Zigzag Idiot

A poem by Red Hawk out of his book - Wreckage with a Beating Heart It points to the Sleep of the World. IME I like the phrase Charles Tart coined- The cultural consensus trance,,,,

Why did the three wise men have ashes on their shoes? Because they came from a far.

Unconscious, unawakened humanity feeds on negative emotion to varying degrees. We can see other people better than we see ourselves as a rule. It's just energy that's being gone after when people feed on negativity. It's always justified in ways. When we seriously work on ourselves seeing our own feeding on negativity is a must. We have a choice how to respond. We can respond instead of react. A fine distinction and easier said than done. Reacting means one is just a puppet of negative emotions propelling us. We need to feel fully everything and not repress but draw the line just short of expressing negative emotions. It can be very difficult HOT work. It takes time,,, because we will always stumble. Gurdjieff referred to this kind of work as "good cooking"!!! Expressing negative emotions is wrong use of sex energy.. This is also why Work on Superego is a main focus at the start of the path in the Ridhwan Teachings. We need chi energy for walking the path. Negativity pollutes our energy in a big way. We SHOULD do this or we OUGHT to do that. SHOULDS and OUGHTS being thrown around as a rule typify the presence of super ego. Observing this can be a tool for catching this part of ourselves. It's the internalized voice in oneself that is usually one of our Parents as a rule. Not always though. Freeing oneself from the superego makes an enormous amount of energy available to us. We can't access that energy though as long as we're divided against ourselves. Quotes about working on the Superego from the Ridhwan Glossary--- Good stuff,,,, Disengaging from the Superego It is relatively easy to see that much of our opaqueness, much of our lack of openness, much of our stuckness, is due to the attacks of the superego—ours and other people’s. These are the criticisms, the put-downs, the comparisons, the judgments, the devaluations, the blaming, the shaming, the rejection, and the hatred that the superego levels at you in all kinds of situations. Here the Red latifa can specifically be used in the service of inquiry, by giving us the strength to defend against the superego. Initially, we need to defend ourselves against these attacks by directly confronting them. This can happen through challenging the superego’s authority—by telling it to back off. Such an internal confrontation requires great strength and intelligence. Later, when the Red Essence is more readily available, it becomes possible to disengage from self-judgment simply by clearly discriminating it for what it is and not going along with it. Disengaging from the superego is, in essence, a separation from your parents—the parents you long ago internalized and have lived with in your mind ever since. This disengagement allows you to see more clearly what is there in your experience, because if you’re entangled with these attacks, you won’t even know what you’re experiencing or what has caused the attack in the first place. Spacecruiser Inquiry, pg. 279 In Order to Work Through Your Superego, You Must go all the way Down to that Pre-Verbal, Chaotic, Hellish, Negative Merged State Besides forming the basis of projections—such as the superego projections we’ve just discussed—the merged state in the infant’s symbiotic phase has another important aspect that we call “negative merging.” When the child has negative experiences with the mother, the whole world is felt as negative. There’s no separation between the infant and the mother, so in that merged state the whole world is anger, or the whole world is frustration, or the whole world is fear. The negative experiences with the mother gradually coalesce and become one big thing that is isolated from the positive part of experience. This forms the basis of the negative judgments of the superego. You project your superego outside because in the beginning, the outside and the inside were one thing. Now when you experience the negative merged state, you cannot separate what is real inside from what is real outside, and your preference is to believe it’s outside. So you can see that in order to work through your superego, you must go all the way down to that pre-verbal, chaotic, hellish, negative merged state. And when you get down to that, you feel lost, you don’t know what is going on, there’s no firm place to stand. There are swamps wherever you turn—up, down, left, right—all swamps. That’s how you experience it; everything is negative. As you experience this fully, without defending against it, certain essential states arise to move you through this negativity and hell. Diamond Heart Book One, pg. 119 Projecting One's Superego A good arena within which to recognize, understand, and deal with the superego is in our relationships with others. This is primarily because one frequently projects one’s superego onto certain individuals, and relates to them as one does to one's own superego. Of course, this defense mechanism of projection helps to keep the superego unconscious, just as any defense mechanism does. Work on the Superego, pg. 8 Recognizing and Defending Against the Superego The first way works well during the stage one of the journey when our awareness is not strong, our presence is not developed, and our inquiry is not yet skillful. That’s when we need to directly defend ourselves, to own up to our aggression and to use its strength and energy to throw the superego out, to create space to be where we are. In this way, we defend ourselves consciously—by using our strength instead of erecting walls, defenses, and resistance to protect us from dangers of the superego. In the early years of our practice of being where we are, we need to constantly recognize the superego and its ploys and learn how to defend against them. Basically, we need to tell the superego where to go: “Who cares what you think? Go to hell.” Okay, so you feel deficient, and the superego keeps insisting that you’ll never amount to anything. You can tell it, “Good—if I’m never going to amount to anything, why are you bothering me? Go find somebody else.” This is a way of disengaging, but with strength, with energy, with awareness. The Unfolding Now, pg. 66 Recognizing and Dissolving the Superego The second stage of working with the superego begins after we have learned to defend against it with strength, boldness, and aggressiveness. These are energies that we have taken back and owned and therefore can use. Our awareness is now strong and clear, and our inquiry skills are sufficiently developed to prevent a superego attack from confusing us or putting us into a tailspin. At this point, using aggression to defend ourselves is less important; simply recognizing and understanding an attack can counter it. We can often dissolve an attack simply by knowing that the superego is attacking us and understanding why. The Unfolding Now, pg. 67 Superego Attacks Incompleteness The superego does not usually attack you because Brilliancy is missing. Your superego doesn't know about Brilliancy, so it attacks you about whatever sense of deficiency it finds in your experience. Under normal circumstances, there is a misinterpretation of the hole, or lack of Brilliancy; it is not seen as the absence of a certain manifestation of your Being. Instead, your superego attacks you, saying you’re too short, your nose is crooked, you're dumb, you say things wrong, you never know which foot to put first—that kind of thing. That is the way your superego picks on you: It finds those little incompletenesses and attacks you for them. But when you understand that incompleteness has nothing to do with these things, you will have a deeper handle on your superego. Completeness happens by confronting and completely tolerating the incompleteness. So your superego, by attacking you for feeling incomplete, is really preventing you from getting closer and relaxing into your own true nature, which is complete. Brilliancy, pg. 74 Superego Keeps the Unconscious Unconscious The superego, as we have seen, is the first coercive agency that we encounter in working on ourselves, which we find to be invested in keeping the unconscious unconscious and which accomplishes this by disapproving of the unconscious material. So, our approach is to help the ego consciously defend itself against the attacks of the superego, and hence to eliminate this important part of the need for unconscious ego defense mechanisms. If this is done, some awareness of feelings and sensations will bring up the part of the unconscious disapproved of by the superego, now that the ego is not guarding against it. Work on the Superego, pg. 6 Superego Once Protected Life So the superego which was erected to preserve and protect life, becomes a coercive agency that leads to death, not only in the mental, emotional, and spiritual sense; but sometimes also in the physical sense, as in the case of psychosomatic illness and self-destructive behavior. Work on the Superego, pg. 5 Superego Resists Changes to the Status Quo The superego is that part of the person that maintains repression and fights any changes to the status quo. It is one of the main reasons why the ego defenses are needed (defending against painful ego states and maintaining ego structures being the others); and hence it is responsible for the presence of prejudices, overt and covert. Work on the Superego, pg. 5 Systems Have a Superego Whenever a person works within a certain system, the values and prejudices of that system are automatically incorporated into his superego, and in time become coercive agencies. Or, to put it more graphically, the individual develops the particular system's superego. Work on the Superego, pg. 6 The Apex of the Psychic Structure The superego is a structure that forms the apex of the psychic structure and includes the ideals of the personality and the principles of judgment. It is the seat of what is customarily called the conscience. Essence with the Elixir of Enlightenment, pg. 134 The Inner Coercive Agency From our perspective, the superego is the inner coercive agency that stands against the expansion of awareness and inner development, regardless of how mild or reasonable it becomes. It is a substitute, and a cruel one, for direct perception and knowledge. Inner development requires that, in time, there be no internal coercive agencies. There will be, instead, inner regulation based on objective perception, understanding, and love. Essence with the Elixir of Enlightenment, pg. 137

