Enneagram Guide to the Hero’s Journey
Transformational Questions for Guiding a Heroic Journey
Evolve or Perish?
Although humans have become the most proficient species at fighting and fleeing, that is not what has been the main thrust of what has propelled us to dominate the landscape. Human evolution has been driven by our ability to respond creatively and cooperatively to challenges, as well as our ability to envision a better future and devising the means to achieve it. If we evaluate our reptilian predecessors who dominated our planet, we find that they were very good at the four Fs — fighting, fleeing, feeding and procreating, but had little ability to learn how to creatively and cooperatively relate to their world. Tyrannosaurus Rex — the creature at the top of the food chain — was the pinnacle of brutish reptilian power.
Meditations on Unconditional Happiness by Rick Hanson, author of Buddha’s Brain
Rick Hanson, PhD interviewed by Eric Lyleson Four Levels of Consciousness that Meditation Can Help us Realise Nowness, Wholeness, All-ness and Oneness The Neuroscience of Spiritual Practice In this cutting edge interview psychologist and neuroscientist Rick Hanson discusses what he is currently exploring in his own spiritual practice. He describes how each of us can […]
Buddhism and Essential Wholeness
Body, Mind, Soul and Spirit Essential Wholeness is the sum total of what it is to be a human being. We are human and we are being. Our Essential Wholeness includes body, mind, soul and spirit. What is changing and what is unchanging. What is changing is like an ecosystem. As human animals we are […]
Family Constellations Can Change the Way you Relate
Unblock the flow of love in your life and the lives of your children Bringing out the best in ourselves and others Have you ever noticed how some people can bring out the best in you and others can bring out the worst? And sometimes the same person can bring out both? Or at other times you […]
New Scientific Evidence: Meditation can Rewire and Develop our Brains!
Science likes Meditation Although I have been meditating for 35 years I am excited that every time I take a look there are new scientific reports about the benefits of meditation. The changes are not just in our mood and concentration, but in the gray matter of our brains. Anti-aging Recently a study from UCLA found […]
Essential Wholeness Meditation and Psychotherapy
Essential Wholeness Meditation An Integration of Psychology and Spirituality (excerpt from Essential Wholeness by Eric Lyleson) Essential Wholeness Meditation and Psychotherapy has evolved out of forty years of practicing meditation and psychotherapy. It recognises that different people and traditions hold different pieces of the puzzle and when we can bring them all together we get a more complete […]
Enlightening Science of the Enneagram
The Essential Qualities of Being are the ways the soul enlightens our day-to-day challenges and the opportunities to realize our essential wholeness; and the underlying science of the Enneagram confirms this. Something traveling at light speed through space will have no speed left for motion through time. Thus light does not get old; a photon […]
Your Personality Type and Essential Qualities
New Insights into Enneagram Personality Types –
Your personality is shaped by your relationship with the essential qualities of peace, consciousness, compassion, strength, forgiveness, space, acceptance, joy and will.
Vulnerability and Evolution
Brene Brown, Pema Chodron and other innovators help us to realise the power of vulnerability Psychotherapy is learning how to relate more effectively with Life. Evolution is Life learning to relate in more effective ways. Over time species have adapted by becoming more varied, intelligent, resilient, perceptive and cooperative. This has required becoming more open and […]