The Discovery of the Natural Integrated Verification System of Life

The focus of Part Two is the discovery and articulation of the integrated search for truth and knowledge, supported by what we call the Natural Integrated Verification System of Life.

The human impulse to understand how things work, the thirst for truth, is a primordial urge. It exerts a gravitational pull on our psyche, drawing us ever closer to the mysteries of existence. This longing to understand the universe, and to uncover the essence of what it means to be human, is not separate from the spiritual drive — it is the spiritual drive to come to know and connect to the source code of life.

In this light, the human search for truth is not merely a cognitive pursuit, it is a universal impulse. When we contemplate the possibility that the universe itself is seeking to know and verify itself through us, we begin to sense the deeper meaning of the human project.

Thus, when we describe the Universalis human as the evolutionary point at which we become joined to the co-creative act of the universe, we are pointing to this very reality: That the universe comes to know itself — to witness and verify itself through our evolving awareness, through our living inquiry, through the unfolding of our direct, embodied, multidimensional experience. What we are truly describing is not just a human search for truth, but a universal process of self-discovery, alive and awakening in and through each of us.

The Integrated Search for Truth and Knowledge

What do we mean when we say we are supported by the natural verification system of life?

Simply put – life verifies you in what you do. That’s it.

There’s an immediacy to this awareness, and it begins here — your life has already been verified many times. Your capacity to sit, listen, observe, inquire, respond, or act is itself a proof point. Life within you has continually verified itself, layer upon layer, system upon system. Each of these layers carries its own form of validation and verification.

In the broader view, these layers reflect life verifying itself through us. Each of us is a living laboratory — a field through which life validates its processes. By recognizing this premise, we are beginning to show how science, spirituality, and philosophy can be brought into integrated coherence. Each can retain its distinction while contributing to a larger whole. In doing so, we engage in the greater natural verification of life.

Five Dimensions that Carry a Verification Element

Let us briefly reflect on five dimensions — five processes or domains, each generating its own body of validation and verification. While each could fill many pages, we will simply name them here and use a few examples to explore the first three.

Dimension One: The Study of Natural Laws (Creational Logic)
This dimension involves studying and decoding the principles that govern the universe.

• What are these natural laws?
• How do they manifest?
• How can studying them unlock the Creational Logic embedded within life itself, liberating a person into a greater connective flow of possibility and potency in action?

Dimension Two: Whole-Person Living Application
This is the practical orchestration of all inner faculties.

It has three key elements:

1. The Whole-Person Orchestra
   Not just the intellect, but the full range of inner lives, capacities, senses, mental faculties, and somatic awareness — engaging together in inquiry and expression to create the orchestral arrangement and learning loops that shape our experience.
2. Living Inquiry
   A sustained, enduring inquiry — what we call a “permanent line of inquiry” in Universalis conversations. Such an inquiry continues to work in and through you over time, often below the surface. It becomes deeply encoded in your being, yielding discoveries even as you attend to other frontiers, and sometimes even during sleep.
3. Application Practice
   The third element is applying this living inquiry in the world. For example, I’ve used this practice in building a thriving consulting business, engaging the whole-person orchestra inside a living inquiry that drives real-world outcomes.

Dimension Three: Verification Through Personal Discovery and Results
This involves recognizing a loom of improved personal outcomes.

Examples include:

• Greater freedom
• Deeper capacity
• Increased coherence and liberation

These personal developments serve as lived proof of a validation process unfolding within.

Dimension Four: Verification Through Mutual Discovery and Collective Outcomes
Whereas Dimension Three focuses on the individual, Dimension Four emphasizes what emerges between us.

• What truths and insights are we decoding together?
• What shared processes are we creating to access and confirm knowledge?
• Does the knowledge you articulate work for the second or third ring of engagement?

When your insights transfer to others and enable results in their lives, that is a form of collective verification.

A magical dynamic often unfolds in Portals events and other communities of practice: when we converse together, entirely new worlds emerge, ones we couldn’t access alone. It’s as though we co-form an intelligence network, a shared field where each person is a node, allowing multiple streams of higher knowledge to land with us. This ongoing realignment and recalibration is part of the verification process.

