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FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition by Jeremy Griffith

Author Biography

Short Biography

Jeremy Griffith (b. 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’.

Medium Biography

Born in 1945, and raised on a sheep station (ranch) in rural New South Wales, Australia, Jeremy Griffith was educated at Geelong Grammar School in Victoria. He matriculated with first class honors in biology and in 1965 began a science degree at the University of New England in northern New South Wales. While there, Jeremy played representative rugby union football, making the 1966 trials for the national team, the Wallabies.

Deferring his studies in 1967, Jeremy hitchhiked to Tasmania, determined to save the Thylacine—the Tasmanian Tiger—from extinction. The search was to last more than six years—the most thorough investigation ever into the plight of the Tasmanian Tiger—but sadly concluded the ‘Tiger’ was indeed extinct. The quest generated articles in the American Museum of Natural History’s journal, Natural History, and Australian Geographic, and featured in an episode of the Australian television series A Big Country.

In 1971 Jeremy completed his BSc in zoology at the University of Sydney and the following year, in the same self-sufficient spirit with which he had undertaken the ‘Tiger’ search, he established Griffith Tablecraft, a highly successful business manufacturing furniture based on his own simple and natural designs. It was during this time that, at age 27, Jeremy realised that trying to save animals from extinction or trying to build ideal furniture wasn’t addressing the real issue behind the extraordinary imperfection in human life, which is our behaviour, and that what was really needed in the world was a deeper understanding of ourselves—so it was to this issue of our species’ less-than-ideal behaviour that Jeremy turned his attention, a study that has remained his life’s focus for the last 40 years. Jeremy started writing about the human condition in 1975, established the non-profit organisation the World Transformation Movement in 1983 (dedicated to the study and amelioration of the human condition), and is the author of numerous books on the subject, including the 2004 bestseller, A Species In Denial and FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition, his 2016 “summa masterpiece”. To learn more about the WTM, which is based in Sydney, and about Jeremy’s role as founder and patron, see <www.humancondition.com>.

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Longer Biography

Born on December 1, 1945, and raised on a sheep station in rural New South Wales, Australia, Jeremy was educated at Geelong Grammar School in Victoria, a school whose visionary approach to education has produced such notable alumni as Rupert Murdoch and HRH The Prince of Wales. Deferring his studies in 1967, Jeremy undertook the most thorough investigation ever into the plight of the Tasmanian Tiger (thylacine)—a search that was to last more than six years, before concluding the ‘Tiger’ was indeed extinct. His findings were internationally reported, with articles appearing in the American Museum of Natural History’s journal, Natural History (see <www.humancondition.com/natural-history-tiger>), and Australian Geographic (see <www.humancondition.com/australian-geographic-tiger>). His search also featured in an episode of the national television series A Big Country (see <www.humancondition.com/big-country-tiger>).

In 1971 Jeremy completed his Bachelor of Science degree in zoology at the University of Sydney and the following year, in the same self-sufficient spirit with which he had undertaken the ‘Tiger’ search, he established a highly successful furniture manufacturing business based on his own simple and natural designs, which pioneered the use of bark-to-bark slabs of timber (see <www.humancondition.com/griffith-tablecraft>). On the subject of creativity, Jeremy is also an accomplished artist (see <www.humancondition.com/jeremy-art-work>).

Since 1975 Jeremy has spent the first, often pre-dawn, hours of each day thinking and writing about the human condition, the result of that dedication being his earlier articles and books about the human condition: his 1983 submissions to Nature and New Scientist magazines (which were rejected, with the then editor of Nature, John Maddox, telling Jeremy that his starting point teleological argument that there is an underlying order in nature ‘is wrong’—in chapter 3, Jeremy explains why the truth of the order in nature has been denied); Free: The End Of The Human Condition (published in 1988); Beyond The Human Condition (1991); A Species In Denial (2003), which was a bestseller in Australia and New Zealand; The Human Condition Documentary Proposal (2004); The Great Exodus: From the horror and darkness of the human condition (2006); Freedom (2009); The Book of Real Answers to Everything! (2011), and in 2016, his summa masterpiece book, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition, and its condensation, Transform Your Life And Save The World. In 2017, Jeremy commenced work on the Freedom Essay Series, an ongoing collection of essays (and videos) designed to help WTM subscribers access all the main subjects covered in FREEDOM in wonderfully illustrated bite-sized portions. He is also drafting content for a documentary on the human condition. (All published works are freely available to be read or printed.)

