The Launch and Subsequent Publicity of FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition

FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition – ‘the book that saves the world’ – was launched in London on 2 June 2016 at the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) to an invitation-only audience of reporters and dignitaries. Tim Macartney-Snape (AM OAM), Patron of the World Transformation Movement, introduced the book’s author Jeremy Griffith, and then introduced Sir Bob Geldof (FRGS), who gave the keynote address, before Jeremy presented his biological explanation of the human condition that is contained in his book FREEDOM.

Note, you can read Jeremy’s expanded address, which is presented in the booklet, Transform Your Life And Save The World, here. This booklet forms an ideal introduction to FREEDOM.

To summarise, in his introduction, Tim said that “Sir Bob will speak first about the crisis facing the world after which Jeremy will present the solution to that crisis.” (Watch & read all of Tim’s Introduction here)

Then, most excitingly – and appropriately because he is regarded as the conscience of the world and someone whose concern for humanity is second to none – Sir Bob gave his address, which wonderfully encapsulated this concern as well as his appreciation of where the answers to the world’s problems must come: “I’ve never felt the world more threatening, more fractious, more fissiparous, more febrile, more fucked up than it is now...We need to think, we need new ideas, we need proselytisers, we need obsessed people, which I think Jeremy is. We need him to be questioned. We need FREEDOM to be argued, we need it to be read and talked about and understood...you need someone as committed as Jeremy to trying to understand what gets us here...Never before have we needed genius, magic and power more; and the word I’d add to that is thought and thinking...Jeremy made me think afresh and think differently. I hope he does it with you.” (Watch & read all of Sir Bob’s address here)

Then, Jeremy presented the fully accountable, all-important biological explanation of the human condition. To begin, he acknowledged Tim’s wonderful support in bringing these answers to the world; he then thanked Sir Bob for his extraordinary honesty in recognising the plight of the world, an honesty that Jeremy described as being “like the coming of the summer rains that water the parched Earth!” In summarising his presentation Jeremy said that “All the ailments the world suffers from are symptoms of the deeper issue of the human condition. Which means that to fix the world we have to fix the human condition, and that’s what FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition does. It solves the underlying, real issue that’s been crippling the human race.” (As mentioned, you can read Jeremy’s expanded address, which is presented in the booklet, Transform Your Life And Save The World, here. This booklet forms an ideal introduction to FREEDOM.)

After the launch, most of the audience stayed on and listened to a very interesting discussion between Jeremy and a member of the audience. (Watch the post-launch Q&A discussion here)

The RGS was the most appropriate venue in the world to hold this momentous event because it is where the late Sir Laurens van der Post – the most quoted author in FREEDOM and the inspiration in Jeremy’s life – made his impassioned plea for the explorers of the world to investigate the inner realm of the human condition, a plea that Tim Macartney-Snape played for the audience in his introduction. In his 1990 RGS Television Lecture of the Year, Sir Laurens said, “It’s been said that the explorers in mankind must be singularly unemployed because there’s nothing left in this world to explore. Well of course that depends on what you mean by exploration...in the sense to which exploration is both an exploration into the physical and into the spirit of man there is a lot ahead to do...the future is in your keeping...there is exploration in reverse to do. We must go sharply into reverse...we must rehabilitate ourselves; get our old natural selves to join with our other conscious, wilful, rational, scientific selves…Your job is not over.”

It is precisely this reverse exploration into the human condition that FREEDOM has successfully navigated.

So as these extraordinary presentations demonstrate, we had the right people and the right venue to launch FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition — what an historic day for the human race!