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Freedom

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The End of the Human Condition

by Jeremy Griffith
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/01/2016
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The fastest growing realization everywhere is that humanity can t go on the way it is going. Indeed, the great fear is we re entering endgame where we appear to have lost the race between self-destruction and self-discovery the race to find the psychologically relieving understanding of our good and evil -afflicted human condition. WELL, ASTONISHING AS IT IS, THIS BOOK BY AUSTRALIAN BIOLOGIST JEREMY GRIFFITH PRESENTS THE 11TH HOUR BREAKTHROUGH BIOLOGICAL EXPLANATION OF THE HUMAN CONDITION NECESSARY FOR THE PSYCHOLOGICAL REHABILITATION AND TRANSFORMATION OF OUR SPECIES The culmination of 40 years of studying and writing about our species psychosis, FREEDOM delivers nothing less than the holy grail of insight we have needed to free ourselves from the human condition. It is, in short, as Professor Harry Prosen, a former president of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, asserts in his Introduction, THE BOOK THAT SAVES THE WORLD .Griffith has been able to venture right to the bottom of the dark depths of what it is to be human and return with the fully accountable, true explanation of our seemingly imperfect lives. At long last we have the redeeming and thus transforming understanding of human behaviour And with that explanation found all the other great outstanding scientific mysteries about our existence are now also able to be truthfully explained of the meaning of our existence, of the origin of our unconditionally selfless moral instincts, and of why we humans became conscious when other animals haven t. Yes, the full story of life on Earth can finally be told and all of these incredible breakthroughs and insights are presented here in this greatest of all books .REVIEWS I ve never felt the world more threatening, more fractious, more fissiparous, more febrile We need to think, we need new ideas, we need proselytisers, we need obsessed people, which I think Jeremy is. We need him to be questioned. We need FREEDOM to be argued, we need it to be read and talked about and understood. It may be right, it may be wrong. But you need someone as committed as Jeremy to trying to understand what gets us here Jeremy made me think afresh and think differently. I hope he does it with you. -- Sir Bob Geldof"Biologist Jeremy Griffin has dedicated the past 40 years to understanding the human condition and considering the question of how we will save our species from self-destruction. By unravelling the mysteries of human behavior, he explains the origin of our moral instincts and why humans became conscious while other animals have not. This may sound hard-going, but it s really interesting. I very much enjoyed it. Three and a half stars " -- The Sun Newspaper"""This book IS the book all humans need to read for our collective wellbeing."" -- Scott D. Churchill, Professor and former Chair, Psychology Department, University of Dallas The sequence of discussion in FREEDOM is so logical and sensible, providing the necessary breakthrough in the critical issue of needing to understand ourselves. Dr. David J. Chivers, primatologist and former President of the Primate Society of Great Britain This book is actually written from a position outside of the human condition. It is just amazing; Griffith walks freely though all the psychosis of our troubled human condition and with such freedom is able to explain everything about us Tim Macartney-Snape, biologist, mountaineer, and twice-honored Order of Australia recipient"" Frankly, I am blown away as the saying goes The ground-breaking significance of this work is tremendous. -- Dr. Patricia Glazebrook, Professor and Chair of Philosophy, Dalhousie University It might help bring about a paradigm shift in the self-image of humanity an outcome that in the past only the great world religions have achieved. Dr Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Professor of Psychology, Claremont Graduate University This is a most amazing project. It is strongly interdisciplinary, visionary and forwardlooking. Dr Marc Bekoff, Profess
ISBN:
9781741290288
9781741290288
Category:
Developmental biology
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-01-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
WTM Publishing & Communications Pty, Limited
Country of origin:
Australia
Dimensions (mm):
233.93x155.96mm
Jeremy Griffith

Jeremy Griffith 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'.

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Reading ‘FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition’ by Australian biologist Jeremy Griffith is the most important thing I have ever done in my life. I believe all human beings have pondered the ultimate question of the meaning of life. But the question of life’s meaning is one we rarely allow ourselves to ponder deeply, perhaps because doing so often leads to unsettling or even depressing implications. We tend to conclude that life itself has no inherent meaning, and that each person must create their own. After all, how could there be any inherent purpose behind all the chaos, suffering, hatred, sickness, and so-called ‘evil’ that seem to saturate our world?
When I read Freedom, I experienced a moment of clarity that profoundly changed my understanding of that ultimate question. I discovered that there is, and always has been, immense meaning underlying not only my own life, but the life of every human who has ever lived.
In FREEDOM, Griffith presents a deeply accountable and hopeful scientific explanation for the true root cause of the contradictory nature of human behaviour and the resulting psychological turmoil we’ve each privately wrestled with, the question of whether our existence is meaningful or worthwhile and whether we humans are fundamentally good or bad.
The answer is that humanity has been on a heroic journey to find understanding, ultimately self understanding of our psychologically troubled human condition. This search inevitably caused a battle to break out within us between our instinctive, ideal behaviour expecting self and our insightful, fully conscious intellect. Finding understanding of that inner conflict reconciles these two aspects of ourselves and brings peace to the turmoil.
The search for this self understanding has been the great underlying meaning of human existence and I realised that the very understanding humanity has been seeking was in my hands as I read FREEDOM. Bringing this understanding to the world, before it's too late and our collective psychological distress overwhelms us is I believe, the true task facing humanity today. This understanding belongs to everyone, it brings with it the fulfilment, meaning and the peace we have all been searching for. As you can probably tell I would say it's an excellent read.

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What if we didn't inherit savage instincts from our primate ancestors, what if we inherited loving instincts? In many ways that is the start point of Griffith’s examination of the human condition. However that raises an obvious question, ‘if our aggression isn't instinctive, where does it come from?’. The answer, according to Griffith, is from a psychosis which arose when our conscious mind emerged and tried to wrest the management of our lives from those instincts. Heady stuff, but a good journey for those with an interest in challenging ideas about the human condition.

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Having heard about this book from a friend I have long trusted, I made the purchase and was initially sceptical but then very impressed with its logic.

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