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Thank so much for your generous offer and please email us at [email protected] so we can discuss how you can help! We do already have THE Interview and our key Introductory Videos/ Freedom Essays 1 – 14 translated into French. You can see all our translations on our homepage (under ‘Main Videos’ there is a ‘Translations’ button). Also our centres WTM Nice and WTM Switzerland present their websites in French so there is a feast of material available but we certainly would like to provide more translations so your offer is greatly appreciated and we look forward to hearing from you!

That’s wonderful feedback Danielle. Practices such as meditation have been invaluable tools in helping us cope with the upset human condition, calm the troubled mind and soul of humans, but, as you say, fail to produce a lasting solution. Fundamentally they are about escaping the pain in our brains, rather than confronting and solving the pain at its source which Jeremy’s treatise does. Our conscious minds needed reconciling understanding of our conflicted selves (the core issue of the human condition) to truly heal and re-unite with our all-sensitive, loving soul. Yes at last we have the key to the transformation we so long for and deserve, see FAQ 6.5 about the important difference in these approaches.

This breakthrough instinct versus intellect explanation of the human condition (which Video/Freedom Essay 3 further explains) finally provides the biological understanding for why we are so messed up and ridden with guilt and shame—why we are divisively rather than cooperatively behaved. With our dark side truthfully explained and defended we can finally love ourselves and begin to heal and bring about a new, transformed world, free of suffering, for ourselves and future generations which you can learn all about on our Transformation page.

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The astonishing claims being made about Jeremy Griffith’s work warrant initial scepticism however they can be verified as what Jeremy presents is all first principle-based, testable, biological understanding of the human condition which has attracted the support of eminent scientists and thinkers (see our homepage and FAQ 1.9 ‘Should people be sceptical about claims’). With regard to Alan Watts, there are certainly some thinkers who have touched on aspects of the human condition (and many who have simply tried to impose cooperation and selflessness upon us), but for genuine progress to be made we needed to answer 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 biologist Jeremy Griffith has solved with his instinct vs intellect explanation and what is unique about his work. Our FAQs about religion and the new age movement may be of interest in explaining the critical difference between such movements and the WTM.

Great David! Just go to the WTM Community page to see all the ways to join our all-exciting, heals-ourselves-and-the-world WTM Community, including our Facebook Group!

We recommend our FAQ 1.16 ‘Why am I struggling to understand this?’ and FAQ 1.15 ‘If this is biology why are there religious references?’

I wish everyone would listen to this interview!

Thank you for your sincere feedback Agatha. Yes this understanding does heal narcissistic behaviour. Key to biologist Jeremy Griffith’s explanation is that to fulfil the great potential of our conscious mind we had to defy our cooperative moral instincts. This defiance or battle resulted in humans’ psychologically upset state and, in the extreme, that upset produces cynical and narcissistic behaviour. So we all suffer degrees of upset depending on our encounter with this battle. What is so utterly exonerating and psychologically healing about our ability to now understand this is that we can finally appreciate that there was a very good reason—indeed heroic reason—for our upset; and this applies to all humans, even those with extreme expressions of it. Importantly, as FAQ 4.2 explains, this doesn’t condone such behaviour, rather, through the power of compassionately understanding its source it subsides and disappears. You can also read more about destructive excessively egocentric power addicted behaviour in FREEDOM ch 8:16D, see especially par. 1003. And Jeremy further elaborates on this need for power and domination in Freedom Essay 62 where he gives a presentation overviewing the entire human journey and explaining how this understanding makes possible the real therapy and rehabilitation of the human race. So this certainly is a “goldmine” of knowledge that heals us all and opens up the most gloriously meaningful life possible which you can learn all about on our Transformation and Community pages.

Thank you for your comment. There are a lot of comments on this thread which reflect a fair representation of the feedback we receive. Critical and negative feedback is certainly published and responded to. As stated under our ‘Submit comment’ box: “Please note, to ensure constructive discussion we moderate comments (which may take some hours) and may not publish any we feel are motivated by malice, or that make criticisms already addressed and repudiated, or ask questions already prominently answered on our comprehensive website with its many freely available books, essays and FAQs that can be easily searched electronically.” Also, our FAQ 1.20 ‘What scientific evidence is there for this explanation?’ and FAQ 1.7 ‘What scientific support does this work have?’ address your view that this is conjecture.

