# The Hidden Cause

> The Hidden Cause keeps the work of Sydney Banks and the Three Principles: his talks and writings, articles, and a community forming around them.

Each article below is also available as clean Markdown (add .md to its address). Member recordings and member pages are private and not listed.

## Articles

- [Everyone Has a Right to Their Own Head-Space](https://thehiddencause.com/articles/everyone-has-a-right-to-their-own-head-space.md) — Sydney Banks: A short piece on why a teaching should never be forced on anyone, and how sharing love openly feeds both love and knowledge of oneself.
- [Cleaning Out The Clutter](https://thehiddencause.com/articles/cleaning-out-the-clutter.md) — Sydney Banks: On soul thinking and analytical thinking: how negative thoughts pull us out of the present, and how letting them go brings back peace and forgiveness.
- [How assuming people’s experiences prevent connection](https://thehiddencause.com/articles/how-assuming-peoples-experiences-prevent-connection.md) — Brett Chitty: At a tribute meeting for Keith, two practitioners said, “Brett, this must be so hard for you.” What that shows about the “Brett” in other people’s heads.
- [Dealing with Death…or the Human Experience?](https://thehiddencause.com/articles/dealing-with-death-or-the-human-experience.md) — Brett Chitty: Written after Keith Blevens died in February 2026: not about death, but the human experience, still given life by the same neutral principles.
- [Principles and non-Principles](https://thehiddencause.com/articles/principles-and-non-principles.md) — Brett Chitty: Starting from his father’s words, “It’s good to be a person of principle”, a look at what makes a Universal Principle and what doesn’t qualify.
- [The Principle of Thought is Constant and Unchanging](https://thehiddencause.com/articles/the-principle-of-thought-is-constant-and-unchanging.md) — Brett Chitty: A popular projector metaphor treats Thought as an ever-changing film strip. A look at what Syd meant by Thought being constant and unchanging.
- [You have no control over what others think, but you do have the power to control what you think](https://thehiddencause.com/articles/you-have-no-control-over-what-others-think-but-you-do-have-the-power-to-control-what-you-think.md) — Brett Chitty: A reader’s question about one line in The Missing Link leads to a close look at what Syd might mean by controlling what we think.
- [Why Thought has Everything to do with Everything](https://thehiddencause.com/articles/why-thought-has-everything-to-do-with-everything.md) — Keith Blevens, Ph.D., Valda Monroe: Thought, with Mind and Consciousness, is the common denominator of all experience. Seeing this as a constant restores our balance and freedom.
- [Short on Insight](https://thehiddencause.com/articles/short-on-insight.md) — Valda Monroe: A passing comment about a client being “short on insight” leads to a look at what crowds insight out, and the question that brings it back.
- [Insight – Our Evolutionary Potential](https://thehiddencause.com/articles/insight-our-evolutionary-potential.md) — Keith Blevens, Ph.D., Valda Monroe: Why Sydney Banks put so much weight on insight, and how insight into thought in the moment moves us in an evolutionary direction.
- [Meeting Sydney Banks](https://thehiddencause.com/articles/meeting-sydney-banks.md) — Valda Monroe: How a road trip to a five-day seminar on Salt Spring Island led Valda to see, for the first time, that her feelings came from thought in the moment.
- [How does Mental Clutter get Created?](https://thehiddencause.com/articles/how-does-mental-clutter-get-created.md) — Keith Blevens, Ph.D., Tess Christy, Valda Monroe: Mental clutter starts when a feeling doesn’t look like it comes from thought. We split thought from feeling and blame whatever seems to be “out there”.
- [Mind, Consciousness, and Thought](https://thehiddencause.com/articles/mind-consciousness-and-thought.md) — Sydney Banks: A transcribed talk on how emotions, habits and insecurities all stem from Mind, Consciousness and Thought, and why a fourth principle breaks the logic.
- [Discovering that We’re Living In the Feeling of Our Thinking](https://thehiddencause.com/articles/discovering-that-were-living-in-the-feeling-of-our-thinking.md) — Keith Blevens, Ph.D., Valda Monroe: How seeing that thought and feeling are inseparable showed Keith and Valda that life is lived from the inside out, in the feeling of our thinking.
- [The Inseparable Nature of Thought and Feeling](https://thehiddencause.com/articles/the-inseparable-nature-of-thought-and-feeling.md) — Keith Blevens, Ph.D., Valda Monroe: Feeling can’t be separated from thought. Treating them as separate invents false sources for how we feel, and seeing they are one is life changing.
- [Welcome](https://thehiddencause.com/articles/welcome.md) — Keith Blevens, Ph.D., Tess Christy, Valda Monroe: Thought and feeling can’t be separated. Seeing this logic clears away a lot of unnecessary thinking and opens up the inside-out paradigm.

## Optional

- [All articles](https://thehiddencause.com/articles/): the articles index on the site