Beyond the Human Condition

Beyond The Human Condition (1991) is Jeremy Griffith's second book. In it, he gives a detailed account of the biology underpinning his explanation of the human condition. Beyond examines issues such as science & religion, politics and psychiatry. Griffith’s treatise defends and dignifies humans, it lifts the burden of guilt, making possible our species’ psychological rehabilitation. With a Foreword by twice-honoured Order of Australia recipient and renowned mountaineer Tim Macartney-Snape AM OAM, who says of the book: "‘Griffith’s explanations have clarified so much that was inexplicable about myself and what goes on in the world. It is like having mist lift from country you’'ve never seen in clear weather. This book could well have as much impact on humanity as the Bible.’"

Jeremy Griffith (1945-) 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'. While it's undeniable that humans are capable of great love and empathy, we also have an unspeakable history of greed, hatred, rape, torture, murder and war; a propensity for deeds so shocking and overwhelming that the eternal question of 'Why?' has seemed depressingly inexplicable. Even in our everyday behaviour, why, when the ideals of life are to be cooperative, selfless and loving, are we so ruthlessly competitive and selfish that human life has become all but unbearable and our planet near destroyed? How could we humans possibly be considered good when all the evidence seems to unequivocally indicate that we are a deeply flawed, bad, even 'evil' species?
For most people, trying to think about this ultimate of questions of whether we humans are fundamentally good or not has been an unbearably self-confronting exercise. Indeed, the issue of the human condition has been so depressing for virtually all humans that only a rare few individuals have been sound and secure enough in self to go anywhere near the subject. Nurtured by a sheltered upbringing in the Australian bush (countryside), Jeremy is one of those rare few. His soundness and resulting extraordinary integrity and thus clarity of thought, coupled with his training in biology, has enabled him to successfully grapple with this most foreboding of all subjects of the human condition and produce the breakthrough, human-behaviour-demystifying-and-ameliorating explanation of it, which is presented in all his publications, including his 2014 summa masterpiece, IS IT TO BE Terminal Alienation Or Transformation For The Human Race?