, real biological explanation of the human condition that proves our worth at the most fundamental level.”

Hi Kgoroshi, we thought you would find psychiatrist Professor Harry Prosen’s response to the question ‘How does understanding the human race’s condition help with an individual’s depression and psychosis? helpful, see FAQ 1.34 and also FAQ 1.35 ‘Does this heal anxiety?’. What is so significant and relieving about having the human condition resolved is we no longer have to be burdened by the fundamental question of whether we are good or bad because our core goodness as individuals and as a species has been biologically established. We can understand humans’ 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 bring great compassion and kindness to ourselves and others and we don’t have to overly confront the upset within us which is important for everyone to be mindful of (as FAQ 1.19 ‘A caution about the danger of over-exposure / Advice for people with mental health issues’ summarises).

Wonderful to have your interest Rachel! Our interactive live events with Jeremy Griffith and others provide the ultimate forum to learn more about the human condition! They are absolutely fascinating and a great way to participate, have questions answered, and interact with others on your journey out of the human condition! You can register for these totally free events on our homepage here. Also our Facebook Group provides a wonderful platform for participating in, or just observing, interesting and exciting discussion with others about the human condition and how we can live with this critical new science. As well our WTM Community section of our website shows all the other ways you can participate including personal video calls with a member of the WTM.

Thanks for your comment Rory. We suggest the more you absorb what is presented in THE Interview the more you will realise that only being able to solve the question of our ‘good and evil’-stricken human condition will we be able to understand our problems from an evolutionary perspective. The age-old 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 required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy Griffith presents. We can now finally understand why we have had to become so estranged and alienated from nature which biomimicry looks to for inspiration and direction in problem solving. You may find FAQ 1.6 ‘Why understanding the human condition solves everything’ helpful.

Technology as neurofeedback can certainly help re-train the brain to new behaviour but we have never before seen the power this knowledge brings to our mind—it provides the ultimate brain food! Certainly there is habituation to overcome and humans do find change difficult but, to quote WTM Freedom Essay 5 about the transformation and freedom this understanding brings us: “Really, the transformation of the world is already a fait accompli, a certainty—sure, it will take a little time to get started, but what will win the day is logic. 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 with all the crises and suffering and mental agony in the world now, this idea’s time has most certainly come! So, as more and more people catch on to this logical, rational, fully accountable explanation of the human condition, the transformation will begin to sweep the world. When the word gets out about this awesome breakthrough there’s going to be an absolute stampede—it’s going to be on for young and old!”. And this 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 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!

    Well our homepage—HumanCondition.com—has it all there for you Rev. Maimane and it is all 100% FREE (no registration required)! At the top it states ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’ 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 accessing all our books/ essays/ videos/ audios. You will also see our extensive FAQ facility, translations and our over 50 WTM Global Centres so there is an absolute feast of material to explore!     We thought we would mention Jeremy’s work doesn’t contradict a belief in God or Christianity; in fact he has the greatest respect for the role Christ and Christianity has played in the world (see Freedom Essay 39). His work simply brings biological understanding to religion’s pre-scientific descriptions of our condition (see our FAQs about religion).

Wonderful to have your interest Penelope! You can join our mailing list to be sent our Video/Freedom Essay series and also register for our free, live, interactive presentations with Jeremy Griffith and others HERE. You may also like to join our Facebook Group where there is much interesting and excited discussion taking place. As well our homepage — HumanCondition.com — provides a wonderful road map to pursue your interest with all our key material made freely available.

Thank you for your comment Nur. Finally being able to explain the human condition, understand the source of the 2 million years of psychological upset in the human race, does present a massive paradigm shift in our thinking which takes time to absorb. After watching THE Interview we suggest people watch Introductory Videos/Freedom Essays 1 to 14 which elaborate on what is presented in THE Interview (freely available on our homepage). Of course Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM is the ultimate and most comprehensive presentation of his work which is also freely available here on our website.

Thank you for your wonderful help with the Polish translation, Kat, we are very appreciative! It’s so important and exciting that Jeremy Griffith’s books and essays are being translated into many languages around the world, thanks to wonderful efforts, like yours, from the WTM’s ever-expanding global network of support — see our Translations page. We also have over 50 WTM Centres around the world, and some of their websites are presented in the native language/s of their founder — you can also read about these Centres in WTM FAQ 3.9.

Excellent, is truly appreciated! Transforming!

