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A Species in Denial

A Species in Denial

by Mr Jeremy Griffith (Author), Professor Charles Birch (Contributor)

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    Illustrated 2004

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A SPECIES IN DENIAL is the revolutionary bestseller by Australian biologist Jeremy Griffith. In it the author presents a series of essays addressesing the crux issue before us as a species of the human condition, our capacity for good and evil, describing how humans have coped with the dilemma of the human condition by living in denial of it. Griffith then explains the biological reason for the human condition, thus ending the need for the denial and maturing humanity to psychological freedom from its historic insecure human-condition-afflicted state. With a foreword by Templeton Prize winning biologist Charles Birch, this book provides a deeply insightful examination of science, religion, politics, men and women, psychiatry and mythology.

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Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 528
 Edition: 2nd Revised ed.
 Publisher: WTM Publishing
Published: 18 Oct 2004
ISBN 10: 1741290015
ISBN 13: 9781741290011

Media Reviews
'A superb book, it brings out the truth of a new and wider world.' John Morton, Emeritus Professor Zoology, Auckland University, New Zealand 'A most enlightening treatment of the human situation.' Dr Arthur Jones, former Anglican Bishop of Gippsland, Victoria, Australia 'Offers so many insights into our divided selves.' Ronald Conway OAM, distinguished Australian psychologist 'A breakthrough in understanding the human condition.' Dr John H. Champness, Australian psychologist 'Reading it with great interest and excitement, I can't put it down.' Jeremy Shaw, retired Anglican priest, Auckland, New Zealand 'Boy! what a book ... Should be in hotel rooms like the other book.' Ambi Kaur, Melbourne, Australia - reader response
Author Bio
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 summa masterpiece, 2015 book, 'FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition'