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Participation, Identity, and the Recovery of Being in the Arc of Transformation Following my recent lecture on The Arc of Transformation, the second shock point generated the most questions. Most attendees intuitively grasped the first shock. The idea that presence enters the process between Points Three and Four is relatively accessible. Most people have experienced … Read more
Using the Enneagram to Strengthen Leadership, Teams, and Organizational Synergy The Enneagram has entered the corporate world through the back door of self-help and stayed because it works. Not because it predicts behavior — it doesn’t, reliably — but because it reveals something more useful: the architecture of motivation that drives every decision, every conflict, every leadership … Read more
Legominism, Laughing Wisdom, and the Art of Ego Unraveling Gurdjieff never fit the mold of a spiritual master, and that was precisely the point. He moved through the world like an ancient Trickster reborn — part sage, part saboteur, part cosmic clown. He disrupted expectations because expectations are the walls that keep real seeing out. … Read more
What If the Enneagram Was Never Primarily About Personality? Most modern Enneagram teaching focuses on personality types, traits, motivations, defenses, wings, arrows, and behavioral patterns. For many students, coaches, and therapists, the Enneagram has become a system of psychological classification primarily. But that was not how G.I. Gurdjieff originally introduced the symbol. In its earliest … Read more
How Chanting Rewires the Nervous System and Quiets the Self There is a sound beneath all sound.A hum beneath all things.A vibration that has never ceased.Science has finally caught up with what the chanters have always known. We Arrived Already Tuned Published this week in Current Biology, University of Amsterdam researcher Henkjan Honing presents two … Read more
The Difference Between Tension and Attention There is a particular face people make when they are “trying” to meditate. Brows pulled together.Jaw set.A subtle tightening behind the eyes. It is the face of effort, and it rests on a misunderstanding. Focus does not require force. Concentration does not require contraction. Meditation does not require a … Read more
As Related by John Harper Imagine waking each day already mid-sentence—life speaking before thought catches up. Awe, wonder, delight, and then the quiet, uncontainable “oh wow… and then this” all before morning coffee. By the time curiosity finishes tying its shoes, the day has already begun dancing. There is a quality of innocence to it—not … Read more
Intention, Vibration, and Resonance I am entranced as I read through your wonderful guidance like the streaming of the pathways of sound and how they have been incorporated into methods of healing and clearing the energies of our beings over the millennia. It transmits such love of being. – T.G, Vancouver, BC One of the … Read more
Mother’s presence helps anchor the infant to theirs The very first relationship in a human life has nothing to do with words. Before hunger and comfort become names, before smiles are interpreted as joy, there is a silent exchange happening beneath behavior. It is the transmission of presence. We often define co-regulation in terms of … Read more
Reading the Symbol Through Almaas and the Inner Architecture Trilogy The Enneagram reveals its deepest logic when read alchemically. The inner triangle functions as Mercury, the hexadic movement as Sulfur, and the enclosing circle as Salt. This is not an imposed metaphor. It is a recognition of how the symbol already operates as a transformational … Read more