Dimension Five: Verification Through the Unseen Blessings of Life
This final dimension envelops the previous four. It includes subtle yet tangible phenomena: the invisible energies that accompany and enhance the process. One example: a participant reflects after a seven-hour global inquiry, saying each hour felt refreshing and energizing, rather than tiring. If they had only used their cognitive brain focus, they'd fall asleep within 10-20 minutes because there isn't enough “space” in the brain to hold it. But when the whole human system is nourished and activated, when we’re attuned to the invisible enhancements that support life, we experience renewal, vibrant engagement, and expanded capacities and stamina. These are invisible validations that point to something deeper supporting us.

A Living Revelation

This is a high-level framing of these five dimensions. We’re about to dive more deeply into Dimension One — the study of natural laws.

What you’ve read here is a first rendering of something still evolving. This entire body of work is an unfolding revelation — each insight opens the door to the next. That is one of the ways it verifies itself: it continues to yield.

What I’m sharing has been distilled for the first time over an evening, but it’s been over 40 years in the making.

We are now called to codify a process that reconnects us with the natural validation system of life, especially after four or five centuries in which scientific thought gave us many gifts, but also separated us from the interior and subtle dimensions of human experience.

What we seek is not to discard scientific thinking, but to expand it — to bring its spirit of inquiry and experimentation into the full laboratory of our lives. Not just with our intellects (heads), but with the whole of who we are. This is how we unlock the possibility held in these five dimensions.

The Natural Laws – Creational Logic

Let us now bring the focus to Dimension One. We could easily spend a year or even three exploring the study of natural laws and how the universe works. Such a journey would unfold across many sessions and layers of deepening. What we are about to do here is spotlight one aspect, to instantiate what we mean by natural laws and to bring the concept to life.

The study of natural laws — the inner logic of the universe and the architecture of the Creational process— is the central propulsion of the esoteric quest. Esoteric inquiry is ultimately a search for the natural governing principles underlying all of life.

Our appreciation of the exoteric, mesoteric, and esoteric framed the first Current Openings conversation. We returned to deepen and re-articulate this understanding in Current Openings, Episode #21.

The Threefold Trinitarian Principle

Let us now turn our attention to the threefold Trinitarian principle, also known as the Law of Three. These are different names for the same universal pattern. The Trinitarian idea is foundational in Christian theology. The Law of Three was codified by G.I. Gurdjieff, though its origins are likely to trace back to Sufi mysticism and beyond. Three-folding frameworks also appear prominently in anthroposophy, mystery schools, and nearly every esoteric tradition throughout history. It is a universal and recurring structure.

What follows is a brief distillation from the recorded conversation, where we explored 21 examples, each representing the triad or trinitarian principle. They do not all describe the same phenomenon. Rather, they express different dimensions and phenomenology, each revealing how this principle plays out through diverse aspects of life. This is only a sampling, an appetizer. I spent ten years collecting thousands of expressions of the triadic principle until I could no longer see the world except through this lens. Let’s explore a few of these expressions to help us appreciate why this natural law is part of the verification system of life.

1. Water: Ice, Liquid, Vapor

What is it about water that allows it to exist in three states through a change in temperature? A temperature shift alters its atomic and molecular structure, transforming it into ice or vapor. The energetic input determines the form, and thereby the state.

This offers us a profound insight: the energetic quality we introduce to our inner ecology determines our state. Just as water changes form with energy, we humans shift states — agitated, peaceful, joyful, all within the same self. Energetic nature is the shaping force.

In a deeper practice, to ensure this insight does not remain merely conceptual, we would pause here and spend time, perhaps days, observing it within ourselves, allowing information and awareness to be transformed into embodied realization.

2. Time: Past, Present, Future

What are past, present, and future? Time appears to unfold in these three parts, but in truth, they are all successive expressions of the now — there is only the present. In this view, the threefold nature of time is a byproduct of the nature of our consciousness. The past is the accumulated residue of former present moments; the future is the anticipation of moments that have not yet arrived.

The body can only inhabit the present moment. The mind, however, can focus on the past, reach toward the future, or, if invited, return to presence in the here and now.

