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Hi Sujata, what is so powerful about the explanation of the human condition is that by solving our species' discord at its source, it brings an end to all the terrible, and seemingly overwhelmingly problems besetting the world. 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. We recommend reading FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does understanding of the human condition solve everything?’ and our Transformation page, which contains invaluable insight and personal affirmations about how we can all transform our lives with this understanding. We’d also especially recommend you register for our live events with Jeremy Griffith because these events provide helpful and practical discussion about this immensely relieving knowledge.

While Christianity and other religions contain all manner of truths about human life, it is all from a pre-scientific view. 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 presents in THE Interview and his book FREEDOM. What Jeremy is putting forward is that for there to be a fundamental change in our human situation we had to understand the human condition – humans’ capacity for good and evil – from a biological perspective. We recommend reading our FAQs about religion for how this treatise reconciles science and religion.

Hi Margrethe, great to have your interest! To learn more, 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.

Jeremy Griffith explains that our selfish behaviour is not caused by cultural or economic forces, rather it is psychological in origin, the result of a clash between our emerging conscious mind, and our pre-established loving instincts that were derived through the love-indoctrination process (see Freedom Essay 21). Most importantly, psychoses can be healed with understanding, so that’s the importance of the psychosis-addressing-and-solving, explanation of the human condition presented in THE Interview — it brings a complete and permanent end to our insecurity-driven selfish behaviour, completely transforming all humans into secure and happy beings.

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.

Thank you for your interest and enthusiasm, Thulani. It’s great you found the time to listen to THE Interview. We suggest that the more you digest Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation, the more you will realise how realistic and accountable it actually is in getting to the source of all humanity’s psychological upset. As THE Interview explains we do have completely loving and selfless instincts (as a result of the nurturing love-indoctrination process explained in Part 3), and that our greed and conflict isn’t the product of limited resources, but a psychosis resulting from a clash between our emerging conscious mind and those pre-established instincts. Selfishness, which is what fighting over resources is, is a symptom of the underlying, deep insecurity in humans caused by the human condition, so if we solve that condition we resolve any competition over resources. Solving the human condition meant answering the essential question of why, when the ideals are to be loving and selfless, are we so competitive and selfish? It is this question of questions that Jeremy has solved. To quote FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does understanding solve everything’: “So, in a world fast going crazy from the effects of the human condition, this is the now desperately needed reconciling understanding that brings about a new world for humans FREE of the agony of the human condition. This is the understanding that ends human suffering at its source, and unites the human race.”

    Thank you Vitor. For those without a science background, phylogenesis refers to the evolutionary development of a species (or phylum), while ontogenesis refers to the development of the individual organism. As Jeremy Griffith explains in chapter 8 of his definitive book FREEDOM, “the stages that we, as conscious individuals, progress through are the same stages our human ancestors progressed through—‘ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny’: our individual consciousness necessarily charts the same course that our species’ consciousness has taken as a whole.”     What is presented in THE Interview, and in particular in chapter 8 of FREEDOM, is the story of how the search for knowledge has meant each individual, and the human race as a whole, has journeyed from a state of loving innocence, to one of psychological upset. We highly recommend chapter 8 (which is titled ‘The Greatest, Most Heroic Story Ever Told’), which Jeremy introduces by writing, “we can now explain and describe the entire psychological journey our species has been on—and since that psychological journey is the real journey we fully conscious, human-condition-afflicted humans have been on, and since it has never before been able to be presented, this chapter provides the first ever true description of our species’ development. While there have been libraries of books written about human origins, this is the first denial-free, truthful description of our species’ emergence from our ape ancestors. And, since the main dishonest denial that has been maintained by mechanistic science was that our distant ancestors were controlled by competitive, selfish, brutish instincts that our conscious mind had to try to restrain, when, in fact, the true story is the absolute opposite of this account—that our ape ancestors were actually loving and gentle and that it was with the emergence of our conscious mind that we became competitive and selfish brutes—what is going to be presented is the completely new, never before told story of the human race!”

Hi Pierre, thank you so much for your enthusiasm for this world-saving and life-transforming understanding; it’s great you want to share these insights with your family. Our homepage — HumanCondition.com — provides a wonderful road map to progress with all our free, key material and you can register for free, live, interactive presentations with Jeremy Griffith about this immensely relieving understanding. Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition is also available for free on our homepage, along with his other key books including the booklet version of THE Interview, to read online or download.

