Comments on THE Interview

There is no suggestion that uncontacted tribes and indigenous peoples are less conscious than other people. The point that is made is that because so-called ‘primitive’ people have not been as exposed to humanity’s heroic battle to find knowledge as less sheltered ‘races’ (ethnic groups), they are not as psychologically upset as those less sheltered races. However, all humans are now part of the extremely upset stage of humanity, H. sapiens sapiens, and are therefore nowhere near as innocent as humans were some 2 million years ago when the battle of the human condition first emerged. With the explanation of the human condition we can now understand that despite the differing levels of upset due to everyone’s different encounters with humanity’s heroic battle to find knowledge, we are all equally good – that is the key and significant point being made. We recommend you read Freedom Essay 28: The end of racism.

How wonderful you are sharing this understanding with your local community Corina! Yes we do have Dutch translations as well as other languages—all available on our homepage!! THE Interview and our entire Introductory Video Series is available (see the Translations button below the ‘Main Videos’). As well Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM, and its condensation Transform Your Life, are available in Dutch (see ‘The Key Books’). Also WTM Amsterdam Centre present their website in Dutch along with all these Dutch publications.

Great you want to learn more Gloria! The human condition is a huge subject and explanation of it can take a little time to fully absorb. All our key books are freely available on our homepage along with translations in a number of languages.

Even though the explanation of the human condition is completely rational, accountable science, based as it is on science’s discovery of the difference in the way our nerve-based conscious intellect and our gene-based instincts work, it is completely reconciling of all the dualities that the human condition has caused. As such, it does penetrate to the heart of the “non-dual paths of spirituality”, but unlike spritituality, it brings scientific understanding to the issue. FAQ 6.5 explains the difference between the WTM and new age spirituality.

Click on our ‘Transcripts of videos’ button (top of our homepage under ‘The Main Videos’) where you can read or download the transcript.

Our Transformation page continues on from what is presented in THE Interview and further explains ‘the next stage’ of how this ‘revolutionary insight’ transforms the human race from living in a wretched, ‘broken’ state of upset anger, egocentricity and alienation to living in peace, togetherness and happiness. And so exciting and relieving is this breakthrough, and the freedom from the ‘darkness’ of the human condition that is now on offer, it’s creating a tsunami of interesting and excited discussion and being part of that is the best possible way of furthering your understanding and discovering the amazing benefits it has for your life, and for the world. You can join the conversation on our WTM Community page.

Understanding and therefore healing the universal psychosis caused by the human condition, which Jeremy Griffith’s work does, is the basis for all therapy. While we are all inevitably variously psychologically upset from humanity’s heroic battle to find knowledge we can now know that every human is fundamentally good—we can accept and love our dark side. As Jung was forever pointing out, we can finally ‘own our own shadow’.

The incredibly exciting news that THE Interview presents is that our distress and suffering is due to a psychosis that can be cured with healing understanding. This instinct vs intellect explanation of the human condition fundamentally lifts the ‘burden of guilt’ from the human race. It establishes that we humans are good and not bad after all. With this understanding we can finally end our psychologically troubled human condition. It heals the pain in our brains (changes the self talk) by reconciling our conscious mind with our unconscious instincts and we become whole again. Our Transformation page is full of information and videos about just how relieving, reconciling and healing this understanding is so that is a must visit!

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David you think you are using your brain properly, but you are not.

It’s wonderful you want to share this incredible understanding Alison. Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition, its summary Transform Your Life And Save The World and THE Interview, are freely available on our homepage here. You can read them online or download them (no email required) and Transform Your Life is also available as an audio book! You can download the free Kindle versions or purchase hard copies from Amazon. Hard copies are also available at other good bookstores.

THE Interview stresses that the human condition is a historically unbearably confronting and off-limits subject. Our experience has shown that it helps people get through these historic blocks if they can read/watch/listen to the explanation presented in different ways. These presentations include our popular Introductory Video Series and Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM which does present his entire biological treatise. Our FAQ 1.11 shows the different ways people can learn about this huge subject.

Richard your comment is a wonderful testament to the relief that knowing the suffering inside us can now end. As Jeremy explains in Part 4 of THE Interview “What this instinct vs intellect explanation of the human condition fundamentally does is lift the ‘burden of guilt’ from the human race. It establishes that we humans are good and not bad after all.” While we are all inevitably variously psychologically upset from humanity’s heroic battle to find knowledge, ultimately self-knowledge, we can now know that every human is fundamentally good. The only way we could legitimately return to our original cooperative and loving state was to be able to answer the essential question of why, when the ideals are to be loving and selfless, are we so competitive and selfish? This is what Jeremy’s treatise does and why it is heralded as being able to save the world. Our Transformation page is full of information and videos about just how relieving, reconciling and healing this understanding is so that is a must visit!

