18A. Twenty Natural Laws

Natural laws are not commandments 

Twenty natural laws are gifted to us and none rule; none command. All guide the natural order governing our biological and mental operating systems. Every virtue has a positive consequence, and every trespass of virtue has a negative consequence. Fortunately, every man and woman has free choice to know in advance of any action, exactly what potential outcome will result. Our reasoning faculty, and our conscience exist for good reason. 

This understanding leads to the first natural law. 

1 The natural law of Identity

A thing is what it is and according to what the thing is, it acts; conversely, as the thing acts, it is. 

This law prompts us to identify reality, and not accept falsity; to identify the real nature of exactly what we are and how we function. We must identify what life is so that we can reason how to act and how to live. 

Fictions, Legal entities and pretend rules have no place. All such rules, statutes, legislations and the like violate this natural law by denying our living nature.

2. The natural law of Causality

All action is caused and determined by the nature of the entities that act; no real entity (thing) can occur by chance, or without cause; a thing cannot act contrary to its nature. 

This natural law is also exhibited within every man, woman, and child, physically, mentally, and spiritually.

Simply stated, existence and identity must exist before our consciousness can identify that which exists. The process of thinking, and the contents of our thoughts, are two separate things. 

The laws of identity (1) and causality (2) apply to personal ethics. Because a thing cannot act contrary to its nature, we are responsible for our actions. Consequently, these two laws have a significant bearing on the natural law of Justice.

3. The natural law of Independence

All men and women are unique and independent in expression, within the equality and likeness of their human nature. 

Independence marks each one of us as separate from each other. Our mind is an attribute of self, and so is every thought. We are equal by kind but different in physical form and expression. All body and spirit functions are private in their source. They can be shared, as experiences of life and value exchange, but their source is always independent, inviolate in nature, belonging to each alone. We each are capable of doing, thinking, and saying things, independently of what others are choosing to do at the same time. Accordingly, we are credited with the good that we do and held accountable for all that is not. Life is simplified, ethically morally and justly. 

4. The natural law of Equality

All living beings of the Homo sapiens species are equally endowed with like nature and faculties, regardless of individual form and expression.

Every cell, organ, system and faculty of our physical, mental and spiritual being, is equal in purposeful function. None are hierarchically superior, dominating, or authoritative. All support life equally. Appearances and traits differ, but this independent uniqueness serves equality of purpose. Our unique free expression confirms we are equal in kind, yet independently unique in body, mind, and soul.  This characteristic should genuinely be the core foundation of our societal structures, taught in all curricula, from infancy.

5. The natural law of Integrity

The state of being whole, undivided, integrated, ethically intentioned, and committed to one's life, respectful of the lives of others. 

Integrity is our core value. It means the state of being whole, undivided, integrated, ethically intentioned and committed to life. Integrity is the bond that unites the whole of our physical, conscious, subconscious, emotional and spiritual being. 

This natural law is exhibited within every man, woman, and child, within every single tissue, cell, organ, system, and faculty of our physical, mental, and spiritual being.

Life is what we are. Each constituent supports our whole being with integrity. To live is to commit to living and accept what our actions deliver. We cannot escape moral responsibility and accountability expressed by our actions. Courage falls within the law of integrity.

Lack of integrity almost inevitably results in diminished quality of life in some form, or to some degree. 

At the societal level, integrity manifests most profoundly as respect for the lives of others. As such, it is the fundamental tenet of all personal, social, business and contractual dealings. It should form the cornerstone of all teaching curricula. 

This law applies to all personal thoughts and actions, truth, honesty and respect. It falls squarely within all personal, social and business dealings, education, and the jurisdiction of natural justice. 

6. The natural law of Individual rights

Individual right to life, and its sustenance, is unalienable, immutable and inviolate. Our right to the fruits of our labour is inalienable and inviolate.

Individual Rights are moral principles that restrain society members from interfering with another's actions. Individual Rights of Man preside over all other life forms.

An unalienable right is the right to action; to live and sustain our lives, within the rights of all others. 

An inalienable right is our right to the product of our action(s); the right of entitlement (or belonging) to that which our efforts produce, including improvements and cultivations made to land. 