Ma (my Grandmother) passed away. She was buried a week ago tomorrow. She was born in February of 1924. Years ago I enneatyped her as a counterphobic six. Same as me. My mother is a phobic six. My father was an enneatype five. Older sister-enneatype type 1- Neice- enneatype - 3 - Oldest nephew- enneatype 9 Youngest nephew - enneatype 5 . i could never reach a conclusion about my Uncle who passed away 4 years ago or my Grandfather who passed away 10 years ago. Ma was a real character. She was tough. She had to be. She encountered many difficulties in her life. Of 5 girls and one boy raised in sawmill shack, she was probably the most responsible. She attended the same little southern Babtist Church all her life. She taught me and my sister cuss words when we slept with her as children. We would listen to Whiporwill,s Summer nights. She worked in a shirt factory sewing all her life. She used a wind up alarm clock and got up about 4:30 weekday mornings. Winter mornings she would start her car and let the motor warm up for about 10-15 minutes before she left. Most times before sunrise. She did the same for my neice and nephews that she did for my sister and I except it was taken even farther.when they came along. In bed before they fell asleep whenever they stayed with her, they would see who could say the raunchiest phrases my niece revealed a couple of years ago. When I visited her in the nursing home the last couple of years, we would go outside so she could smoke a couple of cigarettes. There are countless stories. I could write a book about Ma's long life with the many trials and difficulties she encountered. She was loved. She will be missed. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Thoughts, Emotions & Behaviors - All Open to Change by Dr. Jim Rosen ©2020 Dr. Jim Rosen Since prescription drugs don’t get to the root of the problems, what can you do? You can get yourself or your loved one to a psychologist, that’s what you can do. Your thoughts and emotions and behaviors are changeable. In fact, your thoughts and emotions are every bit as changeable and adaptable as your behaviors. Your personality and your lifestyle are not set in concrete, either. Competent psychologists know how to motivate, initiate and guide the necessary changes. We help people gently and effectively, in a secure and trusting atmosphere, where every word you say is confidential. People change…We help you make the right changes.

I never heard this song before today. It's sad and haunting but still a good song.

