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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 a “survival” imperative that we have inherited from a savage survival-of-the-fittest past. However, we suggest that with our psychologically upset angry, egocentric and alienated state now defended, it is now safe to admit that our instinctive orientation is loving and cooperative – see Part 3 of THE Interview, and the source of our selfish behaviour is the insecurity we felt over having defied our instincts when we went in search of knowledge. Yes, “the root of the human condition” is not “mental survival”; it is the insufferable, unbearably depressing guilt and shame we feel for having destroyed the magic world of our instinctive self/soul!

What is so extraordinary about Jeremy Griffith’s treatise is that it logically and accountably defends human selfishness and egocentricity. It is that defence of our ‘dark side’, through finding the good reason that we had to defy our instincts, that means all our defensive behaviours (our anger, egocentricity and alienation) are now redundant. We no longer need them because we have the real defense for why we had to defy our instincts. Certainly it will take some generations for all our underlying hurt and trauma to subside, but people can immediately choose to behave in line with a set of principles any time they want – they do it all the time in religions (although the ‘change of heart’ this information allows is based rational scientific knowledge, not faith). This is the essence of the transformation that is now available. To fully heal the human race will take generations, but everyone can immediately choose to live in accord with that understanding, which is what is so immensely exciting – see FAQ 4.1 to read all about the Transformed State.

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    As is explained in our FAQ 1.6, "All the problems we’re experiencing on this planet, aside from natural phenomenon, are caused by us humans. We are the ones who are egocentric, selfish, greedy, materialistic, fake, angry as hell. And so it’s that underlying issue — our destructively behaved, so-called human condition — that really has to be addressed and fixed if we are to solve the world’s problems.     Only the psychosis-addressing-and-solving, real explanation of the human condition can stop the destruction of our world and the disintegration of society that is happening everywhere we look. And it is precisely this real psychologically redeeming, relieving and transforming explanation that biologist Jeremy Griffith has delivered in his first principle-based biological understanding of the human condition, which you can see a brief summary of in Video/​Freedom Essay 3.     So, 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."

    Yes, the question in religious terms has always been, ‘why did human’s fall?’; in other words, why, when the ideals are to be loving and cooperative, are we so angry, egocentric and alienated? This is the great question that biologist Jeremy Griffith has answered with his ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition. We can now understand that having to become psychologically upset and carry the burden of guilt we felt for having to corrupt our amazingly beautiful soul and planet was the responsible thing to do while we continued the search for knowledge. What is so extraordinary about Jeremy’s biological treatise is that it actually defends the conscious mind for becoming so alienated from our loving instinctive self. Becoming angry, egocentric (narcissistic) and alienated has actually been a heroic state! That is the great paradox of the human condition – we humans had to defy our instincts and become corrupted in self in order to find understanding of the human condition.     Most wonderfully, by explaining the very good reason why our intellect had to defy our instincts (which is that genes can orientate but nerves need to understand) our defensive behaviours of anger, egocentricity and alienation are made redundant, which means we are finally in a position to ‘bring out human nobility and transform…’ In Part 4 of THE Interview, Jeremy explains how the psychological rehabilitation of the human race that the arrival of understanding of the human condition finally makes possible, actually occurs.

Hi John, thanks for your thoughts. This explanation presents a new way of viewing ourselves and the world and so there is a huge amount to get your head around, which takes a little time, but now we can understand the human condition, we can see that everyone has suffered from it, and all our institutions, including our governments, have been a manifestation of our insecure, psychologically upset condition. Only solving the human condition, addressing the source of our selfish psychological upset, could we achieve real and lasting change and stop the destruction of our world that is happening everywhere we look. You may find these FAQs helpful, FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does understanding solve everything’ and FAQ 1.40 ‘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?’