Yes June, Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition, brings biological understanding to religious accounts of our condition, which means we can at last reconcile science and religion. We recommend our FAQs about religion, especially 6.2 ‘What is God’ and 6.3 ‘Does this understanding undermine religion’.

It is generally accepted that it is humans’ fully conscious mind that separates us from the other animals. In Jeremy Griffith’s book FREEDOM ch 8:2 it is explained that the conscious mind broke free of the influence of our instincts with the early australopithecines (between 3.9 to 3 million years ago), which would equate with Adam in the Biblical story. A quick snapshot of the emergence of the conscious mind is given in the Development of Mental Cleverness graph that appears in ch 8.11C of FREEDOM. You might also find Freedom Essays 21 & 22, about how we acquired our moral instincts, and fossil evidence of our nurtured origins, of interest, which you can see here.

Absolutely Pauline, this is totally mind blowing and so urgently needed! As Jeremy Griffith writes in FREEDOM par 241, “while the crux question facing the human race, of the much-needed clarification of the nature of ‘good and evil’, does have an amazingly simple answer, the implications of it could not be more significant, far-reaching or exciting”! So there is a lot to ‘get your head around’ and we encourage you to explore our homepage—HumanCondition.com—which shows the ways to pursue your interest and get involved in our WTM Community to help share this critically important information.

Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition is Freudian in the sense that it identifies humanity as suffering from a psychosis, but to heal it 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 Jeremy has solved and what is unique about his work. We finally have the ultimate scientific defence for our psychosis, which is the key element in providing true therapy to all humans. Our FAQs about men and women summarise how this explanation of humans allows us to finally understand the different roles men and women have historically taken up under the duress of the human condition, and bring peace to the war between the sexes.

Yes, your journey to the realisation that love/integrative meaning is the theme of existence has given you an appreciation of just how powerful the redeeming, reconciling and rehabilitating scientific explanation of the human condition is. Ultimately understanding our psychologically upset condition was the only way to ameliorate it.

As THE Interview explains, the human condition has been a terrifying subject (as it is the issue of whether we are fundamentally good or bad as a species) and we have necessarily lived in denial of it. So until it could be solved science took a mechanistic denial-based approach and religions were the custodians of the ideals to provide shelter and support during the psychologically upsetting search for liberating knowledge was underway. Now with Jeremy Griffith’s denial-free, holistic instinct vs intellect treatise, the polarities of life, including science and religion, can be reconciled and we can begin to heal and bring about a new, transformed world, free of suffering, for everyone! See our FAQ 1.2 about mechanistic science and FAQ 6.3 about the role of religion. It is now just a matter of getting these understandings into the mainstream, which is underway as you can see from the outstanding commendations Jeremy’s work has received from thought leaders in the domains of science and theology on our homepage.

With regard to the persecution that Jeremy Griffith and the WTM have been subjected to, as FAQ 1.22 explains, FREEDOM simply records what happened in the interest of truth. It’s critically important to stand up to dishonesty and ill-treatment and call it out for what it is. Also, we suggest FAQ 1.16 which answers the question of ‘Surely this material needs some serious editing’.

Thanks for your wonderfully open comment Veronica! Wondering why you haven’t heard this before is a common sentiment which can cause initial frustration because, as you say, this is the most wonderful information—the ‘total’ defence of our condition—and everyone should have the benefit of that from day one. And it is difficult to absorb finally having this information in our lives when we are so variously traumatised by living under the duress of the human condition. However, the answer to all our problems is the Transformed State, which you can read about in FAQ 4.1. We also encourage you to explore our homepage at HumanCondition.com to see the ways to pursue your interest, including after THE Interview, watching our Introductory Videos 1-4 & 14 and joining our WTM Community to help us share this precious knowledge so that future generations don’t have to grow up without it!

There are certainly thinkers like Hannah Arendt who have touched on aspects of the human condition, in particular about ways to better live under its duress, 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. The following comment was made by an appreciative reader: "Hannah Arendt out. Jeremy Griffith in [Arendt is considered one of the most important political philosophers of the 20th century]. A couple of years ago my interest in the human condition was awoken by the skilled writer Hannah Arendt [who wrote the book The Human Condition]. Probably, because of a lack of diligence in my interpreting classical language, her work left me with a whetted appetite but in reality with a hole in my side (wanting). Today, Jeremy’s woken me up to what I’ve felt all along." (See our Online Endorsements which are a selection of online comments from the general public about Jeremy’s treatise.)

