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Thank you for your feedback Micheline. At last with understanding of the human condition we can understand what produced our all-loving instinctive self or soul and why it was necessary, indeed heroic, to corrupt our soul in order to champion our fully conscious mind and find understanding of cause and effect. What is so exciting is now our fundamental self worth along with the integrative meaning of life (see FAQ 5.3) is biologically explained we can legitimately return to our authentic loving self. ‘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, see FAQ 6.5.

You are very welcome António! We assume you are referring to our Facebook Group which is a wonderful way to learn more about the human condition and also participate in the discussion and fellowship that is available! For those who haven’t joined just read this recent News Flash about what people are saying about the excitement and meaning that is now on offer. As one member summed it up: ‘The world can’t deny this for much longer, let the light in, save the human race!’ Click HERE to join! Also we encourage everyone to subscribe to our mailing list to be sent one free essay each a week along with these occasional news flashes.

Yes, as THE Interview explains, all humans suffer from the universal psychosis caused by the clash between our instinct and intellect. As a species, we became angry, egocentric and alienated, or in a word ‘upset’ so all humans, to varying degrees, suffer from the human condition. As 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.” (FAQ 1.34).

Thank you for your knowledge and sharing it with us. Tonya

Hi Linda, thank you for your interest. To learn more go to the top of our homepage—HumanCondition.com—it states ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’ and guides you through the steps to pursue your interest including many more video presentations. It also includes registering for our free, live events with Jeremy Griffith and others and joining our popular Facebook Group where there is much fascinating discussion and interaction.

Hi Debbie, while great care has been taken to present the explanation as succinctly and simply as possible (which is done in Part 1 of THE Interview), opening up the human condition does mean that there are several absolutely critical questions to be answered (Parts 2, 3 & 4). We do recommend looking at the main introductory videos near the top of our homepage as you’ll see many of those videos are short in length while explaining all the key concepts in Jeremy Griffith’s world-saving, human-condition-solving treatise, specifically Video 3 which is a 14-minute presentation of Jeremy Griffith’s explanation. You may also find helpful FAQ 1.16 ‘Why can’t I understand what this is all about?’.

Thank you, Barbara. Yes, as the Nobel prize-winning physicist Charles H. Townes recognised, science and religion “both represent man’s efforts to understand his universe and must ultimately be dealing with the same substance. As we understand more in each realm, the two must grow together…converge they must.” And this is what Jeremy Griffith’s work does. It reconciles science and religion by bringing biological understanding to religion’s pre-scientific descriptions of our condition (see our FAQs about religion).

Hi Deborah, yes, all the material on WTM website is FREE, such as the videos, audios, and many other formats, of Jeremy Griffith’s key books (including THE Interview and FREEDOM), which you can find here on our homepage. Just click ‘Get your copy for FREE!’ to see all the formats and translations that are available. We are still in the process of completing the audiobook of FREEDOM, however chapters 1-4 are now available. We should also mention that all the audios of most of our books, essays and videos, are now in the WTM App (which you can download for free and there is no sign in required at App Store or Google Play) and on Spotify.

Hi Ken, 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 of interest FAQ 6.7 on ‘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?’

Great to have your interest, Barbara. Yes, it is astonishing to finally have the human condition solved, our existence made sense of and be able to legitimately return to our natural loving, true state. To do this science had to answer the crux question of why when the universal ideals are to be loving and selfless are we so competitive and selfish? This is what biologist Jeremy Griffith has answered with his ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation and why it is heralded as the biological breakthrough that can save the world (FAQ 6.5 explains the critical difference between Jeremy’s work and the New Age Movement).

Amazing

Terry, what you will find as you digest this more, is that Jeremy Griffith’s breakthrouh explanation of the human condition actually removes the ‘blame’. This understanding defends our so-called ‘dark side’ and explains that despite all appearances to the contrary, all humans are ‘good’. And paradoxically, 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 end the perpetuation of our destructive behaviour!

