We do not all experience the world — or each other — in the same way. The joys and sorrows of relationship and career can be understood only through the eyes of the beholder. On Helen Palmer’s The Enneagram you will learn a vital system of sacred psychology capable of stunning insights into our lives and loves. The Enneagram is one of the world’s oldest models for understanding how humans relate to each other and the divine. In different forms, Buddhists, Sufis and Christians have used it for many centuries. Today we use it, not only as a tool for greater self-knowing, but also to “see” how loved ones, co-workers and others face the difficulties in life. It is a way of sacred wisdom that can help you break out of your trance-like state of limited awareness and open to the gifts of the spirit. Derived from the Greek words ennea (“nine’) and gram (“model”), the term refers to the nine central passions that recur in spiritual traditions. The Enneagram allows you to identify which “type” of passion dominates your personality. This is your key to overcoming the veil of illusion that limits your perception to only one-ninth of reality. Join this eminent scholar and teacher of the Enneagram for over eight hours of in-depth instruction.
Topics include:
The nine personality types
History and origins
How to recognize your type
The role of attention and awareness in type
How your type can give you spiritual direction
Dynamics of type interaction
and much more.
There is no more vigorous, useful model of human psychology than this sacred way of seeing into yourself — and through the eyes of others.
Highlights:
Origins of the Enneagram
Spiritual tradition and the Enneagram
The oral tradition of the system
Meditation practice and the Enneagram
The nine passions and the nine virtues
Personality and the “False Self”
How psychological defenses emerge
The teachings of Gurdjieff
The three triads: anger (self-forgetting), feeling and fear
How the nine types react under stress
Reactions when feeling secure and loved
The Enneagram sub-types: sexual, social and self-survival
Intimate relationships and the nine types
Keys to typing yourself
How to avoid mis-typing others
Spiritual conversion of habit energy
Types, awareness and attention
Gender differences among types
Detailed descriptions of each type, including strengths, weaknesses and potentials
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