Before humanity ate the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil we just saw everything as “good”.  We did not impose judgements on everything that came into our lives.  But, splitting things has now become common place and we hold tightly to the things we like and are comfortable with, and we push away the things that may be tedious or hard to understand.   The most glaring example of this in the world today is politics. One side feels their views are the “best” views and the other sides views are, well, the “worst”.

The Lord’s Prayer: A Path for Transformative Living Illuminated by the Enneagram was officially released at an intimate gathering on August 13th. Seventy eager followers lined up to have a brief catch up with author, Carol Ann Gotch, and have their copies signed.

The enneagram, like all symbols when given our attention, reveals new and evolutionary wisdom.  It is a key, giving meaning to the greater depths of reality, as well as our being human.

In an effort to open to the greater depths of the enneagram, we are offering an inspired revisioning of the symbol here.

Ever find yourself in this scenario? 
You say what you mean and think you mean what you are saying…. 
Then BAM! “I said what? I did that?” 
You look to the left, then look to the right in disbelief.
You take a look around in wonder…
“Here I am again?”

Traditionally, autumn is the season associated with grief and earlier this month, Carol Ann led us in an exploration of this dark emotion.   Dark, not because it is ‘bad’ but because it is hidden.  We live in what has been called a ‘death-denying’ culture and when we deny death and loss, we lose the ability to grieve consciously.

We were born from warmth and light, a soft glowing and slightly wavering light within an inner warmth.
It is an ancient mystery that we carry within, a mystery that is veiled and hidden within the soul and spirit of each one of us.In ancient times this ‘mystery wisdom’ of our beginnings, was witnessed by awakened individuals.

In order to truly benefit from the enneagram, we are required to stay present to how we behave, how we react, and how we respond to people and the world around us. Our ability to observe ourselves is never to be undervalued. 

Often, people begin working with the enneagram and interpret the teachings as things “we should do” and things “we should not do”. But we soon discover that there is no ‘right’ way of behaving. There is only the way that is truly right for us in the moment. 

The LIGHT approaches and the annual ritual of Christmas and Epiphany repeats today in ever new ways – darkness itself is lifted into the presence of Light.

In the presence of light there can be no darkness, which leads us to the question, where is light’s presence in our world today?

One aspect of seeing the world through the lens of plant communication is to see the constant hope and love expressed by the world of plants, an expression that can become accessible to us.

While facilitating the plant communication workshop series, Through the Green Door, it became clear that involvement of the heart is central to the exploration of communication with plants. The heart is a place of receptivity.

There is snow on the ground in Manitoba and many people are wringing their hands at its early arrival.  Somehow the protracted warmth of this autumn had many of us lulled into believing it might just go on forever.  We fell into a temporary forgetting that nature has her seasons and that the inevitable change is unconcerned with our little wills and desires.