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Hi Annette, 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. This 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.

    As Jeremy Griffith explains in Freedom Essay 15, the transformation of the world that understanding the human condition brings does not require “compliance”, it is a revolution from within: "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.”     Basically, so exciting and relieving is this breakthrough, and the freedom from the human condition that is now on offer, that everyone will want it, and so it will catch on like wildfire and this is already happening. Just read the ecstatic responses THE Interview is receiving on our homepage! You might be interested in our FAQ 1.40 which addresses the questions of ‘How can you hope to transform the world? — In particular, how are you going to change the behaviour of the rich and powerful? / How are you going to reach the bastions of power? / Won’t the greedy and power-hungry simply ignore this?’.

As you digest this, what you will realise is that it provides the source reason for that selfishness. At last we can understand we have been driven by a deep insecurity about our fundamental goodness or worth, and what is so fabulous is that 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.

The question of the human condition is WHY have we become so psychologically upset (what we have historically termed ‘evil’) that we have nearly destroyed our own planet?! 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 selfish — can we free ourselves from the human condition and legitimately love ourselves and each other again; see FAQ 1.5 ‘Why is understanding the human condition important to my life?’

Hi Hennie, thank you for your appreciation and 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. This 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.

Yes, the whole subject of the human condition has historically been off-limits, and so we initially struggle to take in discussion about it, but your approach to overcoming it is perfect Patrick! We do recommend Jeremy’s presentation The Great Guilt, which allows us to understand, and therefore overcome, this Deaf Effect to being able to ‘hear’ and access the solution to the human condition.

That’s wonderful, Lona, and so consistent with what fellow listeners and readers of this understanding say; that repeated viewing/reading reveals greater clarity of the insights contained in each of the presentations. As THE Interview explains, the human condition is the most fearful of subjects because it’s the issue of whether we are fundamentally good or bad and our fear of this interface can make it initially hard to understand all that is explained in one viewing. So a preparedness to re-read and/or re-listen to what is being written or said helps erode our historic denial (see FAQ 1.16), thereby allowing the compassionate and immensely relieving insights to become increasingly accessible.

While it takes some time to digest, we suggest that Jeremy Griffith’s work is completely new and unique. He has answered the essential question of why, when the universal ideals are to be integrative are we so disintegrative. Our endeavours in philosophy, psychology and biology have failed, until now, to provide a truthful, real, fully accountable, genuinely clarifying explanation to this question of questions. Answering it required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy presents here.

Thanks Robert, 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 PatPicket, we very much appreciate your interest, and wanted to say that many of our commenters have requested audios of Jeremy Griffith’s key books, including THE Interview, that they can listen to when out and about, or as they commute to work or college, which may be of interest to you. These audios are available HERE on our homepage. Just click ‘Get your copy for FREE!’ to download an audio (and see all the formats that are available). Also, all the hundreds of 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.

Thanks Wayne, yes finally being able to understand the battle between our instinct and intellect is immensely relieving. The burden of the human condition has caused so much unbearable suffering for humans it has been a deeply tragic reality. The core breakthrough of Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition is that we no longer have to be burdened by the fundamental question of whether we are good or bad because our core goodness as individuals and as a species has been biologically established. We can now know that 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. That is the overarching comforting truth that loves and unites all humans now and we can look after ourselves with great compassion, love and kindness. As discussed in THE Interview, without the defence of our fundamental goodness, the human condition has been an unbearably confronting and off-limits subject so we caution against overly confronting the upset within us which is something everyone needs to be mindful of, as our FAQ 1.19 summarises.

That’s great to hear, Patrick, the long-awaited arrival of the truth about our human condition produces a paradigm shift in our thinking — a great deal of sweeping change to adjust to, in fact — so re-watching THE Interview, and the video/essay series that follows it (here on our homepage), is exactly what we recommend.

