I’m kind of a training snob. When I went to train as an Enneagram teacher, I asked around for the best school for psycho-spiritual integration and found my way to Helen Palmer and David Daniels, MD., who are Enneagram teachers in the Narrative Tradition. I’ve found that teachers who emerge from that program have a [...]
Perspectives Articles
The Three Centers of Intelligence
As I watch Facebook posts, I notice personality preferences influencing the way people post and the content they choose. In our Integral Transformative Practice group, we use our private Facebook group as a tool for self-observation and see how our type shows up in the way we post (or resist posting) and how we [...]
On Letting Go
Letting go is not in order to get something better. It is the something better. For it immediately restores the broken link with the dynamic ground of reality by which its very nature flows forth from…a fullness beyond imagining. Cynthia Bourgeault
Longing for transcendence
We really don’t get this until Life does what she does best and slaps us around a few times to wake us from our individual and collective coma. David Brooks on the New Humanism: “We have a prevailing view in our society — not only in the policy world, but in many spheres — that [...]
Why meditate? Science finds clues…
I’ve had, in the past, a sort of pretension about meditation. I simply couldn’t separate it from spirituality to which I’ve given my heart. With time, I’ve a recognition that some people have an allergy to anything smacking of spirituality for a myriad of reasons (and some make a good deal of sense). At this [...]
You can teach with words…or you can “get it” in one short video clip. THIS is Presence.
Body’s buzzing after watching this clip of Will Smith and Matt Damon in The Legend of Bagger Vance. Presence is gathered awareness. When awareness is gathered, habitual loop of thoughts and feelings recede into the background. We are absorbed in the field. In the flow. Out of the way…let IT choose us. Can’t think it…seek [...]
Using the Enneagram in Recovery: Part One
We use the Enneagram in the Integral Recovery program in Utah. Here’s Part One of an 11 part series in which our conversation on the Enneagram and Recovery was taped. People become addicted for countless reasons that are not always directly related to type. But, understanding type and recognizing core resistances is an [...]
The Opening of Eyes: David Whyte
After reading The Meaning of Mary Magdalene by Cynthia Bourgeault, I’ve this sense that a heart that has been secretly conversing, is speaking out loud in the clear air. And many are listening. It’s a sense that everywhere, silenced visions across the globe are no longer silent. Faith, hope and love are driveshafts [...]
Be serious when you must, but don’t lose this part of yourself
This week, when I was reading my book on the beach, I looked up and I saw my friend dancing in the distance. All by herself. I wanted to dance by myself too. I forget to dance when I’m alone. I usually wait for weddings and parties and lots of people. So, I [...]
And if the wind is right you can find the joy of innocence again
26 years ago this month, I had my first baby. She was born during a snowstorm and we drove her home on a quiet snow packed highway. My husband’s knuckles were white while I sat in the back seat with her with a touch of trepidation and awe. I was the one of the first [...]
