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Part 4 of THE Interview, titled ‘How does the psychological rehabilitation of the human race that the arrival of understanding of the human condition finally makes possible actually occur?’, presents the answer to how this understanding allows us to transform our lives. It explains that it will take a number of generations for the upset within us to be completely healed but it also stresses importantly we can be immediately free of its effects. Certainly there is habituation to overcome and humans do find change difficult but at last we can understand our behaviour has been driven by a deep insecurity about our fundamental goodness or worth and so now that our goodness is biologically established we no longer have to behave insecurely and selfishly and can legitimately return to a selfless way of living. ‘Legitimately’ because we have the first principle science which liberates us to be honest about our conflicted upset state instead of denying or transcending it. So instead of being focused on power, fame, fortune and glory, all our energies will be freed to truly work together on doing whatever it takes to end the suffering and save our world. How this healing is immediately open to us all is summarised in FAQ 1.5 and FAQ 1.40 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?’.

    Hi Sawsan, thank you very much for your appreciative response. The answer to your question is that solving the human condition solves all the confusion, frustration and suffering in human life at its source. 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, however because it presents a huge paradigm shift in our thinking it does take a little time to fully grasp. FAQs 1.4 to 1.6 are helpful as they talk about the far-reaching practical applications of this understanding.     Joining our Facebook Group is also highly recommended because there is so much helpful, practical and inspired discussion taking place there about this immensely relieving knowledge! And to pursue your interest we also urge people to visit our homepage — HumanCondition.com — as it provides a wonderful road map to progress, including registering for free, live, interactive presentations with Jeremy Griffith about this immensely relieving understanding.

Hi Merle, thank you very much for your comment and interest. As you’ve recognised, the essential premise of Jeremy Griffith’s breakthrough explanation of the human condition is that 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 definitive book, FREEDOM. The human condition manifests in different ways in all as a result of our own experiences and exposure to the world, but the clash between instinct and intellect is the source of all our insecurity and subsequent anger, egocentricity and alienation, and so explaining it makes all those defensive behaviours redundant. We suggest watching the video series that follows THE Interview provided on the WTM’s homepage as that series elaborates on what’s been presented — so there’ll be some repetition, but going over the concepts in more detail does help with the understanding and absorption of them.

Thank you for your appreciative response, Fannie. For all those visiting this page and reading these comments, we wanted to let you know that you can immediately access free electronic copies of Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM (along with his other key books, including THE Interview) to read, listen to or download 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.) And we encourage everyone to pursue their interest and digestion by joining our ever-growing Facebook Group and registering for free, live, interactive events with Jeremy and others.

Thank you for your comment, Tracey. Professor Harry Prosen, a former President of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, actually presented the importance of Jeremy Griffith’s work in the context of Charles Darwin’s earlier discovery, when in the Foreword to Jeremy’s book 'The Great Exodus', he wrote: “Finding understanding of the human condition has been the Holy Grail of the whole Darwinian revolution and I am convinced this book presents that vital understanding, and by so doing makes possible the rehabilitation of the human race. As such I believe, as I have said, that there has never been a more important book.” So, Darwin’s great breakthrough was answering the riddle of the origin of species, but Jeremy has solved the human condition and therefore saved the human race, so it couldn’t possibly be a bigger breakthrough for humanity and the world! Which is why the highly esteemed ecologist Professor Stuart Hurlbert, emeritus professor of biology at San Diego State University, stated in 2022 about Jeremy’s breakthrough biological explanation of the human condition, ‘I am stunned & honored to have lived to see the coming of “Darwin II”’.

Hi Diana, you can 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). And 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 might also be interested in visiting the websites of WTM Centres in Nice and Switzerland as their websites are also provided in French.

THE Interview is about both men and women. It explains the universal psychosis all humans suffer from caused by the clash between our instinct and intellect, which significantly can be healed through understanding. 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 further explained in Freedom Essay 21 and fully explained chapter 5 of his definitive book FREEDOM.) And what is astonishing is that despite our psychologically upset condition this biological treatise establishes all humans are equally good, worthwhile, meaningful and wonderful regardless of gender, age, religion, etc. See biologist Dr Anna Fitzgerald’s video commendation about how this explanation is the real liberation of women and also our FAQs on men and women.

