The Properties of a Universal Principle
All problems, including visible and invisible disturbances in our mental lives, are solved by Universal Principles.
A 6+1 part online program beginning May 2025 with Brett Chitty and Keith Blevens.
Brett Chitty says,
“The moment I realized that personal thoughts we have are NOT the same as The Principle of Thought, it opened up an insightful learning about the Three Principles that was previously invisible and inaccessible to me.”
“It was the beginning of picking up knowledge about the Three Principles instead of learning about the personal thoughts I was having. I didn’t expect my investigation into the Principle of Thought fundamentally changed my relationship with my personal thoughts, realities, and feelings to a vastly healthier, wiser, and peaceful one.”
“The Properties of a Universal Principle played a hugely significant part in my learning of the Three Principles by looking at “what makes a principle a true and genuine principle?” It wasn’t until much later I realized I had been doing a scientific and rigorous study into the nature of a Principle. This opened up new and ever-deepening insights about the Principle of Mind, the Principle of Consciousness, and the Principle of Thought. All three, after all, are Principles! This direction brought about an entirely unexpected spiritual evolution, further realizing the potential of the human mind which continues even today.”
What are the Properties that Make a True and Genuine Principle?
We can look up a dictionary and find the definition of a Principle. We’re going much deeper than that. Something more consistent and aligned with what Sydney Banks taught those who could hear. Sydney Banks even used some of these properties in his talks and writings, and we saw that he, too, was teaching the properties of a principle in his own way. Eventually, we realized that there were so many profound properties that any definition for the word Principle that takes into account ALL the properties is probably impossible. Only going beyond the word, into the spiritual, will we realize what it really means.
The “Big 6” Properties
The Many Other properties we’ve discovered
And we are still discovering new ones!
How do these Properties of a Universal Principle help you to use your mind more intelligently?
Below are some of the changes that we go through as a consequence of realizing the Properties of a Universal Principle.
Knowing Where to Look
The Properties of a Universal Principle constrain us to look in a direction where insightful territory is, so that we can receive wisdom, solutions, and mental health, to name but a few, instead of looking in a direction where we keep on searching, hoping to find answer at a place where none exist, creating a never-ending search.
Guidance by a Higher Intelligence
The Properties of a Universal Principle give us an increasing sense of being guided by a deeper intelligence than what we currently have or know about. It allows for an ongoing realization of the human potential through the Three Principles instead of leaving our human potential untouched and untapped.
Absolute Direction
The Properties of a Universal Principle highlight that you have TWO ways of using your ONE mind. Just discovering a second one is life-changing itself because how we use our minds absolutely determines how we are being in the moment. Little did we know that previously unknown way of using the mind is what makes us wiser, healthier and more resilient!
Discipline and Rigor
The Properties of a Universal Principle make us better and, crucially, more insightful students of the Three Principles because our “target” is getting clearer. We get much better grades by attending the metaphorical Three Principles “university.” This results from having a stronger connection to wisdom that resides within our soul. Our minds learn and evolve faster than we’ve ever been able to do.
Consistency
The Properties of a Universal Principle allow us to be more consistent in how we use our minds. We become more consistent in prioritizing the wise use of our minds, rather than relying on external factors to dictate how we think, such as feelings, realities, circumstances, diagnoses, people, and so on.
Transcendental
The Properties of a Universal Principle allow us to hear beyond what we know. This is what we call an “insight.” An insight is a realization of knowledge, as a thought, that we didn’t know about until the moment of insight. The knowledge we picked up did not come from this world we live in, and we are left in awe of where we got it from! We certainly didn’t create the insight ourselves; no wonder every genuine insight comes as a big surprise to us!
Unification is Where it’s At!
The Properties of a Universal Principle allow us to remove the separation of two worlds – the physical world and the spiritual world – back together as one, back to how it works in the first place. This removes all kinds of contradictions and paradoxes With the decrease in the number of contradictions and paradoxes in our inner lives, we live a life of increasing integrity and honesty. We feel unified, connected, and whole again.
