Video & Transcript of Lachlan Dunn’s Commendation

 

 

Ultimately, what led to this transformation is this book, FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition by Jeremy Griffith, the best book in the world, the only book in the world.

Now, I actually have mentioned this book on this podcast before. I did an episode about a section in this book, which was Ashley Montagu’s A Scientist Looks at Love, which was just amazing [anthropologist Ashley Montagu is discussed in paragraph 493 of FREEDOM]. As. In other times, I’ve hated on this podcast and have brought it up in conversations with guests. And in the end, it’s laughable because this is honestly the best book in the fucking world. I mean, it’s the book of books. So I’m just going to read the title, the subtitle, and the back; just give you guys a taste because you all, we all, every human that can read, needs to read this book and read it again and again and again and again and again and again and again and just let it put your mind, brain, heart and soul back together on a whole other level that you didn’t even think was possible. Words do not do it justice. I can only start making sounds and stuff like, “Mmm, like yeah, let’s go. This is what we’ve been looking for. Do you know? This is it. This is it.”

And so it’s called FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition. [The wording on front cover reads:] “At last, the redeeming, reconciling and rehabilitating biological explanation of the human condition that brings about the dreamed of dawn of understanding and ends all the suffering and conflict on Earth” by Jeremy Griffith, and the whole human race. And Professor Harry Prosen, former president of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, says, “This is the book that saves the world.” And that’s for damn sure, Harry! This is the book that saved my life because if this is what it feels like to be alive, boy, was I scarily dead. I mean, just zombified down to the fucking bone I was and totally out of my mind floating away in the spiritual graveyard out there in the cosmos. I mean, oh, I was in a different kind of trance. It was quadruply unconscious. And this book resuscitated me back to life. He talked to the soul I didn’t even know I had. I didn’t even know I had depths would reach that deep. And I’ve read a lot of books. I’ve done a lot of drugs, psychedelics and shit, trying to figure out answers. I’ve done all sorts of therapies and all these podcasts and being certain. And you can combine all that shit together. I mean, all of it together. And you wouldn’t even get close to what’s in this book. You know, I’m just trying to describe how good it is. Like you can’t compare it to anything. This is just the most magnificent thing to ever come into existence. That’s for sure. This is like what I thought I was going to get when I died, which was answers in unconditional love. And Jeremy said, “Oh, man, you don’t have to wait that long. You’re going to get it at 23 years old and just be given the answers to every question you’ve ever had. And at the same time, do it through being unconditionally loved like I’d never been loved before.” I mean, this book loved me more than anything I’ve ever been, just tried to love me. You know, that has somewhat love. Like this is love. This is what’s missing in the world. This is knowledge and love. That’s for sure. And that’s the one and only thing our conscious mind has ever wanted is self-understanding. Literally, the one and only thing we’ve ever wanted is self-understanding. Understanding of our human condition. And we found it. We did it. We all contributed to this book. The blood, sweat, and tears of humanity is in this book. That’s what makes it the best, the greatest, there is no word, story ever told. Like this is the best story I’ve ever read. This is our story. This is all of our stories. And it’s just told in such a way that’s like, oh, it almost makes too much sense. Like how dare you just make the key to unlock my brain. How dare you just ascend me, enlighten me, like you just did it. You did it. This little innocent soulful child in Jeremy Griffith that just put the pieces of puzzle to life back together. Like it looks like a children’s book. And it is a children’s book because we’re all broken little children. And that’s the soul I didn’t know I had was that inner child. I didn’t recognise how much I had repressed little lucky down there, you know, and he was just, oh, he was so broken because of our whole human journey. I mean, we’re two million years into this mess for us humans.

