WTM Centres span Europe and the world, reflecting the growing recognition of the critical importance of biologist Jeremy Griffith’s breakthrough understanding of the human condition.
Founder of the WTM Centre in Pamplona, Hodei Cia Lizaso, holds a double degree in Law and Business Administration and Management from the University of Valencia and works in a leading professional services firm in the field of administration, accounting and finance. Hodei, who was born in San Sebastian and raised in Denia, speaks fluent English. He is also a talented artist, as evidenced by his portrait below, that so reflects the empty-expression of anguish of Resignation.
Hodei is a great admirer of the 19th century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, about whom he has written:
“My favourite philosopher has always been Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), ever since I studied him in high school when I was 17. Nietzsche has been a misunderstood philosopher, because he wrote in a metaphorical but very honest way about the thorny issue of the human condition. And only a mind as honest (if not more so) as Jeremy’s has been able to truly understand him.
The element I like most about Nietzsche’s thought is that it represents a hymn to life, the epic nature and strength of his philosophy. I think it is the only drop of truth I received when I was in that psychological stage of my life of Resignation. That is why I found him so inspiring. Because he recognised that life was a battle to be fought and that it was worth fighting (that now we can know it is the battle to find the definitive, redemptive and healing explanation of why human beings are good, valuable and significant, despite appearing to be the opposite).
Nietzsche wrote about a new man (the Super-man) or Übermensch in German. After understanding the human condition (which we now can), we can see what he meant when he said that “Man is something that shall be overcome.” We eventually needed to free ourselves from the human condition if we were to avoid the destruction of our species and make the leap to being the most developed and happy creatures on Earth, the ultimate achievement of evolution (of the integrative meaning of existence). We needed to find the ultimate understanding of ourselves, the understanding of the human condition, in order to overcome it and become like “a Child” again, as Nietzsche describes in his metaphor of the Three Metamorphoses or transformations. Which ties in beautifully with the Transformed Way of Living that allows us to enjoy this information, and in practice allows us to be free of our own human condition, even though we are not yet free of upset in the current generations.
I wish Nietzsche had known about Jeremy’s wonderful writings. Perhaps then he would not have had to force himself to contemplate more of the human condition than his own level of soundness/security of self could tolerate, and he would have avoided beginning the descent into madness that was his last years of life. But Nietzsche, like all philosophers who came before him (and like all human beings, in fact) did his part in accumulating knowledge over 2 million years so that humanity could finally be free, which we now can be.”
‘Wanderer above the Sea of Fog’ by Caspar David Friedrich (c. 1818). It is considered a masterpiece of the Romantic movement for its interpretation of self-reflection of life, perhaps the human condition!
“Reading Jeremy for the first time is extremely pleasurable to our intellect, because it’s truth after truth after truth. It’s satisfying your curiosity about issues that have never been explained before. It’s like having lived your whole life in a dream and now suddenly you wake up. And you only need to take an honest look at the world to know how much it needs this information. And how much each and every one of us needs it.”
Hodei Cia Lizaso
Artwork by Hodei Cia Lizaso