The Law of Polarity teaches us that we can raise or lower our vibration at will. Is there a way to become more aware of where we are operating on the continuum of human experiences (e.g. Love-Hate, Fear-Courage, Conflict-Peace). How to know thyself?
How to know thyself?
Our soul is a small aspect projected from a much bigger entity called our True Energetic Self (TES/Oversoul/Higher Self). The “real you” is the Higher Self that exists much higher up in the multiverse, not in the physical universe, where we are experiencing things in human form.
- This realization changes everything! We are no longer mere mortals living at the mercy of a pantheon of gods, like the ancient Greeks believed. WE are the creator beings now!
- We purposely forget all this, when we come to a low frequency environment like Earth, because our connectivity with our Higher Self is tenuous at best. We believe we are our body or mind. Our ego or personality/lower self starts to run our life for its own survival.
The ego knows it is a temporary personality or a mental construct, that will die when the physical body dies. That’s why we start to fear death. That’s the ego talking, not the soul. We all use the ego, but we start to dissolve it, when we become more conscious and aware.
How do we do that?
In my view, the best tool for self-understanding is the Enneagram, which describes 9 basic personality types or egoic perspectives of life. No type is better or worse than any other, as each type has its own virtues, vices, key motivations and strengths summarized here (Source):
- Type One (Reformer) is principled, orderly, self-righteous, and perfectionistic. At their Best: wise, discerning, realistic, noble, morally heroic teachers, crusaders, advocates.
- Type Two (Helper) is generous, people-pleasing, possessive, and manipulative. At their Best: deeply unselfish, humble and altruistic, give unconditional love to self and others.
- Type Three (Achiever) is adaptable, ambitious, image-conscious and hostile. At their Best: self-accepting, authentic, everything they seem to be—role models who inspire others.
- Type Four (Individualist) is expressive, intuitive, self-absorbed, and depressive. At their Best: inspired, self-renewing, regenerating, profoundly creative self-expression.
- Type Five (Investigator) is perceptive, innovative, secretive, and isolated. At their Best: visionary pioneers, often ahead of their time, able to see the world in an entirely new way.
- Type Six (Loyalist) is engaging, committed, anxious, and suspicious. At their Best: self-affirming, stable, self-reliant, trusting, courageously championing themselves and others.
- Type Seven (Enthusiast) is spontaneous, versatile, acquisitive, and scattered. At their Best: they focus their talents on worthwhile goals, become appreciative, joyous, and satisfied.
- Type Eight (Leader) is self-confident, decisive, willful, and confrontational. At their Best: self-restrained, self-mastering, magnanimous, merciful, courageous, heroic, inspiring.
- Type Nine (Peacemaker) is receptive, reassuring, complacent, and resigned. At their Best: indomitable and all-embracing, able to bring people together and heal conflicts.
The types are arranged in the enneagram symbol that incorporates many laws and functions:
The enneagram is a universal mandala that starts with a circle. It represents unity (Law of One) or the complete process if followed around its periphery (see above).
- If we divide unity into three by adding an equilateral triangle inside the circle, the triad (Law of Three) represents the relationships or the three forces necessary for any phenomenon (e.g. positive-neutral-negative, affirming-reconciling-denying, etc.).
- If we divide unity by seven, we get the weblike sequence (Law of Seven) that represents the process or path of the soul. The sequence is 142857 (i.e. from type 1 to type 4 etc.) in one direction (when in stress), and 758241 in the opposite direction (when in growth).
- If we count all the points where the sequence crosses the triangle, we get 12 points of intersection (Law of Twelve), which is the magic number used in our multiverse structure.
The enneagram arranges the 9 personality types into three triads or centers of intelligence:
- Doing triad (centered in the body/gut instinct; anger types 8, 9, 1) seeking autonomy; concerned with maintaining resistance (boundaries) and control of the environment.
- Thinking triad (centered in the head; fear types 5, 6, 7) seeking safety and security; concerned with anxiety, insecurity, ego defenses, strategies and beliefs.
- Feeling triad (centered in the heart; shame types 2, 3, 4) seeking attention; concerned with self-image or their attachment to stories about their false self/false personality.
No matter what type we are, we use all three interacting centers of intelligence. But these triads tell us what function the ego is most strongly distorting or blocking in our lives.
