All nature is the transformation of one power. Therefore, nature is completely harmonious.
However, many of our everyday notions are disharmonious. How can a man get disharmonious notions from completely harmonious nature? A wrong notion is a separately taken part of the complete meaning of the law of nature, functioning as a complete, independent entity, as the law of nature. In this independent, complete form this part becomes disharmonious in relation both to other meaningful parts of the law and to other laws. But this part will be in harmony with the same-meaning parts of other laws. The relations between such parts, in the aggregate, create the artificial
systems in our life: for example, most state and criminal-justice systems. Although harmonious within themselves, these systems ultimately become disharmonious.
The progress and development of civilization does not cause existing false notions to disappear or go into a void; instead they come to form part of a fuller understanding of the essence of the laws (a manifestation of the Law of Conservation of Energy). But they then function not as independent, disharmonious parts but as a part of the common system, part of the common harmony. That is, they are present there in their natural form, as they are supposed to exist. Therefore, all opposite points of view existing today in our life, both between separate people and between countries, do not really contradict each other at their root but are a part of common, global notions: that is, integral laws of nature that form our life.
Talking about power, we can say the following. The complete, critical volume of the kinetic power contains only the law itself: that is, its components when they exist together as a whole. Since a false notion is still a part of the law, on becoming independent it keeps a minimal internal relationship with the law. Through this relationship a minimal amount of power comes into play that is only enough to give this disharmonious notion existence. Therefore, false notions have no kinetic power. That is why they cannot naturally harmonize life from within, cannot “create” anything useful and valuable in life.
Disharmonious notions and actions reflecting them have the opposite property: they disperse other elements of nature, and take power from them when those elements have
at least a minimal disharmony. The more disharmonious notions take power from the less disharmonious notions or objects: that is, they suppress them.
A man with an incorrect understanding can have only a limited potential.
An incorrect understanding, owing to its disharmony with the rest of the world, collides and gets into conflict with the many other false notions involved in it, and so limits a man’s actions. Since a false notion can only be part of a true notion, every true notion contains many false ones. That is why there are many false notions of nature abroad, and why they all lack power and have only limited potential. Every correct notion is in harmony with the whole of nature, both with other true notions and with all false notions, because false notions are parts of true ones. Therefore, the false notions do not “see” the true ones and cannot influence them or cause them any harm.
When a man tries to reach his goals in life with the help of false notions and incorrect acts that reflect them, these acts collide in the surrounding world with other false notions, causing them to counteract. And the counteractive power of the second group of action is equal to the active power of the first group, because it is the same power seen from an opposite point of view. This can be understood by the analogy of a physical process. For example, when a football player hits the ball with his head, the pressure of his head on the ball is equal to the pressure of the ball on the head.
Correct notions and acts create no counteractions in the surrounding world, because they are in harmony with all nature. Ultimately they are good not only for the man creating them but, automatically, and regardless of his wish, for everybody around. The only thing that the correct notions violate is the independence of the parts of a law,
because their presence automatically restores their internal relationship with the other parts, returns them to their natural harmonious state, and reveals them as belonging to the common system. Correct notions give a man an internal satisfaction because they possess great power. Since they do not encroach upon anyone’s natural interests under any circumstances, a man finally becomes free.
If an incorrect act encounters a counteraction in the surrounding world equal in its power, then how can a man reach financial success in life with the help of such acts? There are two reasons for this. First, there are no completely disharmonious acts, because a minimal internal relationship always remains. A man’s incorrect acts can have positive results because of the small correct part included in them. A counteract — that is, the complications from these incorrect acts — results from those very incorrect acts. This regularity is the manifestation of the law “similar gives birth to similar”; an incorrect act can only end up with an incorrect result. For example, no matter how many times a man puts one object next to another; the first one will never be on the top of the second. A correct act can only end up with a correct result. Secondly, false notions themselves can also bring financial success. How so? When they happen to be stronger than another man’s false notions and wrongful acts, or when they happen to be stronger than the second man’s unpurified true notions, then they suppress and take away the second man’s internal power; and the first man can use this power — that is, success — externally. In this way a man does not create goods but takes or steals them from the surrounding people. All criminal systems live by this method; but ordinary people also use it, although on a smaller scale, in everyday life.
Disharmonies are brain infections. They can go from man to man and infect others. There are two types of infection.
Type one. When one man likes another’s disharmonious acts and begins to use this disharmony in his own life, he infects himself.
Type two. Infection also takes place when one man inflicts disharmony on another and enjoys it. This is how it happens. When the first man does something unpleasant to the second, he invades his mental territory. If the first man enjoys it, that shows that he has taken the power of the second. Instead of this power, the second man now has negative emotions. This shows that he has been infected. He has acquired a prototype, a fetus, of the disharmony of the first man. After a while — that is, an incubation period (it can last from a few seconds to a few decades) — the second man begins to feel a need to reinstall his power in this part of his brain. His best opportunity for this is to use this disharmony on other people. Some people go this way; but better developed people do not want to hurt others and take away their power, so, they suppress this desire, thus putting themselves in a losing situation. They become very weak in this part of life: first of all, because they have lost their power; secondly, because they do not take power from other people; and, thirdly, because they have also spent their power in suppressing this desire. Weakness in this part of the brain will cause this part of life to remain undeveloped and form problems in it. Thus some people, and indeed entire nations, who are subjected to violence become bearers of violence themselves. Here is an example well known to psychiatrists of how one could get infected: children from bad families who are subjected to violence by their parents, often resort to violence themselves in later life.