So, you know, at this point I’m just rambling about how amazing it is. But like, if you just break down the subtitle or the description of it on the front, “At last the redeeming, reconciling and rehabilitating biological explanation of the human condition.” This is simple one-on-one undeniable biology. There’s no leaps of faith. There’s no esoteric, mystical, metaphysical stuff. It’s straight up complete answers, which is what we’ve wanted. And it just satisfied and fulfilled my ego on the deepest level. And you never forget the day it all just clicks. I mean, this book just, just puts your brain and mind back together and integrates you. I would say pretty much all the books I’ve read, all the podcasts I’ve done are mind blowing in that quite literally, they blow my mind to fucking shreds because they make no sense. You get no answers from most of these books and podcasts. Nothing. You get dogma. You might feel good. You know, you might hear a cool idea, but this is knowledge. As far as I’m concerned, this is the only book that’s on the planet. Again, if there’s any knowledge, it’s in this book and only this book, you know, you got to read this book, people like, man, oh, you know, that’s all I can start doing. It’s just, just holding it. I want to just cry and love the shit out of it because the depth of it, you know. Oh, so I want to read the back as well. So Professor Harry Prosen says, “This is the book that saves the world.” That’s a big statement. And I get your scepticism, I get that you might want to turn this podcast off already. “Oh, another one of these”, but this ain’t no false start. This is the real fucking thing. This is what we’ve all been dreaming of trying to do, but this is how we actually do it. Like man gave us the map. We need to heal ourselves psychologically first, have self-understanding, and then we can all, you know, begin to return home and be soulful and cooperative, loving and selfless and godly. You know, the ideals that we all dream of is in the afterlife, but you know, we’re just projecting that shit. Like it can, it has happened—101 biology—this is human behaviour, you know, it just makes it so transparent and understandable, that it’s astonishing.

Anyway, so Professor Harry Prosen has written on the back, “I think the fastest growing realization everywhere is that humanity can’t go on the way it is going. Indeed, the great fear is we’re entering endgame where we appear to have lost the race between self-destruction and self-understanding—the race to find the psychologically redeeming and rehabilitating explanation of our ‘good and evil’-stricken human condition. WELL, ASTONISHING AS IT IS, THIS BOOK BY AUSTRALIAN BIOLOGIST JEREMY GRIFFITH PRESENTS THE 11TH HOUR BREAKTHROUGH BIOLOGICAL EXPLANATION OF THE HUMAN CONDITION NECESSARY FOR THE PSYCHOLOGICAL MATURATION AND TRANSFORMATION OF OUR SPECIES! What this book of books in fact, this greatest of all books does is take humanity from a state of bewilderment about the nature of human behavior and existence to a state of profound understanding of our lives—understanding that drains away all the pain, suffering, confusion and conflict from the world. This is the book we have been waiting for, it is THE BOOK THAT SAVES THE WORLD.” Like how is not just the best? Woo, that gets you so high. Like you should just dive in and just devour it after reading that. How do people just throw this off to the side? Like, you know, whatever. I mean I get it because of the denial and because of how many false starts. But like, this is it. As the next comment [by Professor Scott Churchill] says, “Nothing Dr. Prosen has said about the immense importance of this book is an exaggeration. This is the book all humans need to read for our collective wellbeing.” Yes, yes. Every single person needs to read this and you read this book as soon as you can.

You know, it’s just, again, there’s no word. But that deserves an hour, a one hour introduction, just talking about how magnificent that is. I mean, again, that’s what I thought I was going to get when I died. That’s crazy. That’s how much I’d given up having self-understanding. I was just going to cope the rest of my life. I was just going to jump around and perform and be an actor, and not actually have like this actual find this knowledge that we’ve all been looking for. Again, the one and only thing humanity have wanted for some two million years since the emergence of our conscious mind was self-understanding. We have it. Undeniable.

So what I wanted to do next is just read to you a brief overview of my overall experience with Jeremy’s breakthrough biological explanation of our human condition. This is what I posted in the World Transformation Movement’s Facebook Group, and might be good to read for you guys, so you get a bit more context of how it all came to be. I’ll read it.

