Enneagram Lesson

Feelings Don't Lie: Learn the secrets of the enneagram to unlock your spiritual energy.

I can teach you all the concepts about using the powers of mind to change your life. You can learn the practical methods, but unless you are willing to face your deep-seated feelings and deal with your hidden fears, your lower personality will sabotage you. That is why I directly confront your beliefs about who you think you are.

I know that you have gone on diet plans that were working for you only to self-sabotage yourself. Why? What is the reason that you would deliberately sabotage yourself? The root cause is fear and the effect is low self-esteem. No diet plan, nutritional plan or exercise program will permanently work until you deal with your fears.

I use the tools of the Enneagram because I have found that it is a clear psycho-spiritual system that is based on ancient truth teachings. Used properly, the system can help reveal your subconscious fears, your strengths and your weaknesses. The system forces you to be honest about yourself.

Have you noticed that you seem to subconsciously block your good in certain aspects of your life? Enneagram gives you clear tools to discover your personality dispositions so you can consciously remove the subconscious blocks to your growth. Once you have clearly mastered the Enneagram system, you will find a deeper and more rewarding power in the use of mind changing principles.

The Enneagram describes the way you see your world. You may see yourself in several of the nine personality patterns, but you have one predominant pattern. Once your personality is formed, your attention becomes immersed in the preoccupations that characterize your particular type. You lose the essential, childlike ability to respond to life as it really is and begin to become selectively sensitive to the information that supports your worldview. You see what you need to see in order to survive and you become oblivious to the rest.

In theory, each pattern of the Enneagram represents a very strong drive that is ingrained in your self-concept and that exercises great influence over your behavior. The force, or compulsion, that shapes your personality is a combination of adaptation and defense created to protect you and give meaning to your life. Discovering this force, understanding its origins, and learning the ways in which it can affect feelings, actions, and reactions can help you to become a more balanced person.

Human beings are so complex that no system can capture the nature of any person; however, systems can be useful if you remember they are maps to explore spiritual territory. I invite you to use the Enneagram as a springboard to discover the strong and enduring drives that underlie much of what you do in your career and in your life.

HISTORY OF ENNEAGRAM

The word Enneagram is a Greek word meaning nine points. Its history is somewhat shrouded in secrecy. It is connected to esoteric Christianity and some believe it may be used as a tool to discover the secret of the teachings of Jesus. These teachings did not originate with Jesus, but were handed down by word of mouth dating as far back as 2500 B.C or earlier in Egypt. For those who know, there is said to be a connection with the Pyramids and the Sphinx. Connections with the remainder of the Bible and the Tarot are yet to be elucidated. Much of the esoteric knowledge comes from the teachings of G.I. Gurdjieff and P. D. Ouspensky, both of whom I will discuss.

The Greeks were interested in sacred geometry. Pythagoras (550BCE) conceived of the universe as a living being, animated by a great Soul and permeated by a divine intelligence, which he called God, The Supreme Mind. He believed each human has an inPythagorasdividualized soul, which is a spark from the great soul. He believed everything in the universe is divided into threes. Everything has a triune nature.

Pythagoras used the symbol of a nine-pointed star as his spiritual signature. According to his writings, he learned of the Enneagram in the Egyptian Temple of the Goddess Isis. However, he was taught that the origins of the Enneagram dated back another 10,000 years - from his time - to a civilization, which was more advanced than ours today.

Pythagoras believed that everything could be reduced to numbers and that numbers could describe every human being. Through a series of numbers all phenomena could be described and communicated. The mystery schools secretly passed down the idea of a numerical type ascribed to each human being to the present time. Pythagoras said that the purpose of human life on earth is 1) to realize Purity in the body, 2) to realize Truth in the mind, 3) to realize Virtue in the soul. (Isn't it interesting that today the computer describes all phenomena by the number one and the number zero.)?

The ideas of Pythagoras and later Neo-Platonism from the second century (CE) were picked up by the mystical Sufi schools. The Sufi movement developed from the religion of Islam in the ninth century A.D. The Sufis announced that the goal of life was for each person to fall in love with life by loving God. Individuals could do this by becoming intoxicated with divine love, using prayer of the heart, intelligence of the head, and power of the action center to bring them into the ecstasy of God, not for ecstasy itself, but to live in the world with love.

The goal for the Sufis was "to become so connected with God energy that they continually live in and through God." The Sufi masters discovered the ancient teachings of the three centers and expanded these three energy centers into nine dispositions. They introduced the idea of environmental influences that help structure the personality. The Sufis designed the Enneagram symbol that is used today. According to John Bennett, a student of Gurdjieff, the symbol may go back to fourteenth century Sufis, since that was the time of the discovery of zero and the decimal point. The Enneagram's dependence on the decimal point for its inner shape prohibits an earlier date. The primary triad of personalities are now points 6, 3 and 9 on the Enneagram, forming the center triangle in the Enneagram diagram. The Sufis saw each angle of the triad as representing one of the three energy centers contained within each person.

Point 6 represents the Head center. The spiritual being uses the energy of the Head center to seek wisdom and reveal light. The lower personality uses the same energy for information and knowledge in order to obtain security. There are three personality types for each center. The three personality types of Head energy are numbers Five, Six, and Seven.

Point 3 represents the Heart center. The spiritual being uses the energy of the heart to give and receive love. The lower personality uses the same energy to obtain recognition and approval. It gives love conditionally in order to receive it.

Point 9 represents the Action center. The spiritual being uses the energy of the Action center to creatively express and exercise divine power. The lower personality uses the same energy to attempt to dominate and control the environment.

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