Visitors as of March 17th, 2025
These three links can serve as an introduction to the idea of "threes" for those unfamiliar with the topic:
For those interested in the "threes" phenomena, let me list at least three references which displays the pattern:
- Michael Eck's Book of threes
- Dr. McNulty's List of threes in Anatomy
- The Beauty of Three Video by Aperture
Yes, those of us interested in the topic of "threes" are familiar with other number and non-number patterns.
For the most part, negotiations with the New Sponsors have concluded until July. I actually won't be able to begin with any concerted effort to revamp the Threesology.org site until June, due to constraints imposed upon my very near traveling plans. There were two deaths in the family last year and one the year before, which has altered the dynamics of the existing members. My Mum is near 100 and her sister died at 103. My Mum has outlived 3 of her kids, and I have no interest in being the next one... hence a radical change in diet, increased supplementation and exercise routine, resulting in a weight loss of 50 lbs. I also remain limited in time (and internet access) as to how much I can temporarily repost of the old pages as directed by the new Sponsors, but I will make what effort I can in the interim.
I am altering the HTML code (to some extent) of existing pages to comply with the requirements of the (Yola.com) web hosting service, which provides me the ability to keep using the more familiar (but older) classical platform for creating pages; because their Site+ platform has a learning curve I do not have any appreciable time to engage in. The larger series of previous posts such as the popular Devil's Advocate, A.I. and others, will have to wait. Many pages need to be revamped and consolidated along with a preliminary effort to provide summaries.
One of the initial efforts late last night (March 14th) was to address the re-posting of the Collections of Threes posters, only to be met with multiple spelling errors. This is understandable since I am often confronted by ideas which require a flurry of activity to write down, with a follow-up result that I hurriedly post them in order to move on to the next idea... or work on separate but related ideas during a similar moment of inspiration, which is common among many writers, inventors, musicians, etc... In short, we rush to "print" (post on the internet, make journal entries, etc.,) as if working on a journalistic-like deadline. Yet, spelling errors are inexcusable due to the widespread availability of spell checkers. However, spell checkers work with conventional lists of words and do not contain all the words in a given person's vocabulary, and in particular, do not account for the use of Neologisms which often define the characteristics of creativity and originality... (or define how limited a person's vocabulary actually is to a given genre of thinking). Hence, setting a spell checker to make automatic changes can radically alter what a person is trying to describe from the vantage point of a new perspective... and having the ability to add a new word to a spell checking list only adds to the delay, unless one's ideas are limited by the words they choose to repetitively use... whereby a small, repetitive vocabulary serves the desired end... unless one's information involves the vernaculars, idioms and symbology of different subjects.
In short, re-posting some pages will take more effort than previously anticipated.
Summaries in brief (initiated for the present truncated model of re-posting):
- Trichotomization: A fledgling field of study incorporating various labels such as Threesology, tripartite ideology, threeism, triadism, triunity, treble, ternary, etc..., found in different guises in multiple subjects.
- Identifies possible origination(s) of three-patterned ideological constructs.
- Identifies potential changes in cognitive adoption of tripartite patterning in contrast to other patterns.
- Identifies probabilities of further structuring over time under given biological, environmental, sociological, educational, industrial, etc., pressures...
- Threes Posters series: Compiled examples from different subjects with a "three" related theme. (Rendered as a collage in which some similar items may be referenced together. I was not trying to be artistic, I was simply trying to cram multiple ideas into a small space.)
- Evolutionary Psychodynamics series: Psychology has a persistent usage of duality/dichotomization and is (for the most part), unaware of how deep and widespread the human mind has evolved into... and relies on trichotomy/trichotomization; which is a problematic issue that creates a need for altering institutionally used philosophies to make a deliberate accounting of numerically-based cognitive patterning.
