Comments on THE Interview

Yes, Jeremy Griffith’s work doesn’t contradict a belief in Christianity or the teachings of Christ. It simply brings biological understanding to all those pre-scientific concepts. In fact Jeremy considers the Bible to be a repository of extremely rare denial-free truth, containing all the truth about human life albeit from a pre-science view. 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 explained in as being the integrative meaning of life. We suggest that the more you digest this explanation, the more you will see that it does not rob life or explanations of life of its ‘spiritual’ dimension. We thought you might find our FAQs about religion of interest, in particular FAQ 6.7 ‘How can a scientific explanation ever hope to account for and encompass the great ‘spiritual’ dimension we know exists in life? / Isn’t ‘spirituality’ beyond a purely rational explanation?’

Deep,interesting and very profound. A relief to mankind

Thank you for your astute comment Philippa. All we would add is that, to some extent, the understanding of the human condition is going to come as a shock to almost everyone because opening the blinds uncovers so much truth that we have all lived in denial of – see for example our FAQ 1.39 about how we cope with all the heresies that this brings to light. Pointing out to people with a vested interest in ‘pseudo-idealism’ that pseudo idealism has been regressive, not progressive as it claimed it was, is just one more heresy to deal with is (you might be interested in Jeremy' book Death by Dogma about the danger posed by the left-wing). As for those with a vested interest in maintaining power for its own sake, well, in time they too will welcome this redeeming understanding, because ultimately it liberates us from the insecurity behind our need for reinforcement. On the subject of those addicted to power, we recommend our FAQ 1.40 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?

Ross, Jeremy Griffith’s work is about confronting and solving the human condition, and given our historic way of coping with the human condition has been to avoid it at all costs, this REAL path to our species’ returning to our natural loving way of living is a tough one to initiate. However humanity’s uptake of the explanation of the human condition has a fast finish, because, as he explains in chapter 9 of his definitive book FREEDOM, once people start having the legitimate ‘change of heart’ that this information allows, the selflessness that it liberates will not only quickly solve all the problems on the planet, but the excitement and joy it brings means everyone will want to get on board as quickly as they can! For example, Jeremy writes in chapter 9:9, “Although this new world for humans, which the World Transformation Movement has been established to facilitate, will 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—as the exceptional denial-free thinking prophet Teilhard de Chardin wrote, ‘The Truth has to only appear once…for it to be impossible for anything ever to prevent it from spreading universally and setting everything ablaze’”.

On this point, we recommend FAQ 1.40 which addresses the questions 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?’

Understanding of the human condition is critically important to the future of our planet; as such, the WTM is a global not-for-profit organisation and we make all our publications, subscription and membership freely available on our website – see our FAQs about the WTM.

It’s great to have your interest, James. We encourage you to visit the homepage where you will find a guide to learning more, which includes registering to be notified of our free, live, interactive presentations with Jeremy Griffith and others about this immensely relieving understanding, and joining our Facebook Group where there is much fascinating and helpful practical discussion taking place.

Hi Graeme, while Christianity and other religions do contain all manner of extraordinarily profound truth about human life, it is 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 Griffith 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. You might find our FAQs about religion helpful. Also Jeremy’s Freedom Essays 38 – 41, which decipher religion, are absolutely fascinating.

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 and our fear of this interface can make it hard to understand all that is explained in one viewing. Our FAQ 1.16 explains what is needed to overcome this initial ‘deaf effect’ isn’t a more simplified version but rather a preparedness to re-read and/or re-listen to what is being written or said. This process erodes our historic denial thereby allowing the compassionate and immensely relieving insights to become accessible.

It will certainly happen quickly once the world catches on! To quote Jeremy from Part 4 of this interview: “the good news, and this is very important, is that while it will take a number of generations to heal all the upset in us humans, everyone can immediately live free of their upset…In fact, to continue using the old artificial defences of retaliation, denial and the search for relieving power, fame, fortune and glory when our fundamental goodness has been established is not only clearly pointless but also unnecessarily destructive of ourselves, everyone around us and our planet. That way of living is now completely obsoleted, finished with.”

