Comments on THE Interview

Yes, with the human condition now explained, humanity can return to the ‘soundness’ that Jesus Christ epitomized. As Jeremy Griffith writes in chapter 9:8 of his definitive book FREEDOM, “Finally, it should be reiterated that religions aren’t being threatened by the arrival of dignifying understanding of the human condition—they are being fulfilled. The whole purpose of religion was to be the custodian of the ideal state while the search for the liberating understanding of humans’ ‘fallen’ condition was underway. Buddha, for instance, looked forward to the arrival of the amelioration of the human condition when he said that ‘In the future they will every one be Buddhas [meaning in the future everyone will be free of psychosis] / And will reach Perfect Enlightenment / In domains in all directions / Each will have the same title [there will be no more distorting alienation] / Simultaneously on wisdom-thrones / They will prove the Supreme Wisdom’. In the Bible, Moses similarly anticipated a time when we ‘will be like God, knowing’ (Gen. 3:5). In his Lord’s Prayer, Christ instructed us to pray for the time when ‘Your [Godly, integrated, peaceful] kingdom come, your [integrative] will be done on earth as it is in heaven’ (Matt. 6:10 & Luke 11:2). He also looked forward to the time when ‘another Counsellor to be with you forever—the Spirit of truth [the denial-free, truthful, first-principle-based, scientific understanding]…​will teach you all things and will remind you of everything [all the denial-free truths] I have said to you’ (John 14:16, 17, 26). He similarly said he looked forward to when, instead of being restricted to ‘speaking figuratively’, we ‘will no longer use this kind of language but will [be able to] tell you plainly about my Father [be able to explain the world of Integrative Meaning in denial-free, human-condition-reconciled, compassionate, understandable, rational, first principle, scientific terms]’ (John 16:25).” You can read more about prophets and religion in our FAQs about religion.

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.

Take heart, Kevin, 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!! What is so extraordinary about Jeremy Griffith’s instinct vs intellect explanation of the human condition is that it gets to the very bottom of what is broken in humans. Even though the human condition expresses itself in many ways, it all has the one source – we can understand the battle between our intellect and our cooperative instincts caused us to become psychologically angry, alienated and egocentric, the upset state we refer to as the human condition. Now that we can understand this conflict all those insecure behaviours, such as greed, are obsoleted, brought to an end, and we free ourselves from that state and can legitimately return to a cooperative way of living. We suggest 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.”

    Hi Luis, explanation of the human condition produces a huge paradigm shift in our thinking, which does takes time to digest. As is explained in Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM, the emergence of consciousness, and the ensuing clash with our instincts, played out over millions of years. It was a gradual process. With regard to birds being ‘smart’, Jeremy explains in THE Interview is that consciousness actually means being sufficiently aware or ‘conscious’ of how experiences are related to attempt to manage change from a basis of understanding, which it is clear that no other animal can do beyond a very limited extent. We recommend our FAQ 5.4 titled ‘What is consciousness? / Why is it that humans became conscious while other animals haven’t? / How did consciousness emerge in humans?’     With regard to other animals being ‘savage’, the biological point being made is that unless a species has gone through the ‘love-indoctrination’ process that is introduced in Part 3 of THE Interview, they are slaves to the law that you must reproduce your genes in order to exist; in other words, animals are necessarily selfish because genes normally can’t select for unconditionally selfless, fully cooperative traits, simply because such traits tend to be self-eliminating and so normally can’t become established in a species.     And we suggest that all humans suffer from the psychologically upset state of the human condition, and as you digest this redeeming understanding you will realise that it is safe to connect with that fact. You might be interested in watching the companion presentation to THE Interview titled The Great Guilt that causes the Deaf Effect (here on our website) as it provides astonishing clarification of why lifting The Great Burden Of Guilt from the human race causes most people to initially experience a ‘Deaf Effect’ to what’s being presented.

Thanks Joseph, 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 Azar, Jeremy’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 Persian translations but they are underway! Our Translations page shows all languages that are available. 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).

Wonderful to have your interest, Karlyle, and 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 on our homepage. You can also download free Kindle versions from Amazon. (Otherwise you can purchase hard copies from Amazon or other good bookstores.)

