Recently I’ve come to more deeply appreciate Gurdjieff’s description of humans as three brained beings, and other traditions that describe something similar.
In Tai Chi, there is the dan tien – a belly-center. There are also two other dan tien that are less frequently discussed.
In the 7-chakra system, there’s also a grouping of the seven chakras to three desire principles, about which I’ve written previously.
Wolfgang Schad wrote the 2-volume Understanding Mammals / Threefoldness and Diversity. Originally written in German, then a 1-volume English edition, a 2nd German edition, and a year or so ago a new 2-volume English edition. Schad credits Goethe and Rudolf Steiner as sources for his ideas. From the publisher’s site:
Wolfgang Schad demonstrates how such fascinating phenomena can be traced to which organ systems — nerve-sense, centred in the head; metabolic-limb, centred in the digestive organs and limbs; and circulatory-respiratory, centred in the chest — are emphasised in a particular species. In this way he establishes the basis for a systematic understanding of mammalian morphology.
Schad shows how the different emphases come to expression through a mammal’s size, morphology, dentition and coloration, and also in its preferred habit and embryonic development.
https://www.florisbooks.co.uk/book/Wolfgang-Schad/Understanding+Mammals/9780932776631
Each center has its own way of processing – of being itself, and contributing its unique perspective into the organism’s