Hi Daniel, thanks for your comments. What is important to understand is that this isn’t an “ideology“ of ”peace and love”; it is a biological explanation of the source of the psychosis that gives rise to humanity’s competitive, aggressive behaviour. And because it is a psychosis, it can be healed with understanding, which is what brings about a “life of love and peace”, not an “ideology”. Basically, through explaining the very good reason why our intellect had to defy our instincts, all our defensive behaviours (our anger, egocentricity and alienation) are now redundant; they can stop. This understanding has been the goal of all our progress, all our advances – we needed to keep progressing the corrupting search for knowledge until we found the understanding that exonerated us, which is what the instinct vs intellect explanation is. And so now we have found that understanding, our concept of ‘progress’ will completely change; it will now come off a selfless basis.

    Thank you for your comment and your interest, Tessie. Explanation of the human condition is endlessly fascinating but it introduces an entirely new framework of knowledge, a massive paradigm shift in how we view humans, which takes time to absorb. This is extremely exciting but also necessarily extremely confronting of all the psychological upset and denial that the human condition has caused, to varying degrees, in humans. We wanted to mention this because, as is summarised in our FAQ 1.19, this can be very confronting and destabilising on a personal level if people overly study it or rush into it, so that is something everyone should be mindful of but especially those who suffer from depression. What we suggest people find so significant and comforting about this 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 all 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 treat ourselves with great compassion and love and we don’t have to overly confront the upset within us, as the above FAQ also explains.     We hope you pursue your interest by visiting the WTM homepage where you’ll find a guide to learning more, and if you are a Facebook user, we encourage you to join our Facebook group. It is a thriving community where everyone is learning about the human condition and sharing in the excitement of the genuinely new world that this understanding brings.

    We really appreciate your interest and support, Ydrian.     We recommend reading FAQ 1.47 “How does Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition differ from the theories of Freud or Jung?”, as it explains how Jeremy’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition varies with Jung’s work. But essentially, the only way humans could, as Jung said, ‘own our own shadow’ was to ameliorate the guilt we, our conscious thinking mind, feels for having corrupted our all-loving instinctive self or soul, and that could only be achieved by explaining why we had to endure becoming angry, egocentric and alienated—why our corrupted human condition was actually a heroic and loveable condition rather than a bad, ‘evil’, ‘sinful’ condition. Answering this question of questions, lifting the ‘great burden of guilt’ from the human race, required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy presents. Which is why Professor Harry Prosen, a former President of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, said, ‘I have no doubt this biological explanation of the human condition is the holy grail of insight we have sought for the psychological rehabilitation of the human race.’     We also encourage you to visit the WTM’s homepage where you will find a guide to learning more, which includes registering to be notified of our free, interactive presentations with Jeremy Griffith and others about this immensely relieving understanding, and joining our Facebook Group, as we think you will find the discussion taking place there fascinating.

Hi Ilda, 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!

Hi Peter, as Jeremy explains in Part 3 of THE Interview, the way that maternalism gave rise to selfless behaviour in males was through inadvertently indocrinating them in selfless behaviour. The reason that a genetic mutation or ‘supplied slip of DNA’ can not give rise to selflessness is because genes normally can’t select for unconditionally selfless, fully cooperative traits, simply because such traits tend to be self-eliminating and so normally can’t become established in a species. The ‘trick’ with love-indoctrination was that maternalism was a selfish trait and so it could be genetically reinforced, but it had this wonderful side-effect, which was to train offspring in acting selflessly. Once the process was producing enough selfless individuals, these individuals would no longer lose mating opportunities to selfish individuals. You may be intersted in reading more about the love-indoctrination process in Freedom Essay 21.

Richard, you might be interested in Freedom Essay 53, in which evidence from some of history’s most profound thinkers is provided for the three fundamental elements involved in the explanation of the human condition: that our conscious mind caused our upset state to emerge; that the human condition is a psychological state, not an instinctive one; and that our species’ original instinctive orientation was to living in a psychosis-free, peaceful and harmonious state of cooperation, love and selflessness.

