tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57940988634537812962024-03-21T16:23:06.806-07:00Nine Points of LightAndrea Andresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486336095017146831noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794098863453781296.post-89189762363657301252014-11-03T14:31:00.000-08:002014-11-03T14:31:20.505-08:00Oh My God! I am not crazy!
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I received the Essential Enneagram by David Daniels and
Virginia Price when I was at the lowest point of my life imaginable. I just hit
the wall - suicide or transformation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Essential Enneagram invited me to Life. I read those nine paragraphs
and thought Oh My God I am not crazy - there are other people out there who
sense the world, think and relate to their emotions like I do. It gave me
tremendous courage just knowing that I was not alone. </div>
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Then I started to attend the classes at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Franciscan</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Renewal</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Center</st1:placetype></st1:place>.
Gloria Cuevas Barnett and Carole Whittaker were the primary Enneagram teachers
in Phoenix at that time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the many
workshops I took Carole and Gloria invited each participant to explore our inner
worlds. Carol provided the didactic structure and Gloria offered the
experiential connection. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We meditated
together. We shared the insights of our week. We opened our hearts to each
other. In this way Gloria and Carole were able to create a very heart felt
community among us. They led by example and walked their paths along with us.</div>
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During each class I gained profound, life changing
awareness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was no going back to
the old patterns of behavior. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was no
longer stuck. Sure the patterns didn't dissolve overnight. I will work with
these patterns till the day I die but these patterns no longer have a tight
hold on me. I am able to see myself, relax and let go a bit more. I also have
compassion for myself and others because now I understand the fundamental blind
spot and gift of each type. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I move in
the world much easier thanks to the Enneagram.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Enneagram in the Narrative Tradition is a spiritual path that I will
continue to explore for the rest of my life.</div>
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Chris Power<o:p></o:p></div>
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Enneagram Classes are now held at Paradise Valley United
Methodist Church, 4455 E. Lincoln Dr. Paradise Valley, AZ<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>85253; 602-840-8360 ext.142.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Contact Diane Shevlin at 480-367-1998 or <a href="mailto:db.shevlin246@gmail.com"><span style="color: blue;">db.shevlin246@gmail.com</span></a> for class
info and to register.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
Andrea Andresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486336095017146831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794098863453781296.post-78463726214921193622014-10-09T17:22:00.000-07:002014-10-09T17:22:53.122-07:00THE ENNEAGRAM - From a Type Nine<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">What
is this thing</span></i></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">this thing that says I’m </span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">a “Preservationist”</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">a “Peacemaker” </span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">a “Mediator”</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">a type 9?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">What
is it all about?</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">I
questioned it with doubt.</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">It
knew all my secrets</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">All
the little bits and pieces</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Of my personality</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Things I didn’t want to see</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">It
knew I loved being lazy</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Even
though I stayed very busy</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">And
that I accomplished and achieved</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">But
when work was done I was so relieved</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">To
know I could be</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Just me<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">I
needed to learn more</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>About this thing called an enneagram</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>learn more about myself</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>about things I never realized</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">but somehow always
knew</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">about things I’d never named</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">but recognized when
I heard it</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>More and more and more about me</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>The me I wanted to</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>Just be</span></i></b><br />
<strong><em><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></em></strong> </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">I
learned</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>How I delude myself</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>How strong my drive to avoid conflict</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>How passively aggressive I am</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>I knew</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>It was true</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">How I am un-self-conscious</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And have always found</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ways and reasons </span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>To not think about myself</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>I knew </span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>It was true</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">How I avoid my own anger</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">and how important
it is</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>to keep the peace</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">And how I don’t like</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>negative feelings</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>so much so that</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>I detach from myself</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>by ‘numbing out’</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>which
is withdrawing</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>into a sleep</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>deep inside
myself</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>where,
neither you, nor anyone else</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>can
get me</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>A place where I can be</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>peaceful,
calm and safe</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>And I can
just</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>be
me</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">And I knew</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">It was true</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">So here it was</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">My wake up call</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Come
you type 9</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Stop
self forgetting</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Wake
up to who you are</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Observe
yourself</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Be
present, in the moment</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Get
angry, in the moment</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>No
matter how frightening</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
need to start ‘fighting’ <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>You
know that’s right</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>And
