The Third Field Manifesto

The Purpose Of Science

Science is there to help humanity evolve.

Science itself is not the centre; the human beings who are doing science on behalf of humanity are the centre.

The one question that must be asked of all science is, “How does this aid in the evolution of humanity?”

Placing humanity itself at the centre of the enquiry is the only way forward for the evolution of humanity.

The Human Centric Universe

Human beings can only ever study the Universe from the human perspective - even when technology expands the ability to see further than the human senses naturally allow.

The primary, and in fact, only possible way to study the universe is through the metaphorical lens of being human.

The Human Factor

In order to do clean science, we need to understand how human beings function in body, mind and spirit first of all, and above all else.

Without this understanding, which is the foundation of how to evaluate any hypothesis, any experiment, any result in the first place, it is impossible to advance science itself beyond the current state.

The Third Field

At this time, there is a missing field of scientific enquiry, which causes irresolvable problems in the first order mission, which is to understand how human beings function.

The Third Field in the body, mind, spirit triad is needed, not only to provide a structure for the collection of information, but also to create interdisciplinary bridges across the sciences which seek to discover the essential facts relating to human beings.

The Third Field is not subservient to the study of body and/or mind, and it does not exist in order to find short cuts or cheat codes to improve the conditions in body and/or mind. The human energy body deserves its own, unconditional attention.

In this manifesto, we propose the establishment of the Third Field in the body, mind, energy body triad to fill the existing significant gap in the scientific enquiry.

Definitions

1. Energy

The Third Field acknowledges the existence of the "invisible something," generally referred to as "energy" in the English language, as either a reality of the universe, or a useful conceptual framework that works with the structural design of human beings.

In the context of the human centric universe, The Third Field holds that to research energy states and energy exchanges is non-negotiable when it comes to understanding how human beings experience, behave, think and function.

2. The Energy System

The Third Field states further that each human being has a body, a mind, and an energy system.

In order to be able to conceptualise this energy system, we offer the metaphor of this invisible energy system being an energy body, which functions much like the physical body, but consists of and processes energy instead.

3. The Living Energy Body

Although the Third Field acknowledges the existence of ancient maps and systems which tried to describe the energy system throughout the history of mankind, we start without these maps. Instead, as a modern scientific field, we observe and record the measurable effects the living energy body produces.

4. The Sixth Sense

The Third Field proposes that emotions are feedback from the living energy body, and constitute the sixth sense as a natural feedback device to inform human beings of that which cannot be seen, heard, physically felt, scented or tasted.

The lived experience of emotions (Intuition -> Emotion -> Psychosomatics) provides the testable, measurable and comparative method for researching the human energy system.

Instruments

The Modern Energy Chart & The SUE Scale

We begin the Third Field at its inception with The Modern Energy Chart (Hartmann, 1993/2009, objective) and the SUE Scale (Hartmann, 2009, Subjective Units of Experience) as a measurement for emotions, which are the result of underlying energy states.

Anecdotal Evidence -> Reports Of Lived Experience ROLE

The Third Field holds that unbiased research into lived experience is not only non-negotiable as a primary tool for Third Field Science, but indeed holds the key to discovering the meta-patterns which will not only serve but advance all of humanity.

Clarity Of Concepts, Language & Metaphor

It is of the essence for the Third Field to begin untangling the inordinate linguistic confusion that has arisen by trying to combine a plethora of ancient metaphors and similes to the energy system.

Pursuing brevity, clarity and excellence in the linguistic and conceptual framing of Third Field research is hereby stated as a scientific instrument in its own right.

The Scientific Method + 1

The Scientific Method - observe, hypothesize, test, analyse, conclude - gains a sixth step in the Third Field, as it is human centric by design.

The Scientific Method of the Third Field is thereby as follows.

Observe, hypothesize, test, analyse, conclude and apply.

In Conclusion: Love AND Logic

We hold that the Universe is logical in nature and that human beings are logical in their functioning, being of the universe we inhabit.

The Third Field aims to discover the logic of love, and in so doing, unlock what was previously deemed to be too complex or too incomprehensible for the next step in the evolution of humanity.

• Hartmann, S. The Third Field Manifesto. Zenodo, March 18, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15081761.

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