(See all reviews & commendations for Jeremy Griffith’s biological explanation of the human condition.)
Extended Thought Leader Reviews & Commendations
Praise From Thought Leaders About Jeremy Griffith’s Treatise
- ‘I think 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 end game where we appear to have lost the race between self-destruction and self-understanding — the race to find the psychologically relieving explanation of our ‘good and evil’-stricken 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!
- What this book of books, in fact this greatest of all books, does is take humanity from a state of bewilderment about the nature of human behavior and existence to a state of profound understanding of our lives — understanding that drains away all the pain, suffering, confusion and conflict from the world. This is the book we have been waiting for, it is THE BOOK THAT SAVES THE WORLD!’ and ‘FREEDOM is the book that saves the world…cometh the hour, cometh the man.’
- PROFESSOR HARRY PROSEN, former President of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, and former Chair, Psychiatry Department, Medical College of Wisconsin
- (Response to ‘FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition’; and an extract from his Introduction to ‘FREEDOM’)
- ‘Nothing Dr. Prosen has said about the immense importance of this book is an exaggeration. This is the book all humans need to read for our collective wellbeing.’ and ‘I have recommended his more recent work to my students precisely for his razor-sharp clarifications of positions of contemporary authors like Edward O. Wilson, Richard Dawkins, and Robert Wright. Griffith manages to summarize book-length expositions of these oftentimes obtuse and varying perspectives on human evolution with clarity and brilliance.’
- PROFESSOR SCOTT D. CHURCHILL, former Chair, Psychology Department, University of Dallas
- (Response to ‘FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition’; and an extract from an Expert Report, 2007)
- ‘The sequence of discussion in FREEDOM is so logical and sensible, providing the necessary breakthrough in the critical issue of needing to understand ourselves.’
- PROFESSOR DAVID CHIVERS, University of Cambridge anthropologist and former President of the Primate Society of Great Britain
- (Response to ‘FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition’)
- ‘This book is actually written from a position outside of the human condition. It is just amazing; Griffith walks freely through all the psychosis of our troubled human condition and with such freedom is able to explain everything about us!’ and ‘The WTM is an island of sanity in a sea of madness.’
- TIM MACARTNEY-SNAPE, biologist, mountaineer and twice-honoured Order of Australia recipient
- (Response to ‘FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition’)
- ‘I am stunned & honored to have lived to see the coming of “Darwin II”. I say this because after Darwin’s theory of Natural Selection explained the variety of life, Jeremy Griffith has gone on to solve the other four main questions science had to answer about our world and place in it. They are: 1) the dilemma of the human condition, which his instinct vs intellect explanation in chapter 3 of his main, seminal book FREEDOM finally solves; 2) how we humans became fully conscious when other species haven’t, which he answers in chapter 7; 3) the origins of humans’ unique moral nature, which he answers in chapter 5, which it turns out American philosopher John Fiske had already explained in 1874 but mechanistic science had ignored; and 4) the truth of the Integrative Meaning of existence (which we have personified as ‘God’), in chapter 4, which only a rare few thinkers in history have been able to recognize. And having been able to solve those primary issues he has, in chapter 8, using first principle and fully accountable biological explanations been able to resolve all the secondary problems like: the polarized state of politics; the rift between men and women; the schism between science and religion; the conflict between individuals and between races (thus ending aggression and war at its source); and, above all, bring an end to the threat of terminal psychosis and our species’ extinction! A truly phenomenal, beyond description, scientific achievement!’
- PROFESSOR STUART HURLBERT, Professor Emeritus of Biology at San Diego State University
- (Response to ‘FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition’)
- ‘If, after the explanation [by Jeremy Griffith], people at home think, I’ve never heard of it, it’s fantastic, what a beautiful new insight into the human status quo, condition, then of course you can look it up yourself and find it, and go further into it. That’s very much the intention…Because it also helped to open my eyes. Because I think when professors start talking about a lot of these completely complex matters, which they mostly do it among colleagues, we understand very little of it. You think, ‘When will you come up with a brilliant formula, so that we can all understand it?’…About the complexity of being human; and in particular, the brain…The brain somehow must have had a function too. And the problem was that the instinct and the conscious mind split apart from each other and suddenly became adversaries. And Jeremy Griffith explains this…Yes [Jeremy Griffith makes it crystal clear]. If you understand that instinct and your consciousness don’t have to be enemies at all…bringing your lost self back to and uniting with your actual self.’
- In the interview, an extract from Jeremy Griffith’s Video/Freedom Essay 3 was played, after which the interviewer observed that Pierre was, and he agreed, ‘looking completely in awe’ at Jeremy.
- PIERRE BOKMA, an Emmy Award-winner who is regarded as ‘one of the Netherlands’ greatest actors’
- (Interview about Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition on Summer Guests [Zomergasten], the Dutch public broadcaster VPRO’s prestigious annual feature program; watch and read excerpts from the interview here)
- ‘As a therapist this is a simply brilliant explanation.’
- JAYSON FIRMAGER, founder of Holistic Therapist Magazine
- (Response to ‘THE Interview’)
- ‘Living without this understanding is like living back in the stone age, that’s how massive the change it brings is!’ and ‘I think FREEDOM is best described as a manual to life which really sits well for me because it’s the ultimate brain food for humans. Thinking of Isaiah’s summary of our predicament (Jeremy quotes in par. 278 of FREEDOM) that is stated as “justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We look for light, but all is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in deep shadows. Like the blind we grope along the wall, feeling our way like men without eyes… Truth is nowhere to be found”. The information in FREEDOM really does resolve our psychologically troubled human condition. Life went from feeling bewildering and confusing to something that was clearly transparent – I am now able to understand and see through all the behavior around me.’