    The WTM is a not-for-profit organisation and make all our publications, subscription and membership freely available on this website—HumanCondition.com—so this is not a money making venture.     In THE Interview Jeremy answers the question of, ‘if the ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation is so obvious, why weren’t we taught this at school?’; and similarly our FAQ 1.14 explains that the answer to the question of, ‘if these ideas are so important why haven’t people heard of them?’, is that the human condition has historically been an off-limits subject, and as a result people can find it difficult to take in or ‘hear’ discussion of it; others can even become hostile to opening the whole arena. FAQ 1.14 further explains that the explanation of the human condition isn’t mainstream yet because the subject of the human condition is an anathema for mechanistic science; which is also why we have had to establish an independent organisation that, amongst other things, uses advertising to offer people the opportunity to look into this knowledge.     Your subconscious acceptance of what was being explained makes sense because 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, troubled nature. We are now able to explain it from first principle biology, and that is the great scientific breakthrough Jeremy’s work presents. This is the redeeming, reconciling explanation of the human condition that establishes our goodness and puts an end to the need for our defensive angry egocentric and alientated behaviour. Indeed, only the psychosis-addressing-and-solving, real explanation of the human condition can stop the destruction of our world and the disintegration of society that is happening everywhere we look and knowing that is what motivates the WTM and its supporters. See our FAQ 1.6 ‘Why this solves everything’ and FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this new’.

    One of the great outstanding mysteries of science is ‘what is consciousness, and how did it emerge?’ Jeremy Griffith explains in THE Interview that consciousness simply means being sufficiently aware of how experiences are related to attempt to manage change from a basis of understanding. Clearly while other animals have various levels of ‘awareness’, none can consciously manage events like humans can, and so it is accurate to describe humans as the only animals possessing fully conscious minds. It is also worth noting that Jeremy explains that developing consciousness depended on overcoming the competitive, selfish ‘animal condition’ and becoming orientated to selflessness, so if a species is still preoccupied with selfish, competitive dominance, as other animals are, they can’t become fully conscious. We recommend our FAQ 5.4 titled ‘What is consciousness? / Why is it that humans became conscious while other animals haven’t? / How did consciousness emerge in humans?’     Importantly, as explained in THE Interview, the emerging conscious mind came into conflict with our pre-established instincts, with the result being our upset angry, egocentric and alienated human condition. You can read more about the ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition in FAQ 1.3.     Human behaviour has been dictated by subconscious elements, but with the redeeming explanation of the human condition now found, we can now admit that the main subconscious element in human life has been our denial of the human condition. Until we could solve the human condition we could not change this dominant subconscious element of having to prove our self-worth that underpinned all aspects of our behaviour.     Finally, the ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition is fully accountable, rational, based-in-first-principles science – see FAQ 1.20.

Great to learn you are now reading FREEDOM Jerry. Yes, this understanding does deeply resonate with our intuitive belief that we are fundamentally good despite our competitive and selfish behaviour. What you will discover, as you read on, is Jeremy Griffith unravels the seemingly insoluble confusion of human life by biologically explaining our contradictory behaviour which has the power to transform the world as Freedom Essay 15 summarises.

Jeremy Griffith’s work is not an idealistic plea for the world to just be cooperative, rather it is a first-principle biological explanation for why we haven’t been cooperative. It is only with the intellect defended for why it had to defy our ‘idealistic’ instincts and become ‘realistic’, that the cooperative world becomes possible, or even legitimate. What is so significant about this breakthrough is with our fundamental goodness established we can at last reconcile our instinct and intellect or idealism and realism. In fact, we can now see that while the critical search for knowledge was ongoing realism was actually more ideal than idealism (see FAQ 7.2). Certainly there is habituation to overcome, but all Jeremy’s writings on the Transformed State that is now possible, explains how real change is immediately open to us all, see his Freedom Essay 15 How everyones lives can now be transformed.

What you’re saying about the importance of the nurturing environment is true, Jana. As Jeremy Griffith explains in par 983 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.” However, what Jeremy has presented with his ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition is the source of all of this dysfunction and thus the key to ending it all. The significance nurturing has played in human development is summarised in this fascinating FAQ 5.2 ‘How did we acquire our moral soul?’. Also, for the scientific evidence for this treatise see FAQ 1.20.

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The purpose of religion was to be the custodian of the ideal state while the search for liberating knowledge was underway. To change we needed to understand our behaviour—understand why when the ideals are to be loving and selfless, are we so competitive and selfish? It is this age-old question that biologist Jeremy Griffith has answered with this instinct vs intellect explanation. For the first time we can understand every aspect of human behaviour in ourself and in everyone else, and most importantly our behaviour changes naturally as a result, which you can learn all about on our Transformation page. Also our FAQs about the demystification of religion may be of interest.