The Law Of Dual Effects

9. The Law Of Dual Effects

All substances and agents either taken into the living organism or coming into contact with it from without, occasion a twofold and contrary action in time, the reactive or secondary action being the opposite of the active or primary one, and the more lasting.

An example of this would be anything creating the effect of stimulation as a primary action, which would result in a secondary reaction of depression, such as taking a hot shower which gives one a sense of warmth and vigor and thereafter a feeling of “relaxation,” which in reality is a level of enervation. The same effect takes place very commonly in the “lazy” feeling created after consuming a very large meal, whereby at first one never feels very stimulated and “energized.” This is what we call a “stimulant delusion” and is very common in most current enervating lifestyles.