Nothing to Do: The Great Simplication
The Properties of a Universal Principle removes all the tricks we can use on our minds, after all, they were tricks created by the mind in the first place! Using the mind to trick the mind makes no sense. There are no tools, techniques, practices, effort, willpower, time, strategies, models, dependencies, language, programming, or thinking required. Not even trying to create a particular feeling. There’s literally nothing left to do with your mind, and this is the space of wisdom. As Sydney Banks repeated, “it’s so utterly simple!”
Principle-based North Star
The Properties of a Universal Principle allow us to live more from a foundation of Universal Principles, rather than living from a place that is not principle-based. It’s the equivalence to having your own inner North Star. There was a time I was interested in what my feelings were, but when I realized that feelings are not a principle, but a result of using the principles, I knew I was looking in the wrong direction. Instead, looking toward a Universal Principle, I had found something deeper than feelings, and yet that same discovery insightfully informed me more about feelings than my own mind could come up with!
Isn’t it extraordinary how something as simple and ordinary as The Properties of a Universal Principle can be so profoundly life-changing? It goes against the trend of all the ideas of what we believe it takes to change, to become a better person, both inside and out? Then again, The Three Principles of Mind, Consciousness, and Thought is unlike anything else in the world. Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised by the overarching differences.
Training Session Dates and Times
All meetings take place at 10 am PT, 1 pm ET, 6 pm BST, 7 pm CET. All meetings should be around 90 minutes long.
Tuesday, May 13
Training Session 1.
Why Learn About A Principle?
Tuesday, May 20
Training Session 2.
Diving into the Big 6 Properties
Tuesday, May 27
Training Session 3.
More Properties
Tuesday, June 3
Training Session 4.
More Properties
Tuesday, June 10
The Implications of Properties
Tuesday, June 17
The Implications of Properties
Tuesday, June 24
Program Review
Your Guides
Do you have a question?
LOL! You can’t. We can’t either!
The purpose isn’t to learn about as many of them as possible, but to reach a point when you find yourself going within. Once you do, then it becomes more natural to do it, because there’s nothing to do to go within. We don’t know what point that might be, but there will be a tipping point. For me (Brett), it was after realizing 4 of the “Big 6,” especially the Neutral property (which is why I made it number 1!) The rest naturally came to light from an insightful realization of what the Three Principles are.
But please, for your own sake, don’t assume that you need to learn any of the Properties and use them as a condition for going within. There are no conditions for going within, nor will there ever be, and that includes accumulating any knowledge, no matter how much.
These properties are, at best, guides or clues to nudging you along. But if you use them as “the difference that will make the difference,” then I’m sorry to say, you’ve already missed it. Go back again and this time, just listen – not to the words or their meanings or definitions, but to what’s within, the before-created.
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All recordings will be professionally captioned into the video player after the meeting. It usually takes between 2 and 4 days to get it done. There will be a minimum 99% accuracy. If you wish, you can still attend the live meetings, and then watch the recording with captions enabled to smooth your passage in seeing a deeper appreciation for the power of a Universal Principle.
Both Brett and Keith are available to respond to any questions, including in the live meetings itself, or by sending an email. In the near future, there will also be a private online community where you share what’s occurring for you and the team, and participants can respond to as well. This will probably occur after the event has completed, as we are waiting for some software to finish development.
Brett handles any issues you have with the website. He’d be glad to assist you in any way he can. Sometimes, he asks if it’s possible to meet up on Zoom because a demonstration of any technical hiccups helps Brett see what’s going on rather than you having to explain with hundreds of words!
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You can purchase 8 contact hours of CEUs as a result of signing up for this program. The fee is $80 ($10/hour). This fee is NOT included in the purchase of this program.
The link to purchase will be available when the live component of the program comes to an end. Payment will go to Holistic Nursing, run by Lyn McCright and Teresa Walding, who are officially authorized CEU providers.