- Images speaking for themselves: It is of need (at times) to display images without commentary because they are able to invoke the repertoires of individualized imaginations. The old adage "one picture is worth a thousand words" comes to mind just as its obverse: "One word is worth a thousand pictures." Hence, a gallery of images I have collected and created for the Threesology site may be of greater value to some viewers than a particular supplemental commentary.
Looking through history we can find individuals deliberately (or unknowingly) using a pattern-of-three as a main organizational tool for their research efforts such as:
- Georges Dumezil's Tripartite Ideology (trifunctional hypothesis)
- Dr. McNulty's List of threes in Human anatomy
- G.W. Hegel's triads (Consists of three interconnected elements: thesis, antithesis, and synthesis.)
- Immanuel Kant's 3 Critiques (Each of Kant's three critiques is divided into the same three parts: (1) an "analytic," or analysis of reason's right functioning, (2) a "dialectic," or logic of error, showing the pitfalls into which a careless reason falls, and (3) a "methodology," an arrangement of rules for practice... Source: "philosophy, Western." Encyclopædia Britannica, 2013.) 3 early dissertations: De Igne (On Fire), Monodologia physica (1756), Principiorum Primorum Cognitionis Metaphysicae Nova Dilucidato (1755), (on the first principles of metaphysics. Source: "Kant, Immanuel." Encyclopædia Britannica, 2013.)
- Triads in Classical European mythology (various authors other than Dumezil)
- Literature (i.e. Fairy tales discussed by numerous authors)
- etc... In other words, some writers do use one or more patterns-of-three but not all of them... let me suggest the reason for this is because many have not ventured near enough to explore the realm of a 3rd consciousness. In fact, most do not appear to be particularly focused on using an explicit "three" theme, whether they are consciously aware of it or not, and may only use such a theme for one story, one song, one painting, etc...
Here is a handful of others noted for using a 3-part theme:
| St. Augustine's Philosophy: | Memory ~ Understanding ~ Will |
| Comte's Philosophy: | Great Being ~ Great Medium ~ Great Fetish |
| Hegel's 3 Spirits: | Subjective Spirit ~ 0bjective Spirit ~ Absolute Spirit |
| Plotinu's Philosophy: | One ~ One Many ~ One and Many |
| Aristotle's 3 Unities: | Unity of Action ~ Unity of Time ~ Unity of Place |
| Sir F. Bacon's 3 Tables: | Presence ~ Absence ~ Degree |
| Albert Einstein's Mass to Energy equivalency formula: | E (equals) M (times) C2 |
| Thomas Hobbes's 3 Fields: | Physics ~ Moral Philosophy ~ Civil Philosophy |
| Immanuel Kant's 3 Critiques: | Pure Reason ~ Practical Reason ~ Judgment |
| Averroes's 3 Commentaries: | Little ~ Middle ~ Great |
| Karl Marx's 3 isms: | Communism ~ Socialism ~ Capitalism |
| Woodrow Wilson's 3 isms: | Colonialism ~ Racism ~ Anti-Communism |
| Hippocrates's Mind Disorders: | Mania ~ Melancholia ~ Phrenitis |
| Emile Durkeim's 3 Suicides: | Egoistic ~ Altruistic ~ Anomic |
| D. Liesman's 3 Social Characters: | Tradition-directed ~ Inner-directed ~ Other-directed |
| Erich Fromm's 3 Symbols: | The Conventional ~ The Accidental ~ The Universal |
| Pythagoras's "fusion" idea: | Monarchy ~ Oligarchy ~ Democracy (into harmonic whole) |
| M.L. King Jr.'s "Middle Road": | Acquiescence ~ Nonviolence ~ Violence |
| Kierkegaard's 3 Stages: | Aesthetic ~ Ethical ~ Religious |
| Husserl's 3 Reductions: | Phenomenological ~ Eidetic ~ Religious |
| St. Augustine's 3 Laws: | Divine Law ~ Natural Law ~ Temporal, or positive Law |
