I’m in a discussion with someone about the virtues, and he initially linked them to Christianity, which got me cringing because of course they go back beyond Christianity to Socrates and Pythagoras, and (because I’ve studied the Enneagram), I’d say they go back in their hellenstic form to the Egyptians. In his defence, he knows […]
“Become Yourself, then God and the Devil don’t Matter” Read More »
We just had a provincial election, followed by a municipal one, and there was a campaign in the city election that annoyed me called “Common Sense Regina”. Immediately when I heard it, I thought “right wing”. Common sense isn’t a partisan word on its own- anyone can have it- but in a campaign, the slogans
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I’ve been having a hard time slogging through the trauma of the American election, with the attendant social media hazards that come along with politics. I couldn’t sleep tonight, so I wrote this fictional post to baby boomers who supported the male candidate: Baby boomers, has the church let you down? Do you see through
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I know a liberal Jewish man who recently did inquiry with a conservative Jewish woman in a Diamond Approach context about Israel and Palestine. They had done it in person before, but at this point, they were doing it over e-mail. One of the last things she said before the communication broke down was that
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I’ve been trying to write about Enneagram Type Sixes who are behind the conspiracy theories undermining this presidential race and tainting it with cynicism and chronic skepticism, but Type Six is by far the toughest type to understand. If you have a Type Six friend or family member who is into these conspiracy theories, you
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I’m dressing as the Holy Grail for Halloween this year. It was a last-minute decision today based on the fact that I just finished reading The Heroine’s Journey, a female treatment of Jung’s Hero’s Journey. Jung believed that both genders have both the feminine and masculine within us, and Jungian author Maureen Murdock portrays the
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I was talking to someone the other day about the elections going on in Saskatchewan and the US and they called themselves an anarchist, where political hierarchy is abolished and no one is considered “in charge”. Rather, they count on the goodness of humans to manage their communities. I guess you could respond to that
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I worked as a school secretary for a number of years and there were kids here and there who were trying on different genders, and it was a topic I thought we treated well and I think the parents felt supported. But honestly it was the least of our worries. Our biggest worry was lack
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I have a visceral reaction when therapists look at you with a knowing look and say, “Deep down, you know what the answer is.” Or “Deep down, you know what you’re supposed to do.” No we don’t. They tend not to be professional-professionals, moreso coaches, but whenever I hear someone try and pull that off,
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It’s easy for me to delienate where Saturn (conservatism) is going wrong, but I’ve had a harder time understanding where Jupiter (liberalism) is going wrong. Justin Trudeau is an Enneagram Type 3, and Threes belong to the shame triad- they are motivated to look good in order to hide their shame (the other two shame
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