In the phenomenology of your daily life, your consciousness operates through three primary modes:
Thinking (Conception): The analytical, logical, and structural activity of the mind. This is the realm of the "Logos," where we conceptualize and categorize our reality.
Feeling (Perception): The intuitive, aesthetic, and relational activity of the heart. This is the realm of "Eros," where we perceive the qualitative resonance and beauty of our experience.
Being (Sensation): The direct, non-conceptual presence of the body and soul. This is the realm of "Ethos," where we simply are, grounded in the raw sensation of existence.
This mental architecture is not a random biological quirk; it is a holographic subdivision of the way the Universal Mind "thinks" the universe into existence. Your individual dynamics are a "dim reflection" of the Universal Trinity:
The Universal Mind Trinity:
- Truth (Sat)
- Beauty (Ananda)
- Goodness (Chit)
The Participatory Bridge:- Participating in the Logos
- Participating in the Eros
- Participating in the Ethos
The Individual Dynamics:
- Thinking is the act of discerning Truth.
- Feeling is the act of resonating with Beauty.
- Being is the act of resting in Goodness.
The Boundary of Order:
“Why is my mind so chaotic if the Universe is so orderly?”
The "flitting" of your awareness—the constant jumping between thinking, feeling, and being—is the result of the Multitasking Mechanism of the brain. To survive in a body, your mind must constantly scan the environment, react to threats, and process data.
The "Order" of the universe (the Logos) is the Deep Architecture beneath the noise. When you engage with Sacred Geometry, you are temporarily aligning your "flitting" mind with that "Orderly" mind. You are using the compass and straightedge to "tune" your individual whirlpool back to the frequency of the Great Ocean.
The Boundary of Solidity:
“If everything is mental, why does hitting my thumb with a hammer hurt so much?”
In the standard worldview, the hammer is "out there" and your thumb is "in here." In this alternative worldview, both the hammer and the thumb are patterns of information within the Visible Domain. The "pain" you feel is the Friction of the Boundary.
When the dissociated segment of mind we call "the ego" encounters a pattern it does not control (the hammer), the resulting collision is experienced as Qualia—in this case, the sharp, undeniable quality of pain. The hammer is "real" because it is a thought in a Mind vaster than your own. You cannot "think" the pain away because your individual mind is a subset of the Universal Mind, and the "Laws of Physics" are simply the Habits of the Universal Mind that your individual mind must respect for its own safety.
The Boundary of Will:
“If I am a part of the Universal Mind, why can’t I just manifest a better world?”
Your individual mind is like a small whirlpool in a vast ocean. While the whirlpool is made of the same water as the ocean, it does not control the tides. This is the Friction of the Ego.
Consider your dreams: you are the "creator" of the dream, yet you are often surprised, frightened, or chased by characters within it. This proves that even within your own mind, there are vast territories beyond the control of your conscious will. To "manifest" change in the shared world, your ideas must cross the Dissociative Boundaries between your mind and others. This requires the "Work" of the Logos—writing, speaking, creating, and building—to bridge the gap between your internal "Invisible Domain" and the collective "Visible Domain." That's what this site is about.
When you catch your mind flitting from a logical thought to a sudden emotional resonance, and then into a moment of pure, silent presence, you are witnessing the Dynamics of Mind in action.
By recognizing these movements, you begin to see that your subjective experience is a microcosm of the macrocosm. When you Think, you are tapping into the eternal logic of Sacred Truth. When you Feel, you are vibrating with the inherent Sacred Beauty of the cosmos. When you simply Are, you are resting in the fundamental Sacred Goodness of existence.
The Triskelion reminds us that these are not three separate rooms, but a single, dynamic flow. To understand the Dynamics of Mind is to learn how to dance between these points without losing your center in The Oculus.
In our past live 3 day workshops at the Academy (in Ireland), we used specific geometric archetypes—such as the Sri Yantra or Metatron's Cube or Squaring the Circle—and designed the experience around three states, which we iterated through with every drawing session:
- Concentration on the act of drawing with compass and ruler, pencil on paper, carefully following procedural instructions. The Thinking/Logos mode (The Drawing Instruments). Another act was concentrating on creating a sand mandala together in a group, working without speaking.
- Contemplation of a slideshow about the geometric archetype, pondering its meaning and personally how it applies to our own experiences. The Feeling/Eros mode (The Image).
- Meditation lying down eyes closed listening to ambient music allowing the forms into the many layers of the onion invites the hypnagogic liminal and Turiya states. The Being/Ethos mode (The Wordless Music).