Dear James, thank you for your heartfelt response to THE Interview, we sincerely appreciate your interest. Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book, FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition, is freely available on our homepage here (along with Jeremy’s other key books) to read online or download immediately! You can also download the free Kindle version from Amazon. Otherwise you can purchase hard copies from Amazon or other good bookstores. We hope you pursue your interest by: • Subscribing to our Mailing List where you will receive one email per week, occasional News Flashes, and notifications for our Live Events; • Watching the free Main Videos where Jeremy (& others) talk you through the explanation of the human condition. Totally free, no registration required; • Joining and participating in our Facebook Group to learn about this amazing, human-condition-resolved new world; and • Helping this critical new science by sharing it!

What is so wonderful about this understanding is that it reconciles the battle between good and evil – we can now understanding that despite all appearences to the contrary, we were ‘good’. With regard to how this understanding will effect change in the world, the key thing to realise is that what is being presented here is not some imposed ideal state, but understanding that removes the insecurity that is driving all our divisiveness and is behind all our dogmas. In other words, everyone will want it and it will naturally dissolve all the structures that have been built to compensate for that underlying insecurity. The following is a passage from Part 3 of Jeremy Griffith’s book Transform Your Life that might be helpful: “We are rational creatures, and so when all the logic points to there being only one response we can make, namely the human-condition-resolved, upset-obsoleted, transformed new way of living, then that is the response the human race has to take. No revolution dogmatically, and even physically, imposed upon us by others, as has pretty much been the case with revolutions in the past, just a peaceful revolution through the power of logic, knowledge, understanding—the great ‘revolution of the mind’ that W.B. Yeats, and Sir Bob, yearned for. Of course, while it is the power of the logic, the rationale, that makes the new transformed way of living irresistible, the adoption of this way of living is also made irresistible by the absolutely wonderful transforming effect it has on people. Indeed, before long those still living in the old embattled, have-to-prove-your-worth, or deluded, do-good-to-feel-good pseudo idealistic ways of living will feel like they have been caught wearing last year’s fashions! There is such a stark difference between the free, authentic, expansive, enthralled-with-life, transformed existence and the old embattled existence, where your mind is narrowly focused and preoccupied working all the angles every second of every day, defensively seeking validation and reinforcement, that those living in the old ways will seem like a different species. Compared to the new expansive, all-exciting, free, transformed state, those still stuck in the old embattled paradigm will be like sad, forgotten ghosts trapped in an obsoleted state.”

Yes Mary, Jeremy Griffith’s work doesn’t contradict a belief in Christianity or the teachings of Christ. 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 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; and that we strayed from those ‘Godly’ ideals, but despite this, we were still worthy of ‘God’s love’. Yes, the ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation brings redeeming understanding to humanitys‘ ’fall'. We thought you might find our FAQs about religion of interest.

Hi Auldine, as is explained in Part 1 of THE Interview, the journey to find knowledge resulted in humans becoming pschologically upset or corrupted. Which means that humanity was actually in a race between finding the redeeming understanding of our condition, or becoming too psychologically upset in pursuit of that goal, to the point that we would actually destroy ourselves. You might be intersted in our Freedom Essay 55 & F.Essay 59, which describe this terrifying end play threat of terminal levels of psychosis. Basically, we had virtually lost the race between self-destruction and self-understanding. Thank goodness we have now found that understanding, which means we can now start to rehabilitate everything.

Thanks, Denny. It’s great to have your interest but we did want to clarify that while religion and philosophy contain all manner of truths about human life, they were ultimately futile in getting to the bottom of, and thus resolving, our psychologically troubled human condition. For example, while religious assurances, such as ‘God loves you’, provided comfort, they failed to explain WHY we are lovable, and it is that missing explanation that this breakthrough provides. Ultimately we needed to find the 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 also suggest reading FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this original or new?’ which explains the unique significance of Jeremy Griffith’s work.

Thank you for your comment Jamie, and yes people’s initial scepticism is warranted and is a hurdle some have to overcome. However, as you will discover, the more you absorb the explanation the more you realise how profound and important it is. We are living with unprecedented levels of suffering in the world and if we are to end that suffering and bring about a truly ideal, loving and cooperative world we must understand its source, which is the human condition. That is why it is crucial to stand up and honestly say that this information solves the human condition. Also the astonishing claims being made about Jeremy Griffith’s work withstand scrutiny as what he presents is 100% logic which has attracted the support of eminent scientists and thinkers (see our homepage). We recommend our FAQ 1.9 ‘Should people be sceptical about claims’.