From the Gospel of Thomas - (22) Jesus saw infants being suckled. He said to his disciples, "These infants being suckled are like those who enter the kingdom." They said to him, "Shall we then, as children, enter the kingdom?" Jesus said to them, "When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female; and when you fashion eyes in the place of an eye, and a hand in place of a hand, and a foot in place of a foot, and a likeness in place of a likeness; then will you enter the kingdom." Sounds like integration to me Being vulgar one day and then the next day quoting Jesus and referring to his Teachings makes me look like a real hypocrite. But there it stands. It is what it is. Whatever IT is,,,, Forgiveness, Being passive in the face of aggression or looking beyond others transgressions. Ways of Being which have always been difficult for me,,,, These will probably never be popular messages. Maurice Nicoll related a dream he had about a man who possessed a curious power. -"He has some curious power but hardly uses it...He seemed purified from all violence. That was the secret. That was the source of the curious power I detected in him. A man without violence,,,,"

We're all a multiplicity of many different "I"'s. Many people explain this away as moods. It's easy to frame it like that. Although it's not a flattering thing to be labeled moody, it's usually even worse to be labeled as being fractured into multiple personalities. Officially known as schizophrenia But we're all technically schizophrenic. Some more than others. In my early twenties at a time when I was in the midst of a severe depression and just barely able to function socially, I struck up a conversation with a new neighbor. They lived about a mile away. This was at a local a sports event and the first time in months I had got out of my parents basement and had gone anywhere. Trying to make conversation, I told him how beautiful it was in his neck of the woods and that a few years before as a young teenager, I had trapped some beautiful grey fox not far from his house. The way he reacted you would have thought I had just stuck him with a hot iron. He was practically foaming at the mouth threatening me that if I ever got one of his dogs in my traps,,,, blah,,, blah blah. I didn't even trap anymore. Him being a psychologiist and his wife, a veterinarian. They were kind of a hot shit ' power couple' in some people's eyes. I was completely stunned. Here was a licensed psychologist getting all reactive and just acting bat shit crazy. The world just didn't make any sense. I thought everyone in that field would be like the laid back psychiatrist Sydney that showed up occasionally on episodes of MASH. I don't know why it bothered me that bad but it really did. I'll admit to being rather 'thin skinned' all my life but in the midst of this anxiety/ depression I was in, I just felt devastated. I know it sounds silly but my mental condition was a good deal more than just shaky. I had often considered suicide just from the shame alone that plagued me. Looking back now I can see I was completely beat down and and continually scolded by my own super ego because at the time, I felt like a complete failure and a real embarrassment to my parents. Plagued continually day and night by guilt. Slowly, I managed to start working some. A gradual momentum developed. Driven a good deal in just trying to prove to my folks that that I had some worth. That, in itself though is an unhealthy way to go about life. In most all of the vertical scales of human emotion I've seen -shame - is always right near the bottom along with apathy and forms of depression with anger always being a step above. Whether it's Dianetics, David Hawkins or others I've encountered, anger will always be a step above shame, guilt, and apathy. it's one reason I use over-the-top language whenever I encourage others to defy the inner critic that is the voice of the ego . Until Superego is dealt with in a solid way, disfunction and depression will rule the day. Somehow screaming commands at a large glass ashtray in that Scientology Course I mentioned I believe was related somehow to work on Superego.. So anyone who is continually depressed and plagued by feelings of guilt and shame, tell your Superego to go take a ???FLYING FUCK IN A ROLLING DONUT!!!?? and don't stop until you feel that red energy rise up in yourself or better yet, you end up having a good laugh,,, Busting a lot of glass bottles I feel is great therapy also.

Take a deep breath and hang tough everybody. I remember a time that I openly engaged in some self criticism and I'll be damned if it didn't incite a pile on. The old saying - When it rains it pours,,,,,

If I remember correctly, Leo did respond right after the original jab was made at the beginning of one of his videos. If anyone remembers the specific video it was and wants to reply here, please do. @Perfection You have a good point but I also see not being reactive as indicative that one's ego is under control. Adeptus may have been well intentioned but to me it also smelled a little bit of a publicity stunt to cultivate viewership with his startup. That would be the more egoic in nature. I don't have an opinion about whether Leo should respond again or some more. I find Adeptus to be a likable guy but in going about it in the way he did,,,, He lost a bit of credibility with me. Dogma is an anathema around the territory of Actualized in my view. Everything is grist for the mill. The atmosphere is generally Socratic and open. Where's the dogma? Respectfully,,,?‍♂️

Remorse is valid; not guilt I've been going off on tangents lately ranting about the harmful notion of guilt. It hasn't been that long ago that I would feel guilty over random thoughts that would float through my mind. How crazy is that. It's so unnecessary. A crazy or negative thought does not have to be identified with. It can simply be let go of. This is not me. Saying the inner No to thoughts randomly generated by our word mechanism as Oscar Ichazo put it. Guilt is promoted by the fundamentalists of religions to divide people against themselves which makes them more susceptible to manipulation and thus control. Im making a distinction here between guilt and remorse which I see and experience as valid. If one didn't experience remorse, that would classify one as a psychopath or a sociopath proper, but being stained with the idea of guilt is worse than useless. It's a curse upon man in which he is under its spell. This is not something that I dreamed up on my own but rather got through the new version of the ICHING- The Oracle Of The Cosmic Way. Just ponder this notion and sit with it in your life and discern for yourselves. This is so much more than a book. Carol Anthony and Hana Moog are so overlooked in this Genus work they have through both sincere effort and synchronicity, produced. I wish Terrence McKenna was around to comment on this work. He referred to the Old Tradional ICHING and getting a reading from it was like throwing a coin which had 64 sides to it to receive an answer. This is another example where the wisdom of the Divine Feminine is leading the way in this new 2000 year 'Galactic month' which began slowly in 1963. Oscar Ichazo- The Holy Idea which acts as a catalyzer for the transformation of this ego is Holy Love/ Divine Love. This can lead to the Virtue (energy) of Action. According to Ichazo, Divine Love is “The awareness that though the laws which govern reality are objective, they are not cold, because these cosmic laws inevitably lead to the creation of organic life, and Life itself, like all natural phenomena, fulfills a cosmic purpose. As soon as the mind’s word mechanism is destroyed, love, the natural condition of the mind, appears. Love begins the moment man contemplates the Creation and says, ‘Thank you, God.’ All men feel this somewhat, no animal can feel this at all. Man alone can know that all comes from God.” From The New ICHING - The Oracle of the Cosmic Way-

