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Transcript of Ralph van Westen's WTM Goes Centre Video

Hi, my name is Ralph, I’m from the Netherlands and I’m very proud to be opening a WTM Centre in Goes in Zeeland in the Netherlands.

I was born in a little town called Heinkenszand, very close to Goes. And I lived there for the majority of my life and with my parents in a little village. I started studying industrial design and did that for half a year. Then I studied applied physics for two years. I was doing a little bit of creative work, and through that I also realised, okay, I’ve got to do something in the creative business. So I went to the Art Academy and studied Cross Media Design and I finished that. And now I’m working as a graphic designer.

Before I came across this information, I thought humanity was a cancer on planet Earth. Literally, I thought consciousness was cheating natural events — because we could make medicine, and we could make houses, and we could make clothing, and we could make drinking water that was really clean, and we could make foods that were clean, that we were just avoiding natural selection, that we could cheat nature, and therefore grow way too big, and be this virus-like organism who would take over a planet, kill the whole planet, and the planet would just shrivel away and die. That was literally what I thought at first before I came across this information. And now I’m thinking the complete and total opposite, because finally there is a way to turn that all around. And all that destroying of planet Earth was all necessary to come to a point to get enough understanding of our world to explain ourselves so we could stop ruining our world.

One day, I was just scrolling on my phone on YouTube and watching some videos, and an advertisement came up from the WTM and with Jeremy [Griffith] and Jeremy said, “It doesn’t matter who you are, having rational biological understanding of the human condition completely transforms your life into the most wonderful existence imaginable”. That’s what he said. I was like, “Okay, that’s a pretty big claim!” And back then I had the weird hobby of looking at fake commercials and then clicking further on them and seeing if I could figure out what was fake about it. And I really dove into that, and it was like, “Oh, wow, this is a good one! I’m going to figure this one out and figure what’s fake about this one!” That’s what I thought. And that’s how I dove into it. And I clicked on THE Interview and I said, okay, this Craig Conway guy, and he carries this book, FREEDOM, all around with him everywhere. Okay. And then Jeremy started talking. He’s a biologist. Okay. And he wants to explain, you know, “With all the turmoil and COVID in the world, we really need a lasting solution.” Okay. Yeah. And “I’m a biologist and I claim that I have this solution and it’s through an explanation of our condition.” Okay. Well, all doesn’t seem wrong at all there. And then he started explaining further and it was like 10 or 15 minutes into THE Interview. And I was like, “Shit, this is actually pretty truthful. This is actually, this sounds pretty good!” So what I did then is I put it on pause and I grabbed a piece of paper and a pen, and I started translating every sentence, just to get it into my head and trying to really dive into what he was saying, especially with the Adam Stork story [see Video/Freedom Essay 3: THE Explanation]. Because I thought like, like, wow, now he’s explaining what humans are just with instincts and conscious. This is, this is what a human is. This is the biology of a human.

And I wrote it all down in Dutch. And I did that. I was really careful with it because when you open an ad on YouTube, it has this pop-up window. It’s not a different window. You don’t go to a different browser. You’re still in YouTube. And if you click that away, it’s gone forever, right? So I was really scared. I was like, “Oh my God! This contains truth, so much truth! And if I click this away, then it’s going to be gone forever!” I wrote it all down, you know, and after half an hour or something about listening and thinking about it just snapped. I was like, “Oh my God, this totally makes sense of every aspect of human life!” And I laid down on my bed. I stared at the ceiling for about 15 minutes or half an hour, thinking about the sudden possibility that just opened up. Like I all my neurons in my brain just connect to each other, like this makes sense of every experience I’ve ever had in my life, something like that. And yeah, suddenly I thought, okay, wow, so we’re all loving, cooperative and selfless; and we had to search for understanding of that specific instinct and how the conscious and the intellect relate to each other and all those things until we actually could go back to that instinct and then live in accordance with it [see chapter 3 of Jeremy’s definitive book, FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition]. Yeah, that makes so much sense!

