Understanding Differentiation

Excerpt from Essential Wholeness   by Eric Lyleson The more we investigate the nature of our experience the more are able to differentiate fact from fiction. Unconditional acceptance of the world and ourselves helps us to see through the myths and wishful thinking that has obscured our perception of the true nature of things. Seeing […]

Body, Mind, Soul and Spirit

Essential Wholeness Enneagram

Essential Qualities The Enneagram, and the nine essential qualities, can be used a map to guide us into and through the meditative process. Although meditation is an organic process, we can assist ourselves by walking in the footsteps of the masters who have mapped out the path. Two methods using the Enneagram as a map […]

Enneagram Meditation

Essential Wholeness Enneagram

Essential Qualities The Enneagram, and the nine essential qualities, can be used a map to guide us into and through the meditative process. Although meditation is an organic process, we can assist ourselves by walking in the footsteps of the masters who have mapped out the path. Two methods using the Enneagram as a map […]

The Deep Science Behind the Enneagram

Eric Lyleson Enneagram

The Enneagram symbol is seen as a model of the underlying patterns that connect our knowledge of psychology, biology, physics, mythology and spirituality. Unlike other theories that show the Enneagram in a static two-dimensional way, this Essential Wholeness will broaden your perspective into an expanding multidimensional model, much like a three-dimensional spiral. With the right mathematics it might be represented as a fractal.

What is Your  Personality Type?

Have you ever heard of the Enneagram? It’s a model of human personality used in psychology, business and other areas to better understand the minds of others. It’s based on nine interconnected personality types. The Enneagram is considered to be one of the most powerful tools to provide a deeper insight to yourself and to those around you.

The Enneagram and the Lazy Approach to Enlightenment

Be lazy like a mountain by Eric Lyleson, author of Essential Wholeness, Integral Psychotherapy, Spiritual Awakening and the Enneagram Understanding the Enneagram of Essential Wholeness will not help us achieve awakening or enlightenment. Instead it will helps us see how we unconsciously unenlighten ourselves through the maintenance of our ego fixations that obscure our enlightened […]

Enneagram – Personality, Resistance to Change and Realising Potential

Trans-theoretical model of change

The Enneagram commonly known as a system of nine personality types, can be used as a nine- phase model of living Systems, including humans evolve and grow. It shows we evolve from one level of homeostasis to a higher and more complex level of organisation and homeostasis. NINE represents homeostasis and the process moves around […]