The Good The Bad The Funny (mind alchemy)

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The Good the Bad the Funny
Haven't read this yet, but it looks good....errr...bad.....errrr....funny! :dilemma: :rofl:




The Good the Bad the Funny.

By Amadi Philotunus (aka Ramsey Dukes) 284pp,p/bk.,
The Mouse That Spins, ISBN 0-904311-10-4


The Good The Bad The Funny (hereafter TGTBTF) examines the problems attendant to Western culture's primary mode of thinking - the dualistic (alongside the problem of unity/oneness and various fourfold 'type' schemas) - and argues that a useful and productive alternative to dualism would be 'to think in threes'. TGTBTF thus proposes that introducing a third principle into the rigid polarisations imposed by the dualistic either/or, can replace binary opposites with mutable flow. It is the paradigmic example of this interpolation - that into the binary opposition of the Good (God) the Bad (the Devil) can be resolved via the third principle - the Funny (theTrickster) that the book draws its title from.

Thinking in threes is a key theme within the Tantric approaches wherein I locate myself. Within them one finds many variations on three-fold equivalent structures. For example, there is the Three Shaktis Iccha (Will) Jnana (Knowledge) and Kriya (Action) - as Dadaji put it "think-decide-act" which are understood to be interdependent. There is the triplicity of the Measurer, the Measured and the Act of Measurement; the Three Worlds,; Three Cities; Three Lights; Creation-Maintenance-Destruction. Reading TGTBTF, the image of the Sri Yantra, with its shifting multitudes of triadic relationships keeps drifting into my mind.

TGTBTF will be a useful book for anyone who is interested in examining the habitual patterns by which we shape and limit our ways of viewing the world. Ramsey's ultimate aim is that 'triple thinking' should be as natural and effortless as the dominant dualistic pattern, and so as part of this project, he sets up various dualistic opposites, examines their workings, and suggests appropriate third principles which hint at possible resolution. Dualistic thinking, according to Dukes, leads us to project our fears and fight them in others, whereas triple thinking leads to a more alchemical approach, seeking a third principle which dissolves the dualistic opposites.

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Don't get the simple notion that finding the third principle is an immediate remedy, a magical potion. That would be to elevate the third principle in to a superior position to the original duality by calling it "the solution". Remember what was said about false trinities: the real thing is truly balanced, a horizontal equilateral triangle. The real healing does not come as soon as you find the third principle, but only after you have lived with it and got used to it until it is an equal member of the team.

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http://www.philhine.org.uk/books/review_goodbadfunny.html

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Amazon books:
http://www.amazon.com/Good-Bad-Funny-Adamai-Philotunus/dp/0904311104/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200485454&sr=8-1


NONDualism Meetup Groups (I wonder if you have to take two friends?)
http://nondualism.meetup.com/

THE CENTER FOR NON-DUALISM
http://www.centerfornondualism.org/