Sanity and Insanity

The Oxford legal dictionary defines insanity as

“a mental illness of such a severe nature that a person cannot distinguish fantasy from reality, cannot conduct her/his affairs due to psychosis, or is subject to uncontrollable impulsive behavior.”

What is a mental illness? How does one prove an inability to “distinguish fantasy from reality”? What’s the definition of psychosis? Or “uncontrollable impulsive behavior?” Lawyers will argue in court about whether a defendant is sane or insane, but these determinations are purely subjective and judgmental. The defendant’s fate is determined by which side can better influence the emotions of the jury.

Measuring sanity or insanity by judging the validity of conduct or behavior is inadequate. In a free will universe, ALL thought and conduct is sanctioned. It could even be argued that murder never occurs, for all activities between people are regulated by the universal Law of Attraction. Two potential murderers come together because they are vibrationally matched.

It can be observed, however, that a genuinely happy person never acts irrationally or demonstrates aberrant behavior. Well-being is an innate property of consciousness, and results in clear thinking and emotional integrity. Coherence in thought and feeling always accompany positive emotion. Therefore, well-being is the best measure of rational thought and action.

Neurosis is irrational behavior.

Psychosis is wildly irrational and sometimes destructive, behavior.

But what is irrational behavior and why is it irrational? Behavior is not irrational because it goes against the commonly accepted range or mode of allowed or lawful conduct, for laws themselves are often irrational and passed by legislators who take money from special interest groups. Neither is behavior irrational because it is not congruent with morals, ethics, or religious beliefs, for these codes of conduct are often defined by individuals or groups with agendas. A doctor might treat a patient in distress with a banned drug like Ivermectin because it is best for the patient, even though it may cost the doctor his medical license or sanction from his medical board.

However, irrational or insane persons are all mired in the lower emotions. Of course, an unhappy person is not necessarily an irrational or insane person. However, a person who is predominantly mired in the uncomfortable lower emotions will eventually produce irrational actions based upon those predominant thought patterns.

For example, a person may hate the fact that he never gets promoted in his job. Say he works as a clerk in a department store, but three others have been promoted to section manager ahead of him. If he focuses his thoughts and feelings predominantly upon his resentment, then eventually he will find a reason for his lack of advancement. More than likely this reason will have nothing to do with his own thought or conduct, because no one wants to believe that they are not good enough. So he focuses on the obvious reason, his unreasonable boss, who has passed him over.

At first, he is just grumpy. He complains to the boss, lightly at first, then more strongly. He becomes angry, bad-mouths the boss to all of his co-workers. We say this guy is just a sourpuss and let it go at that. But if his thoughts predominately go to fighting his boss, he will begin to act neurotically.

A neurosis is just a predominant focus upon that which is not wanted. This leads to action based upon those thoughts, and so we say this person exhibits neurotic or irrational behavior. If, however, the predominant thought becomes exclusive thought, now we have the condition of psychosis.

Psychosis is exclusive attention to that which is not wanted and can result in mental and emotional illness, and “uncontrollable impulsive behavior,” as Oxford tells us.

From these simple principles, we can make sense of the idea of sanity or insanity.

Anything which encourages a good feeling can be considered sane. Anything that encourages a bad feeling can be considered irrational.

Therefore, punishment is irrational. In some cases it is necessary, as in incarcerating a crazed killer to take him or her out of society. But in general, punishment is irrational because it places the offender’s attention even more on the thing that is not wanted.

“A psychotic murderer kills because it makes him feel good,” you say. “A murderer likes to kill, so you are full of shit.”

Not so fast. The so-called “liking” a murderer experiences is a twisted, inverted, evil caricature of the higher emotion of affinity. If you accurately identify a murderer’s position on the scale of emotion/vibration, it will always be in the negative range (this tells you at once of the basic goodness of human nature). Irrational behavior only occurs on the lower end of the emotional scale.

The determining factor in insanity is a focus on something unwanted, instead of the creation of something wanted. If we were to psychoanalyze our murderer, we might eventually come to the conclusion that he hates people because his dad beat him during childhood. But that doesn’t get us anywhere. What is it that person really wants? Could it be that the child wanted love from his father and got his ass kicked instead? Maybe the murderer is focused on harming others because he can’t have the thing he wants.

Even a twisted murderer is an incarnated spirit, and that spirit is divine. It is possible to raise almost everyone up the scale of emotion, but we don’t do that. Our society regards human beings like widgets: if one is defective, throw it away.

Let’s stop pretending that punishing people is a good thing. Punishment is irrational and leads to exacerbation of the condition that is being punished. It leads to a hardening of attitudes, always somewhere within the negative (irrational) end of the emotional scale. That’s why prison creates hardened criminals, and almost never leads to rehabilitation.

Educating a person to focus on desires (wanted things), instead of fighting adversaries (unwanted things), can lead to an avoidance of irrational behavior. If we did that from childhood, our society would be a lot higher on the scale of emotion/vibration, and there would be much less crime. Society as a whole would be a lot happier, and more productive as well. Knowledge of the scale of emotion/vibration is essential to good parenting, schooling, and counseling. Without it, we simply judge the validity of behavior by some artificial standard.

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