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Jeremy Griffith acknowledges religions contain all manner of truths about human life, however it is all from a pre-scientific view. The teachings of Kabbalah contain references to the truth of our upset psychological self-destructive, violent state, and the search to find the reason for it, which has been humanity’s great search, to solve the human condition and return to wholeness. In particular, in THE Interview Jeremy makes the point that from ancient times many thinkers have identified the elements of instinct and intellect involved in creating the human condition, however the great breakthrough science can now provide is the clarifying explanation of the nature of the conflict between them. Understanding that the gene-based learning system can orientate a species, but that the nerve-based learning system is insightful, allows us to understand that the conscious mind was right to defy our instinctive self to search for understanding which produces our psychologically upset condition. Without that explanation the conflict could not be resolved. That is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy presents. We suggest FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this original or new?’ which explains the unique significance of Jeremy Griffith’s work.

Prepare to have the mystery solved Patricia, and as it turns out, in a completely redeeming manner. 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 including the booklet version of THE Interview) to read online or download (no email required). You can also download the free Kindle version from Amazon. Otherwise you can purchase hard copies from Amazon or other good bookstores.

Great to have your interest, Angelo. Our homepage is the place to visit to learn more as it guides you through all the further information you need, including these next steps to take: — 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.

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Yes, at some deep level, we have all been waiting for the human race to find this redeeming and rehabilitating understanding, and unbelievable as it is, that moment is now here! Knowing why our intellect had to defy our instincts makes redundant our defensive behaviours of anger, egocentricity and alienation, liberating, as you say, “the human potential [for] compassion understanding, and love”. A whole new world for humans is starting now, but it is a huge paradigm shift, so take you time, and watch and re-watch everything, and allow this knowledge time to seep into your bones. You’ll see at the top of the homepage — HumanCondition.com — that 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.

Understanding the human condition is the great unlocking point in the human journey of conscious thought and enquiry and its resolution leads, at last, to the real basis for a cooperative and loving future. Through finding the good reason that we had to defy our instincts, all our defensive behaviours (our anger, egocentricity and alienation) are now redundant. Certainly it will take generations for all the hurt to completely disappear from the world, but everyone can immediately choose to live in accord with this scientific understanding. To quote our Transformation page, “We now have the completely redeeming, uplifting and healing biological understanding of the core mystery and problem about human behaviour of our so-called ‘good and evil’-stricken human condition—thus ending all the conflict and suffering in human life at its source, and providing the now urgently needed road map for the complete rehabilitation and transformation of our lives and world!”

    Thanks for your comment Jax. There is no suggestion that people who can’t immediately access this understanding are ‘stupid’. As THE Interview explains, the human condition has been the most terrifying of subjects to face because it is the issue of whether we are fundamentally good or bad as a species, and we have necessarily lived in almost total denial of it, so there is a lot to consider and digest which takes time. Indeed, this denial means that we can suffer from a Deaf Effect, which you can read more about in Jeremy’s book The Great Guilt that ends the Deaf Effect.     A very brief summary is as follows: when we humans developed a conscious mind some 2 million years ago, a battle unavoidably developed between it and our already established instincts. The result of this conflict between our instinct and intellect was that we became psychologically defensive, angry, alienated and egocentric—the upset state we refer to as the human condition. But now that we can explain and understand this conflict, all those insecure, defensive behaviours are obsoleted, brought to an end, and we free ourselves from the human condition. (You may want to look at our FAQ 1.3, for another brief description of the understanding of the human condition, and how it heals that psychologically upset condition.)

As the former President of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, Professor Harry Prosen, writes in his Introduction to Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM, “Jeremy provides that great unifying, make-sense-of-everything synthesis—for not only does his treatise explain the human condition—our species’ capacity for what has been called ‘good’ and ‘evil’ (in chapters 1 and 3)—his ability to plumb the great depths of this most foreboding of all subjects has meant that he has also been able to provide the fully accountable explanation of the other great outstanding mysteries in science of the meaning of human existence (chapter 4), the origin of our unconditionally selfless moral instincts (chapters 5 and 6), and why humans became conscious when other animals haven’t (chapter 7). And in unlocking those insights, he has in turn been able to make sense of every other aspect of our troubled human condition, including the strained relationship between men and women, sex as humans practice it, the origin and nature of politics, religion, and so many other human phenomena (chapter 8). Indeed, preposterous as it must seem, what this book effectively does is take humanity from a state of bewilderment about the nature of human behavior and existence to a state of profound understanding of our lives. It truly is a case of having got all the truth up in one go.”

