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, Professor of Organismic Biology, University of Colorado" A dense but often illuminating book that provides a hopeful look at what it means to be human. Kirkus Reviews"
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"Once in while you come across a mind that seems to be from another planet, so unique and unshackled to the status quo do they appear. Griffith is without a doubt the holder of one of these minds and thank goodness because to solve problems one has to bring objectivity to the table. He does this in spades. That’s all I can say, and I’ve said too much. Just read it yourself and you’ll know what I mean. Thanks."
— Brian (5/5)
I feel challenged by this book
"I’m studying political science and feminist theory at college and the chapters on the ideology of the political parties and gender realities have been eye-opening to say the least. This book brings everything into a whole new light for me and while I’m still reconciling my pre-conceived views with the arguments presented in Freedom, I feel challenged, motivated even, to review my stance on both. Can’t say that about many books that seem to preach to the converted rather than present differing viewpoints."
— Wquigg (3/5)
Really interesting book.
"Really interesting book. Unconventional science written in an unconventional style, which was disconcerting at first, but you get used to the author’s logic and delivery pretty quickly."
— Gshello (4/5)
Unintelligible, unedited, endlessly looping, polemical ramblings of a wanna-be L Ron Hubbard.
"Every second or third run-on sentence is italicized, underlined or in bold or capitalized font; seemingly to draw attention to Griffith's more salient points. To the reader, such sentences seem of no greater clarity or importance than any other of the rambling words tossed haphazardly on these pages. Seriously unedited nonsense - if there is a intelligible, meaningful message to be taken away from this tome, it is dastardly well concealed and any reader should receive a substantial prize for discovering it. I openly admit to having survived only the first 250 or so pages and having skimmed the rest. I don't care if all the secrets of the universe are to be found in the last 500+ pages - I'd rather gouge my eyes out with a spoon than finish reading this ""book""."
— Bonker (1/5)
Science of self can be too close to the bone
"Griffith's treatise brings scientific understanding to the dark realm of our deepest insecurities -- whether we are actually worthwhile. For this reason it can be hard for some people to go near, and some people just get overwhelmed and confused because of the subject matter, but it is very simple: Griffith argues that when our conscious mind evolved and started to try and manage our lives it came into conflict with our pre-established instincts. Our instincts in-effect criticised our attempts at self-management. Griffith says that without the understanding that he is now presenting -- that while a gene based learning system can orientate a species, it is ignorant of the nerves need to understand -- the criticism from our instincts made us insecure, and as a result, we retaliated against it. That insecurity over whether we were good or bad to break with our instinctive orientations, and the resulting layer of insecurity over whether we were good or bad to retaliate against our instincts, is what has plagued humans since the emergence of consciousness. Understanding why we had to do what we had to do frees us from the insecurity. It is magnificently ennobling and liberating."
"700+ pages of rambling nonsense. If there is a cogent argument to be found in this tome it is exceedingly well concealed."
— Bonker (1/5)
Explains fundamentally what it means to be human.
"FREEDOM is a big book and necessarily so, if it is to explain fundamentally what it means to be human. When I tell people this book is the most important book you will ever read, I’m naturally met with surprise, doubt and sometimes disdain that I should be so naïve or strange. But say it how it is! It’s no fluffy, walk in the park, self-motivational book or one claiming to solve the world’s problems via a new means of saving the environment or curbing population. This book stands back and looks on at our species and at our planet and delves into the very heart of the problem, ALL of the problems. In short (v. v. short) it explains what happened to humans, how we went from being instinctively driven (like all other species on Earth) to becoming conscious - the crux juncture in the human journey when one could say, the “shit hit the fan”. It is this stage in the human story (that occurred some 2 million years ago) that Griffith explains produced an internal clash that now defines what it means to be a human; why we’re so self-driven and egotistical, why we are so self preoccupied, why we need materialism and spiritualism, why religions were invented and what they have done for humans (and why they are now so dangerously fundamentalist), why the relationship between men and women is so fraught … I could go on. But basically the human condition underpins every one of our actions, every single human, no matter how young or old, is ‘inflicted’ by this state of being a human under the duress of the human condition and as such, unless we understand that – in biological terms – we will never be freed from the psychological mess we are all in."
— Tessa (4/5)
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Published date: May 19, 2016
Language: English
No. of Pages: 799
Publisher: WTM Publishing and Communications
ISBN: 9781741290288
Dimensions:
6.1" W x
1.9" L x
9.2" H
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''. ''Transform Your Life'' is a very short but powerful condensation by Jeremy of his definitive treatise of the human condition presented in his 2016 book ''FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition''.
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