Comments on THE Interview

It is great you want to know more George! Given there is a lot to digest we recommend re-watching THE Interview, and then watching the video series that follows it, all on our homepage. In terms of how we move forward with this discovery at last we can understand our behaviour has been driven by a deep insecurity about our fundamental goodness, 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 we have the first principle science which liberates us to be honest about our conflicted upset state instead of denying or transcending it. FAQs 1.4 to 1.6 are helpful and our Transformation page contains invaluable insight and personal affirmations. 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.

    Thank you for your feedback Reverend AlDavies. Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM (along with his other key books, including THE Interview) is freely available to download or read online HERE on our homepage. You can also download free Kindle versions from Amazon. (Otherwise you can purchase hard copies from Amazon or other good bookstores.)     We are sure you will find our FAQs about religion most interesting as the human condition is the study of humans’ capacity for so-called ‘good and evil’and is therefore the realm of inquiry where science and religion overlap, so in explaining the human condition religion is demystified and explained. Jeremy Griffith’s treatise actually reconciles science and religion by bringing biological understanding to pre-scientific concepts. This is further dealt with in Freedom Essays 38 – 41 about deciphering religion which are absolutely fascinating.

Great to have your interest Lillis. As THE Interview explains while thinkers throughout history have touched on elements of the human condition in their thinking, ultimately we needed to find the scientific explanation for why when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless are we so angry, competitive and selfish. Answering this question required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy Griffith presents here. We suggest FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this original or new?’ and Video/Freedom Essay 4 which expands further on other thinkers (both ancient and contemporary) who have recognised instinct and intellect elements involved in creating the human condition.

Thank you for your comment David. Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition brings biological understanding to religious accounts of our condition, which means we can at last reconcile science and religion. For instance, as THE Interview explains, the story of Adam and Eve is a pre-scientific metaphor for the emergence of consciousness and its clash with our pre-established, cooperative loving instincts, resulting in humans ‘fall’ or them becoming psychologically upset or ‘sinful’. However as Jeremy stresses, significantly we can now understand, from scientific first principles, that ‘Adam and Eve’ were ‘good’ to search for knowledge, not bad or ‘evil’; we humans are actually the absolute heroes of the whole story! Thankfully, now the redeeming answer to the human condition has been found, rather than controlling our behaviour through discipline, our psychological upset can actually subside, and we can truly be liberated from the human condition, see FAQ 1.5.

    Thank you for your comment Mengistu. You may be interested that Jeremy Griffith is currently writing two new essays which will cover the work of Bruce Lipton and others and the huge difference between them and his instinct vs intellect treatise. As THE Interview explains it is our destructively behaved, so-called human condition that really has to be dealt with if we are to solve the world’s problems and heal the human race. To do this we had to 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?’, and this required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy presents. 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.     These forthcoming essays are Freedom Essays 63: ‘Pseudo Therapy/Healing’ and Freedom Essay 64: ‘Real Therapy/Healing’ (click on these essay links for information about each essay). F. Essay 63 explains there are many approaches that seek to heal and therapise human psychoses but they are all coming from an extremely dishonest and superficial, human-condition-avoiding, pseudo therapising angle, and this does include the work of Bruce Lipton and many others, and F. Essay 64 presents the human-condition-confronting, honest, true, genuinely effective therapy/healing that understanding of the human condition now makes possible.

It’s great you are persevering Suzanne and you won’t be disappointed because as you are sensing it provides great knowledge! While great care has been taken to present the information as quickly and simply as possible (which is done in Part 1 of THE Interview) explanation of the human condition can be initially difficult to access. This is because it has been the most terrifying of subjects to face as 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. Also FAQ 1.3 presents a very brief summary of the key ‘instinct vs intellect’ concept.

We certainly hope you do Lorita. 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.

