PLEASE, PLEASE, BEWARE
THE ‘DEAF EFFECT’!

 

The extremely helpful addition
to THE Interview

 

 

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In 2020, Australian biologist Jeremy Griffith was interviewed by British broadcaster Craig Conway. Griffith’s insightful explanation of the human condition in this interview has become so highly regarded it is now known as THE Interview That Solves The Human Condition And Saves The World! In 2026, Griffith made the extremely helpful addition to THE Interview of Please, Please, Beware The ‘Deaf Effect’! that warns of, and solves, the difficulty virtually everyone initially has taking in or ‘hearing’ analysis of the once—but no longer—unbearably confronting subject of the human condition.

 

 

Transcript of Please, Please,
Beware The ‘Deaf Effect’!

 

Contents

 

(that follow on from THE Interview)

 

Commendations

 

Background

 

Summary

 

Section 1.  The very serious problem of the ‘Deaf Effect’

 

Section 2.  ‘Deaf Effect’ Testimonials

 

Section 3.  Plato’s ‘cave’ prediction of the Deaf Effect

 

Section 4.  WHY have humans been so fearful of the issue of the human condition that discussion of it can produce such an extreme denial reaction, a Deaf Effect? And how do we overcome it?

 

Section 5.  The end of ineffective pseudo therapy and the beginning of effective real therapy

 

Section 6.  Resignation to living in denial of the human condition

 

Section 7.  Overcoming the Deaf Effect is human-race-savingly important!

 

Section 8.  The fabulously relieved and exciting life once you get through the Deaf Effect

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please, Please, Beware
The ‘Deaf Effect’!

 

The extremely helpful addition
to THE Interview

 

Summary

Australian biologist Jeremy Griffith’s resolution of the human condition—that he presents in his now famous THE Interview and elaborates on in his many publications that are available for free on our FIX THE WORLD website at HumanCondition.com—has been described by Professor Harry Prosen, a former President of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, as being nothing less than ‘the holy grail of insight we humans have sought for the psychological rehabilitation of the human race’.

Given the world’s escalating mental health crisis and the growing turmoil, conflict and distress everywhere, the all-healing ‘psychological rehabilitation of the human race’ could not be more urgently needed.

BUT THERE IS A MASSIVE PROBLEM that first has to be solved for that now desperately needed great psychological healing of the human race to get underway. And that massive problem and its solution is exactly what this extremely helpful addition to THE Interview describes and delivers.

In Please, Please, Beware The ‘Deaf Effect’! Jeremy warns of the difficulty virtually everyone initially has taking in or ‘hearing’ analysis of the once—but no longer—unbearably confronting subject of the human condition. He then shows how patience and perseverance in reading or listening to the compassionate, redeeming, reconciling and rehabilitating explanation of the human condition—which, as Professor Prosen said, is ‘the holy grail of insight’ of all human endeavour—enables everyone to overcome this ‘Deaf Effect’ and discover the beyond-description-exciting, ‘we can at last make sense of the world’, mind-clearing, life-resuscitating, human-race-fixing, safe new world for the human race!

So PLEASE, PLEASE, beware this ‘Deaf Effect’ so that you and every other person can discover this human-condition-relieving, suffering-ending, fabulous new world for everyone!

 

 

Section 1.  The very serious problem of the ‘Deaf Effect’

Hello again, I’m Australian biologist Jeremy Griffith.

In THE Interview I did with Craig Conway, I presented the scientific explanation of the underlying issue in human life of the ‘human condition’. You heard there the leading psychiatrist Professor Harry Prosen describe the importance of the explanation as ‘the holy grail of insight we humans have sought for the psychological rehabilitation of the human race’! And given the world’s escalating mental health crisis and the growing turmoil, conflict and distress everywhere, the ‘psychological rehabilitation of the human race’ is exactly what the world needs. As Professor Prosen said, it is ‘the breakthrough we have been waiting for’—which is exactly what people are discovering: Michael: ‘Holy shit, you know this stuff is the real deal!’; Refentse: ‘I honestly don’t know how we can go forward without Jeremy’s information. I don’t see a way, it’s so important.’ Craig: ‘I found myself feeling really comforted and very excited and also truly enlightened’; and Joanne: ‘Oh my God, this is going to save the f***king world!’

BUT THERE REMAINS A PROBLEM, which is the difficulty virtually everyone initially has taking in or ‘hearing’ this ‘holy grail of insight’ ‘breakthrough’ explanation of the human condition, a difficulty that has become well known as the ‘Deaf Effect’—which this critically important presentation will explain and resolve.

What will become understandable is why, as soon as discussion of the human condition begins, the minds of most people subconsciously ‘switch off’ from wanting to go anywhere near this core issue of the human condition—the issue of why we humans are capable of extraordinary empathy, cooperation, kindness, creativity and love, yet also capable of extreme insensitivity, violence, cruelty, destruction and hate. It is a dilemma that has historically been referred to as ‘good and evil’ in our make-up—the question of why we are the way we are, seemingly horrifically flawed, ‘soul-corrupted’, ‘fallen’, even ‘evil’, and as a result of this apparent extreme imperfection, deeply psychologically troubled beings!

Yes, the issue of the human condition has historically been so unapproachable and off-limits for virtually everyone that most people initially find it difficult to take in or ‘hear’ the redeeming explanation of it.