That is wonderful Ciaran and thank you for your comment. Yes this critical new science does make so much sense and brings such relief to our hearts and minds. What is so significant about this explanation of our human condition is we no longer have to be burdened by the fundamental question of whether we are good or bad because our core goodness as individuals and as a species has been biologically established. We can 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 and, most significantly, we don’t have to overly confront the upset within us — see FAQ 1.19 ‘A caution about the danger of over-exposure / Advice for people with mental health issues’. This explains that everyone, and especially those with mental health issues, need to manage their exposure to this liberating but very confronting information. It also importantly urges people who struggle with mental health issues to seek the support and assistance of professional counsellors and points out that any information we do provide should not be used as, or as a substitute for, professional treatment or medication.

    Hi Mark, while great care has been taken to present the explanation as quickly and simply as possible (which is done in Part 1 of THE Interview), opening up the human condition does mean that there are several absolutely critical questions to be answered (Parts 2, 3 & 4). For a very brief summary of the ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation see FAQ 1.3.     Biologist Jeremy Griffith explains in THE Interview that consciousness means being sufficiently aware of how experiences are related to attempt to manage change from a basis of understanding cause and effect. Clearly, while other animals have various levels of ‘awareness’ none can consciously manage events like humans can, 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?’     In terms of your other point emotion did play a key role in the human condition but it alone was not the defining factor. As is also explained while many have identified the elements of instinct (our moral or emotional instinctive self or soul) and intellect involved in creating the human condition, the biological breakthrough this critical new science provides is the clarifying explanation of the nature of the conflict between them and explains without that explanation the conflict could not be resolved. And in Part 3 especially Jeremy evidences this key biological distinction that humans suffer from the conscious-mind-based, psychologically troubled human condition, not the genetic-opportunism-based, animal condition.

Hi Mary, we can now understand that our harmful behaviour to ourselves and others is the product of a psychosis, caused by the clash between our instinct and intellect and certainly using drugs was a way to try and cope with and escape this psychological pain. Significantly a psychosis is changeable as it can be healed through understanding — a revelation that has the power to transform the individual and thus the human race. As biologist Jeremy Griffith says in THE Interview “with understanding we can finally end our psychologically troubled human condition. It’s the understanding of ourselves that we needed to heal the pain in our brains and become sound and sane again”. See FAQ 1.5 ‘Why is this explanation important to my life’ and you also may find our reply to Sirous below helpful to read.

Thank you Sirous for your thoughts and good wishes. All the problems in the world, like over population, environmental devastation, genocide, terrorism, mass displacement of peoples, starvation, runaway diseases, gross inequality, polarised politics, rampant corruption, drug abuse, family breakdown, and epidemic levels of obesity, chronic anxiety, depression, unhappiness and loneliness, are all symptoms of a deeper problem. They are symptoms of the human condition – our corrupted, psychologically upset state – and it follows that if you address that underlying insecurity, then these symptoms can be resolved. Only the psychosis-addressing-and-solving, real explanation of the human condition can stop the destruction of our world and the disintegration of society that is happening everywhere we look, and this is precisely what biologist Jeremy Griffith has delivered with his first principle-based biological understanding of the human condition. So even though the world is fast reaching its 11th hour, this understanding will turn things around incredibly quickly; see FAQ 1.40 ‘Aren’t the problems of the world too overwhelming to ever be fixed? / Isn’t it too late to save the world?’. And this transformation is underway! For the growing momentum of support that is building around the world for this breakthrough explanation, see the thousands of impressive commendations Jeremy’s work has received from scientists, thought leaders and members of the public and the well over 60 WTM Centres that have opened across the globe. So we encourage you to pursue your interest by exploring our homepage which is designed to help you learn more about the human condition.

Thank you for your views

Thank you for your thoughts Joel. We suggest this interview does deal with the horse rather than the cart, that to truly solve humanity’s problems we need to address and fix the underlying issue responsible for these problems, which is the human condition – our corrupted, psychologically upset state. Part 1 reveals all humans are born with all-loving selfless instincts (not savage animal instincts) but now variously suffer from a psychosis due to the human condition caused by the conscious mind’s necessary search for knowledge. What is so significant about this knowledge is that it finally explains the real reason for why we have lived so conflicted and not completely as one and that in fact this behaviour was an unavoidable, indeed necessary, part of human life and by so doing establishes our fundamental goodness. Part 3 especially evidences this key biological distinction that humans suffer from the conscious-mind-based, psychologically troubled human condition, not the genetic-opportunism-based, animal condition. And, most significantly, as Part 4 explains a psychosis can be healed with understanding, so our psychologically upset human condition is fixable or changeable—not unchangeable. (Also Joel we are sorry your comment wasn’t responded to until now as we are a small team and sometimes it takes a little time to process the comments we receive.)