Yes, that’s exactly right Deb. The more you digest this presentation, the more you realise just how universal this insecurity about our self worth is; it is behind all our behaviour and everyone suffers from it. In fact everyone has had to live in denial of it because it was just too depressing to acknowledge, and so they just get on with their lives and pretend the meaning the life is to be selfish and make ourselves feel good about ourselves. But having found the good, indeed heroic, reason that we had to defy our instincts means that insecurity ends, and that compassionate truth means that everyone can start to move out of Plato’s dark cave of denial, and live with honesty about our condition, and most excitingly, we can now choose not to act in accord with that insecurity. You might be interested in Jeremy’s new presentation The Great Guilt, which explains just how guilty and ashamed humans have been of corrupting our original instinctive self or soul.

Hi Andy, thanks for your question. No, this is not a religious group; what Jeremy Griffith is presenting is first principle-based, rational, testable, biological understanding of the human condition which has attracted the support of eminent scientists and thinkers (see our homepage). There is no faith or belief involved, it’s all about knowledge. This realm of inquiry is, however, where science and religion overlap—as the Nobel prize-winning physicist Charles H. Townes recognised, science and religion “both represent man’s efforts to understand his universe and must ultimately be dealing with the same substance. As we understand more in each realm, the two must grow together…converge they must.” So naturally in explaining the human condition the terms ‘good and evil’ and religious references are used, and through scientific explanation, finally demystified and reconciled. We recommend reading our FAQ 6.1 ‘Is this a religion?’

     Thanks Silvia. With the human condition solved, topics such as consciousness that have previously been impenetrable because of our fear of our psychologically corrupted state now become relatively easy to understand – see our FAQ on consciousness for example.      With regard to science and spirituality, the human condition is the study of humans’ capacity for so-called ‘good and evil’and is therefore the realm of inquiry where science and religion overlap, so in explaining the human condition religion is demystified and explained. Jeremy Griffith’s treatise actually reconciles science and religion by bringing biological understanding to pre-scientific concepts. You might be interested in our FAQs about religion.

We can now understand that religion has acted as the custodian of the ideal state and as a means of solace for those exhausted by the corrupting journey; our FAQs about the demystification of religion may be of interest. So religion has had a very important role to play during humanity’s journey to find the understanding of why, when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless are we humans so angry, competitive and selfish.

    Thanks for your interest Lorenzo, and yes, Jeremy Griffith’s book FREEDOM is available for free on our homepage here (along with his other key books, including THE Interview) to read online or download. You can also download free Kindle versions from Amazon. (Otherwise you can purchase hard copies from Amazon or other good bookstores.)     And we want to clarify that as THE Interview explains, it’s not just “the current generation” that is afflicted by the human condition; all humans suffer from the universal psychosis caused by the clash between our instinct and intellect. We became angry, egocentric and alienated or in a word ‘upset’ so all humans, to varying degrees, suffer from the human condition. As 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.” (see FAQ 1.34).

Jeremy Griffith acknowledges that when M. Scott Peck wrote ‘Take the wonderful story of Adam and Eve, the Garden, the apple, and the snake…Is it a story of our fall from grace and alienation from our environment? Or is it a story of our evolution into self-consciousness…? Or both? (The Different Drum, 1987)' he was recognising that the emergence of consciousness and the associated corruption of self was for a positive reason, namely our conscious search for understanding, particularly self-understanding. As THE Interview explains, elements of the human condition have been recognised by many thinkers throughout history but what is unique about Jeremy’s synthesis is that he actually solves the dilemma of human condition of ‘why, when the ideals are to be loving and selfless, are we so competitive and selfish?’ by clarifying the difference between the way the intellect and instincts work. That is the great breakthrough his work represents (see FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this idea original or new? and Video/Freedom Essay 4 on other thinkers who have recognised instinct and intellect elements involved in creating the human condition).

We can now understand that the story of Adam and Eve is a metaphor for the emergence of the conscious mind in the prescence of pre-established cooperative and loving instincts. As Jeremy explains in THE Interview, “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’ ‘from the tree of knowledge’ and were ‘disobedient’. 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’ perpetrators of ‘sin’ because they became angry, egocentric and alienated, and as a result Moses said they were ‘banished…​from the Garden of Eden’ state of cooperative and loving innocence.” But as is explained, Adam and Eve (which again, is a metaphor for us humans) are actually not just good but the heroes of the whole story of life on Earth.

