The Shock of Change that understanding the human condition brings

Name: The Shock of Change that understanding the human condition brings
Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)

Jeremy Griffith

Jan 2023 · WTM Publishing & Communications

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As biologist Jeremy Griffith explains in THE Interview (which psychiatrist Professor Harry Prosen described as “the most important interview of all time”), while we humans lacked the explanation for our 2-million-year corrupted human condition we had no choice but to deny that our distant ape ancestors lived in a state of cooperative and loving innocence. But with the good reason for our corrupted condition now finally found, our species' original state of innocence can at last be admitted - and, as Griffith makes clear in his essay The Great Guilt, what that honesty finally allows us to see is the immense guilt and shame we humans have been carrying for corrupting our original instinctive self or soul.

Finding the redeeming understanding of our corrupted condition also means we no longer need to employ the artificial reinforcements we have been depending on to sustain our sense of self-worth of attacking, defying, and denying the implication that we are guilty, bad people. What this essay, The Shock Of Change that understanding the human condition brings, addresses is how to manage the great shock of change that inevitably occurs in this fabulous transformation from having to depend on our now obsoleted, artificial, angry, egocentric and alienating forms of reinforcement, to living free of them.

This booklet is supported by a very informative website at HumanCondition.com.

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4.5

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Damon Isherwood

January 12, 2023

Read this book, but only after you have read Griffith's THE Interview. That book explains the human condition; this one explains how to live with that understanding. Enough said.

Gigi Wood

May 17, 2024

EVeryone needs to read and take up this way of being. it is our only hope.

About the author

Jeremy Griffith is an Australian biologist who has dedicated his life to bringing accountable, biological understanding to the dilemma of the human condition.

Griffith has published over 20 books on the human condition, which is the underlying issue in all human life of our species’ extraordinary capacity for what has been called ‘good’ and ‘evil’. These books include the Australasian bestseller A Species In Denial, his definitive treatise, FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition, and THE Interview.

Griffith’s work has attracted the support of such eminent scientists as the former President of the Canadian Psychiatric Association Professor Harry Prosen, the esteemed American ecologist Professor Stuart Hurlbert, the Nobel Prize winning physicist Stephen Hawking, as well as other distinguished thinkers such as Sir Laurens van der Post – see www.humancondition.com/commendations.

Griffith is the founder of the World Transformation Movement charity – www.humancondition.com.

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