About FIX THE WORLD Galashiels

The founder of Galashiels’s FIX THE WORLD Centre is Alistair Paterson

Alistair works with young adults to support them with their learning difficulties. Prior to that he worked in the forestry industry as qualified arborist (tree surgeon) for 35 years, and as a baker for 15 years. Alistair is married with three children, and is a proud life-long resident of the Scottish Borders.

Transcript of Alistair Paterson’s FIX THE WORLD Galashiels Centre Video Presentation

Hi everyone. I have been following Jeremy Griffith’s work and that of FIX THE WORLD (formerly the World Transformation Movement) for a couple years now after watching THE Interview, and have been in contact with other people who are trying to raise awareness of Jeremy’s breakthrough understanding of our human condition.

There has been many commendations made about this information and for me to be here to witness this extraordinary and remarkable breakthrough in human psychology, it blows my mind of the importance and magnitude of these findings.

This commendation by Professor Stuart Hurlbert for me sums up how I feel about this incredible breakthrough in our understanding of our human evolution: ‘I am stunned & honoured to have lived to see the coming of “Darwin II”.’

So after chatting a few times with one of the founding members of FIX THE WORLD and agreeing to, I’m humbled and the same time thrilled to be opening another FIX THE WORLD Centre here in the UK, to help them in their efforts to raise awareness of these remarkable understandings. I’m not sure what I bring to the table for to be asked, willingness I suppose, but I feel grateful be given the opportunity to support something that is truly wonderful.

This breakthrough is huge for us humans, and that’s an understatement, and I’m lucky enough to be here to witness it, albeit for a brief moment.

This is the pivotal moment in our human lineage, where we take a quantum leap in our evolutionary journey, if we have the courage to take it.

I feel this has to be the biggest thing to happen to us since we first became fully conscious beings. Everything we have had to endure up to this moment on our evolutionary journey that has come before these understandings has just been a prelude to this moment.

We were not given a program for the computer in our heads, instead we were left alone to get on with it, and now, we have done it. We have finally found the breakthrough understanding we have needed to move on to our next phase in our evolution with our conscious mind, and the possibilities now are infinite and so exciting.

I’ve had to write down what I’m saying to formulate my thoughts, because this stuff in [Jeremy Griffith’s main book] FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition is so full on, I can easily see myself getting carried away with my imagination of possibilities. To me the statements I’ve just made about Jeremy’s work can feel so out there, but at the same time in my heart I totally believe it. So I can easily imagine to someone else who is hearing this for the first time, it could feel like what the fuck is he going on about, “He’s off his head!”

All my life I have struggled with trying to make sense of or figure out why people are so divisive, and that’s putting it mildly. I won’t elaborate further on that, but I’m sure you know what I’m talking about, it’s everywhere.

But now all our contradictory nature has been fully and honestly explained, with this mind-blowing, but at the same time so simple and redeeming explanation that has been found. It’s that simple an explanation, it feels like to me that the answer was just sitting there all the time, right in front of us, just waiting for someone to come along and pick it up.

That is what Australian biologist Jeremy Griffith has done in his definitive book FREEDOM: The End of The Human Condition, and he has done it and presented it to us in such a way that we can all make sense of and understand it. These breakthrough understandings, gives me a great sense of peace and hope for our future generations.

As Craig Conway said in his introduction for THE Interview that he did with Jeremy, ‘I don’t care what you’re doing, in fact I don’t care what you’re doing the rest of your life, you just need to stop and listen to this.’ The interview is pretty impressive, if you are able to keep an open mind about the subject matter in hand.

There’s another reason why I’m doing this. It’s because I feel a moral responsibility to do what I can now to help keep this precious information alive, and not allow it get swamped by all the rhetoric of denial that is standing in its way.

There’s another quote from FREEDOM from a science historian Thomas Kuhn I’d like to share, which again really sums why I feel this way about Jeremy’s work, and why I need to support it. ‘In science…ideas do not change simply because new facts win out over outmoded ones…Since the facts can’t speak for themselves, it is their human advocates who win or lose the day.’ (Shirley C. Strum, Almost Human, 1987. Strum’s references are to Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, second edn, 1970).

I have never been one for posting videos or pictures of myself on social media, but I feel by putting this out there for everyone to see, and hopefully see how comfortable I am talking freely and openly about this historically forbidden subject of our human condition, that it might well give others the confidence to look into this liberating truthful understandings more thoroughly for themselves.

On a personal note, I want to acknowledge and say how grateful I am to all who have fearlessly shared their insights with me over the past twenty eight years in dealing with some of the specific symptoms of the upsetting nature of the human condition, prior to discovering Jeremy’s work. Because with their help, and support, my mind has been freed to take on board these wonderful truthful insights that are presented in FREEDOM.

These people showed me that we are capable of behaving selflessly in spite of our own insecurities and fears, and that of others, by recognising and accepting that we are dealing with an illness, which in turn resulted in creating defects of character within us. It was in a sense at the time for me a leap of faith for me, because without these liberating understandings that Jeremy has presented in FREEDOM, the missing piece of my jigsaw puzzle I was trying to build and needed to fully understand of the underlying problem of my insecurities and divisive behaviours that resulted from the illness in myself as well as others, I would been left with the big question of what is this illness? And where did this illness come from?

Not anymore! Thanks to Jeremy, now I do know, I do understand, and because of that, how much more amazing is it going to be for everyone, once we all get on board with these understandings and we do something about it.

I guess that might sound a little ambiguous and I don’t mean it to be, but it’s the forbidden realm of the subject matter of what we are dealing with here I have to respect. Hopefully for some, the people who know me, that are watching, will one day understand.

Jeremy’s profound insights are in a way the legacy I have been seeking for about half my life now, something I guess I’d always hoped and dreamt of finding to pass on to my children, but never really thought would happen in my lifetime. But I never gave up hope.

Thank you, Jeremy, for your breakthrough understanding that solves our human condition, and all who supported him by trying to help him raise awareness of his work, till I was able to find it. Now I want to do the same with what time I have left.

My favourite quote from the book FREEDOM is from T.S. Eliot who wrote, ‘We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time’ (Four Quartets, from Part 5 of Little Gidding, 1942); that’s pretty amazing.

Thanks for watching and check out Jeremy’s work on the FIX THE WORLD, you won’t regret it. Take care.