    Firstly, it must be stressed that without the defence for our apparently ‘bad’ behaviour, humans have had to commit themselves to lives of apparent superficiality, avoiding the whole question of our ultimate worth, and effectively stopping thinking, but that does not mean that humans should be denigrated. We suggest that as you digest this understanding you will come to appreciate that ‘not thinking’ with any profundity was the only way we could continue the journey to find understanding, and that in truth, nothing could have been more heroic than what humans have done. Suffering corruption was the price we paid for continuing the search for knowledge. (You might be interested in chapter 2:4 of Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM, which explains how science, which was humanity’s designated vehicle for finding understanding, “has avoided the overarching whole view of life that required having to confront the issue of the human condition and instead reduced its focus to only looking down at the details of the mechanisms of the workings of our world, in the hope that understanding of those mechanisms would eventually make it possible to explain, understand and thus at last be able to both confront and ameliorate or heal the human condition.”)     With regard to the presentation apparently being “complicated”, we suggest that it is actually very simple and not beyond the most basic of educations, however the very nature of the human condition means explanation of it can be initially difficult to access as it 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. We suggest watching or reading Jeremy Griffith’s new presentation titled The Great Guilt that causes the Deaf Effect, or looking at Video/Freedom Essay 1 titled ‘Your block to the most wonderful of all gifts’ where Jeremy Griffith explains this initial ‘deaf effect’ and how to overcome it.

What great encouraging feedback Colleen, thank you!

Very interesting and informative

That’s wonderful Cornelia and our homepage guides you through all the further information you need, including these next steps to take: — 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.

Thank you Jennie, but what THE Interview explains is that greed, selfishness, competition and war are symptoms of our insecure human condition, so to solve it we had to end that underlying insecurity, get to the core of the problem and fix and that is exactly what Jeremy Griffith has done. We can now understand our selfish and competitive 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 condition that is unique about Jeremy’s work; and most significantly, this understanding means that that psychologically upset state can be ameliorated, because a psychosis can be healed through understanding. We suggest FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does understanding of the human condition solve everything?’

    Absolutely Jan! You can see all the translations we have available on our Translations page where you will find key publications in Afrikaans, Dutch, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish! These translations have been produced by the generous efforts of the WTM’s ever-expanding global network of support to help spread this information! Also, we have over 60 WTM Centres around the world, with some presented in their native language, so hopefully there is one near you!     If the translation you need isn’t yet available you can watch all our videos, including THE Interview and its companion presentation The Great Guilt, using the closed captions or subtitles function (just click on the ‘cc’ icon at the bottom of the video player/window and select your language).

Take heart, Duncan, 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 spreading, and quickly!! Certainly there is habituation to overcome and humans do find change difficult but, to quote WTM Video/Freedom Essay 5 about the transformation and freedom this understanding brings us: “Humans are thinking, rational beings so when all the logic points in one direction then there is really no choice but for every single human to take that path, and eventually they will. It will be slow for a start because humans hate and resist change, but nonetheless change does happen when an idea’s time has come”. Also, how this transformation is immediately open to us all is summarised in FAQ 1.5 and FAQ 1.40. So help us get this precious understanding to everyone Duncan and SHARE THE Interview far and wide!

Thank you for your comment Kennedy. It takes a little time to fully absorb the significance of this explanation but as you suspect it does address the real cause of our status or situation today. We needed to explain our selfish state at its source and relieve the underlying insecurity driving our troubled and often brutal behaviour before we could end it! To “reboot” our conscious mind we needed to be able to understand why when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless are we so angry, competitive and selfish. Answering this required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy Griffith presents here. 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! Solving the human condition solves all the suffering in human life at its source, see FAQ 1.5 ‘Why is this important to my life’.

