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    Jeremy Griffith’s use of the ‘Adam Stork’ analogy is to help people visualise his explanation of the human condition, key to which is an understanding of the difference between our instincts and intellect, and the effect that difference has had on our behaviour. As Jeremy explains in Part 1 of THE Interview, he has found that the easiest way to illustrate how our species’ ‘human condition’ arose is to ask the reader to “imagine the predicament faced by an animal whose life had always been controlled by its instincts suddenly developing a conscious mind, because if we do that we will very quickly see how that animal would develop a psychologically troubled competitive and aggressive condition like we suffer from.” Please see Video/Freedom Essay 3 for more on how the ‘Adam Stork’ analogy serves as a powerful metaphor for the journey our species has been on in the quest for self-understanding.     We suggest the more you digest this explanation of the human condition, the more redeeming, but also rehabilitating, you will see that it is.

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. This information is what will make society healthy! As Part 4 of THE Interview explains instead of being focused on power, fame, fortune and glory, all our energies will be freed to truly work together on doing whatever it takes to end the suffering and save our world. See See FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does understanding of the human condition solve everything?’ and 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?’

Thank you for your comment Abduragmann. Yes, the question of the human condition is WHY do we no longer love one another—why when the universal ideals are to be loving and selfless are we so competitive and selfish? It is this crux question that Jeremy Griffith confronts and answers through first principle biology because only through understanding the dark side of ourselves—why we departed from our all-loving instincts and became selfish—can we free ourselves from the human condition and legitimately love ourselves and each other again.

While Catholicism and other religions contain all manner of truths about human life, it is all from a pre-scientific view. To ultimately resolve our ‘fallen’, ‘sinful’ state we needed to find the scientific explanation for 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 book FREEDOM. We suggest FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this idea original or new? which explains the unique significance of Jeremy’s work.

Thanks for your interest Tom. Yes, human existence has been a ‘mystery’! And moreover, as Professor Harry Prosen wrote in his introduction to Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM, “finding the biological explanation of the human condition has been ‘the holy grail’ of the whole Darwinian revolution, the central quest in our human journey of conscious thought and enquiry.” We hope you continue to explore these ideas Tom, because you will find that the more you study it, the more accountable this explanation of our core mystery becomes.

    Thank you for your comment Tony. This does represent a huge paradigm shift, and so it can take some time to absorb, but we suggest that the more you digest the instinct vs intellect explanation, the more accountable you will realise it is. What becomes clear is that we are not such a destructive and divisive species because of the influence of aggressive instincts, but because we are a psychologically upset species. As Jeremy so accurately says in THE Interview, “words used to describe our human behaviour such as egocentric, arrogant, inspired, depressed, deluded, pessimistic, optimistic, artificial, hateful, cynical, mean, sadistic, immoral, brilliant, guilt-ridden, evil, psychotic, neurotic and alienated, all recognise the involvement of OUR species’ fully conscious thinking mind. They demonstrate that there is a psychological dimension to our behaviour; that we don’t suffer from a genetic-opportunism-driven ‘animal condition’, but a conscious-mind-based, psychologically troubled HUMAN CONDITION.”     While the advent of agriculture and animal 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 this idea, which is the basis of Marxist thought, in greater detail.

No worries Wayne, Jeremy Griffith’s books are immediately available for free HERE on our homepage!! This includes Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM and the booklet version of THE Interview. You can also download free Kindle versions from Amazon. However, if you are particularly wanting a hard copy, you can purchase them from Amazon or other good bookstores.

    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.     While great care has been taken to make the explanation as simple and easily comprehensible as possible, the explanation of the human condition does open up a long-forbidden area for humans and that can make it initially difficult to access, see FAQ 1.16 ‘Why can’t I understand this’.

Hi Robert, understanding the human condition gives us the ability for the first time ever to understand every aspect of human behaviour and our behaviour will change naturally as a result. At last we can understand our behaviour has been driven by a deep insecurity about our fundamental goodness or worth and so now that our goodness is biologically established we no longer have to behave insecurely and selfishly and can legitimately return to a selfless way of living. ‘Legitimately’ because at last we have the first principle science which liberates us to be honest about our conflicted upset state instead of denying or transcending it. Religious assurances such as ‘God loves you’ are now explained, demystified and fulfilled, and understanding brought to why we are in fact lovable despite all appearances to the contrary. 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 information and Freedom Essay 15 is all about ‘How our lives can be immediately transformed’. We’d especially recommend you join our Facebook Group and register for our live events with Jeremy Griffith as there is so much helpful and practical discussion taking place there about this immensely relieving knowledge!