For example, in contrast to the excited reactions you just saw, consider these baffled initial responses to the explanation of the human condition: Cindy: ‘I just could not seem to get it’; Lachlan: ‘I was totally deaf and blind to it. My mind was just not having it. What are you even talking about?’; Benjamin: ‘It was very difficult to access at the beginning’; and Ari: ‘I literally understood nothing.’

So yes, nearly everyone initially suffers from a ‘Deaf Effect’ and as a result may not go on to discover the fabulous benefits of the explanation—that it proves humanity’s flawed state was not ‘evil’ but the result of an unavoidable evolutionary process, and that this understanding and vindication is mind-relieving and life-resuscitating and all-exciting and human-race-saving and world-fixing. Basically, that it brings about an all-relieved and all-wonderful, safe new world for us embattled and exhausted but immensely heroic humans!

Clearly then, this ‘Deaf Effect’ that is blocking access to such a dreamed-of existence is a VERY, VERY serious problem!

So I will now explain why this ‘Deaf Effect’ occurs and how to overcome it so that you can discover the fabulous benefits that come with being able to access the redeeming, reconciling and rehabilitating explanation of the human condition.

Note that since this description of the ‘Deaf Effect’ problem and how to solve it is so important, this presentation, Please, Please, Beware The ‘Deaf Effect’!, is considered an essential accompaniment to THE Interview. The transcript of this talk is available on our FIX THE WORLD website at www.humancondition.com/please-please-beware-the-deaf-effect—and you might like to print out a copy to help you follow the presentation. I should also mention that there is a free combined book of both presentations available at www.humancondition.com/the-interview-book.

 

 

Section 2.  ‘Deaf Effect’ Testimonials

I will begin by showing you a few helpful examples of people’s experience with the Deaf Effect. They reveal not only how big a problem it is, but also the incredibly relieving understanding of our world and the immensely exciting path forward for the human race that can be accessed once you get through the Deaf Effect.

 

 

Firstly, since you’ve already met Craig Conway in THE Interview, you might find it interesting to hear his experience with the Deaf Effect when he started reading my book FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition (this can be viewed at www.humancondition.com/craig-conway): ‘When I first began to read the book, Jeremy describes a thing called the “Deaf Effect”, which is this idea that we close off to what is being spoken to us through this book and through Jeremy’s words. And it’s true that I had a very strong reaction to it, I didn’t want to go there. But as I persevered with the book and allowed myself to sit with the words, the thoughts, the understanding, the education within the pages of FREEDOM, I found myself feeling really comforted and very excited and also just truly enlightened. I’ve read many, many books in psychology, philosophy, spirituality—it wasn’t until I read this book that suddenly there was enlightenment. Get this book, download it, read it, keep reading it, read it again and again and again, make your notes, ask the questions, get online, talk to the groups. Yeah, it’s a wonderful, wonderful guide to being free and you won’t regret it. It’s very true, you will not regret it. This is, and could be, and will be, the book that saves the world, and the joy of that is you will be part of it.’

 

 

To be told there is a fundamental, all-important issue facing us humans—an enormous ‘elephant in our living rooms’—that we are living in such fearful denial of that almost everyone is unaware of it can seem implausible, even absurd, but as Craig testified, it does occur. Blocking out or denial is, after all, a common protective mechanism we humans practice to keep us safe from painful thoughts, feelings or knowledge. In fact, blocking thoughts from our mind has been one of humans’ most powerful coping mechanisms.

Here are some more testimonials from people describing their experience with this mental block to the issue of the human condition.

 

 

This is from Michael Perry when he read FREEDOM (this can be viewed at www.humancondition.com/michael-perry): ‘I got the book and I started reading and I started to notice that I have no idea what I just fucking read! Like I would read a page and I’d be like, “What’s up with that?” You know, like, I know it’s words, I know it’s English, but all of a sudden it’s like this block, like, “What’s going on there?” So I was hyper-aware of that and it kind of frustrated me, but on the other hand, I was crazy, crazy interested. I’d never read anything like this before – there was like this kind of, I don’t know, this feeling that was like, just keep at it, keep going, there’s something here. It just felt like I was reading something very special. This wasn’t your average you know, feel-good, super imposed, pseudo idealistic, save-the-plants, whatever. This felt like, it felt heavy and it just felt kind of special and I knew that it wasn’t bullshit. And I would just get little windows of it and kind of just be dizzy for a second and be like, ‘holy shit’, you know this stuff is the real deal. But I’d reached a point where I just put the book down and I was like, I know this information is true, but I don’t think I’m ready to face that. And I literally, I put it in the bin, put it in the garage and it was just always in the back of my mind. And then about six months-ish, I picked it up and I just started reading. It was like, it just felt like the most common sense. And then I got into chapter 3 when Jeremy talks about the actual explanation, and I could feel it in my bones, you know, like, I’m reading every word. I just ate it up, like I just couldn’t get enough of it. These explanations and these understandings set everything else apart in that, it’s completely and totally 100% accountable. No amount of meditation, or exercise or eating right or going to church or trying to be a good person, but if you don’t understand then it’s an uphill battle. This information truly and wholly does make sense of every single thing, every aspect. This stuff is just incredible.’

 

 

And this is the experience of Bill McCaugherty and his wife Cindy (this can be viewed at www.humancondition.com/bill-cindy): ‘Bill: In my eagerness to bring this world-saving information to others, I was surprised that others not only had much more difficulty hearing this information than I did, but they seemed literally not to want it. Cindy, as it turned out, was no exception. She also suffered from the so-called “Deaf Effect”. She told me the book was poorly written, repetitive, and literally incomprehensible.