What makes the enneagram dynamic?
Unlike other personality typing systems that simply label us one static thing or another, the enneagram is a dynamic “3D” system that helps us understand how we change over time.
- It describes both horizontal and vertical movement of our basic personality type, which does not change from one type to another after emerging in our early childhood.
- But we can become healthier or higher acting people, when we recognize and release some of the blockages or distortions that the ego has built around our soul (always within us).
Each personality type may move horizontally in the direction of integration (when in health, growth, self-actualization) OR in the direction of disintegration (when stressed, unhealthy, or neurotic) along the path of the soul, i.e. the sequences shown below (left, click to enlarge).
For example, when a stressed type One deteriorates, they go to type Four and condemn them-selves harshly becoming depressed, hopeless and emotionally disturbed. When a healthy One goes to Seven, they go from obligation to enthusiasm, from constraint to freedom of action.
Every personality type can also move vertically along the continuum of traits described as 9 Levels of Development (above, right). They are grouped into healthy (levels 1-3), average (levels 4-6) and unhealthy ranges (levels 7-9), and include several traits for each type briefly summarized in this Table (based on Riso-Hudson nomenclature, click to enlarge).
What I have come to realize is that these traits are not pulled out of thin air. They are related to the 64 Gates (mostly at Shadow and Gift frequencies) described by Richard Rudd and others in their updated I Ching systems. My research suggests that certain enneatypes are associated with certain traits that correspond to the person’s soul blueprint. It’s nature and nurture!
Final Thoughts
This post is meant to introduce all my readers to the enneagram system, which has profoundly changed my life for the better. It is a system of self-understanding that extends to all the other people in our life (e.g. spouse, children, coworkers, etc.). It allows us to have more compassion for the way they function and see the world, because all perspectives are valid.
“We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of self.” – Cyril Connolly
In a higher sense, the enneagram describes nine distinct ways that we forget our connection with the Divine, as Don Riso and Russ Hudson observed. But it also shows us a path we can use to transform ourselves. Toni Ann Winninger (channeling The Masters) wrote:
“Know that each soul calls to itself what it needs to experience. You are always in the right place at the right time to work on your life lessons.
All lessons are set up in negativity, so the soul may see if it recognizes the desired test and may then decide how to deal with it.”
According to Riso and Hudson: “In the real world, healthy people do not live in a constant state of Zen-like enlightenment, nor do they achieve total personhood – whatever that might mean.” But the ultimate goal is to move around the enneagram and integrate the healthy potentials of all 9 types to become a balanced, fully functioning person.
Guy Needler said the ego is the human condition in 99.999% of cases, but we do experience, learn and evolve from the egoic perspective as well. It is a different personality from our soul, which is an aspect of the total personality of our True Energetic Self, which changes over many lifetimes, as it matures and becomes wiser and more loving and more powerful.
Model of a 3-dimensional enneagram (by Raremoon; Source)
“He who knows others is learned. He who knows himself is wise.” – Lao Tzu
NOTE: Part 2 of the Enneatype series (companion article) is here: Do Enneatypes Reflect Soul Blueprints? – Big Picture Questions.com
For more information, please see:
Don Riso & Russ Hudson: Home – The Enneagram Institute & Learn the Enneagram – The Enneagram Institute & Free Riso-Hudson Materials – The Enneagram Institute, Personality Types, 1996 & The Wisdom of the Enneagram, 1999
Renee Baron & Elizabeth Wagele: Are You My Type, Am I Yours, 1995
Kathy Hurley & Theodorre Donson: Discover Your Soul Potential: Using the Enneagram to Awaken Spiritual Vitality, 2000
Toni Ann Winninger: Masters of the Spirit World » Planet Earth
Richard Rudd: Gene Keys, 2009 & Gene Keys Network | Living Library (website)
Guy Needler: Home – Guy Steven Needler | The Dawn of a New Age of Science (new website) & 5 books: The History of God, Beyond the Source – Book 1, Beyond the Source – Book 2, Avoiding Karma, The Origin Speaks, 2015, The Anne Dialogues, 2016
What Is a Spiritual Hero’s Journey? – Big Picture Questions.com