I haven't experienced Eternalness but I've had the experience of infinity. That probably doesn't make a lot of sense. To experience pure Being is an experience of nonduality. It's so simple it's stupid and brilliant at the same time. Presence is being. The felt sense of pure presence is nondual. It's neither good or bad yet at the same time, it's all good. It answers the question of the existence of nonduality and also the experience that duality exists within nonduality. Duality couldn't exist if there wasn't nonduality. The words only point at it. It requires a heart to experience it. This is what has given me the experience of infinity but strangely enough there is not a felt sense of the eternal. There is a concept of eternalness that I experience intermittently but it feels more like timelessness instead of eternalness.. Essence or presence is also being. Being has flavors in a sense. These are essential aspects of being or flavors of being or presence. It's a part of the makeup of our multidimensional nature. There is also awareness that is more fundamental than aspects of essence or felt or perceived aspects of beingness. A pure nonconceptual awareness. The came about for me in a prenatal experience. There was no memory just the sudden recognition of existence and awareness. Later on there was the remembrance that was like - Oh, here again. This happened a few times before I was born. Later on the meditation practice of Centering Prayer put me into this state of empty completeness in sporadic brief episodes. Some people have the experience of remembering their birth or rebirthing as it's called. I haven't had this yet and I guess it's possible I may never have it. It's supposed to be a powerful awakening kind of experience that resolves unrecognized Inner disparities in a big way. The experience of nonduality can be just real ho hum or it can be transcendent mystical fireworks. I just spontaneously felt like throwing down this abstract rap. It may just sound like bullshit and some of it could be but that is all for now. It feels good I got it out of my system. A good use for a Journal perhaps.

@Leo Gura I haven't had an experience that has answered it for me. Do you allow for the possibility that it could be different for others. Maybe a real negative person who stays somewhat earthbound in the lower astral realms ? Or the idea that we aren't born with a completed soul and that we have to learn lessons work on ourselves to gain immortality?

I always gain insights when I listen to Martin Butler's podcasts. He's a good communicator and seems to make distinctions that no one else does about the inner life.

@Gesundheit I'm pretty much all with you,,,, ?‍♂️

@Gesundheit I enjoy reading your Journal and have a feeling that will continue. I've observed how both subtle and flagrant self deception can be when it creeps in or when I unknowingly get a vested interest in some kind of bullshit. Stupidity is it's own punishment. Either I coined that phrase myself or unkowningly picked it up somewhere in the past. Im a ZigZag Idiot at times and I study, and also try to further the Science of Idiotism. In this 'Science', one cannot be an Idiot unless they are striving to awaken or transform. There's no place for egotist within in the Science of Idiotism unless it's in the subset of the category of Hopeless Idiots. Hope you continue to Journal! Good day to ya,,,,

I've worn out this clip but I think Dwight Yoakum does a good job playing a Red SD worldview character,"Doyle Hardgraves". Morris- Orange/green? said that "Doyle was just showing his true Aries color". The character Linda - blue/orange. The part played by Billy Bob - Blue? John Ritter's character - green?

If you think Trump is honest. I've got some ocean front property in Oklahoma that I think you would just love. Trump is as red as a dog's pecker.

Chances are if you just let go of it for a few days and stop trying to explain your actions to this girl, if she's much of a friend or possibly potential friend, it will all work out. I discovered for myself anyway, that if I try to hard in circumstances like that then everything tends to goes south. If your no longer divided against yourself, it was a truly great day! Congratulations!

@Buba You were honest and was willing to be vulnerable and it backfired among people who had fear conditioned into them. IMO You don't need healed. Just decide not to be divided against yourself. You're the boss of you! You might not need to advertise it a great deal if you live in an environment where there's a lot of homophobia and such but you're the boss of your sexlife. Don't let them instill guilt in you. Maybe you can smooth things out with your folks over time and then just live the life that you choose to live. Good luck to you,,,

