Normal and Abnormal

What are normal and abnormal behaviors, how are they determined.

The prevalent idea today seems to be that normal is a fluctuating standard determined somehow by society. This is of course mindless. The perusal of writings on psychology and social philosophy will leave little or no tangible idea on what constitutes abnormal behavior. The determination of normality is obviously an aspect of reality lost in obscurity. Yet it is simple enough.
Who and what determines what is normal?

In the mushy, non-definitive present society, what is really determining normality? The answer is definitively this: the civil law. Not social philosophy, not religious societies, not any form of media. These indeed convey and assist the process but are all instruments of the civil law. It will always be so. That law which will deprive a man of life, liberty, and property is the foundation of all institutions of society. They who control the civil law are they who direct the creation of what is considered normal. Fear is the primary operative. Once men act and decide in such a manner to assuage fear, in the placid-ness achieved, all other decisions follow.

Think what you will. Think that you are a thinker. Think yourself a non-conformist. In all of this, you are just pissing in the wind. You will never escape the influence of the society within which you exist. Society is fundamentally created through the power of the civil law which directs its course.

Men create normality through standards derived in relationship to the civil law.

Is it possible to find and determine a certainty of right and wrong? Is is all just relative? The answer is that men can create a reality that is absolutely right. Normality can be definitively and absolutely established.

The first and clearest thing to be understood is that all things exist only in nature. Not the nature defined by modern science. Not the nature accessed through the five senses. This is about a nature of substance only partially accessible by man. This question determining normality, as with other aspects of reality, all hinge on how well men can access the unseen world of nature. The validity of all is directly connected to the ability men have, individually and collectively, to proceed according to what really is.

When men find harmony with real nature, through their own decisions, they have found the only normality possible. Nature is precise, specific, tangible, and entirely real and accessible. The key to this entire matter lies in the fact that men today have removed themselves so far from nature, from what it really is, that they are no longer capable of reaching or creating a reality that is right or normal.

If men individually exist in harmony with nature, they are then capable of collectively, through convention, making decisions that do not violate life, not violating each other, and existing according to the deeper reality extended from universal, cosmic reality. They can proceed, within their own local reality, in respect to a larger scheme of things. As is, modern society has largely lost track of that larger reality, let alone act harmoniously with it.

When men gather and decide and act, not in violation of universal truth, normality is found, and in this way only.

Men agree on a body of decisions. They implement them through force. The deprivation of life liberty and property result if those agreements are violated. The is the civil law. Simply a set of agreements, enforceable through the power of the sword (guns now days). Can this be just and right?

If men violate nature, the results are certain. If men create a set of rules that prevent the violation of nature, or correct the violation so that harmony with nature can be restored, they have acted morally. This is the only morality possible.

Who has the right to decide. All men have the right, in and of themselves, to decide if they will conform to what nature really is, to access it, and then implement conditions, of their own free will and choice, to see to it that it is not violated. They may gather in convention and establish those rules. If men create rules that are not in harmony with nature, they are wrong. If men create rules in harmony with nature, they are right. From this, and this alone, is normality found. Unfortunately, few will even begin to know of this nature I speak of.

Have men ever gathered in convention and established rules that were in harmony with nature? According to records and historical evidence, men have variously created cultures, all in degrees, where this harmony has been more or less found.

Is it possible that society today is the greatest aberration men have created from the harmony of nature? Certainly that is likely. Men can not longer clearly establish what is normal or right. Society itself has become abnormal and hence cannot define normality.

Probably the most significant set of rules men have created to satisfy nature, as regards western society, is the Ten Commandments. What those Ten Commandments once meant, how they were implemented and extended to society in general, how men governed themselves according, all are left only and vaguely to the annals of history. Men proceed in nowise accordingly today.

Men lie, men steal, men covet etc. etc. Can we do better then the Ten Commandments?

It is a no-brainer to learn of history and realize that most any society that has ever existed on the face of the earth was more free from these violations of nature, reality, and appropriate law then does society today.

Whatever conceptualization of God that men have is not the prime important fact. The most important fact, always and forever, is that men, in and of themselves, first find harmony with what nature really is, then accordingly gather and non-coercively agree that in their association with each other, life will not be violated.

If men do this, it is far beyond a logical assumption that they will then find God, find peace and harmony, and exist in a divine relationship with all creation.

Likely every religion, philosophy, institution, likely every situation in society, is not right or normal. All have created exceptions to this condition of harmony with real nature. At the foundation of all of this is the common acquiescence to the denial of what violates life, reality and nature.

Anything that takes man to this course is normal. It is precise and measurable. It is entirely abnormal to not achieve it.

Until men find this harmony, and choose for it, nothing real or important happens. The most pervasive and imperious force that keeps men from it is the power men yield to create civil law. In the mean time, men will neither find God or harmony, until they come to terms what the civil law has become, their relationship to it, and what is to be done to correct the situation.
So keep pissing in the wind, your good intentions yield little.