Comments on THE Interview

Thank you for your support Karen. Yes, we can now see that humans are fundamentally good; and paradoxically, the way that comes about is through at last being able to biologically explain why we humans have had to be ‘angry, egocentric and alienated’. We can now see that selfishness has been a completely necessary, even heroic state! It is only by defending this ‘dark side’ of humans, that we could ever return to the loving state from whence we came. See FAQ 6.5 which stresses this huge difference between Jeremy Griffith’s work and the new age movement.

We can now appreciate that religion has played an important role as both the custodian of the ideal state and as a means of solace for those exhausted by the corrupting journey. This understanding presents a massive paradigm shift in our thinking, but what people discover is Jeremy Griffith’s work actually reconciles science and religion by bringing biological understanding to pre-scientific concepts. We recommend all our FAQs on religion for an in depth explanation of the role religion has played.

Even though the instinct vs intellect concept is actually very simple, we humans have lived in such fear and denial of our corrupted condition that we can find it difficult to ‘hear’ or take in discussion of it. For people new to this concept, we recommend Jeremy’s recent presentation The Great Guilt that causes the Deaf Effect, which explains this ‘Deaf Effect’ in depth. If you want a good quick summary of the instinct vs intellect concept, we recommend FAQ 1.3 (and all our FAQs).

Hi James, thank you for your interest and desire to share this breakthrough others, we very much appreciate it. Our homepage — HumanCondition.com — provides an initial guide on how to participate, including registering to be informed of our free, interactive, live events with Jeremy Griffith and others, which provide a great way to enhance your comprehension of this breakthrough explanation of the human condition. And our Facebook Group provides a wonderful platform for participating in interesting and exciting discussion with others about how we can live with this critical new science, and communicate it to others. We then recommend you visit our ‘How to Help‘ page, for a list of suggestions for how to share this breakthrough, including a link to the many translations that are now available.

Wow I want to learn more

Thank you for your comment, Frank. We absolutely agree that “This needs to be told around the world”! Jeremy Griffith’s work is about confronting and solving the human condition, and given our historic way of coping with the human condition has been to avoid it at all costs, this REAL path to our species’ returning to our natural loving way of living is a tough one to initiate. However, humanity’s uptake of the explanation of the human condition has a fast finish, because, as Jeremy explains in chapter 9 of his definitive book FREEDOM, once people start having the legitimate ‘change of heart’ that this information allows, the selflessness that it liberates will not only quickly solve all the problems on the planet, but the excitement and joy it brings means everyone will want to get on board as quickly as they can! For example, as Jeremy writes in chapter 9:9, “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—as the exceptional denial-free thinking prophet Teilhard de Chardin wrote, ‘The Truth has to only appear once…for it to be impossible for anything ever to prevent it from spreading universally and setting everything ablaze’”. On this point, we recommend 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?’

There is no doubt that this explanation of the human condition needs to be part of children’s education syllabus, Karla, but that will happen naturally once the explanation gains mainstream acceptance, and so gaining that acceptance has to be our focus. And as with any new scientific breakthrough in history it will take time to gain that acceptance, however, with support from those who appreciate this understanding it will catch on like wildfire and this is already happening. Just read the ecstatic responses THE Interview is receiving on our homepage and scroll down to see the rapidly growing appreciation and support for the WTM with outstanding commendations from thought leaders and WTM Centres all over the world! You may find FAQ 1.27 of interest as it explains why the WTM doesn’t focus on trying to reach children and adolescents and why the breakout of truth about the human condition has to begin with adults.

Jeremy Griffith’s work doesn’t contradict a belief in God or Christianity, or the Bible’s content. 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 (see FAQ 6.2). Our additional FAQs about religion may also be of interest.