Take your time Jane - it is a huge new paradigm. But you will continue to find that the instinct vs intellect clash is the key to explaining all our insecurity and subsequent anger, egocentricity and alienation, and most importantly, through finally identifying and explaining that source, peace is brought to the whole human condition. As Professor Harry Prosen wrote about Jeremy’s work, “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.” (You can read more from Professor Prosen in FAQ 1.34.)

    We assume you are referring to the 2006 book The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins that argues belief in God is not just wrong but potentially harmful. As Jeremy Griffith’s Freedom Essay 41 titled ‘Is science’s scorn of religion legitimate?’ explains many scientists scorn religion but despite the disdain prominent mechanistic scientists like Dawkins have for it, now that we have the true, human-condition-confronting scientific explanation of the human condition, we can appreciate just how profound religious descriptions of the human condition were! As the Nobel prize-winning physicist Charles H. Townes said, “They [science and religion] both represent man’s efforts to understand his universe and must ultimately be dealing with the same substance. As we understand more in each realm, the two must grow together… converge they must.”     So Jeremy Griffith’s work actually reconciles science and religion by bringing biological understanding to pre-scientific concepts. 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, see FAQ 5.3 and FAQ 1.15.

Hi Dawn, yes, our parents have a very large effect on our levels of psychological upset, as do our encounters with the upset that is already in the wider-world. As Jeremy explains in ‘Aspect 1’ of his new book Our Meaning, “As a result of our species’ cooperative and all-loving heritage we are each born into the world instinctively expecting it to be all-loving and all-sensitive, but instead we encounter a massively upset and upsetting world. And the more upset the world has become, the more horrifying and thus psychologically corrupting of our innocence during our formative years the upset is. It was a very compounding situation, which has led to the extremely psychologically upset state of emerging generations today.” You might also be interested in FAQ 1.37 ‘How much of our upset is caused by our own search for knowledge and how much is caused by the accumulated upset already in the world?’

Hi Ari, audios, and many other formats, of Jeremy Griffith’s key books (including FREEDOM) are available HERE on our homepage. Just click ‘Get your copy for FREE!’ to see all the formats and translations that are available. We are still in the process of completing the audiobook of FREEDOM, however chapters 1-4 are now available, although will not be available on Audible until all the chapters are recorded. Hopefully that is done this year. We whould also mention that all the audios of most of our books, essays and videos, are now in the WTM App (which you can download for free and there is no sign in required at App Store or Google Play) and on Spotify.

Thank you, Ari, for your interest. While there is not yet a WTM Centre in Seattle, there are over 60 Centres located all around the world so you might like to contact the one nearest to you, which is the WTM Canada West Coast Centre; see FAQ 3.3 for the location of all our centres. We also recommend you subscribe to our mailing list to receive a Freedom Essay each week. The essay series—which starts with THE Interview, and includes the 16-part Introductory Series of videos at the top of our homepage—covers the main subjects in biologist Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition, and so offers an easy way to access FREEDOM in wonderfully illustrated bite-sized portions. As a subscriber you will be notified of free, interactive, live events with Jeremy Griffith and others that are hosted on our website and on Facebook that you can watch and even participate in. We also encourage you to participate in the interactive activity on our website and in our Facebook Group.

While Eastern philosophy (and various religions aroudn the world) 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 very much for your comment, Getahew. For onlookers we thought it helpful to include our FAQ 1.15 ‘If this is biology why are there religious references’. This explains the human condition is the realm of inquiry where science and religion overlap, so naturally in explaining the human condition religious references will be used, and through scientific explanation, finally demystified and reconciled. The acclaimed physicist Charles H. Townes summed up this ultimate reconciliation of science and religion best when he wrote, “they [science and religion] both represent man’s efforts to understand his universe and must ultimately be dealing with the same substance. As we understand more in each realm, the two must grow together…converge they must.”

