About World Transformation Movement Sweden

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Transcript of Olof Österman’s video on why he started the Sweden WTM Centre

Hi! My name is Olof, I’m 27 years old and I work as an accountant in Stockholm, Sweden. I’m very excited to be starting the Swedish World Transformation Movement Centre.

This Centre is based around the book, FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition, by Australian biologist Jeremy Griffith which explains and solves the human condition. The explanation is based on there being a conflict between our instincts and our intellect, and answers the question positively of our goodness or meaningfulness as a species.

I came into contact with this information after typing into Google the words ‘freedom and the human condition’ because I was so desperate to be free of it and to understand what was going on in the world. While I didn’t think much of life’s deep questions during my late teenage years, shortly thereafter, at 21, I found myself re-engaging those questions I had when I was younger and felt that I couldn’t give up on finding answers to them. The main question for me was always ‘why were people acting so strange’ and at 21 that question had come to involve myself too.

But when I found the explanation in Jeremy’s book I knew immediately that everything was solved and the world was saved. It saved my life and now after living with it for some three years, I feel very happy to be starting a WTM Centre here in Sweden where we can live with these understandings to help everyone around here.

The conflict between the instincts and the intellect only arose because we didn’t have the understanding we needed, but now that we do, the conflict is put to an end and the world is saved. This book actually ends the basic conflict that’s been oppressing human life and leaves us with an optimistic and free future where we can understand our place in the world to go forward with.

So I encourage anyone and everyone to get involved with the information or simply just check it out. You’ve got the main website, www.humancondition.com, where you can find the book free to download and other introductory media, which is a good place to visit to get acquainted with the information. So please check it out and if you want to get in contact with the Swedish Centre an email link is provided at this webpage.

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Transcript of Ulrik Helms and Sandra Jonasson Helms, WTM Sweden Centre

Ulrik: Hello everyone, my name is Ulrik Helms and I’m a part of the WTM Sweden organization. And I am here to tell you about a little bit about my experience of this fantastic movement and the research of Jeremy Griffith into the human condition.

Sandra: Hello, my name is Sandra Jonasson Helms I’m married to Ulrik and I work as a nurse, as a naprapath (like a chiropractor) and I have come in contact with this wonderful information through my husband.

Ulrik: I’ve been around this explanation, information, for one year now, and the thing is, when you start to read about the human condition and the research that Jeremy has done, it takes a while to digest it, because it’s simple but it also makes a paradigm shift in your understanding of what’s taking place in yourself, in others, and in the world, so you have to digest it; but if you really stick with it—and you don’t have to rush into the information—but if you stick with it and read a little bit and listen a little bit, magic happens. It will really, really be helpful for everyone.

I think it’s obvious for everyone that our situation now on Earth is not that good. We are going into a situation where nature is suffering, humans are suffering and we really, really need to have an answer for what to do in the future.

And as Jeremy explains it in his fantastic book, FREEDOM, that you’ve probably seen on the site, what we have to do is shift our mindset and get in contact with our deeper self, with our instincts.

What really hit or struck me was that for me this was a different way of talking about something different. It was just not something I’ve heard before, this instinct-versus-intellect explanation and conflict that has been going on. It’s a biological explanation, it’s first principle based, and it’s not a belief. That’s really, really important; and yeah, because it’s not a belief, it’s also something that gains [grows] on you. When you get more and more understanding, it makes it better and better, so that’s different from other stuff; it doesn’t stop. As you gain more understanding, your relief or your calmness increases, so that’s different. There’s not an end to it, so that’s fantastic, actually!

In my research over many years, as Sandra has seen, I almost gave up. I thought there was not a really good ending for humanity, that things were increasing exponentially — in particular, just how egocentric we humans are. What really hit home with Jeremy’s explanation and research was the fact that we humans are fundamentally good, that our instincts are not as we’re taught, like bad or something we have to control. We are very upset, but this explanation proves [defends] us and that we are really fundamentally good. We’ve been egotistical, but there’s a good reason for that. That’s really, really important. That’s really, really clear for me now. It was definitely not clear before; it was like, I couldn’t see our beauty, and who we are.

