Recently I’ve come to more deeply appreciate Gurdjieff’s description of humans as three brained beings, and other traditions that describe something similar. In Tai Chi, there is the dan tien – a belly-center. There are also two other dan tien … Read More
I understand the Chakras to be a sort of multi-level skeleton for consciousness intertwining with our physical, emotional (astral) and mental (causal) bodies. Traditions I have studied use the word “bodies” to describe our connections to these realms of human … Read More
Many spiritual traditions describe a progression of states of calming/quieting the mind. The final three limbs of Patanjali’s definition of yoga are Dhāraṇā, Dhyāna and Samādhi. They describe progressively deeper states of quietness of mind. They are sometimes translated as … Read More
A group of folks have been via-web-meeting every 2 weeks or so to discuss the enneagram. Some weeks ago one of us came up with an enneagram about meditation. The rest of us were challenged to come up with our … Read More
The Enneagram is a figure that has been appropriated to model all sorts of things – a personality model, a body type model, and as a form for nine-facet systems within the larger topic of Systematics.
I add the (trademark) because the phrase is claimed (along with “prana calendar,” “inner tuning” and other phrases) by Shyam Bhatnagar, who along with his one-time close companion Harish Johari were important influences in my life. I will not go … Read More