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This is Freedom Essay 7
Professor Harry Prosen affirms the significance
of Australian biologist Jeremy Griffith’s book
FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition
Dr Harry Prosen, M.D., M.Sc., is a professor of psychiatry who has worked in the field for over 50 years, including chairing two departments of psychiatry and serving as a president of the Canadian Psychiatric Association. Professor Prosen is a Distinguished Life Member of the American Psychiatric Association and is one of 500 Specially Selected Fellows of the American College of Psychiatrists. He is also psychiatric consultant to the Bonobo Species Preservation Society.
Preposterous as I know it must seem, I have no hesitation in saying that Jeremy’s biological synthesis about our human condition explains this great breakthrough of breakthroughs that the human race has been waiting for—and, I should say, that given the plight of the world, its arrival couldn’t be more timely!
Watch the video below, filmed in February 2014 at the Milwaukee County Zoo in front of the Zoo’s extraordinarily cooperative and empathetic group of bonobos, and hear Professor Prosen affirm the significance of biologist Jeremy Griffith’s breakthrough explanation of the human condition:
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The Transcript of this video
This video of Professor Prosen was filmed
in February 2014 at the Milwaukee County Zoo, USA
My name is Harry Prosen, I’m a professor of psychiatry with over 50 years’ experience working in the field.
As a psychiatrist I not only work with humans, I also work with other species. In fact, I am consultant to the Bonobo Species Preservation Society, and have consulted on situations affecting some of the bonobos in the enclosure behind me here at the Milwaukee County Zoo.
Once referred to as pygmy chimpanzees, bonobos are an extraordinarily nurturing, loving, cooperative species who can reveal a great deal about how we humans acquired our original altruistic, moral, instinctive self or soul, the voice or expression of which within us we call our conscience. The nurturing origins of humans extraordinary altruistic moral instincts—which my own life-long studies of empathy especially amongst bonobos confirms—is but one of the great mysteries in biology that this absolutely incredible book I have here explains and solves. This truly astonishing book by Australian biologist Jeremy Griffith, is primarily concerned with explaining humans present psychologically troubled, innocence-destroyed, angry, egocentric and alienated so-called human condition. I first became interested in Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of our species’ present psychologically troubled human condition some 10 years ago.
I would like to be absolutely explicit about the importance I see in Jeremy’s insights into the human condition: I suggest that we humans have always known that one day, from somewhere on this planet, probably from some relatively quiet corner that is conducive to introspection—like Australia—that the completely penetrating and truthful, entirely compassionate, psychologically transforming answers about humans would appear. Preposterous as I know it must seem, I have no hesitation in saying that Jeremy’s biological synthesis about our human condition explains this great breakthrough of breakthroughs that the human race has been waiting for—and, I should say, that given the plight of the world, its arrival couldn’t be more timely!
So what this book effectively does is take humanity from a state of bewilderment about the nature of human existence to a state of profound understanding of our lives. It is a case of having got all the truth up in one go! Truly, this is the book that saves the world—yes, I believe this is the most sensational information to ever appear on planet Earth. As I say, I know this is all most extraordinary but you have the book to verify my amazement and excitement.
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Watch Jeremy Griffith present the breakthrough redeeming explanation of the human condition in Video/F. Essay 3, or read chapter 1 of FREEDOM. And you can read an adapted excerpt from Professor Prosen’s Introduction to Jeremy’s book FREEDOM in F. Essay 19.
Discussion or comment on this essay is welcomed—see below.