Thank you very much, Sister Khema, for such deeply appreciative feedback to Jeremy Griffith’s work. We are very sorry to hear of your condition but it is absolutely wonderful you have found THE Interview so helpful and are sharing it, and yes being able to at last biologically understand the mystery of our contradictory behaviour brings immense relief and hope to our whole being! It’s the greater truth that we now have full understanding of the essential goodness and beauty of us humans that’s so fundamental for everyone now compared to walking in the darkness of having no understanding of the immense suffering the whole human race has been in. Finally being able to actually biologically understand the true goodness and meaning of ourselves and our part in the human journey is the basis of the reassurance everyone needs and the greatest source of love for every person and the entire world. You might be interested in Jeremy’s new presentation The Great Guilt (which is the next video to watch after THE Interview) as it gives an astonishingly revealing description of The Great Burden Of Guilt that has finally been lifted from the human race. From there our homepage — HumanCondition.com — presents the different ways to pursue your interest including the other main videos to watch.

    Hi Mikk, you have raised very good, and serious issues regarding the dissemination and uptake of this world-saving understanding. To try to alleviate your concerns, we are, firstly, absolutely doing all we can to get this world-saving understanding to everyone on the planet because, as you are discovering, only this redeeming and rehabilitating understanding can heal humanity’s psychological upset that manifests in the aggressive, competitive and selfish behaviour you speak of. We’d recommend re-watching Part 4 of THE Interview, titled ‘How does the psychological rehabilitation of the human race that the arrival of understanding of the human condition finally makes possible actually occur?’, because it presents the answer to how this understanding allows us to transform our lives. It explains that while it will take a number of generations for this upset within us to be completely healed, it also stresses importantly we can be immediately free of its effects.     Secondly, once this starts to catch on, it will catch on like wildfire because nothing in the world can compare to the excitement and joy of finally being liberated from the human condition. Certainly there is habituation to overcome and humans do find change very difficult but 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 we have the first principle science which liberates us to be honest about our conflicted upset state instead of denying or transcending it. So 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. How this healing is immediately open to us all is also summarised in FAQ 1.5. We also strongly recommend reading FAQ 1.40 which specifically addresses your question of ‘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.”     So, as Jeremy explains in chapter 9.9 of his book FREEDOM, while “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, and in the rapidly growing appreciation and support for Jeremy’s work from thought leaders and WTM Centre founders all over the world, all of which you can read on our homepage.

It’s great you want more of this understanding Debra and you won’t be disappointed! 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 thriving 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.

Thank you for your wonderful feedback Helen! Yes Jeremy Griffith’s work doesn’t contradict a belief in God it simply brings biological understanding to all those pre-scientific concepts. Although this is science, it is based on a Godly nature in the sense of recognising, like all the great religions do, that we humans once lived in a pre-human-condition-afflicted state of original innocence where we were perfectly instinctively orientated to the cooperative, selfless, loving, ‘Godly’ ideals of life; ‘God’ being briefly explained in THE Interview as being the integrative meaning of existence, see our FAQs about religion especially FAQs ‘What is God’ and ‘Does this understanding undermine religion’.

Yes Lee, as Jeremy Griffith stresses in his work religion has contained all manner of truth about the human condition, albeit without the benefit of science. While I am not familiar with “Ancient Jewish Wisdom” I have heard that the Kabbalah recognises that Adam and Eve were not sinful, but trying to fulfil a great purpose in eating from the tree of knowledge; the gnostic tradition in Christianity has a similar emphasis on the importance of the search for knowledge. Most versions of Bible do, however, stress that Adam and Eve were ‘disobedient’ or ‘bad’ to take the ‘apple’ of knowledge. For example, as Jeremy explains in Part 2 of 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’ (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 be interested in the WTM’s 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.

Finding the answer to the human condition is the key and this ultimately depended on being able to explain our biology. Yes there has 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 in Buddhism, 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? / How does biologist Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition differ from other theories that recognise these elements?’

