Spirituality for Living

The enneagram is a universal distillation of many of the world insights into human spiritual nature. Even if you don’t believe in the stories of a religion as a matter of faith, they can be analyzed clearly because there are a limited number of roles/symbols that are involved in any holy text. The holy warrior, the sacrificial king, the wise old hermit etc. Types aren’t restrictive, and like the system of symbols/story contained in the tarot called the “fool’s journey” we don’t stay in one place necessarily. It’s just more an observation, and it’s been made in every spiritual path and even secular devotions, that history repeats itself.

Enneagrams operates on a root creative trinity. Three groups of three, and the three groups are thinking, feeling, and acting. But there are three parts of each group, because in each group there are three different orientations to the other two facets.

“We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.” Carl Jung (1875 – 1961)

“Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own. Carl Jung (1875 – 1961)

“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. . . . Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” Carl Jung (1875 – 1961)

Organized Understanding

Anyone familiar with Carl Jung‘s work? It can be wrapped up simply. He wasn’t swept up by the “age of reason” BS. Carl Jung was a student of Freud’s, but his work took a different track when he looked at a surprising similarity between all world practices and symbolism, and he focused on what these things might mean about the human mind. He wasn’t a hard core rationalist, but neither was he a convert to any specific tradition or cultures beliefs. Besides his career in psychotherapy, he was a mystic in his personal life. He was perhaps the first notable… Seek More

Enneagram Types

Each enneagram number has its roots in one facet of human existence, but goes to another. I am a four (4). This number is called the individualist. I’m a very reflective person and delve deeply into my own psyche. I tend to be an intuitive thinker, but when things shift I shift to one of the thinking numbers, and either get idealistic or hyper critical. The hyper critical stage manifesting as a nihilism. A five (5) is called the scientist, and she relates to everything by how she observes it to function. But if she experiences a shift she goes… Seek More