Absolutely. All we needed was understanding of the human condition, which is what Jeremy Griffith has found. As Professor Harry Prosen, a former president of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, said, “I have no doubt Jeremy Griffith’s biological explanation of the human condition is the holy grail of insight we have sought for the psychological rehabilitation of the human race.”

    Yes, as is explained in FAQ 1.10, human-condition-avoiding, mechanistic, reductionist, deductive science is an extremely limited and compromised form of science. As Templeton Prize-winning biologist Charles Birch, who was Jeremy’s professor of biology at Sydney University, said, “[mechanistic] science can’t deal with subjectivity [the issue of our psychologically distressed condition]…what we were all taught in universities is pretty much a dead end” and “Biology has not made any real advance since Darwin”. Indeed, mechanistic science is now so farcically dishonest and discredited in the public’s mind that many people have lost interest in it to the point of dismissing it as of no real use to us in terms of being able to understand and manage our behaviour! Freedom Essay/Video 14 makes this discreditation very clear.     Thankfully mechanistic science can now be replaced by human-condition-confronting-and-solving, truthful, holistic, inductive science—but of course the established, entrenched, traditional mechanistic scientific paradigm resists this massive paradigm shift. It does this by ignoring the new synthesis, as well as using such outrageously dishonest and irresponsible claims as ‘the new synthesis presents no new data’, is an ‘untestable’ and ‘non-falsifiable’ hypothesis, and is therefore not even science! The same ridiculous accusation was used against Charles Darwin’s Natural Selection synthesis. As is explained in FAQ 1.10, these accusations are transparently false and nothing more than the dying tremors of an old, extremely flawed form of dishonest science that has lived way past its used by date and is rapidly taking humanity to extinction!

What is so breathtakingly beautiful and amazing about Jeremy Griffith’s fully accountable scientific explanation of the human condition is that it truly allows us to forgive ourselves for our angry, egocentric and alienated behaviour. We can now understand why we are not bad, which is why this understanding is described as ‘redeeming, reconciling and rehabilitating’. As the distinguished psychiatrist Professor Harry Prosen (who wrote the Introduction to Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM) said: “What Griffith is presenting is understanding of the source insecurity that the whole human race suffers from for having destroyed our species’ innocent soul. It is a universal self-blame that his understanding at last provides healing insight into. All human behavior is saturated with that universal insecure, depressing state and resulting anger, egocentricity and alienation that has developed from it, but we finally have the compassionate foundation insight needed to dismantle all that ‘upset’/psychosis. So the real psychotherapy of our collective and individual psychoses can begin”

Thank you Gerard! 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 Marc. As Part 4 of THE Interview explains, this understanding of the human condition liberates us from an underlying insecurity and resulting psychosis that all humans have suffered from since we became a fully conscious species some 2 million years ago, which allows the immediate transformation of everyone’s life because, as Jeremy Griffith explains, “while it will take a number of generations to heal all the upset in us humans, everyone can immediately live free of their upset. The reason we can live free of it is that while we lacked the real defence and reinforcement of understanding of our corrupted condition, we absolutely needed the artificial defences and reinforcements of attacking any criticism of our corrupted condition, of denying and blocking it out, and of finding any positive reinforcement we could—anger, alienation and egocentricity are what sustained us—but now that we have the real defence and reinforcement of our fundamental goodness, all these artificial defences and reinforcements are obsoleted, they are no longer needed.” You can read more about the immediate transformation this understanding makes possible in FAQ 4.1.

Hi Maria, explanation of the human condition does produce a huge paradigm shift in our thinking, so this critical new science does take time to digest, but as explained in Part 4 of THE Interview (titled ‘How does the psychological rehabilitation of the human race that the arrival of understanding of the human condition finally makes possible actually occur?’), while the upset within us will take generations to be completely healed, importantly we can be immediately free of its effects. We can at last understand our behaviour has been driven by a deep insecurity about our fundamental goodness or worth and so now that our goodness is biologically established we no longer have to behave insecurely and selfishly and can legitimately return to a selfless way of living. This is the rapidly rehabilitating and transforming effect of being able to understand the human condition. FAQs 1.4 to 1.6 are helpful as they talk about the far-reaching practical applications of this understanding. This is further explained in Freedom Essay 15 ‘How our lives can be immediately transformed’, while the Transformation section of our website is brimming with invaluable insight, counsel and personal affirmations. You may also find our FAQ 1.40 helpful titled ‘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?'. 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.