Is It Spiritual To Express Anger? – Big Picture Questions.com
Where Do Fear Patterns Come From? – Big Picture Questions.com
Do Enneatypes Reflect Soul Blueprints? – Big Picture Questions.com
What Are the Stages Of Spiritual Development? – Big Picture Questions.com
Where Do Human and Other Souls Come From? – Big Picture Questions.com
How Does Reincarnation Work? – Big Picture Questions.com
What Is the Law Of Gender? – Big Picture Questions.com
What Is Spiritual Bypassing? – Big Picture Questions.com
How To Release Old Limiting Beliefs? – Big Picture Questions.com
How To Reframe Your Life? – Big Picture Questions.com
How To Dissolve Your Victim Patterns? – Big Picture Questions.com
What Are Siddhis Or Divine Gifts? – Big Picture Questions.com
What Are Some Common Love Issues? – Big Picture Questions.com
What Are the Core Issues Of Humanity? – Big Picture Questions.com
What Are the Three Spiritual Forces To Master? – Big Picture Questions.com
Is There a Manual On How To Become a Spiritual Master? – Big Picture Questions.com
What Is a Fully Immersed Soul? – Big Picture Questions.com
What Is the Law Of Divine Oneness? – Big Picture Questions.com
What Is the Law Of Polarity? – Big Picture Questions.com
What Is the Law Of Rhythm? – Big Picture Questions.com
What Is the Law Of Action? – Big Picture Questions.com
What Is the Law Of Compensation? – Big Picture Questions.com
What Is the Law Of Cause and Effect? – Big Picture Questions.com
Are We Having Accelerated Lives? – Big Picture Questions.com
What Is the Law Of Vibration? – Big Picture Questions.com
Raremoon: enneagram 3d rotation (84YWB92TA) by Raremoon
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Thankyou Ulla. I will read the info of those links.☺
Thank you for your kind words, Dave. The EGO is a transient construct made from a series of programs and limiting filters, which create our temporary human personality that we need to anchor us to this reality. It is our user interface with the outside world. We use it to take care of our basic needs. But the ego dissolves, when the physical body demises. Yet nothing is lost, because everything (including the ego’s likes, dislikes, quirks, etc.) is being recorded in real-time throughout our lives and experienced by our Higher Self in real-time as it happens. BUT at death, the ego loses its command and control of the sentience it had for incarnating here.
After death, the ego’s temporary human personality becomes like a drop in the ocean, when the SOUL’s true personality takes over with its VAST experience gained from tens of thousands of lifetimes all over the physical universe. But the soul is only one aspect of the total (or composite) personality of the HIGHER SELF (True Energetic Self, Oversoul, Godhead, Supersoul).
That much bigger personality changes over hundreds of thousands of lifetimes, as it matures and becomes a wiser and more loving and more powerful creator entity in training (and eventually a Source Entity in its own right at some event point in the “future”). The Higher Self is a composite entity, not dominated by any one soul’s personality (let alone the transient ego constructs).
When we talk about “masters” (e.g. Buddha, Jesus), they are “composite hybrid souls” made of various parts from a number of different souls within the same Higher Self. Each soul contributes their particular skills, abilities or “specialisms” into one composite being that incarnates as a master. They also come here with more sentience to begin with (e.g. Buddha had 6% vs. typical human has 2.5% sentience/soul). Why? Because they have a larger world mission to accomplish (e.g. jumpstart humanity’s overall frequency, become a world teacher, etc.). Hope that helps. Here are some posts that explain a bit more:
How Does Reincarnation Work? – Big Picture Questions.com
http://wp.me/p5EGgc-a0Q
How To Shift From Ego To Soul Activation? – Big Picture Questions.com
http://wp.me/p5EGgc-ilc
What Are the Stages Of Spiritual Development? – Big Picture Questions.com
http://wp.me/p5EGgc-hDT
How Detailed Is the Soul’s Life Review? – Big Picture Questions.com
http://wp.me/p5EGgc-iCc
I find your work here very refreshing and always putting a new perspective on things for me- so much kudos to you and thankyou. Slightly off topic, but connected: if we as the ego are like a little toe being wiggled by our TES which dips into an organic suit now and again and many egos/ souls form 1 TES before its goal of becoming a Source itself, which dominant ego would have the perception of becoming the TES as there are many making it up? Surely not all egos would feel this sole pleasure, if you can call it that of ‘I am It’ and I have arrived to this great point of beingness?