@Artsu It wasn't me. ? I just copied and pasted. Deborah Ooten gets the credit. Glad you ran into this so soon. I had you in mind in posting this after you said you were unable to reach the website the other day. Below I pasted the preamble thats before the descriptions if you or anyone else are interested. I posted the Enneatype descriptions coinciding with the other SD levels on the other megathreads as well. Abstract Our experience has shown that if the Enneagram is used as an isolated personality system, people can become more identified with their type rather than evolving. In Integral Psychology, Ken Wilber (2000) states that typology systems such as Meyers-Briggs, the Enneagram, and Jungian types are horizontal systems. While useful for self awareness, these systems do not describe the whole picture of human development. However, pairing a horizontal system like the Enneagram with a vertical system of the stages and waves of the unfolding of human consciousness like Spiral Dynamics®, “you can start to see what a truly multidimensional psychology might look like” (Wilber, p. 54). In order to bring about true evolutionary change in an individual and humanity, we believe that systems can help us understand and define the personality and the different levels of human consciousness. There are a number of systems that describe these two areas in the human being. The Enneagram of Personality is a dynamic and powerful personality typing system that assists individuals in elucidating their unique and particular personality structure; it is magnificent in its description of the psychological defense mechanisms that each and every one of us uses (Palmer, 1998). As we become more aware through self observation by understanding our patterns and habits, we are better able to make empowering conscious choices. Spiral Dynamics® is a system that offers a view of the evolution of human consciousness over the last 100,000 years (Graves, 2005). It is a superior tool for helping humanity to shift cultures. As we become more aware of the spectrum of human values and worldviews, we are capable of developing deeper insight into the core issues that are responsible for conflict or cohesion among people, groups, and cultures. When combined, each of these systems informs the other, allowing individuals to have a multi-dimensional understanding of their inner workings over their lifetimes and a broader view of the always evolving levels of consciousness operating within and without (Ooten, Unpublished). The first phase of the study was completed in 2005 at the International Enneagram Association Conference in California with 38 individuals who were very familiar with their Enneagram types and who are widely known Enneagram teachers. Participants were taught the Spiral Dynamics system and then divided into nine groups based on Enneagram type. Each of the groups was asked to: “Give a one-word name that describes your Enneagram type at each level of consciousness,” (Figure 1) and to “Give a descriptive phrase that describes your type at each level of consciousness” (Figure 2). A consensus was reached among recognized Enneagram teachers and researchers of 63 archetypal titles and descriptions for each of the Enneagram types at each of the levels of consciousness. The second phase of the research has been ongoing for the past five years. Deborah Ooten, Ph.D. has administered the Values Test to 230 individuals who were already familiar with their Enneagram type through training with Dr. Ooten or with other recognized Enneagram teachers and have taken Spiral Dynamics training with Dr. Ooten through outreach programs and the School of Conscious Living, a two-year IEA Accredited Enneagram Certification School. “The Values Test: Priorities for Life Choices, An Analysis of Seven vMemes, Worldviews and Belief Systems in People, Organizations, and Cultures” (Beck, 2002) is a scientific and validated analysis of an individual’s acceptance and rejection of the worldviews and values of the seven developmental levels of the Spiral Dynamics® system and tabulates the levels of consciousness operating in an individual and whether these levels are operating consciously (acceptance) or unconsciously (rejection). There have been 74 men (32%) and 156 women (68%), ranging in age from 21 to 65 years, who have participated in the study to date. The mean age is 47. The levels of consciousness develop sequentially, each level encompassing the levels before. While not all participants have developed to the highest levels, all levels of consciousness have been represented. Twentyone participants had developed to the Blue Level, 52 participants had developed to the Orange Level, 73 participants had developed to the Green Level, 65 had developed to the Yellow level and 19 had developed to the Turquoise level. Participants were then presented with the 63 archetypal titles and descriptions of the Enneagram types at each of the levels of consciousness. Participants were asked for their feedback on how well each of the titles and descriptive phrases described their type at each of the levels of consciousness. The original descriptions from 2005 have expanded based on the most frequent responses. This study is still continuing through students of the School of ConsciousLiving and will be published in more depth in Deborah Ooten’s upcoming book (Ooten, Unpublished). This paper presents the Levels of Consciousness of the Enneagram through these 63 archetypal titles and descriptions. This look at the Enneagram personality types within each of the levels of consciousness elucidates the vast variety of characteristics of the Enneagram types beyond wings, dynamic movements and subtypes as well as bringing an added dimension to the lifetime work of conscious evolution. Spiral Dynamics® Spiral Dynamics® was developed in 1970 by Dr. Clare Graves and has been elucidated since then by Drs. Don Beck, Chris Cowan and Natasha Todorovic, among others. This system describes a bio-psycho-social, double-helix, openended emergent model of human consciousness that provides a new way of framing and understanding the forces of human interactions and behavior through stages of human development (Graves, 2002; Graves, 2005; Beck, 2006). These stages can be applied to individual, organizational and geo-political nation-state levels (Beck, 2006). The expression of the level of consciousness is a product of interaction between external conditions of existence and internal complex adaptive systems. Nine basic levels or waves of human consciousness have been observed at this point, alternating “I” expressive and “We” sacrificing levels, divided into two tiers. In the first tier focus, there is conflict within levels and between levels. The second tier levels promote alternative, highly adaptive means of problem resolution. Each emergent level transcends the level before while also including the values, methods, and perspectives of the previous stages (Graves, 2002). Levels of Consciousness Spiral Dynamics® is an open-ended system, meaning that levels continue to emerge as humanity evolves. To date, eight levels of development have been clearly observed, studied, and documented (Graves, 2002; Graves, 2005; Beck, 2006). The ninth level of development is just now emerging, but not enough individuals have reached this level to accurately describe it yet. The image of the spiral is used because each level includes the values, skills, and mechanisms of the levels below it while becoming more adaptive, complex, and expansive (Beck, 2006). As we evolve through each of these stages, all previous levels of consciousness are still operating and can be expressed appropriately or inappropriately given the life conditions of the time, place, problems, and circumstances we face (Beck, 2006). While Clare Graves assigned letters to the levels during his double blind studies,the levels are now often referred to by the colors assigned by Beck and Cowan for simplicity, and we will adhere to their color naming scheme for this paper (2006).These levels apply across different types of development, including the span of time of human evolution, the continued maturation of the individual from infancy through adulthood, the progression of societies, and the stages of corporate culture (Wilber, 2000).

