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Great to have your interest, Kim! 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 for our free, live, interactive events with Jeremy Griffith and others and joining our popular Facebook Group.

Thank you for your appreciative words Michael. In case you aren’t aware you can see all our translations on our Translations page. At this point there is only a Greek translation of Transform Your Life and Save The World (Μεταμορφωστε τη ζωη σας και σωστε τον κοσμο), but we are working on more of Jeremy’s books. Also people can watch THE Interview with subtitles in their native language (use the closed captions or subtitles function by clicking on the ‘cc’ icon at the bottom of the video player/window). You might like to subscribe to our free mailing list to be kept informed of WTM developments including new translations.

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 gets on board. 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! Also FAQ 1.40 is most helpful as it answers the question ‘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?’.

Good question Bruno. In chapter 7 of FREEDOM, which is Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book, he explains that the development of consciousness was gradual, occurring over millions of years. And just as consciousness emerged over millions of years, so too did the battle between that emerging consciousness and our pre-established instincts. As is shown in the ‘Development of Mental Cleverness’ graph in chapter 8:11C of FREEDOM, it took a long time (millions of years) before our conscious mistakes outstripped our conscience repair and the extreme symptoms of the human condition began to appear.

As is made clear in FAQ 1.33, one of the main ways we have dealt with the human condition while we have not been able to explain it, is through ‘denial’. As is explained in that FAQ, “Throughout our 2 million year journey to find the truthful redeeming understanding of our corrupted condition, defensive denial—along with defensively attacking any criticism of our corrupted condition, and defensively finding ways to artificially make ourselves feel good about ourselves—is what made that journey possible.” And “Basically we would talk about all manner of positive achievements without ever mentioning the negative of how horrendously corrupted and horrendously practising of denial of that truth and thus how horrendously alienated/​psychotic/​split from our true all-loving and all-sensitive instinctive self or soul we actually were. There was this massive metaphorical elephant in the room, our extremely alienated condition, that no one was confronting or admitting.” The truth is that solving the human condition is the key to solving all the problems on the planet, because all the problems we’re experiencing on this planet, aside from natural phenomenon, are caused by us humans. We are the ones who are egocentric, selfish, greedy, materialistic, fake, angry as hell. And so it’s that underlying issue — our destructively behaved, so-called human condition — that really has to be addressed and fixed if we are to solve the world’s problems.

Religion has contained all manner of truth about the human condition, in the sense that it presented a pre-scientific explanation of the human condition. As Jeremy explains in THE Interview for example, “the Biblical story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden that Moses wrote so long ago in about 1,500 BC actually perfectly describes the psychologically upsetting battle that emerged between our instincts and conscious intellect. It says Adam and Eve/we humans took the ‘fruit’ (Genesis 3:3) ‘from the tree of knowledge’ (Gen. 2:9, 17) and were ‘disobedient’ (the term widely used in descriptions of Gen. 3). In other words, we developed a conscious mind and free will. But in that pre-scientific story it says Adam and Eve then became ‘evil’ (Gen. 3:22) perpetrators of ‘sin’ (Gen. 4:7) because they became angry, egocentric and alienated, and as a result Moses said they were ‘banished…from the Garden of Eden’ (Gen. 3:23) state of cooperative and loving innocence.” With the benefit of science, thankfully we can now explain that they, we humans, weren’t bad at all; in fact, we are the heroes of the story of life on Earth! You might also be interested in our FAQs about religion which explain that religion deserves praise for being a repository of extremely rare denial-free truth, containing all the truth about human life albeit from a pre-scientific view.

    The purpose of religion was to be the custodian of the ideal state while the search for liberating knowledge was underway. To change we needed to understand our behaviour—understand why when the ideals are to be loving and selfless, are we so competitive and selfish? And it’s this age-old question that biologist Jeremy Griffith has answered with this instinct vs intellect explanation. And it is reaching many, many people, as evidenced by the ecstatic responses THE Interview is receiving daily. 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!     Darlene, you may also be interested in our FAQs about the demystification of religion.

Great to have your interest, Branislav! 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 for our free, live, interactive events with Jeremy Griffith and others and joining our popular Facebook Group.

Thank you Pastor Titus. Yes, we needed to understand why we became so psychologically upset that we have nearly destroyed our own planet — 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. We recommend reading our FAQ 1.6, ‘Why does understanding of the human condition solve everything?’

In this summary presentation Jeremy Griffith briefly explains God is the Negative-Entropy-driven integrative meaning of existence and refers the audience to chapter 4 of his book FREEDOM. We also recommend our FAQ 6.2 ‘What is God’.

