Keith Blevens

Keith was a clinical psychologist. He led psychological services at Baylor University and was Clinical Director of the Minneapolis Institute of Mental Health. In 1977 he and Valda met Sydney Banks on Salt Spring Island, and Syd became their friend and mentor until he died in 2009. Keith soon joined George Pransky and Roger Mills, the first professionals to work solely from Syd’s understanding, and in 1978 the three of them set up New Psychology Consultants, the first organization created to share it professionally.

What Keith saw in Syd’s understanding was the logic psychology had always been looking for: it works only one way. He and Valda spent more than forty years finding ways to share it, and from 2006 they were teaching it as a paradigm. In December 2008, five months before he died, Syd asked Keith to write a book and gave him his last unpublished writings for it.

In 2022 Keith asked Brett Chitty to be his partner in teaching, and they ran four programs together:

• The Three Principles from the Beginning (January 2024);
• The Miracle of Separate Realities (August 2024);
• The Gift of Jumping Time, Space, and Matter (January 2025);
• The Properties of a Universal Principle (April 2025), their last, a rare, direct look at what a Principle actually is.

Keith continued working until he died on 26 February 2026. He passed his work on to his daughter, Mattie, and asked Brett to carry on. His recordings and writing are kept here, so you can still hear him.

In Keith’s own words:

“It is only by using the Three Principles that we can even acknowledge the existence of the physical world. This unifies experience, the Principles and the physical world. This is the missing link.”

“The Three Principles are 100% the common denominator of all psychological and spiritual functions (all feelings, attitudes, insights, experiences, wisdom, states of mind, etc.) It all comes through Thought.”