Rights belong only to individual men and women. No collective rights can exist. Individual rights impose no obligations on one’s neighbours, except to abstain from violating his or her rights.

This natural law pertains to every unique living (human) being, every politic and society, and all personal, business, and societal dealings with others.

7. The natural law of Free Will

Free choice of thought and action is guaranteed inclusive of incumbent responsibility, liability, and accountability. Nothing may overrule free will.

Volitional consciousness is intrinsic and axiomatic, meaning it must be used in all attempts to deny it. It distinguishes Home Sapien Sapiens from all other life forms. Volition means choice. Volitional consciousness is our tool for survival, hence to deny or overrule it is criminal. Likewise, it cannot be coerced or forced by any means without violating our unalienable right to life. More than a yes/no switch, our free will authors the value database that fuels our subconscious mind, which generates our feelings. 

8. The natural law of Commitment

To live is to think, reason, and commit to actions, and bear the consequences.

The subconscious mind is tasked by nature to fulfil our chosen desires. This commitment drives our conscience, our emotions, and our self-preserving reflexes plus our intuition and our conscience. 

Our human nature necessitates we use our minds and bear the consequences, remembering that to not choose is to choose. As authors of our actions and behaviour, we cannot escape moral responsibility and accountability expressed by our actions.

9. The natural law of Allowance

Every man, woman, and child (including infants and those mentally disabled) are endowed to progress at their choice and pace, in service of their life, but are not absolved from refusing so to do. 

This law derives from an infant's ability to learn rudimentary actions and tasks without cognitive recognition of those processes, or any ability to cognitively express or direct them.

Infants, young children, and those who suffer from a mental handicap are enabled to choose their actions and experience the emotions of success, or failure, while their cognitive (reasoning) abilities develop over time. While this law permits learning at our own pace, it does not excuse us from learning. It must be that way since that ability allows us to progressively accept full adult responsibility through exercising value-based choices. Adolescence is that platform of maturity. 

No (purported) Law we’ve ever invented can match what this natural law allows because it allows us to learn and for mental maturity to develop and become habituated over our entire life. It facilitates the development of mental competence consistent with choice, without penalty.

This Law speaks of graciousness, politeness, integrity, gratitude, and respect. This natural law offers a foundation stone for all education, cooperation, collaboration, relationships, marriage, and parenthood. It has particular relevance to schooling at all levels, including adult education.

Abusing the natural law of Allowance

There is no escape from choosing to cheat the cognitive mind, because it conducts the orchestra of your life. The very fact that success or distress is physically, mentally, or emotionally inevitable, confirms our need to direct these outcomes and not attempt to escape our responsibility. Most anxiety, stress, and mental trauma result from attempting to escape the natural law of just consequence. The Law of Allowance cannot be abused with impunity. We reap what we sow. 

Because this Law of Alowance alleviates or overcomes legitimate impairment of some kind, so those who pretend they can thrive in adulthood by relying on (nature's) bridging pathway provided for children, will suffer. Wishful thinking, mysticism, and subjectivism are good examples of blissfully attempting to bypass conscious understanding.

10. The natural law of Respect

No man, woman, or child can expect to uphold their unalienable right to life without first respecting the equal right to life of all other living human beings. 

Every constituent, organ, system, process, and faculty of our being testifies utmost respect for each other. Every constituent of our being fully respects the individual success of all others, regardless of uniqueness, difference, or diversity, or else its function and life are compromised or snuffed out.

Respect is exhibited by those who uphold the natural law, but is rejected conversely by all those who trespass. Respect manifests socially through moral or immoral actions, as the primary factor in all matters concerning natural justice. Its relationship to natural justice should be the core ethic taught in all curricula, from infancy onwards.

11. The natural law of Reciprocity

Respect for the right of all others to live is the only guarantee of freedom for the human species, which, reciprocally, is respect for one’s own life. 

This law is testified by our heart and lungs (jointly) reciprocating, and by our chosen values being reciprocally processed by our conscious and subconscious minds.

Moral discipline asserts that where the rights of all other individuals are respected, no one can offend another by any application of his or her own. Freedom to live by one’s nature and personal choices applies to all of us, or it is not freedom at all.

