Joanne Smith describes three principles underlying all human experience: Thought (60,000 to 90,000 thoughts daily), Consciousness (awareness through the senses), and Mind (the energetic force driving your heartbeat). She argues all three must be present for any experience to happen.
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So what are the 3 principles? The 3 principles are the truth behind how you experience life. We all, no matter whether you like this or not, you're all using the 3 principles to literally experience your life in this very moment. So we've got 3 gifts that we all have And the number one is that we all have thought. We all have thoughts, whether we like them or not. They're going to come and go and come and go, 60,000 to 90,000 on average per day, whether we like them or not. We're all given that gift at birth of thought, and without that, we have zero experience. We have no experience. We're all given the gift of Consciousness, and that is what brings that to life. We have our ability to experience life through consciousness, through sight, hearing, taste, touch, all the senses. The fact that we're awake and we're able to experience that. And the third one is mind. It's an energy. It's like a It's like what I— how I think of it as the power source, the generator. Even though we don't need plugging in, we do have energy, mind, what's causing the beating of our hearts. And with all those, without any of those 3 things, we need all of that to actually have an experience. Because if I'm unconscious, And you've like knocked me out. Like one time my dad actually did nearly knock me out, not on purpose by the way,