Cindy: I just could not seem to get it. Sometimes it felt like the rug had been whipped out from under my feet, disorienting me, and at times like a physical pressure where my heart rate would go up, making me feel anxious.

Bill: After many weeks of reading the information together, and openly and honestly discussing it, to both our amazement, Cindy began to not only hear the information, but gain an understanding at an even deeper level than what I could initially access.

Cindy: That’s why I’m so grateful that I had Bill’s, as well as other members’ support, as I overcame the Deaf Effect. This was key in allowing me to safely and slowly confront and understand the human condition. I keep trying to find words to describe how enormously exciting and satisfying and relieving this breakthrough understanding is! I’m just so full of love and gratitude; and this other really big emotion that I just can’t find a name for. It’s really like I’ve fallen in love with humanity again, and our future as a species.’

 

 

And this is Benjamin Berthon’s Deaf Effect experience (this can be viewed at www.humancondition.com/benjamin-berthon): ‘It was very difficult to access at the beginning. But when I took a second look I had a completely different understanding and I was surprised to not have understood the first time because it didn’t seem so difficult to grasp and it was really mind-blowing. It was really like an explosion. It was really an awesome experience. I said the first time it was like trying to lift a 50 kilo dumbbell, and now it feels as easy as picking up a candy!’

 

 

This next description is from Ari Akritidis when he read my 2003 book, A Species In Denial (this can be viewed at www.humancondition.com/ari-akritidis): ‘One of the fascinating things with my own personal journey has been my experience with the Deaf Effect. I experienced it incredibly head on when I read A Species In Denial and literally understood nothing and took nothing out of that experience. It’s a really tough barrier to break. I got through the Deaf Effect with a lot of support and just being patient and re-reading. I re-read the same book, it was quite extraordinary—everything was there!

There’s no fantasy here, there’s no myth, no pretending, there’s no dogma. Jeremy’s researched and connected all the pieces of the jigsaw together and it makes perfect sense.

So for me that Deaf Effect was very, very strong and very, very real. I was living a life based on power, fame, fortune and glory, just feeding my insecurities, feeding my need for validation and reinforcement, as most people do. And in that state, it’s not easy to see something that tries to go deeper, because I’ve created this bubble, I’ve created this world and it’s working: “I’m going okay, I’m a dad, I’m a husband, I’ve got kids, I’m running a business, I’ve got good friends.” So it’s a difficult barrier to break.

You know, this information is very, very powerful and it’s just that it takes time. Initially there’s an element of fear, there’s uncertainty, confusion, but eventually it’s just ecstasy. Jeremy’s explanations are more meaningful than any brain can possibly imagine. It’s the greatest gift anybody could have given us.’

 

It needs to be mentioned that the nature of being in denial is you can’t know that you’re in denial—because obviously if you could you wouldn’t be in denial! What this means is that we are unable to appreciate that it is our practice of denial of the human condition that is blocking us from being able to access the information, and so to account for the difficulty of accessing it, people typically blame the presentation. As Cindy McCaugherty thought at first, ‘the book was poorly written, repetitive, and literally incomprehensible’. Yes, people say what is being presented is ‘impenetrably dense’, ‘confusingly worded and long-winded’, ‘unnecessarily repetitive’, ‘desperately needs editing’, even that it’s ‘exceedingly boring and tedious’, or worse still, that it’s ‘completely lacking in any substance or meaning’! Often people even request ‘an executive summary so I have some idea of what it is that you’re trying to say’!

Also, when people do get through the Deaf Effect and become excited about the explanation and share it with family and friends, they get a shock when they encounter the Deaf Effect in others. The world that opens up when you get through the Deaf Effect is so amazing and wonderful it is easy to forget that this resistance occurs—as this person did: ‘It saddens and frustrates me to say this but such is the wall of denial I have encountered when trying to tell people about Jeremy’s incredibly important explanation of the human condition that it has become very clear to me that I may as well be talking to the dog!’

 

 

Section 3.  Plato’s ‘cave’ prediction of the Deaf Effect

 

 

Plato was a very great Greek philosopher and prophet; he must have had an upbringing in which he was exceptionally nurtured with unconditional love to have been so psychologically secure that he became one of the most denial-free, truthful thinkers in recorded history. As a result he was able to insightfully fully anticipate the Deaf Effect response that would occur when understanding of the human condition was eventually found. In his famous cave allegory that he wrote so long ago in 360 BC, he described humans as being so afraid of the ‘human condition’ they are effectively hiding from its ‘painful’ ‘light’ ‘a long way underground’ in a dark ‘cave’. His amazingly accurate prediction about what would happen when understanding of the human condition is finally found—as it now is—was that ‘when he [the cave prisoner] emerged into the light [outside the cave] his eyes would be so overwhelmed by the brightness of it that he wouldn’t be able to see a single one of the things he was now told were real. Certainly not at first. Because he would need to grow accustomed to the light before he could see things in the world outside the cave’ (The Republic, c.360 BC; tr. H.D.P. Lee, 1955, 514-516; you can view all these quotes from The Republic highlighted at www.fixtheworldsources.com/227).

 

 

Yes, in order to overcome the Deaf Effect inability ‘to see a single one of the things he was [you are] now told were [are] real’, you need to ‘grow accustomed to the light’ that understanding of the human condition brings; you need to be patient with yourself and persevere with the explanation of the human condition as you adjust to its redeeming truth.

