This morning I was reading this account from Gurdjieff student Kathryn Hulme who, along with some other of his students, were taken to a casino to observe human behavior and given money to gamble with. The “lesson” was to observe people who were slaves to their appetites. I think she captured her lesson well in […]
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I’m a little late to the manifesting party here- I know it probably sounds bad to say, but positive thinking and I have a difficult relationship. I grew up around the Enneagram types 2/7/9 faux-spiritual ego trope of defensive positivity and as an adult, it grates on my nerves- the mental habit of pushing actually-felt
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My conservative uncle called me this week wanting to say hi and let me know he cares about me. I let it go to voice mail because I wasn’t sure how I was going to respond; I unfriended him during the pandemic after his posts where causing me so much stress that it took hours
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 »
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 felt a gut punch the other day when I saw that Russ Hudson and his Canadian writing partner Catherine just came out with a book on the Enneagram and Creativity. I did a double-take: creativity? I mean, it’s Russ so it will be good, but is he reading the same headlines I’m reading? Did
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I want to talk about an insight I had earlier this week. I have been preparing for a talk on the Enneagram that I’ll be giving at the Regina Public Library, but as with everything that involves producing something tangible, I have been struggling with a feeling of intense paralysis around the writing process. I
The North Node and Self-Preservation Enneagram Type Fours Read More »
Last night, I was trying to find an old Enneagram type 5 panel on youtube for my boyfriend (I always think about the lady in the blue sweater), but I ended up clicking on another video instead- a Conscious TV interview with Helen Palmer. It was so profound, we watched the whole thing. All it
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I was delighted to discover Beatrice Chestnut on youtube these past couple weeks. I have her book, The Complete Enneagram: 27 Paths to Greater Self-Knowledge, and it is one of the few Enneagram books written in the 2000’s that actually offers new material… and good, useful material at that. She knows her stuff, particularly about
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For Christmas, my boyfriend bought me a workbook called Thinking at the Edge because he knows I want to write a book and I’m having trouble figuring out where to start or how to even articulate the core concept. The workbook is based off the work of Dr. Gendlin, an American philosopher who, in the
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