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Our FAQ facility provides concise
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To make it as easy as possible to access this fabulous new world where all aspects of human existence can be understood, we have created a comprehensive Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) page on the World Transformation Movement website.

 

 

Located in the menu (as shown in the image above), the FAQs are divided into the following subjects:

 

1. About the Human Condition and its Resolution

 

2. About biologist Jeremy Griffith

 

3. About the World Transformation Movement

 

4. About the Transformed State

 

5. The Great Scientific Questions

 

6. About Religion and the New Age Movement

 

7. About Politics

 

8. About Men & Women

 

9. About Racism

 

This new FAQ facility means you can now access 3 levels of explanation of all aspects of the human condition:

 

— the short version in the FAQs

 

— the medium version in THE Interview and the Freedom Essays

 

— and the full version in Jeremy Griffith’s definitive presentation, FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition

 

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As a sample, we have included below answers to two of the most fundamental FAQs: What is the human condition? and What is biologist Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition?

 

WTM FAQ 1.1  What is the human condition?

It is not uncommon for people to think that the term ‘human condition’ refers to the state of poverty and inequality and other practical hardships and imperfections in human life, but such problems are only superficial manifestations and aspects of the human condition. Much less superficial interpretations of what the term human condition means are that it refers to ‘the riddle of why we humans are competitive and selfish not cooperative and loving’, and ‘the issue of good and evil in our make-up’, and even, ‘the issue of why we are the way we are’. However, the human condition is actually a much, much deeper issue than even these last interpretations.

As I explained in THE Interview and in all my other presentations, we humans once lived in a nurtured-with-unconditional-love, cooperative, selfless and loving innocent state, which the bonobo species of ape is presently on the threshold of achieving (see Part 3 of THE Interview, or chapter 5 of FREEDOM, or FAQ 5.2 for the explanation of how we humans acquired our all-loving, unconditionally selfless moral conscience). If we stand back and think about this original cooperative, selfless and loving state and then think about how competitive, selfish and aggressive we humans are now, the contrast between the two states couldn’t be greater. And if we think about that extreme contrast and then think about the situation we have been stuck in for some 2 million years where we haven’t been able to explain our so-called ‘fall from grace’, the corruption of our original all-sensitive and all-loving, innocent instinctive self or soul, then how deeply traumatised with guilt and shame must we humans have been all that time! Certainly, we learnt to block the horror of this state or condition out of our mind, but that has been the underlying psychological predicament we humans have been enduring; it has been our human condition. So having had to live with this insufferable, unbearably depressing guilt and shame for having destroyed the magic world of our soul is what the human condition really is!

 

WTM FAQ 1.3  What is biologist Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition?

Finding understanding of the human condition—our species’ capacity for ‘good and evil’—is of incalculable importance; in fact, it has been described as the holy grail of the whole human journey of conscious thought and enquiry. And it is this longed-for breakthrough explanation of the human condition that biologist Jeremy Griffith has found.

Key to Jeremy’s explanation of the human condition is an understanding of the difference between our instincts and intellect, and the effect that difference has had on our behaviour. He explains that when we humans developed a conscious mind some two million years ago, a battle unavoidably developed between it and our already established instincts. Natural selection of genes gives species’ instinctive orientations, such as to a migratory flight path for birds, but a nerve-based conscious mind needs understanding to operate, so when a fully conscious mind emerges and begins experimenting in understanding it unavoidably comes into conflict with the already established instinctive orientations that are in effect intolerant of these deviating experiments in self-management.

The result of this conflict between our instinct and intellect was an undeserved sense of guilt and insecurity that caused us to become psychologically defensive, angry, alienated and egocentric, the upset state we refer to as the human condition—a state we sought to alleviate through a competitive, selfish and aggressive bid for the reinforcement we could gain from winning power, fame, fortune and glory. But now that we can explain and understand this conflict and the guilt it produced, all those insecure, defensive behaviours are obsoleted, brought to an end, and we free ourselves from the human condition.

In short, this explanation represents the fulfilment of the human race’s great hope, faith and trust that one day this psychologically redeeming and transforming understanding of our ‘good and evil’-stricken human condition would be found.

 

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We very much hope this FAQ facility is of assistance to you. If you still have any unanswered questions after going through the contents, please let us know and we will answer it directly. We want to help, and we are always looking for new FAQs to add to our list, so let us know what’s on your mind!

 

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