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  • Point 8 (eight) on the Enneagram

    The Redemption of Point Eight

    enneagramYears ago, I submitted an article to the Enneagram Monthly on point eight. Recently, someone asked me about my enneagram fixation (point 8 ) and I thought it might be interesting to post this article on enneagram point eight on this blog.

    Shortly after the article appeared in the Enneagram Monthly, a man (point 8 ) from Atlanta emailed me to say that he started reading the article at work and had to go into his office and close the door for privacy. The article brought a rush of emotion and tears to him as it touched something deep in him.

    Perhaps it will serve other 8’s on the enneagram, perhaps it needs updating or critique. You tell me.

    Footsteps on the Path to the Pearl Beyond Price

    I have lived most of my life under the delusion of point eight.

    I would like to share some of my experience and journey toward becoming a human being. I want to talk about the enneagram – how it’s been useful and how I see it being used to perpetuate the incarceration of the soul. I want to address compassion, humanness & vulnerability, integrity, and the Pearl Beyond Price (personal essence).

    Read the full article – The Redemption of Point Eight

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  • Three-Center Beings

    three brain tri-brain

    This photo reminds me that human beings are three-centered beings. Our three centers are: head, heart and belly. Each center is an organ of perception, intelligence and action.

    Many humans live lives dominated by one center. It is the rare individual that has integrated all three into a single functioning center.

    The movie, The Baron Von Münchhausen is a great representation of a split we see a lot in wetern culture. The baron’s head is separated from his body. The body continually tries to reclaim the head, but the head does not want to be tied to the body.

    Many Inner Work schools and disciplines address the subject of the three centers and offer various methods of working toward reintegration. Gurdjieff’s work has a strong focus on the three centers. My friend Andrea Isaacs works with the three centers through her EnneaMotion training which uses the understanding of the Enneagram to address the situation.

    When the three centers are integrated into a synergistic whole, a fourth center, called the Moh (moon center) arises. The Moh in some sense exists on the cusp of the physical dimension. The arising of the Moh brings more intuitive, psychic, and spiritual (boundless, universal) information, intelligence and functioning into the re-membered human being.

    The “unseen” face in this photo would represent the MOH.

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