I knew </span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>It
was all true<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">And
then came our holy idea</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Our essence</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">What
the entire process </span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Of
learning and experiencing</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The
enneagram</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Is
really all about</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">This
is the point and purpose</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Of
the journey I’ve been on</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>…to touch my essence</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Unconditional love</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Holy love</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">An
essence that I’ve always known </span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I’ve experienced it</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I have felt it deep inside </span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And now, I’ve come home</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>to my essence</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And what a beautiful place </span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">and space that is
to be</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Where love </span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">and faith </span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">and hope reside</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Somewhere deep down inside</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>where I can find </span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">the Divine</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>and I can be</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>just me</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Thank
you </span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Carole,
Gloria and fellow students</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">For
leading me to that place.</span></i></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"></span></i></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">by Judy Shoob<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
Andrea Andresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486336095017146831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794098863453781296.post-69024101567639602442014-09-07T10:13:00.000-07:002014-09-21T21:34:45.669-07:00Join us October 11 for an Enneagram Salon EventAs an organization the Arizona Enneagram Association is at
another point of transformation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many of
you know that our Founding Board Members are moving on to new adventures. They
will still be active members of the association, but in the practical world
they will no longer run the day to day show. We know that our Founding Mothers
will continue to support and nurture the organization they brought into
existence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p><br />
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This is a shift. As a community of practitioners we desire
to ground ourselves in our precious history. And from this grounded presence
open to new possibilities. <o:p></o:p></div>
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All possibilities involve questions. How can we attract
young people to begin this work early in their lives?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How can we attract more men?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How can we bring diversity to our
organization?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where do we want to focus
our energy in our community? How can we better support ourselves and each other
in our own transformation? <o:p></o:p></div>
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To get this
conversation going we are offering you a time to visit, to enjoy a good meal
and share your ideas and open heart. Our intent is that this evening will
provide the space for us to connect and allow fresh answers to arise. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Please join our
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Salon</i></b>
Saturday October 11, 2014 - all members and the general public interested in an
Enneagram conversation are welcome to attend this free event. <o:p></o:p><br />
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You might
wonder -- what exactly is a salon? Wikipedia of course has an excellent
definition: <i>A <b>salon</b> is a gathering of people under the roof of an
inspiring host, held partly to amuse one another and partly to refine the taste
and increase the knowledge of the participants through conversation. These
gatherings often consciously followed </i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace"><i><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="color: blue;">Horace's</span></span></i></a><i> definition of the aims of
poetry, "either to please or to educate" ("aut delectare aut
prodesse est"). Salons, commonly associated with French literary and
philosophical movements of the 17th and 18th centuries, were carried on until
quite recently in urban settings.</i> <o:p></o:p></div>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salon_(gathering)"><span style="color: blue;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salon_(gathering)</span></a>
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<o:p> E</o:p>vening
schedule as follows: <o:p></o:p><br />
6 - 7pm Happy
Hour - heavy Hors' d'oeuvres and drinks <o:p></o:p><br />
7 pm - Followed by an
open conversation about the AEA's vision and work, and our stories of
transformation.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">We need a food count so please register at <a href="http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=5mox5fdab&oeidk=a07e9saa16e6e404427" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://events.constantcontact.</span>com/register/event?llr=5mox5fdab&oeidk=a07e9saa16e6e404427</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">or contact Chris Power at <a href="mailto:chrispower64@gmail.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">chrispower64@gmail.com</a></span></div>
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<o:p> Invitation by the Arizona Enneagram Association</o:p></div>
Andrea Andresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486336095017146831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794098863453781296.post-90172402189744638852014-08-30T08:36:00.000-07:002014-08-31T22:27:05.256-07:00OUT OF THE BOX . . . from a Type 1<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;">I got stuck again in the box of my own mind. Habit-of-mind is unique to each of us, yet follows the pattern of our personality. (See <a href="http://azenneagram.com/"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #203af9; text-decoration: underline;">Arizona Enneagram Association</span></a>)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;">My name is Diane, and my Habit is Perfectionism.<br />
About 1 in 9 of us have this core habit – the other 8 get to have something else.<br />
My mind nags: “Gotta fix this, inside me or outside. Things are not good enough.”<br />
But they <i>are</i> good enough! It’s just a scratchy old recording, telling me otherwise, and it’s untrue. Why do I listen to it?<br />
I deeply appreciate everybody and everything in my life – – except when I don’t.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;">I lose sight. I slip-slide down the ungrateful path, the critical path. Unappreciative.<br />
My Inner Critic is tenacious and persistent, whispering those old Nothings.<br />
The Critic lures me, unawares, into a box.<br />
It makes me think I’m in charge of the world and I must get perfection.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4qH-0WyZOGccIH-14wxxrPJZfaCL4VjOoS2LoaN3oU78JaXUYrio1tcJeKMTr5gpcUWCrvR1T5ABBiAaLBkcAdLv2a1hZBFf7zWvLAtPMGFws7PHO5-lo86vJeubywHU1ycP-3nmEI3Q/s1600/lured+into+box.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4qH-0WyZOGccIH-14wxxrPJZfaCL4VjOoS2LoaN3oU78JaXUYrio1tcJeKMTr5gpcUWCrvR1T5ABBiAaLBkcAdLv2a1hZBFf7zWvLAtPMGFws7PHO5-lo86vJeubywHU1ycP-3nmEI3Q/s1600/lured+into+box.jpg" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It paints a beautiful perfect picture, unreal, on the floor of this box.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And in I go! Entranced by the glory of perfection, that pure fiction. The image painted there. I take the bait. I’m hooked.<br />
As I hook into my Habit-of-Mind, my Critic ever so softly shuts the box,trapping me inside. I barely notice, because this is me, my usual place, my fallback, my power and control, my ego at work. Getting it perfect is my job, after all.<br />
I’m engaging the fake perfect picture.<br />
Gotta get it right.<br />