I should mention that Plato also warned that when understanding of the human condition arrives it will cause an extremely angry reaction in some people, writing that ‘if anyone tried to release them [the cave prisoners] and lead them up out of the cave, they would kill him if they could lay hands on him’ (ibid. 517)! Thankfully, we live in more civilised times, but we in FIX THE WORLD have, as I describe in my books, endured many years of this vicious, try-to-‘kill him’-type persecution for daring to break humanity free from its horribly debilitating dark ‘cave’ existence. Even though the human race has been slaving away for 2 million years to solve the human condition so it can avoid becoming extinct from terminal levels of psychosis or alienation, the fear of the human condition is so great that some people want to let humanity die in excruciating darkness!

 

 

(You can watch/​read a complete presentation of Plato’s cave allegory in Video/​Freedom Essay 11.)

 

 

Section 4.  WHY have humans been so fearful of the issue of the human condition that discussion of it can produce such an extreme denial reaction, a ‘Deaf Effect’? And how do we overcome it?

Well, to answer these all-important questions all we need to do is consider the following steps of logic that flow from the insights that were presented in THE Interview.

I should say that going through these steps may make the process of overcoming the Deaf Effect seem daunting when in fact it’s a relatively straight forward process that, as you will see, simply requires persevering listening to and reading about the human condition. The benefit of going through these steps is so that you can understand what actually happens in a person’s mind during the process of encountering and overcoming the Deaf Effect.

 

Step 1: Humans have a cooperative, selfless and loving instinctive self or soul

We humans have a cooperative, selfless and loving moral instinctive self or soul as a result of our ape ancestors having lived in a cooperative, selfless and loving innocent state (see Part 1 of THE Interview). And this is a state that all our religions and most of our mythologies, such as the writings of Hesiod and Plato, recognised we did live in (see Part 2), and which the fossil record confirms (see Part 1). And this state was achieved through nurturing, like the bonobo species of ape currently practice to produce their cooperative, selfless and loving behaviour (see Part 3).

 

 

 

 

Step 2: But when we developed a self-managing conscious mind, it clashed with our dictatorial instincts, causing us to become defensively angry, egocentric and alienated

Some 2 million years ago, we developed a self-adjusting conscious mind that, without being able to explain why, had to defy our dictatorial instinctive orientations that in effect criticised our conscious mind’s search for knowledge. This defiance unavoidably involved the artificial defences of attacking, trying to prove wrong, and blocking out or denying the implied criticism, which is our angry, egocentric and alienated ‘human condition’. (The ‘instinct vs intellect’ Adam Stork analogy in Part 1 of THE Interview explained how this happened—while Video/​Freedom Essay 4 on our website makes abundantly clear it did happen, as the title of that essay says, The ‘instinct vs intellect’ is the obvious and real explanation of our condition, as all these great thinkers evidence.)

 

 

 

Step 3: Then the shame from corrupting our loving soul left us no choice but to deny our corrupted condition

It makes perfect sense that the extreme guilt and shame from having corrupted our species’ original all-loving, moral, innocent instinctive self or soul would have been so unbearably depressing to think about, and thus so psychologically terrifying to confront, that we had no choice but to live in denial of the issue of our soul-corrupted, ‘fallen’ state, which, again, is the issue of the human condition. We increasingly relied on the artificial defences of angry defiance of criticism, egocentric seeking of power, fame, fortune and glory, and denial of the truth of our corrupted condition using such lies as the excuse that we have ‘savage instincts’, to protect our sense of self-worth until we found the real defence for our soul-corrupted condition, which we now, finally, at the eleventh hour for the human race, have with the ‘instinct vs intellect’, redeeming, reconciling and rehabilitating explanation of it.

 

 

Just how fearful we humans have been of the human condition and thus how in need of denial we have been is apparent in these descriptions of how excruciatingly depressing the issue of our soul-corrupted, ‘fallen’, seemingly horrifically flawed, even apparently ‘evil’, human condition has been while we couldn’t explain it. There is philosopher and scientist René Descartes’s account, ‘So serious are the doubts into which I have been thrown…​that I can neither put them out of my mind nor see any way of resolving them. It feels as if I have fallen unexpectedly into a deep whirlpool which tumbles me around so that I can neither stand on the bottom nor swim up to the top’ (Second Meditation, 1641; tr. J. Cottingham, 1984). And as the famous psychoanalyst Carl Jung said about the ‘shadow’ of our corrupted condition, ‘When it [our shadow] appears…​it is quite within the bounds of possibility for a man to recognize the relative evil of his nature, but it is a rare and shattering experience for him to gaze into the face of absolute evil’ (Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self, 1959; tr. R. Hull, The Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Vol. 9/2, p.10).

 

 

Yes, this is a member of the public’s description of the extreme depression he experienced when he tried to confront the ‘shadow’ of his corrupted condition: ‘I felt the worst fear I have ever known. Fear doesn’t even go close to expressing it. What do you suppose you do when you find the most fearful thing you’ll ever encounter is yourself’ (see par. 1185 of FREEDOM). Importantly, the philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev recognised not only how terrifying confronting the human condition has been, but also how finding knowledge, ultimately self-knowledge, understanding of the human condition, depended on truthfully confronting not avoiding the issue, writing that ‘Knowledge requires great daring. It means victory over ancient, primeval terror…​Particularly bitter is moral knowledge, the knowledge of good and evil. But the bitterness is due to the fallen state of the world…​There is a deadly pain in the very distinction of good and evil, of the valuable and the worthless’ (The Destiny of Man, 1931; tr. N. Duddington, 1960, pp.14-15 of 310).