Much of our pain and suffering arises when the mind becomes entangled in the past or fixated on the future. Conversely, it is in the present moment that joy, healing, and restoration become most accessible.

In a retreat workshop setting or if you had encountered this awareness in another time in history, you might be invited to spend days contemplating the phenomenology of past, present, and future, before proceeding. But as we’ve said, our intention here is to offer more.

3. Conscious, Semi-Conscious, and Unconscious

What are these three categorizations of experience? They describe the dimensions of both the mental process and the process of life itself. This triad maps the emergence of phenomena and awareness. Before something comes into view, it resides in the unconscious — we do not yet know it. What becomes conscious may later recede into the semi-conscious, while new content continues to rise from the depths of the unconscious.

At the outset of the Portals journey, we said we would allow the unconscious to lead us. We had little idea what would emerge, yet over time the semi-conscious field became increasingly permeated by our living inquiries, validating themselves through the unfolding discoveries of this emergent exploration.

We are now beginning to see that there is not just one phenomenology of three:

• The first example — water, ice, vapor — shows three distinct states of a single substance, shaped by energetic input.
• The second — past, present, future — presents a continuum with three temporal markers.
• The third — conscious, semi-conscious, unconscious — reveals a greater whole with three revolving vectors of emergence and awareness.

4. Carbon, Oxygen, Nitrogen

The molecular structure of life, particularly protein, relies on these three elements: C, O, and N. They are the building blocks of life.

Interestingly, many foundational English words begin with “con”: conversation, connection, configuration, content, constitution, and conscience. In a Portals Into the Soul event titled “Conscience – A Threefold Guidance,” we explored the mystery of conscience and reframed it as con-science — the science of the building blocks of life. This inquiry led to the discovery of a threefold memory system at the core of conscience itself.

5. Atom: Proton, Neutron, Electron

The atomic structure is built upon a triad of forces: positive (proton), neutral (neutron), and negative (electron). Without this triadic balance, the material universe could not hold together, its very structure would collapse.

This triad is not confined to physics; positive, negative, and neutral forces are present across all dimensions of life — from relationships to leadership, from learning to economics. They form a fundamental pattern underlying coherence, tension, and transformation in every domain.

These three forces correspond to affirming, denying, and reconciling — the core articulation of Gurdjieff’s Law of Three, as well as to thesis, antithesis, and synthesis in Hegelian dialectics. Each framework points to the same deep principle: transformation arises through the dynamic interplay of three distinct, interdependent forces.

The Interrelationship of the Threefold

You can begin to overlay these systems:

• Conscious / semi-conscious / unconscious
• Past / present / future
• Positive / neutral / negative
• Cause / process / result
• Affirming / denying / reconciling

This isn’t about hierarchy. Rather, these are parallel expressions of an underlying architecture.

6. Spatial Triads: Left, Right, Center

We perceive the world through spatial triads: left, right, and center, or above, below, and in between. “As above, so below” is verified in the interplay that happens in between.

7. Family Triad: Mother, Father, Child

Here, the third is generated through the union of two. This principle is also expressed in geometry: the circle (feminine), the line (masculine), and the resulting spiral — a dynamic movement born of their co-creation.

The spiral represents the furthering of the masculine and feminine principles in union, revealing that one of the core phenomenologies of the triangle principle is the evolutionary process itself — how the masculine and feminine are co-creative and co-participative in unlocking the unfolding spiral of life.

This reveals the evolutionary nature of the threefold: cause → process → result—the three octaves of any phenomenology we observe. Every unfolding begins with an instigating cause, which gives rise to a process, and the process in turn leads to a result.

Olympians often say that success is found in the process. However, behind every powerful process is a compelling cause, and that cause is ultimately served by the result. There is a profound difference between working toward results for their own sake and producing results in service of a deeper cause. These are two fundamentally different states of being, each shaped by the alignment and intentionality we bring. The Trinitarian principle helps us recognize and navigate this distinction.

8. States of Knowing: Exoteric, Mesoteric, Esoteric

These correspond to outer knowledge, inner process, and the inner sanctum — the sacred center.

9. Wakefulness: Awake, Asleep, Hypnagogic

This triad describes three states of consciousness: awake, asleep, and the transitional liminal zone in between. In a broader sense, we are always in transition, moving from one state or station of being to another.

