WTM FAQ 1.7

 

What scientific support does Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition have?

 

Jeremy Griffith’s breakthrough explanation of the human condition is gaining support from leading scientists including Professors Harry Prosen, Stuart Hurlbert, Charles Birch and John Morton, despite resistance typical of paradigm-shifting ideas in science.

 

While biologist Jeremy Griffith’s now absolutely desperately needed understanding of the human condition has received significant scientific evaluation, and, subsequent to that, growing support, mainstream science is yet to recognise and support it—but that is what occurs with paradigm-shifting, breakthroughs in science. When the physicist Max Planck said ‘Science progresses funeral by funeral’ (Marilyn Ferguson’s reference to a comment by Planck in his Scientific Autobiography, 1948; New Age mag. Aug. 1982; see www.wtmsources.com/174) he was recognising how attached each generation of scientists becomes to the way of thinking they grew up with, and therefore how slow science as a whole is to move to a new paradigm of understanding. And the playwright George Bernard Shaw also warned of how difficult it is to introduce a new paradigm of thinking—especially one that dares to confront the historically unbearably confronting and off-limits subject of the human condition—when he said that ‘All great truths begin as blasphemies’ (Annajanska, 1919). So yes, confronting the human condition when everyone has been living in fearful denial of it, even though it has finally been explained and made safe to confront, represents the biggest of all ‘blasphemies’. (You can read more about why the mechanistic scientific establishment as a whole has studiously avoided the true, psychological nature of the human condition in FAQ 1.10, Freedom Essay 40: Judgment Day finally explained, and in chapter 2:4 of FREEDOM titled ‘How has science copied with the issue of the human condition’.)

As mentioned, despite this entrenched resistance, there is growing support for Jeremy’s explanation. Commendations from scientists for Jeremy’s main presentation in his book FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition, which was launched in 2016 at the Royal Geographical Society in London, include:

 

• ‘This book by Australian biologist Jeremy Griffith presents the 11th hour breakthrough biological explanation of the human condition needed for the psychological rehabilitation and maturation of the human race!’ Professor Harry Prosen, former president of the Canadian Psychiatric Association (you can see Professor Prosen discussing FREEDOM in front of the Milwaukee Zoo bonobo enclosure)

 

 

• ‘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.’ Professor Scott D. Churchill, former Chair, Psychology Department, University of Dallas

 

 

• ‘The sequence of discussion in FREEDOM is so logical and sensible, providing the necessary breakthrough in the critical issue of needing to understand ourselves.’ Professor David Chivers, University of Cambridge anthropologist and former President of the Primate Society of Great Britain

 

 

• ‘I am stunned & honored to have lived to see the coming of ‘Darwin II’. I say this because after Darwin’s theory of Natural Selection explained the variety of life, Jeremy Griffith has gone on to solve the other four main questions science had to answer about our world and place in it. They are: 1) the dilemma of the human condition, which his instinct vs intellect explanation in chapter 3 of his main, seminal book FREEDOM finally solves; 2) how we humans became fully conscious when other species haven’t, which he answers in chapter 7; 3) the origins of humans’ unique moral nature, which he answers in chapter 5, which it turns out American philosopher John Fiske had already explained in 1874 but mechanistic science had ignored; and 4) the truth of the Integrative Meaning of existence (which we have personified as ‘God’), in chapter 4, which only a rare few thinkers in history have been able to recognize. And having been able to solve those primary issues he has, in chapter 8, using first principle and fully accountable biological explanations been able to resolve all the secondary problems like: the polarized state of politics; the rift between men and women; the schism between science and religion; the conflict between individuals and between races (thus ending aggression and war at its source); and, above all, bring an end to the threat of terminal psychosis and our species’ extinction! A truly phenomenal, beyond description, scientific achievement!’ Professor Stuart Hurlbert, esteemed ecologist and Professor Emeritus of Biology, San Diego State University

 

Further support has come from the likes of Australia’s Templeton Prize-winning biologist Professor Charles Birch, and New Zealand’s then foremost zoologist Professor John Morton, as well as other distinguished thinkers such as Sir Laurens van der Post.

Jeremy’s Human Condition Documentary Proposal that puts forward his explanation of the human condition generated marvellous endorsements from over 100 of the world’s leading scientists and thinkers, including Professor Stephen Hawking (Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, Cambridge University, world-leading physicist), who, responding through his secretary because he suffers from motor neurone disease, ‘is most interested in your impressive proposal’; Professor Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (former chair, Department of Psychology, University of Chicago), who replied: ‘it might help bring about a paradigm shift in the self-image of humanity—an outcome that in the past only the great world religions have achieved’; and Professor Patricia Glazebrook (Chair of Philosophy, Dalhousie University) who said: ‘Frankly, I am ‘blown away’ as the saying goes​…The ground-breaking significance of this work is tremendous.’

 

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Further responses from thought leaders in the scientific community can be read on the WTM’s Reviews and Commendations page.