Hi, my name is Gerald.
I am 34 years old and I live in Austria.
I grew up in a village in the country side
and I would consider myself as a pretty average guy.
Like everyone else, I encountered different more or less difficult situations in my life
and found different ways or mechanisms to cope with them.
Basically building up a life occupied with striving for reinforcement
in whatever ways possible.
Being good at my job or at sports.
Reaching certain ranks in video games.
Becoming more knowledgeable in superficial topics to appear smart.
Or if it’s just watching TV shows or whatever else it is that people are doing.
In my late 20s, all my strategies which used to help me to go on, started to crumble and
I reached a point in my life at which I lost hope and I developed a very strong feeling of
indifference towards everything.
All the things going on in the world, around me and in myself made me question if there
is any meaning in life at all.
No real compassion, everyone looks always out for themselves though they portray it
to be not the case - contradictory behaviour everywhere I looked.
At first I just thought that the world and everyone else is just fucked up
and they appeared to be bad.
But all of these cruel and flawed behaviours did not only concern other people —
I realized that all of this was also part of me and that I was no different.
So I started to see this contradictory behaviour more and more,
not only in the world and people around me but also in myself.
And every single conversation started to feel absolutely fake and hypocritical.
Everyone‘s longing for change but always the same excuses... like
“but for me it‘s different“, “I would if I could“.
I asked myself a lot of questions why people including myself are behaving that way.
Why are people talking about saving the environment
and in the next sentence talk about their next holiday overseas?
Why are people talking about starving kids in Africa
while having a fancy dinner at a restaurant?
Why are people talking about war but still seem to worry more
if their hair is sitting well?
Why are people talking about inequality and then put themselves above others?
Why is everyone lying?
Why are people saying one thing and then do the opposite?
And the answers were always the same.
“This is how the world works.
Learn to deal with it.“
Which is not exactly a satisfying answer!
So basically with no answers left I lost all my drive.
I could not cope with the world or myself.
But then I came across the biological explanation of our human condition!
In 2016, my best friend Stefan told me about the book
“FREEDOM - The End of the Human Condition“ by the Australian biologist Jeremy Griffith
and told me that this book would answer all my questions.
You can probably imagine that I was very sceptical
about these claims.
But as there was nothing else available anyways, I decided to give it a try and went to the
World Transformation Movement’s website, www.HumanCondition.com, where the book can be
downloaded for free.
Jeremy Griffith explains that we are suffering from a psychosis caused by having two learning
systems within us which are at war with each other.
So basically this war within us, between our instinct and intellect, which began when our
conscious thinking mind emerged, causes our human condition which is accountable for all
the suffering on this planet.
As English is not my mother tongue, I came across a lot of words and expressions I‘ve
never heard before.
But the ‘deaf effect’, which is also explained, made it especially hard to read the information
at first.
So it took me a while but I worked persistently through the book.
I tried to grasp all this new concepts and set them into relation with myself and with
experiences I encountered.
I could not believe it! Finally I could start to make sense of this messed up place!
So, reading the information provided in FREEDOM changed everything.
And at that point I couldn’t even closely see how far reaching this explanation of our
human condition really is.
Reading the information was at first indeed very confronting as it is inconsistent with
all our common world views.
It sheds light on your own behaviour as well, which can be really hard to deal with.
Personally learning about how our mind works, helped me a lot to accept my own dark side.
Paradoxically, once I started to digest these understandings which FREEDOM provides,
I could see that all our behavior was not bad after all.
Actually it made me see that we all are heroes!
I love this quote out of one of Jeremy Griffith’s essays:
“That humans have chosen to stay alive but accept psychological death is a measure
of the immense heroism of the human race.”
So, we all can be immensely proud of what we did,
of every human who ever stepped foot on this planet,
that we carried on this search for knowledge for millions of years.
And FREEDOM brings all the knowledge gained of all kinds of different fields together,
which enables us to literally make sense of everything, the whole world!
And at the same time through doing so, it establishes the goodness
of all humans on this planet.
It is the information which we’ve all been waiting for and which brings us all back together.
And as these understandings sunk in more and more, I could see that everything inevitably
had to happen the way it did. I felt such a relief.
I could start to see how every problem we are facing on an individual level as well
as the whole human race has the same source - the human condition.
So FREEDOM answered not only all my questions, it actually answered way more.
It enabled me to take a greater look at humanity’s journey.
I was able to start to make sense of everything.
Even politics or religion.
And especially the meaning of life.
Finally the time has come that we can address all these topics for real.
And I have to say, that all of that is not rocket science.
It is all rationally explained and once our evasions are put aside,
everyone can understand that.
Now I can understand why everyone is so worried about their self worth, insecure and constantly
trying to prove to everyone that they are good and seeking validation.
I can see that this controls all of our behaviour,
the whole persona we portray to be
in every situation of our lives.
And understanding that this explanation is also valid for myself,
I don’t have to be preoccupied with it anymore.
All our anger, all the egocentricity, all the depressive feelings start to vanish.
So do materialistic dreams.
Nothing compares to the feeling of understanding yourself and the world.
Understanding is the key.
I can let it go.
And knowing that I am not anything special or different than others
makes me sure that everyone is able to let it go.
Which means that this is the understanding humanity has been waiting for
since we became conscious and that this understanding will indeed save the world.
The so-feared ‘Judgement Day’ has arrived.
But there is nothing to fear because it will finally expose all the lies.
There is no reason left why we should not jump for joy and celebrate
while walking from the dark into the light.
And this is unbelievably exciting!
We can finally be free!
The calmness, relief and happiness these understandings brought to my life,
I can’t put into words.
It is beyond every description.
But I can tell you, that it not only restored my hopes and drive,
it gave my life real meaning for the first time.
So as my best friend told me about this world saving information,
I also wanted to tell all of you about it because I am absolutely sure
that having this knowledge will finally end all the suffering on this planet.
Once we understand ourselves,
all our destructive behaviour can and will subside.
I hope that it is of any help for you to hear about how I dealt with this
all-exposing truth of us humans.
I can’t and I don’t want to try to ‘convince’ anyone about it.
Everyone needs to validate this information for themselves
to see if this information is true,
as we are talking about understanding and not belief.
But maybe ask yourself a simple question:
If there is the potential cure for all of human suffering,
namely our human condition, out there,
wouldn’t it be worth to take at least a look at it
to find out if it’s true?