10. Breath: Inhale, Exhale, and the Living Presence

Another expression of the threefold principle is the inhale and exhale. I can bring awareness to the inhale as I breathe in, and to the exhale as I breathe out. As I listen to and abide with my breath, I begin to access something more — a living presence sustained and renewed through the interplay of inhalation and exhalation.

Here, the phenomenology of the three reveals itself as a process generated by two alternating poles. The inhale and exhale create a dynamic rhythm, and together they give rise to a third: a regenerative current of renewal.

11. A Threefold Dynamic of Living Processes

In every living being and every living process, we can observe a continual search for optimal equilibrium, and an equally continual movement away from it. Life is always adjusting, always giving up balance in one direction or another into increase or decrease, and often into both. One element rises while another recedes, all within the dynamic pursuit of equilibrium.

12. Appling The Trinitarian Principle

We are describing a universal phenomenon. There is nothing in life you can observe that doesn’t, in some way, reveal the dimensions of this three-folding.

I spent years exploring this, beginning over 40 years ago, in my early twenties, with the intent of activating this principle in my life at the conscious, semi-conscious, and unconscious levels. The aim was to become capable of shapeshifting my state through intentional alignment with the triadic dynamic. To choose, at any given moment or circumstance, to embody the positive, the negative, or the neutral force. To direct my life through the use of the affirming, denying, and reconciling energies. To harness these forces as a means of generating the outcomes life was calling for.

The premise was simple yet profound: when you engage your life in alignment with a natural law, it becomes a living principle within you. It brings strength, clarity, endurance, and more. You’re no longer studying the principle; you become a threefold generation yourself, with the principle yielding its own verification and validation through your lived experience.

From there, it begins inducting connective discoveries into your life. Anything you engage with, any situation you enter, the threefold principle becomes part of your internal support infrastructure.

When I return below to Dimension Two of the Integrated Verification System — the domain of living inquiry — I’ll describe how this principle came alive in my consulting work with leadership teams across some of the world’s largest organizations.

I didn’t study strategy at Yale, Harvard, or Stanford. That’s precisely why I could approach it differently, and why, time and again, clients would tell me: “You’ve reinvented the strategy process. What you’re doing is unlike anything we’ve seen.”

Why? Because the work was rooted in how the universe itself unfolds. The study of natural laws is not abstract, it is liberating. It tethers you to the inner architecture of life, connecting you to its natural unfolding. And in doing so, life becomes its own verification system through you.

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13. Birth, Life, Death

We enter this world through the threshold of birth, move through the journey of life, and eventually arrive at the passage we call death. Nearly all spiritual traditions teach us to see this moment not as an end, but as a transition to another realm, a change of form.

There is profound depth in this triad, because in a very real way, each day contains its own birth and death. Every moment, every conversation, may carry the energy of something coming into being and something falling away. Within us, new potentials can be birthed at any time, while old patterns, beliefs, or energies are continually dying. This triadic rhythm is alive in all we do and invites ongoing contemplation.

14. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

Jefferson, who drafted the proclamation of “We the people of the United States,” was a student of the Enlightenment and, in his own way, likely a student of the esoteric. He understood that if you wanted to communicate something enduring and powerful, it needed to be framed in a threefold structure. Why? Because the triadic form resonates deeply with the organic unfolding of life — with the conscious, the semi-conscious, and the unconscious.

There was great potency in framing the foundational rights as “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” It’s as though Jefferson was capturing the three dimensions of human existence:

• First, you are given life — the essential gift of being.
• But life alone is incomplete without liberty — the freedom to discover and express your talents and capacities.
• And even life and liberty fall short if you are not empowered to pursue happiness.

Happiness, in this sense, can also be seen through a threefold lens:

1. What brings you joy and vitality.
2. What gives you meaning and significance.
3. And a third, often overlooked dimension, those experiences that may not offer joy or deep meaning, but enrich life with challenge, variance, and texture, making it intriguingly full.

So within Jefferson’s phrase, we find a threefold architecture of being, mirroring the very principles of natural emergence and evolution. And it invites us to consider happiness in a more holistic, layered, and dynamic way.

