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big threes

 

 

I We It

Ken Wilber describes the Big Three through a few aspects of these crucial dimensions:

I (Upper Left): Consciousness, subjectivity, self, and self-expression (including art and aesthetics); truthfulness, sincerity, irreducible and immediate lived awareness; first person accounts.

We (Lower Left): Ethics and morals, worldviews, common context, culture, intersubjective meaning, mutual understanding, appropriateness, justness; second person accounts.

It (Right Hand): Science and technology, objective nature, empirical forms (including brain and social systems); propositional truth (singular and functional fit); objective exteriors of both individuals and systems; third-person accounts.

(Wilber, K. 1998 'The Marriage of Sense and Soul: Integrating Science and Religion')


Some other aspects and manifest forms are collected here.

Big Threes

I
We
It
The Beautiful
The Good
The True
Art
Morals
Science
Buddha
Sangha
Dharma
Thought
Word
Deed
Mind
Heart
Body
Faith
Fidelity
Purity
Subjective
Cultural
Objective
Truthfulness
Justness
Truth
Judgment
Practical Reason
Pure Reason
Psychological
Cultural
Biological
Personal
Interpersonal
Practical
Feel
Listen
Look
Self
Culture
Nature
Ego
Ethno
Eco
Honest
Helpful
Harmless

 

 

Holarchical Threes (Levels)

Body
Mind
Spirit
Gross
Subtle
Causal
Nirmanakaya
Sambhogakaya
Dharmakaya
Physical
Non-Physical
Meta-Physical
Id
Ego
Super-Ego
i
pi
phi
A
Kha
Tha

 

 

Transitional Threes (States)

Waking
Dreaming
Sleeping
Child
Youth
Adult
Denial
Owning
Action
Liquid
Solid
Gas
Resistant
Apathetic
Open
Stable
Crisis
Trauma
Illiterate
Semi-Literate
Literate
Past
Present
Future

 

Trilogies

Triangle
Circle
Square
Man
Child
Woman
Father
Son
Holy Ghost
Avalokiteshvara
Amitabha
Manjushri
Binah
Kether
Hokmah
Vishnu
Brahma
Shiva
Vegetable
Animal
Mineral
Yang
Tao
Yin
Thesis
Synthesis
Antithesis

 

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