Be the best.<br />
If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #444444;"><i>right.<br />
</i></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Righteous. Self-righteous. Virtuous.<br />
Lemme tell you a thing or two (says my blind arrogance).<br />
Darkness spreads in the closed-up box, but I press on.<br />
I pour on my gleam. I can do this, I’m a saint.<br />
Working the situation. Pushing the river.<br />
I still can’t see how fake the picture is, how it’s only a layer of paint, an illusion.<br />
By now I’m licking the paint, that’s how much I believe in the picture.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5794098863453781296" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5794098863453781296" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But my belly begins to feel this place is no fun. It’s isolated. It’s dry and empty, and I can’t find a way out.<br />
I mistakenly slipped into solitary confinement – – because, you see, I’m so damn good!<br />
Yet I </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #444444;"><i>still</i></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> can’t get it perfect enough. Frustration. Irritation. Can we say Anger?</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;">Anger helps me discover I’m trapped. Caught in my Habit Box.<br />
Okay. At least now I know where I am.<br />
The paint tastes bad in my mouth. I grope for my tools. Feebly I try gratitude.<br />
Forget it, I’d rather scream and whine. But . . .<br />
Heck, it could be worse . . . I’m glad I have air in my lungs, I guess . . . I’m thankful for . . .</span></span></div>
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Releasing the perpetual old bone my teeth like to bite.</span></span></div>
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<br />Andrea Andresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486336095017146831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794098863453781296.post-70811044857369666542014-01-10T21:30:00.002-08:002014-01-10T21:30:15.300-08:00What the Law of Three Means to Me<br />
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In November of 2013, the Sedona Enneagram Study Group met at Robin Cameron's as is usual on the third Saturday of every month. That Saturday we spent a great deal of time talking about, in Gurdjieff terminology, the Law of Three. The Law of Three, as I am speaking of it, says that for any two opposing forces there is always present a third but initially unmanifested force that is the synthesis of the opposing two. It seems that everywhere you go these days the "Law of Three" is coming up. My way of getting a handle on this is to start with the play of opposites. Everything that is known to us, is known to us, because it is in contrast to something else. Some age old examples are such sayings as "we can't know joy without sorrow", or "we can't know cold unless we know hot". If we look into this far enough we realize that our consciousness depends on contrast, on limits...on dualism. </div>
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Often we speak about our plane of existence as being a dualistic plane. No wonder our lives often appear to be a series of problems. If you think about it you can see that every action (or non action) that we take plunges us into some kind of interaction that is ultimately dualistic. Our #6's are acutely aware of this dynamism. We do actually move through our lives from one problem to the next. But is this what we are really doing? The Law of Three demonstrates that there is really something else at work.</div>
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So let's turn to something else for a moment. Let's look at <i>creativity</i>. What I mean by creativity is this: It is that which emerges completely from the unknown. It is not a rearrangement of that which is known. It is something without precedence. </div>
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A further look at our consciousness reveals that although our consciousness is dependent on dualism to exist, it is a living system. Here is a good definition of a Living system:</div>
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<i>By definition, living systems are </i><b><i>open</i></b><i>, self-organizing systems that have the special characteristics of life and </i><b><i>interact</i></b><i> with their environment. This takes place by means of information and material-energy exchanges.</i></div>
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Our consciousness is aware of being conscious, it is also aware of dualism. This is exemplified in our #6's kind of "knowing". This means that within everything or every situation, there is its opposite, and therefore a potential problem. When that impasse arises, when the opposites manifest, if each side of the problem remains <i>true</i> to itself, no move can be made. No movement is possible. But, consciousness is a living system, it interacts with it's environment which includes not only the reality of manifest things but the underlying reality of the unmanifest which is where undifferentiated potential resides, the realm out of which creativity emerges. The Law of Three symbolizes this truth; dualism manifests "form" but not without the "emptiness" that underlies it. And this is LAW. Whenever opposites arise a third element ALWAYS arises too (sometimes unrecognized), which is the <i>never before</i> <i>known</i> solution emerging as true creativity from the unknown. This is, as we can see, a return to wholeness. BUT WAIT! It divides again as it becomes manifest consciousness, therefore dualistic in nature...<i>and </i>the spiraling cycle continues. </div>
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So, what does this mean? I would like to suggest that if we look closely at our human nature that we can see that almost nothing brings us more joy than the "ecstatic sensation" that accompanies the awareness that we have expanded. That we have conquered a limitation. That we have grown, that we have moved from a lesser reality to a greater one. I propose that this is a big part of what makes us cling so tenaciously to life. Even when we find ourselves deeply challenged by this "life"...we seem to choose expansion and consciousness, whatever the price.</div>
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Andrea Andresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486336095017146831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794098863453781296.post-27626859766137502032013-12-12T22:04:00.000-08:002013-12-12T22:04:12.930-08:00“In the After Glow – Reflections on “Love, Spirit and Relationships” Part II with David Daniels and Russ Hudson<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Interspersed throughout the Daniels/Hudson weekend were one-two-and three liners that themselves could be workshop-starters. Here are my personal favorites:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">When introduced to the Enneagram by Helen Palmer, I recognized the patterns</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #fc2218;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">that I already was discovering on my own. DD</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Early on, I discovered the typologies as what we do instead of being present. I came to understand how my patterns take me out of myself, and how – when we meet those patterns with understanding, kindness, and presence – we don’t have to get rid of them but they transform. RH</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The hope for all of us is the personality becomes interwoven with the essential qualities, which allow us to live in the world relating with those higher qualities. DD</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">We need to take in the implications of our patterns, which lead to the virtues and how we can stay awake to each other. RH</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The power of the Enneagram is enormous. How do we live from presence, what does that require so that we become more whole? That is what we are addressing. DD </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The idea is to interrupt the fixations of these patterns so they can get to the real <i>you</i>. It is <i>not </i>about fixing the other person! RH</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> Three basic aversive emotions are common to 100 million years of mammalian evolution: Anger (Rage), Distress (when you lose connection resulting in stress, pain, longing, shame), and Fear. DD</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">We begin to understand our type is not our self. We use our patterns and energy to manage the aversive emotions through distraction by reducing the frame of focus so we don’t notice something else; it shrinks down perception that was objectively overwhelming to us as kids. It is good to know as adults where the volume control and on-off switch is. RH</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Personality tries to keep anger, distress, and fear away, thinking these things are wrong. So we either amplify them or eliminate or run away from them. The work is to get to what’s underneath. DD</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> So we learn ways to connect with ourselves to open up a field of awareness; we learn other ways of being with our aversive emotions. RH</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In life three great energies are always present – active, receptive and balancing/ reconciling energy. In our modern life we go far away from receptive energy which is so necessary for presence and compassion</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #fc2218;">.