Thanks for your heartfelt comment Will. Yes, with understanding of the human condition now found, everyone can ‘come in from the cold’ as it were. With the defence for our psychologically upset state found, we can now afford to be honest about the true alienated state of the world; and this is the world that children, in their unresigned state, can see all too clearly. As Jeremy says at the end of THE Interview, “finding understanding of the human condition brings to an end the insecure, upset, artificial-reinforcement-dependent angry, egocentric and alienated world. A new human-condition-resolved, cooperative, selfless and loving world now emerges. Light comes streaming into the dark cave-like world of denial that we have been living in, and it will all be like waking up from a nightmare!”

Hi Mansel, Jeremy Griffith’s work explains that issues such as overpopulation — and related issues like environmental destruction and resource depletion — are merely symptoms of a deeper problem and will not fundamentally change at all until we solve this dilemma of the human condition, and bring self-understanding to the human situation. We recommend reading FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does understanding of the human condition solve everything?'.

Hi Elaine, it’s wonderful to have your interest. Jeremy Griffith’s definitive treatise on the human condition, FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition, is available for free here on our homepage to read online or download. (You can also download the free Kindle version from Amazon, otherwise you can purchase hard copies from Amazon or other good bookstores.) We also encourage you to visit the homepage where you will find a guide to learning more, which includes registering to be notified of our free, live, interactive presentations with Jeremy Griffith and others about this immensely relieving understanding, and joining our Facebook Group where there is much fascinating and helpful practical discussion taking place.

Yes, Ki, unlike ‘new age’ practices such as yoga, this understanding confronts the human condition head on, and because historically we haven’t been able to explain our corrupted condition, most people run a mile when the subject comes up. That is, until they realise that Jeremy Griffith has actually solved the human condition by explaining how, despite all appearances to the contrary, we angry, egocentric and alienated humans are actually good! And so perseverance is necessary until people realise that this once forbidden realm has now been made safe. You might be interested in FAQ 1.16, which is about this ‘deaf effect’.

We are suggesting that by solving the core insecurity that has been driving our angry, egocentric and alienated behaviour, that divisive behaviour will subside. In other words, through finding the good reason that we had to defy our instincts, all our defensive behaviours (our anger, egocentricity and alienation) are now redundant, allowing us to return to a loving state. However, unlike in our distant past, and unlike bonobos now, we will be peaceful and loving with conscious understanding of why that state is meaningful.

Go Sara!! We are just as lucky as you are – and just as excited!!!! – to have found this understanding. Just make sure you join our Facebook Group where you will find a home for all your questions and excitement.

Thanks for your comment Harvey. We suggest that the more you digest this understanding, the more you will see that it applies to all humans, and that all humans will want to embrace the transformation that it makes available. At last we can understand we have been driven by a deep insecurity about our fundamental goodness or worth and so now that our goodness is biologically established we no longer have to behave insecurely and selfishly and can legitimately return to a selfless way of living. ‘Legitimately’ because at last we have the first principle-based science which liberates us to be honest about our conflicted upset state instead of denying or transcending it. This is the rapidly transforming practical effect of being able to understand the human condition which is fully explained and illustrated on our Transformation page. Also FAQs 1.4 to 1.6 explain the far-reaching application of this information and Freedom Essay 15 is all about ‘How our lives can be immediately transformed’.

    It does take some time to get your head around the paradox of the human condition, and in particular, how it applies to politics. We recommend Jeremy Griffith’s book, Death by Dogma, which is freely available here on our homepage. In it Jeremy emphasises that while it is easy to identify with the ideal of everyone being cooperative and loving, the whole objective of the human journey was to find understanding of why humans have not been cooperative and loving and instead so divisively competitive and aggressive. That is the great riddle of the human condition that had to be explained. Now at last we can understand why we humans have been competitive, aggressive and selfish, and, most wonderfully of all, by revealing that reason, the need for that divisive behaviour is ended. Which brings us to the final paradox of the human condition: through the right wing upholding the selfishness needed to persevere with the search for knowledge, we all now become left-wing (as it were, although the truth is that the whole ugly business of politics is now brought to a close).     Also, given your interest in bonobos, chapter 5 of Jeremy Griffith’s book FREEDOM further evidences what is explained in Part 3 of THE Interview about how cooperative and loving bonobos are and how bonobos demonstrate the nurturing based love-indoctrination process that created our cooperative instincts.