    With respect, you are not understanding what is being presented here. While religions contain all manner of truths about human life, it is all from a pre-scientific view. Ultimately we needed to find the scientific explanation for why when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless are we so angry, competitive and selfish. Answering this question required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy Griffith presents in THE Interview and his book FREEDOM. We suggest FAQ 1.13 ‘Is this original or new?’ which explains the unique significance of Jeremy Griffith’s work.     With regard to your criticism of “white men”, rather than being the villains as you suggest, they turn out to be the heroes. In Part 11 of book Death by Dogma, Jeremy explains that in your type of comment, “There was no recognition of the human race’s great project to find the knowledge that would actually liberate us from our corrupted condition, and how involvement in that great project unavoidably created various states of upset and functionality—where, for example, those presently most functional under the duress of the human condition, and the gender most responsible for searching for knowledge, namely white males, had to and have succeeded in finding the liberating understanding of the human condition, as all the great thinkers mentioned in this book evidence. So it has not been a case of unfair white privilege, especially unjust WHITE MALE PRIVILEGE as critical theorists are teaching, but rather a case of fulfilled white male responsibility. The ‘pale, stale males’ are actually the heroes, legends and saviours!”

Thanks Andries, 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 weekly emails 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.

What a wonderfully appreciative comment Lauray, thank you. All Jeremy Griffith’s books are FREE!! Just click here to access your free electronic copy of any of Jeremy’s key books!! You can also download free Kindle versions from Amazon. (If you are particularly after a hardcopy of Jeremy’s books are available to purchase from Amazon and other good bookstores.)

Great to have your interest Blue! At last we can understand the source of our ‘spirituality’ which is our all-loving and cooperative soul or instinctive self and the necessary and indeed heroic reason we had to depart from that state. This breakthrough instinct versus intellect explanation of the human condition finally provides the biological understanding for why we are divisively rather than cooperatively behaved. With our dark side truthfully explained and defended we can can legitimately return to a selfless way of living. ‘Legitimately’ because at last we have the first principle-based science which liberates us to be honest about our conflicted upset state instead of denying or transcending it. You might enjoy reading FAQ 1.26 ‘What is soul, have we all got one, has it been repressed, and if so, how do we rehabilitate it?’.

Thanks for your comment Md. Central to Jeremy Griffith’s treatise is that the human condition is not genetic. In Part 1 of this interview Jeremy explains all humans are born with an instinctive self or soul that is perfectly aligned to a cooperative and selfless way of living and that humans’ upset (angry, egocentric and alienated) behaviour is not a product of savage animal instincts within us, but the result of a universal psychosis caused by the unavoidable clash between our instinct and intellect. And, most significantly, as Part 4 explains a psychosis can be healed with understanding, so our psychologically upset symptoms (such as greed and the resulting unsustainability of our world) are fixable or changeable—not unchangeable. As distinguished psychiatrist Professor Harry Prosen (who wrote the introduction to Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM) said: “What Griffith is presenting is understanding of the source insecurity that the whole human race suffers from for having destroyed our species’ innocent soul. It is a universal self-blame that his understanding at last provides healing insight into. All human behavior is saturated with that universal insecure, depressing state and resulting anger, egocentricity and alienation that has developed from it, but we finally have the compassionate foundation insight needed to dismantle all that ‘upset’/psychosis. So the real psychotherapy of our collective and individual psychoses can begin” (see FAQ 1.34).