Jeremy’s books have attracted the support of such eminent scientists in the field as 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. A proposal to make a documentary about the human condition, The Human Condition Documentary Proposal, which Jeremy wrote the synopses for, received over 100 endorsements from many of the world’s leading scientists and thinkers, including professors Stephen Hawking and Nobel Laureate Charles H. Townes (see <www.humancondition.com/doco-responses>).

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Jeremy Griffith’s Biographical Profile

Professor Harry Prosen’s Introduction to FREEDOM contains further contexting and explanatory information about Jeremy’s background and work—including documentation of the horrific persecution that Jeremy had to endure for daring to truthfully confront the human condition, which resulted in a malicious media campaign and subsequently a successful 15-year-long defamation action taken by Jeremy and others against the persecutors. One overall result of having to endure and defeat such malice, which involved being treated as a pariah in the community for all of that time, was that Jeremy suffered from the totally debilitating Chronic Fatigue Syndrome from 1999 to 2009.

To learn more about the WTM, which is based in Sydney, and about Jeremy’s role as founder and patron, see <www.humancondition.com>

Full Biography, and Background to Why The Human Condition is the Most Contentious Yet Most Vital Area of Enquiry

(The following full biography is largely drawn from Professor Harry Prosen’s Introduction to Jeremy Griffith’s 2016 summa masterpiece book,

FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition.)

‘In the whole of written history there are only two or three people who have been able to think on this scale about the human condition.’

Prof. Anthony Barnett, zoologist, author and broadcaster, 1983

The Australian biologist Jeremy Griffith has dedicated his life to bringing fully accountable, biological explanation to the dilemma of the human condition—how do we explain our species’ extraordinary capacity for what has been called ‘good’ and ‘evil’. While it’s undeniable that humans are capable of great love and empathy, we also have an unspeakable history of greed, hatred, rape, torture, murder and war; a propensity for deeds so shocking and overwhelming that the eternal question of ‘Why?’ has seemed depressingly inexplicable. Even in our everyday behaviour, why, when the ideals of life are to be cooperative, selfless and loving, are we so ruthlessly competitive and selfish that human life has become all but unbearable and our planet near destroyed? How could we humans possibly be considered good when all the evidence seems to unequivocally indicate that we are a deeply flawed, bad, even ‘evil’ species?

For most people, trying to think about this ultimate of questions of whether we humans are fundamentally good or not has been an unbearably self-confronting exercise. Indeed, the issue of the human condition has been so depressing for virtually all humans that only a rare few individuals have been sound and secure enough in self to go anywhere near what the human condition really is. Nurtured by a sheltered upbringing in the Australian bush (countryside), Jeremy is one of those rare few. His soundness and resulting extraordinary integrity and thus clarity of thought, coupled with his training in biology, has enabled him to successfully grapple with this most foreboding of all subjects of the human condition and produce the breakthrough, human-behaviour-demystifying-and-ameliorating explanation of it.

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10 minute video introducing Jeremy Griffith by Tim Macartney-Snape (taken from part 2 of ‘2009 Introductory Video*’)

Born on 1st December 1945 and raised on a sheep station (ranch) in rural New South Wales, Australia, Jeremy was educated at Geelong Grammar School in Victoria, a school whose visionary approach to education has produced such notable alumni as Rupert Murdoch and HRH The Prince of Wales. He gained first class honours in biology in the state matriculation exams and in 1965 began a science degree at the University of New England in northern New South Wales. While there, Jeremy played representative rugby union football, making the 1966 trials for the national team, the Wallabies (see <www.humancondition.com/jeremy-rugby*>).

Jeremy (centre) in training as a representative rugby union football player

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Deferring his studies in 1967, Jeremy hitchhiked to Tasmania (with his dog Loaf), determined to save the Thylacine—the Tasmanian Tiger—from extinction. Setting off with only a trail bike to carry Loaf, his pack and himself, he began by searching all the remaining wilderness areas for evidence of the Tiger’s survival. The search was to last for more than six years—the most thorough investigation ever into the plight of the Tasmanian Tiger—and by its conclusion he and his co-worker James Malley had attracted significant support and a Thylacine Research Centre had been established. Bob Brown, who went on to develop the Australian Conservation Movement and become a Federal Member of Parliament, donated his time and income for a year to support the Centre, which had two field units in operation and camera monitors that Jeremy invented in all likely wilderness areas. Sadly Jeremy concluded the ‘Tiger’ was extinct. His findings were internationally reported, with articles appearing in the American Museum of Natural History’s journal, Natural History, and Australian Geographic. His search also featured in an episode of the national television series A Big Country. In the official report of the search, Bob Brown said of Jeremy’s ‘Uncompromising drive’ to save the thylacine, that ‘the future ease with which anyone shall be able to assess the thylacine’s history and survival states in full and clear perspective will be due to him’. (To read the magazine articles and a more detailed account of the search, visit Jeremy Griffith’s Remarkable Search for the Tasmanian Tiger*.)