Nature demands a societal environment guaranteeing that each life may prosper and thrive. Nothing ensures that each will prosper, however, for that is the prerogative of free will. It is for us to translate this law into a free convivial society, upholding reciprocal individual rights to life, property, and freedom. 

12. The natural law of Right Reason

Reasoning discovers truths that are not self-evident, assisting us to adapt ideas and material existence to life-sustaining purposes.

Every part of our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual being has a purpose; meaning that each exists for a reason. It follows we must (rightfully) reason in our minds to exercise our lives.

‘Reasoning’ is the intellectual ability to logically think through connected steps, in search of truths that are not self-evident. It is the mental means by which rational beings understand themselves, and think about cause and effect, truth and falsehood, ethics and morality. The word ‘right’ implies that life is the benchmark; that it is right to be moral and wrong to harm others.

Reason facilitates the ability to change attitudes, traditions, and institutions, and to convert beliefs into knowledge, within the realm of ethics, free will, self-determination and actioned morality. 

13. The natural law of Efficacy

Related conscious faculties permit efficacious functioning, corresponding with truthful mental content.

Truthful mental content relies on natural laws 1, and 2. This law derives from the ability of our subconscious mind to automatically activate and monitor our desires and actions at lightning speed, thus freeing our cognitive mind to investigate, deliberate, reason, and choose life-sustaining values. 

This law allows anyone who places a high value on their life to speed past all others who must mentally wrestle every issue, and do so with a high degree of truthful certainty. Mental efficacy depends on existent reality, and that we know it. 

Our success depends on whether our values enhance our life, or hinder it, which means we each hold the key to mental ability, efficiency, and emotional stability. We are the guardians of our abilities according to our choices. This law applies materially, mentally, emotionally and spiritually to every aspect of self, every goal, and every ambition. 

14. The natural law of Ethics

We all need to choose life-supporting thoughts, values and determinations, that when acted upon, benefit ourselves while outwardly expressing our morality.

Ethics are intrinsically founded in the wholesome integrity of our born nature; and the truthful, honest cohesiveness of our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual faculties. 

Nature obliges us to adapt material reality to our purposes, by using life-sustaining thinking and reasoning to guide our actions. Ethics is a code of life-sustaining principles that guide, and ultimately determine our success in life and the moral correctness of our behaviour and actions. Unethical thinking and lack of reasoning harm no one but ourselves; hence the need for –

15. The natural law of Morality

Actions and behaviour publicly testify to our moral stature, our self-accepted responsibility and accountability. 

Every cell, tissue, organ, system, function of our body and mental faculties justly uphold every other constituent of our life. Each is responsible and accountable for supporting the whole. In the same way, ethical thinking results in moral actions. Thus we are wholly responsible and accountable for our actions and behaviours affecting all others.

This law should accompany every purpose, reason and mutual dealing with others.

Ethics means choosing self-mastery, by honouring the Creator in our thoughts, desires and ambitions. Ethics are our personal benchmark.

Morality is the enactment of self-mastery, that honours and ensures freedom for others. Justness and morality are our social benchmarks.

16. The natural law of Enterprise

A cooperative effort with others will return more benefits than individuals can achieve alone.

All our body functions and constituent parts collaboratively work with all others for synergistic benefit, likewise our mental processes. No dispute or conflict exists. Every constituent of our makeup is tasked by nature to co-operate for synergistic benefits. Witness how our conscious and subconscious minds work cooperatively to mutual benefit. Conscience, emotions, and our immune system serve to remedy discord, trauma, and disease. Their success is driven by cooperative effort. 

17. The natural law of No Trespass

No independent living being or group has the right to trespass, or violate another’s life, or property. 

The conscious mind cannot change the subconscious process because it is fully automated. Likewise, the subconscious process cannot overrule free will, or there is no free will. Precisely because no part of the mental process can trespass free will, which is the volitional driving force of life, so nothing has the right to trespass, or violate another’s life, or property.

The principle is immutable and unequivocal. No mind may rule another!

Simply stated, two individuals cannot be free and equal when one of them is controlling, managing, threatening, harming, blackmailing, or extorting the other. This law does not say that one cannot trespass or violate another’s life, because that would trespass one’s free will. It says instead that no one has the ‘right’ to do it. All initiated force is henceforth denied. All remedial force is moral in conformity with any committed harm. 

