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.
Enneagram Essential Quality of phase FIVE – Space
Inner Spaciousness It is our experience of essential space that puts our petty attachments and the self-imposed limitations into perspective, like the vastness of Outer Space reminds us that Earth is but a speck of dust in a universe of billions of galaxies. At phase FIVE the old boundaries of the way we have thought […]
Enneagram of Essential Qualities of Soul
Our essential quality of peace seeks to cooperate more fully with life as it is emerging within and around us. This inspires greater mindfulness of our internal and external experience. This leads us to a greater sense of compassion in the way we relate to ourselves and the rest of creation. Out of compassion we find the strength to promote life’s emerging agendas and address our inadequacies and past mistakes with forgiveness. Through forgiveness we are able to experience the present moment as it is, which in turn opens up the space in our consciousness to investigate the nature of reality more fully. Spacious awareness just accepts everything as it is, whereby we can differentiate fact from fiction. Acceptance of everything opens us to appreciation of everything and the joyously blissful nature of consciousness. It is when we follow our deepest bliss that we are in alignment with divine will (dharma). In the surrendering to divine will, we manifest our part to play in peaceful harmony with the rest of creatio
The Enneagram, Core Truths and Transformational Conversations
Essential Wholeness recognises the Enneagram as a symbol of a whole person. Each of the types as they awaken tends to be in tune with a particular core truth of what it is to be more fully human. Generally at the heart of any transformational conversation comes an experiential realisation that helps us have a practical understanding of something along the lines of these core truths.
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 […]
Spiritual Awakening, Personal Evolution and the Enneagram
It is suffering that generally brings people to psychotherapy and spirituality. In the beginning it is the desire to be free from suffering that drives us to look deeper within or beyond our usual sense of self. Self-realization and psychotherapy are, on one hand, a retrograde process. In it, we are relaxing back through our layers of constructed trance-like reality and come to rest in radical acknowledgement and acceptance of where we actually are on the human level. We then, take one step deeper into the ground of our being.
Enneagram Type NINE’s Hero’s Journey
Enneagram Type NINE – Tales from the Therapy Room: Waking Up! Jane has an Enneagram type NINE personality structure. She came in with her husband Bill for marital therapy, was shocked when her husband announced he was leaving the marriage to live with a woman he’d been having an affair with for some time. Although she […]
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 […]
Psychotherapy and Spirituality?
Essential Wholeness – Using the Enneagram to Integrate Psychotherapy and Spirituality Astrophysicists tell us the universe has been expanding at an accelerating pace ever since the Big Bang. Biologists tell a long and convoluted story of the evolution of life in which humans finally enter the scene on the last page of the last chapter. […]