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Setting off with nothing but his own enthusiasm, initiative and ingenuity—as these photos illustrate—Jeremy tried to rediscover and save the Tiger from extinction

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In December 1972, Natural History, the journal of the American Museum of Natural History, published an article written by Jeremy about his search for the Tiger

In 1971 Jeremy completed his Bachelor of Science degree in zoology at the University of Sydney and the following year, in the same self-sufficient spirit with which he had undertaken the ‘Tiger’ search, he began manufacturing furniture to his own simple and natural designs. His idea was to make table tops from bark-to-bark slabs of timber, so Jeremy hitchhiked to the north coast of NSW where such slabs were available. He made his first table top by carting a slab in a wheelbarrow four kilometres from the sawmill to a joinery where it could be planed. The business grew and in late 1973 he was joined by one of his brothers.

By 1976 they had saved enough to buy a 54 hectare property, on which they built an immense pole-framed workshop. Their unique furniture received much critical acclaim, including an article titled ‘Craft as a Successful Livelihood’ published in Craft Australia (1978). The highly successful furniture manufacturing business employed some 45 people and was a major tourist attraction when, in 1991 Jeremy sold his share in the business. (Read more about Jeremy’s Griffith Tablecraft furniture*.)

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Advertisements for Jeremy’s furniture from 1990 Australian home decorating magazines.

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The creativity Jeremy expressed in his natural furniture designs has been a hallmark throughout all of his life. Jeremy is an accomplished artist and on the rare occasions he is not working, Jeremy is thinking about a human-condition-free future for the human race, or creating useful tools for, and beautiful unpretentious, natural works of art to adorn, that wonderful new world. (Read more about Jeremy Griffith’s artwork*.)

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An upbringing nurtured with real, unconditional love (yes, it is to the nurturing from Jeremy’s mother—and the absence of oppressive egocentricity in his father—that we really owe his world-saving insights into the human condition) in the sheltered isolation of the Australian bush left Jeremy deeply troubled and perplexed by all the selfishness, competitiveness, aggression, dishonesty and indifference on one hand, and all the suffering on the other hand, that he inevitably encountered in the wider world when he grew up. In time, he realised that trying to save animals from extinction or trying to build ideal furniture wasn’t going to make a difference to the extraordinary imperfection in human life and that he would have to get to the bottom of the issue of this seeming complete wrongness of human behaviour, which is the issue of the human condition. And so it was while building his furniture business that Jeremy first began to write down his ever developing thoughts about the problem of the human condition. Indeed, since 1975 Jeremy has spent the first, often pre-dawn, hours of each day thinking and writing about the human condition, the result of that dedication being his numerous articles and books about the human condition: in particular his 1983 submissions to Nature and New Scientist magazines (which were rejected, with the then editor of Nature, John Maddox, telling Jeremy that his starting point teleological argument that there is an underlying order in nature ‘is wrong’—teleology is increasingly being accepted as true); Free: The End Of The Human Condition (published in 1988); Beyond The Human Condition (1991); A Species In Denial (2003), which was a bestseller in Australia and New Zealand; The Human Condition Documentary Proposal (2004); The Great Exodus: From the horror and darkness of the human condition (2006); Freedom Expanded (2009); The Book of Real Answers to Everything! (2011), and in 2016, his summa masterpiece book, FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition, and its condensation, Transform Your Life And Save The World. In 2017, Jeremy commenced work on the Freedom Essay Series, an ongoing

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collection of essays (and videos) designed to help WTM subscribers access all the main subjects covered in FREEDOM in wonderfully illustrated bite-sized portions. He is also drafting content for a documentary on the human condition. (All published works are freely available* to be read or printed.)

Published writings by Jeremy Griffith (All these publications are freely available on the WTM website to be read or printed.)

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In 1992, Jeremy visited Africa as part of the international launch of Beyond The Human Condition, and whilst there he was invited to visit a number of primate field studies in Kenya and Burundi where he was able to gain first-hand observations of the behaviour of several primate species.