    Hi Bryronoccor, we suggest if you re-watch THE Interview you will find the logic you ask for, as there is no derogatory language regarding the left wing. In fact Jeremy Griffith’s biological explanation of the human condition allows us to understand the real merits and liabilities of both the left and right wing. His work 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 further explained in our FAQs about politics. Asia and Africa are not “ignored”; the human condition is a universal condition and applies to everyone. If some of the references are European, that just reflects Jeremy’s familiarity with those sources, nothing else.     With regard to religion, it needs to be born in mind that this is a summary presentation, however Jeremy does briefly define the concept of ‘God’ and then refers the audience to the full explanation in chapter 4 of his book FREEDOM. He also discusses that while religions contain all manner of truths about human life, it is all from a pre-scientific view and uses the Biblical story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden as an example. See our FAQs about religion for how this treatise reconciles science and religion.     The overall message THE Interview presents is that we can stop human suffering, however, that means being honest about the truly dire state the world has arrived at, and the true state of the human condition, because to solve the human condition we have to confront and deal with the source of our species’ corrupted condition and bring relieving understanding to it. This is what Jeremy’s treatise does and why it is heralded as the biological breakthrough that can save the world which couldn’t be a more profoundly positive and exciting message. You can see the commendations his work has received from eminent scientists and thought leaders around the world on our homepage here.     We suggest re-watching THE Interview and have a look at our FAQs, and you will find that rather than certain subjects being dealt with in a biased, closed minded or illogical manner, everything Jeremy Griffith writes about human culture and behaviour is a completely accountable and explicable consequence of the instinct vs intellect insight. With regard to the suggestion that Jeremy’s honesty about the state of the world is out of synch with the optimistic message of finally being able to understand the human condition, it needs to be understood that prior to having the redeeming understanding of our ‘dark side’ we have had to live in denial of what a mess the world was in because it was just too depressing; however now that the human condition has been solved, it is possible to be honest about the true state of the world, because we now have the reconciling, redeeming and rehabilitating understanding to fix it.

Absolutely Virginia and it is so fascinating to read about. Jeremy Griffith identifies eight stages that characterise our individual lives and the development of our species (see this article for a summary). He explains that understanding the development of consciousness (see FAQ 5.4 ‘What is Consciousness’) is the key to understanding each of these stages. Moreover, each stage of the individual’s life is a reflection of the stages of development that humanity as a whole has progressed through over millions of years. He explains: “This parallel occurs because the stages that we, as conscious individuals, progress through are the same stages our human ancestors progressed through – ‘ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny’: our individual consciousness necessarily charts the same course that our species’ consciousness has taken as a whole. Wherever consciousness emerges it will first become self-aware, then it will start to experiment with its power to effectively understand and thus manage change, then it will seek to understand the meaning behind all change, and from there it will obviously try to comply with that meaning. In the case of consciousness developing in us individually and in our ancestors, that journey was disrupted by our necessary search for the understanding of why we did not comply with the integrative, cooperative meaning of existence.” (Freedom: Expanded Book 1).

Thanks for your thoughts Amândio, but we suggest you watch THE Interview again as it will become clear that Jeremy Griffith’s work is not wishful concepts or an idealistic plea for the world to just be loving and cooperative. Rather it is a first-principle biological explanation of our ‘good and evil’ stricken human condition that answers the age-old question of why when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless we are so angry, competitive and selfish. Also, you may 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.”

Thank you for your comment Bryan. With regard to the bonobo ape discussed in THE Interview, there is no suggestion that humans are descended from bonobos, however, what is being suggested is that bonobos have encountered the same conditions and are going through the same process that our distant ancestors did, and therefore provide an extraordinary insight into our distant ancestors, see FAQ 5.2 ‘How did we humans acquire our all-loving, unconditionally selfless moral conscience? / What do bonobos tell us about our own evolutionary heritage?’

Hi Peter, thanks for your thoughts. What is so significant about Jeremy Griffith’s treatise is it explains WHY humans lust for such power and control and why mainstream science is so mechanistic. As THE Interview explains in the absence of the fully accountable, true understanding of the human condition—the explanation for why we behave divisively instead of cooperatively and lovingly—it makes sense that we needed to come up with scientific excuses in order to cope with the negative implications of our behaviour and why we used power and control to artificially feel good about ourselves. See FAQ 1.2 ‘How does science currently explain the human condition?’ and FAQ 1.40 ‘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?’

