Why are we so brilliant, and yet so broken, so conflicted, so unfinished?

We can engineer miracles and moon landings, and connect across oceans in seconds – but we can’t find peace in our own streets, our own homes, or our own heads. Humanity has mastered everything but self-understanding and true compassion.

For all our talk of love, equality, and progress, we’re still divided by color, gender, faith, and all manner of ideology – stuck in the same exhausting cycle of blame and confusion that’s been our pattern for millennia. 

Australian biologist Jeremy Griffith has been asking the hardest question of all – WHY? – for decades. But instead of preaching, judging, or selling another self-help dream, he’s been offering something far more disruptive and ultimately more meaningful: a biological explanation of why we humans behave the way we do, and how that understanding could finally heal the world. 

Through his landmark work, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition, shared freely by the World Transformation Movement, Griffith lays out a theory that’s been called everything from “the most important book of our time” by Professor Harry Prosen, a former President of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, to representing “the coming of Darwin II” by Dr Stuart Hurlbert, a Professor Emeritus of ecology at San Diego State University.  

It’s not religion or ideology – it’s science, with heart. 

Explaining, Not Judging: The Human Condition Unlocked 

Griffith doesn’t frame humanity as fallen or flawed, he calls humans conflicted. His biology-based insight reframes every struggle – personal, racial, cultural – as being a manifestation of the same universal misunderstanding. 

Here’s the heart of it. For millions of years, our instincts ran the show – automatic, unthinking, tuned to maintain itself through whatever form natural selection found. Then, uniquely, through that process, our conscious brain developed – the part of ourselves that questions, imagines, and decides. But the instincts and the new intellect didn’t speak the same language. Our instincts couldn’t comprehend why we’d challenge them, and we couldn’t explain why our new intellect felt the need to question. Out of that internal clash and following confusion came guilt, defensiveness, anger – the raw, misunderstood pain that Griffith says generated our divided human condition. 

That pain, he says, doesn’t mean we failed as a species – it actually proves human courage. It’s the story of a species learning to think, struggling with the weight of its own awareness, and seeking to search for knowledge to overcome that initial incomprehension. And once we finally understand that journey, everything changes. 

One Science, Many Freedoms 

Griffith’s explanation doesn’t just clear up the psychology – it rewrites the sociology it created.  

When we appreciate that every person, no matter their race, culture, age, or gender, has been fighting the same inner war for self-worth and acceptance, those outer divisions and the animosity they created start to crumble. 

It’s not reconciliation via dogmatic politics – it’s reconciliation via first principle-based science. The same biology that once divided us now gives us the proof that we’re one. 

As the former Canadian Psychiatric Association President Professor Harry Prosen also said: Griffith’s theory represents “the 11th hour breakthrough biological explanation of the human condition necessary for the psychological rehabilitation and transformation of our species.” 

The University of Dallas’ Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Psychology Scott Churchill backed him up, stating that FREEDOM “is the book all humans need to read for our collective wellbeing.” 

From Biology to Belonging 

Griffith’s wisdom isn’t just in the theory – it’s in the compassion behind it. He takes the cool logic of science and infuses it with warmth, revealing that beneath all our turmoil, human beings are, and always have been, a deeply loving species. 

Our aggression, our conflict, our defensiveness – these were never signs of intentional cruelty, he says, but of confusion. They were the painful byproducts of a species trying to reconcile instinct with understanding, love with logic. 

“When our self-managing, conscious mind began experimenting with understanding life,” Griffith writes, “our instinctive self didn’t understand and condemned us. That misunderstanding created all our anger, egocentricity, and alienation – the human condition. Understanding that now, at last, reconciles us.” 

In his view, that realization changes everything. It means the human story isn’t one of corruption – it’s one of courage. The wars we’ve fought, inside and out, were never proof of evil, but proof of how much love we carry – love fierce enough to endure and manage misunderstanding until understanding could arrive. 

So this isn’t about apologizing for humanity. It’s about finally seeing ourselves clearly enough to forgive – not only one another, but the long, weary journey that got us here. 

The World Transformation Movement: A Revolution Without Violence 

Through the World Transformation Movement, Griffith’s work has sparked a quiet global uprising, from the establishment of over 80 WTM Centers across the Americas, Africa, the United Kingdom, Europe, Asia, and Oceania, to the online engagement of people from all walks of life – those who see that the real revolution possible isn’t political, cultural, or economic. It’s all psychological. 

The WTM makes FREEDOM and all of Griffith’s other works free to read online. That’s unique and crucial. No gatekeepers, no paywalls, no barriers. Just open access to an idea that says we’ve all been fighting the same inner battle, and now we can stop. 

Because once you see that the conflict between instinct and intellect has been running the show, you stop seeing others as enemies and start seeing everyone as fellow humans – each of us caught in the same storm, trying to make sense of it. 

Why This Moment Matters 

Right now, we’re tired.  

Tired of outrage.  

Tired of trying to fix what we don’t understand.  

So Jeremy Griffith’s science drops into that exhaustion like a beam of light – not sentimental, but liberating. It says: 

We’ve all been misunderstood for the same reason.
We’ve all been hurting for the same reason.
And once we understand that, healing isn’t idealism – it’s inevitability. 

That’s the revolution this world needs.
Not one built on protest signs, but on peace of mind.
Not another theory of division, but a science of unity. 

For anyone ready to stop surviving and start understanding, Griffith’s books aren’t just another theory – they suggest a mirror, a map, and a movement we should at least explore. And whether or not one accepts Griffith’s conclusions, his work challenges us to look inward – and to imagine that understanding ourselves might be the most revolutionary act of all.