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> DD</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">When (our patterns are) running, our consciousness falls into narrowed-down, fixated, identified patterns and we’re caught in a dualized consciousness, which leads nowhere. What the Enneagram teaches is the triadic pattern – that there is <i>always </i>a third component that drops out when we are not present. </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #fc2218;"><b> </b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The question then is what drops out when we’re stuck; and what drops back in when we are present? Stasis is fantasy. RH</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">We need good process with content, the 5 A’s: DD (and RH)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Awareness – When we move out of the story into direct experience, we can work with our type’s pattern.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Appreciation – When in our pattern and the conflict it produces, we feel no one appreciates us and feel put out. The ego, wanting connection, creates more structure but not more connection.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Adherence – The hardest of all – the chance to practice and cultivate presence with devotion and regularity, to be awake to our reactivity, for the rest of our life.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The Law of 3 allows us to understand a different way of relating to ourselves out of stuckness. When there is polarization within myself, if I can see/bring something else in, I soften and see the other differently. Rigidity softens, I fall back into sacred mystery, sacred ground, and then the polarity softens from you/me to us. And we’re opened to greater unity. What we want to explore is how to do this in relationships. Operationally! RH</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Riso’s rule/Hudson’s theory re what type is it best to be with? Answer: Healthy! RH</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The 3 centers (body, heart, mind) bring together three ingredients of presence: sensation expands you out of your narrow view, the mind transforms, and the heart opens. DD</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Your direct experience is the only non-abstract thing here. Everything else is an image in your head. RH</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In doing this work, the content is not complicated. Self- observation is not thinking about the pattern but remembering to breathe etc. while the pattern is occurring! DD</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The more present we are the more there is neuroplasticity, and so more rewiring is possible. Practice builds. Befriending our reactivity is to invite presence back. RH</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Change the mind, change the brain. The mind is relational. Patterns are reflected in the brain. So that’s the hope of neurobiology. DD</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Owning our shadow stuff is how we take our place with each other. This work can only go so far without a larger consciousness that includes forgiveness. RH</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The attribution theory says “My bad behavior is from circumstances. Your bad behavior is because of your character!” The problem goes from the individual all the way to the cold war. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The foundation for Russ and me is that we have love and respect for each other. We are fundamentally aligned. DD</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And so it was that for a memorable and historic weekend, we were called into that alignment and higher consciousness, with the invitation to this practice for the rest of our life. </span></div>
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Andrea Andresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486336095017146831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794098863453781296.post-31144887744406365482013-12-03T14:15:00.000-08:002013-12-03T14:15:04.781-08:00"In the After Glow" Reflections on time with David Daniels and Russ Hudson at "Love, Spirit and Relationships"AEA December Blog – by Robin Cameron – Part I <br />
“In the After Glow” – Reflections on “Love, Spirit and Relationships” with David Daniels and Russ Hudson <br />
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I felt immense gratitude as I experienced a new level of understanding through a score of profound moments at our recent Daniels/Hudson AEA workshop on Love, Spirit and Relationships. Many insights caught my attention, the panel work went to new depths, small group work was intimate, and the incredible choreography between David and Russ reflected their deep regard and respect for one another, which carried into all aspects of the weekend. Even the basics took me deeper as David and Russ danced off each other’s language, David’s from the narrative tradition and Russ’ from his insight approach. <br />
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When Russ said, “If we can’t take our place with one other, how are we going to move ahead on the planet,” I knew in that moment why I’ve been so drawn and devoted to the Enneagram. It’s not about “selling” the Enneagram; as he said, I’m drawn in because “it is a way of bringing people into self-observation, compassion, presence and awakening.” Bingo! <br />
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That was already clear in David’s introduction to the workshop. “This weekend is about the integration of interweaving the parts of our personality. We (David and Russ) are friends trying to walk our talk. We sometimes experience aspects of higher qualities, but when we interact, these higher aspects then dim. So how do we integrate them within the context of interaction? We’re here to learn with you through the panels and teaching.” So they did, and we were the beneficiaries. Indeed, they modeled all the principles they presented to us. <br />
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Panel work examined “peak experiences” and how we invoke the higher qualities when we are present; we were reminded with each type of the gift they bring. Jaye referred to this in her AEA Thanksgiving email with gratitude for the many ways AEA participants support our mission. <br />
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• 8s – when present – vulnerable – the 8 heart is empowered, alive, engaged, with an immediacy in the power of now, expressing/being truth, with innocence and presence fresh in the moment. <br />
• 9s – when present – engaged – the 9 heart has the capacity to be, to be present, to land fully, whole, within themselves in unity of experience. Right action with the “engaged heart” leads to incredible power that allows us to be anything – through expansion, unity, and grounded being. <br />
• 1s – when present – non-reactive and serene – the 1 heart has an unexplainable feeling of goodness in the world and self that calls the heart forth – aligned with integrity, felt as a sense of the sacred with an acceptance that brings the feeling of dignity, royal and regal. <br />
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• 2s – when present – with humility – the 2 heart recognizes that a different kind of relatedness is possible where love liberates through appreciation and gratitude. It is three-centered – grounded, curious and open-hearted toward the self and other, truly connected, even with a perfect stranger, holding a reality that doesn’t require another person and draws forth what is most supportive. <br />
• 3s – when present – true to themselves – the 3 heart invokes a life infused with a sense of presence, their actions congruent with meaning as an expression of love – from a board meeting to mowing the lawn or walking the dog. <br />
• 4s – when present – joined with Origin – the 4 heart learns who we are beyond the narrative, i.e. who we are right now! Knowing they are not their history, they accept the invitation into profound depth, mystery, intimacy, and beauty – the substance of who we are, the Beloved, who we are in essence, not disconnected but free from chronic disappointment. <br />
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• 5s – when present – non-attached – the 5 heart is clear, their senses more operational to awaken the mind, their consciousness clear and illuminated, seeing both the illusion of the patterns that obscure, understanding that the mind cannot hold direct experience, so that something else must! <br />