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INTRODUCTION TO THE EXPLANATION & RESOLUTION OF THE HUMAN CONDITION: THE Interview: How We Can Finally End All The Turmoil & Suffering In The World! | Freedom Essay 1 Your block to the most wonderful of all gifts | 2 The false ‘savage instincts’ excuse | 3 THE EXPLANATION of the human condition | 4 The ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation is obvious – short | 5 The transformation of the human race | 6 Wonderfully illuminating discussion | 7 Praise from Prof. Prosen | 8 “How this liberated me from racism” | 9 “This is the real liberation of women” | 10 What exactly is the human condition? | 11 The difficulty of reading FREEDOM and the solution | 12 One hour summarising talk | 13 The WTM Deaf Effect Course | 14 Savage instincts excuse leads to human extinction | 15 How your life can immediately be transformed | 16 WTM Centres opening everywhere | THE BOOKS: 17 Commendations | 18 FREEDOM chapter synopses | 19 FREEDOM’s significance by Prof. Prosen | 20 The genius of Transform Your Life | THE OTHER KEY BIOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS: 21 How did we humans acquire our altruistic moral conscience? | 22 Fossil discoveries evidence our nurtured origins | 23 Integrative Meaning or ‘God’ | 24 How did consciousness emerge in humans? | 25 The truthful biology of life | • Survey seeking feedback | MEN & WOMEN RECONCILED: 26 Men and women reconciled | 27 Human sex and relationships explained | THE END OF RACISM: 28 The end of racism | 29 Can conflict ever end? | RESIGNATION: 30 Resignation | 31 Wordsworth’s all-revealing great poem | MORE ON THE TRANSFORMATION: 32 More on the Transformation | 33 Jeremy on how to become transformed | THE END OF POLITICS: 34 This understanding ends the polarised world of politics | 35 Left-wing politics leads to death of the human race | 36 Saving Western civilisation from left-wing dogma | 37 The meaning of superhero and disaster films | RELIGION DECIPHERED: 38 Noah’s Ark explained | 39 Christ explained | 40 Judgment Day finally explained | 41 Science’s scorn of religion | MEANING OF ART & CULTURE: 42 Cave paintings | 43 Ceremonial masks explained | 44 Art makes the invisible visible | • Second survey seeking feedback | 45 Prophetic songs | 46 Anne Frank’s faith in human goodness fulfilled | 47 Humour and swearing explained | 48 R.D. Laing’s fearless honesty | ABOUT BIOLOGIST JEREMY GRIFFITH: 49 Jeremy’s biography | 50 Australia’s role | 51 Sir Laurens van der Post’s fabulous vision | 52 Jeremy’s children’s book A Perfect Life | 53 The ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation is obvious – long | 54 The accusation of hubris | DO WE FAIL OR DO WE MAKE IT? 55 Endgame for the human race | 56 Why there have been ferocious attacks on the WTM | 57 Magnificence of the Transformed State – video 1 | 58 Magnificence of the Transformed State – video 2 | MARKETING: 59 Shouldn’t the WTM’s website be toned down? | 60 The crime of ‘ships at sea’ ‘pocketing the win’ | GENERAL DISCUSSIONS BY JEREMY: 61 General Discussion by Jeremy Aug. 2018 | 62 Jeremy’s Masterpiece Presentation Feb. 2019 | HEALTH & HEALING: 63 Pseudo therapy/healing | 64 Real therapy/healing | From here on are Transformation Affirmations and More Good Info Emails
These essays were created in 2017-2019 by Jeremy Griffith, Damon Isherwood, Fiona
Cullen-Ward, Brony FitzGerald & Lee Jones of the Sydney WTM Centre. All filming and
editing of the videos was carried out by Sydney WTM members James Press & Tess Watson
during 2017-2019. Other members of the Sydney WTM Centre are responsible for the
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Amazingly powerful words and guidance from Professor Harry Prosen about the significance Jeremy Griffith’s momentous breakthrough.
Professor Prosen’s work with Bonobos was absolutely compelling to read about in Freedom in chapter 5:13 if you haven’t already.
Such beautiful footage of the Bonobos and fascinating words from Professor Prosen, it is incredible how far science has come in understanding the biological connection humans have with this species. Jeremy’s further understanding of how we then developed the human condition- that separates us from all other animals- is able to finally connect the dots and reconcile our psychological or intellectual and biological/ instinctive selves.
Thank you. Look forward to having a read. Sounds interesting.
Thank you for standing so tall Professor Prosen, and telling the world how important this information is!
This peaceful and calm setting seems at odds with such world changing announcment. And yet it is strangely appropriate, because they are bringing love.
Dear Professor / When I read your writing, I noticed that I understood another interpretation of the concept of freedom. But I understood the concept of freedom from the Middle East and an area that has always been involved and influenced by different events. Which, unfortunately, I have experienced narratives and interpretations that are even contradictory to the concept that you and other thinkers have. The fact is that today all these definitions and beliefs are the basis of mankind for a world with a horizon, and human today needs a simple / applicable directive It is understandable and universal, because almost all human beings today have a new definition of the word Thanks.habib
Big statements… and I think they might be right too as I check this all out. So cool!