It’s wonderful you wish to learn more about the human condition Rachel! We encourage you to keep exploring our website; you’ll see at the top of the homepage — HumanCondition.com — that it states ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’ and provides a guide to the steps to pursue your interest. This includes registering for our free Mailing List and joining our popular Facebook Group. You will also see an image of Jeremy Griffith’s main book FREEDOM with the text ‘Free Copy’ so click on that to access your free electronic copy to read, listen to or download. You can also download free Kindle versions from Amazon. If you are particularly after a hardcopy Jeremy’s book are available to purchase from Amazon and other good bookstores.

Thanks Alan for your further comment. Even though other animals display various levels of socialness they are driven by gene-based natural selection and the essential fact or rule of natural selection is that genes are unavoidably selfish, so there is a fundamental limit to the amount of selfless, loving behaviour they can develop. The brilliance of biologist Jeremy Griffith’s work is he explains how humans biologically overcame this genetic limitation through what he identifies as the ‘love-indoctrination’ process, which produced our all-loving, altruistic instincts. This is explained in THE Interview which highlights the extraordinarily cooperative and caring behaviour of the bonobos, who have developed this ‘love-indoctrination’ process to a lesser degree. FAQ 5.2 ‘ How did we humans acquire our all-loving, unconditionally selfless moral conscience?/ What do bonobos tell us about our own evolutionary heritage?’ may be of interest along with our reply to Linda kohanov below about levels of awareness or consciousness in animals.

Thanks for your question Paul. The work of the WTM is a scientific pursuit and was not created for profit, so all of our information and materials on our website (including books, videos and podcasts) are provided absolutely free of charge, in a variety of electronic formats, at HumanCondition.com (no email registration is required). In terms of books some people prefer to read a hard copy which they purchase from Amazon or other good bookstores.

Hi Alan, in this interview Jeremy Griffith explains that while we couldn’t admit that our selfish behaviour was psychological in origin we have had to come up with all sorts of theories to account for our good and evil stricken condition, and the idea that we are selfish because we have savage animals instincts is the main an excuse we have had to use until we had the real defence for our condition. Certainly while the world is fast approaching a point of no return, having the source of the underlying cause of all our selfish greed, indifference, egocentricity and need for power explained and solved will turn things around incredibly quickly as our FAQ 1.40 further explains. People find it helpful as it addresses the questions of: 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?

Certainly humans have treated the natural world without sensitivity or empathy in the past, demonstrating ‘hubris’, but we suggest that is not at play here. Animals are not being denigrated, but it is not wrong to point out that while other animals have various levels of ‘awareness’, or are sentient and able to perceive or feel things, none are ‘conscious’ in the fundamental sense that none can consciously manage events like humans can. As Jeremy Griffith explains in THE Interview, consciousness means being sufficiently aware of how experiences are related to attempt to manage change from a basis of understanding cause and effect, and so it is accurate to describe humans as the only animals possessing ‘fully conscious minds’, see FAQ 5.5 ‘Aren’t other animals capable of conscious thought like humans? / How can you say humans are the only fully conscious animals?’ Also we recommend FAQ 5.4 ‘What is consciousness? / Why is it that humans became conscious while other animals haven’t? / How did consciousness emerge in humans?’.

We would like to suggest John, that until we could solve the human condition we had to deny that there was any meaning to life. As THE Interview mentions, Jeremy Griffith’s treatise explains, the theme or ‘meaning of life’ is integration or order (see FAQ 5.3 ‘What is the integrative meaning of life’), but how could we entertain that truth when we are divisively or ‘disintegratively’ behaved? Ultimately we needed to find the scientific explanation for why when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless we are so angry, competitive and selfish. Answering that question required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy presents. With our angry, competitive and selfish behaviour at last defended, we suggest we can now admit the very clear integrative meaning of life.

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Hi Chris, wonderful to have your interest. We are not currently holding open day speeches, however, our interactive live events with Jeremy Griffith and others are 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.

    Thanks Kathleen. To learn more here are our recommended 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.     And regarding your comment “Before it’s too late”, you may find helpful our FAQ 1.40 as it addresses the questions of ‘Aren’t the problems of the world too overwhelming to ever be fixed? / Isn’t it too late to save the world?’.

