Jeremy Griffith’s summa masterpiece 2016 book FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition is the cutting edge of understanding human development. It is where it is at for humanity—the culmination of human endeavour and the frontier of human progress. It presents the world-saving scientific explanation of the human condition—a condition we have had no choice but to live in denial of until it could be compassionately diagnosed and remedied. Jeremy’s clear and fearless thinking leads us through the incredible human story—a true story about humans’ wondrously courageous and enduring search for knowledge but it is also about the devastating self-corruption the search caused in humans. It necessarily squarely confronts us with just how angry, egocentric and alienated—what Jeremy terms ‘upset’—most humans have become which is all compassionately explained but it is shocking and at times unbearable. To quote FREEDOM par. 1152 ‘the truth about ourselves unavoidably and necessarily reveals the extent of our now immensely upset condition; it destroys the lies, our denials, our pretences and delusions, as it must, otherwise it wouldn’t be the truth’ (https://www.humancondition.com/freedom-judgment-day).

So how do we live with this all-explaining but all-exposing truth, as one reader of Jeremy’s work asked, ‘Diving into a sea of truth where everything is completely transparent one can’t but ask, “how will anybody cope with this; how in the world can anybody cross such darkness to reach light?!”’ (Email to the WTM, 24 Feb. 2011) Now we come to what I think is the most thrilling part of the human story, the gloriously effective and meaningful solution to the unbearable exposure the truth about the human condition must bring, which is the Transformed Lifeforce State—and what chapter 9, titled ‘The Transformation of The Human Race’, is all about. In fact, it is the instruction manual for how to live with the denial-free truth about humans—just check out the section headings on the Contents page at https://www.humancondition.com/freedom-contents!

What this new way of living or new technology does is turn the unbearable confrontation around into unbearable excitement—and quickly! It is the way we can cope with and embrace the huge paradigm shift this understanding introduces—changing from a world dedicated to denial and dread of the human condition to a world dedicated to honesty and compassion about it. The key to this solution is once we have investigated these understandings sufficiently to know that they have explained the human condition we don’t need to investigate them any further. We don’t have to focus on the implications of the understandings (which is just how immensely angry, egocentric and alienated we are) but rather we can focus on looking after and disseminating this too-precious-for-words information that can transform the world from wherever you are and in whatever way you can—see chapter 9:7 https://www.humancondition.com/freedom-how-transformed-state-avoids-unbearable-exposure.

This way of living is utterly magnificent full stop! I can say this because the understanding Jeremy brings to the world looks after our damaged minds and broken hearts with such honesty and love it liberates us from our upset state and empowers us to live in support of the truth about the human condition that ‘saves the world’, as Professor Harry Prosen says, and nothing could be more incredible than that. To quote the opening of Professor Prosen’s Introduction to FREEDOM: ‘The truth is I am inadequate to write this Introduction, but everyone is, so I will do my best. Firstly, to immediately put into context the fabulous significance of what Australian biologist Jeremy Griffith has achieved with this book: it delivers the biological explanation of the human condition, the holy grail of insight we humans have sought for the psychological rehabilitation of our species. It brings the reconciling, redeeming and rehabilitating understanding of our lives that has been sought since humans first became conscious beings some two million years ago! This book effectively takes humanity from a state of bewilderment about the nature of human existence to a state of profound understanding of our lives. It is truly a case of having got all the truth up in one go. Yes, preposterous as it must seem, this book contains the great breakthrough the human race has been waiting for—and, given the plight of the world, its arrival couldn’t be more timely or serious.’ (https://www.humancondition.com/freedom-introduction-by-professor-harry-prosen)

So to transform and save the world all we have to do is follow the logical conclusion of understanding the human condition which is to CHOOSE NOT TO LIVE OUT all our world-destroying behaviours and instead choose to direct all our energies to supporting this revolution in thinking and living. That is why the Transformed State is so enormously powerful and why it generates such happiness and freedom in people, why it literally transforms people, because by supporting the denial-free truth instead of your own denial-ridden state you can help save the world as Jeremy says ‘in one simple decision!’