Is the book,”freedom” available in public libraries?
I think it’s necessary for the human beings to know and understand the purpose of their existence and the duality of their human an spiritual nature.
Professor Harry Prosen must be one of the most courageous and important psychiatrists in history. Reading this affirmation essay of his with regards to the nature of Jeremy Griffith’s work, you get the sense that every word comes from a profound love for humanity. Both Jeremy and Harry are just heroic beacons of light for the scientific community and the world.
It’s interesting, would like to know more
First of all, thank you !!!
everyone, everything that makes us aware of what we really are…
Having read the book freedom and watched the online videos, it all makes sense to me,but is it the full explanation,
Jeramy states that the conscious mind seeks knowledge, but it is only through total awareness that we ever learn the truth and when we know the truth we will be aware that we are a part of something much bigger than ourselves, the penny dropping moment when we accept the fact that we are in fact the living universe.
It is a fact that we create our own reality based on our core beliefs and these beliefs are instilled into us by the role models and the environment in which we grow in our formative years but we all have different core beliefs so we all view the the world differently therefore our lives are based on a lie,
With full awareness the we must accept the truth is that our true identity is related to the universe and then the egocentricity will dissipate because it is not real
Then we will realise that everything and everyone is no more than a extension of myself and I would feel total love,respect and empathy for all aspects of nature.
Then the all loving ultruistic and nurturing animal instincts will be reconciled with the conscious mind
Very interesting as a biochemist trained in biochemical control systems working with pathologists and environmental academics in RSA with my own company established in 2006, I have had many experiances with the NO TRUTHS in human conditions where money makes people crazy and the fundamental truth of adding value to other and the environment for the future generations does not exist.
I enjouy and understand the messages and videos. KEEP IT GOING
Regards
Hennie
Very interesting video and good
I am impressed by your essay! And have saved & forwarded all previous essays published to date. One topuic you may be able to help me understand is suicide. Are humans the only species that do this act out of depressiongrif, loss, loss of there mate due to breakup of their relationship? Are we the only species that are overcome with grief or sadness to this extreme? Why can animals, eve those who mate for Life, when their relationship’s end it is usually because their mate dies… do these animals ever cheat & leave their committed relationship? Why are people so different fro the animal kingdom in this way…uncommitted, unfaithful, and able to leave? Is it because we don’t all live together with all our families & neighbors of the same kind …in clans? I think so. I watched a program of the Native people living at North in Alaska. They live in tents &!igloos but not in houses. They live as a clan in very small groups of about 10 people. The men hunt game & for fish, polar bears etc. The women gather berries & other edible plants and ground food. They do not seem like they live a hard life even though they have to gather all their food ever day and have to hunt regularly with all the men. They use the animals hides and fur for tents & clothing as well as making their own utensils, bowls, water carriers, and hunting tool like bow & arrows & knives. A few did have guns! They seem happier than all people in the cities working 9/5 & shift workers work long & tedious hours. Our city people seem to be living their lives as puppets or robots! Nobody seems happy like those living up North surrounded by snow annually. The natives Live as a WHOLE group living compatiblely with nature & rely on each other for food, shelter & companionship! They know of Life & how to live together in order to survive. They are not materialistic, braggarts, , narcissistic & do not work at becoming wealthy. Greed is not in their vocabulary nor is hate and individualism. They are a UNIT, combined with other families …to make one great big family. They know respect, love, gratitude & they are Spiritual. They respect all life including animals & nature and wth those they all live as OBE! They are the TRUE ECO-System of man, animals, nature & Existance. They worship the sun, moon, stars, seasons, animals & nature. They do not vote for a country leader and government. They are their government, they make there own rules and they are guided by their elders.