As our FAQ 1.9 ‘Should people be sceptical’ explains, the astonishing claims being made about Jeremy Griffith’s work do warrant initial scepticism however they all withstand scrutiny as what he presents is 100% logic. People find once they begin exploring the explanation the more they do the more they realise the claims are actually true, and in time become appreciated for their forthright honesty in indicating where the solution to our problems lies — as the commendations Jeremy’s work has received from eminent scientists and thinkers attest. So we encourage everyone to watch THE Interview and judge for themselves!

Good on you Jerry. We encourage you to keep exploring our website; you’ll see at the top of the homepage — HumanCondition.com — that it states ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’ and guides you through the steps to pursue your interest. This includes registering for our free Mailing List and joining our popular Facebook Group.

    Thanks Carol, yes we have always had an intuitive awareness of humans‘ fundamental goodness, and our nurtured, loving origin, despite the horror of the human condition. Now, with our angry, egocentric ’dark side‘ at last explained and defended by the ’instinct vs intellect' explanation of the human condition, we can all now legitimately return to a selfless way of living / “get back to the garden”. ‘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.     Readers might be interested in FAQ 5.3 ‘What is the meaning of life? / What is the Integrative Meaning of existence? / What is God?’, which explains that we can at last understand what love actually is, which is unconditional selflessness, and why it so significant in our lives and in the development of humanity. There is actually a clear theme or purpose or meaning of existence, which is the ordering or integration of matter, a process that is driven by the physical law of Negative Entropy.

Hi Rosa, towards the top of our homepage, HumanCondition.com, you will see an image of FREEDOM with the text ‘Free Copy’ so click on that to access your free electronic copy to read, listen to or download. You can also download free Kindle versions from Amazon. (Hardcopies can be purchased through Amazon and other good bookstores.)

While it takes some time to digest, we suggest that what is unique about Jeremy Griffith’s work is that he has answered the essential question of why, when the universal ideals are to be integrative are we so disintegrative? While religion has provided extraordinary honesty in describing the human condition, ultimately we needed a scientific answer to that question, which meant 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. You might also be interested in our FAQs on religion.

Thanks for your thoughts Ryszard. We suggest that as you digest Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation for the human condition, you will start to see how it actually gets to the bottom of all the dysfunction that you list, and eventually solves it. We can now understand that all of 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?’.

Thanks Troy. What we can understand now is that the problem hasn’t been “government lies and control”, it goes much deeper than that. All our social constructs are really just manifestations of our insecure, psychologically upset condition, and so it is only through solving the human condition, addressing the source of our selfish psychological upset, that we could effectively achieve real and lasting change to both us individually and as a society. You might find this FAQs helpful: FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does understanding solve everything’.

    We certainly respect people’s religious views, however 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 a pre-science view. 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’ and FAQ 6.2 ‘What is God’. Also Jeremy’s Freedom Essays 38 – 41, which decipher religion, are absolutely fascinating.     With regard to the explanation of the human condition ‘destroying any cogent argument agasint evil’, 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 who are capable of so called ‘evil’. Of course this breakthrough explanation doesn’t condone or sanction the horrendous atrocities humans can commit rather, through bringing compassionate understanding to the source of humans’ upset behaviour, it gives us the power to ameliorate and thus subside and ultimately eliminate it, see FAQ 1.38 Does this condone ‘evil’ behaviour?’. As the late Professor Harry Prosen, psychiatrist and former president of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, said: ‘I have no doubt Jeremy Griffith’s biological explanation of the human condition is the holy grail of insight we have sought for the psychological rehabilitation of the human race.’

Yes, nature has always been a refuge for our all-loving, all-sensitive, cooperative instinctive self or soul, but as you suggest, it has only been a “shelter from the human condition” not an answer to it. To solve the human condition, someone needed to confront it and finally get to the bottom of it. Why did we humans destroy our innocent, ‘edenic’ origins? Why are humans destroying nature everywhere? That is the question that had to be answered, and we suggest that is what biologist Jeremy Griffith has done with his ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation.

Wonderful you’re listening Wellington! THE Interview is available in various formats on our homepage right here! You will also see Jeremy Griffith’s other key books and they are all provided completely free (to read online, download, print or listen to). You can also download the free Kindle versions from Amazon and purchase hard copies from Amazon or other good bookstores.

