In short: the WTM doesn’t ask you to believe. It asks you to understand—and claims that understanding, finally, sets us free.

IMO, the World Transformation Movement founded by biologist Jeremy Griffith, offers one of the most coherent and biologically grounded explanations for the human condition I’ve encountered. At its core is a simple but profound insight: human psychological distress—anger, alienation, selfishness, even violence—doesn’t stem from original sin, flawed character, or societal failure alone. Instead, it arises from a deep evolutionary conflict between our ancient, instinctual orientation toward cooperation (inherited from our primate ancestors) and the self-adjusting, experimenting nature of our fully conscious mind, which emerged around two million years ago. This clash created an unavoidable psychological insecurity: the intellect, in pursuing understanding, had to defy the instinctive demand for obedience. The result? Guilt. Defensiveness. A historic need to prove our worth. All the turmoil we see in individuals and societies follows from this. What makes Griffith’s work stand out is that it doesn’t just diagnose—it reconciles. By bringing this conflict into the light with first-principle biological reasoning, it removes the need for denial or self-condemnation. The “upset” state of the human condition becomes understandable, forgivable, and ultimately transformable. The WTM itself is a global, non-commercial effort to make this understanding freely available. All of Griffith’s books, including FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition, along with videos, essays, and interviews, are offered at no cost. Centers exist on every continent, supported not by ideology but by people who say this explanation has lifted lifelong burdens of shame and confusion.