    People are so impressed by Jeremy’s Griffith’s instinct vs intellect understanding because what is presented here is nothing less than holy grail of the whole human journey of enquiry; it is the long-sought, rational, fully accountable, scientific explanation of the human condition! As E.O. Wilson said, “There is no grail more precious or elusive in the life of the mind than the key to understanding the human condition”, and this is that ‘key’. And what is more, this redeeming, reconciling and rehabilitating explanation solves all our problems and transforms the world. All the ailments in the world are symptoms of the deeper issue of the human condition. Which means to fix the world, we had to fix the human condition — and that’s what biologist Jeremy Griffith has been done. He has actually solved the underlying, real issue that’s been plaguing the human race (see FAQ 1.6 ‘Why this solves everything) which, as you say, is being acknowledged and talked about. For instance this breakthough is heralded as the coming of Darwin II by the esteemed American ecologist and Professor Emeritus of Biology at San Diego State University, Stuart Hurlbert, who posted this comment on this WTM website ‘I am stunned and honored to be alive to see the coming of “Darwin II”’ and yes people have been talking about that.     With regard to creationism and Intelligent Design, with the human condition explained and our divisive behaviour defended, we can now admit to the Negative-Entropy-driven integrative meaning of existence (which Jeremy refers to in THE Interview, and explains in depth in chapter 4 of his definitive book FREEDOM). Previously however, this integrative process condemned us for our apparently divisive behaviour, and so mechanistic science in particular, steadfastly denied this integrative meaning to existence. This is significant, because in chapter 4:3 of FREEDOM, Jeremy explains how the idea of Intelligent Design grew out of a need to counter mechanistic science’s denial of this integrative process, however, ultimately, through its reliance on divine intervention, Intelligent Design is unscientific. With the explanation of the human condition, however, it is now possible for science to recognise that integration drives the development of matter, including the advent of ‘life’ (see FAQ 5.3). Jeremy explains in his books that indeed the word ‘development’ will come to replace the word ‘evolution’ in biology because evolution can be, and has been, misrepresented as meaning change is undirected, meaningless and random. This understanding reconciles science and religion (see FAQ 1.15).

Hi Martin and your hope is becoming a reality! Even though we haven’t yet reached the tipping point in terms of awareness of this great breakthrough, you can see from the excitement and relief in our ecstatic responses to THE Interview at the top of our homepage, we are well on our way!! Also, on our homepage, you can see the rapidly growing appreciation and support for Jeremy Griffith’s work with outstanding commendations from thought leaders and WTM Centres all over the world! Also you may find FAQ 1.14 ‘Why aren’t these ideas mainstream?’ helpful.

    Thank you for your appreciative comment Paul and for highlighting Jeremy’s inclusion of the most wonderful words of Fyodor Dostoyevski which we have included for readers of these comments. To quote Part 3 of THE Interview where Jeremy Griffith explains how our ancestors acquired our instinctive cooperative and loving moral conscience: "Now this quote is a bit long but it’s such a wonderful intuitive remembrance of our species’ bonobo-like time in an alienation-free, all-sensitive and all-loving state of innocence that I just have to read it out. It’s from the great Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. He wrote of a time when: ‘The grass glowed with bright and fragrant flowers. Birds were flying in flocks in the air, and perched fearlessly on my shoulders and arms and joyfully struck me with their darling, fluttering wings. And at last I saw and knew the people of this happy land. They came to me of themselves, surrounded me, kissed me. The children of the sun, the children of their sun—oh, how beautiful they were!…​Their faces were radiant…​in their words and voices there was a note of childlike joy…​It was the earth untarnished by the Fall; on it lived people who had not sinned…​They desired nothing and were at peace; they did not aspire to knowledge of life as we aspire to understand it, because their lives were full. But their knowledge was higher and deeper than ours…​but I could not understand their knowledge. They showed me their trees, and I could not understand the intense love with which they looked at them; it was as though they were talking with creatures like themselves…​and I am convinced that the trees understood them. They looked at all nature like that—at the animals who lived in peace with them and did not attack them, but loved them, conquered by their love…​There was no quarrelling, no jealousy among them…​for they all made up one family’ (The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, 1877)."     We encourage everyone to what the entire Interview but Part 3 particularly fascinating as it explains that over time, through the love indoctrination process, maternalism became a case of mothers actively loving their offspring — which was to prove the unlocking point for our species to develop our altruistic, moral instinctive self or soul, and our unique consciousness (summarised in FAQ 5.2).

