The World Transformation Movement: Can This Global Community Redefine What It Means to Be Human?

The Australian non-profit is reframing our perception of human behavior – and sparking debate about the future of our species.

Have you ever wondered why humans are such walking contradictions? We’re capable of soaring empathy, yet surrounded by deep and seemingly insoluble conflict. We create cathedrals and symphonies, but also wage wars and scorch the earth. This strange mix of brilliance and destructiveness has perplexed thinkers for millennia. 

Now, a movement born in Sydney is claiming the riddle has finally been solved. It’s called the World Transformation Movement and at its heart is a bold theory from Australian biologist Jeremy Griffith. He believes he’s uncovered the scientific explanation for our inner conflict – an answer to what he sees as our “human condition”. And his supporters argue that this discovery is nothing less than the key to humanity’s future. 

Leading scientists concur: one is Professor Harry Prosen – a widely respected former President of the Canadian Psychiatric Association and patron of the World Transformation Movement – who stated, “I have no doubt this biological explanation of Jeremy Griffith’s of the human condition is the holy grail of insight we have sought for the psychological rehabilitation of the human race.”  

The Two-Million-Year War Within 

Griffith’s theory dramatically reframes established views on what drives our species’ psychological turmoil. Feelings of insecurity, defensiveness, egocentricity, even rage, are far from signs of innate savagery or weak character, he says, but products of an ancient conflict between two powerful forces within us: our instincts and our intellect. 

Around two million years ago, he says, when our ancestors became fully conscious, instinct and reason went to war. Instincts, shaped by natural selection, couldn’t understand experimentation or choice – and so they effectively “condemned” our early reasoning minds for deviating from the norm. Conscious thought, feeling unjustly judged, attacked even, became insecure and defensive. 

Out of that ancient conflict, Griffith says, emerged all the traits that haunt humanity: anger, ego, alienation. 

His analogy makes it clear: imagine a migrating bird suddenly consciously aware of its own choices. Its instincts demand it fly the same ancestral route. Consciousness urges it to try a new path. Each attempt meets resistance from the instincts. And so the bird grows defensive. That, says Griffith, is us – a species caught in the cross-fire between the old deeply-entrenched program and the new mind. 

Not Self-Help. Self-Understanding. 

Griffith stresses that his work is not about willpower or a mindfulness hack, nor does it fit within the ‘self-help’ shelves; it’s about self-understanding at the deepest level of our being. 

For him, the discovery is not that humans are a flawed species – rather we’ve been fighting a psychological battle we could not comprehend. Without understanding, we had to “artificially” defend ourselves with anger, egocentricity and alienated “block out”. But with explanation, he explains, those defences can be understood, and through that understanding, dismantled. 

Griffith’s central book, FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition (one of many), lays out the case. By tracing the biology driving our psychology, Griffith argues, we can finally stop blaming ourselves – and each other – and start building from the truth that humans are, at their core, fundamentally good. 

Academic Praise 

Griffith’s ideas have drawn praise from heavyweights across multiple fields, from psychology to biology to philosophy: 

• Dr Stuart Hurlbert, Professor Emeritus of biology at San Diego State University, said: “I am stunned and honored to have lived to see the coming of ‘Darwin II.’” 
• Professor David Chivers, a Cambridge University anthropologist and past president of the Primate Society of Great Britain, said: “‘The sequence of discussion in FREEDOM is so logical and sensible, providing the necessary breakthrough in the critical issue of needing to understand ourselves.” 
• Professor Scott Churchill, a former chair of psychology at the University of Dallas, said: “[FREEDOM is] The book all humans need to read for our collective wellbeing.” 
• Professor Mihály Csikszentmihályi, Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management at Claremont Graduate University, who first recognized the psychological concept of “flow”, said: “[Griffith’s work] might help bring about a paradigm shift in the self-image of humanity – an outcome that in the past only the great world religions have achieved.” 
• Professor Patricia Glazebrook, a former Chair of Philosophy at Dalhousie University, said: “Frankly, I am blown away by the ground-breaking significance of this work.” 

From Australia to the World 

The World Transformation Movement is the not-for-profit organization founded to support research on the human condition and share Griffith’s theory.  

With over 80 volunteer-run centers around the world and tens of thousands engaged on its online communities, the Movement’s supporters participate in robust conversations about how understanding the theory has shifted their perspective on everything from personal issues to global crises. 

And the appeal is not hard to see. In a time of unprecedented political polarization, escalating mental health crises, and constant social friction, the promise of an explanation – one that redeems human behavior instead of condemning it – is both necessary and urgent. 

The Takeaway 

Jeremy Griffith’s theory frames our darker impulses not as proof of immorality but as collateral damage from the brain’s evolutionary upgrade. That perspective, if it takes hold, could transform how we design education, conflict resolution, therapy, even public policy. It positions humanity not as broken, but as a species mid-transition – finally ready to complete the journey. 

Whether Griffith will be remembered as a revolutionary thinker remains to be seen. What is undeniable, however, is the conversation his work has ignited. 

For a world that often feels trapped in interminable cycles of division and despair, hope backed by a biological narrative may be exactly what people are searching for.