Hi Åsa, Jeremy Griffith’s work is being translated into many languages around the world, thanks to wonderful efforts from the WTM’s ever-expanding global network of support, but unfortunately we don’t yet have any Swedish translations. However, the WTM Sweden Centre website is presented in Swedish, so we encourage you to visit it. 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, it will take generations to completely heal the human race, but as Jeremy says in Freedom Essay 15, “It is this particular undeniable consequence of the arrival of understanding of the human condition of the transformation of our lives from living selfishly and competitively to living selflessly and cooperatively that is going to eventually catch on as being the right response now for everyone and when it does, it will spread like wildfire across our planet, and save the world. And it is not a revolution that involves warfare and bloodshed like so many revolutions in the past, but a peaceful revolution that is driven by irrefutable knowledge/​understanding. We humans are conscious beings and what consciousness needs is understanding, and now we have it. Ultimately, we humans respond to knowledge—anything less was bound to be ineffective. This is the real and lasting transformation that the human race has lived in hope, faith and trust would one day occur. It is the revolution of our minds.”

Yes, as is explained in THE Interview, 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 ‘fall’ or them becoming psychologically upset or ‘sinful’. However as Jeremy stresses, we can now understand, from scientific first principles, that ‘Adam and Eve’ were ‘good’ to search for knowledge, not bad or ‘evil’. And with that redeeming answer to the human condition now found, our psychological upset (so called ‘sinful’ or ‘fallen’ state) can actually subside. You might be interested in our FAQ’s about religion.

Hi Charles, solving the human condition solves all the confusion, frustration and suffering in human life at its source. 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, however because it presents a huge paradigm shift in our thinking it does take a little time to fully grasp. FAQs 1.4 to 1.6 are helpful as they talk about the far-reaching practical applications of this understanding. And joining our Facebook Group is also highly recommended because there is so much helpful, practical and inspired discussion taking place there about this immensely relieving knowledge!

Hi Robert, Jeremy Griffith’s biological ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition allows us to understand the real merits and liabilities of both the left and right wing. His work certainly doesn’t excuse the right-wing for its corrupting behaviour, nor unfairly focus on the failing of the left, which is that its insistence on ideal behaviour had the effect of oppressing the search for knowledge, but rather brings a profound understanding to both sides which ultimately will bring an end to the whole ugly business of politics. This is fully explained in our FAQs about politics, see www.humancondition.com/frequently-asked-questions/#about-politics/ . You may also be interested in our response to James Chesky below as he raised similar concerns about the left.

Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition, its summary Transform Your Life And Save The World and THE Interview, are made freely available on our homepage. You can read them online or download them, and even access audio versions. If you prefer you can download the free Kindle versions or purchase hard copies from Amazon and hard copies are also available at other good bookstores.

Thanks Richard, for your appreciative comment! Yes, what is so astonishing about Jeremy Griffith’s work is it provides the long-sought-after, biological answer to the riddle of human nature – why, when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless, are we so angry, competitive and selfish? You may also find FAQs 1.4 to 1.6 of great interest as they talk about the rapidly transforming effects of this new, world-changing knowledge.

    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. It sets out clearly the biological reason for why left-wing ideology is so dangerous. It also summarises the whole history of pseudo idealism going back to when the upset state of the human condition first emerged some 2 million years ago. 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, as mentioned, 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, and what is finally revealed with Jeremy’s biological explanation is that there has been an all-important, good reason for that divisive behaviour. It’s always been easy to side with idealism and denigrate realism, but now at last we can understand the real world humans have been living in where we have had to be competitive, aggressive and selfish, and, most wonderfully of all, by revealing that reason, ending the need for that divisive behaviour. That is 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). We recommend reading our FAQ 1.31 ‘When I was being cooperative and loving, how do I know if I was behaving in a genuinely selfless, soulful, cooperative and loving instinctive way or in a deluded, selfish, feel-good, pseudo idealistic way?’     And as THE Interview explains, all humans are born with loving moral instincts but we all now variously suffer from a psychosis brought about by the conscious mind’s necessary yet corrupting search for knowledge. While it is true that due to their circumstances, some individuals have less exposure to the human condition than others, and are therefore less psychologically upset than others, by this stage of the human journey everyone suffers from the human condition. With Jeremy’s instinct v intellect explanation we can at last understand WHY as a species we corrupted our loving moral instincts – and with that understanding now available, everyone’s insecure, defensive behaviour is made redundant, and we can free ourselves from the human condition.