Thank you Valeriu. Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM and his other key books including a booklet version of THE Interview, are freely available on our homepage here to read online, print and download. You can also purchase hardcopies and download free Kindle versions from Amazon.

Thank you for your comment, Patrick. Confronting the human condition and explaining that humans are a psychologically upset species does take time to absorb, but we suggest that the more you do so, the more you will realise that Jeremy Griffith’s explanation has at last got to the bottom of the human condition. You might be interested in reading more in FAQ 1.6: Why this solves everything.

This concept seems very rational and intensely fascinating. I’m going to buy this book.

Thanks for your comment Alina. While those problems are all very true, what we are suggesting is that the human condition - which is our insecure, psychologically upset state – is the reason for the apathy and selfishness that prevents us from fixing all these issues. In other words, overpopulation and lack of housing and education are symptoms of our insecure human condition, so ultimately, to reform those behaviours we had to end that underlying insecurity, get to the core of the problem and fix that.

This has already been said in our part of the world. In Hinduism, Buddhism and some other religions one works on ones own consciousness by meditating and raising their own level if consiousness and thus realising the goodness within oneself and therefore being a better human being. Thus making the world a better place to live in. Also Osho has said a lot about it.

Yes Reginald, as you’ve rightly recognised, THE Interview explains that all the dysfunction and destruction in the world are manifestations of the ‘instinct vs intellect’ conflict within each of us that has produced the psychologically upset state of the human condition. But what is so powerful about the explanation of the human condition is that by solving the discord at its source, it brings an end to all the terrible, and seemingly overwhelmingly “complex” problems that you list – indeed it is the only way to bring an end to all those symptoms of our psychologically upset condition. 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) means all our defensive and apathetic behaviours (our anger, egocentricity and alienation) are now redundant; they can “stop”. You might be interested in reading FAQs 1.4 to 1.6 as they explain the far-reaching “practical, physical” applications of this understanding and Freedom Essay 15 ‘How our lives can be immediately transformed’. Also our Transformation page contains 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.

Jeremy’s treatise does bring new insight to the story of Adam and Eve, clarifying that while in the pre-scientific story Adam and Eve were portrayed as ‘bad’ or even ‘evil’ to take the fruit of knowledge, and treated as ‘sinful’, we can now understand that humans were ‘good’, even heroic, to search for knowledge, even though it caused us to become psychologically upset angry, egocentric and alienated sufferers of the human condition. As Jeremy says in Part 1 of THE Interview, “‘No, no, that story got it wrong’. Adam and Eve are actually not just good but the heroes of the whole story of life on Earth.” What science can now add to that pre-scientific description of the human condition is that our instincts 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 significantly, by bringing biological understanding to pre-scientific concepts it at last reconciles science and religion — but rather than threatening religions, what people discover is it is the fulfilment of a time that all the great prophets looked forward to when we could actually explain ourselves (see our FAQs about religion especially FAQ 6.2 ‘What is God’).

Thanks for your comment and interest, Fidel. 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, once this information gets a foothold through enough people developing a deep appreciation and desire to support it, the selfless love and energy that will generate will solve our problems very quickly because, as THE Interview explains, instead of being selfishly preoccupied with power, fame, fortune and glory, all our energies will be freed to truly work together and focus on doing whatever it takes to end the suffering in all the corners of the world.

Roland, you can see all our Spanish translations, including chapters 1 – 5 of FREEDOM (we are working through the remaining chapters) and THE Interview, as well as the first Freedom Essay, on 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 significant amount of material available!