So as you guys know, I’m 23 years young and grew up in the tough, ‘get the innocence beaten out of you immediately’-Western suburbs of Sydney. Now, after a few years of searching for answers on, you know, why we’re here, who we are, where we’re going, what, what, what is going on in this world? What is this madness? You know, a lot of it was driven by my relationship with my mum. I needed understanding. I needed answers because, you know, without answers, it’s just so suicidally depressing. So in 2019, I came across an ad on Instagram promoting FREEDOM. And it really interested me. I’ve never bought a book off an ad ever, especially an Instagram ad. Something in me knew I just had to buy this book. I just had to get it. So I bought the book, but in the beginning, I was totally deaf and blind to it, as Jeremy says in the book. I could clearly see it was written in English and there’s words on paper, but my mind was just not having it. Again, like I said, because the human condition has been so historically fearful for us humans to think about is the equivalent of touching a hot stove. And so we just not, not having it, not even going to, not even going to go there. Immediately. It doesn’t even let anything in. It just switches off. Just not having it [FAQ 1.16 describes the ‘Deaf Effect’ that discussion of the human condition causes]. So that’s what I was first experiencing. And then I started watching the videos and I was getting the Adam Stork story [the Adam Stork analogy is presented in Video/​Freedom Essay 3]. That’s the first thing I started watching was him explaining Adam Stork story. And yeah, I kind of got it, but not really. It made sense, but it didn’t fully made sense because I had only seen the Adam Stork story, so I needed more context because I didn’t even know what the human condition was. You know, I was like, what human condition? What are you even talking about? I even tried to get my housemate at the time to watch it with me and talk about it. And it just got swept under the rug! Like the mind just wanted nothing at all to do with it.

So after finding myself blind and deaf to it, as many people do, then I found myself in complete denial in 2020 as I was going through my conspiracy theory and esoteric spirituality stage, also known as heading further into alienation, into Plato’s cave of denial [see Video/​F. Essay 11 for explanation of Plato’s cave analogy]. And at the same time, out of my mind, just due to the subjects that I was getting into, as I now understand it. But the book still lingered in the back of my mind, and I continued to only dip in and out over the next couple of years, wrestling with the damn thing. I continued to search nonetheless, right? But the more books I read, podcasts I did, videos I watched, documentaries and stuff, and all the psychedelics I did, searching for answers was only leading me to become more upset and confused. I was only getting worse. I could cover it up with a facade, but I was really getting nowhere underneath that facade. In fact, only just becoming more fractured and broken, things were making less sense. But I’d put a positive twist on it, you know, and try and make it look like it was beneficial. So the more meditation, breath work, journaling, whatever therapies I did, were only band-aids upon band-aids upon band-aids upon band-aids. It’s like I really wasn’t making any progress at all; that these practices were really doing nothing to liberate me, but just helped me manage and cope with my upset, which is my angers, my egocentricities, my alienation. And I don’t want to manage and cope, I want to be freed. I want to be this FREEDOM, which is what we got. Nobody wants to cope for the rest of their lives. I just use band-aids every day. So I was just ultimately, from my perspective, I was just becoming better at pretending that I was getting better. But as I said, I was crippled underneath. I mean, I really didn’t realise how broken and fractured I really was, but we’re two million years broken and fractured. So it’s like, no shit, you’re going to be like this. And so, yeah, I was still crippled underneath and struggled every goddamn day, like most of us probably do, but we want to be idealistic, and of course we’ve got to get through the day somehow. I had this lurking anxiety at the base of my heart of just not knowing why I am the way I am and why I can’t change. Why I read all these books, but I just can’t integrate anything. I’m still just such a broken soul, still so lost—but I got all these books, and I’ve done all these practices, and all this stuff that supposedly is meant to help me and just wasn’t getting anywhere.

And so by July of this year [2023], I was just about done. I just couldn’t keep juggling all the mess. I was just falling apart. You know, honestly, I was a couple years away, probably not even a couple years, maybe 12 months away, from complete schizophrenia, which if you look up the definition, the etymology, of schizophrenia, it literally means a broken brain and heart, a broken mind and soul. Literally this book showed up at the last second, I mean I was heading off that cliff and about to become just completely superficial. That’s the kind of death, you know, just so pseudo idealistic, just dying inside a million deaths. And so I thought I’d give the book another chance. Obviously something in me knew this was the book I just needed to read all along—should have read this from the start and just been patient and persistent. And so I took it with me as I went on a little holiday down the south coast to stay by the beach, and it was here that it all finally started to integrate and to connect. I didn’t get hit with it when I was away at the beach, but it fully integrated—like he unlocked the lock to my brain. Because that happened when I got home, when I started reading it again and it just, wow, you know, the bone draining relief, as I’m going to talk about.