This is incredible

Jeremy Griffith explains that consciousness emerged over millions of years, and that’s its experiments in self-management drew ‘criticism’ from our our pre-established instinctive self, until this ‘criticism’ reached a point that the conscious mind became defensive, which is the source of our psychologically upset angry, egocentric and alienated behaviour. The story of Adam and Eve, as explained in Part 2 of THE Interview, is a metaphor that describes the primary situation involved in our human condition of the psychologically upsetting battle that emerged between our instincts and our conscious intellect’s search for knowledge. To master the incredible potential of the conscoius mind’s ability to self-manage, or as you say, ‘free will’, the conscious mind had to defy our dictatorial instincts which resulted in humans becoming angry, egocentric and alienated — the upset state of our human condition. This is what is unique about Jeremy Griffith’s work. It answers the age-old question of why, when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless, are we so angry, competitive and selfish? This required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy presents in THE Interview. We recommend FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this idea original or new? / How does this instinct vs intellect explanation of the human condition differ from other theories that recognise these elements?’

    Thanks for your comment Masud, however we suggest you re-watch THE Interview because what Jeremy Griffith explains 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, indeed “revolutionary”, about this is that it finally explains the real reason for our “savage” behaviour 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, which is what it would essentially be if our competitive and aggressive nature was instinctive; if it was something that is in our genes and we were born with.     You hope you will read this brief explanation of ‘What is the Human Condition’ (from Jeremy’s book The Great Exodus) where he describes our species’ magnificent mental capabilities but stresses the more important point is that underneath those magnificent mental capabilities and our capacity for immense sensitivity and love lies the shadow of humanity’s darker side—an unspeakable history of greed, hatred, rape, torture, murder and war—the question of the human condition no less. It is this age-old question of our ‘good and evil’ stricken human condition that Jeremy Griffith has answered and it couldn’t be a bigger breakthrough as solving the human condition solves all the confusion, frustration and suffering in human life at its source. Also see FAQ 1.5 which summarises how this changes our behaviour and fast!

That’s great Tim, you won’t be disappointed! THE Interview is freely available to watch, listen to or read at the top of our homepage — HumanCondition.com — where you can read the thousands of ecstatic responses it has received!

That’s marvellous Patrick! Continuing to watch our Main Video series is the perfect next step which you can access HERE on our homepage. The next one to watch, after THE Interview, being The Great Guilt where Jeremy Griffith outlines more comprehensively the definition of our human condition, and why engagement with the subject can be initially hard to grasp. Click here to start watching! We also encourage you to subscribe to our Mailing List where you will receive one email per week, occasional News Flashes, and notifications for our Live Events and also join our private Facebook Group to learn more about this amazing, human-condition-resolved new world!

All our information is made freely available on our extremely comprehensive website and this includes videos, books, essays and FAQs which can all be easily searched electronically! So to learn more go to our homepage—HumanCondition.com—where it states ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’ and that will guide you through the steps to pursue your interest. Happy exploring Lance!

    Thank you for your question John. As Jeremy Griffith explains in THE Interview, all humans suffer from the universal psychosis caused by the clash between our instinct and intellect. We became angry, egocentric and alienated or in a word ‘upset’ so all humans, to varying degrees, suffer from the human condition and therefore have mental health issues. As 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” — see FAQ 1.34 ‘How does understanding the human race’s condition help with an individual’s depression and psychosis?’ and also FAQ 1.35 on ‘Does this heal anxiety?’.     The key breakthrough of this understanding 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. Our psychological upset was the price humans had to pay for searching for knowledge so the human story is the greatest, most heroic story ever told. That macro comforting truth looks after all humans now and we can treat ourselves with great compassion and kindness, and most significantly, we don’t have to overly confront the upset within us. This is summarised in our FAQ 1.19 ‘A caution about the danger of over-exposure / Advice for people with mental health issues’. This FAQ explains that everyone, but especially those with mental health issues, need to manage their exposure to this very confronting information. It also importantly urges people who struggle with mental health issues to seek the support and assistance of professional counsellors and points out that any information we do provide should not be used as, or as a substitute for, professional counselling.

Just jump on our homepage—HumanCondition.com—and it guides through all our key videos and books David and it’s all 100% FREE (no registration required)! We’d especially recommend you subscribe to our Mailing List and also join our booming Facebook Group where there is so much fascinating and practical discussion taking place there about this immensely relieving knowledge!