Thanks for your comment Supreme. Yes, we need the science behind it, but as THE Interview (Part 4) stresses the only way we could ever legitimately ‘awaken’ into a forgiving and loving world was to confront and biologically explain why we became so upset (angry, egocentric and alienated) in the first place, which is what Jeremy Griffith’s treatise does. Anything less was a false start to a human-condition-free world, was pseudo idealistic, because the upsetting battle to find knowledge, ultimately self-knowledge, the psychologically relieving understanding of why we are good and not bad, still had to be completed. FAQ 6.5 further explains this critical difference between the World Transformation Movement’s work and the new age movement.

Hi Earl, as you suspect, this explanation certainly dives deep! In fact it gets to the bottom of who we are, and from there, brings an end to the underlying insecurity, confusion, frustration, worry, doubt, shame, guilt, anxiety and angst that has plagued human life. In short it opens up a whole new world free of the human condition! Once you have watched THE Interview, and its companion presentation The Great Guilt, below are our recommended next steps to progress your understanding: • Subscribe to our Mailing List where you will receive one email per week, occasional News Flashes, and notifications for our Live Events. • Watch the free 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!

Absolutely Carol, just go to our homepage — HumanCondition.com — and THE Interview is at the top to watch, listen to, read or download and from there our homepage guides you through our comprehensive website!

Hi Jo, thank you very much for your heartfelt comment. What we can now understand lasting freedom from feeling ‘not good enough’ or ‘unworthy’ depended on scientific explanation for why when our instincts or soul is loving, cooperative and selfless are we so egocentric, 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 and his book FREEDOM. We humans have always intuitively believed we were fundamentally good but we have never before been able to explain our contradictory, conflicted condition. There has been thousands of years of different techniques for calming, restraining, repressing, and even transcending our psychologically upset human condition and deferring to the soundness of our soul in one form or another but none of them have brought an end to the upset state of the human condition—it’s still rampant everywhere. The reason is because they don’t solve the human condition. They don’t deal with the source of our species’ corrupted condition and bring relieving understanding to it. We recommend watching Jeremy’s new presentation The Great Guilt (which follows THE Interview) as it further explains just how guilty and ashamed we have been of corrupting our original instinctive self or soul. Also you may find FAQ 6.5 helpful as it stresses the difference between Jeremy’s work and pseudo-idealism.

    As THE Interview explains unable to confront the human condition, science, including biology, has been mechanistic and reductionist, and what’s more, has denied the existence of our psychologically troubled human condition, blaming our selfish behaviour on ‘savage instincts’ within us – see FAQ 1.2 ‘How does science currently explain the human condition?’ And that is where the human race has been stalled, waiting in an increasingly distressed state for the real explanation for our psychologically troubled human condition that will finally make sense of and resolve our contradictory condition. That is, until now—because that human-mind-liberating, psychosis-relieving REAL explanation or knowledge has at last been presented with this critical new biological treatise, see FAQ 1.3 ‘What is Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition’! Also Jeremy’s work has received outstanding scientific support from eminent scientists, including biologists, which can be seen here on our homepage.     You mention both atheism and God. What is so significant about this treatise is it is completely reconciling of all the dualities that the human condition has caused including believers and non-believers. Having been unable, until now, to explain the human condition—which is the dilemma of our species’ capacity for what has been called ‘good and evil’—the human race has been left with a deep, subconscious sense of insecurity and even guilt about our fundamental worth, leaving us no choice but to live in near total denial of the issue and take up a strategy to prove our self-worth. Until we could scientifically explain why we are good after all some people relied on dogmatic and religious assurances about their fundamental goodness and for others complete denial of God became the only acceptable option. See FAQ 5.3 ‘What is God’ and atheism is addressed in Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM ch 8:16:I.

I needed to hear this interview, I feel I can tackle my life- decluttering project with grateful heart and free of guilt . I' am hooked to learn more and be guided to self awareness and World transformation project. Namaste 🙏

It’s a very nice interview. Thank you very much for sharing your words of wisdom. I will be very happy to read your book named Freedom by Jeremy Griffith.

Thank you for your question Abraham. Jeremy Griffith explains the key biological distinction between humans and other animal species is that humans suffer from the conscious-mind-based, psychologically troubled human condition, not the genetic-opportunism-based, animal condition. And so the source of our selfish aggressive behaviour is not ‘animal instincts’ such as the chimpanzees display. No, all the evidence is that we come from a cooperative, gentle bonobo-like heritage. Jeremy discusses in Part 2, and in more detail in his definitive book FREEDOM (chapter 5), that the cooperative and gentle bonobo represent a far better model of our human ancestors than the common chimpanzee. Both share approximately 99% of their DNA with humans, however bonobo physiology, bipedality, environment, intelligence and reduced canine size, better match our human ancestors. Reduced canine size is particularly relevant as it is arguably the outstanding features of the hominin clade, and universally accepted as an indication of reduced aggression. Fossil evidence of our cooperative past, including reduced canines, has lead the prominent anthropologist C. Owen Lovejoy to write that “our species-defining cooperative mutualism can now be seen to extend well beyond the deepest Pliocene [well beyond 5.3 mya]”. No, our selfishness and aggression is not instinctive in origin; all the evidence shows that our instinctive heritage is cooperate.