While great care has been taken to present the explanation as quickly and simply as possible Joseph 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.

It is fascinating.

That’s wonderful, Judy, you won’t be disappointed! We wanted to let you and others know that our homepage — HumanCondition.com — provides a guide to learning more after watching THE Interview. At the top of the homepage it states ‘WHAT NEXT after watching THE Interview?’ and leads you through the steps to pursue your interest! Also our Facebook Group is 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.

This answers a lot of questions and I’m learning more. I’m sharing with my son who’s been trying to find books that’ll give him this type of information

Thank you for you comment Bruce. For those new to this understanding, it is important to point out that despite the religious terminology with which you express your appreciation, what is presented by biologist Jeremy Griffith is a fully accountable, rational, first principle based, scientific explanation of our condition. However, Jeremy’s explanation of the human condition does bring biological understanding to religious accounts of our condition, which means we can at last reconcile science and religion. For those interested in the demystification of religion we recommend our FAQs about religion.

It is a common question. The answer is, that as with any new scientific breakthrough in history, it may take time to become established in the mainstream; more particularly, it may take time for people to realise this is the universal solution we have all sought to all the problems we face. However, once it catches on—through people recognising the importance of it — the infectious enthusiasm and selfless love it liberates will spread like wildfire, and people won’t be the least bit interested in anything except the human condition free world, and this is starting to happen! You can see this growing appreciation and support for the WTM with outstanding commendations from thought leaders and WTM Centres popping up all over the world here on our homepage. Also see FAQs 1.4–1.6 for more on the speed in which this healing knowledge can turn humanity in the right direction and transform it.

The absolutely astonishing claims being made about biologist Jeremy Griffith’s work warrant initial extreme scepticism and further the realm of the human condition is the most ‘muddied of pools’ with ‘false starts’ movements proliferating. However, as FAQ 1.9 ‘Should people be sceptical’ explains, the claims made about Jeremy Griffith’s breakthrough explanation, such as it is the insight that will ‘solve the human condition and save the world’, do warrant initial extreme scepticism, but the amazing fact is that they all withstand scrutiny. A person can begin reading the explanation and the more they read into it the more they will realise the claims, that initially appeared ‘fantastical’, are actually true, and in time become appreciated for their forthright honesty in indicating where the solution to our problems lies.

Some time ago i just did not agree with your explanation, but now its starting to make a lot of sense.

    Thank you Martha, it is a very good question. The answer is, that as with any new scientific breakthrough in history, it may take time to become established in the mainstream; more particularly, it may take time for people to realise this is the universal solution we have all sought to all the problems we face. However, once it catches on—through people recognising the importance of it — the infectious enthusiasm and selfless love it liberates will spread like wildfire, and people won’t be the least bit interested in anything except the human condition free world, and this is starting to happen! You can see this growing appreciation and support for the WTM with outstanding commendations from thought leaders and WTM Centres popping up all over the world here on our homepage. Also see FAQs 1.4–1.6 for more on the speed in which this healing knowledge can turn humanity in the right direction and transform it.     It is also important to realise that because this new science presents explains and solves the underlying cause of all our selfishness, anger and egocentricity, it will turn our dire situation around incredibly quickly. We suggest our FAQ 1.40 which addresses the questions ‘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?’.

Great

That’s great Justin and our Transformation page explains more about where we go and how this understanding of ourselves actually heals and transforms the world. Also here are our recommended next steps to pursue your interest! • Subscribe to our free Mailing List where you will receive one email per week, occasional News Flashes, and notifications for our Live Events. • Watch the Main Videos where Jeremy Griffith (& others) talk you through the explanation of the human condition. Totally free, no registration required. • Read the Key Books by Jeremy Griffith. Totally free to download, no registration required. • Join and participate in our Facebook Group to learn about this amazing, human-condition-resolved new world. • Help this critical new science by sharing it!

