The Three Principles

Intellectual Understanding And Spiritual Realization

June 13, 2014 bulldozer00 4 comments

According to the late Sydney Banks and his “3 Principles” theory, the key to serenity and graceful living begins with an intellectual understanding and spiritual realization of the inseparable BIG THREE:

Graphic credits: Poached from Judy Sedgeman’s 3P web site

I can confidently say that I’ve acquired an intellectual understanding of the 3 principles, but I feel like some force is preventing me from realizing their spiritual power. I suspect that it’s BD00 working covertly behind the scenes to block that realization.

To further explore the elegant simplicity and potential transformative power of the 3P trinity, surf on over to the Three Principles Global Community web site and check out some of the videos and articles.

Categories: spirituality Tags: 3PG, Sydney Banks, The Three Principles

February 24, 2013 bulldozer00 3 comments

William James, who is regarded as the father of modern psychology, once wrote that the field of psychology had no true principles. He said if such principles were ever realized on a large scale, it would make the importance of every human advancement since fire pale in comparison.

As always, it’s our choice to decide what’s true for ourselves, but the three principles behind psychological life are: Mind, Consciousness, and Thought (MCAT). From formlessness, Mind produces a formed Thought and Consciousness brings this thought form to life via our senses. It’s as simple (simplistic?) as: Mind->Thought->Consciousness.

As long as we are alive, the MCAT trinity is in continuous operation. Whether we’re aware that this irreducible, equation-less, metaphysical system is operating silently in the background of our psyche or not, that’s how we experience psychological life moment-to-moment.

Of the three principles, “thought” is what we are intimately familiar with. Unlike formless “mind” and formless “consciousness“, we can directly “see and feel” our thought forms in real-time. Thus, from the instant we wake up in the morning until we go to sleep at night, we act on them as they spontaneously emerge during the day.

Note that the universal MCAT trio is impersonal. It doesn’t say anything… nada… zilch… about quality of “thought“. That’s where the “personal” you and I come in.

As soon as we become aware of an impersonally created thought, we instantaneously attach a level of personal “I-ness” and judgmental quality to the thought. Thus, hypothetically given the same thought, you can experience its associated feeling as joy and I can experience it as sorrow. Ergo, quality of thought is personal.