Without the defence of our aggressive behaviour we have not been able to admit how cooperative our heritage is, and therefore how entirely cooperative and loving our instincts are. However, we now have that redeeming biological defence of our condition, and with that defence, it does become very clear that the idea that we have savage instincts is just an excuse that we used; so we disagree that the savage instincts idea is “discarded” rather this critical new science disproves it with evidence of our cooperative and moral instincts. You might be interested in FAQ 5.2 ‘What do bonobos tell us about our own evolutionary heritage?’

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Yes, the biggest realisation has to be that we can’t go on the way we are. However, what is so extraordinary about what is being presented here, is that it is a defence of our selfish, divisive behaviour, not a criticism of it. The amazing paradox is that this defence brings about the cooperative world we all long for. 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!

We suggest that as you digest the explanation of the human condition you will start to see that religion and politics, rather than being the cause of humanity’s problems, are just symptoms of the underlying issue of the human condition. Following THE Interview, you might be interested in some of our FAQs, including FAQ 1.6: Why does understanding of the human condition solve everything?; and then go to our FAQs on religion and politics.

Thank you very much, Christine, for your considered feedback. 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 on our Transformation page, featuring the new presentation The Great Transformation.

As is explained in THE Interview, ‘the big question about humanity’ is ‘why, when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless, are we so angry, competitive and selfish?' This is the fundamental question that has perplexed our greatest minds since the dawn of history. 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.

    You will like what you find here Douglas! With regard to politics, in explaining the human condition, Jeremy Griffith’s work brings a profound understanding to both the left and right wings, which ultimately will bring an end to the whole ugly business. This is fully explained in our FAQs about politics.     With regard to religion, the ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation actually reconciles science and religion by bringing biological understanding to pre-scientific concepts. In fact what people discover is it is the fulfilment of a time that all religions looked forward to when we could actually explain ourselves – see our FAQs on religion.

Yes. In our FAQ 1.6, Professor Harry Prosen, former President of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, is quoted as saying about the plight of the world that “the fastest growing realization everywhere is that humanity can’t go on the way it is going. Indeed, the great fear is we’re entering endgame where we appear to have lost the race between self-destruction and self-understanding.” The point he is making is that we need answers, especially about ourselves, and we need them urgently. And what is so exciting, is that the more you study this understanding, the more you will realise that in a world fast going crazy from the effects of the human condition, this is the now desperately needed reconciling understanding that brings about a new world for humans FREE of the agony of the human condition. This is the understanding that ends human suffering at its source, and unites the human race.

While humanity’s all-important search for liberating knowledge was underway, religions condemned the unavoidable psychological upset or corruption that ensued, however we can now appreciate that religion has played a significant role as a source of over-arching truth about the human journey, and also as the custodian of the ideal state and a means of solace for those exhausted by the corrupting journey. You might be particularly interested in our FAQ 6.3 in which it is explained that “With understanding of the human condition we can now appreciate that in order to encourage people to adhere to the integrative, ‘Godly’, cooperative ideals of life, religions sought to restrain ‘upset’ behaviour by making people fearful of behaving in an overly angry, egocentric and alienated way.”