This is for USA professionals who need to collect a certain number of CEUs to continue practising in their field of speciality.
On May 13th, Keith and I are doing a new 7-week program. We’re focusing on the word “Principle.”
Why? Isn’t that the most lame program idea ever?
We have noticed that many people discover something new and powerful as a result of a deeper understanding of what the word “Principle” conveys. After spotting this pattern in ourselves and others, we saw that when someone is learning about the Three Principles of Mind, Consciousness, and Thought, how a person understands “what a principle is” can be a limiting factor for insight and a barrier for spiritual and psychological evolution.
It’s not the meaning or the definition either:
We also saw that trying to come up with a definition as perfect as possible of “what a principle is” is a daunting and thankless task, and one that we haven’t seen anyone succeed at yet. Keep reading and you’ll see why:
Sydney Banks shows us another way to realize “what a principle is”
As regular students of Sydney Banks by listening to his audios, watching the recordings, and reading his books, we noticed something that took us by surprise. He was using words like, constant, universal, formless, neutral, unchangeable, “it only works one way.” Syd was definitely trying to get us to catch something here.
For example, the Principle of Mind is constant and unchangeable, the Principle of Thought is constant and unchangeable, and the Principle of Consciousness is constant and unchangeable.
Here’s another set with the same pattern: The Principle of Mind is neutral, the Principle of Thought is neutral, and the Principle of Consciousness is neutral.
Eventually, we realized he was describing a PROPERTY of those principles. Since all Three Principles shared the same properties, yet Mind, Thought, and Consciousness are all obviously different, otherwise they would all have the same names and they wouldn’t be any different from each other. We realized he was teaching us “what a Principle is“ itself. The word “Principle” was the ONLY thing that was connecting all Three Principles together.
A New Way to Learn about the Three Principles
While having these Properties doesn’t give us the essence of Mind, Thought, and Consciousness as Principles, we saw that having these properties turned us much more inwardly, and we started having deeper insight into the nature of the Three Principles themselves. We were very surprised, and in some cases, flabbergasted. We became much faster learners, insights were deeper, and our minds were quieter. Everything got simpler, and all without having to do anything at all.
These properties were like the most amazing teacher we’ve ever had – the kind that is so much fun to hang out with. There was no telling us what to think or what not to think, no telling us what to feel or what not to feel, no telling us what to believe or what not to believe, and no telling us what to do or what not to do. And definitely, no judgment at all!
We have discovered 30 (thirty!) Properties of a Universal Principle so far. All 30 properties apply to all Three Principles. It’s like having 30 incredible teachers of the Three Principles!
The Properties of a Universal Principle: a 7-week program with Brett and Keith.
We’re delighted to offer a program that dives deeper into those properties so that you, too, can get a spiritual sense of what a principle means. So far, every attempt to include 30 properties into a definition for the word “principle” has gone back to the drawing board. And that’s why we are inviting to join us to give ourselves a much deeper appreciation of “what a Principle is” that’s far beyond the word.
How the Properties of a Universal Principle keep us looking in the direction where insight emerges from
The image of the projector below is a popular metaphor to describe the Three Principles. It is on the front cover of a book written by a well-known teacher and author of the Three Principles.
Let’s focus on one thing – Thought. Hopefully, you can see the word within the film strip between the two reels, as I cannot source a higher-quality, less pixelated image.
As this is a “Three Principles” book, I will assume that the author is using the word “Thought” to mean “The Principle of Thought.” So, the author is referring to the film strip as the Principle of Thought. This brings up a fundamental question we need to consider. First, let’s hear from Sydney Banks. (I added the boldface to his quotes below.)