    Thank you for your comment, John. Yes, the hominin line split from the chimpanzee line some 7 million years ago. As is explained further in chapter 5 of Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM, the bonobos subsequently split from the chimpanzee line some 2 million years ago, and found themselves in conditions similar to our ancestors 7 million years ago. These ‘ideal’ conditions allowed the nurturing based love-indoctrination process to become established in what were to become bonobos, resulting in their extraordinarily cooperative and gentle behaviour. Importantly, bonobos have not completed this process, as evidenced by the use of sexual appeasement behaviour to quell residual tension. With regard to the question of whether our distant ancestors were matriachal, a reduction in canine size in our ancestors is now leading anthropologists to recognise that in all likelihood they were. For example, in analysing the famous ‘Ardi’ fossils, the authors wrote that “In modern monkeys and apes, the upper canine is important in male agonistic [aggressive] behavior, so its subdued shape in early hominids and Ar. ramidus suggests that sexual selection played a primary role in canine reduction.” ‘Sexual selection’ means that females were actively choosing less aggressive mates, indicating that they had the power to do so.     While the advent of agriculture and domestication served to accelerate the psychological upset that characterises the human condition, it did not cause humanity’s problems, as thinkers such as Marx have suggested. It is our psychologically upset state that creates those conditions not vice versa. We suggest looking at FAQ 7.3 which deals with socialism and communism and Marxist thought in greater detail.

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’. We recommend reading FAQ 5.4 ‘What is consciousness? / Why is it that humans became conscious while other animals haven’t? / How did consciousness emerge in humans?’

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Thank you for your comment. I think with greater scrutiny you will find that Jeremy Griffith agrees that mankind is becoming more and more psychologically upset not ‘improving’ – see WTM FAQ 1.33. However, what is being suggested here is that the underlying cause of our psychologically upset state is now so completely explained and understood that as Professor Harry Prosen, the former President of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, has said, the whole of the human race is psychologically rehabilitated and everyone’s life is transformed.

Thank you Elizabeth, please pursue that interest, you won’t be disappointed! Our homepage — HumanCondition.com — provides a wonderful road map to progress with all our key material made freely available and you can register for free, live, interactive presentations with Jeremy about this immensely relieving understanding. You may also like to join our Facebook Group where there is much interesting and excited discussion taking place.

As with any new scientific breakthrough in history it will take time to gain mainstream acceptance, and from there break through the bastions of power in the world. However, with support from those who appreciate this understanding, the truth is that this redeeming, uplifting and healing explanation of the human condition is SO liberating and SO exciting that it won’t be long be everyone realises that it is completely pointless to keep trying to compensate for their insecurity through the pursuit of power, fame, fortune and glory. You might be interested in FAQ 1.40, which 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?’. It explains that “Even those who were most committed to defensively seeking validation through gaining power and material goods, 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, real biological explanation of the human condition that proves our worth at the most fundamental level.”

    As is explained in Part 2 of THE Interview it is science that is the liberator or saviour of mankind. Craig Conway summarises that, “science’s discovery of the way genes and nerves work has finally made it possible for the liberation of humanity from the horror of the human condition”, to which Jeremy Griffith replies, “Yes, that is the essential truth: science is the liberator, the so-called ‘messiah’ or ‘redeemer’ of humankind, as we always hoped it would be!”     We certainly respect people’s religious views and feel it is important to mention that Jeremy’s work doesn’t contradict a belief in God or Christianity. It simply brings biological understanding to all those 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 a pre-science view, see our FAQs about religion, especially FAQ 6.3 ‘Does this undermine religion/God’.

Thank you Timothy, you can join our mailing list here at www.humancondition.com/#events-registration-form. Our homepage provides a wonderful road map to pursue your interest, and you may also like to join our Facebook Group where there is much interesting and excited discussion taking place.

I haven’t heard the whole interview yet. But, from what I’ve heard so far about the human condition sounds like it’s finally being said right.

The more you absorb this explanation, Helen, the more you appreciate that in the absence of the fully accountable, true understanding of the human condition—the explanation for why we behave in such an “ugly and inhumane” way instead of cooperatively and lovingly—we humans needed to come up with some “bs “, some “lie” or excuse (like humans having ‘savage animal instincts’) in order to cope with the negative implications of our behaviour, see FAQ 1.2. So what has been needed is the real biological explanation of the human condition, because it’s only that redeeming understanding that allows us to at last be truthful about our ugly and inhumane behaviour – and it’s precisely that real explanation that THE Interview presents. Finally we can start talking the TRUTH and let it out, which will be so relieving to our children who will no longer be bewildered by the lies, and the silence, of the adult world.

