Three Principles Conversations with Christian McNeill
Sep 26, 2026 · 41 min · 10 segments
In this episode Stuart and Christian delve into the precise nature of the 3 Principles, why insight into them can be transformative and how they differ from therapies and techniques.Find out more…
So one of the things that I think is sort of missed when people first come across this work is that this... is a description rather than a prescription.
And yet, as people grasp the description and see the truth of it and see how the description is subtly but importantly different from what they've hitherto believed about how they work and how life works, that can become enormously beneficial.
So I don't know exactly when the periodic table was kind of coined, when it was first drawn up.
But, you know, let's say two or three hundred years ago, something like that.
simply identified elements, which, as I understand it, not being a chemist, is the lowest common denominator, the fundamental building blocks, chemical building blocks of life where you can't go any smaller.
But prior to the coining of the periodic table and getting really clear about what elements are and what they're not, people believed all sorts of nonsense.
They believed in alchemy, that you could kind of mix base metals and get gold if you just got the formula.
And the periodic table, or more accurately, the defining of elements, made it clear that was just not possible.
And much of the industrial age was based on a working knowledge of how chemicals can combine and so on to great effect.
You know, so we have all sorts of compounds today that were just, you know, absolutely unheard of prior to that.
So it didn't, in a sense, and I would say the three principles doesn't have anything, the principles are two true principles in the way that the periodic table identifies true principles of chemistry.
And they are subtly but importantly different to what we've been kind of hitherto believing.
And one of the differences from other approaches, therapies, schools, and so on, is that most of them kind of start in the middle, or they start with a problem, and they come up with techniques to sort of sort the problem, and then they come up with theories about what the cause of the problem was.
I'm talking about psychological problems, psycho-spiritual problems, and so on.
And those are in... from a three principles point of view, those theories about the cause are subtly inaccurate.
I mean, the classic way of dealing with a problem, the practical way is identify the problem, find a solution.
So one of the things that I think is sort of missed when people first come across this work is that this... is a description rather than a prescription.
And yet, as people grasp the description and see the truth of it and see how the description is subtly but importantly different from what they've hitherto believed about how they work and how life works, that can become enormously beneficial.
So I don't know exactly when the periodic table was kind of coined, when it was first drawn up.
But, you know, let's say two or three hundred years ago, something like that.
simply identified elements, which, as I understand it, not being a chemist, is the lowest common denominator, the fundamental building blocks, chemical building blocks of life where you can't go any smaller.
But prior to the coining of the periodic table and getting really clear about what elements are and what they're not, people believed all sorts of nonsense.
They believed in alchemy, that you could kind of mix base metals and get gold if you just got the formula.
And the periodic table, or more accurately, the defining of elements, made it clear that was just not possible.
And much of the industrial age was based on a working knowledge of how chemicals can combine and so on to great effect.
You know, so we have all sorts of compounds today that were just, you know, absolutely unheard of prior to that.
So it didn't, in a sense, and I would say the three principles doesn't have anything, the principles are two true principles in the way that the periodic table identifies true principles of chemistry.
And they are subtly but importantly different to what we've been kind of hitherto believing.
And one of the differences from other approaches, therapies, schools, and so on, is that most of them kind of start in the middle, or they start with a problem, and they come up with techniques to sort of sort the problem, and then they come up with theories about what the cause of the problem was.
I'm talking about psychological problems, psycho-spiritual problems, and so on.
And those are in... from a three principles point of view, those theories about the cause are subtly inaccurate.
I mean, the classic way of dealing with a problem, the practical way is identify the problem, find a solution.
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