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Photos from Jeremy Griffith’s 1992 visit to Africa. Above L to R: Jeremy with Dr Shirley Strum’s Chololo Ranch Baboon Project study group in Kenya; Jeremy with Dr Susanne Abildgaard and a chimpanzee at Jane Goodall’s Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Centre in Burundi; Jeremy with the Susa Mountain Gorilla

study group in Rwanda. Jeremy met with the carer of this troop, Dr Elizabeth Macfie, veterinarian for Dian Fossey’s Karisoke Gorilla Research Centre.

Jeremy’s books have attracted the support of such eminent scientists in the field as Australia’s Templeton Prize-winning biologist Professor Charles Birch, New Zealand’s then foremost zoologist Professor John Morton, former President of the Canadian Psychiatric Association Professor Harry Prosen*, and other distinguished thinkers such as Sir Laurens van der Post. A proposal to make a documentary about the human condition, The Human Condition Documentary Proposal, which Jeremy wrote the synopses for, received over 100 endorsements* from many of the world’s leading scientists and thinkers, including professors Stephen Hawking and Nobel Laureate Charles H. Townes.

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World Transformation Movement Patrons, Jeremy Griffith, left, and Tim Macartney-Snape* AM OAM, with the late Sir Laurens van der Post*, pre-eminent philosopher and associate of Carl Jung, London, 1993.

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But while Jeremy’s work has attracted praise and received impressive commendations from some exceptional thinkers able to acknowledge his insights, he has also had to withstand the cynicism, indifference and even persecution that humans’ historic resistance to engaging the subject of the human condition produces.

It was soon after he began writing that Jeremy realised that not only was the scientific establishment failing its responsibility to address the issue of the human condition, but that, like the rest of humanity, it was treating the whole issue as an anathema. As a result, in 1983 Jeremy established a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting analysis of the human condition, now called the World Transformation Movement (WTM). So fearful, however, has humanity been of the issue of the human condition that a vicious campaign was launched in 1995 to try to shut down Jeremy’s work and bring the WTM into disrepute, which Jeremy, along with fellow WTM Patron, renowned mountaineer and twice-honoured Order of Australia recipient Tim Macartney-Snape* and the other supporters of the WTM, determinedly resisted—the result of which was the biggest defamation case in Australia’s history, against the two biggest, left-wing (dogmatic, pseudo-idealistic, ‘let’s pretend there’s no human condition and the world should just be ideal’, dishonest) media organisations in Australia, including its national public broadcaster. As will be explained more fully below, in 2010, after 15 long years, Jeremy and Tim were vindicated, enabling Jeremy to concentrate solely on producing works such as Freedom Expanded*, and his 2016 summa masterpiece book, FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition*.

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Jeremy in 2015 with the WTM ‘if-we-look-after-this-information-it-will-look-after-each-of-us-and-the-world’ pendant (see paragraph 1191 of FREEDOM*). The pendant can be purchased from WTM Products.

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Jeremy and his partner of 30 years, Annie Williams, live in Sydney. (To learn more about the WTM and Jeremy’s role as its founder and a patron, see <www.humancondition.com/description*>).

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The following quotes and references provide a deadly accurate account of how humans have had to live in denial of the depressing subject of the human condition, and how the severity of this denial has prevented effective analysis of the human condition and delayed the acceptance of Jeremy’s insight into it.

Despite the biologist E.O. Wilson, in his 2012 book The Social Conquest of Earth, evasively dismissing and trivialising the human condition as nothing more than selfless instincts at odds with selfish instincts within us, the human condition is actually such a terrifying subject for most humans (including the scientific fraternity) that they have had virtually no choice but to live in almost complete denial of it—yes, ours has been a culture of such pervasive dishonesty that it became nearly impossible to unearth the

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real, human-race-liberating, biological explanation of the human condition. Indeed, the most famous account ever given of the human condition forms the centrepiece of Plato’s most acclaimed work, The Republic, where humans are metaphorically depicted living as prisoners in a dark cave, deep underground, so fearful are they of the issue of the imperfection of their lives that the sun has the power to reveal. As Plato wrote, ‘I want you to go on to picture the enlightenment or ignorance of our human conditions somewhat as follows. Imagine an underground chamber, like a cave with an entrance open to the daylight and running a long way underground. In this chamber are men who have been prisoners there’ (c.360BC;

tr. H.D.P. Lee, 1955, p.278 of 405). Plato described how the cave’s exit is blocked by a ‘fire’ that ‘corresponds to the power of the sun’ (p.282), which the cave prisoners have to hide from because its ‘painful’ light would make ‘visible’ the unbearably depressing issue of ‘the imperfections of human life’ (p.282).