    Thank you very much Rebecca, for your enthusiasm, and you’re not alone in expressing your ‘relief’ at encountering this breakthrough understanding and having the “mystery” of human life solved! Not only can we now understand that our original instinctive orientation is loving and cooperative, we can also understand that our competitive, aggressive, destructive, even seemingly ‘evil’ behaviour was an unavoidable, indeed necessary, part of human life. This understanding defends our so-called ‘dark side’ and explains that despite all appearances to the contrary, all humans are ‘good’. And by explaining the very good reason why our intellect had to defy our instincts, it makes redundant our defensive behaviours of anger, egocentricity and alienation, allowing us to return to that loving, “gentle” state you crave!     And we also very much appreciate your interest in sharing this knowledge! THE Interview provides the ideal introduction to Jeremy Griffith’s work, so please share the WTM’s homepage (the homepage is the best place to send people for them to watch or read THE Interview, because that way they get the full context of the website). To share the homepage, simply click on the ‘share this page’ symbol at the bottom of the page. We also encourage people to share other material from the WTM’s website, the WTM’s Twitter account, the WTM’s Facebook page, and our Facebook Group, which we strongly encourage you to join — it’s 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. You may also like to read our FAQ 3.4 on ‘How can I help the WTM?’.

Well I think this is amazingly true outstanding truth will set people right in the honest eyes opening their ears to understand, with you waking up this morning in many many things and then you have to stand and Truth

Yes, the key missing piece in helping humans has been our inability to explain our species' fundamental goodness. We now have that piece of understanding, and as a result, we now have the fundamental foundation from which to rehabilitate everybody.

    Thank you for your feedback, Andrew. Certainly CBT and other psychotherapy techniques have helped us manage our psychological condition, but ultimately it was only by bringing reconciling understanding to our conflicted selves that we could truly ameliorate and heal it. As the distinguished psychiatrist Professor Harry Prosen (who wrote the Introduction to Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM) said: “What Griffith is presenting is understanding of the source insecurity that the whole human race suffers from for having destroyed our species’ innocent soul. It is a universal self-blame that his understanding at last provides healing insight into. All human behavior is saturated with that universal insecure, depressing state and resulting anger, egocentricity and alienation that has developed from it, but we finally have the compassionate foundation insight needed to dismantle all that ‘upset’/psychosis. So the real psychotherapy of our collective and individual psychoses can begin”. So Jeremy’s work couldn’t represent a more significant breakthrough in psychotherapy because it presents the psychosis-addressing-and-solving real explanation of the human condition that can finally relieve and heal our deeply conflicted and troubled upset state. We recommend reading Jeremy Griffith’s new book Therapy For The Human Condition.     Regarding Socialism, Jeremy explains that while it is of course important to look after the less fortunate in our society, the limitation of Socialism is that it seeks to bring about a just, cooperative society by simply and dogmatically demanding an idealistic social or communal world without acknowledging the reality of the human condition and the unjust but necessary struggle it created. As Jeremy points out in FREEDOM, “Karl Marx, the political theorist whose mid-nineteenth century ideas gave rise to socialism and communism, argued that ‘The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is [not to understand the world but] to change it.’ By ‘change it’ Marx meant just make it cooperative or social or communal, but he was wrong—the whole ‘point’ and responsibility of being a conscious being is to understand our world and place in it, ultimately to find understanding of the human condition. The attraction—and inherent lie—of socialism/communism was that you could support and live the ideals without acknowledging the reality of the human condition and its struggle.” We recommend our FAQs about politics, which we think you will find fascinating as they explain how this all-reconciling understanding of human behaviour brings an end to the necessary but ugly world of politics.

Thank you for your comment Irene. For the benefit of readers of these comments we maintain that this presentation explains that our “desires for everything and anything“ and our ”envy” are symptoms of our insecure human condition, so ultimately, to “change our ways” we had to end that underlying insecurity, get to the core of the problem and fix that. We certainly respect people’s religious views and religions contain all manner of truths about human life, however it is all from a pre-scientific view. To be able to stop our world becoming any darker we need a non-abstract, non-mystical, completely rational and thus understandable, scientific, biological explanation of human behaviour and that is precisely what Jeremy Griffith presents in this interview (summarised in FAQ 1.3).