Jon reed you are lost..We are all just like you

    Thank you for your heartfelt comment, Pauline. The psychological suffering the human condition has caused for humans is a deeply tragic reality. At last we are able to understand the human-condition-battle between our instinct and intellect which is so immensely relieving but it does present a massive paradigm shift that takes time to consider. 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?’ Significantly with this explanation of our condition 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 as FAQ 1.19 ‘A caution about the danger of over exposure’ summarises. This FAQ explains that everyone and especially those with mental health issues need to manage their exposure to this very confronting information. It also importantly urges people who struggle with mental health issues to seek the support and assistance of professional counsellors and points out that any information we do provide should not be used as, or as a substitute for, professional counselling.     And Jeremy Griffith’s books are immediately available for free on our homepage. This includes his definitive book FREEDOM and the booklet version of THE Interview. You can also download free Kindle versions from Amazon.

I am glad I tuned into this presentation.

Hi Georges, FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition, and Jeremy Griffith’s other key books, are freely available on our homepage HERE to read online, download. You can also download free Kindle versions from Amazon.

As Jeremy Griffith stresses in Part 2 of THE Interview, finding the answer to the human condition, which is the only thing that can allow us to end our species’ “internal battle”, ultimately depended on being able to explain our biology. There have been thousands of years of different techniques for calming, restraining, repressing, and even transcending our psychologically upset human condition and deferring to the soundness of our soul in one form or another, like “contemplation and meditation”, 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. We recommend reading FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this idea original or new?’

    Yes, throughout history people have correctly interpreted the Adam and Eve story as a metaphor for the emergence of consciousness and its clash with our preestablished instincts. Interestingly, beyond that, a closer look at the ‘Edenic’ story shows that it also assumes that those instincts were loving and cooperative past. However, puttng that aside, scientific evidence that our past was peaceful and cooperative is now incontrovertable. It is now clear that on the basis of physiology, bipedality, environment, intelligence and reduced canine size, that the cooperative and gentle bonobo chimpanzee represents a far better model of our human ancestors than the common chimpanzee (the evidence is presented in detail in chapter 5 of Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM). 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]”.     While elements of the human condition have been recognised by certain thinkers throughout history, what is unique about Jeremy Griffith’s synthesis is he actually solves the dilemma of the human condition by clarifying the difference between the way the intellect and instincts work. That is the great breakthrough his work represents (see Freedom Essay 4 on other thinkers who have recognised instinct and intellect elements involved in creating the human condition).

Hi Charlene, yes, Jeremy Griffith’s instinct vs intellect explanation of the human condition explains how our conscious mind became alienated from our loving, cooperative instinctive self, resulting in a universal psychosis. As he points out in THE Interview, the word ‘psychosis’ literally means ‘soul-illness’ and ‘psychiatry’ literally means ‘soul-healing’ (derived as they are from psyche meaning ‘soul’, osis meaning ‘abnormal state or condition’ and iatreia meaning ‘healing’). And, significantly, a psychosis is changeable as it can be healed through understanding! To investigate Jeremy’s treatise further we recommend our Introductory Video Series and also his definitive book FREEDOM which are all freely available on our homepage HumanCondition.com. We also 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 redeeming and relieving knowledge!

Interesting theories.

The amazing revelation in THE Interview is that our divisive, selfish, egocentric behaviour has been ‘good’! The conscious mind is surely nature’s greatest invention, and in order to master self-management, we had to defy our instincts, which meant defying the loving and cooperative ideals. So we can now see that our apparently ‘bad’ behaviour has actually been completely aligned with our ‘evolution to a more loving and supportive species’. You might be interested in Freedom Essay 23 and Freedom Essay 25.

Yes Van, it most certainly is! THE Interview, our Introductory Video Series and Jeremy Griffith’s key books — including his definitive book FREEDOM — are all available in Dutch! Just go to our Translations page on our website. Our WTM centres in Amsterdam, Arnhem and Antwerp also present their websites in Dutch.

Hi Anda, while it takes some time to digest, we suggest that what is unique about Jeremy Griffith’s understanding of the human condition is that he has answered the essential question of why, when the ideals are to be loving and selfless, are we so competitive and selfish? See FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this idea original or new?’

Hi Akani, and thank you for persevering and your interest! We suggest that 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. To help this ongoing digestion, you’ll see at the top of our homepage — HumanCondition.com — the recommended steps after watching THE Interview. This includes registering for our free, live events with Jeremy and others and joining our popular Facebook Group.

    Hi Pauline, the more you digest this information, the more you realise that the human condition is behind all our actions and motivations, including our greed. The point is that our greed and the power it affords is a symptom of our insecure, human condition afflicted state. It follows that if you address that underlying insecurity, then our greed (along with all our other artificial sources of reinforcement) will be removed. And that is what this information does – it addresses and solves that core insecurity about our self-worth. In fact, 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, 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.”