    Thanks for your comment, James. In paragraph 848 of his definitive book FREEDOM, Jeremy explains how ice-ages accelerated the progression of psychological upset in the human race: “The closer humans lived during humanity’s adolescence and/or the more difficult the living conditions, the greater the occurrence and spread and thus increase in upset. Innocence doesn’t last long in New York’s Times Square or Sydney’s Kings Cross where drug pushers, prostitutes, muggers and beggars work the streets. And as those from cold climates will attest, winters are particularly confining and testing, so each great ice age did, in effect, represent one very long, trying winter. It is not surprising then that out of the hardship of each of the great ice ages came the next more upset/soul-exhausted/embattled/alienated stage of humans. From the rigours of the first great ice age, called the Günz Ice Age, came the flowering of H. erectus. H. sapiens emerged after the second ice age, the Mindel Ice Age, while Neanderthal man, a precursor of H. sapiens sapiens, appeared after the third ice age, the Riss Ice Age. The Cro-Magnons, described as the first behaviourally modern humans, emerged after the Würm Ice Age, the fourth ice age. Each ice age also contributed significantly to the culling of the human race in terms of humans’ ability to adapt to life under the duress of the human condition. This is because as upset increased throughout humanity’s adolescence many individuals must have, in effect, quit the great battle humanity was waging against the ignorance of our instinctive self or soul through their inability to withstand the degree of compromise to their soul that was increasingly being demanded of them, leaving only the most courageous, determined and enduring—but, it follows, also the most soul-destroyed.”     It should be pointed out that this increase in upset following the last ice age did not represent a regression back to adolescence, but rather an acceleration of the inevitable progression from innocence to corruption that accompanied the search for knowledge, a progression that could only be halted by the finding of the reconciling, redeeming and rehabilitating understanding of our condition, which is what Jeremy has found.

Thanks for your comment, Stephanie. What is so significant about Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition is that it 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 legitimately return to that “awesome” loving and kind state! ‘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. We hope you pursue your interest by joining our incredibly popular Facebook Group and registering for live events where Jeremy and others discuss these world-saving insights.

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    Thanks for your thoughts Mark. We disagree that science can’t save humans because 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. What is so significant about this explanation is it defends our so-called ‘wicked’ or ‘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.     Also Jeremy Griffith’s work does not deny God. We suggest you watch or re-watch THE Interview because 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 as being the personification of integrative meaning of life mentioned in Part 3. Also see FAQ 5.3 ‘What is the meaning of life? / What is the Integrative Meaning of existence? / What is God?’

    The real truth about the human condition is presented in this interview and summarised in FAQ 5.1 under ‘The Great Scientific Questions’ section. To quote:     "Key to Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition is an understanding of the difference between our instincts and intellect, and the effect that difference has had on our behaviour. He explains that when we humans developed a conscious mind some two million years ago, a battle unavoidably developed between it and our already established instincts. Natural selection of genes gives species’ instinctive orientations, such as to a migratory flight path for birds, but a nerve-based conscious mind needs understanding to operate, so when a fully conscious mind emerges and begins experimenting in understanding it unavoidably comes into conflict with the already established instinctive orientations that are in effect intolerant of these deviating experiments in self-management.     The result of this conflict between our instinct and intellect was an undeserved sense of guilt and insecurity that caused us to become psychologically defensive, angry, alienated and egocentric, the upset state we refer to as the human condition—a state we sought to alleviate through a competitive, selfish and aggressive bid for the reinforcement we could gain from winning power, fame, fortune and glory. But now that we can explain and understand this conflict and the guilt it produced, all those insecure, defensive behaviours are obsoleted, brought to an end, and we free ourselves from the human condition.     In short, this explanation represents the fulfilment of the human race’s great hope, faith and trust that one day this psychologically redeeming and transforming understanding of our ‘good and evil’-stricken human condition would be found."

Thank you Celine for your feedback about THE Interview. In terms of being able to ‘Hear Yourself How to Find Peace in a Noisy World’ (the title of Prem Rawat’s book) ultimately we needed reconciling understanding of our conflicted selves (the core issue of the human condition) to truly heal our noisy and alienated condition and be re-united with our peaceful and all-sensitive soul. There have been thousands of years of practices such as meditation and mindfulness and they have been necessary and invaluable tools in helping us manage and cope with our upset under the duress of the human condition, calming the troubled mind and soul of humans, tools that for example Prem Rawat provides, but with this biological understanding of ourselves and our world, we can see that they don’t address and solve the agony of the human condition. Fundamentally they are about escaping the pain in our brains, rather than directly addressing and dealing with the cause which Jeremy’s treatise does. This is the critically important difference between Jeremy’s biological treatise and Prem Rawat work (see FAQ 6.5) and why psychiatrist Professor Harry Prosen 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. This is the book we have been waiting for, it is the book that saves the world.”

There have been thousands of years of practices involving mantras, meditation, yoga, and ritual, as the principles of the trantras prescribe, for calming, restraining, repressing, and even transcending our psychologically upset human condition and deferring to the soundness of our soul in one form or another, but none of them have brought an end to the upset state of the human condition—it’s still rampant everywhere. 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 and his book FREEDOM. We recommend FAQ 6.5, which explains the difference between Jeremy’s explanation and pseudo-idealism, and FAQ 1.13, which explains the uniqueness of his work.