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Source code for the human psyche,
Source code for self-healing
 The Three Selves or 3S is a simple model of the whole person, simple enuf to permit teenagers and adults to talk about ourselves and behavior, including spiritual activity—in daily conversation. The theoretical basis of the 3S is so simple, it can be stated in eight words:
High self
Conscious self
Habit Body (basic self, inner child, etc.)
In modified form, the Three Selves is appropriate to teach to five year olds. See Manual on Using the Light from msia.org, appropriate for the child in anyone.
Unlike virtually every model of the human psyche since the Enlightenment, the 3S explicitly embraces and celebrates the spiritual capacity of human beings. Connecting with your own Divinity is something every human being can take an interest in; likewise, every religious and spiritual denomination I can think of.
The “meat” of the 3S is not the schema. Rather the meat of the 3S is its practical application in your daily life. In brief, as we mature, the Plan for the human being is to gradually expand from the isolated viewpoint of the merely thinking mind, the conscious self, the most isolated self, to the more holistic, expanded, integrated perspective of all three selves, each point of view available as we require it.
The Three Selves has been around for three thousand years at least and is likely of Lemurian origin. Some readers will know it in its Hawaiian form of Ho’o’pono’pono. Max Freedom Long gave it its first Western form in the late 1940s and 1950s. While Max Long produced an impressive 26 volumes, most usefully, The Secret Science at Work, much of it is reprints of informal newsletters and anecdotal reports of experiments by readers, a literature that parallels dowsing literature of the same era, overlapping sub-cultures of independent thinkers in an era of conformity. The only comprehensive textbook, on the Western version of the Three Selves, known to this author is The Three Selves, Open Source Healing.
It appears by 1985, the model of the 3S became the most-used model of the whole human psyche in the fields of counseling and energetic healing. You may have heard of it: the inner child. This is not surprising as a simple, elegant and comprehensive model of the human psyche has the greatest utility in counseling and healing arts. The inner child is the lower one-third of the Three Selves, the lowest frequency self.
Because the 3S gives a broad general outline and framework to the entire human psyche, familiarity with the 3S enhances understanding of most other psychology models and healing modalities.
For instance, the 3S clarifies these two 20th century psychological models readers will know of:
- Freud's model of the psyche: id, ego, superego,
- Eric Berne’s Transactional Analysis' model of child, parent, and adult.
Critics like to say the 3S is nothing more than a version of the above two. What they miss is neither Freud nor Berne made any attempt to embrace the life of spiritual aspiration and capacity in the human being. This is a big factor why since 1985 at least, the earlier models of Freud, Berne and others, devoid of spiritual content, have withered.
The 3S in energetic healing
The Three Selves is especially useful for understanding energetic healing modalities where the literature is confusing, contradictory or non-existent. For instance when the basic self is correctly understood as a primarily etheric being, it becomes obvious that the basic self is functionally equal to ALL of the following:
Our immune system
Our subconscious and unconscious
Our Little Artist of Artist’s Way
Our sense perceptions, habit body & reactivity
Our habit body
Our memory body
Our etheric centers (chakras)
In the only known comprehensive text book, The Three Selves, Source code for the human psyche,
(2009), Bruce Dickson says the above are all functionally equal; because, from the point of view of the conscious self—the only point of view that matters in growth, each is contacted and communicated with the same way, thru a process:
Acceptance -> compassion -> understanding -> problem solving -> negotiation -> resolution
Dickson acknowledges the several functions are not technically equal. Seen with clairvoyant sight, they are in fact overlapping phenomena.
Converging the 3S & kinesiology testing
The 3S has very striking utility as the only clear explanation and theoretical basis for kinesiology muscle testing so far:
Kinesiology testing is the phenomena of the conscious self communicating with the basic self thru any non-verbal means the basic self will cooperate with. Conversely blocks to muscle testing are primarily blocks in inner cooperation between conscious and basic self.
The basic self before and after puberty
Further useful distinctions can be made in the realm of the enteric nervous system (ENS), the gut brain and the cerebral nervous system (CNS) or head brain.
Prior to puberty or the arrival of independent thinking, the basic self is primarily in charge of the entire nervous system. The gut runs the head. After the arrival of true independent thinking, the human nervous system “splits” and control shifts upwards to the cerebral nervous system in the head. From that time forward choice is primarily a function of the conscious mind. Prior to puberty the human being is much more so an etheric being, at effect in its family and cultural environs.
What each self does uniquely
High self -- our aspirations, our Guardian Angel, our connection with higher spiritual Benefactors on an as needed basis.
Conscious self -- our objective mind, either rational thinking, rational feeling, or both, our "yak yak" mind, the one who pays the bills, who picks out red socks over blue socks in the morning.
Basic self -- the inner child, our habit body and reactive self, the one who holds our memories, habits and routine behaviors.
Inner cooperation
Inner cooperation is now easily defined as cooperation and collaboration between the conscious and basic selves. Lack of inner cooperation—being of two minds—continues to be the biggest unresolved disturbance in people (John-Roger). Disparities between conscious and basic self can be located, identified and resolved by any counselor, therapist or practitioner who can also perform kinesiology testing.