| Witness Stand "Laws": | Tell the Truth ~ The whole Truth ~ Nothing but the Truth |
| Julius Caesar's self proclaimed expression: | Veni- Vidi- Vici (I came, I saw, I conquered) |
| Titus Carus's 3 Ages: | Stone Age ~ Bronze Age ~ Iron Age |
| Feuerbach's 3 Thoughts: | God, 1st Thought ~ Reason, 2nd ~ Man, 3rd |
| Magnus's 3 Universals: | Ante Rem ~ In Rem ~ Post Rem |
| Max Weber's 3 Authorities: | Traditional ~ Charismatic ~ Legal-rational |
| F. de Sausure's 3 "Signs": | Sign ~ Signified ~ Signifier |
| Charles Pierces 3 "Signs": | Qualisign ~ Sinsign (token) ~ Legisign |
| John Keynes's 3 Eras: | Scarcity ~ Abundance ~ Stabilization |
| George Mead's 3 Distinctions: | Self ~ I ~ Me |
| Thrasher's 3-group Gangs: | Inner Circle ~ Rank & File ~ Fringers |
| Christian J. Thomsen's three-part system of prehistory: | Stone, Bronze, Iron ages (Describing the successive stages of man's technological development in Europe.) |
| Abe Lincoln's 3-For-All: | Of the People ~ By the People ~ For the People |
| Jesus Christ's 3 Praises: | In the name of the Father ~ Son ~ Holy Spirit |
| Division of Time by multiple authors: | Past- Present- Future |
| Samuel Clemmons' 3 lies: (Mark Twain) |
Lies ~ Damned Lies ~ Statistics |
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Thesis ~ Antithesis ~ Synthesis Indulgence ~ "Middle Way" ~ Ascetism Major Premise ~ Minor Premise ~ Conclusion Contradiction ~ Excluded Middle ~ Identity Principal | ||
| "God-ology": Omnipresent Omnipotent Omniscient |
"Metaphysics-ology": What is real How change comes What is mind |
Marxian "Dialectology": Unity of opposites Quantity & quality Negation of negation |
| Epistemology: How we know What is truth What is mind |
Axiology: Nature of good Nature of beautiful Nature of religious |
Ontology: Quality (1st-ness) Relation (2nd-ness) Representation (3rd-ness) |
- 3 times the fool: You can fool some people some of the time - Some people all the time - But not all people all the time.
- 3 traditional syllogism forms: Categorical - Hypothetical - Disjunctive
- 3-patterned (adult) basic syllogism: All ravens are black - Jack is a raven - Therefore, Jack is black.
- 3-patterned (child) basic syllogism: Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear- Fuzzy Wuzzy had not hair- Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't Fuzzy was he?
- 3 basic computer logic gates: AND- OR- NOT
- 3-parts betting formula: Rock- Scissors- Paper
- 3 sentence ending marks: Period- Question mark- Exclamation point
- 3 traditional grading levels: A(plus)- A- A(minus)
- 3 common classroom tests: True/False- Multiple choice- Essay
- 3 separate Stone Age Periods: Paleolithic Period, Mesolithic Period, and Neolithic Period (based on the degree of sophistication in the fashioning and use of tools. Source: "Stone Age." Encyclopædia Britannica, 2013.)
- 3 Metal Ages: {approximate dates] Bronze Age (2300–700 BCE)- Iron Age (700–1 BCE)- Copper Age (c. 3200–2300 BCE). {At this time, societies in Europe began consciously to produce metals.) Source: "Europe, history of." Encyclopædia Britannica, 2013.
- 3 German fathers of Botany: Otto Brunfels, Hieronymus Bock (Latinized to Tragus), Leonhard Fuchs (Source: "genetics." Encyclopædia Britannica, 2013.)
- 3 Foundation Stallions: Byerly Turk, Darley Arabian, Goldolphin barb
- 3 Foundation Stallion direct-line descendants: Matchem- King Herod- Eclipse
- 3, upper right computer screen corner indicators: Minimize- Maximize- Close
- 3 laws of motion, 3 laws of planetary motion, 3 (Asimov) laws of robots
- 3-patterned "arbitrarily chosen" math tool used in Electronics: -15 10-12 10-9 10-6 10-3 ... 103 106 109 1012 1015 ...etc.