Yes, the issue of the human condition has—until now—led to ‘a deep whirlpool’ of unbearably depressing ‘serious’ ‘doubts’—a ‘shattering experience’ as we seemingly ‘gaze into the face of absolute evil’—the situation where ‘you find [that] the most fearful thing you’ll ever encounter is yourself’—the ‘deadly pain’ of the ‘primeval terror’ of our corrupted, ‘fallen’, seemingly ‘worthless’ and ‘evil’ state!

NO WONDER the philosopher Søren Kierkegaard gave this description of how rarely we allow ourselves to confront the ‘primeval terror’ of our seemingly ‘worthless’ and ‘evil’ human condition: ‘there is not a single human being who does not despair at least a little, in whose innermost being there does not dwell an uneasiness, an unquiet, a discordance, an anxiety in the face of an unknown something…​[that] he doesn’t even dare strike up acquaintance with…​he goes about…​weighed down with a sickness of the spirit, which only now and then reveals its presence within, in glimpses, and with what is for him an inexplicable anxiety’ (The Sickness Unto Death, 1849; tr. A. Hannay, 1989, p.52).

And so NO WONDER people initially suffer from a ‘I-don’t-want-to-go-there’ Deaf Effect when the issue of our seemingly ‘worthless’ and ‘evil’ human condition is raised!

And, as emphasised in Part 4 of THE Interview, THANK GOODNESS INDEED for the ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation that finally solves the riddle of riddles of how we humans could be considered good when all the evidence of our angry, egocentric and alienated condition seems to unequivocally indicate we are a deeply flawed, bad species. It finally lifts the so-called ‘burden of guilt’ from the human race, explains that, far from being evil and worthless, we psychologically upset angry, egocentric and alienated humans have been immensely heroic searchers for the knowledge—ultimately for the redeeming understanding of our corrupted condition—that has been needed to save humankind from terminal psychosis and extinction.

And the fact that people do stop fearing the human condition once they absorb this understanding is evidence that it does finally explain the human condition and make it safe to confront, rather than something so terrifying that we have to live in denial of it.

 

Step 4: But now that we can explain our corrupted condition, our defensive angry, egocentric and alienated way of coping is no longer needed

And so it also makes perfect sense that now that the redeeming, reconciling and rehabilitating ‘instinct vs intellect’ real defence of the human condition has finally been found, not only do we no longer have to live in fearful denial of the truth of our corrupted condition, it also obsoletes the need for those artificial defences of anger, egocentricity and alienation. It leads to the dreamed-of and 2-million-years-searched-for transformation of the human race from the anger-egocentricity-and-alienation-human-condition-stricken state to a fabulous instinct-and-intellect-reconciled, anger-egocentricity-and-alienation-human-condition-free life.

 

 

 

Step 5: Inevitably, this massive paradigm shift in self-understanding causes an initial ‘Deaf Effect’ resistance to the sudden change

However, while this explanation does lead to the dreamed-of transformation of the human race from the human-condition-stricken state to a fabulous human-condition-free life, there is a great deal of change to adjust to—an immense paradigm shift.

We are having to adjust to no longer fearing the truth of our corrupted condition, and, consequently, no longer needing our artificial angry, egocentric and alienated ways of coping with the truth of that corrupted condition. We no longer have to fear the subject of the human condition and therefore we no longer need our old defensive ways of avoiding that fear.

Inevitably, the shock of both these sudden changes will initially cause resistance—an ‘I don’t want to accept this’, ‘I want to block it out’, Deaf Effect reaction.

The greater of these two initial Deaf Effect-causing shocks to have to adjust to is having to admit our corrupted human condition—because now that it’s defended we can and must admit it if we are to bring about the urgently-needed, human-condition-free world.

 

 

When, in his famous 1970 book, Future Shock, Alvin Toffler referred to ‘the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time’ (p.4 of 505), he was anticipating this eventual ‘future shock’ caused by the sudden arrival of the understanding of the human condition that ends the way we have been living for some 2 million years during which we have been denying the existence of our corrupted condition and relying upon the artificial defences of anger, egocentricity and alienation to maintain our sense of self-worth.

This attachment to our old established human-condition-avoiding ways of coping with the human condition and the ‘future shock’ of the sudden obsolescence of that way of living is apparent in the earlier testimonials when Craig Conway said, ‘I had a very strong reaction to it, I didn’t want to go there’; and Michael Perry said, ‘it felt heavy…​I’d reached a point where I just put the book down and I was like, I know this information is true, but I don’t think I’m ready to face that’; and Cindy McCaugherty said, ‘it felt like the rug had been whipped out from under my feet, disorienting me, and at times like a physical pressure where my heart rate would go up, making me feel anxious’; and Benjamin Berthon said, ‘it was like trying to lift a 50 kilo dumbbell’; and Ari Akritidis said, ‘it’s not easy to see something that tries to go deeper, because I’ve created this bubble, I’ve created this world and it’s working: “I’m going okay, I’m a dad, I’m a husband, I’ve got kids, I’m running a business, I’ve got good friends.” So it’s a difficult barrier to break…​this information is very, very powerful and it’s just that it takes time. Initially, there’s an element of fear’.

