ABOUT FIX THE WORLD AUCKLAND FOUNDER

The Fix The World Auckland Centre was founded in 2017 by Pete Sadler and Dr Anna Fitzgerald.

Founder of the Fix The World Auckland Centre, Pete Sadler standing on a beach

Pete worked as an optometric technician for many years, and now runs his own gardening business. A keen outdoorsman and respected figure in the New Zealand bush regeneration community, Pete recognised the importance of biologist Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition in 1992, after reading Jeremy’s second book, Beyond The Human Condition.

Pete was drawn to the honesty and undeniable truths in Jeremy’s writing and so when Fix The World Centres began opening around the world, Pete was inspired to establish a Fix The World Centre in New Zealand.

“Jeremy Griffith's explanation of the human condition fills me with overwhelming hope for us and everything that lives on and is this awesome planet”

Pete Sadler

Why Pete started the Fix The World Auckland Centre

Pete’s passion for Jeremy Griffith’s work and his desire to share it with others led him to establish the Fix The World Auckland Centre. In this video, Pete explains why he started the Centre and how he has been inspired by the hope that Jeremy’s explanation of the human condition brings to all of us.

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“This explanation of the human condition in FREEDOM brings about the true liberation of women and the reconciliation of the sexes, which is truly extraordinary.”

Dr Anna Fitzgerald

Fellow New Zealander and co-founder of the New Zealand Centre, Dr Anna Fitzgerald, has also come to love and treasure these incredible insights into the meaning and purpose of human existence.

Anna came across Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition while completing her doctoral degree in biological sciences at the University of Auckland, eventually moving to Australia in 2006 to help promote these critically important understandings. Anna has worked in both commercial and government funded biotechnology companies in Australia and New Zealand. She has led the development of numerous large-scale genome collaborations, including managing the Australian Government’s investment in biomolecular science infrastructure, and has worked in R & D for the biomedical and horticultural industries.

You can see in the following testimonial how the explanation of the human condition has given Anna a framework through which she is now able to understand every aspect of our lives. In particular, it has allowed her to understand the differences between men and women, bringing about, as she says, “the true liberation of women and the reconciliation of the sexes”.

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Transcript of biological scientist Dr Anna Fitzgerald
talking about “the true liberation of women” that
understanding of the human condition brings

I came across these explanations 15 years ago whilst I was in the middle of finishing my PhD in biological sciences in New Zealand—I’m now a Science Program Strategist, I coordinate large government-funded molecular science collaborations in Australia.

When I heard this explanation of our human behaviour all those years ago, its power to explain the world was just SO totally accountable, it captivated me—so I moved to Australia to help promote these critically important understandings.

As a woman, this explanation was both very arresting and confronting, because it’s fearlessly honest about humans’ contradictory nature. It makes sense of what it means to be a woman—our nurturing instincts and compassion, as well as our neuroses and vanity and emotionality—it goes so far as to make sense of why we have developed our feminist streak, to counter the baffling and oppressive egocentricity of men. But what’s really astonishing is that we can now understand why this egocentricity in men was actually necessary.

Until we could explain the human condition we couldn’t acknowledge the differences between men and women because it only led to prejudices, so all we could ask for, or in fact even demand, was equality. But because Griffith’s work establishes the equal worth or goodness of all humans we can now understand the different roles that men and women have traditionally played in the human journey and this is actually the unlocking point, this is what brings about deep empathy for each other, it heals the divide. As a scientist, I find the evolutionary biology underpinning the explanation of these roles absolutely fascinating.

There’s a powerful quote about women’s plight in Griffith’s book FREEDOM (see par. 798) from the South African writer Olive Schreiner and this encapsulates every woman’s hope and that is ‘to be born a woman’ ‘in the future’ is ‘not to be born branded’, but to be valued, loved for their real self—and that’s essentially what can happen now that the human condition has been explained. This explanation brings about the true liberation of women and the reconciliation of the sexes, which is truly extraordinary.

I really implore everyone, especially women to look into this because to be able to understand why men and women have behaved the way they have behaved was nothing short of life-changing for me.