The enneatypes at stage Turquoise Type One: The Judge/The Unifier. Evolving to the Turquoise level, Type One, the Judge, understands that everything that occurs is perfect “as it is because it is” and lives from a positionof unity consciousness and serenity. There is no right or wrong, no good or bad. From this non-dual perspective, Type One serves the universe as the Unifier, and this wisdom is applied to defining ways of life that benefit the whole and ensure the continuation of existence (Ooten, Unpublished; Ooten, 2010). Type Two: The Provider/The Social Servant. Type Two, the Provider, emerges in the Turquoise level recognizing that we all have needs, are all loveable, and are all free. There is no separation between the needs of an individual and the collective needs of the whole. At this level Type Two serves with true humility in the role of Social Servant, working within the universe to provide for the whole. She is truly free because she operates with surrender to the flow of the universal direction and will. She doesn’t need anyone, and doesn’t need to be anything for anyone (Ooten, Unpublished; Ooten, 2010). Type Three: The Doer/The Benefactor. At this level, Type Three, the Doer, no longer sees himself as a separate entity, competing for accolades as “the high note.” The Benefactor knows that we are all precious notes in the complex symphony of life and that the Universe acts “through us, as us.” Each note is required to create life, and Type Three works to accomplish for the benefit of all beings (Ooten, Unpublished; Ooten, 2010). Type Four: The Idealist/The Inclusive Self. Type Four, the Idealist, understands that we can never be separate because there is no time and space. We are one with all as an integral aspect of the unfolding of reality and never apart from the Source, Origin. Embodying this oneness, Type Four serves as the Inclusive Self, knowing that all are part of the overwhelming beauty of existence, and fiercely defends the continued existence of life (Ooten, Unpublished; Ooten, 2010). Type Five: The Sage/The Integrative Self. In seeing the individual reflection of the whole and the whole reflecting the individual, Type Five, the Sage, lives from omniscience as the Integrative Self, knowing that even the unknown is part of the whole. Knowledge is combined with action to become true understanding for the collective consciousness of all beings (Ooten, Unpublished; Ooten, 2010). “The Universe knows Itself through us” (Esposito, 2008). Enlightenment comes through the experience of direct knowing and intuitive direct connection to consciousness. In listening directly to unity consciousness through mindfulness and meditation, doubts and fear dissolve (Ooten, Unpublished; Ooten, 2010). Type Six: The Questioner/The Faithful Self. Type Six, the Questioner, understands at the Turquoise level that fear is simply one aspect of the multitude of experiences, and it has no more meaning than any other experience (Ooten, Unpublished). Realizing that life and death are merely energy states, the Faithful Self understands that security is always present and trusts in reality as it unfolds. Faith and trust in the unknowing brings courage to act spontaneously and allows Type Six to lead the continuation of life (Esposito, 2008; Ooten, 2010). Type Seven: The Adventurer/The Renaissance Self. Knowing that nothing exists outside the eternal now, including the self, Type Seven, the Adventurer, allows the universe to reveal itself while playing a part in its unfolding. Understanding how all the intricate parts are merely representations of the whole, the Renaissance Self envisions new ways of being for all, and by transcending illusions of limitations of space and time, has constancy to lead others right here, right now (Ooten, Unpublished; Ooten, 2010). Type Eight: The Defender/The Way Shower. All ways of being are components of the greater whole. Able to see the truth in all perspectives, the energy, intensity and drive of Type Eight, the Defender, is used magnanimously as the Way Shower to evolve the collective consciousness for the benefit of all. Relaxing into vulnerability allows innocence to be expressed (Ooten, Unpublished; Ooten,. 2010). When innocence emerges, desires, fear, separation, alienation and anger dissolve into “the peace that surpasses understanding” (Esposito, 2008). Leading from innocence, the Way Showers are wisdom teachers and empowerers of others who embody the understanding that “All is One” (Ooten, 2010). Type Nine: The Moderator/The Psychic. The entirety of existence cannot be without each requisite part, and the parts cannot exist outside the whole. Type Nine, the Moderator, knows at this level that All is Love, and nothing can be separate from love. There is no separation of self and the Divine, and he knows he is worthy of being seen (Ooten, Unpublished). He remembers that he is “one with the Divine Love that creates and sustains the Universe” (Esposito, 2008), and from this direct knowing, he serves as the Psychic, understanding all things from the embodiment of love (Ooten, Unpublished). Taken from http://www.consciousdynamicsllc.com/home/levels_of_consciousness.html

