The WTM South Africa Centre

Download this transcript as an A4 or US Letter PDF

Transcript of James Moffett’s video on why he started the World Transformation Movement South Africa Centre

Well that’s the sunrise this morning over Lesotho, and my name is James Moffett. I’m on top of the mountain early this morning looking at the beauty surrounding us, it’s absolutely fantastic. And with the sun coming up behind me, usually I’m looking at it watching it come up, it’s heralding in another beautiful, fantastic day. As I said, I’m James Moffett, I grew up on this farm which I’m on top of the mountain of.

Now that’s the thing about this whole world of ours — we’re all relying on some sort of drug or pursuit, or something like that, to keep away that dark side of ourselves. And what is extraordinary is we are now at the pinnacle of our knowledge on what or who we are. This information is now here, it’s scientific, deep, logical truth. And can you believe it, that just understanding these concepts about ourselves, and particularly in my case where I’ve been searching for all my life, since I can remember, for an answer to the question ‘Why?’ Why are we like this? Why are we so full of love? Why at times I can be a phenomenal person and I can see I’m making people happy, and other times I can be a real downright bad ass. Well, it’s something that’s been troubling us a long time, but this book FREEDOM by Jeremy Griffith, who is an extraordinary biologist with such clear, clear thinking, has at last brought together all the work that us humans have been doing, the past and the present, in finding out who we are and what we are and why we are here. And my questions have all been answered. Thank, thank God!

There is an extraordinary way I’m feeling now about the world now that I understand us humans and why we all do things the way we do things, and get you to try to see what I’m seeing, and actually not even try, you’re going to do it, it’s an evolving [gathering support] concept.

Something which is interesting which I find out here is I’ve been trying to figure out the answers to the questions, and trying to find them outside of myself, and, sure, within myself, but it wasn’t about meditating or going on solitary retreats. Those are temporary reliefs. Even being re-born as a Christian was a temporary relief. Why this is extraordinary is because it answers the questions, it’s like it slots into all the missing parts in my brain and in my heart. It just connects the two and makes everything sensible. It’s not just something that I have to have faith in. It actually bloody well works and this is what’s extraordinary about it and what makes me excited all the time now, and seeing that every one of us has that potential. Every person on this planet has got this extraordinary potential to do this, to get this information, to take it in and change the way we are, it’s extraordinary, it’s bloody mind-blowing.

This is the beauty of the farm that I live on. I’m now lower down on the mountain. And I’ve been running along with it a bit to show you this absolute beauty that we have around us and now I know is reflected inside us and permanently, it’s a part of our fixture now. I just had to get rid of that blockage in my mind [our resistance to reading about the human condition], and that blockage is relatively easily overcome but it takes perseverance. You just got to keep at it. And that is the nature of us, if you consider us humans, we’re an extraordinary phenomenally magnificent species on this planet that can do extraordinary beautifully magnificent things. And what we’re doing at the moment is extraordinary, but at the same time in this pursuit of knowledge we are creating havoc in our wake. These are farm cells which farmers work as they are off dealing with the same crisis of the human condition, of wanting to control it, they can’t control their own urges so we will at least control nature, and at the same time we’re really blasting it apart around the world.

And that’s what drove me for the last 25 odd years was to try to heal this place. But for this country of ours the healing has got to happen in our heads. We’ve got to recognise who we are, got to recognise that we’ve got this diverse character, our instinctive, natural, mothering, loving side. And then we have got our intellectual, striving, hard, got-to-find answers side too. Once you reconcile those two, and you understand it, there’s no need for conflict anymore. Then extraordinary things can happen, we can all turn our minds to fixing up this planet and just having an absolute bloody ball.

Download this transcript as an A4 or US Letter PDF

Transcript of John Mulder’s WTM South Africa Centre video

My name is John Mulder and I live with my wife Yvette in Swellendam, which is in the Western Cape, in South Africa. Thank you for visiting our World Transformation Movement South Africa website and I trust this will be of value to you.

More about the World Transformation Movement: I want to clear up a few things before we continue. Firstly, it’s a not for profit organization; and I want you to understand this: it’s completely free other than if you need to buy the actual printed copy of Jeremy’s book FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition from an organisation like Amazon (there are obviously printing and other costs involved). The alternative is that you can download the book completely for free from the World Transformation Movement website (www.humancondition.com). In addition to that, there’s a lot of support, free of charge, from the World Transformation Movement different centres throughout the world; a lot of essays; a lot of additional material available free of charge. And this was made selflessly available by Jeremy because of the impact and the importance of his work in this regard; and it’s a wonderful gesture for me.

The other thing that is important to know: please understand that we are not a religious organisation or some sort of cult or whatever — this is simply an organization which supports the work of Jeremy Griffith, and we do it on a voluntary basis.

The work is supported by a wide range of people from all walks of life; academics of course; and of course all these subsistence farmers like myself.

Over the years I’ve encountered many, what I would like to call snake-oil purveyors. For ten dollars or a hundred rand you can have this bottle of snake-oil, and that will apparently cure your ailments from ingrown toe-nails to receding hairline. And this is phenomena is simply indicative of our search as humans for the truth about ourselves and the world that we find ourselves in. But Jeremy’s work is certainly not of the snake-oil variety, but is biology and science, which is based on sound reasoning and research.

Many years ago I stopped smoking, and what certainly helped me along the way was an article in the magazine Reader’s Digest, that explained that if you could understand why you smoked, and when you smoked, it would be easier to stop smoking, and it certainly helped me. The paradigm shift in my life as a result of the clear-daylight-truths coming from Jeremy’s research findings was profound. In short, life has never been this good for me.

Dr. Harry Prosen, who is the former head of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, refers to Jeremy’s book FREEDOM as ‘the book that saves the world’. I recall thinking when I encountered this for the first time that I was convinced that whoever these guys were, I thought they were certainly smoking their socks! At the time I thought this was probably the snake-oil of all snake-oils. In retrospect, this is quite a natural reaction given I was, like many of our fellow humans, on this path that we find ourselves in in life, when I was quite resigned to the fact that life is what it is, and there was not a hell of a lot I, or the next guy, could do about it — that’s just the way it should be. So I thought, ‘whoever’s got this ‘airy-fairy’ idea of changing things, it’s not going to work’. We had resigned ourselves to the fact that we seem to be trying to do the same thing, over and over, without real hope that we would get a different result, evidenced by the endless turmoil and the war and all the conflict that goes on in the world around us.

And here for the first time I believe that we have an alternative; the first and only alternative in fact. The endgame is here; and as a species we have to change, and it is possible, and there is certainly light at the end of the tunnel.

Thank you for indulging me. And please contact us via the contact details on the site if you want to do so. Thank you.