Law of Three as a Spiritual Practice

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This Law of Three as Spiritual Practice Training Video Series offers a very practical teaching of the Law of Three. These trainings are anchored in a Wisdom School rhythm with times of centering prayer, chant, movement, and teaching. These teachings are coupled with related links, handouts, and downloads. 

In addition, monthly two-hour Midwife groups are opportunities for small groups to explore how to apply the Law of Three within our own lives as we engage current life happenings, through the lens of the Law of Three map. Together we explore the Law of Three lines of action, highlighting ways these lines interact that can be tracked/contemplated, midwifed and engaged as part of one’s prayer.  

Come and learn what it means to help midwife this process in ourself and in one another and to aid in the ‘arising’.

In 2013 Cynthia Bourgeault published The Holy Trinity and the Law of Three: Discovering the Radical Truth at the Heart of Christianity. The following year, Marcella Kraybill-Greggo attended a Wisdom School where Cynthia unpacked her book, highlighting some  teachings of G.I. Gurdjieff. The “Law of Three” refers to an assertion that every phenomena is a new arising that comes into being through  three distinct lines of action.

The first force is holy affirming, the  second holy denying, and third force holy reconciling. This teaching  posits that the Law of Three is more ‘midwifed/mediated than taught’ and Marcella came home from that Wisdom school wanting to experiment in a small group setting. 

This teaching highlights that we are often ‘third force blind’ in our own lives and need others to help midwife what is truly wanting to be born. So, how do we learn what it means to help midwife this process in another…to aid in their ‘arising’…and how might we help in midwifing what is happening within our own lives? With those curiosities and a desire to listen deeply, Law of Three midwife groups were created.

Marcella Kraybill-Greggo offers her time as a Seminary Director of Spirituality  Programming, a local Wisdom Community facilitator, a Spiritual Director and a mom. She lives in Bethlehem, PA with her husband, daughter, and their Westie, Kiwi. 

Marcella has been an active participant in the Wisdom community since 2013, both as student and teacher, assists in facilitating multiple Wisdom schools, regularly offers an ‘Embodied Training in the Practices of Wisdom’, facilitates Law of Three midwife trainings and groups, and loves all things embodied (trained as an InterPlay facilitator). She joined the Wisdom Waypoints Council in 2017.

For additional background and reading about Marcella’s work with the Law of Three, check out the following:

• To Midwife Third Force: Creating Law of Three Midwife Groups
• The Law of Three as Spiritual Practice

Date: Training can be enrolled in anytime.

Cost: $199  - some scholarship money available by request

Location: Teaching available on my website. Law of Three Midwife groups occur monthly on Zoom

Time: Law of Three Midwife groups occur at a date/time convenient for the small group.

To apply: Email Marcella at marcellak2@aol.com

Questions:  Contact Marcella at marcellak2@aol.com

“Just as it takes three independent strands of hair to make a braid, so it takes three individual lines of force to  make a new arising”. Until this third force enters, the other two forces remain at impasse. These three lines of  action are free of moral judgment and they are neither "good" or "bad" (Bourgeault, The Holy Trinity and the Law of Three: Discovering the Radical Truth at the Heart of Christianity 2013, p. 26).

“Denying (second force), says Cynthia in her Law of Three book, is  never an obstacle to be overcome but always a legitimate and  essential component of the new manifestation… The “enemy” is never  the enemy but a necessary part of the “givens” in any situation, and  solutions will never work that have as their goal the elimination of  second force” ((Bourgeault, The Holy Trinity and the Law of Three: Discovering the Radical Truth at the Heart of Christianity 2013, p. 29).