That is the part I have great difficulty- now back on track to discussion about the masters- if the TES has had many aspects which one is the actual TES or dominant one to say ‘I am He!’
Maybe it is like that excellent Star Trek episode “Requiem for Methuselah”(1969 starring James Daly) of an immortal man on a hidden planet who calls himself Flint and after a time forced by events to announce himself to Kirk et al saying “I was Hannibal, Merlin, Alexander, Da Vinci..” etc but the man Flint is just another name he chooses to use with full consciousness knowing who and what he is/was with no change. Now that is something!
What is beyond the Origin, maybe another Origin? That’s a commonly asked question by you, me and others. The last couple of Satsangas addressed it as well. Here is what Needler said:
“There’s not really another Origin beyond the Origin. It’s more of a case of the Origin knows it’s much bigger, but this much “biggerness” is also Origin, but it’s beyond the structure that it is currently investigating in this area of polyomniscient sentient self-awareness.
The Origin’s just told me, I think by now with my ability to move within different event spaces I would have discovered that. Believe me, there’s only one current area of polyomniscient sentient self-awareness. That’s what I’ve just got from the Origin.”
Needler’s 9th book will be called, “Beyond the Origin.” He said it’s not actually beyond the Origin, it’s just beyond the Origin’s currently known area where we are. But SE12 is helping the Origin by starting to map out the structure at the margins or in the “area beyond” in that future event space. Nevertheless, it will still be Origin, one Origin.
In “The Origin Speaks,” the Origin said it has experienced ALL event spaces that are part of it. None of them have another area of self-awareness. The Origin doesn’t want any stray sentient energies disturbing the plan that it and the Source Entities have. By now the Origin can create sentience and also terminate any stray sentient energies and return them back to their basic condition. The Origin said: “I like to keep a clean house.” 😉
Hello Ulla, always nice to hear from you. I’d read that once ages ago, but was always under the impression that Event Space was the only other being and predated The Origin, ergo wouldn’t that make it The real Origin or creator of all? Could be wrong of course.
I will go one step further and expand on your reply. If other beings coexisted with The Origin once, then there could be an entire set of them(siblings?) even beyond its immense perception, watching observing it, waiting to see how it(The Origin) performs its experiments or tests! It too could be like us for lack of a better term a test subject as well. Food for thought.☺
Hi Dave: That question is answered in “The Origin Speaks” by Guy Needler, who describes how the Origin came to be the one and only being left standing after Event Space wiped out all the other evolving beings except the Origin. There is nothing outside of the THE Origin as far as we know. But it only knows <0.001% of its area now, so we will be mapping its area for many, many, many cycles to come. Eventually, we (our Higher Selves) become Source Entities as well, as we turn nothingness into sentience.
Thankyou, but the ultimate question always remains what is outside/ beyond The One, as it is creating the illusion of life for itself by dividing and choosing to forget so that it can learn and progress?
Maybe once it has completed its cycle of mapping its own sentience, it too will meet with even greater beings than itself? Cheers and best regards!
Dave
Hi Dave: This is true in the sense that the ultimate creator of everything is The One, meaning The Origin/Absolute. We are all within it and part of it. That’s what the Law of Oneness states. BUT there is also transient fragmentation, differentiation or “division of labor” (if you like) to allow different entities to explore different levels of creation in more detail. Think of an ant that is exploring the ground level or the bacterial flora in your gut or the planet itself holding many entities or the star (Sun in our solar system) vs. human level entities with human lives. They’re all viewing creation from a slightly different perspective, which together give a more complete picture that turns “nothingness” into “somethingness” or useful sentience for the Origin. It is not an illusion or a secret. This is what my book describes in more detail (Spiritual Guide To Our Multiverse). We are One. 🙂
Most psychics with true connection/insight to The One all relay back that there is only one higher self or ID; to believe otherwise is totally false and illusory! We are in fact One being only pretending to be the ‘Many’ and then the ‘One’ in an endless cycle of creation. You may call these parts Oversouls/Godheads/TES whatever, but in fact the illusion is of being split, they are all one on an invisible level.
This is what so called spiritual leaders are keeping secret. There is only one point of creation call it what you will, God or The One, creating through its dreams an elaborate highly complicated multitude of things, but all is illusion. We shouldn’t forget this!