• 6s – when present – courageous – the 6 heart has a certain quality of awakeness with a capacity to pay attention. This profound act of love, devotedness and mindfulness functions as another kind of knowing what to do and how to move forward with courage to live life powerfully. <br />
• 7s – when present – constant – the 7 heart experiences causeless happiness and the sunlight shining through all kinds of weather. They are expansive, free, and joyful. No matter what may seem to be happening, the lights don’t go out, their flowering supported by deep roots. They make friends within themselves with whom or what can appreciate both the voice of yes and no. <br />
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During the panel work many of the highlights were true across the board, no matter the type:<br />
Opposites don’t know each other; the fallacy is that the one opposite will be lost, but that’s not true! If you feel rejected, give yourself a new job; take care of the inner wounded child! Ask yourself what arises to meet the different parts of you to hold it all lightly. <br />
Peak experiences are the direct experience of a deeper reality with elements of presence. <br />
The blessing is to work with our reactivity; i.e. when I feel disempowered in some way, which I then want to separate from! The Question: How can I be with that energy differently? <br />
When we are not present, the caring part of care drops out. It’s not that the action is wrong, but that there is something deeper that wants to be expressed. Question: What would make your relationship more fulfilling? There is a way of being with reaction that can feel into the virtue. <br />
When I breathe into alignment, it brings a force field! This is not about striving, but allowing the acceptance of vital energy. It is actively receptive! <br />
People come and go but Love does not! Kindness is the quality of attunement that draws forth what is most supportive. Without this quality we don’t trust enough to show up! <br />
Because we are made in the image of God, we seek to bestow; but since we are not precisely God, we can only give as we receive. <br />
Resistance comes from some historical data coming into your body. Chronic dissatisfaction is the result of longing, seeking in the wrong place. When you have a lot of pain, something important is not very far away. Anxiety, the future tense of fear, is around the edge of a breakthrough of some kind. <br />
Sometimes we try to be tender when we haven’t owned our anger. If we go through it, then we can be tender with grounded presence which allows the other to heal. We create space for the other to take responsibility for them. <br />
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Part II - will be a sharing of the memorable one-two-and-three liners that David and Russ said. To be published next week. Andrea Andresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486336095017146831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794098863453781296.post-49448311996251525462013-09-04T11:29:00.000-07:002013-09-04T11:29:59.601-07:00Emerging Blog - a Nine speaking about Holy Love<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Not being a writer, blogger or comedian, the question came to me, “What do I<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>blog about?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fortunately during the wee hours of yesterday morning, the idea emerged from books I was streaming into in my half waking state. When I awoke, of course, I realized right away what to blog about---the Holy Ideas!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, that was grace!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the May 2014, Spiritual Freedom event right around the corner in my mind (the nine point of view covers a wide span) I had a blog—Holy Love!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Very early on in my Ennagram studies, 1999 or so, I realized I could not understand my nine passion, sloth/falling asleep/ self forgetting, without looking at my holy idea—Holy Love. That became an important effort on my spiritual path.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I read, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Facets of Unity</i>, a couple of times, studied it diligently along with anything else I could find on the subject. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew it was important to work with the passion sloth/falling asleep/self forgetting, but as I came to “Remember the Love,” my mantra that emerged out of my study in the follow-on class, my understanding of my passion also deepened, both, taking on the character of wholeness; not eliminating the passion, but transforming it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">These many years later, I have continued, but in many ways have just begun again to understand the unity; I am love--I am right action supported by love--I am an expression of Divine Being.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh my God, what a gift! This is the awakening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“</span><span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Love is the doorway to oneness with all things,”</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">according to Ram Dass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Holy Love is the direct and perfect path to self-remembering, self-discovery and self-realization,” as spoken by Almas in, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Facets of Unity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>These truths coincide with my own experience. The ever present task in this life is to sustain the awakening. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Mary BencomoAndrea Andresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486336095017146831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794098863453781296.post-17794872229449641142013-08-10T18:44:00.001-07:002013-08-10T18:44:11.810-07:00Path to Integration<br />
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During the IEA (International Enneagram Association) Conference this last week in Denver, there were many exciting workshops to attend. There was a tract on integral integration, describing the collaboration of the work of Ken Wilbur and the enneagram. The implications of integrating these two systems are far-reaching and global. In addition, many workshops spoke to the workings of the three inner triangles - the 3,6,9 and the 2,5,8 and the 1,4,7. We are all familiar with the 3,6,9 triangle, but the other two are not often discussed. These inner triangles provide each type with movement between each of the centers of intelligence, head, heart and body.</div>
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In looking at the usual enneagram diagram that includes the arrows of movement between types, several types are moving between only two centers of intelligence and not all three. The types are the 2, 4, 5 and 7. The enneagram diagram for the two shows movement between two heart types and a body type. The enneagram diagram for a four shows movement between two heart types and a head type and the enneagram diagram for a five shows movement between two head types and a body type and the enneagram diagram for a seven shows movement between two head types and a body type. As one observes the arrows of movement between type, each of these four types is missing one of the centers of intelligence.</div>
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All human beings need all three centers of intelligence to be healthy and vibrant. It only makes sense that when we move between a head type, heart type and gut type we have access to intuiting, thinking and feeling - all of which are important aspects of ourselves. Each center offers us something unique and holds value in our lives. </div>
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I know for my self, as a character type 2 that my center of intelligence is the heart. I am most easily aware of emotions, both in my self and in others. It is easy for my to spot emotion, so much so sometimes, that I tend to overlook what my body is experiencing and I can even overlook the logic and importance of gathering facts and other information. My emotional body seems to run the show and although this offers me a rich experience, it is a more full-bodied experience to be aware of what is going in my body and head along with my emotions.</div>
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The process of the 3 triangles with a foothold in each center was eye-opening. While it does not negate the movement of types with the enneagram diagram, it does give voice to what many have been experiencing. We all connect with the heart, the mind and the body (some days better than others). Just one more way that the enneagram shows us what we are doing, when we choose to pay attention. Definitely worth studying and observing. </div>
