Comments on THE Interview

We agree Jeremy Griffith’s work is brilliant and thank you so much for your encouragement David. There is a huge amount to get your head around, which takes a little time, but now we can understand the human condition, we can see that everyone has suffered from it, and all our institutions, including our governments and media, have been a manifestation of our insecure, psychologically upset condition. Only solving the human condition, addressing the source of our selfish psychological upset (what historically has been termed ‘evil’), could we achieve real and lasting change and stop the destruction of our world that is happening everywhere we look. You may find these FAQs helpful, FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does understanding 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?’

Hi Robert, to learn more go to the top of our homepage—HumanCondition.com—as it states ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’ and guides you through the steps to pursue your interest. Our homepage also shows the outstanding commendations from scientists and thought leaders Jeremy Griffith’s work has received and also Jeremy’s biography.

Thank you for your thoughtful comment Amanda. Yes if we were all cooperative and loving no one, especially children, would suffer the damaging effects of being treated with anything but generosity and kindness and that is the question of the human condition. 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 psychologically upset—can we truly free ourselves from the human condition and legitimately love ourselves and each other again. Significantly psychological upset or a psychosis can be healed with understanding so yes we agree with you, and in fact we can all be healed as FAQ 1.40 explains as it answers the questions ‘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 Abraham, at last there is a solution to the war within us caused by the battle between our intellect and our cooperative instincts which caused us to become psychologically angry, alienated and egocentric, the upset state we refer to as the human condition. Now that we can understand this conflict all those insecure, defensive behaviours are obsoleted, brought to an end, and we free ourselves from the human condition—we certainly can say “no more of the human condition” with this solution!

That’s great news Cheryl and you can immediately access free electronic copies of Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM (along with his other key books, including THE Interview) 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.) To pursue your interest you may also like to join our ever-growing Facebook Group and registering for free, live, interactive events with Jeremy and others.

Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition brings biological understanding to religious accounts of our condition, which means we can at last reconcile science and religion. For instance, as THE Interview explains, the story of Adam and Eve is a pre-scientific metaphor for the emergence of consciousness and its clash with our pre-established, cooperative loving instincts, resulting in humans becoming psychologically upset or ‘sinful’ or ‘evil’. However, significantly we can now understand, from scientific first principles, that ‘Adam and Eve’ were actually ‘good’ to search for knowledge, not bad or ‘evil’; we humans are actually the absolute heroes of the whole story! It establishes that we are good and not bad after all. What THE Interview presents fundamentally lifts the ‘burden of guilt’ from the human race and allows us to forgive ourselves and others and finally end our psychologically troubled human condition—it couldn’t be a bigger breakthrough. You might be interested in our FAQs about religion, especially 6.2 ‘What is God’ and 6.3 ‘Does this understanding undermine religion’.

Thank you for your feedback David. Great wisdom can be found in some spiritual teaching, but ultimately our thinking mind needed understanding—specifically, scientific understanding of why when the ideals are to be loving and selfless are we so competitive and selfish? This is what Jeremy Griffith’s treatise does and why it is heralded as the breakthrough that can save the world. We recommend FAQ 6.5, which explains the difference between Jeremy’s explanation and pseudo-idealism, and FAQ 1.13, which explains the originality of his work.

Thank you for your question and interest Maryam. Jeremy Griffith’s work doesn’t contradict a belief in God or religion, it simply brings biological understanding to all those pre-scientific concepts. In fact Jeremy has a deep respect for religious scripture which he often considers 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. (Our FAQs about religion include FAQ 6.2 ‘What is God’ and FAQ 6.3 ‘Does this undermine religion/God’.) The difference being that we can now with the benefit of science, bring clarifying, first-principle biological explanation to our so-called ‘good and evil’-afflicted human condition and why we had to depart from our original innocence, whilst religion had to rely on metaphor and a more literal interpretation. You may also like to read our response to Karen’s question above about the story of Adam and Eve in the Bible being a pre-scientific metaphor for the emergence of consciousness as you also mention free will and our choice not to follow our instincts.

It is certainly the 11th hour but yes we can do much, much more than just be hopeful now because at last we have the fundamental explanation of the human condition we have been in search of! As Jeremy Griffith says in this interview: “We humans have absolutely lived in hope, faith and trust that one day, somewhere, some place, all the efforts of everyone—but of scientists in particular—would finally produce the completely redeeming, uplifting and healing understanding of us humans. I know it must seem outrageous to claim that this goal of goals has finally been achieved, but it has. In fact, the human condition is such a difficult subject for us humans to confront and deal with that I couldn’t be talking about it so openly and freely if it hadn’t been solved.” Our FAQ 1.5 explains how having the explanation of the human condition transforms our lives!