Hi Rich, you can purchase hard copies at bookstores, including Amazon, otherwise all Jeremy Griffith’s books are immediately available electronically to read online, download or print HERE on our website. This includes THE Interview, its companion presentation The Great Guilt and Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition. You can also download free Kindle versions from Amazon.

Just.....THANKS. 🥰🥰🥰

    Hi Terrie, firstly if you haven’t already watched THE Interview, and its companion presentation The Great Guilt, that is the place to start as explanation of the human condition presents a huge paradigm shift in our thinking and it is important to be grounded in the fundamental explanation before dipping into its deeper implications. Also, as THE Interview explains the human condition has been the most terrifying of subjects to face because 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 so there is a lot to consider and digest which takes time.     In Part 1 of THE Interview Jeremy Griffith explains all humans are born with an instinctive self or soul that is perfectly aligned to a cooperative and selfless way of living and that humans’ upset (angry, egocentric and alienated) behaviour is not a product of savage animal instincts within us, but the result of a universal psychosis caused by the unavoidable clash between our instinct and intellect. With this compassionate understanding of the human condition we can now appreciate that humanity’s necessary preoccupation with finding knowledge compromised our ability to nurture our children to the extent their instincts expect, but now that that preoccupation ends we can safely acknowledge the absolute importance of nurturing in our species’ development (see also Freedom Essay 21) and in the individual development of children (see chapter 8:16C of Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM see contents page here). Also, to quote chapter 6:13 of FREEDOM titled, Nurturing now becomes a priority: “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.”

Thanks for your comment Manuelle. This certainly is uplifting and the transforming power of this explanation lies in the fact that we can now understand that having to become psychologically upset and carry the burden of guilt we felt for having to leave and corrupt our original “peaceful condition of human life” was the responsible thing to do while we continued the search for knowledge. This is what is so extraordinary about Jeremy Griffith’s biological treatise — it actually defends the conscious mind for becoming so war-like. That is the great paradox of the human condition – we humans had to defy our all-loving instincts and become corrupted in self in order to find understanding of the human condition. Now with that found we can at last reconcile our divides selves and “change and experience a war free life”, see FAQ 1.6 ‘Why understanding the human condition solves everything’.

Welcome Pat and it is wonderful you are eager to learn more! We make all our information freely available on our website so just go to our homepage—HumanCondition.com—where it states ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’ as it guides you through the steps to pursue your interest. This includes registering for our free, live events with Jeremy Griffith and others and joining our popular Facebook Group. You will also see our series of 16 Main Videos with the next one to watch, after THE Interview, being The Great Guilt where Jeremy Griffith gives an astonishingly interesting and important description of The Great Burden Of Guilt that has finally been lifted from the human race! Click here to start watching!

Thanks for your comment Adrian, however we suggest, with a little more consideration, you will find this explanation certainly does hold up. Just look at our homepage where you can see the ecstatic daily responses and outstanding commendations from scientists and thought leaders Jeremy Griffith’s work has received. What Jeremy explains in this interview is that all humans are born with all-loving moral instincts (not savage animal instincts) but now variously suffer from a psychosis due to the human condition caused by the conscious mind’s necessary search for knowledge. What is so important about this is that it finally explains the real reason for why our “monstrous” behaviour became an unavoidable, indeed necessary, part of human life and by so doing establishes our fundamental goodness. Part 3 especially evidences this key biological distinction that humans suffer from the conscious-mind-based, psychologically troubled human condition, not the genetic-opportunism-based, animal condition. And, most significantly, as Part 4 explains a psychosis can be healed with understanding, so our psychologically upset human nature is fixable or changeable—not unchangeable. Importantly, this understanding of why we became upset does not condone or sanction our destructive behaviour, rather, through bringing understanding to it, it gives us the power to ameliorate and thus subside and ultimately eliminate it, see our FAQ 1.38 Does this condone ‘evil’ behaviour?.

Very perceptive comment Kim - yes this provides the ultimate liberation because it compassionately explains, and therefore makes safe, the most terrifying of subjects! As THE Interview explains the human condition is the most fearful and terrifying of subjects to face as it is the issue of whether we are fundamentally good or bad as a species. The eternal battle for humans has been to validate ourselves, establish once and for all that we are fundamentally good and not bad, and it’s that deepest and most important of all battles that has finally been won. Solving the human condition solves all the confusion, frustration and suffering in human life at its source, it couldn’t be a bigger breakthrough. You might like to read FAQ 1.5 which summarises why this understanding is so important and liberating!