    Good on you for persevering Melody! Yes the very nature of the human condition means discussion of it can be difficult to access the first time you try to access it. This is because historically the issue of whether we are fundamentally good or bad has been the most terrifying of all subjects to face, and so we have necessarily lived in almost total denial of it, which means our minds can initially struggle to hear and absorb discussion about it. However, as you have wonderfully discovered, this ‘deaf effect’ can be overcome with patient perseverance and everyone can access this most incredible of all gifts of understanding the human condition! (For readers of these comments this deaf effect is explained in Jeremy Griffith’s astonishingly revealing presentation, The Great Guilt that causes the Deaf Effect which follows THE Interview, and also in FAQ 1.16.)     The key biological distinction Jeremy explains in this interview is that humans suffer from the conscious-mind-based, psychologically troubled human condition, not the genetic-opportunism-based, “savage instincts, dog eat dog” animal condition. Now our psychological upset or “shadow self” is explained and defended we can see that while we couldn’t admit our destructive behaviour was psychological in origin we have had to come up with all sorts of “pseudo” 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. (Bytheway the novel you mention is titled The Mind Parasites and was written by Colin Wilson and Gary Lachman.)

Thank you for your wonderful feedback Mike and take heart, because as you can see from the daily ecstatic responses on our homepage, the relief and excitement of finally be able to make sense of human life is turning into a tidal wave of world-saving support!! As Part 4 of THE Interview and FAQ 1.40 explain, while the world is fast approaching a point of no return, this understanding will turn things around incredibly quickly, because it explains and solves the underlying cause of all our selfishness, anger and egocentricity. We also recommend reading Freedom Essay 15: ‘How your life can immediately be transformed. You can also see our growing network of over 60 WTM centres all around the world here on our homepage.

Hi Maurice, THE Interview is available to watch, listen to or read, at the top of our homepage HumanCondition.com where you will also see the ecstatic daily responses it is receiving! From there we suggest you explore the rest of our homepage which provides our other key publications and you can subscribe to our weekly ‘Freedom Essay’ emails, and join our popular Facebook Group, where there is much profound and exciting discussion taking place. The work of 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.

You can immediately access a copy at the top of our homepage just under THE Interview! 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. If you are particularly after a hardcopy of Jeremy Griffith’s books they are available to purchase from Amazon and other good bookstores.

Thanks Thobe. Many centres are now being opened in Africa, namely in Mahikeng, Eastern Cape, Cape Town, Centurian, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. See our WTM Centres page. You might also be interested in Freedom Essay 8, which features presentations from Franklin Mukakanga, and Refentse Molosiwa about how this understanding ends racism.

Thanks Joe. Most people Resign (see Freedom Essay 30) themselves to a life of denying the human condition, so your recognition that “hurting emotionally...explained most human evilness” is very rare. Please keep digesting this ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation, because we have no doubt you will see that it preceeds any insecurity over weilding fire. Interesting, many mythologies actually use fire as a symbol of consciousness and the problems that it caused when it clashed with ur pre-established instinctive self - see for example, the story of Prometheus' theft of fire, and the punishment he was condemned to as a result (see chapter 2:6 of Jeremy’s book FREEDOM).

Thanks for your input Jan: the “three word classics” sounds very interesting – we will look into it. As you would have seen, Part 2 of THE Interview includes many of these precious pre-scientific recognitions of our species cooperative and loving past. And in chapter 2:7 of Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM, he quotes Taoist scripture, which describes our distant forebears as being “the Men of Perfect Virtue”.

    As THE Interview explains all humans are born with loving moral instincts but we all now variously suffer from a psychosis due to the human condition and, in the extreme, that psychologically conflicted upset state produces psychopathic behaviour. Of course this breakthrough explanation doesn’t condone or sanction the horrendous attrocities humans can commit (what historically has been termed ‘evil’) 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 4.2 How does this rehabilitate ‘evil’). In his definitive book FREEDOM (chapter 8) Jeremy Griffith explains our excessively egocentric psychopathic behaviour (see especially ch 8:16D).     Of course, it will take some time to break through the bastions of power in the world but once this information gets a foothold through enough people developing a deep appreciation and desire to support it, the selfless love and energy that will generate will solve our problems very quickly because instead of being preoccupied with power, fame, fortune etc, all our energies will be freed to truly work together and focus on doing whatever it takes to end the suffering in all the corners of the world. FAQ 1.40 addresses the questions of ‘How can you hope to transform the world? — In particular, how are you going to change the behaviour of the rich and powerful? / How are you going to reach the bastions of power? / Won’t the greedy and power-hungry simply ignore this?’.

