“To be happy, an alchemic journey from the ego to the essential being” The author. Cris Bolívar.   To love the Being is to love its Vulnerability.   We all want to be happy, and not only sometimes but always. ¿What holds us back?... ¿the circumstances?, ¿the others?, ¿we ourselves? As a matter of fact, there is nothing that [...]

To see the images in better quality, we recommend to click on this link to read it. “THE ILLUSION OF TIME”  By Cris Bolívar (April’21) “Listen to the silence of the Being… Listen to its calmness… Listen to the soul” In this article we will be focusing on the illusion of time, our illusory view of it and how to [...]

In response to the changes we have all been experiencing during the COVID-19 pandemic, the leadership team of Inscapes Centre for Enneagram Studies in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada has recorded a video to guide us in our processing of this and other experiences in our lives. A statement that accompanies their video reads, in part, Even though restrictions have eased [...]

Many Enneagram teachers, authors, and students mention the term Fourth Way in their conversations and writings. However, rarely is this term actually defined, except for brief references to the teachings of G. I. Gurdieff and P. D. Ouspensky. People have had various ideas regarding the nature of the Fourth Way, and with this theorizing they try to come up with [...]

“You don’t pay love back, you pay it forward.” --Lily Hardy Hammond Most books and articles about the Enneagram have to do with theory, applications, and history. Few are about how teachers design and conduct presentations and workshops, and thus disseminate the received and developed tradition. This article intends to do something different, and therefore may be a bit [...]

 I’d like to be remembered as the fella who taught you something you already knew. --Woody Guthrie It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards! --The White Queen The soul on its own level is an initiate. --D. K.       This short article is designed to introduce readers to what is known in occult studies[i] as the antahkarana, [...]

What is the deep purpose of working with the Enneagram? We cheat ourselves out of the expansive treasures of our being if we approach the Enneagram as just another tool that leads to identifying our dominant point on the Enneagram, i.e., our Enneagram “type.” If we take the next step in learning about the type—this particular sphere of consciousness [...]

This article originally appeared on greaterlight.ca.transform (v.)mid-14c., "change the form of" (transitive), from Old French transformer (14c.), from Latin transformare "change in shape, metamorphose," from trans- "across" + formare "to form".https://www.etymonline.com/word/transform Accessed August 26, 2018To transform is to "go across" the forms – to take on a new way of being. This is never something we can accomplish on [...]

While planning and preparing for a workshop I offered in Charlotte, NC at the Charlotte Spirituality Center I was prompted from within to write these enneagram affirmations.  My desire was to offer these affirmations at the beginning of our time together to make an affirming statement for all the participants, for all types, and to help create an affirming [...]