The Two Sets of Threes

Consider that the figure, the triangle, represents our mind. 

That the thinking of our mind is affected by an interaction of three parts. These parts are positioned separately within each angle of the triangle, and then interact through their adjacent sides. The parts are called: the super ego, the ego, and the id, or the preconscious, conscious, and subconscious. Another description of the parts, and that I like, is masculine, feminine, and child.          

I like the description because as a person feels about themselves, they often feel about men, women, and children. Simple, easy to understand. You don't like other people? You probably don't like yourself either.

A person’s awareness or perception of themselves begins with thinking and learning. Same as their awareness or perception of everything outside of themselves, a development of thinking and learning.     

This development begins with the thinking and learning of another. We are taught what is correct from the thoughts and ideas of another. Who also has been taught by another. We then use this learning to begin our effort of what we become. Learning begins from another. Then, we think, learn, choose and become.       

Individual development is choice. We each have a process of creative thinking. A process that begins with an idea, to begin an interaction of thinking, learning, and remembering between the conscious and subconscious, to create the thought needed for the idea to become. A process where a person can become more than they thought they could become. A process where each person can think, learn, and become their own.                 

This effort of inner consciousness or development of self is represented by the triangle with the base expanding towards the self, encompassing the thinking and learning of self. Similarly, there is an outer consciousness represented by a second triangle, inverted and expanding outward, encompassing the thinking and learning of what is outside of the self. Thus, we now have two triangles. One representing inner consciousness, and the other, outer consciousness.                                                                                                                 

With most people, consciousness exists as one thought. Thus, putting the two triangles together, we create a figure representing individual consciousness, the oneness of self.