WORLD TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT

ABOUT

WTM Centres have opened all over the world — across the United Kingdom and Europe, the United States and Canada, Australia, Asia, Africa, New Zealand and South America — in recognition and support of Jeremy Griffith’s breakthrough biological understanding of the human condition! So we’re thrilled WTM Bolton forms part of this world-saving network!!

About Jack Soden, founder of WTM Bolton

Born and raised in Bolton, Jack Soden has worked as a laboratory technician at the leading biomedical and life sciences company since graduating from Lancaster University with a Master’s Degree (Hons) in Biological Sciences (Molecular Biology). He works in the company R&D department, developing molecular diagnostic assays for various diseases.

Educated in Catholic schools, Jack studied A Level religion and philosophy, seeking answers to the big questions: was there a God, was the world created, was teleology a feature of nature, or did scientific theories show that the universe was a mechanical and meaningless place? Ultimately he was swayed by the scientific way of thinking, which he believed afforded our species its best chance to make our world a better place, and so reluctantly he dropped his studies into religion and theology and went all in for the biological sciences.

However, as Jack has said:

“The further into the biological sciences I studied, the more I felt my mind was being closed. We were being trained to think in much the same way that the previous generations of academics had, without really questioning much. The only opportunities to engage in free thought and generate new ideas was when studying a very specific and obscure topic, such as one specific protein in a metabolic pathway involved in a specific disease.

If you deconstructed one square inch of the human body you’d find enough information to write an entire book about, and as I neared the end of my undergraduate studies, the career options opening up for me constituted this type of ultra-specialisation, but to me this way of thinking felt like a dead-end. I had chosen to study biology because I sensed that this was where the answers to humanity’s more pressing dilemmas would come from, and had been swayed by the argument that religion was an outdated mode of inquiry which was wrought with irrational belief. But with time I also became disillusioned with mainstream science too, and ventured back into the metaphysical line of thought in my own spare time.

Each spare minute I had between either my studies or my work were spent reading books or listening to lectures from various thought-leaders in philosophy, religion, psychology, neuroscience, spirituality, etc. I went from Charles Darwin, Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, Brian Cox, Lawrence Kraus and all things in-between, even dabbled in Buddhism, Hinduism and some obscure interpretations of Christianity.

When I finally stumbled upon Jeremy Griffith and his purported profound solution to the human condition, it felt like I had found it at just the right time. I was reaching a point of psychological exhaustion and was starting to flirt with the idea of abandoning thought altogether. I was also growing sicker and sicker with myself and the superficial, egotistical, dishonest person I had become.

It was as though my entire life, everything I’d done, from the most exalting highs to the most despairing lows, had lead me to this information. I knew I had to look into it properly and keep an open mind. I followed every instruction in the book about how to approach the information and overcome the Deaf Effect to the letter. Although it was hard to decipher the significance of what Jeremy was saying initially, a part of me knew that I had to persevere and that it would become clearer. So I latched onto the information and studied it in every spare minute I could salvage.

It paid off. I had a profound eureka moment while reading chapter 8 of FREEDOM. I was blown away and could barely contain my euphoria. I saw with crystal clarity that every second of my life had been incredibly meaningful and that happening upon this explanation of the human condition was the culminating point of not just my life, but of the human race itself. It was a really profound revelation for me and I knew right then and there that I would be a part of the WTM for the remainder of my life. Most people I stated this to understandably took my statements of certainty with a pinch of salt, but whereas I had been absolutely crippled with doubt and indecision for most of my adult life before finding these answers, I knew in myself with 110% certainty that this was the final destination in my inquiries into the nature of the world and of human life. I have not once lost that level of certainty, and approaching one year later I am equally full of resolve to be involved in this project to save the human race from ignorance with this holy grail of self-understanding.”

A talented writer, Jack wrote a poem when he was 14 titled “Enough” that was featured in a young writers anthology of poetry, The Power of Poetry (2014).