Enneatypes at stage Yellow Type One: The Judge/The Idealistic Self. In the momentous shift into the Second Tier, Type One, the Judge, finds connection with her heart and embodies compassion. Instead of projecting the ideal, the Idealist Self becomes the ideal. From the acceptance of the Yellow level, the Judge is able to relax judgment and criticism of self and others. Judgment is transformed as the boundaries of good and bad dissolve into grays, and the Idealist Self can allow herself to be who she is, visioning from the understanding that all is good (Ooten, Unpublished; Ooten, 2010). Type Two: The Provider/The Facilitator. Type Two, the Provider, recognizes in the Second Tier that because he is part of the whole of existence, his own needs are equally important as the needs of others. Manipulation turns into resourcefulness as Type Two operates as the Facilitator, able to match needs and resources for the benefit of all, including himself. “Giving to get” is transformed into true altruism, and knowledge is as valued as feelings (Ooten, Unpublished; Ooten, 2010). Type Three: The Doer/The Teacher. By seeing the value of all the ways of being in the world, Type Three, the Doer, can allow herself to be authentic. When energy is no longer spent in creating different images for different audiences, it can instead be effectively channeled into what she has to offer the world as she spreads hope as the Teacher. Rather than losing time in frenetic doing to compensate for a deep sense of valuelessness, the illusion of having to do to be loved is transformed into being able to make the best use of her time for serving the world (Ooten, Unpublished). Type Four: The Idealist/The Intuitive Self. Realizing that everything is interwoven, Type Four, the Idealist, relies on intuition and knows that nothing can be missing from the interconnected whole, and that everything is love. Loosening his image of uniqueness, he experiences the simultaneous individuality and homogeneity of existence, which allows him to tap into his Intuitive Self. From accessing intuition, his deep sense of abandonment becomes transformed into the knowing that he is love and a lightness of heart emerges. Knowing who he is empowers him to make intense change in the world (Ooten, Unpublished; Ooten, 2010). Type Five: The Sage/The Quantum Healer. Through the awareness that energy is never created nor destroyed, Type Five, the Sage, no longer has to conserve, and through non-attachment, can step forward energetically into interactions and interconnections with others. Through accessing her heart, knowledge becomes understanding, and she is empowered as the Quantum Healer to bring healing to the world (Esposito, 2008; Ooten, Unpublished; Ooten, 2010). Type Six: The Questioner/The Trusting Self. In the Yellow level of consciousness, Type Six, the Questioner, is able to trust himself for the first time. The Trusting Self transforms rigidity and inconsistency into solidity as faith is embodied. From an understanding of the need for adaptive, flexible systems, the Trusting Self can operate under external authority when needed, or can serve as the authority. “Authority can be authorities because I’m the authority too, and I trust myself” (Ooten, Unpublished; Ooten, 2010). Type Seven: The Adventurer/The Unified Self. At this stage of evolution, Type Seven, the Unified Self, recognizes that pain is an integral aspect of existence, and that pleasure is possible only when contrasted with the pain. This realization brings freedom of heart, and the Unified Self can turn his mental abilities to integrating complex concepts that address existential issues and world problems (Ooten, Unpublished; Ooten, 2010). Type Eight: The Defender/The Coach. Seeing that true strength lies in softness and openness, Type Eight, the Defender, can relax into her vulnerability and innocence, which gives her true power. From the empowerment that comes in accepting her own vulnerability, the Coach empowers others and facilitates change in organizations and systems (Ooten, Unpublished; Ooten, 2010). Type Nine: The Moderator/The Ambassador Self. In the interconnected web of life, everything has importance and value. This recognition allows Type 9, the Moderator, to be clear in expressing his own priorities while also collaborating with others to create change in the world. In loosening the illusion of separation, he sees the importance of himself and his work in the world where he serves as the Ambassador Self for all people (Ooten, Unpublished; Ooten, 2010). Taken from - http://www.consciousdynamicsllc.com/home/levels_of_consciousness.html

The enneatypes at stage Green Type One: The Judge/The Objector. Type One, the Judge, acts as the Objector in the Green level and objects to the “normal way” of being because he or she believes in a more idealistic “right way.” Ones become the chaos engine—they shake things up at the Green level. The Objector looks to uphold a cause that reflects Green level values like diversity, justice, and preserving the environment. Conflict within the chosen community must be avoided to maintain group harmony, and the internal anger of Type One is turned to those outside the group’s acceptable range of differences of opinions and ways of being (Ooten, Unpublished; Ooten, 2010). Type Two: The Provider/The Earth Mother/Father. Type Two, the Provider, expresses the “need to be needed” in the Green level as sympathizing and giving self away to take care of the needs of all, serving as the Earth Mother/Father. The belief is that everyone needs care and sympathy, the Earth Mother/Father’s version of compassion. The Earth Mother/Father believes that he or she has a big enough heart to give the love he or she perceives the world needs. This sacrifice of self is exhausting and diminishes the impact the Provider could make on the world (Ooten, Unpublished; Ooten, 2010). Type Three: The Doer/The Politician. The exploration of feelings becomes acceptable at the Green level, and for Type Three doing is combined with an image of caring. As Type Three, the Doer turns her interest into serving the “common good” with her work as the Politician. Energy is applied to make the world a better place through serving groups and populations that match her ideas of a better world. Consensus-seeking often mires down progress (Ooten, Unpublished). Type Four: The Idealist/The Connector. Type 4, The Idealist, at the Green Level, acts as the Connector, connecting to the community and other individuals. He values the need to connect and serve the community over connecting with self, which perpetuates an illusion of abandonment. Much time and energy is spent processing the range of feelings of others and sometimes of self. He shares what is in his heart that he perceives will be valued by the community, while keeping the darkness still locked inside (Ooten, Unpublished; Ooten, 2010). Type Five: The Sage/The Professor. As Type Five, the Sage, becomes more aware of others and develops a need for community, he becomes more accepting of different ways of operating and being in the world, developing a “live and let live” attitude and acting as the Professor. At this level, Type Five can begin to recognize the presence of emotions and needs. The heart is considered, pondered, and reflected upon (Ooten, Unpublished; Ooten, 2010). Type Six: The Questioner/The Champion. As Type Six, the Questioner becomes aware that “going it alone” doesn’t bring security, she turns to trusting others. In allowing herself to trust others, she begins to learn to trust herself. She finds connection with others through serving as the Champion for underdog causes, the downtrodden, and the disenfranchised. In the egalitarian mindset of Type Six in the Green level, she still does not trust authority figures, and she does not trust herself as an authority (Ooten, Unpublished; Ooten, 2010). Type Seven: The Adventurer/The Conceptualizer. Type Seven, the Adventurer, in the Green level is the Conceptualizer who sees that pain not only limits self but others as well. He envisions an egalitarian society where limitations in life are eliminated for all. The Conceptualizer turns attention about limitations outward and sympathizes with others, to avoid his own pain. There is a high tolerance for many ways of being as long as those ways don’t enforce limitations on the Adventurer’s way of life (Ooten, Unpublished; Ooten, 2010). Type Eight: The Defender/The Protector. Recognizing that a solitary existence doesn’t bring happiness, feelings of needing connection with others arise for Type 8, the Defender. Connecting with others requires vulnerability. Energy to avoid this inner vulnerability is channeled into being the Protector by leading causes, protecting the weak and fighting for the disadvantaged (Ooten, Unpublished; Ooten, 2010). Type Nine: The Moderator/The Communalist. The Green level for Type Nine, the Moderator, becomes a spiritual bypass where time is wasted in spiritual-like pursuits that bring no real change. The Communalist will look like a part of the community to avoid conflict yet doesn’t really connect or become involved. She will appear to be moving along in life but is merely “narced out” on the spiritual message of the day. Type Nine can become very comfortable in the consensusseeking and status quo of the Green meme. The ego for Type Nine most wants a communal existence with others that is conflict-free and easy to maintain, yet avoidance of conflict can never bring true harmony (Ooten, Unpublished;Ooten, 2010) From http://www.consciousdynamicsllc.com/home/levels_of_consciousness.html