Wonderful to have your interest and comment Edward. Thank goodness we no longer have to make up excuses for our divisive behaviour because at last we have the scientific explanation for why when the universal ideals are to be “loving, caring and sharing” are we so “angry, hateful 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. The explanation of the human condition brings us all home. It removes self-condemnation through explaining why we had to become corrupt; it reconciles religion and science, the poles of politics, consciousness and soul, humanity and nature, you name it; and having understanding is so healing, it rehabilitates us all! We can now return to a life connected to everything, having completed our great odyssey of championing the conscious mind, see FAQ 1.5.

Hi Avraham, Jeremy Griffith’s books and essays are being translated into many languages around the world, thanks to wonderful efforts from the WTM’s ever-expanding global network of support. Unfortunately we don’t yet have any Hebrew translations but our Translations page shows many publications in Afrikaans, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish. 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).

THE Interview is at the top of our homepage — HumanCondition.com — and from there our homepage guides you through the steps to pursue your interest.

    Thanks for your feedback Peter and it is wonderful this explanation is resonating so much with you. It does present a whole new way of understanding ourselves and the more you digest it, the more you realise that the human condition is behind all our actions and motivations, including our greed and need for more money and power. We can see that money is not the corrupter we once thought it was, rather, our greed for it and the power it affords is a symptom of our psychological insecure, human condition (rather than us being driven by selfish animal instincts or the animal condition). It follows that if you address that underlying insecurity, then our greed (along with all our other artificial sources of reinforcement) will be removed. And that is what this understanding does – it addresses and solves that core insecurity about our self-worth. In fact, this redeeming, uplifting and healing explanation of the human condition is SO liberating and SO exciting that it won’t be long be everyone realises that it is completely pointless to keep trying to compensate for their insecurity through the pursuit of power, fortune and glory.     You might be interested in FAQ 1.40, which addresses the questions of ‘How can you hope to transform the world? — In particular, how are you going to change the behaviour of the rich and powerful? / How are you going to reach the bastions of power? / Won’t the greedy and power-hungry simply ignore this?’ It explains that “Even those who were most committed to defensively seeking validation through gaining power and material goods, 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, real biological explanation of the human condition that proves our worth at the most fundamental level.”

We are delighted you are appreciating Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition Philippa! The fundamental explanation is very simple but it does open up the historically off-limits subject of the human condition so it does take a little time to fully absorb. To help progress your understanding we recommend these next steps: • Subscribe to our free Mailing List where you will receive one email per week, occasional News Flashes, and notifications for our Live Events. • Watch the Main Videos where Jeremy Griffith (& others) talk you through the explanation of the human condition. Totally free, no registration required. • Read the Key Books by Jeremy Griffith. Totally free to download, no registration required. • Join and participate in our Facebook Group to learn about this amazing, human-condition-resolved new world. • Help this critical new science by sharing it!

    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 which is absolutely fascinating! 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.     Yes as Part 3 of THE Interview discusses American philosopher John Fiske, in 1874 recognised the nurturing origins of our moral nature, which at the time was even “considered far more important” a biological principle than Darwin’s “principle of natural selection”. And in chapter 6:3 of his book FREEDOM Jeremy writes more about John Fiske so I’m sure you will find that most interesting. Part 3 also explains that “how we acquired our moral instincts has been one of the greatest mysteries in biology. The primatologist Richard Wrangham described it as ‘A question that has lain unsolved at the core of biology ever since Darwin’.” This is because in order to have an instinctive altruistic moral nature, it follows that our distant ape ancestors must have been cooperative and loving, not competitive and aggressive like other animals. But, since altruistic, unconditionally selfless genetic traits are self-eliminating, and therefore seemingly cannot develop in animals, that leaves the question of how could we humans have developed them—which Jeremy explains in THE Interview, and in much greater detail in FREEDOM, the answer was through nurturing or what he terms ‘love-indoctrination’ (summarised in FAQ 5.2 How did we acquire our soul).