- PROFESSOR KAREN RILEY, clinical pharmacist
- (Responses to ‘THE Interview’ and ‘FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition’)
- ‘The line of reasoning in Beyond the Human Condition [1991] is exactly continuous…[Jeremy Griffith] accurately accounts for data from the fossil record, from the behavioral ecology of living primates (especially great ape behavior), and from comparative anatomy…its scholarly value is comparable to several of the most celebrated publications in biology.’
- PROFESSOR WALTER HARTWIG, anthropologist and former Chair of Department of Basic Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine, Touro University, California
- (Expert Report, 2007)
- ‘Frankly, I am ‘blown away’ as the saying goes…The ground-breaking significance of this work is tremendous.’
- PROFESSOR PATRICIA GLAZEBROOK, former Chair of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
- (Response to ‘The Human Condition Documentary Proposal’)
- ‘I’ve no doubt a fascinating television series could be made based upon this.’
- SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH, Britain’s most famous naturalist
- (Response to ‘The Human Condition Documentary Proposal’)
- ‘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.’
- PROFESSOR MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI, psychologist, Claremont Graduate University, described as “world's leading researcher on positive psychology”
- (Response to ‘The Human Condition Documentary Proposal’)
- ‘I am simply overwhelmed…I find it astonishing and impressive.’
- JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE, American bestselling author of ‘Magical Child’
- (Response to ‘The Human Condition Documentary Proposal’)
- ‘In all of written history there are only 2 or 3 people who’ve been able to think on this scale about the human condition.’
- PROFESSOR ANTHONY BARNETT, zoologist, author and broadcaster of popular science program
- (From recorded interview with Jeremy Griffith, 15 Jan. 1983)
- But most importantly, now that we've found the redeeming understanding of the human condition, everyone can safely confront the human condition!
- ‘Could you please send me an extra copy of your book? [Mine] is on loan because it was so appreciated.’
- SIR LAURENS VAN DER POST, pre-eminent philosopher and author
- (Response to ‘Free: The End of the Human Condition’)
- ‘a superb book…[that] brings out the truth of a new and wider frontier for humankind, a forward view of a world of humans no longer in naked competition amongst ourselves.’
- PROFESSOR JOHN MORTON, zoologist, University of Auckland
- (Response to ‘A Species In Denial’)
- ‘The proposal is indeed impressive.’
- DR ROGER LEWIN, British prize-winning science writer and author
- (Response to ‘The Human Condition Documentary Proposal’)
- ‘I have never heard of anything comparable before.’
- PROFESSOR FRIEDEMANN SCHRENK, paleobiologist, Goethe University Frankfurt
- (Response to ‘The Human Condition Documentary Proposal’)
- ‘The ideas you present are provocative, and many of them strike me as being spot-on…The issues you discuss are critical, and I’m heartened that you are surfacing them and grappling with them intelligently.’
- LIEUTENANT COLONEL DR WILLIAM D. CASEBEER, cognitive scientist and philosopher; USAF, Chief of Eurasian Intelligence Analysis, NATO Military Headquarters
- (Response to ‘The Human Condition Documentary Proposal’)
- ‘This is a most amazing project. It is strongly interdisciplinary, visionary and forward-looking.’
- PROFESSOR MARC BEKOFF, organismic biologist, University of Colorado
- (Response to ‘The Human Condition Documentary Proposal’)
- ‘Professor Hawking [responding through his secretary because he suffers from motor neurone disease] is most interested in your impressive proposal.’
- PROFESSOR STEPHEN HAWKING, world-leading physicist, University of Cambridge
- (Response to ‘The Human Condition Documentary Proposal’)
- ‘I consider the book to be the work of a prophet and I expect the author to become recognised as a saint.’
- DR RONALD STRAHAN, former director of Sydney’s Taronga Park Zoo
- (Response to ‘Free: The End of the Human Condition’)
- ‘Griffith makes the right emphasis when he identifies the order of the universe and its cosmic and biological evolution as the issue that brings science and religion together…he gives us a genuinely original and inspiring way of understanding ourselves and our place in the universe. His vision is one I embrace with enthusiasm and commend to all those who are searching for meaning.’
- PROFESSOR CHARLES BIRCH, Templeton Prize winner and Professor of Biology, University of Sydney
- (Response to ‘Beyond The Human Condition’)
- ‘Was Jeremy Griffith struck by lightning on the road to Damascus. Such was my cynicism. Then whack! Wham! I was increasingly impressed and then converted by his erudite explanation for society’s competitive and self-destructive behaviour.’
- MACUSHLA O’LOAN, Executive Woman’s Report magazine, Australia
- (Response to ‘Free: The End of the Human Condition’)
- ‘I believe you are on to getting answers to much that has puzzled and bewildered humanity for a long time.’
- DR IAN PLAYER, South African conservationist, naturalist and philosopher
- (Response to ‘A Species In Denial’)
- ‘The insights and ideas are fascinating and pertinent and must be developed and disseminated.’
- DR GEORGE SCHALLER, American zoologist and author
- (Response to ‘The Human Condition Documentary Proposal’)
- ‘A breakthrough in understanding the human condition.’
- DR JOHN CHAMPNESS, Australian psychologist and educator
- (Response to ‘A Species In Denial’)
- ‘very impressive. I particularly enjoyed the primatology section.’
- PROFESSOR STEPHEN OPPENHEIMER, Oxford University geneticist and author of ‘Out of Eden’
- (Response to ‘The Human Condition Documentary Proposal’)
- ‘Questions of the size you raise tend to stagger me (as they do most people) into silence…What you’re doing is admirable.’
- IAN FRAZIER, bestselling American author of ‘Great Plains’ and ‘Travels in Siberia’
- (Response to ‘The Human Condition Documentary Proposal’)