The 3S and self testing, self-healing
Perhaps the highest use of the 3S is in the practice of self-testing, where individuals test themselves, communicate with first their own basic self. Later if they practice, conscious communication with the high self level is a possibility. In the expanded field of the three selves, virtually any health or other disturbance can be addressed and explored thru any convenient problem solving protocol. Persons who practice communicating with their basic self, thru kinesiology testing, commonly acquire facility to “talk” directly with their own immune system and get a “second opinion” from their own body. This is useful as the basic self is the “expert” on the physical body, not the thinking conscious self.
The Three Selves and the soul
The immortal, eternal soul is not explicitly part of the Three Selves model. The 3S only tries to model the human psyche in the 3D physical incarnation pattern. The individual soul is not separate from any of the selves. Schematically the soul is above the high self and is contacted thru prayers and requests made to the high self. The 3S suggests the ultimate job of the conscious self here in 3D is to reflect the soul’s alignment—whatever that is--more purposefully.
The b/s is the most active self here in 3D.
The conscious self is the most significant self here.
The h/s is our most active and significant self in Spirit.
Q: If the “basic self” is so basic,
why haven’t I heard of it before?
A: You have. The basic self is our “gut brain,” “gut instinct,” inner child and a dozen other things. It is widely discussed in every eastern martial art practice. In every oriental martial art since antiquity, for example, tai chi and chi gung, discussion exists about the "hara," or "dan tien," acknowledged as our physical center of gravity, naturally of practical relevance in martial arts.
The significance of the "hara" in martial arts does not stop with "center of gravity." The "hara" is also the center of our physical vitality, emotional vitality, physical "chi" and healing energy. The dan tien has as many shades of meaning in Eastern martial arts and spiritual disciplines, as the words “sub-conscious” and “unconscious” have in the West.
So the basic self is nothing new. Our basic self is our "center of gravity" in that:
It is the center of gravity of our feelings,
the center of gravity of our subconscious,
the center of gravity of our preferences,
the center of gravity of our behavior,
the center of gravity of our habits.
Up until the 1990s, our center of gravity was primarily only of interest to martial arts and chi gung enthusiasts. In the 1990s an explosion of new energetic healing modalities combining muscle testing and NLP, has necessitated a return to the topic.
If we had NO basic self
Without the basic self (b/s) we would be unable to hold, handle and manipulate objects here in 3D. Without the b/s we would have no metabolism. The b/s is also in charge of the etheric centers. If it does not trust what’s coming in, it will not open to those energies. So the b/s is the starting place for all 3D sense percepts and sensitivities.
If we had only the basic self here
If the basic self was to run the show here, then we would never grow up. We would never grow out of our old habits and comfort zones established in the past. We would have only the Planet of the Apes, a planet where the basic selves rule. The popularity of Planet of the Apes lies in basic self interest in how things would look if the conscious selves were overthrown and basic selves were in charge. The Lord of the Flies (1954) in part comes to similar conclusions of what society would be like if children ran it.
3S as "big tent" in psychology
The Three Selves appears to be the best shot at a "big tent" in psychology due to:
- the comprehensive range of human capacities included,
- simple elegance of its model and diagrams, appropriate to teens and college freshmen,
- easily modified for children as young as five years,
- being a bridge to other psychology models and ideas,
- being a valuable theoretical foundation for understanding diverse counseling and healing activity,
- providing the only clear theoretical basis for kinesiology muscle testing,
- emphasis on accessing ALL parts of the psyche the same way, thru: loving, kindness, listening and muscle testing.
Q: How did it happen neither conventional psychology nor conventional K-12 education embrace the spiritual in the human being?
A: History makes this clear. The abuses of religion by large traditional churches in the 1700s and 1800s, created an obsession in 19th & 20th century academics and freethinkers. When academics and free-thinking intellectuals created secular--non-church--society in the 1800s and 1900s, they stripped away everything and anything spiritual and metaphysical from psychology and education. They wished to create a "firewall" between the old religions on one side and secular education and psychology. Their aim was to promote independent thinking free of antique religious dogma and outdated traditions.
However the baby was thrown out with the bathwater! The natural spiritual capacities of every human being were banned from academic discussion even in psychology for almost 200 years.
See Bruce’s other knols at knol.google.com
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Source code for self-healing, (2009)
The three selves is the source code for the human psyche in the 3D experience: High self * Conscious self * Basic self. The model is appropriate for children, teens and anyone on a path of personal-spiritual growth.
The 3S is especially useful to coaches, counselors and energy workers of all kinds. The Three Selves, in the form of the inner child, is already the most-used model of the human psyche worldwide
The 3S is also source code for self-healing and kinesiology testing. This is the psychology of how we heal ourselves.
The inner child is one-part, the lowest one-third, of the larger, model of the psyche, the three selves; which, explicitly embraces human spiritual capacities.
Consequently, the 3S is an usually clear model of what it means to connect both with Spirit and with Ground.
The Three Selves bridges into, improves upon, and clarifies many quantum science ideas: The 3S are overlapping fields of intelligence within larger fields.
Pop cultural reflections of the 3S are taken up in Vol. 2. Written in an interactive, fun style by a Waldorf-trained school teacher and medical intuitive.
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