Yes Terrybhoy finally being able to understand the battle between our instinct and intellect is immensely helpful as the core breakthrough of Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition 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 we don’t have to overly confront the upset within us (as FAQ 1.19 summarises). Wishing you all the very best with your courageous recovery.

Hi Hank, yes obtaining thought leader support for Jeremy Griffith’s breakthrough explanation of the human condition is very important because people with great influence can make a huge impact in encouraging other people to seriously consider this information, and this is confirmed by the impact of the impressive commendations Jeremy’s work has already received, which you can read on our homepage here. However we can all make a huge difference and impact once we understand this all-reconciling information — see our FAQ 3.4 all the ways you can support this critical new science including approaching world leaders, registering for our free live events with Jeremy Griffith and joining our booming Facebook Group where there is much fascinating discussion taking place.

    Thank you for your suggestion Marja. The greatest of all themes of our best composers and artists has been the dream of humanity one day finding the fabulously liberating and transforming understanding of our species’ good-and-evil-stricken human condition. As THE Interview explains, despite our competitive and selfish behaviour we have always intuitively believed we were fundamentally good, but we have never been able to explain this contradictory, conflicted condition, until now. Using first principle-based biology, Jeremy Griffith explains that understanding why the intellect had to defy our cooperative ‘good’ instincts and become psychologically upset, or ‘bad’, could we resolve our species’ psychosis and legitimately return to the nurturing, loving and sensitive state we once lived in. For more about how having this core mystery of human behaviour solved transforms the human race, see our Transformation page.     We think you will find Jeremy’s Freedom Essay 45 about prophetic songs anticipating the arrival of the truth about humans absolutely fascinating and also Video/Freedom Essay 12 where Jeremy further discusses this great hunger in the human heart that one day we would find this reconciling understanding that artists are inspired by, including the renowned English composer Andrew Lloyd Webber.

It’s wonderful to have your interest Dr Pal. You can purchase hard copies of FREEDOM, and all of Jeremy Griffith’s books, from Amazon or other good bookstores. Otherwise they are freely available here on our homepage to download and print or you can download the free Kindle versions from Amazon.

    THE Interview booklet is free on our homepage here (along with Jeremy Griffith’s other key books) to read online or download (no email required). Some prefer to purchase THE Interview as a beautifully bound colour booklet, the details of which are given here on our website.     Also, THE Interview and other WTM publications are available in Afrikaans, Dutch, French, Greek, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish here on our website.

We really need to be empowered with knowledge about human behavior by our learned academics

    Yes it is amazing Devendrra! With biological explanation of the human condition we can at last decipher mythology which is deeply confirming and relieving. For instance THE Interview explains the unique significance of Jeremy’s treatise which brings new insight to mythology and religious scriptures about our “corrupt state”. 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. Only understanding why our consciousness had to defy our “original God like nature” and become upset could we resolve our species’ psychosis and legitimately return to the “loving caring and all inclusive” state we once lived in.     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.

Reggie Khotshobe, the founder of the Eastern Cape WTM Centre in Africa, explains in his commendation how Jeremy Griffith’s redeeming, reconciling and rehabilitating explanation of the human condition brings about ‘Ubuntu’ for whole the human race – see HERE.

Jeremy Griffith’s booklet Death by Dogma about the danger of the left wing (along with all his other key books, including FREEDOM, and 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.)

Yes, but what is explained in THE Interview is that when the human mind exercised its “beautiful” ability to self-manage, our instincts need to impose “security and continuity” meant that they inadvertently ‘criticised’ our conscious mind. The result is that we became psychologically upset angry, egocentric and alienated. This understanding is a huge paradigm shift so it does take some time to digest, but we hope you persevere Fernando because you find that it makes perfect sense!

Yes Elize, the significance of this breakthrough can not be overstated. 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.)

While religions contain all manner of truths about human life, it is all from a pre-scientific view. 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 presents in THE Interview and his book FREEDOM. Jeremy Griffith’s treatise will actually resonate with those familiar with religious scripture, because it reconciles science and religion by bringing biological understanding to pre-scientific concepts such as innocence, sin and ‘Judgment Day’, etc. In fact, what people discover is it is the fulfilment of a time that all religions looked forward to when we could actually explain ourselves – see our FAQs on religion.