Quotes from Sydney Banks on the Principle of Thought
“Mind, Consciousness, and Thought are spiritual gifts that enable us to see creation and guide us through life. All three are universal constants that can never change and never be separated.” (The Missing Link, page 22)
“The Three Principles I speak of are universal constants that can never change and are never separate entities from us. From the cradle to the grave, they totally encompass the reality we observe and experience in this lifetime.” (The Enlightened Gardener Revisited, chapter 4, page 45)
“You can’t have Consciousness without Thought, or Thought without Consciousness. Thought is just as constant as Consciousness.” (In Quest of the Pearl, chapter 6, page 62.)
The Principle of Thought is Constant and Unchanging
Sydney Banks clearly describes the Principle of Thought as being CONSTANT – something that never changes, he emphasizes. When I look at the image above, it brings up a question I cannot avoid.
“Is the film strip constant and unchanging?”
I couldn’t bring myself to agree that the film strip is constant. If the film strip were constant, we would watch the same film all day, every day, never seeing another film. To describe this in the context of the human experience is to have the same reality, the same feeling, the same experience, all day, every day. That isn’t a description of human beings to me. I know I go through many “films” daily, some very different from one another. There are WAY too many to count. To say that we go through countless CHANGING realities every day is a far more accurate description of the human race.
I realized the author uses the word Thought, to refer to the ever-changing nature of the film strip, which directly contradicts what Sydney Banks was saying about the Principle of Thought. Another way to say this is that the author makes no distinction between personal thoughts and the Principle of Thought. Personal thoughts, as we all know, are what changes, but the Principle of Thought never changes.
Does that mean the author is inadvertently pointing to the changing nature of the film strip and calling it the Principle of Thought? You’ll have to ask the author. But we here at Three Principles Psychology are going somewhere else. A place that fully respects the Principle of Thought that never changes, exactly as Sydney Banks was teaching us, and leaves no room for misinterpretation.
When I saw this, I lost all interest in the author because I perceived the author as pointing to personal thoughts and not the Principle of Thought. I wanted to return to the Principle of Thought which is constant and unchangeable because that is what Sydney Banks was teaching us. I wanted to be a good student of Sydney Banks and get passing grades, even though I’ve never met him! I wanted to realize the Principle of Thought not as something that changes but as a constant and unchangeable principle.
A New Direction to Learn about the Three Principles
I began searching for a teacher or guide who can point to the Principle of Thought, and consistently uphold them as being constant and unchangeable. I was no longer interested in learning from those who didn’t. I was surprised how many people use the word constant to describe something not constant.
As I turned away from such teachers, I was now reallocating my time, effort, and money to those who I perceived as being aligned with the Principles because I had the beneficial knowledge that the Principles are constant and unchanging. It turned out to be a wise decision, as it significantly accelerated my “insight curve,” because I wanted to learn about the Principles, not the personal.
I was fortunate to discover Keith Blevens and Valda Monroe, a couple who were remarkably aligned to teaching the Three Principles, without ever losing sight of the Three Principles’ constant and unchanging nature. It was “easy” to hear these properties embedded whenever they spoke, and they consistently highlighted the Principles in every matter during their conversations. Incredibly, positive feelings naturally arose in us without ever trying to create them or even being told to “look for a positive feeling.” It was a surprising and delightful occurrence, considering the rarity of inside-out positive feelings and their prescription-free nature. Having Keith and Valda as teachers with this level of consistency for all matters of conversation is a very powerful experience.
Strengthening the ability to go inside or within
As I looked in the direction of the Principle of Thought being constant and unchanging, and not otherwise, I noticed the frequency of insight had increased, and the depth of the knowledge given to me was more profound than anything I’ve ever known. I realized that I was getting increasingly in tune with what it means to go inside or within – it was nothing like what I had previously believed “going within” meant. It was a very different kind of insight that conveyed more about the impersonal nature of the Principles themselves and less about my personal thoughts. Yet, this kind of insight changed my relationship with my personal thoughts to a healthier one. Wow. It was the kind of insight that deeply quieted my mind, and a sense peace was washing over me, creating a sacred space for wisdom to play a bigger part in all that I do in my daily activities.