Yes, Jung was absolutely correct in identifying the importance of gaining understanding of our ‘psyche’; he was forever saying that ‘wholeness for humans depends on the ability to own their own shadow’. What is presented here, with Jeremy Griffith’s redeeming ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition, is what – finally – gives us the ability to own our own shadow. You might be interested in FAQ 1.47 which explains that because he was not able to recognise that we humans have a loving and cooperative past, Jung was not able to explain the human condition.

After watching THE Interview we suggest you watch the next video in our series The Great Guilt and also explore our homepage—HumanCondition.com—which guides you through the steps to pursue your interest—and it is all free. This includes our introductory material and registering for our live events with Jeremy Griffith and others and also joining our popular Facebook Group. Happy exploring David!

Thank you for comment Anna but we disagree. The female perspective is certainly not missing from Jeremy Griffith’s treatise and both the male and female contribution to the human journey are fully explained and equally acknowledged. In fact matriarchy is finally given the recognition and honour it deserves with Jeremy’s explanation of how it was women’s maternal love that gave us our moral soul and created humanity no less! (This love-indoctrination process is discussed more in our reply to Barry below.) Astonishingly with Jeremy’s biological explanation of the human condition we can at last understand and reconcile the huge gulf that has existed between men and women. We can also understand why men especially, but also women, suffer from the human condition and all it’s related behaviours including selfishness and egocentricity, but that ALL HUMANS ARE EQUALLY GOOD and equally heroic! See molecular biologist Dr Anna Fitzgerald’s video commendation about how this explanation is the real liberation of women and our FAQ 8.1 ‘How does this reconcile men and women’.

    Hi Barry, ideal nursery conditions were required for the establishment of the love-indoctrination process, which included the absence of predation. Jeremy Griffith discusses this process in THE Interview and refers the audience to his Freedom Essay 21 and chapter 5 of his definitive book FREEDOM which explain it more fully. Jeremy explains in chapter 5:8 of FREEDOM, “any difficulty or breakdown in the nurturing process and you are invariably ‘swept back downstream’ once more to the old competitive, selfish, each-for-his-own, opportunistic, ‘animal condition’ situation. So while love-indoctrination could allow unconditionally selfless behaviour to emerge in our ape ancestors, it was a very difficult, and also a very slow, process to both get underway and maintain.”     Predation (or any disruption to their normal peaceful environment) after love-indoctrination had been established has a different effect. Both humans and bonobos now instinctively expect to be nurtured with unconditional love during infancy, and any disruption (such as predation) that prevented an infant receiving that love would cause them to experience extreme psychological anxiety. You can read about psychiatrist Professor Harry Prosen’s treatment of an emotionally disturbed bonobo (Brian) in chapter 5:13 of FREEDOM.

Hopefully we will heed this warning & change to finally become the intellectual species we are meant to be?

Absolutely right Zora! As Jeremy writes in paragraph 155 of FREEDOM “It is our conscious mind that is uncertain of its worthiness, that suspects that it might be to blame for our species’ present seemingly highly imperfect, even ‘fallen’ or corrupted, competitive, aggressive and selfish condition”, and as distinguished psychiatrist Professor Harry Prosen wrote in his Introduction to FREEDOM: “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.” Jeremy’s new presentation The Great Guilt gives an astonishingly interesting and important description of The Great Burden Of Guilt, or as you say “the hardest thing ever”, that has finally been lifted from the human race—click here to start watching!