Thank you for your comment JohnBruce. We certainly respect people’s religious views however we feel it is important to mention that Jeremy Griffith’s work doesn’t contradict the Bible. It simply brings biological understanding to all those pre-scientific concepts. In fact Jeremy considers the Bible to be a repository of extremely rare denial-free truth, containing all the truth about human life albeit from that pre-science view, and he has written about Christ’s life and its phenomenal importance in humanity’s journey in Freedom Essay 39. The real issue is if people prefer a more literal fundamentalist interpretation of scripture rather than our more biological, science-based interpretation. For those interested in exploring this further we suggest FAQ 6.3 ‘Does this undermine religion/God’.

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?’.

I really hope this isn’t another bullshit marketing scam. If this is an attempt at getting money ,you lose all credibility with me and will not get any money from me.

What will be key to the education of our children in the future is explaining the human condition to them – explaining why the conscious mind had to defy our instincts in order to search for knowledge and how it caused us to become psychologically upset. It is only this understanding that can bring an end to the psychologically upsetting battle between instinct and intellect and therefore our need to be angry, egocentric and alienated. Socialist models such as Kibbutz’s could only temporarily suppress this need; for there to be a fundamental change in our human situation we had to bring biological understanding to our corrupt condition, which is what Jeremy Griffith has done.

The absolutely astonishing claims made about Jeremy Griffith’s breakthrough explanation do warrant initial extreme scepticism, but the amazing fact is that they all withstand scrutiny, see our FAQ 1.9 ‘Should people be sceptical about these claims’. Also Jeremy’s work has also received outstanding commendations from leading thinkers and scientists, which you can read on our homepage here.

Hi Les, 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. This 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.

You can immediately access free electronic copies of Jeremy Griffith’s books, including THE Interview, and his definitive book FREEDOM, 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.

Hi Lindi, thank you for your question; it is great to hear this explanation resonates. THE Interview explains that all the dysfunction and destruction in the world are manifestations of the ‘instinct vs intellect’ conflict within each of us that has produced the psychologically upset state of the human condition. So what is so powerful about the explanation of the human condition is that by solving the discord at its source, it brings an end to all the terrible, and seemingly overwhelmingly problems that surround us – indeed it is the only way to bring an end to all the symptoms of our psychologically upset condition. By explaining the very good reason why our intellect had to defy our instincts (which is that genes can orientate but nerves need to understand) means all our defensive and apathetic behaviours (our anger, egocentricity and alienation) are now redundant; they can stop. You might be interested in reading FAQs 1.4 to 1.6 as they explain the far-reaching practical, physical applications of this understanding and Freedom Essay 15 ‘How our lives can be immediately transformed’. Also our Transformation page contains invaluable insight and personal affirmations as to the ‘how to’. We’d especially recommend you join our Facebook Group and register for our live events with Jeremy Griffith because there is much helpful and practical discussion taking place about this immensely relieving knowledge.

    Certainly. Humans find any change difficult, and bringing explanation to the human condition is the biggest change imaginable. 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 going to be initial opposition to this understanding, even though it is redeeming. In Part 2 of THE Interview biologist Jeremy Griffith 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?).     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 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 that is happening, as you can see from the ecstatic responses to THE Interview on our homepage, and all the commendations, and all the new centres opening around the world.

Hi vic nic, as is explained in THE Interview, humans’ angry, egocentric and alienated behaviour, that produces the “sins” you speak of, is the result of a psychosis, it is not due to ‘savage’ instincts within us, and as Jeremy explains, “it is actually really good news that our behaviour is due to a conscious-mind-based psychologically troubled condition because psychoses can be healed with understanding. If our competitive and aggressive behaviour was due to us having savage instincts then we would be stuck with that born-with, hard-wired, innate behaviour.” You can read more about the false savage instincts excuse for human behaviour in FAQ 1.2.

Very good

Yes, we can now understand humanity had to search for knowledge (with science being humanity’s formal tool for this search), in particular knowledge of why we became corrupted, even though that search caused us to become more corrupted. We needed answers, but searching for those answers made our predicament worse! It has been an astonishing journey of endurance and heroism but finally, with the instinct vs intellect explanation of our corrupted condition, we have finally found the redeeming truth!

Alexander, 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; and if you want a hard copy, you can purchase copies from Amazon or other good bookstores. To pursue your interest you may also like to join our ever-growing Facebook Group and register for free, live, interactive events with Jeremy and others.