 

Step 6: Patient perseverance gets us through the practiced denial and frees us from the human condition!

And you can see in each case that it took patient perseverance to get through that habituated denial of the truth of our corrupted condition and their reliance on the totally artificial and superficial angry, egocentric and alienated mindset. But once they got through that initial Deaf Effect resistance, they could then ‘hear’ and access the redeeming explanation, and a whole denial-free, truthful, human-condition-confronting-not-human-condition-avoiding paradigm opened up for them that was completely life-changing and magical. The dream of dreams of being able to understand ourselves and become genuinely happy and sound and sane, free of the subconscious agony and horror of the human condition, becomes a reality!

 

 

 

Section 5.  The end of ineffective pseudo therapy and the beginning of effective real therapy

This revealing email we received from a Swiss subscriber who runs ‘Shamanic Healing’ workshops (which a generated voice will narrate) emphasises how fearful we have been of the issue of the human condition, and, very importantly, how futile human-condition-avoiding, pseudo idealistic, New Age, Politically Correct, Woke, Socialist efforts to create the yearned-for, human-condition-free world have been. It recognises that the only real way to achieve that wonderful and much needed transformation is through the initially deafening but ultimately resuscitating ‘instinct vs intellect’ biological explanation for our soul-corrupted condition, which confronts rather than denies the issue of the human condition: ‘My healing work isn’t possible without Jeremy’s biological explanation of the human condition because no matter how much you connect people with the soul, the mind still questions and needs to understand why we carry so much guilt, and Jeremy’s work is the medicine for the mind to make the connection between mind and soul. The problem with Jeremy’s work is it’s so hard to reach people with it who are living in denial of the human condition. The root problem is this guilt that is buried so deep. When we give Jeremy’s book to them they put it aside and don’t read it because it is too confronting. I mean you face your inner devils and demons on this path and I see many people when the question pops up of are they good or evil, they shy away from the process and try everything to avoid going to that point…​so I break down their defences to get them to connect to their inner child using shaman techniques and special herbs…​and then give them Jeremy’s explanations when they’re open’.

While he administers drugs to help break down the denial, the many testimonials we have received about the Deaf Effect make clear that simply persevering with reading and listening to the redeeming, reconciling and rehabilitating explanation of the human condition is enough to overcome the practiced denial of the human condition and resulting Deaf Effect.

 

 

This further testimonial from Lachlan Dunn reinforces the point the Swiss subscriber made that our psychologically distressed condition cannot be healed through human-condition-avoiding therapies or practices, but only through the actual understanding of the human condition itself (this can be viewed at www.humancondition.com/lachlan-dunn): ‘Something in me knew I just had to buy this book. In the beginning I was totally deaf and blind to it. My mind was just not having it. Because the human condition has been so historically fearful for us humans to think about, it’s the equivalent of touching a hot stove. And so we’re just not even going to go there.

Then I started watching the videos and I was getting the Adam Stork story. And I kind of got it, but not really. Like, it made sense, but it didn’t fully make sense. I didn’t even know what the human condition was. I was like, “What human condition? What are you even talking about?” I even tried to get my housemate at the time to like 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!

I continued to search, 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. The more meditation, breath work, journaling, whatever therapies I did, were only band aids upon band aids.

And so I thought I’d give the book another chance, just be 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 connect. When I started reading it again and it just, wow, you know. You never forget the day it all just clicks. This book just puts your brain and mind back together , it integrates you. This is simple 101 undeniable biology. There’s no leaps of faith. There’s no esoteric, mystical, metaphysical stuff. It’s straight up complete answers.

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.’

 

 

Yes, understanding the human condition is the key that has been needed ‘to make the connection between mind and soul’, as the Swiss subscriber said; or ‘put your mind, brain, heart and soul back together’, as Lachlan Dunn said.

You can read much more about the futile and extremely dishonest and dangerous New Age, Politically Correct, Woke, Socialist pseudo idealistic movements in my book Death by Dogma.

And I should emphasise that the new, all-relieving and all-fixing transformed life that understanding of the human condition makes possible is not like a religion where we defer to the embodiment of the ideals in the exceptionally innocent, denial-free, sound life of a great prophet (see, for example, the explanation of Christ’s life in my Freedom Essay 39: Christ explained), but the actual bringing about of an ideal world through the redeeming biological explanation of our corrupted condition. This is the end of dogma, faith and belief and the beginning of knowing, of understanding.

 

 

Section 6.  Resignation to living in denial of the human condition

Since we obviously aren’t born practising denial of our corrupted condition, the question arises of when do we adopt it? The answer is during our early teenage years. As I explain in detail in Freedom Essay 30, titled Resignation, virtually every adolescent has, until now, had to go through an extremely agonising ‘dark night of the soul’—a confrontation in their mind with the unbearably depressing truth of their and the human race’s soul-corrupted human condition but, unable to explain and understand that mad state, had no choice other than to resign themselves to blocking out from their mind that whole intolerably depressing subject. The result is that virtually all adults, as has been evidenced, carry a hidden fear of ever going near the issue of our corrupted condition again—hence the Deaf Effect—and instead defensively maintain that there’s no such thing as our soul-corrupted condition that needs to be explained.

