Frequently Asked Questions
1. What is the World Transformation Movement?
Established in Sydney, Australia, in 1983, the World Transformation Movement (WTM) is a global not-for-profit organisation dedicated to transforming the human race by addressing the root cause of all human conflict and suffering: the human condition. The WTM in particular promotes Australian biologist and author Jeremy Griffith’s breakthrough biological explanation of the human condition, which reveals how the clash between our instincts and intellect led to our species’ angry, egocentric and alienated behaviour. This understanding has been described by Professor Harry Prosen, a past President of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, as the “holy grail of insight” required for the psychological rehabilitation of humanity. Read more in the WTM’s FAQ 3.1.
2. Who is Jeremy Griffith?
Jeremy Griffith is an Australian biologist who has dedicated his life to developing a biologically grounded explanation of the underlying issue in all human affairs of the human condition. Raised on a sheep station in rural New South Wales, he was educated at Geelong Grammar School, conducted the most thorough investigation into the fate of the Tasmanian Tiger, and later completed a Bachelor of Science in zoology at the University of Sydney. In 1983, Griffith established a non-profit organisation dedicated to the study and amelioration of the human condition, now called the World Transformation Movement (WTM). He is the author of several books, including FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition, which presents his comprehensive — and world-transforming-and-saving — account of human behaviour. Read more in the WTM’s FAQ 2.1.
3. What is biologist Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition?
In his ‘Instinct vs Intellect’ explanation of the human condition, biologist Jeremy Griffith — the founder of the World Transformation Movement — explains that the human condition emerged some two million years ago when our newly conscious intellect came into conflict with our older, instinctive drives. Our intellect needs to question and experiment, whereas instincts, shaped by countless generations of natural selection, are rigid strategies that resist such experimentation. This resistance left the intellect feeling unfairly criticized, which in turn produced guilt, insecurity and, ultimately, the defensive behaviours of anger, ego and alienation. Griffith asserts that by understanding this clash, those insecure behaviours are obsoleted, providing a pathway to the resolution of conflict and suffering in our lives and thus the world. Read more in the WTM’s FAQ 1.3.
4. What scientific support does Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition have?
Despite the reluctance many have to discussion of the human condition, biologist Jeremy Griffith’s ‘Instinct vs Intellect’ explanation of it — which is advanced through the World Transformation Movement — has received support from leading scientists such as Professor Harry Prosen (a past President of the Canadian Psychiatric Association), Professor Stuart Hurlbert (a noted ecologist from San Diego State University), Professor Charles Birch (a Templeton prize-winning biologist) and Professor David Chivers (a past President of the Primate Society of Great Britain). Read more in the WTM’s FAQ 1.7.
5. How does science currently explain the human condition?
For much of modern science, human behaviour has been interpreted through reductionist lenses that focus on genes, brain chemistry or evolutionary drives based on theories that argue our divisive behaviour is due to animalistic ‘savage’ instincts within us. But humans possess moral instincts and a uniquely conscious, psychologically troubled mind, so our behaviour is not instinctive in origin but psychological. The ‘selfish instincts’ excuse also traps us in the belief that human nature can’t change. In truth, psychosis can be healed with understanding—precisely what Jeremy Griffith’s explanation in FREEDOM provides, offering genuine rehabilitation and transformation. Read more in the WTM’s FAQ 1.2.
6. How does understanding the human condition transform the world?
Jeremy Griffith opens his definitive book, FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition, by stating that “This book liberates you, the reader, and all other humans from an underlying insecurity and resulting psychosis that all humans have suffered from since we became a fully conscious species some two million years ago.” Grasping and absorbing this explanation of our species’ psychological turmoil, he argues, allows us to move from a state of insecurity and human-condition-affliction to one of genuine psychological stability, maturity and freedom. It resolves the confusion, doubt and anxiety we have carried about human behaviour. In essence, it untangles the turmoil we have long lived with and provides the basis for genuine unity within the human race. Read more in the WTM’s FAQ 4.1.
7. Is this some sort of religion?
Unlike religions, which rely on faith and dogma, the biological understanding of the human condition that Griffith presents—and the transformed way of living it makes possible — arises from rational, first-principle based biology. It is knowledge-based, and this knowledge, given time, gives us all the ability to dissolve the turmoil within our species. Religions, for all their power, served as a vital means of containing that turmoil while the search for true understanding was underway. By contrast, the transformed way of living is concerned with what follows now that the liberating insight has been found: the maturation of our species from a state burdened by the human condition to one entirely free of it. A further profound distinction is that this new way of living involves no deity, no reverence for a single figure, and no form of worship whatsoever. Most importantly, unlike religion, it does not revolve around guilt. The very concepts of guilt and of ‘good versus evil’ are dissolved forever through the reconciling understanding of the human condition. Read more in the WTM’s FAQ 6.1.