LAW OF THREE (89) Alignment with the Third Force

 

LAW OF THREE (89) Alignment with the Third Force.

 

“The political and religious culture wars of our era could be eased by the simple courtesy of the Law of Three:  (1) the enemy is never the problem but the opportunity; (2) the problem will never be solved through eliminating or silencing the opposition but through creating a new field of possibility large enough to hold the tension of the opposites and launch them in a new direction.”

  Cynthia Bourgeaut.  C.A.C. Daily meditations. March2 2017.

 

 

The capacity to mediate consciously as third force belongs to the power of presence.   Presence can hold the tension of opposites and launch them into a new direction.

Presence can unlock a stagnant or immobilised situation and turn it into an evolving unit by holding apart all contradictions, loving enemies, separating the positive from negative, and waiting for creative direction.  (see blog no.80 )   

Waiting feeds an alert, flexible and reconciling presence.  It strengthens our capacity to stay present, allowing space for the unknown to participate in a conscious unfolding triad.

With the surrender of our negativity the interweaving of three active forces gives rise to a conscious triad in a new dimension, referred to as No.4.

 

 

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Cynthia further reflects on the troubles of duality. “Don’t be afraid of the darkness, the things that look like they are going in the wrong direction. The soul has to go through this overwhelm.  So often I realise the difficulty was exactly the thing that needed to happen in order for there to be clarity.  Trust that even when it seems our world is moving backward – away from justice and peace – this friction can serve The Law of Three, moving in brand new direction”.

 

 

THE LAW OF THREE (88) NOTICING

 

LAW OF THREE (88) NOTICING

 

The next world is not like the popular idea of somewhere we shall enter after death.  It is the next world of here and now.  It is only closed to us because we have become almost totally conditioned to living in the world of these sense perceptions and the thinking which is an illusory and not even an existing world.

J.G. Bennett. 

 

There is a kind of information that at times enters our awareness in the form of a sudden noticing of something we have been looking for which was near us all the time. The change from noticing to not noticing is not a causal phenomenon.  It arises unexpectedly and almost accidentally.

We may be sitting in front of a key ring that we have been looking for for weeks, but we are not noticing it. Our conscious connection to the key-ring is missing.  When we suddenly notice it, an instantaneous change in our awareness occurs. We are aware and present.  Where were we before we noticed the key ring?

To Notice the unexpected, we need to be present and receptive.  The unexpected is 3rd force.  I often walk up and down our little house in a wakeful and receptive mood, hoping for the revelation of treasures hidden before my eyes.  Suddenly I notice a suspicious little crack in a wall, a lost postcard, the strange figure in a picture.  All these objects are calling me and filling me with energy to respond.

Noticing is freely given. It is nothing we can do.  In noticing, our attention has to be free to receive.  Noticing breaks the duality that we are locked into and brings space and colour into our daily lives.  It is only when we notice that we have the possibility of choosing and changing the course of our lives.

“Noticing enters our lives from another dimension or another world.  It is one of the simplest ways that influences from a higher world come into this world.”  J.G. Bennet.

 

 

THE LAW OF THREE (87) WAITING

 

THE LAW OF THREE (87)  WAITING

 

Receptivity is not inactivity. It is real activity but with no effort in the ordinary sense of the word.   If you want to call it effort. keep in mind that it is totally unlike any other kind of effort.  It is simply an attitude of waiting for the Ultimate Mystery.   

 

Thomas Keating   Open  Mind Open Heart.

 

 

Antony Blake: One imagines that being able to wait is such a small thing; but it is so powerful, so fundamental.  To be able to wait "until the time is right" can transform everything.  It seems as you are doing nothing:  but this this precisely what you have to "do".  If you can wait attentively without doing anything while the attention is consciously waiting, then insights may enter from another order.

 

As carriers of the 3rd or reconciling force we have power to hold the space between two opposing forces.  Without the separation of force 1 and force 2 and waiting with conscious attention (3^rd force), true discrimination and decision cannot enter the triad.   But before waiting there must be acceptance of the situation we are facing without taking sides.   Acceptance enables us to stand between the conflicting sides trusting that higher insights may enter our awareness.

 

When the power of waiting is not present in our life, the three dimensional space world in which we live is incomplete.  It does not offer us the ground of "silent waiting"  where the will (our true I) can develop. 

 

Conscious waiting enables us to rest and act at the same time because it is rooted at the still source of rest and action, .

 

Grounded in conscious waiting we may be able to discern the difference between the chatter of the ego and the voice of the deeper Self, 

 

 Receptive Waiting may be referred to the practice of exercising our ears to hear the voice of our deeper Self.

 

LAW OF THREE (86) ENERGIES

 LAW OF THREE (86) ENERGIES

The greatest unitive force we know is Love, and it is generally agreed that love must be a Cosmic Power enveloping and reconciling all that exists. When we say God is Love, we may mean this or we may say more than we can hope to understand.

J.G. Bennett - Energies 108

Every action in the universe requires energy. Without the appropriate energy the action cannot take place. Every action in which the human being participates, from the simplest physical work to divine revelation requires the appropriate form of energy in the right place and at the right time.

To drive a car it requires a combination of petrol-air-electric spark at the right timing.

Human beings are said to be constructed with all possible substances needed to perform any action. If they seem not to be available, it is because we are cut off from some of them, all of them, or we are not in the right place and at the right time.

The possibilities at any moment depends on the energies available at present moment. Human beings are carriers of the third or reconciling force. The third force enables us to move in a non dual direction. In the paths of transformation, evolution, enlightenment, etc. we need to develop the power to move in a timeless direction (eternity) to avoid being trapped in the world of time and space. To sustain direction we need to cultivate the energy of Intention. If we forget our Intention the directional energy of transcendence stops flowing and nothing happens: we remain locked in the time-space world of continuous repetition.

