Articles on the Three Principles as a Paradigm
The Inseparable Nature of Thought and Feeling
All feelings derive and become alive, whether positive or negative, from the power of Thought. Sydney Banks There is a pivotal point in understanding thought that appears to be unimportant, but turns out to be profoundly important: we have the misperception that thought and the feeling of thought can be separated. Actually, it is impossible…
You’re talking ancient Jewish wisdom!
Transcription Please note, this is an edited transcription for reading purposes. We still recommend listening to the audio to capture a more complete essence of the story that is difficult to convey by reading alone. There were many things about interacting with Syd which I did for probably 32 years or something in that neighbourhood…
Insight – Our Evolutionary Potential
Never underestimate the power of an insight… Sometimes one genuine insight is worth all your previous experiences in life put together. Sydney Banks – The Enlightened Gardener Sydney Banks was tenacious about the importance of insight in understanding what he was pointing to. Insight is an extremely leveraged way to learn. Because each of us…
Why the Three Principles are the first paradigm of mental life
Transcription Please note, this is an edited transcription for reading purposes. We still recommend listening to the audio to capture a more complete essence of the story that is difficult to convey by reading alone. One of the things that was cogent, more than cogent, just striking and disturbing really was Syd’s take on… I…
Short on Insight
Keith and I were working with a client and after the session an interesting phrase came to mind. I made the comment that the client was “short on insight.” We were both struck by the simplicity of the comment. It was descriptive and it brought to mind that we are all sometimes “short on insight.”…
Why Thought has Everything to do with Everything
Sydney Banks forced us to take a fresh look at something we had lived with all our lives, our thinking. He showed us the value of understanding thought at a more basic and fundamental level. We began to discover the power and wisdom in realizing the fact that we think. That we have the power…
Mind, Consciousness, and Thought by Sydney Banks
“During the last few months, I’ve been asked over and over again to try and explain in a deeper way how all our psychological thinking and processes is derived from what we call mind, consciousness, and thought, these basic three principles. So I’d like to try again. I’d like to try and explain how our…
Discovering that we’re living in the feeling of our thinking
Sydney Banks taught us that there are constant principles at work in how we psychologically experience life. He taught us that thought and feeling are inseparable. The living truth of this statement kept proving itself to us over and over again as we began to have more and more insight into it. It became clear…
How does mental clutter get created?
It’s really utterly simple. When we have a feeling that doesn’t look like it comes from thought (and we all do, every day) it takes on a life of its own, unnecessarily, in our mind. The life that it takes on is judgement, a busy mind, a distracted mind, maybe even moderate or severe stress….
Meeting Sydney Banks
We lived in California. Sydney was going to be speaking at a 5 day seminar on Salt Spring Island in Canada. Keith and some of his colleagues were driving there to hear Sydney teach. Keith asked me if I wanted to go but I was not at all interested. At that point I had no…
