William Pike

“The journalist Richard Neville was frighteningly accurate when, in summarising the desperate state of our species’ situation, he wrote that ‘We are locked in a race between self destruction and self discovery’. ONLY ‘self discovery’ — this reconciling, ameliorating, psychologically healing understanding of ourselves — can save us from ‘self destruction’.”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

“Essentially, what has happened is that humans have become so habituated to living in Plato’s dark cave of denial that when finally given the means to exit the cave and stand in the warm, healing sunshine of self-understanding,”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition

“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).”
― Jeremy Griffith, THE Interview That Solves The Human Condition And Saves The World!

“Bonobos provide the perfect evidence for how our distant ape ancestors became cooperative and loving.”
― Jeremy Griffith, THE Interview That Solves The Human Condition And Saves The World!