To sustain the power of Intention the method of Centering Prayer was developed by Thomas Keating. The intention during the practice of C.P. is to consent to God's presence and action within. In his process we aim at becoming receptive to actions coming from beyond ourselves . We need to be able to sustain an intentional effortless effort and free our mind from the dominance of the hypnotic forces of dualism. In other words we need to be able to "wait on God."

Conscious receptivity is raised through silence, meditation or letting go of thoughts and imaginings.. Supernatural action may enter our lives in the transformative substances of Hope, Faith and Love.

 

THE LAW OF THREE (85) THE THIRD FORCE

The Law of Three states that everything in the world, all manifestations of energy, all kinds of action, whether in the world or in human activity, whether internal or external. are always manifestations of three forces which exist in nature. The three forces are called active, passive and neutralising. Active and passive forces are both active, for a force cannot be passive. At the same time, every force which is now active can become passive or neutralising the next moment, in another triad. When three forces meet together, things happen. If they do not come together, nothing happens.  The Fourth Way P.D. Ouspensky

The grand illusion concealing reality is the belief that we are separate entities. From this belief arises the thought that everything can and must be understood through the duality of good and evil, right and wrong, existence and nonexistence. The conviction that everything must fall into pairs of opposites rules a human life in its determination to square all circles.

The action of the primary two opposing forces was discovered by modern science: "In every action there is an equal and opposing reaction." The problem is that if only the first and second forces come together, nothing would happen. Without the unblocking action of a third force, there would be no movement. The world would be in a state of deadlock. The firmament would stand still.

The third force enables two opposing forces to move in any direction. Each of the three forces is essential in the play of creation. The resisting force of the ground and, in opposition, the weight of the body are two necessary forces on which the third force depends to be able to move the body. To avoid dual stagnation, Modern democracies maintain continuity in government by repeatedly changing political sides. The question is, in which direction is a triad leading us? Are we evolving or un-evolving? There is a world of difference if the operating third force is the ego-self (automatic self) or the real-self (creative self).

 

The law of three is a tool that does not take sides. It simply points at how all phenomena manifest in creation. It signals how all triads connect and interact with other triads throughout creation. Nothing is free from the Law of Three. Nothing exists in separation. It is said that it is possible to plot the connection between any two phenomena in the Universe, from a doorknob to a galaxy, from a fish to a table, from a chimney-pot to the moons of Saturn; taken that we have sufficient knowledge to do so.

 

The Law of Three (84) Love your Enemies

 

"Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you"   

 Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5.44)

 

Love your enemies is a challenging statement that puzzles human reason.  Are humans capable of unconditional love?

The Law of Three teaches that enemies are an essential force in the three-fold play of human development. Our attitude or feelings toward our "enemies" indicate our level of being.  " Love your enemies" does not mean eliminating your enemies or converting them into saints. What would become of Shakespearean tragedies without friends and foes?

In the course of life, all of us play the roles of friends and enemies equally, depending on which side of the conflict we find ourselves on at a given time. However, whatever role is given to us to play by the rulers of the day, the non-dual presence of the real I that abides within ourselves remains untouched.

In the present, ever-repeating global turmoil, we hear the familiar tune of experts prophesying the end of the world, a change in the cosmic cycle, evolutionary movement, levels of consciousness, etc.  How do each of us fit into all these pronouncements?  Do they mean that you or I are evolving? Could there be a simpler, more direct way to test whether, at either the individual or global level, we are moving uphill or downhill?

Maybe there is. Could love be the measure of both individual and collective human growth and development, and fear be the measure of our involution?  Put simply, do the present stocks of love make irrelevant the current stocks of missiles,  or, on the contrary, do we still desperately need to increase the production of the latter?  

Love:

"If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge and if I have faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing."  1 Corinthians 13  

  

 

 

  

The Law of Three (83) and The Force of Evil (2)

 LAW OF THREE (83) THE FORCE OF EVIL (2)

"And the Lord God commanded the man, saying. Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat; (Genesis2:16) But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shall surely die. (Genesis 2:17)

After the fall, God put Adam and Eve out of the garden lest they would eat from the tree of life (Genesis 3:24);

Death entered human awareness.

Genesis 4, describes the first murder in human history. Cain the first born son of Adam and Eve killed his brother Abel out of jealousy. God had accepted Abel's offer while rejecting Cain's.

War became a permanent feature in human history. There is a sense of helplessness in war where two unknown sides blindly massacre each other.  Nations and groups of people feel drawn to mutual butchery moved by fear of the other.

Does war serve a purpose? War sustains the illusory world of duality, the world of divisions and repetition. The justification for war is simple. Leading politicians proclaim that war's purpose is to eliminate bad people. Others declare war on Terror. Laura Freixas titled a recent article: I hate therefore I am" and described leaders' easy solutions to complex problems: if there is a problem, it must be caused by somebody else (eg..immigrants) and can only be resolved by eliminating them.

One idea is clear, war does not resolve conflicts. It keeps conflicts going on until they reach a point of equilibrium, or when the warring forces exhaust themselves and run out of soldiers or weapons. At which point a temporary truce ensues to regain new forces in preparation for the next round of barbarity.

During a state of equilibrium it is possible to notice a shift in the behaviour of the players: the aggressors and the victims of aggression change roles. People that once were unjust victims of genocide may later in time become active perpetrators of the similar atrocities. A curious feature of duality

Recognising our capacity for evil is a major step in human evolution.  T. Keating speaks of a point in the spiritual journey when we are able to recognise that we are capable of all evil.  Desmond Tutu certainly reached such point when he wrote: As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil.  We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

A humbling awakening and a deeper realisation of the hopelessness of the human condition, and the overwhelming need of the healing power of Love.