No, the ‘blame’ for the human condition is placed on the instincts' unwarranted ‘criticism’ of the intellect’s attempts to self-manage! Jeremy Griffith’s biological ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition then allows us to understand the real merits and liabilities of both the left and right wings of politics. For example, when we understand that the search for knowledge, namely the search for understanding of our ‘good and evil’-stricken human condition, has been all-important, we can see that, paradoxically, it is the left, not the right, that poses the real threat to humanity because the left’s dogmatically imposed idealism inhibits freedom of thought and that search for understanding. Jeremy is not unfairly focusing on the failings of the left wing (indeed, in his book FREEDOM he acknowledges the importance of compassion in holding a society together) but rather explains from scientific first principles the serious threat posed by pseudo idealism to humanity’s ultimate goal of finding understanding. We suggest you visit our FAQs about politics.

    Great to have your interest, Kris. The more you digest Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation, the more you will realise how accountable it is in getting to the source of all humanity’s psychological upset, which in the extreme, produces people, even dictators, who are addicted to having power over others; see our FAQ 4.2 ‘How does this rehabilitate what we historically term ‘evil’’. Your questions are also specifically addressed in 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? — 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?’     As with any new scientific breakthrough in history, it will take time for people to realise that this is the breakthrough we’ve all been waiting for, but as support and momentum continues to build, the selfless love and energy it generates will solve our problems very quickly. Instead of being focused on power, fame, fortune and glory, all our energies will be freed to truly work together on doing whatever it takes to end the suffering in the world; see our FAQs 1.4 – 1.6 about how this transformation works.

Hi Ramaa, thank you for your interest. As you absorb the material on our website further you will discover that understanding the human condition is the great unlocking point in the human journey of conscious thought and enquiry and its resolution leads, at last, to the real basis for personal and global liberation and transformation; the true “shine” Williamson seeks. The limitation of the New Age movement is that it focuses on teaching us to restrain and transcend our anger, alienation and selfish egocentricity, when the obvious truth is we needed to resolve our psychosis at its source and that is the great breakthrough Jeremy’s work presents. We are thinking beings, we need brain food not brain anaesthetic. We needed answers for our conscious thinking mind, without that all else is ultimately futile. You can read more about the real transformation now possible in Freedom Essay 33 — and we also recommend our FAQs on politics and the New Age movement.

Great to learn of your interest, Fawzia! Understanding the human condition is the great unlocking point in the human journey of conscious thought and enquiry and provides the real basis for personal development and a lasting freedom from the torment of not understanding ourselves. Its resolution leads at last to an incredibly exciting and meaningful world for everyone. We very greatly appreciate people’s interest in, and support of, this all-important explanation of the human condition so we encourage them to share THE Interview on their social media channels or just tell people to go to our website HumanCondition.com and watch it. In terms of people who have become enthusiastic about our information and are seeking to perhaps formally communicate it to others, in your case through life coaching, we provide this important and, we hope helpful, advice in FAQ 1.24.

    Hi John, our human condition has caused all manner of horrific situations that humanity has so courageously endured, but the wonderful news is that we can now understand that our destructive behaviour (to others, and ourselves for example through harmful addictions) is the product of a psychosis, caused by the clash between our instinct and intellect, and a psychosis is changeable as it can be healed through understanding — a revelation that has the power to transform the individual and thus the human race. As biologist Jeremy Griffith says in THE Interview “with understanding we can finally end our psychologically troubled human condition. It’s the understanding of ourselves that we needed to heal the pain in our brains and become sound and sane again”. See WTM FAQ 1.6 ‘Why understanding the human condition solves everything’.     We also thought you may find helpful psychiatrist Professor Harry Prosen’s response to the question ‘How does understanding the human race’s condition help with an individual’s depression and psychosis? (in FAQ 1.34); and also FAQ 1.35 ‘Does this heal anxiety?’. What is explained in those FAQs is that what is so significant about having the human condition resolved is we no longer have to be burdened by the fundamental question of whether we are good or bad because our core goodness as individuals and as a species has been biologically established. We can know our psychological upset was the price humans had to pay for searching for knowledge and that the human story presents the greatest, most heroic story ever told. So we can now look after ourselves with great compassion and kindness. And importantly, having this fundamental understanding of our essential goodness, we don’t have to overly confront the upset within us—as FAQ 1.19 ‘A caution about the danger of over-exposure / Advice for people with mental health issues’ summarises. This FAQ also points out the WTM does not have the resources to provide support or assistance to specific personal situations, and any information we do provide should not be used as, or as a substitute for, professional counselling.