One such insight made me realize that the insights I had before experiencing the deeper insights were “ego insights,” the kind that made our heads busier and multiply our thoughts but it was shrouded in a positive feeling that had a duration shorter than that of a placebo. It’s incredible to think that I called them insights for a long time! Noticing the wildly different outcomes of these two kinds of insights was both mind-boggling and extraordinary at the same time. Indeed, I now have a sense of what I call a “Principle-Based insight.” I guarantee you, there is no greater insight than receiving a Principle-Based Insight, that teaches you something about the Three Principles itself.
I am lucky because what would have happened had I not realized the difference between the Principle of Thought being constant and personal thoughts that are not constant? I would have been none the wiser and likely missed out on all the profound life-changing insights about the Three Principles I was blessed to receive. The feeling of gratitude for the Three Principles was all-encompassing, and I had done nothing to create that feeling.
The Big Question
We must do everything we can to maintain how we understand the Three Principles being in alignment with its constant and unchanging nature. Keith and I have had to learn to be tenacious and diligent about this so that our teachings of the Three Principles are rigorous and uphold the true nature of Mind, Thought, and Consciousness as constant and unchanging Principles. We know the difference between The Principle of Thought and personal thought. They are definitely NOT the same.
Keith and I are launching a new program beginning May 13th called “The Properties of a Universal Principle.” It is the first-ever public program of its kind in the history of the Three Principles. It’s a profoundly insightful and educational look at “what makes a Principle be a Universal Principle?” The aim is to get a vastly deeper appreciation of many properties that make up a Universal Principle. This way, we give ourselves a chance for a stronger, felt sense of the difference between going inside or within and not going outside as much. Another way to say the same thing is realizing the deeper essence of the Three Principles. These Properties help us to “stay on track,” holding steady as we move toward the essence of what Sydney Banks pointed to, without letting any “bright shiny objects” take us off track.
This program will help you to learn what is necessary about the Three Principles and remove what is no longer required. The Three Principles – Mind, Thought, and Consciousness – as PRINCIPLES, will do so much more for us than learning about our personal thoughts ever will.
The question ultimately boils down to this: Do you want to learn about the Three Principles while maintaining, respecting, and honoring the all-encompassing nature of a Universal Principle?
If you do, The Properties of a Universal Principle program is for you and will be a huge contributor to help you do exactly that.
Brett Chitty says further,
“Seeing that my personal thought isn’t constant but the Principle of Thought is constant made me realize that personal thought and the Principle of Thought CANNOT be the same. As I encountered other properties, I came to the same conclusion for all known properties. The difference between personal thought and the Principle of Thought today has become increasingly clear as night and day. These realizations has helped me to a quieter and more insightful mind, because they helped me to “go within.” What a gift!
“These properties served to keep me on the straight and narrow. As a metaphor, the properties are like the landing lights of a runway at an airport. They won’t make me land the plane, but they can guide me to the runway safely and accurately. Even better, whenever I veered off the flight path, the airport lights are what enabled to me to self-correct my course, and I am back on track again. That’s why there’s always a second chance. It’s the same with our minds…we can always get back on track, and sometimes we need a helping hand. These Properties of a Universal Principle are huge help to do precisely that.”
“This is why we are delighted to offer this very unusual kind of program. It doesn’t even sound practical or helpful for our inner lives, does it? You could just go to a dictionary and be satisfied with what you’ve got, never thinking there is anything more to learn about what a Principle is. I encourage you to take a look at the many properties above, and you will see, the transformative and quieting power of knowing the Properties of a Universal Principle can only ever be underappreciated. Come and join us, you deserve the opportunity to go within, and realize the spiritual gifts that are waiting for you to unwrap.
Gain a deeper appreciation of the Transformative Power having a Universal Principle can bring to your life.
Early Bird Price is $100 until May 13th, 2025.
Thereafter, it will be $400.