THE Interview is about both men and women. It explains the universal psychosis all humans suffer from caused by the clash between our instinct and intellect, which significantly can be healed through understanding. What is astonishing is that despite our psychologically upset condition this biological treatise establishes all humans are equally good, worthwhile, meaningful and wonderful regardless of gender, age, religion, etc. See biologist Dr Anna Fitzgerald’s video commendation about how this explanation is the real liberation of women and also FAQ 8.1 ‘How does this reconcile the sexes’

Angel, Jeremy Griffith’s books are immediately available for free here on our homepage. This includes Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM and the booklet version of THE Interview. You can also download free Kindle versions from Amazon. However, if you are particularly wanting a hard copy, you can purchase them from Amazon or other good bookstores.

We suggest that while religious assurances, such as ‘God loves you’, provided comfort, they failed to explain WHY we are lovable. Ultimately we needed to find the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work and it is that missing explanation that this breakthrough provides. I’m sure you will find our FAQs about religion most interesting, especially FAQ 6.2 ‘What is God’, where you will be pleased to find that Jeremy does quote ‘God is love’.

What is so extraordinary about Jeremy Griffith’s instinct vs intellect explanation of the human condition is that it brings ‘love’ in its purest form, namely the relieving biological understanding of our so-called ‘dark side’. 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. And 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 loving, cooperative way of living.

While great care has been taken to present the explanation as quickly and simply as possible (which is done in Part 1), opening up the underlying issue in all human affairs of the human condition does mean that there are several absolutely critical questions to be answered, which make up Parts 2, 3 & 4 of THE Interview. However, FAQ 1.3 presents a very brief summary of the key ‘instinct vs intellect’ concept. We hope you find this reply helpful.

    Yes, this redeeming scientific understanding removes the burden of guilt from humans, but we would point out that that guilt is much deeper than ‘religious doctrine’. That guilt is a result of our intellect being unable to explain to our instinctive self why it was right to search for knowledge, and why it didn’t deserve our instinct’s criticism of that search.     With regard to relgious teachings, we can now see that they actually contained all manner of profound truth about the human condition, however, in solving the human condition Jeremy’s treatise does bring new insight to it. For example, with regard to the story of Adam and Eve, while in the pre-scientific story Adam and Eve were portrayed as ‘bad’ or even ‘evil’ to take the fruit of knowledge, and treated as ‘sinful’, we can now understand that humans were ‘good’, even heroic, to search for knowledge, even though it caused us to become psychologically upset angry, egocentric and alienated sufferers of the human condition. As Jeremy says in Part 1 of THE Interview, “‘No, no, that story got it wrong’. Adam and Eve are actually not just good but the heroes of the whole story of life on Earth.” What science can now add to that pre-scientific description of the human condition is that our instincts in effect criticised the emerging conscious mind’s search for knowledge, but importantly, we can now understand that the conscious mind was right, or ‘good’ to defy our instinctive self in order to fulfil its great potential to manage life. 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. You might be interested in our FAQs on religion.

Thanks for your thoughts Martin. It may be that our FAQ 1.3 which briefly presents the explanation would be helpful. However, we suggest that the fundamental explanation as it is presented in THE Interview is not too difficult for anyone with a basic education to understand. It is actually very simple but, as explained in THE Interview, it does open up the historically off-limits subject of the human condition, so people can initially struggle to access or ‘hear’ what is being explained. FAQ 1.16 further explains this initial ‘deaf effect’. Also, the presentation that follows THE Interview, titled The Great Guilt that causes the Deaf Effect comprehensively deals with our understandable fear and cynicism about confronting the human condition. It includes examples of people overcoming the deaf effect in an astonishingly revealing presentation.

Hi Catharine, it’s great to have your interest. At 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, weekly ‘Freedom Essay’ emails, and joining our popular Facebook Group, where there is much profound and exciting discussion happening. You might also be interested in the Part 2 of THE Interview where Jeremy answers the question of, ‘if the ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation is so obvious, why weren’t we taught this at school?’, where it is explained that the human condition has been such a terrifying subject that the primary way we have dealt with it until now has been to deny it.

