“The unexamined Life is one not worth living”- Socrates
About the Enneagram
The Enneagram is a multidimensional, psycho-spiritual instrument or map; non-secular in nature, comprised of universal principals allowing for its applicability to all traditions. It demonstrates how humans have lost the connection with their True Nature or Essence with the formation of the personality/ego and how to live and relate in and to with more freedom and less cognitive and emotional restriction.
The Enneagram is complied of 9 Types (sometimes referred to as Points) and their corresponding 3 Instinctual Variants. This tool is thousands of years old. We can see evidence of its use in Pythagoras time, Ancient Babylon, Ancient Greece, Sufi mystics (Saromoun Darq), Desert Fathers, Judaism, and Buddhism.
First brought to the West by George Gurdjieff (1866-1949) who studied the Universe from the mathematical perspective of this dynamic map then further explored by Oscar Ichazo (1932-2020) Bolivian Mystic, who developed the spiritual aspect to that of personality; and the human’s loss of contact with and direction back to Being. The Westernization of this sacred map was a direct result of the well known Chilean psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Claudio Naranjo (1932-2019), as the first to bridge the spiritual and mystical aspects of the Enneagram with the nomenclature of psychology. This was groundbreaking in the Enneagram’s place here in the West. It was from his esoteric group in the 1970’s on the tool named SAT ( Seekers After Truth) in Berkeley, CA that Vanessa's teacher and a few others devoted to the authentic teaching- emerged.
The process of discovering and exploring your unique Enneagram Type, and that of others in your life, under the guidance of a skilled Enneagram teacher such is Vanessa Moss, enhances appreciation and compassion towards self and others as offered by the clarity this knowledge yields.
Vanessa will guide you in discovering your Point and together you will explore the dynamics of the multifaceted nature of the Enneagram and how the corresponding Enneagram Types move in times of stress and in health. And also how this gained awareness can aid in the alleviation of experienced impasses in personality dynamics.
Having utilized, applied, and taught the transformative potential of this sacred instrument for more than 2 decades, under her guidance you will gain valuable understanding of how this knowledge impacts and can be applied to personal and professional relationships; as well as how to integrate the newly acquired insights for optimal growth.
Photo Credit: The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram: Nine Faces of the Soul by Sandra Maitri
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