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The End of the Human Condition
The Biological Reason Why Humans
Have Had To Be Individual,
Competitive, Egocentric and Aggressive
Jeremy Griffith
Centre for Humanity’s Adulthood
Box 5095 GPO Sydney, 2001 Australia
First published January 1988
Copyright ® Jeremy Griffith 1988
Published by:
Centre For Humanity’s Adulthood
Box 5095
G.P.O. Sydney, 2001
Australia
Written by Jeremy Griffith.
Funded by Gervase and Jeremy Griffith.
Assisted by Ann Williams.
Dedication and Acknowledgement:
To my Father and from my Mother.
ISBN 0 7316 0495 4
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CONTENTS
Summary 7
An eleven paragraph summary of the explanation given in this
book for human’s apparently divisive condition
PART ONE
The Human Condition 13
Step 1 – The Need for a Profound Approach 14
Step 2 – The Paradox of the Human Condition 15
Step 3 – The Story of the Birthday Party 20
Step 4 – Rehabilitation of Humanity 32
Step 5 – The Unevasive or True Story of the Life
of a Human During Humanity’s Adolescence
With the Human Condition resolved it becomes possible for the first
time to reveal the real developments that humanity underwent
throughout its ‘adolescence’ or search for meaning and identity –
the psychological and intellectual adjustments we were making in
response to the pressures of the Human Condition, in other words a
description of the growth of what we now call our mind. To explain
this, the psychological state of a teenager, a twenty-year-old, a thirty-
year-old and a forty-year-old are described to illustrate both an
individual’s progress through life and humanity’s progress through
its adolescence. During the course of this description some major
mysteries that until now have confounded humanity will be solved.
Most importantly, the prime-mover or major influence in the
development of humanity will be revealed and with it a reason for
why (and therefore when) we began to walk upright, why (and when)
we lost our body hair, how we became meat-eaters and how exactly
we are related to the other primates. ‘Sex’, I.Q., corruption, inno-
cence, science, religion, prophets, men, women, animals, idealists,
realists, have all played different, important and often unrecognised
roles in humanity’s development. What these have been and their
interdependence are now explained.
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PART TWO
The Unevasive Scientific Story
of the Ascent of Humanity 95
Part Two is broken into several sections. First the trinity of influences
– namely the meaning of existence and the two biological tools by
which it was possible to comply with it – are explained, followed by
a description of what the tools achieved, their limitations and how
these limitations were overcome. In the course of this description,
many human behaviours are explained. (For ease of reference, boxes
have been placed within the text which mentions the phenomenon
being explained).
The sequence of major events in the development of matter on
earth are as follows:
The Meaning of Existence 98
Genetic Refinement 104
Genetic Refinement’s Limitations 106
Brain Refinement 113
Brain Refinement’s Limitation 122
First Solution: Instincts 123
Instincts Encounter the Limitations of
Genetic Refinement 135
Second Solution: ‘Love-Indoctrination’
This marked the birth and infancy of humanity. 138
Infancy led to Childhood.
This was our first paradise on Earth 155
Humanity’s adolescence 164
A period in which we set out from paradise to find understanding of
ourselves. It was during this period that the Human Condition, the
state of conflict between human mind and conscience, emerged; a
conflict we have courageously endured for two million years while we
valiantly sought enough understanding to make resolution of it
possible.
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PART THREE
Conclusion
With reconciliation of our mind and our conscience possible,
humanity is free at last. This section describes how our liberation has
been achieved and what it means for us.
The Role of Science and the Mechanistic/Objective
Approach 172
The Role of the Holistic/Subjective Approach 177
The Limitations of Having to be Mechanistic 179
The Need for a Prophet to Liberate Humanity 180
The Problems Confronting a Liberating Prophet 182
The Restoration of Innocence 190
Our Liberation achieved through the Efforts of Everyone 196
The Difficulty of Adjusting to the Compassionate but
Unevasive Full Truth 200
The Need for Explanation and for Adjustment Time 204
The Centre for Humanity’s Adulthood 214
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Summary
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HY HAVE HUMANS been individual, competitive,
egocentric and aggressive? What is the expla-
nation/defence for ourselves? What is the reason/justification
for our apparently divisive condition?
The following is a eleven-paragraph summary of the
reason. This brief summary was written for use as an advertise-
ment to promote this book. It serves here as a preface to the
book.
Assume just for a moment that our aim is to consider the wel-
fare of the group or larger whole above self. In other words,
rather than be selfish which is divisive our aim is to be selfless
which is integrative (integration as defined in the Encyclopedic
World Dictionary is ‘the act of bringing together [parts] into a
whole’). Further, assume that we have in us a genetically based
instinctive self trained in altruistic behaviour but this training is
only an orientation to selflessness not an understanding of it.
Suppose we subsequently acquire an intellectual capacity to
operate from a basis of understanding. What happens when we
begin to attempt to manage life from a basis of understanding,
given the already established instinctive orientation to selfless-
ness? What happens when the mind meets the instincts?
The Birthday Party
To see what happens, imagine a children’s birthday party where
all the children sitting around the table are about seven years old
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except for one who is about eight years old. The seven-year-olds
are still obedient to, and dependent upon, their instinctive train-
ing for management of their lives. The eight-year-old however
has become sufficiently mentally developed to decide for the first
time in his life to attempt to manage his life using his mind.
Being an understanding device his mind requires understand-
ing but there is none available to help him make decisions. Hav-
ing to make a start somewhere on this process of thinking for
himself he looks at the birthday cake and feeling hungry he
decides ‘well, why not take the cake’. But when he leans across
the table and takes it the younger children, obedient to their in-
stinctive training in selflessness and unaware of the misjudg-
ments and misunderstandings which can be made as the mind
searches for reasons for everything, criticise him for being self-
ish. (Interestingly, many mothers actually witness this grand
mistake of pure selfishness often made by children first attempt-
ing to self-manage. Our word for such totally unknowing mis-
takes is naughty). So what happens is the eight-year-old gets a
nasty shock and quickly puts the cake back on the table, deter-
mined not to have anything more to do with attempts to self-
manage his life. The trouble is he cannot deny his intellect and
so sooner or later has to find the courage to shoulder the respon-
sibility of learning to master his mind. Again he takes the cake
only this time he adopts the more subtle form of selfishness
called reciprocity, where he offers the others some of the cake to
keep them quiet. The instinctive selves of all concerned however
are not deceived and continue to criticise him.
To continue his search for understanding the eight-year-old
has no choice but to defy the criticism. First he tries to explain
that he is not deserving of criticism – that he is not bad – so he
says, ‘Mum, the cake accidentally fell into my lap’. With this
explanation he is evading the apparent but false implication that
he is being selfish or bad. Lacking the real explanation for his
behaviour his attempt at an explanation is inadequate, an
apparently blatant misrepresentation. To be able to adequately
explain himself he would need all the understanding that he is
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