Posted by Perciever on February 29, 2000 at 09:04:38:
In Reply to: Law of three...golden key? posted by jfive on February 29, 2000 at 02:05:55:
What about the three monkeys see no evil, hear no evil , say no evil!
Just kidding, good post j5.
> A great thing about the egram is the way
> it can provide a bridge between the core
> of esoteric spiritual ideas in the world's
> religions and the modern western discipline
> of personality psychology.
> The 3 meta-groups of head, heart, gut fill
> the role of 3 interacting basic forces
> creating reality that also find expression
> in the proton, electron, neutron and
> synthesis, antithesis, synthesis, also
> the Christian Trinity, etc.
> Now, the law of 3, and I might as well
> quote J.G. Bennett here, "...exists in very
> many traditions, East and West. We can
> read about it in the Tao Teh King; but perhaps
> the oldest expression of it is to be found
> in the Sankhya philosophy of India, which is
> more than two thousand five hundred years old. The Sankhya teaching about the 3 gunas, or
> qualities of nature, had a profound effect
> on all of Indian thinking. It describes the
> nature of the three gunas -- rajas, tamas,
> and sattwa -- in various ways and says that
> there is a primal state of purity in which
> they are all One. From this One come the mixing
> that produces all the diversity of the world."
> A person who does not make spiritual inner efforts is generally blind to the working of the 3 forces, being only able to see 2 of them
> at a time and hence sets up endless
> false dichotomies. Bennett again, "Because
> of this, he never sees how things really work,
> how they come about, how they can change.
> He is always in a world of pushing or
> resisting and does not see the reconciling
> force. It is only when we can perceive
> through our head, our heart, and our body
> together that the law of three becomes a
> reality for us."
> That seems to be an interesting key,
> a kind of Rosetta stone providing a
> workable way to use the egram to connect
> Jung/Freud/Object relations theory with
> the millenia deep religious traditions.
> Accept momentarily as a hypothesis that
> we all have access to 2 of 3 egram centers.
> This is similar to the Jungian idea that
> we have easier access to our dominant and
> secondary functions but the third is tougher
> and the fourth, inferior function is pretty
> much beyond our conscious reach as it carries
> our shadow and connection to the objective
> psyche.
> By applying the egram and MBTI to ourselves
> we might discover a way to re-incorporate
> some sort of understanding of the relationship
> of all three of the egram centers AS THEY
> MANIFEST IN OURSELVES, and hence can activate
> the third or shadow force moving through our lives. The egram then acts as
> a kind of spiritual map or radar to let us
> have awareness of what is missing in our
> conscious orientation to our lives and that
> otherwise is invisible to us in every situation
> in our lives where we are blocked and
> frustrated by some invisible oppositional
> force that we can't comprehend. What is
> actually blocking us is our mistaken
> dualistic understanding of reality.
> By studying the egram and using it as a
> self-transformational tool we can rebalance
> our inner nature in such a way that we
> can become aware of all 3 forces, at which
> point the deeper implications and possibilities
> of the egram become open to us.