 

 

Yes, the human condition has—until now—been a terrifying ‘red line’ virtually all humans learnt never to cross, so much so that the human race has built a whole dishonest, false world on the human-condition-avoiding side of that ‘red line’, and left a whole universe of awareness, sensitivity and insightfulness based on truthful thinking on the other side of it! Plato was absolutely right about us living in a fearful cave-like state of terrible darkness!

Most wonderfully, now that our corrupted human condition has been explained and made sense of, no adolescent need ever again go through this horror of Resignation to living in fearful denial of the human condition and, as a result, become an extremely insecure person living on the human-condition-avoiding, dishonest, preoccupied-with-self-distraction, artificial and superficial side of the ‘red line’.

And equally wonderfully, all those who have had to resign to living on the human-condition-avoiding side of the ‘red line’ in an extremely superficial and artificial state can become transformed to living free of that human-condition-afflicted, shallow, traumatised existence. This transformation of the human race that understanding of the human condition obviously makes possible—where we no longer have to be preoccupied artificially and superficially proving we are good and not bad all the time—is explained on our Transformation page (www.humancondition.com/transformation), and in chapter 9 of FREEDOM.

I should explain that the reason I said ‘virtually all humans’ had to resign to living in denial of the human condition is because there are two small categories of people who haven’t resigned.

Firstly, there is the group I call ‘Ships at Sea’ who for various reasons—such as being exceptionally defiant of any imposition being placed upon them—bravely refused to ‘pull into port’ as it were and resign to living in denial of the human condition when the ‘storms out at sea’ of unbearable self-confrontation occurred during their adolescence; basically choosing honest madness over alienated stability.

And secondly, there are the very rare few denial-free thinkers, historically known as ‘prophets’, who were so exceptionally nurtured with unconditional love during their upbringing, and who are thus exceptionally innocent, free of upset, that they didn’t need to resign to living in fearful denial of the human condition and could therefore remain on the honest side of the ‘red line’—which is how I explained Plato’s extraordinary truthfulness earlier. When the eminent psychiatrist R.D. Laing wrote, ‘Each child is a new beginning, a potential prophet’ (The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise, 1967, p.26 of 156), he was recognising how a sufficiently innocent ‘beginning’ can create a ‘prophet’.

Obviously my ability to find so many truthful, penetrating insights about our world was made possible because I’ve always lived on the human-condition-confronting, honest side of that ‘red line’, which is why I’ve been described as a prophet. You can’t find the truth with lies. And I should say that once you become familiar with the dishonest and honest sides of the ‘red line’, you can tell very quickly which side any presentation is coming from.

You can read about Resignation, ‘Ships at Sea’ and prophets in my Freedom Essay 30: Resignation.

 

 

Section 7.  Overcoming the Deaf Effect is human-race-savingly important!

Yes, beyond the need to end the absolute horror of adolescents having to suffer the process of Resignation, understanding of the human condition is the key to the overall need we humans have to take the underlying human-condition-stricken pain out of our brains; end the tsunami of psychological distress happening everywhere; fix the epidemic of mental illness and with it drug addiction; save the human race from the imminent threat of terminal levels of alienation—and by so doing allow all humans to experience a fabulous human-condition-free life, and fix the world!

BUT TO ACHIEVE THAT, THE DEAF EFFECT MUST BE OVERCOME!!

So those earlier six steps of logic that flow from what is explained in THE Interview provide the obvious reason for why the Deaf Effect occurs. And they also provide the obvious reason why you need to patiently keep reading and listening to presentations of the redeeming, reconciling and rehabilitating explanation of the human condition to overcome the Deaf Effect, because doing so will enable you to discover the fabulous, all-relieving and all-wonderful life that understanding the human condition finally makes possible.

And that is precisely the reason for this essential accompaniment to THE Interview of Please, Please, Beware The ‘Deaf Effect’!

 

 

Section 8.  The fabulously relieved and exciting life once you get through the Deaf Effect

 

 

To conclude this presentation, I will play some inspiring descriptions that illustrate just how fabulously relieved and exciting life is ONCE YOU GET THROUGH THE DEAF EFFECT AND OUT OF PLATO’S HORRIBLY DEBILITATING DARK CAVE, CROSS OVER THAT ‘RED LINE’ I TALKED ABOUT, TO A DENIAL-FREE, TRUTHFUL, INSIGHTFUL, SENSITIVE AND ALL-LOVING WORLD!

 

 

This is the author Refentse Molosiwa from South Africa (this can be viewed at www.humancondition.com/refentse-molosiwa): ‘Just wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. Nothing comes close to Jeremy Griffith’s work, absolutely nothing. I honestly don’t know how we can go forward in the world without Jeremy’s information. I don’t see a way, it’s so important. For one man to be able to really go that whole journey and write it down in such a clear, concise way. Whoa! I cannot overstate the profundity of what Jeremy did. And when he broke down the human condition, oh my goodness gracious! That was like running into a wall, and just like, wow! I really have no words to describe the profundity of the understanding. It made my life make absolute sense.

Jeremy’s book FREEDOM is the greatest book ever written in my opinion. There is no other book like that. There’s no dogma, there’s no belief system, there’s no “You must believe this”, or something like that. No, it’s just “Use your mind.” You have to just think and the healing understanding that Jeremy Griffith has given us is the only way.