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Andrea Andresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486336095017146831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794098863453781296.post-47150131314782743162013-07-12T08:42:00.000-07:002013-07-16T13:34:13.786-07:00The Open Paradigm<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-size: large;">Just lately I have been talking to Don Salmon. He and his wife, Jan Maslow, authored the book "Yoga Psychology and the Transformation of Consciousness...<i>Seeing through the Eyes of Infinity. </i>Their book is a "comprehensive study of psychology based on the synthesis of the yoga tradition presented by twentieth-century Indian philosopher-sage Aurobindo Ghose". (Backcover) Recently at the AEA held "Barriers to Spiritual Freedom" workshop in Tucson, one of the teachers, Carol Whittaker, often referenced Sri Aurobindo. So when I began talking with Don Salmon, many things fit together.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-size: large;">Don and I had been talking a lot about paradigms, global, cultural and individual. We talked about Type Structure as a way of describing our individual paradigms (world views). This led me to think about paradigms as <i>patterns</i>. Infinite in possibilities though they are, each one of the Nine Type Structures is in actuality a mini world view or paradigm/<i>pattern</i>. As individual paradigm/<i>pattern</i> they have something in common: each ONE of these individual unique <i>patterns</i>, always fits together as an integral whole...much the way puzzle pieces fit together to produce a whole. No matter how positive or negative (most likely both) each <i>separate variation </i>of one of the Nine Type Structures individually fits together to produce a perfect whole. Each is reflecting (and limited to) whatever perspective is at its root. In other words, discordant or harmonious, they are, within themselves, a <i>harmonic whole</i>...yet, each one is <span style="text-decoration: underline;">a</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">limited</span>, structured, separate and therefore dualistic, <i>whole</i> <i>pattern</i>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-size: large;">I got to thinking about these paradigm/<i>patterns</i> (Type Structures) as residing in Cosmic Consciousness. I'm going to describe Cosmic Consciousness as being formless, non-dualistic and infinite potential. In the Eastern cultures they might label Cosmic Consciousness as <i>Emptiness</i> and paradigm/<i>patterns</i> (Type Structures) as <i>Form</i>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-size: large;">If the Type Structures are <i>form,</i> they are dualistic and they are a closed system (have limits)...but if they reside in the open system of <i>emptiness</i> or the dynamic Cosmic Consciousness which is a (limitless) living system, what are they? They would be one (finite) aspect of this living system. However, and this is important, in the Eastern cultures they say "form is emptiness-emptiness is form"...meaning, of course, that they are one and the same.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-size: large;">In many spiritual systems, for example the Navaho's, we find something like "the spirit line" (a line or some oddity in an otherwise perfect pattern leading out of and through a border [a limiting enclosure] to outside and beyond the symmetry of the pattern) and although this is not the traditional interpretation, I can not help but think that this is also representational or metaphorically symbolizing the opening to the spirit world (emptiness)...symbolizing the creative potential always available to manifest in every moment (form)...changing one closed system paradigm to another closed system paradigm, constantly and infinitely. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-size: large;">Suddenly this realization came: ALL the great Spiritual teachings of all time advocate Love as the key. What they are saying to us, I believe, is that Love is the <i>ONLY</i> paradigm (global, cultural or individual) that is, <i>in and of itself, </i>an open system, one of non interference (Taoism) and therefore NON dualistic. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-size: large;">As you all know, the Enneagram addresses the three centers of intelligence. The three centers have a characteristic "need". The Mental Center has<i>-the need for safety and security</i>, the Heart Center has-<i>the need for affection and esteem,</i> and the Body Center has`-<i>the need for power and control</i>. Next I remembered, with a great sense of peace, the "Welcome Practice" that I had just participated in at the "Barriers to Spiritual Freedom" workshop in Tucson. That practice is as follows:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>One of the things I love about the Enneagram is it’s many layers. It doesn’t seem to matter how long I work with it – there are always new, deeper places into which it shines some insightful light. My most recent experience was at the AEA’s “Working with the Barriers to Spiritual Freedom” program held in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Tucson</st1:place></st1:city> in May.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>We did a lot of processing in pairs. While debriefing the work we’d done on Avoidances of the Types, my dyad partner shared an epiphany she’d had. She asked me if I’d had any epiphanies. I said a small one – we decided to call it an epiphanini (Yes, Ee-pif–a–ninny) – or epiphanette, if you prefer. But the more I think about it, the more I think it deserves full epiphany status. Let me explain.<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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As we/the AEA prepare for Working with Barriers to Spiritual
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teachers Peter O’Hanrahan – that our problems with each other don’t have so
much to do with our Enneagram type, but with our defense mechanisms, that is,
the defense mechanism itself, what we avoid and the world view we project out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Isn’t that the truth!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a Type 2, I can’t begin to express the
shock I experienced when I discovered (at first through my daughter and my
husband, and then my boss of many years) that my “help” was not always needed
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blind spots, and the trouble is that blind spots are by definition blind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No matter that everyone else around us has a
clear view.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That doesn’t automatically
mean we will become aware, even when we’ve done this work for years!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Blind is blind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This Defense System is what stands between
our passion and our virtue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no
transformation of the raw energy of the Passion into the Virtue unless we
manage to back into our blind spots with a different perspective so that we can
actually become aware of them and thus dis-identify from type and recognize
what may be arising, such as humility for a Type 2, or Innocence for a Type 8,
or Non-attachment for the 5.</div>
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The deeper we dig into the process, the more we become aware
of that to which we were simply blind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We begin to recognize the clues – times when we are giving unsolicited advice
or trying to fix things; times when we blame others or make our issues about
someone else; times when we inquire against our deeply held beliefs, even
though intellectually we may not believe those things at all; times when we
examine the flip side of our idealizations and come to own our shadow.</div>
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I have found this work and practice to be infinitely worth
the effort.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The prize is held in the Virtue
itself, and once we experience one, they all become available to us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It may be work, but it is none-the-less a
journey of pure joy and grace. </div>
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Andrea Andresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486336095017146831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794098863453781296.post-37425601269447705732013-04-13T08:12:00.000-07:002013-05-03T21:04:06.990-07:00What we expect and what we really want - seen through the Enneagram vice/virtues.<h2>
<b>Palm Sunday Expectations of a Savior</b></h2>
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The journey of Holy Week starts with the joy and party
spirit of Palm Sunday. The expectations at the start of the journey
will go quickly downhill to the cross and on to the dark tomb before Easter
morning shines. </div>