18. The natural law of Just Consequence

Nature serves just consequence, whether respected or not.

Every function of our body depends on the nutritional value of the food we choose. Likewise, every result concluded by our conscious process is determined by ‘nutrient value(s),’ within the choices we make.  Consequences cannot be escaped, but we can choose our success or default to something less, even complete failure to succeed. 

This law underwrites natural justice. It permits what one chooses, whether for good or evil, and it makes no mistakes. We each are the author, and practitioner of our actions and just recipients of their consequences for better or worse. All consequences justly and exactly belong to whoever caused them. Mitigating circumstances may apply, of course.

19. The natural law of forceful Arrest

Just arrest of all initiated force protects our unalienable right to life and inalienable property rights. 

As our nature testifies, all initiated coercive, fraud or physical force, and all acts of aggression violate one’s free will, and one’s right to life causing harm. All violate the natural law of No Trespass (17).

Whoever initiates the use of force, for whatever purpose, to whatever extent, is a killer, intent on destroying our capacity to live! Force, and mind, are opposites. Whatsoever forces us to act against our judgment, negates, and paralyses our means of survival.

Those who invent legal statutes to herd and rule men and women violate their free will. Accordingly, such statutes cannot claim the sanction of reason, just as no advocate of contradictions can claim it. Without protection or self-defence, we are at the mercy of all who initiate force, including governments, fraudsters, blackmailers, tyrants, rapists, psychopaths, terrorists, thugs, warmongers and murderers.

20. The natural law of Justice

Innocent, natural individuals are free. Proven trespassers of natural law are outlaws, perpetrators of deliberately enacted transgressions, and voluntary bearers of natural justice.

This law is sourced from the natural law of just consequence, namely, nature serves just consequence, whether respected or not. No one decides justice — it just is! 

One who acts within the natural law offers justness. Those who act within natural law are innocent and free. Conversely, those who violate the natural law are not innocent of their actions. They elect to be outlaws. 

Free persons do not commit crimes—those who have (prior) chosen to relinquish their freedom, do. The full force of Natural Justice is appropriately brought to bear upon such perpetrators, being the only force that he or she has the right to choose. Lawful remediation is the path of natural justice. 

Encrypted in nature

Those twenty natural laws are not prescribed, but they can be taught most assuredly. They exist for the sake of ethical, moral, and just guidance, even education. The more they are championed, prized and actioned, the more they are reinforced daily by our emotional responses that reward or rebuke our actions. 

To that end, they may be best considered as (selectively pertinent) instructions read to a jury before it retires to consider its verdict. Natural laws govern consequences. They do not prescribe or authoritatively command our actions. 

Natural Law Definition

Natural law (Ius Naturalis) is the set of universal, eternal and immutable conditions governing behavioural consequences of volitionally conscious beings. Absent compliance with these maxims encrypted in the nature and state of Man, the peace and happiness of society can never be preserved. 

Serious students are advised to study this page in addition.

‘Law’ is ‘natural law’ and nothing else. Natural laws endorse one’s present course in life or they reprimand or insist on correction and remediation, including possible recompense, which is the course of natural justice. Emotions serve us similarly. 

All twenty natural laws are intrinsic within our physiology and conscious processes, altogether being what we are as living Homo sapien sapiens. It follows that so long as human and sociological sciences refuse to study human consciousness, these laws will remain hidden, maintaining the ongoing sufferance of humanity, including for your children and grandchildren. 

It is long past time to change today's entrenched mindset. Remember that every trespasser of natural law self-confesses their transgression, simply by their action; their immorality. Natural laws never command. No mind may rule another! There is no need to do so. Incentives are decisive and so are penalties.

‘Law‘ has nothing to do with crime prevention. Its sole concern is to foster, uphold and sustain our lives so that we can master ourselves as (creative) sovereign individuals.  Switch your mind from dictatorial authority to joyful exuberance. Be rid of enslavement. Reach out to life's abundance and respectful freedom in pursuit of happiness. Switch to that bountiful mindset and you will never turn back.