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Thank you for your honesty Victoria. The human condition—the question of are we fundamentally good or bad—has been the most important, but also the most fearful, of subjects so your trepidation is justified. Now that question is answered, as it is in THE Interview, the subject becomes safe and not just safe but gloriously freeing of our mind and soul! We no longer have to live in denial of this subject and can know rather than not know as you say! We recommend re-watching the presentation, especially Part 4, where Jeremy discusses just how liberating this knowledge is: “being finally able to understand that we are good and not bad is what brings us the greatest psychological relief of all...at last we can...reconcile and heal our split selves.” Also, in the concluding chapter 9 of his book FREEDOM, Jeremy describes how this explanation is able to immediately transform all humans from their human-condition-afflicted, tortured existence to a fabulous life free of the human condition!

We welcome your questions Iain. The human condition is the study of humans’ capacity for acts of both so-called ‘good and evil’. It’s the realm of inquiry where science and religion overlap, so in explaining the human condition religion is demystified and explained. Religion and God are briefly discussed in this summary presentation, for instance Jeremy Griffith explains God is the Negative-Entropy-driven integrative meaning of existence and refers the audience to chapter 4 of his book FREEDOM. Until we could explain our divisive, competitive and selfish human condition we couldn’t afford to demystify ‘God’ and admit the truth that ‘God’ is our personification of the Negative-Entropy-driven, integrative, cooperative theme or purpose or meaning of existence. We couldn’t very well confront ‘God’ while we couldn’t explain why we have seemingly been so ‘unGodly’ and therefore we have needed an abstract, divine deity version of ‘God’. Jeremy’s work doesn’t contradict the Bible it simply brings biological understanding to all those pre-scientific concepts so it is 100% logic driven. We recommend FAQ 6.2 ‘What is God’ and FAQ 6.3 ‘Does this undermine religion/God’.

    In THE Interview Jeremy Griffith addresses the almost universal excuse for our angy, egocentric and alienated behaviour, which is that it is due to savage instincts within us. This ‘savage instincts’ excuse is explained further in Freedom Essay 14.     It is also worth noting that American neurologist Paul MacLean’s theory of ‘the triune brain’—which features in the 1986 book, The Three-Pound Universe by J. Hooper and D. Teresi, and which states that humans are a mentally unbalanced species due to an inadequate coordination between our emotional old brain and our cognitive new brain—is addressed in Freedom Essay 4. It discusses that while many have identified the elements of instinct and intellect involved in creating the human condition, the biological breakthrough Jeremy’s treatise provides is the clarifying explanation of the nature of the conflict between them and explains without that explanation the conflict could not be resolved. This key biological distinction reveals our aggressive behaviour comes from the conscious-mind-based, psychologically troubled human condition, not the genetic-opportunism-based, animal condition or our reptilian brain.

    Thank you for your comment Russel. Jeremy Griffith’s treatise explains that the longer humanity’s heroic search for knowledge has gone on, the more psychologically upset humanity became. It therefore follows that the further back in time you go, the less upset (and therefore the less violence and war) there was, ultimately leading back to an original, perfectly innocent, ‘golden age’ some 4 million years ago (an age religious scripture and philosophers such as Plato and Hesiod acknowledge).     With regard to apparent drops in levels of violence and war over the last 100 years, presumably since the end of WWII more effective communication technology and the development of more lethal weapons such as nuclear weapons may have stopped world wars occurring, but the level of violence and destruction has not really abated. Overall, as upset increased it eventually reached a level where we had no choice but to civilize or restrain it. However, being more civilised does not indicate that levels of psychological upset are now falling. As Jeremy says in THE Interview, “While we have learnt to significantly restrain and conceal—‘civilise’ as we refer to it—the phenomenal amount of upset within us, under the surface we all must be boiling with rage, and sometimes, when our restraint can no longer find a way to contain it, that anger must express itself—hence our capacity for shocking acts of cruelty, sadism, hate, murder and war.”     Yes, as long as the search for knowledge continued, levels of upset could only keep increasing. Only the redeeming explanation of the human condition could end that progression toward terminal alienation. We recommend reading Freedom Essay 55: Endgame for the human race to understand just how psychologically upset the human race now is.     With regard to nurturing, it has been humanity’s necessary preoccupation with proving its self-worth that has compromised our ability to nurture, not commerce driven feminism. However, with the human condition now explained, that preoccupation ends, and nurturing will again become humanity’s central focus. You can read more about the impact of the human condition on our ability to nurture in Chapter 8:16C of Jeremy’s book FREEDOM.

