Brief 11-paragraph summary of the fabulous good news about the human condition
Firstly, if you haven’t already done so, it is highly recommended that you watch or read THE Interview at the top of our World Transformation Movement website (www.humancondition.com), as this 2025 book, The Human Condition, is an elaboration on what is introduced in that interview. Indeed, as a Director of the World Transformation Movement, Tony Gowing, has said about the context of this book, it is ‘one of Jeremy Griffith’s three most important presentations on the human condition, serving as a powerful mid-length bridge between the other two—his short introduction in THE Interview and his comprehensive presentation in FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition.’
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The human condition is the underlying problem in all human affairs but it has been such a terrifying subject for us humans to face that the only way we have been able to cope with it has been to deny the problem even exists. Most fabulously, however, what has happened is that through the advances that have been made in science the human condition has finally been able to be solved and the human race liberated from the horror of it. So what exactly then is the human condition, and how is it solved and the whole human race transformed from having to live with the agony and horror of that condition?
In short, the human condition is the psychologically upset angry, egocentric and alienated way we humans have been living, and the resolution of the human condition occurs because we can finally understand and relieve the underlying cause of that psychologically distressed state or condition.
To look more closely at what has just been said. The truth is that despite our species’ magnificent mental capabilities and undeniable capacity for immense sensitivity and love, behind every wondrous scientific achievement, sensitive artistic expression and compassionate act lies the shadow of humanity’s darker side—an unspeakable history of greed, hatred, rape, torture, murder and war. And the eternal question has been what is the cause of our destructive, insensitive and cruel side? Religious assurances—such as the idea that although we are ‘fallen’ and supposedly ‘sinful’ and ‘evil’, ‘God still loves us’—were comforting, but ultimately we needed to know why we became ‘fallen’ and why we are lovable. Why do we thinking, rational, immensely clever, supposedly sensible beings behave so abominably and cause so much suffering and devastation? What is the origin of the dark, volcanic forces that undeniably exists within us humans? What is it deep within us humans that has troubled us so terribly? What is it that makes us such a combative, ruthless, hateful, retaliatory, violent, in truth psychologically disturbed creature?
Most wonderfully relieving for us humans, this question that has been so troubling for us of why are we the way we are, capable of deeds of shocking violence, depravity, indifference and cruelty, has finally been scientifically answered—and in the most psychologically redeeming, reconciling and rehabilitating way!
This Brief Summary of what that answer is, which will be explained more fully in Parts 1 and 2 of this book, is actually a very obvious answer once the different natures of the two main influences of our behaviour of our instincts and intellect are considered, and that obvious answer is summarised in the following three sentences. The ability that science has given us to understand that our gene-based, naturally selected instincts were only able to give us orientations to the world means we can now appreciate that when our nerve-based, self-managing, fully conscious mind emerged and began carrying out experiments in managing our life from a basis of understanding the world, our inflexible, ‘dictatorial’, non-understanding instinctive orientations were inevitably going to be intolerant of and condemning of our conscious mind’s instincts-defying, self-managing experiments in understanding, which is our necessary search for knowledge. But without this reconciling and redeeming explanation that science has finally made possible of the difference between the gene and nerve-based learning systems, which is that genes can orientate but nerves need to understand, our conscious mind had no way to counter this feeling of condemnation and criticism from our instincts, other than to attack the ‘criticism’, try to prove it undeserved, and to block it from its thoughts. This was the genesis of our immensely heroic, psychologically upset, angry, egocentric and alienated HUMAN CONDITION!
What is so indescribably wonderful is that this ‘Instinct vs Intellect’, ‘genes can orientate but nerves need to understand’, obvious (now that it has been explained) GOOD reason for our angry, egocentric and alienated, ‘good and evil’-stricken, instinctive-self-or-soul-corrupted, ‘fallen’ human condition has finally lifted the so-called ‘burden of guilt’ from the human race and ended the need for our defensive angry, egocentric and alienated behaviour, thereby bringing about the psychologically redeemed, reconciled and healed transformation of our species! As Professor Harry Prosen, a former president of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, said of this breakthrough, ‘I have no doubt that Australian biologist Jeremy Griffith’s instinct vs intellect explanation of the human condition is the holy grail of insight we have sought for the psychological rehabilitation of the human race.’
The World Transformation Movement (WTM) is the global not-for-profit charity that was established to promote this human-race-saving, ‘holy grail’ breakthrough in science of the ‘Instinct vs Intellect’ resolution of the human condition that ends human conflict and suffering at its source and provides the now urgently needed road map for the complete transformation of our lives and world!
And it should be mentioned that to help everyone access this breakthrough, the WTM doesn’t charge for subscription or membership, and provides all books, videos, essays and other materials and products about the human condition free of charge on our website.
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To reiterate, when our conscious mind emerged, its necessary experiments in managing our life from a basis of understanding were condemned by our instinctive orientations to the world because, in undertaking those experiments, our conscious mind was not behaving in accordance with those orientations, and then that condemnation upset our conscious mind, causing it to become defensively angry towards the criticism, determined to prove it undeserved, and committed to blocking it out. We—our conscious thinking mind—became psychologically upset angry, egocentric and alienated sufferers of the human condition. But what is indescribably wonderful is that through having the redeeming understanding of why this condition emerged, the need for our defensive angry, egocentric and alienated behaviour it produced ends, thus bringing about the psychological rehabilitation of the human race. We are transformed from having to suffer from the agony and horror of the human condition to living free of it in psychologically relieved peace, togetherness and happiness at last!
So, the human condition is the immensely mentally insecure and psychologically distressed state that all humans have suffered from as a result of a clash between our species’ original non-understanding, dictatorial, instinctive orientations to the world, and our newer fully conscious mind that needs to understand the world to operate. And the World Transformation Movement is the disseminator of this psychologically relieving and transforming, Instinct vs Intellect, ‘holy grail of insight’ explanation of the human condition—the insight humanity has tirelessly worked toward, yearned for, and now so desperately needs!