The understanding that Jeremy brings will really, really help us a lot now. And it’s a crisis now. We have to understand who we are, where we’re coming from, to be able to change the future.

If we don’t understand, we won’t be able to change, so understanding is the key.

How this has changed me, is I would say, profoundly. I’m more relaxed in everyday situations; my compassion for my friends, my co-workers, myself, has increased. I’ve always been compassionate about people I’m meeting, but now it’s really like I can understand where they’re coming from. It’s really, it’s really, really good I must say, to be in that place, yes!

Sandra: Since I got to know Ulrik, he’s always been searching for the truth of human behaviour and I have gotten to listen to all kinds of different explanations, gurus, ideas, and sometimes I got a little bit impatient! But this time when he wanted me to listen to Jeremy’s explanation of the human condition, I immediately felt that there was something different. This was a new type of information. And I could also see quite early, as Ulrik got in contact with the information, that something changed. He got calmer. He got more happy, and almost immediately actually I had comments from people around us and they said, ‘Ulrik seems so calm and he seems so happy!’ So that was one thing that got me interested also in the information, because if you see that your partner feels good about something, then you immediately get interested.

There are so many ways to get this information. You have this wonderful book FREEDOM, but also you have the [Freedom] essays. So even if you haven’t got the time, like me, to sit down and read it, you can still listen. And also you have the possibility to have those wonderful meetings with WTM members in your local country, organization or worldwide. So that is a wonderful way to get in contact with the information.

Yes, if you have a question, then you can just go to the FAQ’s on humancondition.com and then get all the answers [www.humancondition.com/frequently-asked-questions].

And then I would really encourage couples to get in contact with this information because for me and Ulrik it has really changed the way that we can talk to each other and also how we can talk about problems that evolve in our relationship. Before maybe, we got into arguments, but now if we calm down and say, ‘OK: this is the human condition. How can we get in contact with this problem, to understand it? We are troubled by the human condition.’ So then it’s like you move forward instead of getting stuck in a problem that you so easily did before we got in contact with this information I think.

Ulrik: Yes.

Sandra: Jeremy gives this wonderful explanation about the battle that has been going on between men and women, and now when it’s finally explained, why men and women have behaved the way they have done throughout millions and millions of years…

Ulrik: …towards each other?

Sandra: Yes! So this is a wonderful explanation and I think that will bring out that men and women can understand each other better…

Ulrik: And fully also, so yes. It explains our conflict.

I would also really encourage everyone to listen to THE Interview that is on the humancondition.com homepage. This interview is recently done and it’s 60 minutes long and it’s really thorough and I would say easy going. Of course the subject is maybe a little bit hard to fully comprehend in the beginning, but this interview is really, really fantastic, I would say. It explains the human condition and who we are in a really, really nice way and loving way, so I would recommend listening to that as a starter.

Sandra: It’s very useful; it’s a very useful way of…if you want to address people with the information, just to encourage them to go in and listen to THE Interview. So for me it has been very helpful in how I can tell people to get in contact with the information. So THE Interview is fantastic!

Ulrik: Yes, so what I would really, really encourage you to do, is to get on this thing called the ‘Freedom Train’. It’s a little bit hard to digest maybe in the beginning, or maybe you’ll feel like this is really something that is perfect for me right away. So it can be different from person to person, but I can assure you that Jeremy’s work is really, really thorough. It’s, as I said, a deep research, over 40 years of researching, and it’s first principle based. So, just go for it! Contact Olof Österman on WTM Sweden, or you can contact me if you want to, or other centres around the world. There are growing numbers almost every day now of centres! So yeah, just use your mind. Investigate it, try it and…

Sandra: It’ll change your life!

Ulrik: Yeah, it will change your life; yes!