The great gift of Modernity was the differentiation of the three primary spheres of human concern: the I, We, and It realms also known as the Beautiful, the Good, and the True. The disaster was the realm of the True being so convenient, successful, powerful and bratty that it collapsed the other two realms into the depth-less slate of scientific materialism. Still, the differentiation of the realms was a tremendous leap forward in the evolutionary unfolding of Reality.

It’s been of great interest to me lately to work with the different contours of those three realms as applicable to my own spiritual work. In that light I see that there are three basic gems in most of the world’s great religions and spiritual traditions which each apply to one of the three realms. Therefore I present the following list of tenets as the gift of modernity to religious belief (humbly of course. )

1. Know thyself (the I/Beautiful realm)
2. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you (the Golden Rule of the We/Good realm)
3. Pursue health (the It/True realm)

The healthy development of evolution is always a process of differentiate and integrate. Things go pathological when the integration step is missed and the process gets turned into discard and repress. In that light these three differentiated realms and core principles are to be kept distinct, but held together, informing and enriching each other in the free-flowing interplay of what is with what is.

What do you guys think?