Thank you for your enthusiastic comment Beata, and the human condition has certainly caused so much unbearable suffering for humans, it has been a deeply tragic and depressing reality. 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 and others with great compassion and kindness and we don’t have to overly confront the upset within us as FAQ 1.19 ‘A caution about the danger of over-exposure / Advice for people with mental health issues’ summarises.

It was an absolutely amazing interview, everybody should at least listen to it, at least once, and read the book as well as adviding prople all around to listen to lohical research and findings, this could and will change the human race forever.. people all over this planet should immediately leave behind any idia or action and just listen!!

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While great care has been taken to present the information as quickly and simply as possible (which is done in Part 1 of THE Interview) explanation of the human condition can be initially difficult to access. This is because it has been the most terrifying of subjects to face as it is the issue of whether we are fundamentally good or bad as a species, and we have necessarily lived in almost total denial of it. We suggest looking at The Great Guilt where Jeremy Griffith explains this initial ‘deaf effect’ and how to overcome it. Also FAQ 1.3 presents a very brief summary of the key ‘instinct vs intellect’ concept.

Yes, understanding has always brought relief to any situation, but what is being presented here is the ultimate understanding! We can now see that all our anger and frustration is, at base, a result of a conflict between our intellect and our cooperative instincts. This conflict led to an undeserved sense of guilt and insecurity that caused us to become psychologically angry, alienated and egocentric, the upset state we refer to as the human condition. 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.

    As Jeremy Griffith points out in Part 2 of THE Interview the issue of the human condition has been such a denied and off-limits subject that confronting it represents the “biggest of all blasphemies”, and how “science progresses funeral by funeral” when it comes to supporting big paradigm shifts like this. So it is up to the resolve of individuals, including scientists, to help the WTM break through the road block of the legitimate fear and resulting deaf effect the subject of the human condition causes in most people. You might find these links helpful: FAQ 1.14 ‘Why aren’t these ideas mainstream’ and FAQ 3.4 ‘How can I help the WTM’.     Having said that, as Jeremy explains in chapter 9.9 of his book FREEDOM: “Although this new world for humans, which the World Transformation Movement has been established to facilitate, will, as has been stated, have a slow beginning because humans initially find it difficult even taking in or ‘hearing’ discussion about the human condition, once the WTM is discovered, word of it and what it offers every human and the world will spread like wildfire.’” And so even though we haven’t yet reached the tipping point in terms of awareness of this great breakthrough, you can see from the excitement and relief in our ecstatic responses to THE Interview, we are well on our way! 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 Jo, your first concern is addressed in our 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?’. It is explained there that even those who are most committed to seeking validation through gaining power and wealth, 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, biological explanation of the human condition that establishes our worth at the most fundamental level.     And while that search for liberating knowledge was underway, it is true that religion in-effect condemned the conscious mind’s all-important search for knowledge, however we can now appreciate that religion has played a significant role as both the custodian of the ideal state and as a means of solace for those exhausted by the corrupting journey. This understanding presents a massive paradigm shift in our thinking, Jo, but what people discover is Jeremy Griffith’s work actually reconciles science and religion by bringing biological understanding to pre-scientific concepts. In fact, it presents the fulfilment of a time that all religions looked forward to when we could actually explain ourselves, see FAQ 6.3 ‘Does this undermine religion/God’ and FAQ 6.2 ‘What is God’. It represents the end of faith and dogma and the beginning of knowing.

I have been wondering about our origins through the different mythologies and the Jewish-Christian traditions…this is a surprising and beautiful analysis of thinking about it with the contribution of so many thinkers…

Thank you for your heartfelt comment, Linda. Yes, at last we have the truth about humans that frees us from our fundamental insecurity about our self worth, bringing true peace and happiness to our lives, which is just so utterly relieving and liberating!! If you haven’t already visited our Transformation page it is a must as it further explains how, with this completely redeeming, uplifting and healing biological understanding of the core mystery and problem about human behaviour of our human condition, we can rehabilitate and transform our lives and world. We also encourage you to join our Facebook Group, as we think you will find inspiring the extraordinary discussions taking place there.

Glad to see that it is resonating with you Wanda. 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.

Thank you Mary, please pursue that interest, you won’t be disappointed! Our homepage — HumanCondition.com — provides a wonderful road map to progress with all our key material made freely available and you can register for free, live, interactive presentations with Jeremy Griffith about this immensely relieving understanding. 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.

Hi Patricia, thank you for your support. THE Interview is available to read in Portuguese – go to our Translations page at https://www.humancondition.com/translations/! Also people can watch THE Interview (and all the videos on our website) using the closed captions or subtitles function in their native language (just click on the ‘cc’ icon at the bottom of the video player/window).

Yes, while Buddhism 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. We suggest FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this original or new?’ which explains the unique significance of Jeremy Griffith’s work.