Thanks for all your knowledge

    Thank you for your considered comment, Tony. It’s great to have your interest and please do read more because we suggest that the more you digest Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation, the more you will realise how accountable it is in getting to the source of all humanity’s psychological upset, which in the extreme, produces people, even dictators, who are addicted to having power over others. Your questions are specifically addressed in 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?’ And as with any new scientific breakthrough in history, it will take time for people to realise that this is the breakthrough we’ve all been waiting for, but as support and momentum continues to build, the selfless love and energy it generates will solve our problems very quickly. 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 in the world; see our FAQs 1.4 – 1.6 about how this transformation works.     And lastly, Jeremy’s work doesn’t contradict a belief in God it simply brings biological understanding to all those pre-scientific concepts. 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 briefly explained in THE Interview as being the integrative meaning of existence. We recommend our FAQs about religion, especially FAQs ‘What is God’ and ‘Does this understanding undermine religion’.

Hi Steven, religions could only manage our upset (e.g., the Ten Commandments) and give us comfort, which was important while the corrupting journey to find understanding of the human condition took place, but ultimately without science the human condition could never actually be solved and that destructive behaviour brought to an end. Understanding the source of our upset angry, egocentric and alienated (what religions have termed ‘sinful’) behaviour required knowledge of genes and nerves, namely why our conscious mind had to search for knowledge and why our instincts could not help but criticise that search – which is because nerves are insightful, whereas genes are not. With that key piece of knowledge found by Jeremy Griffith, the whole human condition ends, we no longer have to be defiant – our angry egocentric and alienated defiance is redundant, and thus so is the need for the imposition of discipline such as the Commandments.

That is a very good snapshot summary Peter. Yes, we can now understand that the journey to find knowledge has been corrupting (it made us psychologically upset angry, egocentric and alienated), however, we can also understand that it was absolutely necessary if we were ever to master the marvelous potential of our self-adjusting conscious minds. That is why Jeremy describes humans as the most heroic beings imaginable; we had to be prepared to ‘march into hell for a heavenly cause’!

Yes, understanding the Human Condition is real! Our endeavours in philosophy, psychology and biology have failed, until now, to provide a truthful, real, fully accountable, genuinely clarifying explanation. 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 here. We suggest FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this original or new?’ and Video/Freedom Essay 4 which expands further on other thinkers (both ancient and contemporary) who have recognised instinct and intellect elements involved in creating the human condition.

Thanks Jose. 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. 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?’.

Great to have your interest Dr Shah. Our homepage — HumanCondition.com — provides an initial guide to learn more (and it is all FREE, and no registration required). At the top of the homepage it states ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’ and leads you through the steps to pursue your interest! Our interactive live events with Jeremy Griffith and others are also a great way to have questions answered, and interact with others to enhance your comprehension of this breakthrough explanation of the human condition. You can register for these totally free events on our homepage here. 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.

    Thank you for your thoughts Maria. What is so astonishing is that with 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 “abominable” behaviours including selfishness, greed and egocentricity, but that despite this we are all equally good and equally heroic!     THE Interview explains the great significance of humanity’s matriarchal heritage; that women’s maternalism or nurturing is what made us human—that it was gave us our moral soul and created humanity no less which is absolutely fascinating biology! (for more see FAQ 5.2 and 5.6). However with this understanding it can now be appreciated that when the ignorance of our instinctive self of our conscious thinking self’s need to search for knowledge posed a threat to humanity, it was men in their historic role of group protector who took on the role of “defending” against or resisting that threat, leaving women out of the upsetting battle to preserve as much upset-free, loving innocence as possible to nurture the next generation. This meant that when this upsetting battle against our instincts began after the emergence of consciousness some 2 million years ago, the nurturing matriarchal or female-centric priority that created our altruistic moral instincts and a cooperative humanity, was superseded in importance by a patriarchal world. At last we can look deeper and appreciate the magnificent contributions each gender has made to the human journey. And significantly, through explaining the very good reason why our intellect had to defy our instincts, it makes redundant our defensive upset behaviours, allowing us at last to become genuinely gender neutral. We highly recommend our FAQ 8.1 ‘How does the explanation of the human condition reconcile men and women?'