3-patterned formulas:
| C = pi x D | (Circumference of a Circle) | E = H x V | (Planck's Constant) |
| A = L x W | (Area of a Rectangle) | P = I x E | (Watt's "Law") |
| A = 1/2B x H | (Area of a Triangle) | E = I x R | (Ohm's "Law") |
| A = pi x R2 | (Area of a Circle) | E = V1 + V2 | (Kirchhoffs Voltage Law) |
| E = M x C2 | (Einstein's formula) | P = R x B | (Percentage formulas) |
| Z = Eg ÷ Ig | (Thevenin impedance formula) | A2 + B2 = C2 | (Pythagorean theorem) |
However, it is not enough to list different examples of "threes", regardless of how many different types of subjects you include. You must reach the point in your listing efforts to recognize some pattern which can be used as a unifying theme of further exploration, if not provide some eventual explanation, which represents some commanding theme for additional considerations from other observant individuals. What I see is a developmental 1-2-3 scenario having occurred in biology. Because our brain and hence our consciousness are inextricably intertwined, it is not unwarranted to consider the possibility that human consciousness has the potential to develop what I describe as a "Third Consciousness" that is already a theme of consideration in multiple ideologies which have not established any observable facts to back up their claims. Biological development does. This does not mean their particular claims are correct, but there does exist an identifiable biologically-based criteria for thinking about the existence of such a "Higher" consciousness potentiality.
Note: I do not in any way advocate attaching any presumed preeminence to any metaphysical or spiritualistically- oriented idea which has practiced the consideration of some "higher consciousness" inclusive of their particular ideology, be it Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Christianity, New Age Hyper consciousness, or other similarly focused indulgences. Such ideas are like Mathematicians who speak of a "Pure Mathematics" or Musicians who speak of a "Pure note" (or Pure sound), though other subjects (such as sports with the idea of reaching a "zone") have their own respective notions of that which exists beyond the norm and you must perform one or more duties, tests, tasks, contests, deprivations, sufferings, contortions, rituals, [physical/mental/emotional mantra], etc., in order to provide oneself a means of achieving such a state of vaguely defined, understood, and illustrated realization. All of them are on a course of soon-to-be-outdated survival mechanisms, even though each of them in their own way are sensitively aware of the human potential for achieving a 3rd consciousness... just not in the model which they ascribe to. Their ideas of Heaven, of Nirvana, or other superior place or existence of being, are to be viewed as little more than a basement (subway, sub-flooring, or ground floor) variety of an actual 3rd consciousness.
Coupled to this idea is the realization that an additional influence of consciousness development exists in the relationship between the Sun-Earth-Moon Trio. Simply put, the fast rate of the Earth's rotation billions of years ago presented early biological macromolecules with at 3-patterned strobe light effect established by the Sun's irradiation of a fast spinning Earth. As such, if the influence is an actuality to be established by experimentation and not sit on some theological or mystical shelf of traditional belief lasting for centuries, then further slowing may necessarily effect a "fusion" event of the 3 solar phases (moments); thereby continuing to influence a 3-to- 1 ratio expression of which there are multiple examples such as Mendelian genetics, the Christian trinity (3 persons in 1 godhead), a 3-branched government (functioning as a singular unit), the universally used 3 colors in 1 street signal, 1 pen/pencil held with three fingers, etc...
As such, let me provide a couple of similar images which gives some indication of where my thinking is directed towards at the present time:
However, it may be much too early in the development of humanity to appreciate a full realization of what is taking place due to the influence of the environment on biology which in turn plays a role in our developing perceptions over time.
Page created: 11:30 PM, Friday, March 14th, 2025.Page posted: 12:06 PM, Monday, March 17th, 2025.