I am a white person raised in the city and governed by my municipal government, provincial government & federal government. The society I live in and see world wide is racist etc. The laws can not & not control the way people think and treat each other globally. Our ? CIVILIZED WORLD? Is anything but civilized!!!and it feeds off of greed, power, continue & distrcrution. We are destroying the earth & are so disrespectful of each other & animals and nature. Our true purpose and meaning of Life has been forgotten!!! Given TIME, “MAN” WILL DESTROY EVERYTHING ON EARTH and WILL DESTROY HIMSELF AS WELL! I Love 💕 nature, all races of people, the innocent animals and sacred 🌲 trees & plants!!!! Man is NO LONGER A PART OF THE ECOSYSTEM. Instead of being saprophytic we have become PARASITES!!!!
And this is why I wish I was a Native Indian or aboriginal in any country.
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I love hearing how much you are enjoying these essays Linda as I love them too! The whole landscape of human behaviour will start to become so obvious and clear the more you absorb this info, like mist clearing I’ve heard someone else describe it and it’s exactly like that.
The really key thing for me is that Jeremy’s explanation of the human condition (our capacity for good and evil, and yes humans are the only species that suffer from the human condition) makes clear that the resulting ‘upset’, all our anger, selfishness, greed, depression, sorrow and alienation from our soulful instincts (eg living in cities) was for an incredibly heroic and meaningful reason. That’s the game changer here that our divisive side has finally been explained and defended and that’s what will end all the pain and suffering and bring all the transformational changes we so desperately want in ourselves and for our planet. There is an amazing, profound, biological reason WHY we are currently ‘destroying the earth & are so disrespectful of each other & animals and nature’. I read this wonderful line in Freedom last night ‘our species’ transformation is being achieved through what is ultimately the only real and lasting and fundamentally responsible way it could be—through satisfying our conscious thinking mind with first-principle-based, biological understanding of why humans are wholly worthwhile and meaningful beings.’ I think you will benefit a lot Linda from reading or watching essays 3 and 4. You might also like to read where Jeremy explains the differences in races of people in this fascinating essay 28: https://www.humancondition.com/freedom-essays/the-end-of-racial-prejudice/.
Quite an extraordinary claim to make from a professor of psychiatry with over 50 years experience. Not only that but someone who has committed a life long study of empathy and its origins.
These understandings into our human condition must come forth as such a revelation to someone like professor Prosen who has probably treated a countless number of patients.
Well what a difference these understandings in Freedom make to our lives now and I tend to agree with Harry its arrival couldn’t be more timely.
So to quote professor Prosen the psychological rehabilitation of our species can now begin….in earnest!
I have enjoyed all of the above mentioned essays and videos, thank for sending them .
Im now on my second time through the book Freedom and I’m decovering many things that i never saw before/ or remember from the first time through. I can not put into words the physical and mental experiences I’ve had while going through the book and watching the video explations by Jeremy Griffin . So i can say i feel like im in (limbo ) and enjoyng it very much .
At this point i will continue to read and watch and rewatch everything i can find on your web site .i sig up as a member, but do to my lack of understanding of computers i find it diffcult to monover around the site . hopefully this to will change
Your truly
Les kraus
Hi, I see lots of long explanations of the human condition. But where is the solution mentioned that will save the world. Could you point me to it? Thanks.
Powerful
Good and very interesting, thank you
Hello!
What on earth do you mean with “human condition”`I am a hobby paleontologist and have a research degree in medicine. Are we all alike? Because we are confused? Some of us know that there exist something that in neurology is named mirror neurones – which helps us with empathy. Some people have less empathy than others, as you of course know as a psychiatrist – and so what??? We are also cratures that through history have survived because we are basically pack animals. There is more and more fake and other information on the internet that will be confusing for people without education. Can you in a couple of sentences give me an explination that can give me some insight in your theory…. What is the revaling trouth besides bosting about something that is not explained. I am sorry for my bad English…. I come from Norway. So if you please…..`? GIVE ME SOMETHING THAT CAN ENLIGHTEN ME, SIR. .
Sincerely, Berit Czujko
I research epigenetics and have been a great fan of Bruce liptons work.
Your Facebook page has been popping up for months, and I’ve been passing it over because all that seemed to pop up was the name bob geldoff, which for me was a huge turn off because he has always represented ‘ angry man syndrome’, and a left leaning tendency.
A few weeks ago yet again up THC appeared on my Facebook page, and so I decided to take a deep breath and read.
Right now, all I can express is wonder, full of appreciation of your work, and although I’m only part way through it’s a path worth taking Now!
