The Law of the Organism

Behavior disorders, whether individual or social-the psychoneuroses, crime, war, and similar manifestations-are the outer, secondary expression of disturbances in internal physiological tensions that are organismic and that characterize the race of man as a species. These internal tensional aberrations, whether studied ontogenetically or phylogenetically, are found to relate specifically to discrepancies in the organism's neuromuscular patterns or configuration. The pattern or configuration that underlies man's symbolic system (his metaphor or language) has substituted a basis of motivation or behavior that is throughout allegorical. This overtly vicarious mechanism, which now functions interindividually or socially, tends to replace the basis ofbehaviro that primarily motivates the organism of man as a biologically unitary phylum. Man's need is the acquirement of the capacity to differentiate between these conflicting tensional patterns as they may be rendered objectively discriminable within him through the application of an appropriate bio-physical technique

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