Buddhist Psychologists Rick Hanson, Stephen Gilligan and Richard Chambers

Essential Wholeness will change your understanding of Personality and Psychotherapy

Buddhist Psychologists Rick Hanson, Stephen Gilligan and Richard Chambers’ thoughts about Essential Wholeness, Integral Psychotherapy, Spiritual Awakening and the Enneagram  Both profound and practical, this book integrates cutting edge neuroscience, esoteric wisdom, a heartfelt appreciation of the natural world, and powerfully effective psychological methods. It’s genuinely brilliant. ‘Rick Hanson, Ph.D., author of Buddha’s Brain: The […]

Spiritual Awakening, Personal Evolution and the Enneagram

Neuroscience, Enneagram and Buddhism

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.