15. Sacred Trinities Across Cultures

• Hinduism: Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva
• Christianity: Father, Son, Holy Spirit
• Similarly, every faith tradition and perennial teaching contains some delineation or expression of the Trinitarian principle.

16. Music: The Triad Chord

Three tones producing a resonance no dyad or tetrad can.

The Triadic Field as Verification System

What we’ve just started exploring is the first sampling of Dimension One in the Integrated Verification System of Life: the study of natural laws or Creational Logic. These examples are not isolated; they overlay and unlock one another, revealing deeper coherence.

For instance, any subject can be viewed through the lens of conscious, semi-conscious, and unconscious dynamics, which in turn correspond to exoteric, mesoteric, and esoteric layers of knowing. Each triadic pattern reveals new dimensions when applied across different contexts.

These natural principles provide powerful tools for researching and reflecting on any topic, whether drawn from the distant past, emerging future, or living present.

For example, when contemplating the sevenfold nature of the epoch, I examine each layer through multiple triadic lenses:

• the three-folding principle
• the states of consciousness (conscious, semi-conscious, unconscious)
• the polarities and harmonizing force (positive, negative, neutral)
• the evolutionary arc (cause, process, result)
• the generative triad (mother, father, child)

All of these are facets of Dimension One — the study of natural law. It is an inexhaustible field of verification and validation.

And when something doesn't make sense — when it resists integration or fails to verify — that too is valuable. It signals the need to recalibrate, update, or redirect within this vast field of natural intelligence. This is how the system itself helps guide the journey forward.

Dimension Two — The Whole-Person Orchestra Engaging in a Living Inquiry Application

When I found myself working with senior leadership teams in Silicon Valley and other large international companies, I had already been immersed in this work for decades. That foundation gave me a unique kind of freedom.

My path to leadership development didn’t follow a conventional route. It aligned more closely with Dimension Three of the Integrated Verification System of Life. I hadn’t studied at Harvard, Yale, or Stanford, nor had I been shaped by traditional academic frameworks. Rather than assimilating theoretical models, I spent decades grappling with the natural laws in the living trenches of life.

As described in The Seven Kinds of Knowing (Part One), my learning was grounded not in theoretical abstraction but in the living study of universal processes. Over the years, I developed more than 500 frameworks — some were used only once, while about 50 or 60 became core. Some of these have been explored in early Universalis conversations. A few examples include:

• The Three Pillars of Trust
• The Three Propulsions of Great Companies
• The Three-Floors House of Work — working in the business, working on the business, and working on yourself

Leaders often commented, “It’s fascinating, I’m unlocking insights and realizations I didn’t expect, just by applying these frameworks.” The reason they worked was simple: they weren’t invented as intellectual exercises. These modalities were sourced from universal intelligence — from patterns embedded in life itself.

This became part of Dimension Four: the verification of collective results. Again and again, these processes helped teams and individuals generate transformative outcomes. Yet behind the scenes, I was always engaged in a threefold process within myself, unfolding across three octaves:

1. The Exoteric Level

I needed to provide for my family. I needed to generate differentiated value for clients, value impact so tangible that they were willing to invest significantly. The promise: that I would help them unlock their brilliance, creativity, and leadership, and in turn, help their organizations become healthier, more creatively energized, and effective.

2. The Mesoteric Level

I was testing a hypothesis: could natural laws be applied in real-world situations to generate concrete results? This wasn’t just about esoteric exploration — it was about leading businesses, guiding teams, and anchoring vision and mission in ways that would change how people work and lead.

3. The Esoteric Level

Could I do all of this while remaining inwardly tethered to the higher purpose of life? Could I walk into the realm of worldly power, working with people responsible for tens of thousands, without being claimed by it? Could this leadership work become a crucible for my own evolution, a place to deepen my integrity, presence, and connection to the larger unfolding of life?

This was the test: could I operate in the exoteric, navigate the mesoteric, and remain anchored in the esoteric — all at once? Could I do it without compromising my motivations or disconnecting from the inner flow that sustains me?

Naturally, I stumbled, again and again. But I kept getting up. The esoteric quest to unlock and live by natural laws is not about being perfect. It’s about showing up in the arena of life, experimenting, learning by living, and embracing every challenge and failure as a crucial part of the verification process.