Hi Marilyn, with Jeremy Griffith’s compassionate understanding of the human condition we can now appreciate that humanity’s necessary preoccupation with finding knowledge compromised our ability to nurture, but now that that preoccupation ends we can safely acknowledge the absolute importance of nurturing in our species' development (see also Freedom Essay 21) and in the individual 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’).

Hi Patrícia, 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 and thus regressing, not progressing, 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.

Hi Rodolfo, you can see all our Spanish translations, including chapters 1 – 5 of FREEDOM (it won’t be long until we have translated the whole book!) and THE Interview, as well as the first Freedom Essay, on 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!

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

Powerful wake up call for the new human race, I think this is the tip of an iceberg ...

I love it, thank you for your hard work

    Thanks for your question Pera. As Jeremy Griffith points out in Part 2 of THE Interview the issue of the human condition has been such a denied and off-limits subject that confronting it represents the “biggest of all blasphemies”, and how “science progresses funeral by funeral” when it comes to supporting big paradigm shifts like this, see FAQ 1.14 ‘Why aren’t these ideas mainstream’     Having said that, as Jeremy explains in chapter 9.9 of his book FREEDOM: “Although this new world for humans, which the World Transformation Movement has been established to facilitate, will, as has been stated, have a slow beginning because humans initially find it difficult even taking in or ‘hearing’ discussion about the human condition, once the WTM is discovered, word of it and what it offers every human and the world will spread like wildfire.’” And so even though we haven’t yet reached the tipping point we are well on our way as you can see from the excitement and relief in our daily ecstatic responses to THE Interview! Also, on our homepage, you can see the rapidly growing appreciation and support for Jeremy’s work with outstanding commendations from thought leaders and WTM Centres all over the world!     And yes this breakthrough instinct vs intellect explanation of the human condition establishes the equality of all humans and brings compassionate and thus safe understanding to ALL of human behaviour — including why the horror of racism has existed under the duress of the human condition and, most importantly, finally brings it to an end, see FAQ 9.1 ‘How do you explain racism?’

A must watch. The war between instinct and the conscious mind. Fantastic. No wonder we have excuses on the vises we get into that bring us suffering. We need to recognize the war and control ourselves. We will be free.

We suggest you need to look deeper William because, as THE Interview explains, our greed and desire for materialism, are symptoms of our insecure human condition, so ultimately, to reform those behaviours we have to end that underlying insecurity, get to the core of the problem and fix that which is what Jeremy Griffith has done and presents here in THE Interview. What is explained is that our emerging conscious mind came into conflict with our pre-established instincts, causing us to become insecure and psychologically upset, which we then compensate for through selfishness and materialism – see FAQ 1.3 for a nutshell summary. With regard to fire and language – they could be used properly, so they obviously weren’t the source of the problem. No, they are simply products of our emerging conscious mind, which our subsequent state of psychological upset has caused us to corrupt or use improperly.

Well our homepage—HumanCondition.com—has it all there for you Nikay 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.

What is so significant about Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ treatise is it explains that despite our differences, due to the various levels of upset caused by everyone’s different encounters with humanity’s heroic battle to find knowledge, we are all equally good. In summary, the eternal battle for humans has been to validate ourselves, establish once and for all that we are fundamentally good and not bad, and it’s that deepest and most important of all battles that has finally been won. Solving the human condition solves all the confusion, frustration and suffering in human life at its source, see FAQ 1.5.

Having this understanding taught in schools may appear a long way off but take heart, Karen, as every day more people are discovering it’s astonishing explanatory power! While this necessarily has a slow start, humanity’s uptake of the explanation of the human condition has a fast finish as the selflessness it liberates in people will not only quickly solve all the problems on the planet, including teaching other people about this redeeming information, but the excitement and joy it brings means everyone will want to get on board as quickly as they can (see FAQ 1.5)! And so even though we haven’t yet reached the tipping point we are well on our way as you can see from the excitement and relief in our daily ecstatic responses to THE Interview! Also, on our homepage, you can see the rapidly growing appreciation and support for Jeremy’s work with outstanding commendations from thought leaders and WTM Centres all over the world!