There is no choice in the matter; the criteria are prescribed by natural law just as with laws of gravity, friction and momentum. Expressed in other words, right action is workable, appropriate and honest. When action does not include those criteria, wrong results occur. The news media daily report the overwhelming evidence of society's noncompliance with nature's right action.

From the 1920s Wetherill functioned as teacher, training executive, author, management consultant and behavioral guru. Under his tutelage his students learned to abandon their personal goals and motivation, and they now are the recipients of improved health, financial security and splendid relationships.

Some people distrust impersonal motivation, but ask yourself, Do people need personal motivation regarding gravity? We learn early in life to adjust our actions to gravity's impersonal motivation whenever its principles are relevant. Unlike laws promulgated by people, natural laws are self-enforcing and inviolable. Their "teeth" are inherent in them, and their control is binding on everybody, everything, everywhere. The mere attempt to violate a natural law triggers its penalty. For example, if a saint and a criminal topple off a tall building, their descent is controlled by natural law no matter their prayers or curses. When they encounter space already occupied, they both pay the same deadly penalty.

Knowledge of the impersonal motivation of the behavioral law is needed to bring about a rational society that will think, say and do what is right while refraining from thinking, saying or doing what is wrong. Initially mistakes will be made, but people will know what causes their wrong results and will try as hard to be right as formerly they had tried to get their own way.

Think of life's experiences in terms of an ongoing learning curve, beginning at birth. With no knowledge of their situation, babies form concepts to control the people around them; then cry in frustration when they can't. It has happened to everybody, including spiritual leaders, political and business leaders—all persons born into this life.

Wetherill taught that because emotional, wrong thoughts are irrational (not in touch with reality) they cannot be resolved logically and, instead, are lodged in memory among the billions of neural connections. Thus whenever a person experiences similar situations under which the original wrong thinking was done, those thoughts unknowingly become premises in his/her conclusions. They are defined by Wetherill as distortions of logic, and they cause all the compulsive, repetitive, anti-social behavior people display.

As I prepare this article, I remember that I was attracted to this information by Wetherill's answers to my previously unanswered questions of identity and purpose in this life. He presented them as theory because direct contact with the reality is not possible. However, the theory is based on visible evidence and is so plausible that it can be seen as correct when thoughtfully considered.

Part of the theory states that whoever or whatever created the universe and all that exists provided a social law as well as the physical laws to guide people's actions. The law of absolute right states: Right action gets right results, whereas wrong action gets wrong results. Adhering to the first part of the law assures a person of the wisdom and practicality that results from obeying natural law.

However, the fact is that without their awareness people are controlled by the law of behavior in the same way as they are controlled by physical laws. Long before any of those laws were identified by men, their control existed. So it is with the behavioral law. Society's wrong results are legion, showing that wrong action predominates society's behavior. People's social problems will truly be resolved only when the impersonal motivation of the behavioral law replaces their personal motivation—no matter how well-intentioned it might seem.