Isn’t it wonderful Chris! FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition, and Jeremy Griffith’s other key books including the booklet version of THE Interview, are freely available on our homepage HERE to read online, download. You can also download the free Kindle version from Amazon. You will find all the options underneath the image of FREEDOM at the link above, including instructions for printing and even binding your own copy!

Yes Piere, in Part 2 of THE Interview, Jeremy Griffith explains that the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden describes the primary situation involved in our human condition of the psychologically upsetting battle that emerged between our instincts and our conscious intellect’s search for knowledge. As you have so excitedly realised, what science can now add to that pre-scientific description is that our instincts (which are perfectly orientated to the cooperative, selfless, loving, ‘Godly’ ideals of life, ‘God’ being briefly explained in THE Interview as being the integrative meaning of existence) in effect criticised the emerging conscious mind’s search for knowledge, but importantly, we can now understand that the conscious mind was right, or ‘good’ to defy our instinctive self in order to fulfil its great potential to manage life. While religious assurances, such as ‘God loves you’ in Christianity, provided comfort, they failed to explain WHY we are lovable, and it is that missing explanation that this breakthrough provides (and importantly, Part 4 explains how that redeeming knowledge brings about the rehabilitation of the world). I’m sure you will find our FAQs about religion most interesting, especially FAQ 6.2 ‘What is God’, where you will be pleased to find that Jeremy does quote ‘God is love’.

What is so extraordinary about Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ treatise is that it brings about the loving, soulful world of ‘women, mothers, indigenous humans in their native lands’ by defending men’s upset angry egocentric and alienated state!!! Men, it turns out, have not been villains, but the absolute heroes of the whole story of life on earth. It was only through finding the good reason that we had to defy our cooperative and nurturing instincts, which women and the more innocent races represented, that all our defensive, ‘bad’ behaviours (our anger, egocentricity and alienation) could be made redundant and the defiance and oppression of our soul could end. Ultimately, we had to end the underlying insecurity that was driving all the destructive behaviour, which is exactly what Jeremy’s explanation of the human condition in THE Interview does. And because this explanation establishes the equal worth of all humans we can at last acknowledge the differences between us all and bring the desperately needed reconciling understanding to men and women and all races. You might like to read our FAQ 9.1 about how this puts an end to racism and for a testimonial on the power of this knowledge to end racism, we recommend the presentation from Franklin Mukakanga, of Zambia, in Video/Freedom Essay 8. Also our FAQs about men and women are most helpful.

The effects of the human condition have certainly caused so much unbearable suffering it has been a deeply tragic reality for all humans and our planet stands on the edge of destruction. However, we suggest that if you digest the explanation of the human condition presented in THE Interview, you will see that by confronting and addressing the source of our aggressive destructive behaviour, which is what biologist Jeremy Griffith has done, that behaviour can finally be brought to an end. It was only through removing the insecurity that was driving our behaviour that our defensive anger, egocentricity and alienation could be made redundant, and we could legitimately return to the cooperative and loving state humanity once lived in and we all long for. It might be helpful to read FAQ 1.3, which provides a nutshell explanation of the human condition, and then watch THE Interview again. You might also find the comment by CCK directly above and our reply of interest.

THE Interview explains that humans’ greed and need for materialism is not driven by us having savage animal instincts but by a psychosis caused by a clash between our intellect and cooperative instincts. So we can now understand that all human selfishness and indifference is psychological in origin and ultimately an expression of the human condition. Importantly, a psychosis is changeable as it can be healed through understanding—a revelation that can transform the human race! We suggest you read our helpful FAQ 1.40 which answers the question ‘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 appreciative words Marisa. In case you aren’t aware you can see all our Spanish translations, including THE Interview, on our homepage or visit our Translations page. Also the WTM Colombian Centre presents its website in Spanish, including centre founder Carlos Cruz Blanco’s welcome video, so there is a feast of material available! You can contact Carlos via the Centre’s contact page.

There is no doubt that this explanation of the human condition needs to be part of the education syllabus, but that will happen naturally once the explanation gains mainstream acceptance, and so gaining that acceptance has to be our focus. And as with any new scientific breakthrough in history it will take time to gain that acceptance, however, with support from those who appreciate this understanding 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! You may find FAQ 1.27 of interest as it explains why the WTM doesn’t focus on trying to reach children and adolescents and why the breakout of truth about the human condition has to begin with adults.

