Holy Ideas for the Holidays

Holy Ideas for the Holidays

Facets of Apprehension: A Phenomenological Exploration of A. H. Almaas’s Holy Ideas First Session FREE | Remaining Four Sessions: $189 Choose the Day & Time that Works for YOU! This Is Not Your Usual Teaching of the Holy Ideas Most teachings on the Enneagram’s Holy Ideas approach them individually, exploring their meanings, their relationships to … Read more

We Need to Get Beneath the Story

psychological equilibrium

Why Understanding Ourselves Doesn’t Necessarily Change Anything Most of us who have spent any significant time engaged in psychological or spiritual work have experienced a rather frustrating phenomenon. We recognize a pattern, understand how it developed, see the difficulties it creates in our lives, and may even explain it with considerable sophistication. Then something happens, … Read more

Your Nervous System Is a Tangled Ball of Yarn

human nervous system

As metaphors go, this image may be a pretty good way to describe the situation. Your nervous system is something like a tangled ball of yarn. Some strands are pulled tight, some loop around others, some disappear into knots, and some connect what is happening now with experiences that occurred decades ago. You may have … Read more

The Enneagram is Orthogonal

Personality is the Face of Process Describing the Enneagram symbol as orthogonal means that its distinct geometric components and functional layers intersect like independent axes on a coordinate grid. Rather than flattening the symbol into a single personality taxonomy, an orthogonal perspective recognizes that multiple distinct processes operate simultaneously on different dimensions without collapsing into … Read more