Why do we feel so lost in a world overflowing with knowledge? Why, despite modern advances, does anxiety, conflict, and disconnection seem more widespread than ever?
According to Australian biologist Jeremy Griffith, the answer lies not in what we don’t know about the world – but in what we haven’t understood about ourselves.
Jeremy Griffith, who has dedicated his life to bringing biological explanation to the dilemma of the human condition, author of FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition and founder of the World Transformation Movement, has developed a theory that many leading thinkers believe could transform our understanding of human behaviour. Professor Harry Prosen, former President of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, described it as “the 11th hour breakthrough” needed for humanity’s psychological maturation. Professor Scott Churchill, former Chair of the Psychology Department at the University of Dallas, called Griffith’s book FREEDOM “the book all humans need to read for our collective wellbeing.” Meanwhile, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi – the psychologist best known for pioneering the concept of “flow” – suggested that Griffith’s insights may trigger a fundamental shift in how we perceive human nature.
So what exactly is this insight that’s gaining global attention?
The Core of Our Suffering
Griffith’s central insight is that our psychological suffering – our anger, selfishness, and disconnection – is not evidence of some inherent defect, but a consequence of an unresolved inner conflict.
This conflict, he explains, began millions of years ago when humans evolved consciousness. Before then, our behavior was guided by instinct – automatic, gene-based responses shaped by natural selection. But the emergence of our nerve-based conscious mind introduced a fundamentally different learning system: one that doesn’t operate on pre-set responses but instead requires understanding to navigate the world.
And this, says Griffith, is the key distinction: genes can orientate us, but nerves need to understand. When our conscious intellect began experimenting and questioning, it often found itself in conflict with our instincts – which, unable to comprehend this shift, effectively condemned our conscious efforts. The resulting clash created guilt, anxiety, and a profound psychological insecurity that has shaped human behavior ever since.
Over time, this insecurity has expressed itself in countless ways – from depression, addiction, and violence, to trauma, relational breakdowns, and even systemic injustice. While each individual experience may appear unique, Griffith argues that they are all manifestations of the same original conflict. At the root of every internal conflict is the deeper battle between instinct and intellect – a clash that has driven generations of misunderstanding, defensiveness, and pain.
Crucially, Griffith argues that now that our psychologically upset condition is explained and defended, we can finally stop denying it – in ourselves and in others. We can begin to bring love and forgiveness to our darker emotions, not because we excuse them, but because we understand their origins. In fact, he suggests that becoming upset was not a failing, but an immensely courageous and heroic response to an unresolvable conflict. And now that we can resolve it, we are free to move forward.
The Healing Begins with Understanding
What sets Griffith’s theory apart is its scientific boldness – and its optimism.
He argues that, for the first time, we can biologically explain the origin of our psychological upset, and in doing so, disarm it. This means we no longer have to carry the burden of guilt and confusion. Instead, we can finally see ourselves as fundamentally good – not because we’ve lived perfect lives, but because we were engaged in a necessary and courageous struggle to understand ourselves.
As Professor Harry Prosen observed, “The beauty of Griffith’s treatise is that the healing starts at the macro level… from under the umbrella of that safe position, everyone can gradually work inwards to their particular experience of all the imperfections in human life that have now, finally, been made sense of.”
It’s a bold claim – but one that’s beginning to resonate. The World Transformation Movement, which shares and supports Griffith’s work, now has centres in nearly 30 countries, and his videos – especially THE Interview – have been viewed by millions around the world.
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A Path Forward
We live in a time of breakdown – politically, environmentally, and psychologically. But if Griffith is right, what we’re really facing is the final crisis of misunderstanding. And what lies on the other side is not collapse, but clarity.
Healing doesn’t begin by pretending we’re fine – it begins by facing the truth of what we’ve been through, both individually and as a species. That’s the transformation Griffith speaks of: not a spiritual bypass, but a science-based reckoning with our own story.
In an age of confusion, his message is unexpectedly hopeful: you are not broken – you are misunderstood. And now, at last, you can understand.
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