    Hi Bobynet, on our Translations page you can freely access all the publications that have been translated into French (including as a PDF)! FREEDOM is still in development but THE Interview, Transform Your Life And Save The World, Death by Dogma, and numerous Freedom Essays are available. You can also watch all the videos on our website, using the closed captions or subtitles function in any language (just click on the ‘cc’ icon at the bottom of the video player/window). You might also be interested in visiting the websites of WTM Centres in Nice and Switzerland as their websites are also provided in French. The work of the WTM is a scientific pursuit and was not created for profit, so all of our information and materials (including books, videos and podcasts) are provided absolutely free of charge (no email required).     What is so extraordinary about this breakthrough is we can now understand the reason why people seek power and fortune and see that it is a symptom of our fundamental insecurity caused by the human condition rather than the cause of the problem. You might find these two FAQs helpful: FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does understanding of the human condition solve everything?’ 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? / Won’t the greedy and power-hungry simply ignore this?’.

Yes Nicholas we have been aware of Christian, and other religion’s “conscienceness”, to live in harmony, but the question screaming to be answered is since this is the case why would we choose to behave in the completely opposite way? This is the point or question of the human condition and to answer it we needed to find the scientific explanation for why when these universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless are we so angry, competitive and selfish. This required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work and that is the great biological breakthrough biologist Jeremy Griffith presents. It couldn’t be more significant because at last we can explain away the guilt and shame we carried for not “choosing to live in harmony”—for living at odds with our selfless moral conscience. You may find these FAQs helpful: FAQ 1.5 ‘Why is understanding the human condition important to my life?’ and FAQ 1.26 What is soul, have we all got one, has it been repressed, and if so, how do we rehabilitate it?

Hi Eric, as is explained in this interview (and in Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM) the human condition has caused so much pain and suffering it has psychologically broken us but what is so significant about this explanation is that 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. We can at last understand the source of our upset and bring great compassion and kindness to ourselves and others and, most importantly, we don’t have to overly confront the upset within us — see FAQ 1.19 ‘A caution about the danger of over-exposure / Advice for people with mental health issues’. This FAQ explains that everyone, but especially if anyone suffers with mental health issues, need to responsibly 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. (All of Jeremy’s books, including the booklet version of THE Interview, are freely available on our homepage.)

It is wonderful the fundamental argument is resonating with you Roy and your question is a fair one because the selfishness, alienation and corruption in the world is so immense. However, if we can explain and address the source of the problem we can solve it, and that is exactly what we suggest Jeremy Griffith has done. Also explanation of the human condition does produce a huge paradigm shift in our thinking so it takes a little while to see how it all works. What is so extraordinary about this breakthrough is we can now understand the fundamental reason why people want more than they need; we can now understand the source of greed and competition and the need for power. When the conscious mind went in search of knowledge a conflict between our instinct and intellect broke out, leading to an undeserved sense of guilt and insecurity that caused us to become psychologically defensive, angry, alienated and egocentric, the upset state we refer to as the human condition—a state we sought to alleviate through a competitive, selfish and aggressive bid for the reinforcement we could gain from winning power, fame, fortune and glory. But now that we can explain and understand this conflict and the guilt it produced, all those insecure, defensive behaviours are obsoleted, brought to an end, and we free ourselves from the human condition. We suggest these two FAQs will help as you digest this further.  FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does understanding of the human condition solve everything?’ and FAQ 1.40 ‘Aren’t the problems of the world too overwhelming to ever be fixed? / Isn’t it too late to save the world? / How can you hope to transform the world? — In particular, how are you going to change the behaviour of the rich and powerful? / How are you going to reach the bastions of power? / Won’t the greedy and power-hungry simply ignore this?’.

Thank you for your thoughts. We certainly respect people’s religious views but, for the readers of this comment, it is important to mention that Jeremy Griffith’s work doesn’t contradict a belief in God or Christianity. It simply brings biological understanding to all those pre-scientific concepts. People may like to explore our FAQs about religion, in particular FAQ 6.2 ‘What is God’ and FAQ 6.3 ‘Does this undermine religion/God’. Also the work of the WTM is a scientific pursuit and was not created for profit, so all of our information and materials (including books, videos and podcasts) are provided absolutely free of charge (no email required).