Yes at last Michael we can now understand, from scientific first principles, that we aren’t sinners after all! We can know humans’ psychological upset (our ‘contorted beings’) was the price we had to pay for searching for knowledge and that the human story presents the greatest, most ‘beautiful’ and heroic story ever told. What THE Interview presents fundamentally lifts the ‘burden of guilt’ from the human race and allows us to forgive ourselves and finally solve and end our psychologically troubled human condition—it couldn’t be a bigger breakthrough. However, as with any new scientific breakthrough, it will take time to reach the whole world as you say but with enough people developing a deep appreciation and desire to support it our problems will be solved very quickly (see FAQ 1.6), and as the ecstatic responses at the top of our homepage show, people everywhere are so relieved to finally be able to make sense of human life!!

Hi Susan, we suggest, as THE Interview presents, that all humans suffer, to varying degrees from the universal psychosis caused by the clash between our instinct and intellect which significantly can be healed through understanding. Understanding why, when the ideals are to be loving and selfless, are we so competitive and selfish, a question with such terrible implications that we have had to consign it to our unconscious, gives us the ability, for the first time, to understand every aspect of human behaviour including our immense anxiety about ourselves. As distinguished psychiatrist Professor Harry Prosen (who wrote the Introduction to Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM) said: “What Griffith is presenting is understanding of the source insecurity that the whole human race suffers from for having destroyed our species’ innocent soul. It is a universal self-blame that his understanding at last provides healing insight into. All human behavior is saturated with that universal insecure, depressing state and resulting anger, egocentricity and alienation that has developed from it, but we finally have the compassionate foundation insight needed to dismantle all that ‘upset’/psychosis. So the real psychotherapy of our collective and individual psychoses can begin” (see FAQ 1.34). We also suggest 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, and in time this macro understanding will filter through to our unconscious. 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.

Thanks for your feedback Jeremy. While it takes some time to digest, we suggest that what is unique about Jeremy Griffith’s work is that he has answered the essential question of ‘why, when the universal ideals are to be 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. Most wonderfully, by explaining the very good reason why our intellect had to defy our instincts (which is that genes can orientate but nerves need to understand) our defensive behaviours of anger, egocentricity and alienation are made redundant. In this sense, we are finally in a position to ‘dissolve’ all those aspects in ourselves; but importantly, it is only now that the ego has been defended that this ‘dissolution’ is legitimate, because until this defence was found, our responsibility as conscious beings was to continue defying our instincts. You may find 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?’ of interest, as well as FAQ 6.5, which explains the difference between Jeremy’s explanation and new age approaches.

    Yes this certainly is eye opening Simon and they are a wonderful set of touchstones! We will just tease out your steps for anyone new to this who is looking on.     So, Jeremy Griffith’s work is fundamentally an accountable, rational, scientific explanation of our human condition.     However, because our good and evil afflicted human condition is the arena in which science and religion overlap, this explanation reconciles science, religion and spirituality because it at last answers the question of why when the ideals – that religions and spirituality upheld – are to be loving and selfless, are we so competitive and selfish.     And what is so exciting about the explanation is that it is redeeming. It explains that there has been a good reason for our apparently non-ideal behaviour. Ultimately, it establishes our self-worth; we can now understand that we are ‘good’!     In terms of religion it brings biological understanding to religion’s pre-scientific descriptions of our condition. With the human condition now solved, humans will become, as Jeremy explains in chapter 9 of FREEDOM, ‘universal beings’, pure expressions of love, and with full understanding of who we are and what we are doing. For instance at the end of Part 3 of THE Interview Jeremy briefly explains that ‘God’ is the personification of the Negative-Entropy-driven integrative meaning of existence. This explanation — which is summarised in FAQ 6.2 ‘What is ‘God’?’ and fully presented in chapter 4 of FREEDOM — forms a key part of Jeremy’s thesis, because it shows that love is the theme of existence; it is the meaning of life. Now we can understand that in order to search for this understanding we had to defy our loving instincts and become angry, egocentric and alienated we can legitimately return to the cooperative and loving state we once lived in and in that sense return to a ‘Godlike’ state.     And yes, with the human condition solved, we are now ‘Free’ of the terrible insecurity and need to prove our worth that the human condition caused. Which is why Jeremy’s definitive book is titled FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition.     Thank you again for your wonderful touchstones Simon!