So actually humanity is a fucking powerhouse of a species! You know, at first I was, okay, so yeah, we’re all destroying our planet and we’re going to destroy each other and we’re just morons — even though we’re pretty clever beings, we seem to be morons, but then suddenly it was like, “Oh, there was a whole reason and we were just confused all the time, but now we’re not confused anymore. And now we can unite as one big, great unity and start working together. And God knows what we’re capable of!” That’s what all went through my head at that moment. It literally felt like I’ve been living in a cave my whole life and suddenly I came out of there and there was this whole great big group around me saying, welcome, you’re finally out of it. And here’s a big, great bunch of fireworks and a warming sun, and like, finally, I could take the load off of my shoulders and rest for a moment. And yeah, I certainly started calling all my friends, you know, calling my brother, calling and texting my friends, “Guys, I found the answer! This is it!”

So it was two years ago when I discovered the information, and I got so incredibly enthusiastic about it, I was like “I want to write my thesis about this”, for art school. I picked out my best drawings for what I thought represented that subject the best. I made a poem on a big piece of wood. It started with something like “Hide, deny, fake & lie, always play pretend”, something like that. There was like half a year of going down, deep diving, into my own human condition and what I thought represented the psychosis visually. So all these horrible faces being mangled up in each other and that was a period when I wasn’t able to transform still, I was still very much struggling with it. And only since like, let’s say a month, or a month and a half now, has turned it around to be the most beautiful thing I’ve ever come to experience. But then when you see it just actually resolves that the human condition inside of yourself, that’s when it really starts to be, like, epic [for more on the transformation of ourselves and the world see The Transformation page on the WTM’s website]. And I think back to that time when I started drawing that and I was like, “Gee, shit, man, it was pretty brave that you did that one. You went down that road and just let that all boil up and drew all those things!” But I guess through that it was also kind of therapeutic and easing being able to like put that down. Every time I drew something, it was like, wow, this is like the first time I can actually draw something honestly, like something truthfully. Suddenly through this information now I can actually draw things with a truthful story behind it, something that maybe can speak to people, because that’s what art has always represented, like this small gateway to the truth that was still inside of us [art is explained in Freedom Essay 44: Art makes the invisible visible].

It’s so incredibly obvious how this saves the whole world, the whole of humanity, everything. Everyone who’s living now without understanding of the human condition is only trying to, if they’re trying to do anything about the shit, they’re only trying to fight against the consequences and the results of the human condition, the effects of it. In Dutch, we have a saying for this: ‘Dweilen met de kraan open.’ And literally what that means is you’re mopping the floor, but the tap is wide open and the water is coming out of the tap, but you’re mopping and you’re trying to get rid of the water. And it’s ridiculous. It just keeps on coming in and you’re just standing there with your back to the tap, “Where’s all this water coming from?” It’s ridiculous. And there’s this similar great metaphor in FREEDOM about a river with people drowning in it and everybody’s trying to save the people that are drowning. But what was needed was somebody who said, “No, no, I’m going to go up that river and look and see which fuckers is pushing everybody into the river in the first place.” And that’s what Jeremy did with FREEDOM. And he got right to the core of the problems of humanity, and when you start to understand it all, you see that every problem that exists now in this world stems from that one issue, just one specific issue, and from that on, all the problems occur like wars, inequality, depression, and so on. Name the whole list of problems on Earth and they all stem from that one issue. And with this book, he addresses that issue and he solves the issue. And it actually is a very clear roadmap after that to solve every problem on Earth.

So I really I really would love to start a centre in the Netherlands and help to spread this understanding all over the world because it was quite easy for me to understand it; it took me less than half an hour to realise that this is the only way forward for humanity. And I know that the ‘Deaf Effect’ is very real and very strong in a lot of people and that it’s going to be quite difficult for a lot of people to grasp what’s being presented here in this book, FREEDOM [see Video/Freedom Essay 11 for explanation of the ‘deaf effect’]. And I think it’s really up to the people who can understand it quite easily to help and spread this because this is going to save the world. There’s no doubt about it. I’ve never been so incredibly sure about anything in my life. I mean, I would even consider saying that death is less probable than this being the truth. It’s 110 percent right on the money. And I’m so enthusiastic about it. And I just love it so much. And the whole world just needs to know this! Everybody just needs to feel what it is to completely understand yourself and completely be trustworthy that humanity is not only not going to die out, but is going to grow into the most wonderful species ever to exist on planet Earth! The most…wow! Yes. It just needs to happen. And yeah. That’s why I want to do this. So let’s go.