FAQ 3.13

 

Understanding Jeremy Griffith’s
role within FIX THE WORLD

 

FIX THE WORLD focuses on Jeremy Griffith’s explanation, not the man. His work emphasises logic, not dogma, and proves the equal goodness of all people — there is no veneration, only appreciation.

 

The focus of all the work undertaken by FIX THE WORLD is not on Jeremy Griffith but the urgently needed biological explanation of the human condition that he puts forward. In fact, rather than venerating Jeremy (or any other personality), FIX THE WORLD’s work is entirely logic-based and actually obsoletes the need for any adherence to faith and dogma and worship and egocentricity. Indeed, the fundamental premise of Jeremy’s first-principle-based biological explanation confirms and emphasises the equal goodness of all people, so to infer that someone is more important than another is to totally misrepresent Jeremy’s explanation. Furthermore, with regard to himself, Jeremy writes and says on many occasions that he is the person least deserving of accolades because he was fortunate enough in his infancy and childhood to avoid the extreme exposure to the human condition that most people have had to heroically endure.

For instance in paragraph 1279 of his main book FREEDOM Jeremy writes: ‘The point here is that it is true that exceptional innocence has had a crucial concluding role to play in humanity’s journey but, most importantly, such an innocent is no more special or worthy or wonderful than any other human. If anything, they are less worthy because they haven’t been involved in humanity’s heroic battle as much as everyone else; but, in any case, viewing those who have been more involved in the battle as more worthy is not accurate either, because no one could choose where they were going to be born/​positioned on that battlefield. Yes, the fundamental insight that understanding of the human condition gives us is that in the epic battle to defeat ignorance that the human race has been waging for some 2 million years, there was going to be a vast spectrum of exhaustion/alienation but in this great army of warriors ALL HUMANS ARE EQUALLY GOOD, SPECIAL AND WONDERFUL.’

It is natural that references are occasionally made to Jeremy because the background to where these understandings are coming from is important, but that is all, and there’s nothing in any of Jeremy’s publications or in the work of FIX THE WORLD to suggest there is any other motivation.

Jeremy fully explains that he was able to solve the human condition by being exceptionally free of hurt and its alienation from our ‘soul’, and consequently having a relatively uncorrupted access to his (and our species’) original cooperative and loving instinctive self or soul, which is an amazing realisation given how rare that state is. And so it is completely natural that when someone who is appreciative of Jeremy’s achievement in solving the human condition expresses amazement about Jeremy’s wonderful access to his/​our soul and all the truth it has access to, that does not mean they are revering or worshipping Jeremy as some sort of deity or god or fantastic supernatural being, it just means they are amazed, and they absolutely should be able to say that they are amazed if they are. There’s a big difference between being amazed about and loving Jeremy’s relatively uncorrupted soul and worshipping Jeremy’s personality in an unhealthy way.

The following exchange, starting with a message to Jeremy from Michael Manolis, from the well-known Australian indigenous band, Kuckles (they created the acclaimed musical Bran Nue Dae), is instructive about the lack of ego and lack of personality veneration in recognising Jeremy’s extraordinary access to his soul. Michael sent a message to Jeremy saying that a neighbour of his has watched THE Interview and said about Jeremy that ‘you’re a wonderful guy 🙂’. Jeremy responded to Mick that ‘I’m just a shit kicker like you and everyone else Mick but I do have a wonderful soul, I’m in awe of the fucking thing, it looks after me and it’ll look after the whole world. That’s a super duper soul for you that’s for sure…​Lots of love from us all to your neighbour too Mr mighty Mick.’

FIX THE WORLD founding member Genevieve Salter then made the comment that Jeremy’s deference to his soul is very like Christ saying, ‘By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me [I am not a resigned, insecure, egocentric person, rather someone who follows what his Integrative-Meaning-acknowledging, soul-guided, truthful mind says is right]’ (John 5:30).

FIX THE WORLD founding member Susan Armstrong then responded that ‘I’m in complete dissolving awe too of Jeremy’s soul, you could cry forever at how pure beautiful and wondrous it is, looking after us all and the whole world times a million, “leading us to so much sunshine, home indeed” as it says in the last Newsletter. It’s just way too much and surreal sometimes that Jeremy’s soul even exists, and survived this whole 2 million year journey, but thank the heavens and all the stars that it does! It’s the only thing standing between terminal alienation and humanity’s freedom!’

Writing in his Introduction to FREEDOM, Professor Harry Prosen said of Jeremy Griffith: ‘It is quite amazing, in all my years of meeting people and practicing psychiatry, I haven’t encountered a soul like him. He is one of those incredibly rare individuals, a person of intellectual rigor and personal nobility who has the capacity to be completely honest without a personal bent; when you are with him you can feel his passion for the truth, which he embodies.’

And this is a very interesting comment about Jeremy’s ‘independent’ but at the same time ‘very gregarious’, gets-along-with-everyone, nature made by Gordon Griffiths about Jeremy when Jeremy was his student at Geelong Grammar School’s Timbertop in 1961. As reported by Genevieve Salter on Jeremy’s Artwork page, Gordon Griffiths said, ‘I think of all the students that I ever had in my four years as a teacher at Timbertop that Jeremy would have been the one that I would have put as most outstanding, without a doubt [he said this with emphasis]…​I can remember in the annual Up Timbertop and Back Race that he won the race, and in a record time, but he actually also collected a specimen, a lizard he hadn’t seen before, on the way back down! He was a brilliant bushwalker and a brilliant natural historian. [Mr Griffiths also wrote in his school report for the year that Jeremy ‘has shown a very wide interest in natural history, more especially his interests are collecting butterflies and moths, identifying eucalypts and observing birds’.] And you know, he’s just one of these kids I would call a heart rebel [laughs]. I don’t mean that in a bad sense, that he was unpopular and a loner, because he wasn’t, he was very gregarious, but he had an independent spirit. Jeremy Griffith was sort of the cat that walked by himself, an independent type of person.’ Jeremy’s comment about this ‘independence’, which he said he wasn’t aware of, was that ‘when you resign you are not trying to think about the problem of the human condition, but when you haven’t resigned that is all you think about; you have a different agenda is how I would attempt to explain it.’ There is a similar comment in Jeremy’s 1958 report card from Tudor House School, a wonderfully soulful private boarding school that at the time was for boys near Sydney which Jeremy attended from 1955 to 1958. His house master (JM?) wrote that, ‘Jeremy sometimes tends to go his own way too much’. Jeremy was only 13 years old at the time so it’s evident that even at that young age his innocent mind had this ‘different agenda’ and was deeply engaged in trying to understand the human-condition-avoiding resigned world—which all his work ended up bringing understanding explanation to.

The more you digest the explanation of the human condition, the more you realise that the whole purpose of Jeremy’s writing is to explain our soul and how we are all variously corrupted from it (see for example, FAQ 1.26 ‘What is soul?’)—remove all the supernatural misunderstanding, mysticism, mystery and superstition, and also to remove any notion of some people being superior or inferior in the sense of their goodness or worthiness.

All this is variously explained in FAQ 3.11 ‘Why has FIX THE WORLD been persecuted’ and FAQ 6.1 ‘Is this a religion?’

 

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For further reading, see FAQ 1.24 ‘Why does FIX THE WORLD allow seemingly absurd and offensive praise about Jeremy Griffith to be publicised on its website?’, in which it is explained that the evidence suggests such comments are true!