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Yes Ida it is amazing that we can now understand that our soul is our original cooperative and loving instinctive self. I’m sure you will find our FAQ 1.26 ‘What is soul’ absolutely fascinating as it discusses the depth of sensitivity this pure and truly moral part of ourselves can access. Thankfully, now that we have the redeeming and rehabilitating explanation of the human condition, our intellect will no longer have to find ways back to the world of our all-loving soul, because it can now be profoundly and completely reconciled with our instincts.

Thank you for your feedback Mark. Understanding the human condition represents the end of faith and dogma and the beginning of knowing, however Jeremy’s work doesn’t contradict a belief in God or religion, it simply brings biological understanding to religion’s pre-scientific descriptions of our condition (see our FAQs about religion).

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. As Part 4 of THE Interview explains instead of being focused on power, fame, fortune and glory, all our energies will be freed to truly work together on doing whatever it takes to end the suffering and save our world. See See FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does understanding of the human condition solve everything?’ and 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?’

Thank you for your feedback Michael. The explanation of the human condition 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. We suggest looking at Video/Freedom Essay 1 titled ‘Your block to the most wonderful of all gifts’ where Jeremy Griffith explains this initial ‘deaf effect’ and how to overcome it, which is also summarised in FAQ 1.16.

Thank you for your comment Carolyn and you have obviously lived your life with great courage. What is significant about being able to understand the human condition is we no longer have to be burdened by the fundamental question we all have struggled with of whether we are good or bad anymore because our fundamental goodness as individuals and as a species has been biologically established (which THE Interview and Video/Freedom Essay 3 summarises). We can understand humans’ psychological upset was the price we 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 love to ourselves at last 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.

Humanity’s ability to nurture has been severely compromised by the human condition, but now that all our preoccupied behaviour has been defended by the explanation of the human condition, we can now safely acknowledge the absolute importance of nurturing in the development of children – see chapter 8:16C of FREEDOM on ‘The dire consequences of terminal levels of alienation destroying our ability to nurture our children’.

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Thank you Glenn. Our homepage — HumanCondition.com — provides an initial guide to learn more (and it is all FREE, and no registration required). At the top of the homepage it states ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’ and leads you through the steps to pursue your interest! Our interactive live events with Jeremy Griffith and others are also a great way to have questions answered, and interact with others to enhance your comprehension of this breakthrough explanation 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 how we can live with this critical new science.

Yes, ultimately science had to explain our less than ideal condition, and what we learn is that the emerging conscious mind was right, or ‘good’ to defy our instinctive self in order to fulfil its great potential to manage life. In religious terminology, we can now understand from scientific first principles that ‘Adam and Eve’ were ‘good’ to search for knowledge, not bad or ‘evil’ or ‘sinful’; we humans are actually the absolute heroes of the whole story! This removes the burden of guilt from humanity; it couldn’t be a bigger breakthrough.

    Ultimately, Paul, 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, see FAQ 1.3 for a very brief summary of the core concept. The human condition manifests in different ways in all as a result of our own experiences and exposure to the world, but the clash between instinct and intellect is the source of all our insecurity and subsequent anger, egocentricity and alienation, and so explaining it makes all those defensive behaviours redundant.     Our homepage — HumanCondition.com — provides an initial guide to learn more (and it is all FREE, and no registration required). At the top of the homepage it states ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’ and leads you through the steps to pursue your interest!

Jeremy Griffith’s breakthrough instinct vs intellect explanation of the human condition brings compassionate and thus safe understanding to ALL of human behaviour, be it our individual lives, or politics, religion, the relationship between men and women, or different races, etc. What you discover is this explanation unravels the seemingly impenetrable and insoluble confusion of human life — including why the horror of racism has existed under the duress of the human condition and, most importantly, finally brings it to an end! This desperately needed reconciling understanding of the reality of differences between races is explained in Freedom Essay 28. And for a testimonial on the power of this information to end racism, we recommend watching/reading the presentation from Franklin Mukakanga, of Zambia, in Video/Freedom Essay 8.