The enneatypes it stage Orange Type One: The Judge/The Auditor. At the Orange Level, Type One, the Judge, pursues self-perfection. Type One believes that his way is the right way; he applies high standards of integrity and attention to detail to succeed through continual self-improvement. Ones at this level are concerned with rules, codification, how things are being allotted, and who is right and who is wrong. The Auditor audits himself more than anyone else (Ooten, Unpublished; Ooten, 2010). Type Two: The Provider/The Executive Assistant. Indispensability in organizations as the Executive Assistant, whether business, familial or social, is the key means of maintaining and achieving success for Type Two, the Executive Assistant at the Orange level. Type Two at this level often appears as the “power behind the throne”, giving to those in power as a means to attain power and material success for self. Executive Assistants often put themselves into the position of “gatekeeper” to the highest executive, controlling who has access to what and whom. The Provider wants his giving to be recognized, appreciated and rewarded (Ooten, Unpublished; Ooten, 2010). Type Three: The Doer/The CEO. Type Three, the Doer, develops and maintains a pristine image of competency and efficiency in the climb to the top. Operating as the CEO role in the Orange level, achievement is more important than anything else. The chameleon-like abilities of Type Three are applied to creating a waterproof image that instills trust and confidence in those with whom they relate. At the Orange level, the CEO wants others to think that she knows what she is doing, and that she will lead others where they want to go. The sky is the limit, the mountaintop is the requirement, and failure is not an option. Every person and every event is an opportunity to achieve success (Ooten, Type Four: The Idealist/The Manipulator. Envy drives competition and an emphasis on having material possessions for Type Four, the Idealist, who operates at the Orange level as the Manipulator. Individualism emphasizes the uniqueness and elitism of Type Four, who manipulates the system for what is “deserved.” Entitlement is the rationalization for doing whatever he wants, in the quest to quench the thirst of envy and desire. Image is applied to “dressing for success” or creating the “look.” Presentation of self and the surrounding environment is highly emphasized to create a feeling of material luxury and wealth (Ooten, Unpublished; Ooten, 2010). Type Five: The Sage/The Investigator. Type Five, the Sage, works at the Orange level as the Investigator, containing and preserving energy to direct it into seeking rational answers and best results. Intellectual learning, analyzing, and thinking drive the pursuit of knowledge for scientific and personal gain. Deep level, niche knowledge and research are applied to create material wealth and/or gains. Rationality is elevated as the best philosophic and scientific approach to life. Type Five at the Orange level attempts to be devoid of feelings, which cannot be quantified and qualitatively measured and lives from a state of superrationality (Ooten, Unpublished; Ooten, 2010). Type Six: The Questioner/The Frenetic. The independent mindset at the Orange level reduces the ability to trust in an outside authority and Type Six, The Questioner, must look inward for authority. Yet, Type Six still questions and doubts her inner authority. Questioning the inner authority, combined with needing external scientific proof, leads Type Six to become the Frenetic. Faith in an external authority is mistrusted. There is also a drive for material security, which can be procured only through one’s own actions. This drive can create courageous action through risk taking to seek ways to advance, forcing through fears and questions (Ooten, Unpublished; Ooten, 2010). Type Seven: The Adventurer/The Innovator. At this level, Type Seven, the Adventurer, sees the world as full of opportunity. As the Innovator, he or she is resourceful, using patterns of possibility-seeking and interconnecting ideas to envision and create, charming others to get for self. Type Seven has an inferior/ superior dichotomy, and to avoid the painful feelings of inferiority, will “level the playing field” with authority in his mind. This leads to an indirect challenge of authority, which is also used to “climb the ladder” (Ooten, Unpublished; Ooten, 2010). Type Eight: The Defender/The Boss. Type Eight, the Defender, shows up as the Boss at the Orange level, motivated by materialism and avoiding the fear of being controlled at all costs. At this level, the Boss works to ensure that he or she maintains positions of authority, imposing his own version of truth on situations and others. Intensity and lust are channeled into empire building. The Boss can only follow a very strong leader, and if one is not present, will quickly take over the group consciously or unconsciously. Type Eight at the Orange level believes that being an island is a protection from vulnerability (Ooten, Unpublished; Ooten, 2010). Type Nine: The Moderator/The Consistent Self. Type Nine, the Moderator, will go along with others to attain the fulfillment of her own desires—it is beneficial to go along with the group when the group is going in the same direction. The Consistent Self operates at a slow, steady, plodding, consistent pace of progress for material gain and advancement. Passive aggressiveness aids in maintaining her autonomy to reach her own goals when her goals are different from the group, partner, family or workplace. (Ooten, Unpublished; Ooten, 2010). Taken from: http://www.consciousdynamicsllc.com/home/levels_of_consciousness.html