The Passion of the Types

Divine Mystery, Holy Creator Help me to set aside everything I think I know about you. Help me to see aside everything I think I know about myself, about others, about life itself. Help me have an open mind an open heart for a new experience with everything you have created. I accept your grace […]

(Reminder to self daily in this time of escalating violence, chaos, and fear…) “This moment humanity is going through can now be seen as a portal and as a hole. The decision to fall into the hole or go through the portal is up to you. If you repent of the problem and consume the

Do Not Lose Heart, We Were Made for These Times BY CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTESSyndicated from moonmagazine.org, Mar 13, 20207 minute read Mis estimados queridos, My Esteemed Ones: Do not lose heart. We were made for these times. I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered. They are concerned about the state of

This Most Holy Prayer I can’t make the world be peaceful I can’t stall tanks from roaring down roads I can’t prevent children from having to hide in bunkers I can’t convince the news to stop turning war into a video game I can’t silence the sound of bombs tearing neighborhoods apart I can’t turn

Foreword BY RUSS HUDSON The popular Enneagram has become familiar to millions of people, and it is no longer a surprise to learn that a new friend or acquaintance knows his or her Enneagram type. Many are reading online threads and watching podcasts to learn their “number.” But even as the popularity of the Enneagram

By Michael Naylor, Point Guard, and Enneagram Teacher Bill Flowers stands at the free-throw line, his six-foot-six presence is statuesque, his gleaming eyes spotlights of alertness in harmony with his shining, African-American radiance, the raucous crowd chanting like a Buddhist-Basketball-Kirtan-Celebration, the emotional atmosphere of the court electric with anticipation. His angular spirit calmly collected, in unison with the thumping

My Uniquely Ordinary Journey as a Recovering Type Four by Michael Naylor, 2023, An Introduction Amidst a time of great turmoil, I sought counseling with my future Gurdjieff guide. I was fifteen years sober (the blessing of AA) as my life as I knew it had dissolved through some Type Four Trap-of-Death-and-Most-Unlikely-Redemption porthole in the cosmic fabric,

“No matter what type we are, we can observe the following about Inner Work: ‘Work on ourselves proceeds layer by layer, from the most external forms of personality to the inner core of our Being.’” (Understanding the Enneagram, 359) The Reality of Growth and Change on the Recovery Path—Navigating the Nine Strata (Modeled from The