Yes our liberation depends on awareness or understanding of our fundamental goodness as a species and this explanation establishes that we humans are good and not bad after all so it is definitely a shiney future on the way! There is a lot to consider Peter but we can now know that a conflict between our intellect and our cooperative instincts 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. Proving we were better than someone else gave us validation and reinforcement to counter the deep insecurity we felt about having to become self-corrupted. And so competition, sustained by the rewards of materialism and capitalism, are what maintained humanity’s heroic search for knowledge, ultimately for self-knowledge. With our goodness and worth now biologically established, we no longer need to be preoccupied with proving our goodness and worth. 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, see FAQ 1.6.

So true.

That’s great Estifanos—all the publications you mention are freely available on our homepage which provides a guide to pursue your interest! Also, to assist enquirers we have an extensive FAQ facility here on our website. Happy exploring!!

Thank you for your thoughts Trevor. We suggest the more people absorb what is presented in THE Interview the more they realise that it explains humans’ psychological upset or “present condition” is the result of a universal psychosis, caused by the clash between our instinct and intellect. And, significantly, a psychosis is changeable as it can be healed through understanding so the solution is profound and brings the lasting change in ourselves, and therefore the world, we all long for and desperately need, see FAQ 1.5 ‘Why is understanding the human condition important to my life?’

There is much to digest in this presentation Joann, but explanation of the human condition reveals the human race started out innocent and then became increasingly corrupted as a result of the heroic search for knowledge. This key insight allows us to understand that indigenous ‘races’ such as Native Americans, who have been relatively sheltered from humanity’s heroic battle to find knowledge, will be more ‘innocent’, or less psychologically upset, than less sheltered races. This explains why indigenous peoples have so much affinity with our instinctive soulful, cooperative way of living and the natural world and why they; however, even indigenous peoples are only ‘relatively’ innocent, because 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. But, what is most significant, is that despite the differing levels of upset due to everyone’s different exposure to humanity’s heroic battle to find knowledge, we can now understand that we are all equally good. You might like to read our FAQ 9.1 about how this understanding puts an end to racism; and for testimonials on the power of this knowledge to end racism and unite the human race, we recommend watching/reading Franklin Mukakanga, of Zambia and Refentse Molosiwa from WTM Mahikeng, in Video/Freedom Essay 8.

    Thank you for your comment Yehualashet. We did want to clarify that Jeremy Griffith’s work demystifies religion by bringing biological understanding to 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, see our FAQs about religion.     If you especially want a hard copy of THE Interview or other books by Jeremy Griffith you can purchase them from Amazon or other bookstores. Otherwise they are immediately available at no cost to read online, download or listen to HERE on our homepage. You can also download free Kindle versions from Amazon.

Thank you Phillip for your feedback. With more digestion we suggest you will see it isn’t too late to save the world as long as people, who do appreciate its truth, support it. It is certainly the 11th hour, but as Jeremy Griffith explains, once this takes off, this information will turn things around almost overnight, see 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?. We also recommend Jeremy’s Freedom Essays about ‘Do we fail or do we make it?’ (see F. Essays 55—58). These present a fearlessly honest analysis of the state of the world followed by how the extraordinary transforming power of this information can save the world. So we encourage people to come and help us do exactly that and register for our live events with Jeremy Griffith and join our WTM Community Facebook Group to share in this transforming knowledge.

That’s wonderful Julius! For more go to the top of our homepage—HumanCondition.com—it states ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’ and guides you through the steps to pursue your interest. This includes 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!

