“The false self is your psychological creation of yourself in space and time. It comes from your early conditioning, family, roles, education, mind, culture, and religion. The false self is who you think you are! But thinking doesn’t make it so. The false self dies and passes away. Yet it is the raw material through […]
“The purpose of the Enneagram is not self-improvement, which would be our ego’s goal. Rather, it is the transformation of consciousness so that we can realize our essence, our True Self. Personality development and character building will happen on the side as a corollary, but this is not its primary goal. The primary goal of
Father Richard Rohr on the Transformative gift of the Enneagram April 2, 2022 Read More »
Whenever you drop down into despair, fear, negativity about humanity and the future, or judgment of those perpetrating evil acts (try to remember that they are unconscious human beings, programmed by their life experiences), use all of this as a constant reminding factor to bring you back to sensing your body, and visualizing the above.
A Practice for These Most Difficult Times–from John G. Bennett April 2, 2022 Read More »
Painting by Joan Baez It just seems to never stop, the heartbreak that is. Six weeks ago Putin’s armies invaded the Ukraine and proceeded to slaughter innocent men, women, children–relentlessly. I’ve watched daily the unfolding of this horror, daily feeling slugged in the stomach or knifed in the heart. Such an abomination. It is hard
We enter addiction recovery in a haze of suffering, guilt, agony, and shame. Like an out-of-control meteor, we come bursting through the doors, thrown onto the floor, the blood and guts of our confusion spilling every which way. It is not an easy or peaceful landing. And yet there is something that has called us
A Meditation on Mercy By Michael Naylor, M.Ed, CCS, LADC, CCPC, ET Copyright 2022, Version 2.0 My Father was a Type Six, demonstrating many of the tell-tale signs, a community gatherer, a devoted church-goer, a counter-phobic, anti-ego, fierce-as-hell competitor and humble team player, a life-insurance salesman making life safe and secure for everyone,
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A Memoir of Mercy By Michael Naylor, M.Ed, CCS, LADC, CCPC, ET Copyright 2022, Version 2.0