Yes Vanessa with biological explanation of the human condition we can at last decipher religious concepts and mythology which is deeply confirming and relieving. For instance, historically the innocent or naïve who dare approach and grapple with the confronting truths about our divisive, corrupted human condition have been labelled ‘fools’ (see Freedom Essay 50). Also our Freedom Essays 38 – 41 which decipher religion are absolutely fascinating.

The power of this explanation takes time to absorb, but the more you absorb it, the more you realise how all-solving of our need for power and domination it is. As Jeremy Griffith explains in Part 4 of THE Interview while we lacked the real defence of understanding our corrupted condition, we absolutely needed the artificial defence and reinforcement of seeking power, fame, fortune and glory but now our fundamental goodness has been established that way of living is obsolete. In his definitive book FREEDOM, par 1232, Jeremy writes about how quickly this information will repair the world: “Importantly, the more this understanding and associated transformation catches on, the easier it will be for people to move from the old insecure, ego-centric way of living to the new, secure, ego-less way of living. The egocentric way of living has had such a powerful hold on humans because without understanding of the human condition all that we had was the superficial reinforcement we gained from seeking power, fame, fortune and glory, but now that relieving understanding has been found then that old egocentric way of living will quickly lose its power—so quickly, in fact, that everyone will be amazed by how swiftly their need for and attachment to the old artificial forms of reinforcement falls away.” And this transformation is happening! On our homepage you can see the rapidly growing appreciation and support for the WTM with outstanding commendations from thought leaders and WTM Centres all over the world!

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The fundamental problem the human race has always had is to explain or justify our competitive, selfish and aggressive behaviour – all the evidence seemed to suggest that we were evil. But yes, we can now understand from scientific first principles that ‘Adam and Eve’ were ‘good’ to search for knowledge, not bad; we humans are actually the absolute heroes of the whole story! See FAQ 6.3 for more on religion.

Jeremy Griffith comprehensively addresses the theory of Multilevel Selection or New Theory of Eusociality that you describe in his definitive book FREEDOM, chapter 2:11. He explains this theory “not only contrives an explanation for our genuinely moral instincts, but takes the art of denial to the absolute extreme by contriving a non-human-condition-confronting explanation of the human condition itself!...the Multilevel Selection theory for eusociality misrepresents, in fact, avoids, the real, consciousness-derived, psychological aspect of the human condition.” Explanation of the human condition presents a massive paradigm shift in our thinking so we encourage you to read FREEDOM, especially chapter 2. Also our Freedom Essay 34 explains how finding understanding of the human condition brings an end to the whole now horrifically polarised world of politics.

Thank you for your thoughts James. We maintain that materialism, dogma and resistance to change are all symptoms of the underlying, deep insecurity in humans caused by the human condition. To save the world we have to address the source of the human condition and to do that we need to answer the essential question of why, when the ideals are to be loving and selfless, are we so competitive and selfish, and needing of so much relief from materialism? It is this question of questions that biologist Jeremy Griffith has solved with his instinct vs intellect explanation and why this interview is being described as “the most important interview of all time”.

Solving the human condition required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great breakthrough that Jeremy Griffith has found. Having now finally found the explanation for why we had to challenge our instincts, all our defensive and insecure upset anger, egocentricity and alienation can subside and heal. Understanding relieves and replaces the need to be defensive and insecure and we can legitimately return to a selfless way of living. This is the rapidly transforming effect of being able to understand the human condition. We suggest our FAQ 1.13 Is this idea original and FAQ 1.4 How our lives can be transformed

Yes Petra! Jeremy Griffith explains the key biological distinction is that humans suffer from the conscious-mind-based, psychologically troubled human condition, not the genetic-opportunism-based, animal condition. And, most importantly, this psychosis can be healed with understanding—a revelation that transforms the human race! We encourage you to pursue your interest on our homepage where all our key books and videos are freely available. You will see THE Interview and other WTM publications are available in Afrikaans, Dutch, French, German and Spanish (see the ‘Translations’ button under ‘The Main Videos’).