Hi Andrew, THE Interview and all our material is freely available to watch, read or download without any submission, registration or email address required. Our homepage provides the perfect guide through our introductory material with THE Interview at the very top!

    Hi Gail. We hope you persevere. The subject of the human condition has historically been completely off-limits and so our minds do initially struggle to take in the information, but with a little bit of perseverence, it does all become clear. For example with regard to ‘guilt, you are almost there. Basically, when the conscious mind started experimenting with self management, our instincts ‘criticised’ that behaviour because it deviated from their naturally selected orientations; and our mind, unable to explain why we had experiment with these non-instinctive behaviours, felt insecure in the face of the criticism from our instincts. We felt ‘guilty’. And then we became defensive and retaliatory towards our instincts, which made us feel in more guilty.     With regard to religion, what you realise as you absorb this, is that religion has had an important role to play in humanity’s journey, which was to be a home for the ideals as humanity necessarily become more and more corrupted by the search for knoweldge. So it hasn’t been the source of our guilt, but by reminding us of ideal behaviour, it certainly could add to our guilt. And yes, the instinct vs intellect elements that created the human condition were known, see for example Moses story of Adam and Eve taking the apple, but it was all in pre-scientific terms. But to liberate ourselves from the human condition we needed scientific understanding of why we were right to search for knowledge / eat the apple, because only that could end the guilt and liberate from the human condition. That is what is unique about what Jeremy has done, and why his work is such a massive breakthrough.

Thank you for your support Bonnie. At last we can finally confront and biologically explain why we haven’t been about to “exist and thrive, with loving grace”, see FAQ 1.3 and also FAQ 6.5 which stresses this huge difference between Jeremy Griffith’s work and the new age movement.

Hi René, on our Translations page you can freely access all the publications that have been translated into French! FREEDOM is still in development but THE Interview, Transform Your Life And Save The World, Death by Dogma, and numerous Freedom Essays are available. You can also watch all the videos on our website, using the closed captions or subtitles function in any language (just click on the ‘cc’ icon at the bottom of the video player/window). You might also be interested in visiting the websites of WTM Centres in Nice and Switzerland as their websites are also provided in French.

Thanks Tim. Yes, there is a feast of knowledge and understanding here. With regard to Hinduism, 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. We suggest FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this original or new?’ which explains the unique significance of Jeremy Griffith’s work.

Hi David, the book that THE Interview is centred around is Jeremy Griffith’s definitive treatise on the human condition, FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition, which is available for free here on our homepage to read online or download. (You can also download the free Kindle version from Amazon, otherwise you can purchase hard copies from Amazon or other good bookstores.)

Thanks Josephine. We suggest that the more you digest this scientific explanation of our condition, the more you will see that it actually encompasses the ‘spiritual’ dimension of life. We thought you might find our FAQs about religion of interest, in particular FAQ 6.7 ‘How can a scientific explanation ever hope to account for and encompass the great ‘spiritual’ dimension we know exists in life? / Isn’t ‘spirituality’ beyond a purely rational explanation?’

Hi Beryl, the WTM is a global not-for-profit organisation. This is a scientific pursuit and for this reason, all of our publications, subscription and membership are provided free of charge on the website, HumanCondition.com.

I think the premise is 100 percent right!

    Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition brings biological understanding to religious accounts of our condition and at last reconciles science and religion. For instance, as you mention, 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 becoming psychologically upset or ‘sinful’ or ‘evil’. However, 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!     Additionally, it can now be explained scientifically 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 explained in as being the integrative meaning of life (see FAQ 6.2). And so, 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. Our additional FAQs about religion may also be of interest.

Thanks for your comment, Barbara. The more you digest this understanding, we suggest the more you will see how it brings profound peace to your and everyone’s situation. 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’ selfish, competitive and destructive behaviour became an unavoidable, indeed necessary, part of human life. And with our goodness biologically established, we no longer need to be preoccupied with proving our worth. Solving the human condition solves all the confusion, frustration and suffering in human life at its source so we can actually stop the angry destruction of ourselves, each other and the planet and save the world. You may be interested in FAQ 1.34, in which 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.”