All the different types of philosophies—New Age; I went into economics, education, conspiracies; I read people like David Icke. I went down the rabbit hole of almost all the things that you can find. Politics, religion, having tried yoga and all of these things, I’m like, “Yeah, that’s very true in as much as it just calmed the mind like a relief mechanism, but it did not give us a healing explanation to the human condition.” And actually, why do you even have to get over your mind? Why do you even have to stop your mind and overcome it and transcend it? Why can’t we just understand it in the first place and through that understanding, heal? And that understanding is definitely provided by Jeremy Griffith’s book.

Jeremy Griffith’s work is just so healing, so reconciling that every form of animosity I ever had to white people was all wiped away in an instant! When racism actually made sense, that was one of the most reconciling explanations I’ve ever heard in my life, to the point where I don’t see colour anymore. Honestly, we’re living in the greatest time of man’s history. The fact that we are living in the time when the explanation has been found, it’s just beyond words to be honest.’

 

 

And this is Joanne Taylor, a mother of two from England (this can be viewed at www.humancondition.com/joanne-taylor): ‘Oh my god, this is going to change the f***ing world! I can’t believe I’ve come across this. It really is mind-blowing every single day. I can’t wait for everyone to get onto this. THE Interview will wipe every tear and suffering from the Earth [from the Bible (Rev. 21:4)]. I’m phoning people saying “WATCH THIS INTERVIEW!” And people are like, “Oh yeah, don’t worry, I’ll look at it later.” And I’m like, “No! Look at it now!” I’m still pinching myself three years later. It just keeps giving and giving and giving. “The truth shall set you free [as Christ said (John 8:32)].” This really is the truth and it really has set me free. This absolutely answers everything. It’s home. I’ve been homesick me entire life and now I’ve found my way home. And it just feels incredible, it really does!’

 

 

Professor Yonas Adaye Adeto, the Director of the Institute for Peace and Security Studies at Addis Ababa University and a Commissioner of the Ethiopian National Dialogue Commission, gave this written commendation (which a generated voice will narrate): ‘I consider FREEDOM by Jeremy Griffith to be the rarest gift on the planet. Jeremy tells the truth and is our guide to ending the human condition. In my assessment, his books are next only to the Bible, they truly make sense and are absolutely thrilling, liberating and transformative. I have given a copy of FREEDOM to dozens of my friends and colleagues, including at the Ethiopian National Dialogue Commission who ended up buying and recommending the book to many. What else should be disseminated more than good news such as this? It does not preach a new religion; it does not degrade your colour, creed or class; it embraces humanity as they are; it ignites imagination; it empowers you to release your own potential to be kind to yourself, to your loved ones and to the world. It reinforces your religion, makes you accept yourself, and fosters respect for the rest of humanity! Most importantly, it makes sense of and ends the moral corruption we are all facing across the world today. I am glad to cite the works in my research and presentations. I just recommended that some of my PhD students keep the books as self-help readings in their bags and on their shelves wherever they go.’

 

 

And from the Irishman Kevin Ryan (this can be viewed at www.humancondition.com/kevin-ryan): ‘If you’d like to see something beautiful, I mean really beautiful, get yourself down to Dublin on a Saturday at the Molly Malone statue to my van with FIX THE WORLD and Jeremy Griffith’s biological explanation of our human condition on it. And just be a fly on the wall! And when it hits you, really hits you, what we in FIX THE WORLD are part of, you’ll pack up and go home because the excitement will be just too much!!

You’ll see people everywhere reading FIX THE WORLD’s flyers, downloading Jeremy’s book FREEDOM, reading the commendations, to name just a few things—and then see the party that’s building!!! I’ve never seen people so beautiful as I did today through my eyes that have this understanding!! No matter who they are!! It’s on, the new world is being born, and it’s just the most absolutely wonderful, wonderful life now to be part of!!!

Anyway, I’m just full of excitement! It’s in the air, it’s everywhere. Nothing, absolutely nothing, comes close to putting this information into someone’s hands, you feel it run right through you!

And then just think of what’s sitting in the middle of Dublin city: Jeremy Griffith’s information, and it’s just spreading around the world as we speak! “The truth only has to appear once to set everything ablaze”, as Teilhard de Chardin said. Let Go!!!’

 

Clearly the ‘beyond words’, ‘wonderful, wonderful’, ‘absolutely, thrilling, liberating and transformative’, ‘wipe every tear and suffering from the Earth’, ‘I’ve found my way home’, ‘greatest time of human history’ is within our grasp!

So, when all the efforts of all the humans who have ever lived have, after 2 million years, finally produced the redeeming understanding of our human condition that makes possible our species’ dreamed-of freedom from the angry, egocentric and alienated horror of that existence, PLEASE, PLEASE, BEWARE THE DEAF EFFECT!

After all that immense time, and immense suffering, and immense effort, please don’t let the Deaf Effect prevent you and the human race from making the final, relatively small effort of persevering with listening to and reading about the explanation of the human condition, so that you and the human race as a whole can overcome the Deaf Effect and achieve our species’ long fought-for freedom!

As the American clergyman and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr urged in his stirring 1963 speech ‘I have a dream’—which was actually his ‘dream’ of the time when the human race could finally be free of the human condition—please, please ‘allow freedom to ring…​from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city’ because ‘all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics’ are now, at last, able to ‘join hands and sing’, ‘Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!’ (‘I Have A Dream’ speech, 28 Aug. 1963).

 

 

Note: THE Interview and its extremely helpful addition Please, Please, Beware The ‘Deaf Effect’! are available together in the second edition of THE Interview book.