The Shock of Change That Understanding the Human Condition Brings

by Jeremy Griffith

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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Published August 11, 2023

About the author

Jeremy Griffith (1945-) is an Australian biologist who has dedicated his life to bringing fully accountable, biological understanding to the dilemma of the human condition–the underlying issue in all human life of our species’ extraordinary capacity for what has been called ‘good’ and ‘evil’.

Reviews

[Nicoletta · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you've read and understand Jeremy Griffith’s critical explanation of our human condition, then this Shock of Change booklet explaining the difficulty of adjusting to living with this incredible understanding, whilst still having to manage living in our well established life. What Jeremy presents in this material, and talking us readers through our necessary journey as humans over the past 2 million years, and our individual progress with adjusting to this new paradigm of living with understanding over previously denying any of these Triths is HUGE and therefore not only do we need to be compassionate with ourselves, but we can ground ourselves in the FACT that humans are fundamentally good heroes and we are gifted with a way to transform from living in the upset affliction and madness the world is in now. By seeing a path out of the chaos through having the real underlying explanations of our psychological condition, it is now legitimate to move on to living free from the human condition and help free the whole of humanity. And this Shock of Change booklet and subsequent video is immensely helpful to show us humans the way forward now; to be gifted with this immense meaning and purpose is truly life changing and so precious.

[Nick Rule · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a fantastic book to accompany Jeremy Griffiths other books on the topic of the human condition. It gives great guidance on the paradigm shift to the individual and the human race now faced with the understanding of the human condition as we come to terms with and adjust to a new fabulous future that awaits us.

[Neil · Rating 5 out of 5]

A monumental read!

In it, Griffith explains the predicament and opportunity that now awaits given we can now understand the human condition. The blinkers are off and with that comes a paradigm shift like no other!!

Read this as an important accompaniment to Griffith's main work Freedom: The End of the Human Condition.