The Three Principles were uncovered by Sydney Banks – but who was Syd?
Sydney Banks (1931-2009) was an ordinary man who had a spontaneous and profound spiritual experience in 1973. After his experience, he went from working as a welder with a 9th grade education to becoming a world-renowned spiritual teacher. His profound spiritual experience revealed The Three Principles, which are the foundation of all human experience: Vitality, Consciousness, and Thought.
People from all walks of life were drawn to Syd and his teachings. Shortly after his insight, a grassroots movement developed, and people heard about the Three Principles through word of mouth. Those who gained deep insights into the principles experienced profound changes that transformed their lives.
Over the years, countless foundations, institutions, and companies have been established with the aim of passing on and disseminating understanding of the Three Principles. Private, municipal, and state programs have been established in the fields of mental health treatment, substance abuse treatment, trauma and PTSD treatment, education, prevention, prison education, sports, and management.
Although Sydney Banks died in 2009, the spread of The Three Principles continues throughout the world. The Three Principles contain great intelligence and power. And when this is combined with the many results where people have experienced major changes, it creates a natural momentum that has carried and will continue to carry the understanding out into the world.
For more information about Sydney Bank's life and work, see here:
https://threeprinciplesfoundation.org/ https://sydbanks.com/
Below you can read more about the Principle of Vitality, the Principle of Consciousness, and the Principle of Thought.
The principle Vitality
Vitality is the source and intelligence behind all life.
The principle of Life Force is a formless energy that is responsible for creating all life. It is the eternal peace and silence that lies before the movement and noise of created life.
Vitality is the fundamental nature of each and every one of us. There is nothing beyond Vitality. It is the source of everything in the universe. Throughout the ages, many words have been used to try to point to this dimension of life: the unborn, the uncreated, the infinite void from which everything arises, the divine, the quantum mechanical field, the great nothingness, emptiness, the fertile void, and other names.
Vitality is the intelligence that knows how every living system is created and maintained. In nature, it guides a flower to open and turn toward the sun. It knows how to convert sunlight into energy that the flower can use to grow. It understands how to guide the salmon back to their spawning grounds. It guides the birds on their annual migration.
The Principle of Awareness
Consciousness is what makes you aware of life.
Behind your thinking there is an open space of quiet awareness. This is called the Principle of Consciousness. The Principle of Consciousness belongs to the realm of the human soul. The Latin word for soul is "anima," which is the root of the word animation/movement. Consciousness is what sets the thoughts you have chosen to focus on in motion. When you believe what you think, your five senses are animated to create an experience of what you have thought.
The Principle Consciousness is the infinite background to life. We all live within an infinite field of consciousness rather than just living in individual consciousness.
Everything in life—every single cell that has been created—has a built-in degree of consciousness, since everything is created from this infinite field of consciousness. Every single cell in the universe reacts to heat, pressure, touch, and gravity.
The principle of Consciousness enables all people to experience and perceive life. It brings your five senses to life—sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell. It is through your senses that you experience life.
The principle
Thought
The Principle Thought is the underlying force that creates the entire spectrum of human experience.
We live in a world of Thoughts. There is nothing in our experience, from the moment we are born to the moment we die, that is not brought to life through the power of Thought. It is formless and infinite.
The Principle Thought constantly creates mental activity or thinking that takes place in your head and in everyone else's heads. It creates all the forms of mental activity you experience: ideas, concepts, beliefs, impressions, and images. You are a thinker with free will, so you have the freedom to decide which thoughts you want to listen to and which you want to ignore. You have the freedom to give a thought attention or not. You have the freedom to act on a thought or not.
When we talk about the Principle of Thought, we are not talking about the stream of content that flows through your head all the time—that is your personal thinking. The Principle of Thought is much greater and deeper. It is what enables the creation of all mental life and everything you think. It is the ultimate creative potential or field from which all thinking arises.