In terms of how unbearably confronting—in fact, suicidally depressing—the issue of the human condition has been, the great philosopher Søren Kierkegaard is said to have given the best account of that worse-than-death experience, writing in his aptly titled 1849 book The Sickness Unto Death that ‘the torment of despair is precisely the inability to die [and end the torture of our unexplained human condition]…that despair is the sickness unto death, this tormenting contradiction [of our ‘good-and-evil’-human-condition-afflicted lives], this sickness in the self; eternally to die, to die and yet not to die’ (tr. A. Hannay, 1989, p.48 of 179). The famous psychoanalyst Carl Jung provided an equally stark description of the terrifying nature of the human condition when he wrote: ‘When it [our shadow] appears…it is quite within the bounds of possibility for a man to recognize the relative evil of his nature, but it is a rare and shattering experience for him to gaze into the face of absolute evil’ (Aion: Researches into

the Phenomenology of the Self, 1959; tr. R. Hull, The Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Vol. 9/2, p.10). The ‘face of absolute evil’ is the ‘shattering’ possibility—if humans allow their minds to think about it—that they might indeed be a terrible mistake.

It follows then that to confront the human condition is an impossible ask for most people—as another great philosopher, Nikolai Berdyaev, acknowledged: ‘Knowledge requires great daring. It means victory over ancient, primeval terror…it must also be said of knowledge that it is bitter, and there is no escaping that bitterness…Particularly bitter is moral knowledge, the knowledge of good and evil. But the bitterness is due to the fallen state of the world… There is a deadly pain in the very distinction of good and evil, of the valuable and the worthless’ (The

Destiny of Man, 1931; tr. N. Duddington, 1960, pp.14-15 of 310). Yes, trying to think about our corrupted, ‘fallen’, seemingly ‘evil’ and ‘worthless’ human-condition-afflicted state has been an ‘ancient, primeval terror’, a ‘deadly pain’, ‘the bitterest thing in the world’ for virtually all humans—‘knowledge of good and evil’, of the human condition, ‘requires great daring’. No wonder the Australian zoologist, author and broadcaster, Anthony Barnett, said to Jeremy back in 1983 that ‘you are being very arrogant to think you can answer questions on this scale. In the whole of written history there are only two or three people who have been able to think on this scale about the human condition’ (in a recorded interview with Jeremy Griffith, 15 Jan. 1983).

So, how has science, humanity’s designated vehicle for finding understanding, dealt with the human condition, given it is practised by humans who have had no choice but to live in a cave-like state of complete denial of the suicidally depressing subject? The answer is that science has avoided it—it has been mechanistic and reductionist, focused on the details, avoiding the whole view that involves confronting the human condition.

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It is perhaps not surprising then that Jeremy’s work of bringing understanding to the human condition has been viciously persecuted by both the human-condition-avoiding community and the mechanistic scientific establishment—a problem that Plato also anticipated; to quote from a summary of Plato’s cave allegory from the Encarta Encyclopaedia: ‘Breaking free, one of the individuals escapes from the cave into the light of day. With the aid of the sun [living free of denial of the human condition], that person sees for the first time the real world and returns to the cave with the message that the only things they have seen heretofore are shadows and appearances and that the real world awaits them if they are willing to struggle free of their bonds. The shadowy environment of the cave symbolizes for Plato the physical world of [false] appearances. Escape into the sun-filled setting outside the cave symbolizes the transition to the real world’ (written by Prof. Robert M. Baird, accessed Jul. 2008, see: <www.wtmsources.

com/101*>). To return to Plato’s own words, ‘if he [the cave prisoner] were forcibly dragged up the steep and rocky ascent [out of the cave] and not let go till he had been dragged out into the sunlight [shown the truthful but at the same time exposing explanation of the human condition], the process would be a painful one, to which he would much object, and when he emerged into the light his eyes would be so overwhelmed by the brightness of it that he wouldn’t be able to see a single one of the things he was now told were real [this ‘deaf effect’ inability to absorb discussion of the human condition is what people often experience when they first try to read analysis of the human condition, which readers of Jeremy’s books should be warned about]’ (The Republic, p.280). Plato didn’t stop there, going on to say, ‘they would say that his [the person who tries to deliver understanding of the human condition] visit to the upper world had ruined his sight [they would treat him as if he was mad], and that the ascent [out of the cave] was not worth even attempting. And if anyone tried to release them and lead them up, they would kill him if they could lay hands on him’ (p.281). Yes, as psychologists recognise, ‘denials…fight back with a vengeance when faced with annihilation’ (Courage to Heal, L. Davis & E. Bass, 1988, p.175 of 495).

