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The Three Principles and Mind Healing According to Sydney Banks

  • PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
  • 2021, (35), pp.330~353
  • DOI : 10.33639/ptc.2021..35.014
  • Publisher : Research Institute for East-West Thought
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : December 23, 2020
  • Accepted : January 29, 2021
  • Published : January 31, 2021

Ki-heung Lee 1

1원광대학교

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ABSTRACT

In the Western world, the concept of the Three Principles, which consists of the Mind, the Consciousness and the Thought, is advancing in the area of ​​mind practice and mind healing in recent years. The concept of the Three Principles (the Mind, the Consciousness, the Thought) is the name given by Sidney Banks in the process of sharing his experience with the public after he gained spiritual enlightenment. The Three Principles he advocated conceptually distinguishes between psyche, a world of dual mind, and soul, a world of unitary mind, and describes the former as a product of the latter. while the soul itself is described as a trinity of the Mind, the Consciousness and the Thought. According to him, the difference between realizing and not-realizing these three Principles makes the difference between living a painful and unhappy life or a peaceful and happy life. In this sense, the concept of the Three Principles he advocated is a teaching that encourages modern people to live a peaceful and happy life by regaining the missing soul-psyche link. In this article, the author attempts to systematically introduce Sydney Banks' Three Principles in connection with the problem of mind healing.

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