This interview teaches me that I’m not suppose to gudge people but be a solution to the world starting by changing the way I live, talk and see the main purpose of being a human

Hi Clive, what biologist Jeremy Griffith explains is that our selfish and destructive behaviour is not learned or a result of any mental conditioning but rather a result of a universal psychosis caused by the clash between our cooperative instincts and our intellect. So the source of our condition is psychological, not cultural, social, physiological or genetic, and significantly, a psychosis is changeable as it can be healed through understanding. Ultimately we needed to find the scientific explanation for why when the universal ideals or morals 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. So, in a world fast going crazy from the effects of the human condition, this is the now desperately needed reconciling understanding that ends human suffering at its source, and unites the human race, see FAQ 1.5 ‘Why is understanding the human condition important to my life?’

Great to have your interest Dexter! Yes Jeremy Griffith explains in THE Interview that all humans are born with loving moral instincts and he then answers the crux question if that is the case then why are we so angry, competitive and selfish as to nearly destroy our own planet?! This is the great significance of his work 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 1.4 ‘How does being able to understand the human condition end the upset anger, egocentricity and alienation of the human condition?’

Thank you for you comment Joanne. As THE Interview explains, for full self-awareness or self-understanding 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 here and his book FREEDOM; see FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this original or new?’ which explains the unique significance of Jeremy’s work.

Hi Shelley, yes, the real question is why, if we are so intelligent or conscious, do we behave so stupidly and destructively. This critical new science presented by biologist Jeremy Griffith explains that humans’ selfish, destructive behaviour is NOT a product of us having unchangeable savage animal instincts or “nature”, but the result of a psychosis, caused by the clash between our instinct and intellect. Humans suffer from the conscious-mind-based, psychologically troubled human condition, not the genetic-opportunism-based, animal condition that so many scientists and commentators say is the reason for human selfishness (see FAQ 1.2). We can now understand that our conscious mind became psychologically upset as a result of our instincts in-effect criticising our intellect’s experiments in self-management. As a result we became angry and aggressive which is the real cause of all the wars and killing everywhere, not ‘instincts being triggered by population pressure’. So war and our destruction of the natural world, including animals, are all symptoms of our psychology not our genes, and because it is the result of a psychosis, what that means is that it can be healed with understanding. It is fixable or changeable—not unchangeable, which is what it would essentially be if our competitive and aggressive nature was instinctive. (This is further explained in Video/Freedom Essay 2 and Video/Freedom Essay 14.)

In Part 3 of THE Interview, Jeremy Griffith explains that humans‘ moral consciousness is derived from our species’ loving heritage, and therefore the source of our ‘morals’ is our loving instinctive self or ‘soul’. Whilst THE Interview is just an introductory presentation, at the end of Part 3 Jeremy does refer the reader to ‘the Negative-Entropy-driven meaning of life’ that is explained in detail in chapter 4 of his definitive book FREEDOM. In chapter 4.4 the origin of life is explained: “It can be seen then that Negative Entropy’s development of order of matter really comes down to being a product of possibilities. The differing properties of matter mean some arrangements of matter break down towards heat energy, while others stay stable and still others become part of larger and more enduring associations of matter. In time, all the possible associations of matter will be automatically or, as Charles Darwin called it, ‘naturally’ investigated until the largest, most stable association is left or found or, as Darwin described it, ‘selected’. What happened with DNA was that it not only turned a relatively short lifetime for extremely complex molecules into a relatively indefinite one, it also made a business, as it were, of this ‘negentropy’ direction—both of resisting breakdown and of developing order. The replicating DNA molecule gave rise to a process that actively resisted breakdown and actively developed ever more and greater order of matter. This is ‘the active striving of living matter towards order’, ‘a drive towards synthesis, growth and wholeness’, the ‘active’, ‘creating’, ‘purposiveness’, ‘vitalisation’ of life about which Koestler and de Chardin wrote.”

Yes, the WTM is a scientific pursuit and was not created for profit, so all of our information and materials (including books, videos and podcasts) are provided absolutely free of charge on our website.