Thank you very much for your comment, Philip. This is, as you say, “the truth of our condition” and it is science-based, however it is also 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 integrative meaning of life. We suggest that the more you digest this explanation, the more you will see that it is not void of a “bigger”, spiritual picture. On this point, Jeremy Griffith wrote in one of his earlier books (A Species In Denial, 2003), “The demystification of our world doesn’t mean the specialness of our world is removed, rather it means the specialness is made more tangible. Mechanistic science, like all forms of denial, has largely been a process of stripping the beauty and truth from the world whereas the denial-free explanation of the world restores all that beauty and truth. It allows humans to live with a full awareness of, and ability to savour, the beauty of integration. It is alienation that is devoid of spirituality, not the truth.” So we contend that while religious assurances, such as ‘God loves you’ in Christianity, provided incredible comfort, they failed to provide “the understanding [of] the bigger picture” you speak of; explain WHY we are lovable. Ultimately we needed to find the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work which THE Interview explains. We recommend reading our FAQs about religion, in particular FAQ 6.7 ‘How can a scientific explanation ever hope to account for and encompass the great ‘spiritual’ dimension we know exists in life? / Isn’t ‘spirituality’ beyond a purely rational explanation?’

Hi Alexandra, Part 4 of THE Interview directly answers the question 'How does the psychological rehabilitation actually occur?’. It explains 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 further explained in Freedom Essay 15 ‘How our lives can be immediately transformed’ and the Transformation section of our website presents a new presentation The Great Transformation which you can watch or read.

Yes John with this new knowledge we can talk to the instinctive part of ourselves and explain the human condition and reconcile our soul with our intellect at last! That has been the core problem – as Jeremy Griffith explains in Part 1 of THE Interview using the analogy of Adam Stork – we couldn’t previously explain why we had to challenge our pre-existing orientations to the world so this understanding certainly makes so much sense and is very therapeutic. If you haven’t already you will especially enjoy two of Jeremy’s new books Our Meaning and Therapy For The Human Condition - these are freely available on our homepage here along with his other key books.

This critical new science is not reductionist. As THE Interview explains unable to confront the human condition, science 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 the riddle of human life. Thankfully mechanistic science can now be replaced by human-condition-confronting-and-solving, truthful, holistic, inductive science which reveals we are instinctively orientated to being cooperative and selfless, that we have a moral soul (see FAQ 1.3 and FAQ 5.2). Also, Part 3 of THE Interview mentions, that God can now be explained as being the integrative meaning of life, a process that is driven by the physical law of Negative Entropy (see FAQ 6.2 ‘What is the meaning of life? / What is the Integrative Meaning of existence? / What is ‘God’? / Does the scientific explanation of ‘God’ really contain all the attributes of religion’s metaphysical ‘God’?’).

Thank you

Very insightful and brilliant video. Life changing content.

Educational, I need this book!

Very insightful, it clearly explains the battles we human are fighting in our minds. And how to have it resolved. Very interesting!

Hi Alicia, thank you for your comments and yes we humans certainly need this knowledge as only getting to the bottom of the problem of the human condition can solve all the confusion, frustration and suffering in human life. All of Jeremy Griffith’s books are available for free on our website – just click here to access your free electronic copy of his key books including THE Interview and his definitive presentation, FREEDOM. 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.

What biologist Jeremy Griffith explains is that our selfish and violent 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 here in THE Interview. 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. For a summary of what is presented in THE Interview see FAQ 1.3.