I encourage everyone with everything in me to read chapter 9 of FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition because how we respond to the dignifying but naked truth about the human condition determines the outcome of the human race and once you truly absorb chapter 9 you, like me, will know the outcome can and will be TRANSFORMATION.

Here are possibly my favourite paragraphs from FREEDOM but really it is impossible to choose because every paragraph in the entire book is full of absolutely fascinating insight and intoxicating wonder (and to boot, every paragraph is now numbered so no matter which format you are reading you can easily find any paragraph)!

1163 Yes, we can all now know that our insecure, egocentric need to validate ourselves through winning power, fame, fortune and glory is obsoleted. We can understand that it is no longer necessary to prove that we are good and not bad through demonstrations of our worth because our goodness has now been established at the most fundamental level through first-principle-based, biological explanation. We can know that with the arrival of understanding of the human condition humans’ whole resigned, competitive, self-preoccupied, selfish, must-win-power-fame-fortune-and-glory way of living has been made redundant. In fact, the fundamental situation the human race is now in is that the resigned, competitive way of living has become pointless, meaningless, because it doesn’t progress the human race to greater knowledge as it once did because the key piece of knowledge that we needed to find, of understanding of the human condition, has been found. Furthermore, living out that self-preoccupied, competitive, selfish existence is now unnecessarily destructive of our relationships with our fellow humans, and of our world in general. We can now know that the resigned, egocentric, competitive, selfish and aggressive way of living is finished with, which means we can, and, in fact, should, simply cast aside that way of living, and take up, in its place, a new way of living that is available to humans now where we live in support of a reconciled, non-competitive, selfless, loving existence. As was pointed out earlier on in par. 743, it was the process of Resignation that largely killed off access to our all-sensitive and all-loving soul and made humans virtually totally mad (sufferers of the ‘dead’ ‘fifty feet of solid concrete’ state of ‘alienation’ from our soul that R.D. Laing spoke of), and since Resignation, with all the soul-dead insensitive and must-prove-yourself mean and unsatisfying life that went with it, is fundamentally a mental, psychological condition, not an immutable genetic condition, you can choose to leave that insecure, embattled, insensitive, mean and unhappy life behind.

1164 And, most wonderfully, what happens when we humans give up our old ways of living and take up the new way of living that understanding of the human condition has made possible is we become transformed from a competitive and selfishly behaved individual to a cooperative and selflessly behaved one, an integrative part of humanity. Yes, even though we are not yet free of the upset state of our own personal human condition, we can immediately have a change of attitude and decide not to live out that upset state that remains within us. The overall effect in our lives is that, despite our retention of the upset state of the human condition, we are effectively free from its hold and its influence, which is an absolutely fabulous transformation to have made in an instant—in one simple decision!

1166 Yes, the excitement and relief of being effectively free of the human condition—the joy and happiness of being liberated from the burden of our insecurities and self-preoccupations; the awesome meaning and power of finally being aligned with the truth and participating in the magic true world; the wonderful empathy and equality of goodness and fellowship that understanding of the human condition now allows us to feel for our fellow humans; the freedom now to effectively focus on repairing the world; and, above all, the radiant aliveness from the optimism that comes with knowing our species’ march through hell has finally ended and that a human-condition-free new world is coming—CAN NOW TRANSFORM EVERY HUMAN AND THUS THE WORLD.

No wonder Jeremy has named this new technology for living the Transformed Lifeforce State because as he elaborates:

1167 From being a human-condition oppressed and depressed alienated person, all humans can now be TRANSFORMED into redeemed, liberated-from-the-human-condition, exhilarated, ecstatic, enthralled-with-existence, empowered, world-transforming LIFEFORCES. This exhilarated, ecstatic, enthralled-with-existence aspect is the ‘Life’ in ‘Lifeforce’, while the empowered, world-transforming aspect is the ‘force’ in ‘Lifeforce’, so LIFEFORCE covers both the personal benefit and the benefit to the world in one word. From being human-condition-afflicted, Plato’s-cave-dwelling, effectively dead humans, we become Transformed Lifeforces or simply LIFEFORCES! That is the difference the arrival of understanding of the human condition makes to the human race!