Thank you very much LeAnn, for your enthusiasm. Not only can we now understand that our original instinctive orientation is loving and cooperative, we can also understand that our competitive, aggressive, destructive, even seemingly ‘evil’ behaviour was an unavoidable, indeed necessary, part of human life. This understanding defends our so-called ‘dark side’ and explains that despite all appearances to the contrary, all humans are ‘good’. And by explaining the very good reason why our intellect had to defy our instincts, it makes redundant our defensive behaviours of anger, egocentricity and alienation, allowing us to “go back to our roots” and return to that loving and supportive state we all long for!

Thanks Dorothy, 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 weekly emails that will run you through Jeremy Griffith’s incredible Freedom Essay series. 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.

    In Part 1 of THE Interview Jeremy Griffith addresses the almost universal excuse for our angry, egocentric and alienated behaviour, which is that it is due to selfish, must-reproduce-our-genes, survival-of-the-fittest, ‘savage instincts’ within us, which is what you are advocating. However, with our psychologically upset angry, egocentric and alienated state now defended, it is now safe to admit that our human instincts are loving – see Part 3 of THE Interview.     In fact, the whole of Jeremy Griffith’s book FREEDOM evidences that we emerged from an innocent past, not a savage, ‘red in tooth and claw’ club weilding’ past as is commonly held. For example, in chapter 5:5 of FREEDOM, Jeremy presents an analysis of the similarity between the cooperative and gentle bonobos’ and our human ancestors. This includes an analysis of the hominin fossil record (particularly Ardipithecus) that evidences that on the basis of physique, intelligence, small canines, bipedality the bonobos present a very accurate model of our human ancestors. FREEDOM also evidences the gentleness of so-called primitive peoples, such as the San Bushmen and the Australian Aborigines, as well as evidence from mythology of a ‘golden age’ of innocence (for example, in chapter 2:7); see also evidence provided by the astonishing sensitivity to paleolithic rock painting (see chapter 8:11C).

    We suggest that nothing here has to be taken on trust. Rather than being a “rationalization” for our angry and aggressive behaviour, you can know that Jeremy Griffith has at last got to the bottom of the human condition and found the redeeming explanation of it, because, as he explains, the ultimate test of any hypothesis is how accountable it is of our own lives – as the greatest of all physicists, Albert Einstein, once said, ‘truth is what stands the test of experience’. And so you can know that this is the breakthrough explanation of the human condition because once you understand the explanation and begin to apply it, you will discover it is so able to make sense of human behaviour it makes it transparent. This transparency of ourselves and our world—for example, the exposure of all our falseness—that this understanding of the human condition brings, is the ultimate ‘test of experience’ that confirms that the understanding being presented here is the long-sought explanation of the human condition. In this particular scientific study—the biological analysis of the human condition—we humans are the subjects, which means we can experience, feel and know the truthfulness or otherwise of the explanations being put forward. And so, fantastic a claim as it may seem, you will find that what is being presented here is the long-sought-after, desperately needed, psychosis-addressing-and-resolving, human race-transforming explanation of the human condition.     And as is explained in FAQ 1.10: ““Science’s discovery of the difference in the way our nerve-based conscious intellect and our gene-based instincts work has allowed biologist Jeremy Griffith to add further confirming clarification of the long recognised ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition. It was Darwin’s mid-1800s discovery of natural selection (as well as Watson and Crick’s subsequent discovery of the DNA molecule, the mechanism behind natural selection), and science’s discovery of how the nervous system works, in particular that nerves are able to remember events, that allowed Jeremy to explain that the nerve-based learning system operates from a basis of understanding cause and effect while the gene-based, natural selection learning system can only give species’ orientations to the world around them, and that this difference explains why an upsetting clash must occur between our instincts and conscious intellect; that upsetting clash being the reason for our angry, egocentric and alienated human condition.”

