For those who don't completely understand what The Science Of Decency is all about: TSOD isn't some "gimmicky new age system", but rather, it is an application of my discoveries about life and people. The name, "The Science Of Decency", really reflects the beginning motivations of these discoveries: I wanted to figure out what was behind the moral decisions that people made, by using science and logic. To give you a better idea of the significance that this study has had in my life, let me tell you a little bit about the inspiration:
There was a time when I was hugely superstitious; I was running wild with delusional thinking and paranoia. The superstitious and delusional labels come from the lack of connection between thought and circumstance. There was much associative logic behind those thoughts, so it was difficult to be unjustified at the time, and thus, difficult to be subsequently motivated to change my ways. Tunnel vision is hard to recognize, especially if you're the one in the tunnel! Only in hindsight could I see the darkness of my own runaway thought processes. But at that time, I was out of control. I'd watch myself to build sizable mental complexes and enact them without regard or comparative thought. I was so deep in my own world that I couldn't escape. Over time, I began to enact and add to these complexes faster than I could keep up. Soon, I couldn't stop.
It began to overwhelm me.
It eventually consumed me.
It was an agonizing experience, for every waking moment of my days. It was truly debilitating.
With much depression and dejection, I couldn't keep going. There was no resolve from what I was doing. There was no connection between my thoughts and the tangible. In a frustration, I uttered some mental expletives and stopped caring so much. I guess I stopped giving so much value and merit to my thought processes. I decided I needed help.
I turned to psychiatric help. The medications had their various effects on me, some would make me drowsy, some would make me anxious, but none of them really helped. One came close, but it was my shift in logic which was really making the progress. I was told it was the medication that was helping me think that way. I knew it wasn't the medication, because the change had begun before I started taking them, and persisted, regardless of the compounds I was ingesting. What was helping me was better than any prescription or placebo effect. It was a voluntary shift in thinking.
It was in this new approach to logic that I found I was gaining control of my environment. I began to combat these things which kept me down, piece by piece. To combat my own mania, I became more critical, and analytical of myself.
It took a lot of retrospection. Careful and brave adjustments to my thought processes were being made, step by step. Slowly but surely, I was becoming more aware. (I'm still not perfect, so I keep striving to get better!). The awareness was not necessarily any more sensory, but situational. Individual social variables were consciously being recognized and could be addressed individually. New viewpoints on information transfer and interaction surfaced, giving me great confidence in the way I was thinking. The path from the darkness to the light could not have been traveled if I had not explored and discovered what I did.
It was through applying the logic that I compounded that I was able to return to socialization comfortably and get my life in front of me instead of all around me and overwhelming me. It was science that helped me understand my mind, the minds around me, and the inner workings of my community. It ended up helping more than just mentally, but physically and morally, as well. Less and less did I see a need to push for my perception to be accepted by others, but rather, practice tolerance and patience with differing perceptions, through understanding. I began to treat my past perceptions as analogous to that of a different person. Every new moment was a new me.
I had always wondered why people did certain things and why they didn't do other things. It was easiest to see in others when I saw it in myself. TSOD, the applied knowledge of interpersonal logic, saved me from the depths of insanity. It was, and still is, my walk back from insanity. It is constantly help me pick apart the pieces that were delusional from the pieces that were tangible. Specifically, TSOD pulled me away from delusional thinking and paranoia because it put my perspective in perspective. It helped me understand the opinions and feelings of others because it put the perspective of others in perspective.
I share it today, because it had the potential in me to assist, from the ground up, tolerance and understanding. If such positive results can manifest in this one human, mentally shackled by delusion and paranoia, then I believe that there is much potential for it to be beneficial, even for the well-adjusted.
I won't claim that TSOD is some sort of wonder drug or miracle snake oil. The real wonder drug is that I was motivated to work on myself and really make myself a better person. I attribute applying TSOD to be as if clearing the road ahead of you, using logic and science to sweep away the debris of interpersonal difficulties (there's a mouthful). You are the one in control of walking the path in front of you... but TSOD may help make it more manageable.
I hope that the content I have provided will help you attain your individual goals, as much as, or more than it has for me. Be true to yourself. Good will to you.
-Carl Thomas
