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Weaponizing the Principles
How we innocently misuse a ‘magic bullet’ to shoot ourselves in the foot
For more than a decade, I have been sharing a spiritual understanding of life that is more commonly known as either “the 3 Principles” or “the inside-out understanding”. When I talk about it in terms of the inside-out understanding, I’m pointing to the fact that the human experience only unfolds in one direction — from formless to form, inside to out, thought to experience. When I talk about it in terms of principles, I’m pointing to the underlying truth of how life works as first articulated by the Scottish mystic Syd Banks, who said:
“Mind, Consciousness and Thought are the three principles that enable us to acknowledge and respond to existence. Mind is the intelligence of literally all things in this world or any other world… [It’s] the Mind that has the power to guide you through life. Consciousness gives us the ability to realize the existence of life… Consciousness is infinite — there is no end to it. Thought is a gift we were given to have the freedom to walk through life and see what we want to see… Thought is not reality, yet it is through Thought that our realities are created. Mind + Consciousness + Thought = Reality.”
Or to put it more simply:
We are alive, we are aware, and we are creative.