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There is no way to the empty tomb but by way of the
cross. Psalms 23 long ago reminded people that you must travel
“through the valley of the shadow of death” before you can reach the other
side. We travel from Vice to Virtue. But the journey to
the virtue can never be reached except by letting go of the vice to take hold
of a new life in Jesus. Our vices will never get us to our deepest
desires; in fact they make it impossible. We must go through the
cross, by surrender of our self-imposed control to God’s will. We
have to learn to let go of the need for what we have determined we
must have. </div>
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The turmoil that blocks us comes out of our own
expectations. When we discover how to let go of our habitual belief
in what we think we know, then we begin the road to freedom. What we want, what
we deeply desire and what we settle for leaves us longing for authenticity in
our life.</div>
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If your deepest Desire (Virtue) is- You
may try to get there by (Vice). . . .</h3>
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Serenity, a peace that passes understanding – you
may try to get there by enforcing a pseudo-peace with rules and regulations. Being
a perfectionist you will not get to Serenity until you learn to let go of
resentment and realize your focus on seeing faults must open to allow yourself
to see the good that is present. </div>
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Humility, to be loved for your true inner self –
you may try to get there by gathering idle praise and
affection. Being full of pride that you don’t need anyone else, you
won’t get to Humility until you see that you are as needy as others; it is not
a failing to need someone or something. You can express your inner
self with a freedom of the spirit of Humility. </div>
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Honesty, to be loved for who you are – you may try
to get there driven by an energy that you must succeed and earn
approval. As you perform one task, you continually need another task
to feel worthy; so stop and see that you do not have to earn another’s love, it
is freely given. You are loved for “being” who you are, not “doing”
who you are.</div>
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Balance, the perfect relationship – you may continue to
work to deserve what you can’t truly see, longing for what is always out of
reach. The envy of always missing out will drive you to grief, if
you would only stop, look and appreciate what you have in life instead of
focusing on what you don’t have. You stand in the midst of holy if
you will only open your eyes. </div>
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Nonattachment, valuing true abundance – you may
try to get there by hoarding the intellectual riches and ideas you believe will
give you security in what you have. The greed that drives you to collect and
keep needs to perceive that less is often more fulfilling. </div>
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Faith, that everything is alright – you may try to get
there by living without fear. You either run from situations that
cause anxiety, or you run toward it to rise above such puny dread, defying life
to hurt you. Faith breaks through when you recognize fear is more in
your mind than in the world that touches you. Then you can
courageously step forward in true knowing. </div>
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Satisfaction, that you have enough – you may try to get
it by always doing, seeing, planning for more to fill in a perceived
emptiness. The fear of missing out and being limited by life only
exacerbates your need for more. The need for more is a race to avoid
pain and boredom through rationalizing your motives. What is needed
is recognition to stop, cut back and enjoy the beauty of commitments and sober
work. </div>
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Justice, for yourself and others – you may try to
impose your own sense of justice on everyone. There is a rush to
make things work, to protect and take revenge for the
innocent. Recognizing and accepting your own vulnerability is key to
finding the road to justice and grace endowed from within. </div>
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Harmony/Unity, a sense of belonging to all – you may
accept a false sense of harmony by ignoring the problem, going to sleep to let
time make the decisions. Dropping the comfort of false unity
empowers you to take right action and participate in your own
transformation. </div>
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So how do you reach your deepest desire?</h3>
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go of the methods you are using to keep your vice in place. (Spiritual
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how you are settling for second best. </div>
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opening your eyes to see life from a fuller realm of possibilities</div>
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God to help you see and perceive personal habits that cause you harm. </div>
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in the present moment; not in the past, not in the future, and not in your
imagination.<br />
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By Rev. Andrea Andress</div>
Andrea Andresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486336095017146831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794098863453781296.post-80257355888347557492013-03-26T15:06:00.000-07:002013-03-26T15:06:25.467-07:00The Narrative Tradition in Arizona By Carole Whittaker, PhD (printed in TALK)<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In four short and busy years the Arizona Enneagram Association (AEA) has gone from a start-up organization to offering in 2013 a 5 day experiential, residential program on Working with the Barriers to Spiritual Freedom and hosting David Daniels and Russ Hudson – together!!! – this November.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">How did we get here? The AEA was formed during the fall of 2008 through the dedication, talent, and energy of 10 women trained in the Narrative Tradition (affectionately known as “the founding mothers”) who were determined to preserve and nourish the teaching of the Enneagram in Arizona.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You will no doubt recognize at least some of their names: Jaye Andres, Andrea Andress, Robin Cameron, Gloria Cuevas-Barnett, Gerry Fathauer, Linda Frazee, Fran Lyons, Barbara (Mira) Rossman, Judy Shoob, and Carole Whittaker. Gerry, Linda, Fran and Barbara have since “retired” from Board service and been replaced by a new generation of willing servants.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">During its first year the AEA was incorporated as a non-profit organization, sponsored workshops by Helen Palmer and David Daniels, established a membership program for general and professional members, set up a scholarship account and launched a website (www.azenneagram.com).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Helen and David were vital presenters that first year as they not only brought the excellence of their teaching but also attracted audiences who contributed to the financial viability of the organization and the fledgling scholarship fund.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We’ve come a long way in a short time<span style="color: #d40a0f;">.</span> We now have a home at the adult education Transformational Learning Center of the Paradise Valley United Methodist Church (thanks to Andrea Andress, who is the assistant pastor there). The AEA has 100 professional, general and associate members, a mailing list of over 1200 and, miracle of all miracles, a part-time administrator to relieve the all-volunteer board members.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">From an initial goal of simply keeping the Enneagram work alive in Arizona it is now our intention to form a community of practice among members and board, teachers and students that contributes to the expansion of consciousness through the understanding of human personality and spirituality.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Helen and David have continued to come for special events and have been joined recently by Jack Killen<span style="color: #993366;">,</span> Terry Saracino and Marion Gilbert.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have even ventured out a bit from our core Narrative Tradition teachers and invited Richard Rohr and Jerry Wagner in 2011 and 2012.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Russ Hudson will be joining David Daniels for a much-anticipated workshop November 9 and 10 of this year. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In addition to special events, the AEA offers classes at an introductory level and beyond to help seekers understand the Enneagram and use it in their personal lives and relationships. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Professional members (those in the fields of psychology, coaching, teaching, spiritual direction or the like who have at least 50 hours of participation in Narrative Tradition Enneagram courses) provide ongoing financial support for the administration of the AEA and serve as links in marketing programs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More importantly, professional membership in the AEA provides a network of relationships whereby the professional members make their work known as counselors, teachers, coaches or spiritual directors and have access to advanced Enneagram trainings.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Genesis of the Spiritual Freedom Work<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">To our intention of raising consciousness, we are absolutely delighted to be launching a unique opportunity for Enneagram devotees to deepen their understanding of type, in community with others, through process work. “Working with the Barriers to Spiritual Freedom,” is being offered as an intensive 5-day program May 17-21, 2013 at the beautiful Redemptorist Renewal Center in Picture Rocks, just north of Tucson, Arizona.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Let me give you a little background on how this developed. The AEA is the “heir” to an important body of work developed during the ten years prior to its own formation that included an in-depth introductory workshop and a series of classes developed in conjunction with Helen Palmer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From 2001-2005, Helen presented her series of workshops on spiritual freedom in the Phoenix area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a masterful synthesis of how the psychology of personality is related to our spiritual dimensions and how to work with personality type to open the barriers to spiritual freedom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">After each of her public workshops, Helen worked with local teachers to develop 6-session “follow-on” classes to help students integrate their experience and learning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I (Carole)<span style="color: #993366;"> </span>had a previous stint as a curriculum developer in the physical sciences for UCLA’s continuing education division.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So by the time we were teaching the 2<sup>nd</sup> follow-on for Helen’s series, I recognized that these classes were deeply related to one another and needed to be offered as an on-going, integrated curriculum of Enneagram study.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over the ensuing years, we offered all of the classes on a regular basis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To date, our local teachers have facilitated over 35 of these classes in small group settings, reaching hundreds of participants.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Spiritual Freedom Curriculum<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Part of Helen’s great insight is that the Virtues are permanent qualities of the life force, that the Holy Ideas are permanent qualities of Being, and that a barrier exists between our everyday, mental-rational-personality consciousness and our inner realms of consciousness where these qualities reside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first three courses, which we call “Working with the Barriers to Spiritual Freedom,” work in turn with the mental center, the heart center and then the instinctual center, reversing the order in which personality is formed. The work done by students and facilitators goes well beyond the descriptions of personality type and its structure and focuses on the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">process</b> of non-judgmental observation of the phenomenon of Type.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This strengthens the capacity of one’s Inner Observer and allows one to let go of identification with Type. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Having worked with and through the barriers and strengthened the capacity for inner observation, students are helped to awaken their own experience of and cooperation with the Virtues and Holy Ideas in the fourth and fifth courses that we call “Experiencing Spiritual Freedom.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Each of the 6-session courses allows at least a week between meetings for practice and inner observation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Class sessions include an extensive report-back from participants on their experience as well as attention practice, brief didactic presentations, dyad exercises and debriefs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Students who have participated in this work have experienced great freedom!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their personalities do not “disappear” but open up to manifest the lovely qualities which are their inner foundation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They rejoice in experiencing reduced reactivity and in finding a more authentic expression of their Self in everyday life, especially in their relationships.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Teachers have been amazed at the transformation experienced by students.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Making the Spiritual Freedom Work Available to a Wider Audience <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Due to the 6-week format for these classes, participation has been limited to a local Arizona audience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In order to make this valuable work available to a wider audience, we are condensing the curriculum and offering it in the form of 2 intensive retreats plus an opportunity for practice through phone groups in the interim between the two. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">As I said earlier, the first part of the curriculum, “Working with the Barriers to Spiritual Freedom,” is being offered as an intensive 5-day program May 17-21, 2013 at the Redemptorist Renewal Center in Picture Rocks, AZ. The second part of the curriculum, “Experiencing Spiritual Freedom,” will be offered in May, 2014 for those who want to continue with the work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Gloria Cuevas-Barnett, Robin Cameron and I will be teaching the class and most of the AEA Board will be attending.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Having three teachers will allow us to work in small groups for our process work. We sent preliminary announcements to members of AENT as well as AEA students so there is a strong participation from Narrative Tradition folks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Interestingly, a number of people are coming who have already taken (even taught!) the entire series.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are still a few spaces remaining so if you are interested in participating we would love to have you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Check out the AEA website at www.azenneagram.com or call me directly at 480 502-4446.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The materials and processes used in the spiritual freedom work are great resources for Enneagram professionals to use in their practice, especially in any kind of small group meeting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They provide an effective way of working with the Enneagram, in the Narrative Tradition, without needing a large audience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are really effective in helping to integrate our ordinary consciousness with the inner realms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Some of these materials originated from Helen Palmer who has now passed them on to the use of teachers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am claiming no copyright over the materials I have contributed. Participants are welcome and encouraged to use the materials they will receive in their class workbooks in their own work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In addition, a special materials package will be available (for an additional cost) that will include all of the class materials in Word and/or PDF format on a CD, a DVR teaching session and PowerPoint presentation on CD of the introductory foundations on the development of Type.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We would love to see you in Tucson in May.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In any event, please send us your blessing to help extend this work.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Andrea Andresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486336095017146831noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794098863453781296.post-91562261183696716192013-03-25T15:26:00.000-07:002013-03-25T15:26:47.457-07:00Hi There!Postings from the Arizona Enneagram Community in the Narrative Tradition. Andrea Andresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486336095017146831noreply@blogger.com0