    Thanks Robert but there is no confusion. What you have missed is Jeremy Griffith’s key biological distinction between humans and other animals. In this interview he explains that all humans are born with all-loving moral instincts, not competitive ‘must reproduce our genes’ animal instincts, but now variously suffer from a psychosis due to the human condition caused by the conscious mind’s necessary search for knowledge. What is so important about this is that it finally explains the real reason for why our “aggressive and competitive” behaviour became an unavoidable, indeed necessary, part of human life and by so doing establishes our fundamental goodness. Part 3 especially evidences this fundamental 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.     Also, this critical new science explains that while we couldn’t admit that our selfish, competitive and aggressive 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, see FAQ 1.2 ‘How does science currently explain the human condition?’.

Great to learn of your interest Robert! You can immediately access a copy at the top of our homepage just under THE Interview! 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. If you are particularly after a hardcopy of Jeremy Griffith’s books they are available to purchase from Amazon and other good bookstores.

Thank you Laurie and it is wonderful this understanding is bringing you relief. What is so significant about 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 at last understand the source of the trauma and psychological upset the human condition caused and bring great compassion and kindness to ourselves. You may find FAQ 1.35 ‘Does this heal anxiety’ of interest Laurie and take care of yourself.

    Thank you for your consideration Dr Stone Brown. We suggest that biologist Jeremy Griffith is presenting in this interview is a new scientific paradigm based on confronting and explaining the underlying issue in all human affairs of the human condition—our species’ capacity for so-called ‘good’ and ‘evil’.     THE Interview explains all humans are born with loving moral instincts but we all now variously suffer from a psychosis due to the human condition. Therefore we can now understand that more innocent or sheltered ‘races’ or ethnic groups, such as native indigenous people, have not been as exposed to humanity’s heroic battle to find knowledge as less sheltered races, and so they are not as psychologically upset as those less sheltered races. So yes, more sheltered races have more affinity with our instinctive soulful, cooperative and nurturing way of living. However what this explanation allows us to understand is that all humans are now part of the extremely upset stage of humanity, Homo sapiens sapiens, and are therefore nowhere near as innocent as humans were some 2 million years ago when the battle of the human condition first emerged. Also, most significantly, despite the differing levels of upset due to everyone’s different encounters with humanity’s heroic battle to find knowledge, this understanding biologically establishes that we are all equally good. Of course this breakthrough explanation doesn’t condone or sanction the horrendous attrocities 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 ‘Aren’t some people just born psychopathic, or even ‘evil’? / How does this explanation rehabilitate people capable of ‘evil’ behaviour? / 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.”     We recommend watching the presentations from Franklin Mukakanga, of WTM Zambia and Refentse Molosiwa from WTM Mahikeng, in Video/Freedom Essay 8 for testimonials expressing the explanatory power of Jeremy Griffith’s understanding of the human condition to bring reconciliation, peace and love to all of humanity. Also you may find our response to joycynthia daley below helpful.

Hi Kamau, it’s wonderful to have your interest. The transcript of THE Interview provides reference links to more comprehensive material and our homepage provides a map as to how to best navigate all the extensive material and publications on our website, This includes which includes our Main Video series that follows THE Interview and Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM. Also to assist enquirers we have an extensive FAQ facility which can be easily searched electronically at HumanCondition.com along with all our books and essays.

The human condition has caused so much pain and trauma it is almost unimaginable. It can be very difficult to absorb, but we suggest that in time you will see that all the terrible aspects of humanity have actually been a result of the human condition – we can now understand humans’ 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. We can at last understand the source of our upset and bring great compassion and kindness to ourselves and others — including why the horror of racism has existed under the duress of the human condition and, most importantly, finally brings it to an end – see FAQ 9.1 ‘How do you explain racism?’. Also, for a testimonial on the power of this knowledge to end racism, we recommend the presentations from Franklin Mukakanga and Refentse Molosiwa in Video/Freedom Essay 8.

We welcome your thoughts Shane. We suggest, while Buddhism and Christianity contain all manner of truths about human life, it is coming from a pre-scientific view. Ultimately we needed to find the scientific explanation for our contradictory behaviour, for why there is light and dark inside us, answer the age-old question of 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 breakthrough this critical new science presents.