We recommend you watch this interview Stephen as in Part 2 biologist Jeremy Griffith explains why this discovery isn’t yet mainstream science when he points out that 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 (see FAQ 1.14 Why aren’t these ideas this mainstream?). THE Interview also makes clear there is no dogma, faith or belief involved. This understanding, and World Transformation Movement which supports it, is the antithesis of a religious system. What is presented is an accountable scientific, first principle-based, rational, testable understanding of the human condition, which has attracted the support of eminent scientists and thinkers around the world, see the Commendations on our homepage. In fact Jeremy’s work reconciles science and religion by bringing biological understanding to pre-scientific concepts which is also made clear in Part 2. It is worth mentioning that the WTM is a not-for-profit organisation and all our publications, subscription and membership are freely available on this website—there is no money involved.

Take heart, Jamesie, because as you can see from the daily ecstatic responses on our homepage, 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'. You can also see our growing network of WTM centres all around the world here — to contact the WTM Centre nearest to you see FAQ 3.3. Also come and join the 44,500 members on our WTM Facebook Group and discuss and celebrate this astonishing new understanding of ourselves!!!!!

Yes Jo at last we can return to our instinctive loving way of being but that depended on bringing biological understanding to what love is which is unconditional selflessness, which is a truth we couldn’t safely admit until we could explain the human condition—explain why our human behaviour has often been so unloving. 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. You may be interested in Jeremy’s essay titled ‘What is Love?’ from his book The Book Of Real Answers To Everything! which you can access here on our Publications page.

Thank you for your comment, Kate. Yes, being able to understand the human condition, namely that our emerging conscious mind had to defy our instincts in order to find the knowledge needed to manage life, means that we no longer have to be insecure about our seemingly destructive behaviour. There is no longer any ‘fight’; this is the redeeming information we needed.

The core premise of THE Interview is that ALL HUMANS ARE EQUALLY GOOD and equally heroic! We no longer have to just believe men and women are equal we can understand they are! To quote molecular biologist Dr Anna Fitzgerald from her commendation of this work: “because Griffith’s work establishes the equal worth or goodness of all humans we can now understand the different roles that men and women have traditionally played in the human journey and this is actually the unlocking point, this is what brings about deep empathy for each other, it heals the divide” — see Freedom Essay 9 titled ‘This is the real liberation of women’.

Hi James, thank you for your enthusiastic response. You can immediately access free electronic copies of Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM (along with his other key books, including THE Interview) to read, listen to or download 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.

    Thank you very much, Paul, for your appreciative feedback. If you haven’t already, you might also be interested in reading Freedom Essay 53, in which Jeremy Griffith talks further about Erich Neumann as being among a number of thinkers who recognised the instinct and intellect elements involved in causing the human condition, explaining that those thinkers weren’t able to take it the next step and provide the great breakthrough clarifying explanation of the nature of the conflict between them and without that explanation the conflict could not be resolved.     While we are not familiar with Gebser’s work on shifts in human consciousness, it is certainly true that human consciousness has been in transition, and that these transitions can drastically reshape our sense of self and thus our whole society. In fact, as is explained in chapter 8 of Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM we can now understand that there has been only one driving factor in our evolution over the last 2 million or so years, and that is the development of consciousness and its psychological consequences, and this has been behind all our social and cultural and even physical developments. Thankfully, with understanding of the human condition we can now transition to a reconciled world where intellect is at peace with our instincts. This is what Jeremy’s treatise does and why it is heralded as the biological breakthrough that can save the world.     (Given your interest in consciousness, we think you might also find Freedom Essay 24, ‘How did consciousness emerge in humans’, especially fascinating.)

Thanks Stephen. As Craig Conway says in this interview, a transcript has also been made available, so in addition to re-listening, you can read THE Interview there, both of which we highly recommend doing because, as you’ve recognised, this understanding presents a massive and exciting paradigm shift in our thinking.

The book version of THE Interview is free on our homepage here (along with Jeremy Griffith’s other key books including his definitive book FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition) 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.

Great to have your interest, Karol! 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.