If someone had asked me 25 years ago, “What are you doing? What’s the verification behind your approach to leadership and strategy?” I wouldn’t have had the language to answer clearly. But today, I can say with conviction that the experience of working with hundreds of teams across the world has confirmed this truth: When you’re grounded in the natural principles of Creational Logic, when you build an interior verification system, and when you become, within yourself, a living embodiment of these laws, they begin to reshape how you move through the world. You speak differently. You listen differently. You parent, lead, support, and relate differently — because you're not acting from theory, you're acting from alignment with the way life actually works.

Does that remove pain or struggle? No. Sometimes it deepens the struggle. Sometimes it intensifies the pain. But it also gives you something far greater, a sustaining current drawn from the natural validation of life itself.

This is a concrete example of Dimension Two — the whole-person orchestra applied through living inquiry and application. It’s one thing to contemplate; it’s another to test yourself in the theater of producing results in life.

Not everyone needs to work in spaces as volatile or high-stakes as I have. But my temperament has always pulled me toward the edge — to risk, to experiment, to survive it — and to emerge with a story worth telling.

Dimension Three — The Verification of Connected Discoveries and Improved Personal Results

Here, we begin to map the terrain of personal verification — what happens when a whole-person living inquiry begins to yield specific, lived results.

Let me offer a loom of 16 elements that illustrate how such inquiries generate tangible improvements. Since we are fundamentally working with the inquiry of knowledge, the first and most obvious result is the development of a vast field of living knowledge, not abstract or second-hand, but earned through embodied engagement.

But what validates this knowledge? What verifies it?

No single element is sufficient on its own. Yet taken together, these elements form a body of evidence, a network of internal and external confirmations that merit this being recognized as the third dimension of the Fivefold Integrated Verification System of Life.

1. Sustained Wellbeing

Do you experience greater wellbeing, not as a fleeting moment, but as a sustained way? In my experience, the answer is yes. Not without struggle, but often through struggle. Struggle, in this context, can be a generative force. Improved wellbeing is a powerful validator of the knowledge you’re metabolizing, the practices you’re applying, and the answers you're discovering.

Do they cultivate wellbeing, or do they diminish it? Do they help you feel and experience life with greater intactness, a core aspect of wellbeing or do they erode that sense of inner coherence?

Does what you’re doing make you feel more intact, or less so? Intactness is an essential quality of wellbeing.

2. Increased Vitality

Do you experience more energy, more aliveness? As I’ve shared before, people often report that after seven hours of deep inquiry, they feel as though they’ve just begun. That kind of stamina isn’t ordinary; it’s a validation of a different source of vitality.

3. Inner Harmony

Are you discovering greater harmony among the many inner voices and parts of yourself? Are the natural tensions within your system finding a wider space where they can coexist and engender learning and growth without overwhelm?

4. Enhanced Creativity

Does your inquiry and practice unlock new creativity? Are you becoming more generative, or more stagnant? Creativity is a vital measure of developmental health.

5. Liberation and Freedom

Are you becoming more liberated in how you think, move, feel, and relate? Are latent capacities being freed, awakened, and brought online?

6. Versatility and Resilience

Are you more versatile in how you show up in different circumstances? Are you more resilient, not just able to bounce back, but to bounce forward?

7. Meaning and Hope

Are you experiencing a greater sense of meaning and a deeper sense of hope? This is crucial, because people can pass through extremely difficult phases in life and still find ways to preserve and regenerate both meaning and hope.

There are moments when these become the only measures that matter. Do you still have hope? Can you still make meaning within the confusion, chaos, and struggle — when nothing else seems certain? In such times, that inner capacity becomes its own profound form of validation.

8. Expanded Effectiveness and Impact

Are you able to catalyze greater impact, not just for yourself, but for those around you? In my work with leaders, this became an essential measure: were they more effective, more creative, more attuned as individuals and as teams?

9. Mental Flexibility and Humor

Are you more mentally flexible? Has humor begun to accompany your seriousness? I know in my own life, humor and lightness were not always present. But over time, they emerged as signs of a deeper integration and release.