Thank you, Barbara.Yes, Jeremy Griffith’s treatise will resonate with those familiar with religious scripture, because it reconciles science and religion by bringing biological understanding to pre-scientific concepts such as sin and ‘Judgment Day’, etc. While we are not familiar with Kaballa, it sounds very insightful for recognising that Adam and Eve were not sinful, but trying to fulfil a great purpose; the gnostic tradition in Christianity has a similar emphasis. However, where we have previously had to rely on faith, we now have rational understanding of our fundamental goodness, which has been the goal of our ‘mind based understanding’; we can now actually understand from a biological perspective that despite the horrific anger, egocentricity and alienation that searching for knowledge caused in us, we are fundamentally good. In fact, what people discover is it is the fulfillment of a time that all religions looked forward to when we could actually explain ourselves, see our FAQs on religion.     The only other point to make is that we can now understand that our ‘instincts’ were not base or ‘savage’ or ‘selfish’ in any way, but loving and cooperative, a reflection of the paradise from which we came. So the human condition was not a battle between our lower and divine self, it was a battle between our emerging conscious mind, and our preestablished loving – but dictatorial – instincts. Jeremy explains this false ‘savage instincts’ excuse for our divisive condition in Part 1 of THE Interview.

    We suggest the more you absorb what is presented in THE Interview the more you will realise that all humans suffer from a universal psychosis, caused by the clash between our instinct and intellect. Certainly this manifests in a multitude of different ways, but that is to be expected because everyone has had a different exposure to the human condition, whether it is through how they were nurtured, or their exposure to upset in the world as a whole, but the macro truth is that we are all insecure about our self-worth, and at its source, the cause of this is the instinct vs intellect clash. Which is why 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.”     And given the study of the human condition is the study of humans’ capacity for acts of both so-called ‘good and evil’—of why, when the ideals are to be cooperative loving and selfless are we capable of incredible aggression and selfishness — this realm of inquiry is where science and religion overlap. So naturally in explaining the human condition the terms ‘good and evil’ and religious references will be used, and through scientific explanation, finally demystified and reconciled. This work brings biological understanding to religion’s pre-scientific descriptions of our condition.

Thanks Susie, we suggest reading FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this original or new?’ which explains the unique significance of Jeremy Griffith’s work. And our homepage — HumanCondition.com — provides an initial guide to learn more (and it is all FREE, and no registration required). At the top of the homepage it states ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’ and leads you through the steps to pursue your interest! This includes Jeremy Griffith’s books, and our free, live, interactive events which you can register for here.

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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.

Thanks Deñis, 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, compassionate 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. Basically, so exciting and relieving is this breakthrough, and the freedom from the human condition that is now on offer, that everyone will want it, and so it will catch on like wildfire and this is already 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!

The study of the human condition is the study of humans’ capacity for acts of both so-called ‘good and evil’—of why, when the ideals are to be cooperative loving and selfless are we capable of incredible aggression and selfishness. This realm of inquiry is where science and religion overlap, so naturally in explaining the human condition the terms ‘good and evil’ and religious references will be used, and through scientific explanation, finally demystified and reconciled. His work brings biological understanding to religion’s pre-scientific descriptions of our condition.

Jeremy Griffith’s breakthrough instinct vs intellect explanation of the human condition brings compassionate and thus safe understanding to ALL of human behaviour, be it our individual lives, or politics, religion, the relationship between men and women, or different races, etc. What you discover is this explanation unravels the seemingly impenetrable and insoluble confusion of human life — including why the horror of racism has existed under the duress of the human condition and, most importantly, finally brings it to an end! This desperately needed reconciling understanding of the reality of differences between races is explained in Freedom Essay 28. And for a testimonial on the power of this information to end racism, we recommend watching/reading the presentation from Franklin Mukakanga, of Zambia, in Video/Freedom Essay 8.

Thank you for you comment, Gary. You might be interested in our 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?’