Of course, in today’s civilised world more subtle means of eliminating threats to the mechanistic, human-condition-avoiding, denial-based ‘cave existence’ were employed in the campaign of persecution against Jeremy for being the person who ‘escapes from the cave into the light of day’ and then ‘dragged [humanity] out into the sunlight’. This persecution was the focal point of the aforementioned legal battle undertaken to defend Jeremy’s work, in which the three judges in the New South Wales Court of Appeal unanimously found that an earlier ruling in a lower court did ‘not adequately consider’ ‘the nature and scale of its subject matter’, in particular ‘that the work was a grand narrative explanation from a holistic approach, involving teleological elements’, and other important submissions ‘were not adequately considered by the primary judge’ including that the work can make ‘those who take the trouble to grapple with it uncomfortable’ because it ‘involves reflections on subject-matter including the purpose of human existence which may, of its nature, cause an adverse reaction as it touches upon issues which some would regard as threatening to their ideals, values or even world views’! (See details of the persecution and court case, including this ruling*.)

Jeremy’s journey in bringing understanding to the human condition and protecting the integrity of that explanation—a 40 year saga—has certainly been a long and torturous one (indeed, the persecution was so terrible it left Jeremy seriously debilitated with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome from 1999 to 2009), but bringing understanding to the human condition is the only rational path forward for the human race! Indeed, with the world in such crisis and in desperate need of the all-clarifying, redeeming and ameliorating

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understanding of all our lives, in December 2012 an American billionaire pledged $200 million to Columbia University’s ‘accomplished scholars whose collective mission is both greater understanding of the human condition and the discovery of new cures for human suffering’ (The

Educated Observer, Winter 2013); and, on 2 April 2013, the President of the United States, Barack Obama, announced a ‘Brain Initiative’, giving ‘$100 million initial funding’ (The Sydney Morning

Herald, 4 Apr. 2013) to mechanistic science to also find ‘the underlying causes of… neurological and psychiatric conditions’ afflicting humans (US National Institutes of Health, accessed Apr. 2013 at: <http://

www.nih.gov/ science/brain/*>); and, on 28 January 2013, the European Commission announced the launch of the ‘Human Brain Project with a 2013 budget of €54 million (US$69 million)’ with a ‘projected billion-euro funding over the next ten years’ (Alison Abbott, ‘Neuroscience: Solving the brain’,

Nature, 2013, Vol.499, No.7458) with the goal of providing ‘a new understanding of the human brain and its diseases’ (Press Release, The Human Brain Project, 28 Jan. 2013; accessed Jul. 2013, see: <www.wtmsources.

com/111*>) to ‘offer solutions to tackling conditions such as depression’ (Barry Neild, ‘Scientists to simulate

human brain inside a supercomputer’, CNN International Edition, 12 Oct. 2012; accessed Jul. 2013 at: <http://edition.

cnn.com/2012/ 10/12/tech/human-brain-computer*>). But establishing a centre to study the human condition is precisely the initiative Jeremy took 30 years ago when he created the self-funded WTM (an act of prescience that evidences his clarity and integrity of thought)—an institute that even has the domain name ‘humancondition.com’*! And while these recently announced initiatives are admirable in their quest to seek understanding of the human condition, they are doing so from the traditional human-condition-avoiding position, which is basically self-defeating, as opposed to the human-condition-confronting position from which Jeremy has already explained it—and yet it is his approach that has been treated as heretical, an anathema and a threat by the mechanistic scientific establishment!!

The sincere hope, however, is that with our species’ predicament now so dire, the scientific establishment will finally acknowledge and support Jeremy’s human-race-saving insight into the human condition. After all, given how unconfrontable the human condition has been, how could Jeremy talk about the subject as freely and accurately as he does if he hadn’t been able to look into it and find the explanation for it?

For more insights into Jeremy Griffith’s ability to grapple with and solve the human condition, see Freedom Essays 49 to 51*.

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