    A fair analysis reveals that the scholarship behind Griffith’s work is extraordinarily accurate and thorough. For example, the evidence that the cooperative and gentle bonobo chimpanzee represents a far better model of our human ancestors than the common chimpanzee, which is presented in detail in chapter 5 of Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM, is now incontrovertible. In short, bonobo physiology, bipedality, environment, intelligence and reduced canine size, better match our human ancestors. Reduced canine size is particularly relevant as it is a defining features of the hominin clade, and universally accepted as an indication of reduced aggression (of all the non-human primates, bonobos have the smallest canines). All this evidence 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]”.     With regard to the criticism of progressive thought, and whether it has an evolutionary context, now that we can understand that the all-dominant influence of our development has been what was occurring in our brains, namely the development of consciousness and its psychological consequences, all aspects of human development and culture are able to be explained, including so called left wing or pseudo idealistic thinking. While THE Interview is only an introduction to this breakthrough explanation, as is explained in Jeremy’s booklet Death by Dogma, pseudo idealism would have occurred early in our 2-million-year journey from innocence to the utterly corrupted state or condition of the human race today. It has gone through many developments since its emergence, with socialism, the new age movement, the politically correct movement, some of the most recent. Again, these movements were actually all false starts to a human-condition-free world because the upsetting battle to find knowledge, ultimately self-knowledge, the psychologically relieving understanding of why we are good and not bad, still had to be completed.

That’s wonderful you will continue listening Maria because THE Interview certainly does present a new scientific understanding of humans. The age-old 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 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.

Explanation of the human condition does produce a huge paradigm shift so it takes a little while to see how it all works but Part 4 explains, now the human condition is solved, we can legitimately return to a selfless way of living — so selflessness is how we transform the world! Certainly there is habituation to overcome, but all Jeremy Griffith’s writings on this Transformed way of living, explains how real change is immediately open to us all. This is summarised in FAQs 1.4 to 1.6 and Freedom Essay 15 ‘How our lives can be immediately transformed’ and our Transformation section of our website is brimming with invaluable insight and personal affirmations as to the ‘how to’. Also 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? — 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?’ may be most helpful.

That’s great Isma and you don’t have to wait as Jeremy Griffith’s book FREEDOM is freely available right HERE on our homepage to read online, download or print your own copy. You will also see the booklet version of THE Interview and Jeremy Griffith’s other key books are also free at this link. You can also download the free Kindle versions or purchase hard copies from Amazon. Hard copies are also available at other good bookstores.

    As Jeremy Griffith explains in THE Interview, genuinely cooperative, unconditionally selfless genetic traits are self-eliminating, and therefore cannot normally develop in animals—which means animals are not normally able to cooperate beyond situations of reciprocity or kin selection (see chapter 6:9 of FREEDOM for an expose of this false biology that claims cooperation can be selected for). However, as Jeremy explains in Part 3 of THE Interview, the selfish process of natural selection was able to create loving selflessness in our forebears through nurturing (Freedom Essay 21 and chapter 5 of FREEDOM explain this ‘love-indoctrination’ process, as Jeremy has termed it, more fully).     So while Jean-Baptiste Lamarck was wrong to think that cooperation could be selected for because it beats competition, he was right that we do have cooperative instincts. However, since we do have loving, cooperative instincts, that begs the question of what is the source of our aggressive, selfish behaviour? 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.

Thank you for your question Latifa. In THE Interview Jeremy Grffith explains that the development of consciousness was gradual, occurring over millions of years. Specifically in Part 3 he refers the audience to chapter 7 of his definitive book FREEDOM for a more in-depth explanation of how we humans became fully conscious. This is also 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?’ on our website.

Thanks Marcela, yes, with our psychologically upset now defended we can find ourselves because it is now safe to admit that our human instincts are loving and cooperative, that is our natural state – see Part 3 of THE Interview; and in Part 4, it is explained how, with the human condition now solved, all humans will be able to return to that non-upset ideal state or home we’ve longed for, but we will return to it with understanding, in a fully conscious way. 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).

In THE Interview Jeremy Griffith explains how we acquired our conscience, in particular see Part 3 titled ‘How did we humans acquire our instinctive cooperative and loving moral conscience?’. This explanation is presented in greater detail in Jeremy’s Freedom Essay 21 and in full in chapter 5 of his definitive book FREEDOM. Also I’m sure you will find our FAQ 1.26 ‘What is soul, have we all got one, has it been repressed, and if so, how do we rehabilitate it?’ absolutely fascinating.