10. Increased Intelligence and Perception

Do you notice an expansion in your intelligence, not just cognitive, but emotional, relational, perceptual?

11. Self-Authorship

Are you becoming more self-authoring, able to act from inner authority, sovereignty, and clarity, rather than external scripts? 

12. Connection

Are you experiencing a deepened sense of connection in your endeavors, connection to others, to yourself, to life itself and to the ever-growing field of potential?

13. Special Capacities

Do you notice the emergence of special abilities or sensitivities, extra-sensory perception, capacities that feel natural, yet previously dormant?

14. Subtle Energy

Are you more aware of, and nourished by, subtle energy fields that accompany and enhance your practices and relationships?

15. Invisible Blessings

Do you sense the presence of blessing realms, supportive, unseen potencies and powers that inspire, stabilize, or uplift you?

16. Inspiration

Are you living with a greater current of inspiration, not as a passing emotion, but as a real, sustaining force?

The Reverse Loom

This loom can also be approached in reverse. Are you experiencing less loneliness, depression, anxiety, reactivity, confusion, disconnection, or overwhelm? Reductions in these are also significant measures in validating personal transformation and development.

Dimension Four: Mirrored in the Collective

Much of what is described here in Dimension Three will parallel what arises in Dimension Four — the mutualization of discoveries and the verification of collective results. The personal and the shared reinforce one another.

A Note on Knowledge in the Age of AI

It’s important to remember that we live in a time where many assume that if something can be Googled, or now ChatGPT’d, then it’s known. But the kind of knowledge we’re describing here is interior, developmental, and connected. It’s the result of a lived inquiry, and it carries its own organic verification that cannot be delegated, automated, or outsourced to machines.

Yes, there is a price to pay in this kind of work, which is measured in attention, commitment, and experience. There’s no free lunch in the universe. Whether it’s before, during, or after, life demands its payment — in the form of work.

But this is not a romanticization of pain. Not all struggle yields growth. There is productive struggle, and there is needless struggle. The difference often lies in whether you can harvest the experience, whether you can weave it into a meaningful context that generates insight, integrity, and inner freedom.

A Postscript to the Verification System of Life

 Let me offer a closing reflection.

When I look back on my journey to date, I recognize that I’ve experienced exceptional personal results, meaningful results with others, and practical outcomes in the work I’ve carried into the world.

None of it came easily. Every step carried a cost. There was struggle. But in the context of the verification challenge and the inquiry we have explored here, what feels more important to name is this: From the outside, someone might look at me and say, “Well, you have a gift. You’ve been fortunate to be able to exercise your talent.” And while that may be partly true, that’s not how I experience it from the inside.

If someone were to ask me, What have you actually done over the 45 years of your adult life that enables you to speak with authority in the Universalis project, the Soul work, and in Portals conversations? — I would say this: The one true differentiator is that I’ve paid attention.

I’ve tried, and I still try, to pay attention, with care.

• I pay attention to the natural laws.
• I pay attention to the living inquiries alive in me.
• I pay attention to where I’m getting results, and where I’m not, and I ask why.
• I debrief and decode my struggles.
• I pay attention to the people around me, to the results they’re creating or not creating, and to where they struggle.
• I pay attention to the verification of life itself — to what enhances, to what diminishes, to what brings blessing, and to when blessings seem to recede.

This, for me, is the critical distinction.

When someone says, “It’s your gift,” what they often mean is: “That’s something I can’t do.” And that, to me, is frustrating, because you have your gift. You won’t do what I do, and you’re not meant to. You’ll do what only you can do.

Over and over again, I’ve found myself inspired by the people I work with. I learn from everyone around me, often more than they know. Because I’m observing. I’m listening. I’m paying attention. That has been, and continues to be, one of the core practices of my life.

So if there is a final note, a PS, a postscript to the verification problem, it is this:

Let us all pay attention.

Let us become practitioners of attention-paying, not just to our thoughts, but to the subtle patterns of life itself, to the unfolding intelligence within and around us.

As with all Portals writings, this is only the first draft of an evolving revelation. The content will continue to grow, refine, and clarify over time. But this much, today, feels true and ready to be shared.