Yes Alexandre, with the human condition finally explained science and religion now come together. You can read more about the reconciliation of science and religion in FAQ 1.15 and FAQ 6.2.

    Thanks for your interest Chuks and yes, as Jeremy Griffith explains the world is facing the terrifying end play threat of terminal levels of psychosis which is certainly daunting. Jeremy’s breakthrough instinct vs intellect explanation allows us to understand why the horror of racism has existed under the duress of the human condition and, most importantly, finally brings it to an end. To quote par 297 of his book FREEDOM: “Significantly, now that we are able to understand from scientific first principles that upset is not an ‘evil’, worthless, bad state, but an immensely heroic state, we can know that while, inevitably, all humans are variously upset from their different encounters with, and degrees of engagement in, humanity’s epic search to find knowledge, ALL HUMANS ARE EQUALLY GOOD. Everyone is variously angry, egocentric and alienated, but everyone is good, and not just good but a hero of the story of life on Earth! No longer does humanity have to rely on dogmatic assertions that ‘all men are created equal’ purely on the basis that it is a ‘self-evident’ truth, as the United States’ Declaration of Independence asserts, because we can now explain, understand and know that the equality of goodness of all humans is a fundamental truth.” (Emphasis is as appears in FREEDOM.)     Now we can understand the human condition we can see that no person or race is superior or inferior. This desperately needed reconciling understanding of the relationship between races is further 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.

The absolutely astonishing claims being made about biologist Jeremy Griffith’s work warrant initial extreme scepticism and further the realm of the human condition is the most ‘muddied of pools’ with deluded charlatans everywhere. However what Jeremy is presenting is all 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 hidden agenda, dogma, faith or belief involved. It’s all about knowledge that either stacks up or it doesn’t—and if it doesn’t you should throw it over your shoulder and reject it. These FAQs may be of interest: 1.2 How does mechanistic science currently explain the human condition, 1.20 What scientific evidence does Jeremy’s work have and 6.1 Is this a religion.

    Hi Philippe, the WTM is a not-for-profit organisation and all our material is freely available on our website, including electronic copies of our books and videos with no email registration needed. Our email subscription to the Freedom Essays series is also free with subscribers given the option to ‘opt out’ at any time so there are no commitments required.     FREEDOM is not yet available in French, however THE Interview and our key Introductory Videos/Essays are available in French on our homepage (under ‘Main Videos’ there is a ‘Translations’ button). Also our centres WTM Nice and WTM Switzerland present their websites and welcome videos in French. As well you can watch all the videos on our website using the subtitles function (see the ‘cc’ icon at the bottom of the video player) so there is a feast of material available and its all free!

    Yes, Jeremy Griffith’s work does explain the nature versus nurture debate! As he talks about in THE Interview we are born with loving instincts and the ‘savage instincts’ explanation was just a convenient excuse while we searched for the psychosis-addressing-and-solving real explanation of our divisive behaviour. As Jeremy explains in chapter 8:16C of FREEDOM, “the whole so-called ‘nature vs. nurture’ debate has really been about wanting to, indeed needing to, attribute the formation of our character to the influence of ‘nature’, our genetic make-up, rather than to the confronting truth of the role nurturing (or the lack thereof) played; it has been a sophisticated deflection from the fact that our psychoses and neuroses and their many physical manifestations are not about our genes, but the hurt to our all-loving instinctive self or soul during infancy and childhood.”     With regard to when we become conscious in chapter 8:2 of FREEDOM Jeremy explains our individual consciousness necessarily charts the same course that our species’ consciousness has taken as a whole which is absolutely fascinating. He explains the conscious mind broke free of the influence of the instincts and took over management of events which occurred at an ever increasing rate from the beginning of childhood. For example the early australopithecines (from 3.9 to 3 million years ago) equate to children between the ages of 4 to 6 and obviously there are degrees of consciousness prior to that.