Thank you very much for your thoughts John. Jeremy Griffith’s work opens up a new way of thinking so it takes a little time to fully absorb this new paradigm and our human condition does present the ultimate paradox. His biological ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition allows us to understand the real merits and liabilities of both the left and right wing. His work certainly doesn’t excuse the right-wing for its corrupting behaviour, nor unfairly focus on the failing of the left, which is that its insistence on ideal behaviour had the effect of oppressing the search for knowledge, but rather brings a profound understanding to both sides which ultimately will bring an end to the whole ugly business of politics. This is fully explained in our FAQs about politics. There is no hidden agenda in Jeremy’s work. His only focus is to end human suffering at its source by explaining our ‘good and evil’-stricken human condition and unite the human race, see FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does understanding of the human condition solve everything?’

This is simply fascinating !! Thank you for your spiritual energy and imagination!!

There is much to consider and absorb so re-watching THE Interview and the reading FREEDOM as you mention is exactly what we recommend people do (FREEDOM is free here on our homepage). 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! Also FAQ 1.40 is most helpful as it answers the question ‘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?’.

Wonderful feedback Emmanuel! Our homepage provides the perfect guide to pursue your interest now you have watched THE Interview and you never know, as your appreciation of how this explanation unravels the seemingly impenetrable and insoluble confusion of human life—you might decide to open a WTM Centre in Ghana! See our FAQ 3.6 How do I establish a WTM Centre?

The question of the human condition is WHY have we become so psychologically upset (what we have historically termed ‘evil’) that we have nearly destroyed our own planet?! 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, see FAQ 1.5 ‘Why is understanding the human condition important to my life?’

Hi Tim, Jeremy Griffith’s books are immediately available for free on our homepage at this link https://www.humancondition.com/#freedom. This includes Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM and the booklet version of THE Interview. You can also download free Kindle versions from Amazon.

It’s great to have your enthusiastic interest Martin! To learn more jump on our homepage—HumanCondition.com—which leads you through the steps to pursue your interest after watching THE Interview! 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.

    Well Ava our Portuguese translation of THE Interview is almost complete and will be freely available on our website very soon!! Also people can watch THE Interview, and all the videos on our website, with subtitles in their native language (use the closed captions or subtitles function by clicking on the ‘cc’ icon at the bottom of the video player/window).     We suggest you subscribe to our free mailing list to be kept informed of WTM developments including new translations. We currently provide translations of THE Interview, some of Jeremy Griffith’s books and essays in Afrikaans, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Polish and Spanish—including a German version of the key pages of the WTM’s main website!!

    Hi Nancy, 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. If you are particularly wanting a hard copy you can purchase them from Amazon or other good bookstores.     As THE Interview explains, the human condition is the most fearful of subjects because it’s the issue of whether we are fundamentally good or bad so yes we are extremely fearful but what is driving our behaviour is the deep insecurity and guilt we feel about it. Ultimately we needed to find the scientific explanation for why we are fundamentally good—answer the age-old 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 here.

Thank you Gjore for your interest. Our FAQ 3.4 lists the many ways people can become involved in the World Transformation Movement and help disseminate this world-saving information. This includes joining and participating in the WTM’s Facebook Community Group and attending our live events which you can register for here on our homepage. We also have over 50 WTM Centres around the world so you might like to contact the one nearest to you! See FAQ 3.3 for all our centres.

Thank you for your consideration Thomas. All we would say is that this knowledge presents a huge paradigm shift in our thinking and so it does take time to absorb. You are right in suggesting that we can experience the validity of the thesis, because in this particular scientific study — the biological analysis of the human condition — we humans are the subjects, which means we can experience, feel and know the truthfulness or otherwise of the explanations being put forward. It should be born in mind that in carrying out this assessment that 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.

Certainly Buddhism provided guidance on dealing with the symptoms of the human condition, on “how to deal with the deviation from the central path”, but ultimately we needed to find the scientific explanation for why we deviated; for why, when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless, we are so angry, competitive and selfish. Answering this question required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy presents in THE Interview and his book FREEDOM. We suggest FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this original or new?’ which explains the unique significance of Jeremy Griffith’s work.

Thanks for you comment. Just to be clear, the ‘Adam and Eve theory’ is explained to be a metaphor for the psychologically upsetting battle that emerged between our instincts and conscious intellect. That battle emerged over millions of years amongst our distant ape ancestors. With regard to freedom of choice and ability of individuals to choose how they act, what the instinct vs intellect understanding explains is why any individual chooses to act in the way they do i.e. why we make the selfish and aggressive choices we do. We can now understand that because individuals have different encounters with the human condition through the circumstances of their lives and upbringing, they will have various levels of psychological upset, and as a result there will be different levels of upset and need for reinforcement, and it is this that explains why individuals choose the way they do, and why we variously choose to ignore our consciences. Importantly, we can at last understand the source of our upset and bring great compassion and kindness to ourselves and others.