    Thank you very much for your interest, Laura. In order to stop the ugly division, hatred and intolerance we see all around us and truly be able to move forward, we needed to understand our human condition — why, when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless, are we so angry, 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, each other and the world again. (‘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.) That is the power of this breakthrough understanding, because the selflessness and functionality it liberates from the binds of selfishness and dysfunctionality will enable us to effectively deal with all the overwhelming problems that are burdening our world, and very quickly, because we will be able to effectively address challenges as a collective by prioritising the needs of the greater whole.     We recommend reading FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does understanding of the human condition solve everything?’ and our Transformation page, which contains invaluable insight and personal affirmations about how we can all transform our lives with this understanding. We’d also especially recommend you join our Facebook Group and register for our live events with Jeremy Griffith because those forums also provide helpful and practical discussion about this immensely relieving knowledge.

Certainly humanity has been matriarchal during its history, however what is explained in chapter 8:11B of FREEDOM is that humanity necessarily became patriarchal when the priority became defeating the threat of ignorance from our instinctive self against our conscious mind. What is so exciting and significant is that through explaining the very good reason why our intellect had to defy our instincts, it makes redundant our defensive behaviours of anger, egocentricity and alienation, allowing us at last to become genuinely cooperative again, and obviously gender neutral. We recommend reading FAQ 8.1 ‘How does the explanation of the human condition reconcile men and women?’

Historically the human condition, the question of our ultimate worth, has been a terrifying subject, and so even though Jeremy Griffith has now been safely explained it with the instinct vs intellect explanation, discussion of it can cause people to become defensive, even angry. Accusations such as Jeremy Griffith’s treatise does not contain “a shred of objective scientific inquiry” are motivated by this (now baseless) fear. With regard to your accusation about Jane Goodall’s chimpanzees clearly being violent and therefore evidence is ‘cherry picked”, the apes presented and discussed in THE Interview are not chimpanzees but bonobos. It is very true that chimpanzees are violent and often kill one another, however the bonobos are peaceful and gentle, with no recorded examples of killing in the wild. The next point to make is that the bonobos are a better model for our ancestors than chimpanzees. This is all explained in chapter 5 of Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM, which is fascinating reading. 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]”. See Freedom Essay 56 ‘Why there have been ferocious attacks on the WTM’.

Yes, we have had to compensate for the insecurity of the human condition through pursuing “money, greed, power”. What is so important about Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition is that it finally explains the real reason for why humans’ competitive and power-hungry behaviour became an unavoidable, indeed necessary, part of human life. And so even though it has been terribly destructive, money, materialism and power gave us validation and reinforcement to counter the deep insecurity we felt about having to become self-corrupted – they sustained humanity’s heroic search for knowledge. But with our goodness and worth now biologically established, all our defensive, ‘harmful’ ‘destructive’ behaviours (essentially our anger, egocentricity and alienation) are made redundant; we can actually stop the destruction of ourselves and save the world.

Yes, while religions identified the human condition in their scripture, and sought to limit it’s destructive effects through admonition and even fear, they were coming from a pre-scientific perspective; in order to actually solve the human condition, 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. You might be interested in our FAQs about religion and its role in the pre-human-condition-explained world.

     This isn’t at all like Scientology that’s not grounded in first-principle biology, or another metaphysics-based religious system. It is rational, accountable first-principle biology which reconciles science and religion — it puts an end to dogma, superstition and faith, because it brings clarifying explanation to this underlying issue in all human affairs, of our human condition. It answers in first-principle biological terms the obvious question that has caused humans so much buried guilt and insecurity — how can we be so selfish, angry and destructive when the ideals are to be loving and selfless?      With regard to psychological therapy (which Dianetics focuses on), ultimately it was only by bringing reconciling understanding to our conflicted selves that we could truly ameloriate and heal our psychological condition. As the distinguished psychiatrist Professor Harry Prosen (who wrote the Introduction to Jeremy’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). Jeremy writes more about the real therapy of the human condition that now becomes possible in his forthcoming Freedom Essay 64 (an outline of which is here on our website).

Thank you very much Otuo. To learn more, 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.