The Deep Science Behind the Enneagram

Eric Lyleson Enneagram

The Enneagram symbol is seen as a model of the underlying patterns that connect our knowledge of psychology, biology, physics, mythology and spirituality. Unlike other theories that show the Enneagram in a static two-dimensional way, this Essential Wholeness will broaden your perspective into an expanding multidimensional model, much like a three-dimensional spiral. With the right mathematics it might be represented as a fractal.

Book Review from Australia and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy

Rick Hanson and Eric Lyleson

Book Review from Australia and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy Essential Wholeness: Integral Psychotherapy, Spiritual Awakening and the Enneagram, Eric Lyleson, Balboa Press, Bloomington, Indiana, 2015 ISBN 978‐1‐4525‐2820‐5, PB, 408 pages Yvonne McDonell Essential Wholeness by Eric Lyleson uses an extensive range of philosophy, psychology and spirituality to describe us as people and to broaden our role as therapists. We […]

Enneagram – Personality, Resistance to Change and Realising Potential

Trans-theoretical model of change

The Enneagram commonly known as a system of nine personality types, can be used as a nine- phase model of living Systems, including humans evolve and grow. It shows we evolve from one level of homeostasis to a higher and more complex level of organisation and homeostasis. NINE represents homeostasis and the process moves around […]

Evolve or Perish?

Although humans have become the most proficient species at fighting and fleeing, that is not what has been the main thrust of what has propelled us to dominate the landscape. Human evolution has been driven by our ability to respond creatively and cooperatively to challenges, as well as our ability to envision a better future and devising the means to achieve it. If we evaluate our reptilian predecessors who dominated our planet, we find that they were very good at the four Fs — fighting, fleeing, feeding and procreating, but had little ability to learn how to creatively and cooperatively relate to their world. Tyrannosaurus Rex — the creature at the top of the food chain — was the pinnacle of brutish reptilian power.

Enneagram Essential Quality of phase FIVE – Space

Inner Spaciousness It is our experience of essential space that puts our petty attachments and the self-imposed limitations into perspective, like the vastness of Outer Space reminds us that Earth is but a speck of dust in a universe of billions of galaxies. At phase FIVE the old boundaries of the way we have thought […]

Enneagram of Essential Qualities of Soul

Our essential quality of peace seeks to cooperate more fully with life as it is emerging within and around us. This inspires greater mindfulness of our internal and external experience. This leads us to a greater sense of compassion in the way we relate to ourselves and the rest of creation. Out of compassion we find the strength to promote life’s emerging agendas and address our inadequacies and past mistakes with forgiveness. Through forgiveness we are able to experience the present moment as it is, which in turn opens up the space in our consciousness to investigate the nature of reality more fully. Spacious awareness just accepts everything as it is, whereby we can differentiate fact from fiction. Acceptance of everything opens us to appreciation of everything and the joyously blissful nature of consciousness. It is when we follow our deepest bliss that we are in alignment with divine will (dharma). In the surrendering to divine will, we manifest our part to play in peaceful harmony with the rest of creatio

WILD MEDITATIONS – A Weekend of Deep Immersion in Wild Nature

A journey into the hidden beauty of the Blue Mountains where we will explore: clarifying your intentions for the upcoming year meditation practices that will open you to a deeper connection with your own wild nature cultivating the loving patience needed to hear the whispers of your heart’s calling the power of slowing down enough […]