Thank you for your feedback and interest, Jim. Essentially, we needed to find the scientific explanation for why when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless are humans 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. The human condition manifests in different ways in all of us as a result of our own experiences and exposure to the world, but the clash between instinct and intellect is the source of the overall insecurity and subsequent anger, egocentricity and alienation that underlies all human affairs, and so explaining it makes all those defensive behaviours redundant. We also recommend FAQs 1.4-1.6 as they talk about the rapidly transforming effects of this new, world-changing knowledge.

Wonderful to hear George! Our WTM Community page shows all the ways to join our all-exciting, heals-ourselves-and-the-world WTM Community. This includes registering for our free, live events with Jeremy Griffith and others and joining our Facebook Group which has over 43,000 members with more people joining each day! We look forward to meeting you there!

We are closer to total transformation than you think Nikko! Just look at the daily ecstatic responses on our homepage, to see the relief and excitement of finally be able to make sense of human life is turning into a tidal wave of world-saving support!! As Part 4 of THE Interview and FAQ 1.40 explain, while the world is fast approaching a point of no return, this understanding will turn things around incredibly quickly, because it explains and solves the underlying cause of all our selfishness, anger and egocentricity. We also recommend reading Freedom Essay 15: ‘How your life can immediately be transformed'. Also on our homepage you can see all the outstanding commendations for Jeremy Griffith’s work from leading thinkers and scientists and our growing network of WTM centres all around the world.

As THE Interview explains solving the human condition solves all the confusion, frustration and suffering in human life at its source so we can actually stop the destruction of ourselves and save the world. So it couldn’t be a bigger breakthrough and the difference it makes is enormous! We can now understand our behaviour has been driven by a deep insecurity about our fundamental goodness, so now that our goodness is biologically established we no longer have to behave insecurely and selfishly and can legitimately return to a selfless way of living. This is the rapidly transforming effect of being able to understand the human condition. We suggest the following FAQs: FAQ 1.5 ‘Why is this important to my life?’, FAQ 1.6 ‘Why this solves everything?’ and FAQ 1.14 ‘If this is so important why isn’t it mainstream?’

It is healing because we can now understand that to master the incredible potential of the conscious mind’s ability to self-manage, or our ‘free will’, the mind had to defy our loving but dictatorial instincts which resulted in humans becoming angry, egocentric and alienated — the upset state of our human condition. Significantly psychological upset or a psychosis can be healed with understanding, so our upset behaviour is not unchangeable or immutable – a revelation that transforms the human race! The Great Guilt presentation, that follows THE Interview, further explains just how relieving and healing finally being able to understand why we had to defy our loving, cooperative instincts is—it actually lifts The Great Burden Of Guilt from the human race! Click here to start watching this astonishingly powerful presentation.

If you mean universally yes we certainly have Jane and that is exactly what Jeremy Griffith’s explanation does! The depth of clarity Jeremy’s world saving presentation in THE Interview gives us provides the lasting solution to all the chaos and suffering in human life, see FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does understanding of the human condition solve everything?’ If you are referring to the presentation needing more clarity we recommend reading and/or watching THE Interview’s companion presentation, The Great Guilt, which further outlines the definition of our human condition, and why engagement with the subject can be initially hard to grasp.

Thank you for your comment Rashid. We certainly respect people’s religious views and wanted to mention that Jeremy Griffith’s work doesn’t contradict a belief in religion or God. In fact Jeremy has a deep respect for religious scripture which he often considers to be a repository of extremely rare denial-free truth, containing all the truth about human life albeit from a pre-science view, which his work simply brings biological understanding to. This is explained in our FAQ 6.3 ‘Does understanding of the human condition undermine a faith in religion or God?’. Also our FAQ 5.4 about consciousness is also worth including.

    Thank you for your comments Marje. We agree fear does drive our behaviour but we disagree that it is because we have competitive animal instincts rather, as THE Interview explains, it is because we are deeply fearful of the issue of the human condition. Jeremy Griffith evidences this key biological distinction that humans suffer from the conscious-mind-based, psychologically troubled human condition, not the genetic-opportunism-based, animal condition (see Part 3). We suggest people watch the companion presentation to THE Interview titled The Great Guilt that causes the Deaf Effect which can be watched or read here on our website. This presentation comprehensively deals with our understandable fear and cynicism about confronting the human condition and provides astonishing clarification of why discussion of it causes most people to initially experience a ‘Deaf Effect’ to what’s being presented and put that down to the delivery of the presentation rather than its content.     In terms of religion the human condition is the study of humans capacity for acts of both so-called ‘good and evil’. It is the realm of inquiry where science and religion overlap, so in explaining the human condition religion is also explained. This represents a reconciliation of science and religion, see FAQ 1.15.