At last with explanation of the human condition we can understand that we are not bad for undertaking the self-corrupting search for knowledge – this is, in fact, the very essence of Jeremy Griffith’s treatise! For example, THE Interview explains how 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; we humans are actually the absolute heroes of the whole story! This understanding 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 and can become sound managers of ourselves and our world without having to restrain or keep our upset in line—it couldn’t be a bigger breakthrough! Also, following THE Interview we suggest people watch The Great Guilt which further explains just how heroic the human journey to find knowledge has been and we no longer have to carry the immense burden of guilt and shame for having corrupted our original innocent state. It is an astonishing revealing and important presentation that shouldn’t be missed!

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. 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. Even those most obsessed by seeking reinforcement through power, fortune and glory will realise that that compensation is as nothing compared with the genuine liberation that is now on offer. 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?’.

Great comment Ayenew. You might like to read our FAQ 9.1 about how this puts an end to racism, and for a testimonial on the power of this knowledge to end racism, we recommend the presentations from Franklin Mukakanga and Refentse Molosiwa in Video/Freedom Essay 8.

    Thanks very much for the feedback Odd. All of Jeremy Griffith’s books, including his definitive book FREEDOM, are freely available on our homepage here to read online, print and download. You can also purchase hardcopies and download free Kindle versions from Amazon.     Your wife might also be interested to know that on our Translations page you can freely access all our Spanish translations. This includes THE Interview, Jeremy Griffith’s book Death by Dogma, the first 4 chapters of FREEDOM and Freedom Essay 1. The WTM Colombian Centre also presents its website in Spanish, including centre founder Carlos Cruz Blanco’s welcome video, so there is a significant amount of material available! As well 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).

Jeremy Griffith’s books, all of them, including his definitive book FREEDOM, are freely available on our homepage here to read online, print and download. You can also purchase hardcopies and download free Kindle versions from Amazon.

Hi Jared, what is so extraordinarily unique and ground-breaking about Jeremy Griffith’s instinct vs intellect explanation of the human condition is that it explains the real reason for why humans’ competitive behaviour became an unavoidable, indeed necessary, part of human life. That is why it is so powerful: it actually allows us all to reconcile the selfish, power-hungry madness of the world, and in ourselves, with ideality. 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. See FAQ 1.40, which addresses ‘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?’. See also FAQ 1.6, ‘Why does understanding of the human condition solve everything?’

David, Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition is freely available on our homepage here (along with his other key books) to read online or download (no email required). You can also download the free Kindle version or purchase hard copies from Amazon. Hard copies are also available at other good bookstores.

    Thanks Ernie. There is a lot here to digest; in particular that our selfish, egocentric behaviour is a result of a psychologically upsetting clash between our intellect and preestablished instinctive self. It is this insight into the psychological origin of our divisive behaviour that is unique about Jeremy Griffith’s work; and most significantly, this understanding means that that psychologically upset state can be ameliorated, because a psychosis can be healed through understanding.     With regard to Ayn Rand, in his book Death by Dogma, Jeremy focuses on politics and in particular the danger presented by the left wing, which is that its insistence on ideal behaviour oppresses the corrupting, but critcally important search for knowledge, whereas the right wing, through its support of selfish individualism, supported that all-critical search. As Jeremy explains in Death by Dogma, “So although the ideology of the Right was correct, unable to confront the truth of our corrupted human condition and thus find the true instinct vs intellect explanation for why we have had to be competitive, selfish and aggressive, they were left having to contrive a way to justify our seemingly ‘reactionary’, non-ideal, competitive, selfish and aggressive behaviour, which they did (as indicated in the quote above) by using the biologically dishonest ‘must reproduce your genes’, Social Darwinist, ‘survival of the fittest’, ‘savage instincts’ excuse that said we humans are innately, naturally competitive, selfish and aggressive, ‘war-like, greedy and oppressive’. Which meant the colossal philosophical heroes of the Right who bravely defended our competitive and aggressive state like the author Ayn Rand, and more recently the psychologist Jordan Peterson, were ultimately doomed to fail because their arguments were based on false biology.”

Good on you Marcus. we suggest that what you will find is that while Buddhism and other forms of introspective guidance 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.