    We suggest you need to look deeper Herman. This interview reveals that we aren’t driven by our animal survival instincts but rather human aggression and anger, in our individual lives right through to international conflicts, is ultimately an expression of our psychologically upset angry, egocentric and alienated human condition. And the more one digests Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation, the more they realise how accountable it is in getting to the source of all humanity’s psychological upset, which in the extreme, produces people, even dictators, who are addicted to having power over others; see our FAQ 4.2 ‘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?’ and FAQ 1.40 ‘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?’ Also FAQ 1.47 ‘How does Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition differ from the theories of Freud or Jung?’ is most interesting.     We also suggest, if you give this presentation full consideration it is clear it is far from “incredibly naïve” or an idealistic plea for everyone to “love the other”, but rather it is a biological defence of realism!! THE Interview explains why imposing artificial or pseudo idealism does not work and further explains pseudo-idealism in its current forms now actually threatens humanity because, to quote Part 4, it “stifled and oppressed the search for the understanding of our corrupted condition that was needed to actually free us from that state”. And it is that understanding of our so-called ‘good and evil’-stricken human condition that Jeremy Griffith presents.

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 presents in THE Interview and his book FREEDOM. Jeremy Griffith’s treatise will actually resonate with those familiar with religious scripture, because it reconciles science and religion by bringing biological understanding to pre-scientific concepts such as innocence, sin and ‘Judgment Day’, etc. 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, this biological understanding of humans‘ ’dark side' finally allows us to legitimately bring about cooperative, loving “heaven on earth” we have always longed for.

We suggest that now we can understand the human condition, we can see that everyone has suffered from it, and all our institutions, including our governments, don’t cause our our insecure, psychologically upset condition, but have merely been manifestations of it. Only solving the human condition can stop the destruction of our world that is happening everywhere we look. You may find these FAQs helpful, FAQ 1.6 ‘Why does understanding solve everything’ and FAQ 1.40 ‘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?’

Thanks, Courtland, for your deeply felt comment. The human condition has certainly been such a terribly tragic journey full of so much unthinkable pain and suffering, and to now have it explained brings immense relief as we can make sense of the whole seemingly impenetrable and insoluble confusion of human life. As Jeremy Griffith explains, once we became fully conscious the human condition was inevitable but what is so significant about this understanding is we no longer have to be burdened by the fundamental question of whether we are good or bad because our core goodness as individuals and as a species has been biologically established. We can understand humans’ psychological upset and trauma was the price humans had to pay for searching for knowledge and that the human story presents the greatest, most heroic story ever told. So we can treat ourselves and others with great compassion and kindness and not overly confront the upset within us. That is the macro truth, and way to live with it, that looks after all humans now so we take time to absorb and adjust to this new paradigm of knowledge. This is important because it’s relieving but also necessarily extremely confronting of all the psychological upset and denial it has caused, to varying degrees, in humans. As upset sufferers of the human condition the deaf effect was there to protect us from living with condemnation of our unexplained world so we all need to be mindful of the unavoidably confronting nature of the subject of the human condition, because it can be destabilising especially for people with a history of psychological instability or trauma. This is summarised in FAQ 1.19 which we encourage you to read.

    We understand the astonishing claims being made about Jeremy Griffith’s work do warrant initial scepticism (see FAQ 1.9 ‘Should people be sceptical about these claims?’). However these claims all withstand scrutiny as what Jeremy presents is 100% logic and has attracted the support of eminent scientists and thinkers (see the Commendation section on our homepage) and given it is a critical, world-saving scientific breakthrough, the WTM does all it can to ensure these insights reach every person around the world, and advertising boldly is a natural way to achieve that goal. Also we make all our information and publications freely available on our website so everyone can have access these insights.     It also needs to be borne in mind that, as Jeremy Griffith points out in Part 2 of THE Interview, the issue of the human condition has been such a denied and off-limits subject that confronting it represents the “biggest of all blasphemies”, and how “science progresses funeral by funeral” when it comes to supporting big paradigm shifts like this, so it makes sense that the WTM is using whatever avenues it can to help break through the road block that fear of the subject of the human conditon causes in most people: see FAQ 1.14 ‘Why aren’t these ideas mainstream’.

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Hi Jesu, all of Jeremy Griffith’s key books are available for free on our website - just click here to access your free electronic copy of books including THE Interview and his definitive presentation, FREEDOM. 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.