Maggie, Type Four, in Texas: the Soul of the Four
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The Passion of the Types
Richard Rohr on the difference between Essence (Real Self) and Personality and the nature of conscious prayer. April 2, 2022
“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
A Practice for These Most Difficult Times–from John G. Bennett April 2, 2022
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.
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These Very Strange Times. March 31, 2022.
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
Love and Baseball: The Zen of My Type Six Father
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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The Zen of Type Two Recovery—Journey from the Poverty Streets
The Resurrection of the Type Two Soul by Michael Naylor, M.Ed, CCS, CPCC, LADC Director of The Maine Enneagram Center for Transformation and Well-Being / Copyright 2022 V.3 The Raw Childhood Imprints Marianna, a sensitive Type Two, is drowning in the darkness of her hellish childhood—terrified of her father, terrified of her grandfather. When they
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Reversing Negative Attitudes – (transcript of a talk) JG Bennett Talk given at Leighton House, Kensington, London November 7, 1972
“The problem in front of us all is how to live in a world that is being increasingly dominated by negative forces; how to become possible channels for transmission of positive forces. How not to get oneself caught into the stream of negativity. It seems easy enough to decide in one’s own mind that this