At last we can compassionately explain why we haven’t been able to give unconditional love to ourselves, each other and our children. In this interview and his definitive book FREEDOM Jeremy explains the importance of nurturing in the maturation of humanity and in our own lives, but because humanity’s necessary preoccupation with finding knowledge compromised our ability to nurture, it has been one of those extremely confronting truths that humans, without understanding of the corrupting journey to find knowledge, have had no choice but to largely live in denial of. We highly recommend you read chapter 6:13 of FREEDOM titled, ‘Nurturing now becomes a priority’ Zel. There Jeremy explains that “now that we have found that very good reason why parents have been unable to nurture their children with anything like the unconditional love children instinctively expect and need, it is no longer necessary to deny the importance of nurturing both in the maturation of our species and in our own lives. Yes, with the arrival of understanding the terrible guilt that parents have felt for not being able to adequately nurture their offspring departs. Parents can now understand that their inability to adequately love their offspring is not their fault, but the product of the ever-accumulating levels of upset in the human race as a whole that resulted from our species’ heroic 2-million-year search for knowledge, specifically for self-knowledge, understanding of why we conscious humans are good and not bad. So yes, we can finally now admit the importance of nurturing and turn our attention back to the nurturing of our offspring—in fact, it now becomes a matter of great urgency that we do both these things.”

Yes, those with a more fundamentalist interpretation of religion can struggle, but we do feel it is important to mention that Jeremy Griffith’s work doesn’t contradict a belief in God or Christianity, or the Bible’s content. It simply brings biological understanding to all those pre-scientific concepts.

Our homepage—HumanCondition.com—has it all there for you Dre, and it is all 100% FREE (no registration required)! At the top it states ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’ and guides you through the steps to pursue your interest, which includes: Jeremy Griffith’s books; our free, live, interactive events which you can register for here and we encourage you to join our booming Facebook Group.

    While Buddhism 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.     With regard to wanting to live ‘before the fall’, we suggest that living in a world in which the reconciling, redeeming and all-liberating explanation of the human condition has been found is the most exciting thing that could ever happen to a human! With our angry, divisive condition explained and defended, true peace and joy and love will now come to the world. We have no doubt you’ll enjoy Chapter 9 of FREEDOM, which explains the great transformation of the human race.

Thank you for your thoughts, Chris. The explanation of the human condition does take time to digest but as THE Interview explains our anger, egocentricity, and alienation from our all-loving, cooperative instincts, isn’t the result of the advent of the “monetary system”, rather it is the result of a psychosis, caused by the clash between our instinct and intellect (which Video/Freedom Essay 3 further explains). Significantly a psychosis is changeable as it can be healed through understanding so the solution is simple and all-powerful (see FAQ 1.4). Also, you can read an in-depth description of the history of competition-emphasising biology and left wing, cooperation-emphasising biology in Jeremy Griffith’s booklet Death by Dogma (see the section titled ‘The progression of biological arguments that led to the rise of Critical Theory’). This section also deals with the view that the source of human selfishness, greed and conflict was the accumulation of possessions following the advent of agriculture and a sedentary society.

Hi Angelo, 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 Griffith presents. We suggest FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this original or new?’ which explains the unique significance of Jeremy’s work, as well as our FAQs on Religion generally. You may also be interested in Freedom Essay 21 in which Jeremy explains ‘How did we humans acquire our all-loving, unconditionally selfless moral conscience?’.

I am interested in understanding the fine details of the book and hence buy it to comment. Thank you

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.)

     You can know that Jeremy Griffith has at last got to the bottom of the human condition and found the redeeming explanation of it, because as he explains in paragraph 73 of FREEDOM, the ultimate test of any hypothesis is how accountable it is of our own lives – as the greatest of all physicists, Albert Einstein, once said that ‘truth is what stands the test of experience’. And so you can know that this is the breakthrough explanation of the human condition because once you understand the explanation and begin to apply it, you will discover it is so able to make sense of human behaviour it makes it transparent. This transparency of ourselves and our world—for example, the exposure of all our falseness—that this understanding of the human condition brings, is the ultimate ‘test of experience’ that confirms that the understanding being presented here is the long-sought explanation of the human condition. In this particular scientific study—the biological analysis of the human condition—we humans are the subjects, which means we can experience, feel and know the truthfulness or otherwise of the explanations being put forward. And so, fantastic a claim as it may seem, you will find that what is being presented here is the long-sought-after, desperately needed, psychosis-addressing-and-resolving, human race-transforming explanation of the human condition.     And as is explained in FAQ 1.20: “Throughout FREEDOM it is demonstrated how the ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation demystifies not just the human condition, but all aspects of human behaviour. It quickly becomes clear that not only are the facts and logic underlying the ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation established and unarguable, the theory also has an extraordinary ‘explanatory power’, which is one of the essential qualities of a scientific theory."

Yes, while the arts and philosophy and religion all contained extraordinarily profound truth about human life, ultimately to understand our true nature and 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 Griffith presents.