Dear old bob, so glad he’s found you too!
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What an authentic comment Angela! This amazing information is just so logical and rational, it’s all just there for people to work out for themselves of whether it stacks up or not, and your little journey there is just a perfect case in point of sensibly going about that! Not sure about drawing similarities with the work of Bruce Lipton though, I think you’ll find the more you deepen your understanding of the WTM info that they are in fact very different. The WTM’s info really does solve the core issue of the human condition that’s at the bottom of all our problems worldwide so it’s a game changer like no other!
The human condition is a topic that really excites me and equally enthusiastic about human consciousness and the answer to behaviour issues and I am really looking forward to the newsletters. Thanks
Dear prophessor Jeremy and staff
I strongly believe that this human remedial understanding will at long last penetrate our minds and our souls!However the process is painstakingly very slow moving in our consciousness! My question is how we can accelerate this process before being threaten with new w ars or conflicts ? Time is runni ng out and we’ve to find out practical solutions!
Sound very interesting. Thank you for the article.
I’d like to know how I can lay hands on that book.
Having also spent a number of decades working as a nurse in Psychiatry I wholeheartedly support Professor Prosen’s remarkable and credible review of Jeremy Griffth’s book Freedom. My biggest regret is not having this information at the start of my career in this field. This is the game changer and breakthrough we have strived to find since becoming a fully conscious species some two million years ago. Take the time and work through the information and you’ll never be perplexed by human behaviour again.
I also do not believe in good and evil. I cannot believe that a child is born evil, but that a abuse and a cruel life teaches a child to hate and act out his hate . However there are conditions in the brain that contribute to violent behaviour or so the psychiatrists tell us about psychopathy. What do you think?
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I agree Sheila that children are born loving and Jeremy’s work explains all about our instinctively loving soul, but also about our human condition which is our capacity for good and evil and where it all comes from. The 3rd video explains all this amazingly! Psychopaths were of interest to me too, but I found Jeremy explains this more extreme version of egocentricity in Freedom. I used the website search function (so useful!) to find the section, https://www.humancondition.com/freedom-the-dysfunctional-narcissistic-power-addicted-state. It’s important to note too that this information is a defence of our ‘upset’ state, as Jeremy calls it, not a condemnation.
Jeremy Grifith did not read the quran . If he did his viewpoint would have changed completely. Reading the Holy Quran and understanding it will change ones perceptionn of creation, climate change, human and animal behaviour etc. This is the only Divinely revealed book that is untouched. Unfortunately the previous revealed scriptures were all interfered by humans, therefore their authenticity was lost.
The subjects you address are heart-rending and mind-boggling. Your materials are heart-rending and mind-boggling. They boggle my imagination.
I am very impress with your philosophy and the description of the human race . Your are answering a lot of question that have been in my mind for some time. Why is it that we the human are so cruel toward each others .I sincerely believe that God have no religion and no matter where we were born and regardless what is the color of our skin we are all equal and no one is superior to another regardless of the title we hold.
Hi,
Where can I get this book?
Regards,
Anne
THANKS…
So many species have lost because of two reason,by natural calamities & human is having fond of hunting. After invention of Agriculture, we have option of food for our survival.We as human should learn to treat other species equally with love & compassion.This will be the end result of the book “FREEDOM”. Thanks to Dr.Harry Prosen, Jeremy Griffith & WTM Team for their efforts.
Herz, Herzlichen Dank aus Germany. Liebe Grüßen Gretha.
The categorical and assertive statement made by Professor Harry Prosen, a world renewned Pychiatrist,about any book ever written, the FREEDOM is undeniably the most authoritative statement ever made. It is just like making an authentic and undeniable statement of human existence on this planet.
The Instict/Intellect contrast explained explicitly in the Freedom by Jeremy is the root of what human condition is all about and the understanding of which will liberate the whole world.
We all at wtc shall endeavour to have thorough understanding of human condition and spread the good news throughout the world to liberate the world from extinction, through cooperation and selflessness.
What an incredible moment in human history we are in – as Professor Prosen states in the video above: ‘Jeremy’s biological synthesis about our human condition explains this great breakthrough of breakthroughs that the human race has been waiting for’ – how lucky are we to be alive at this time!