ePISODE 5: ENNEAGRAMS, CHARIOTS & 7TH hEAVEN

LISTEN NOW

More information

1. OuspenskyToday.org (the Enneagram in motion)
2. The Fourth Way (a summary)
3. The Fourth Way (the book in pdf)
4. In Search of the Miraculous (summary wikipedia)
5. Merkabah Mysticism and its decent from sacred knowledge to it being prohibited and secreted. (Wikipedia)
6. Muraqabah  Sufi Meditation (Wikipedia) 
7. Cyclical Numbers  

KNOW THYSELF! 
A lot of people, (practically everyone who has heard of the Enneagram), has heard of the wrong, corrupted version that has turned a method to develop our consciousness and self-awareness and connection to God into something about personality types, where people 'find their number' and something that is truly useless and not worth anyone's time.
The true enneagram that was taught by P.D. Ouspensky in his books The Fourth Way and In Search of the Miraculous is very different, has tremendous value, and is constructed based on the 'law of sevens' which is the cyclical mathematical marvel of 7ths and it's decimal .142857142857.... and it's repeating cyclical pattern as mapped out on a circle.
But mostly, it is about a way to examine the mind and become in harmony with the universe through the practice that they called The Work. It is a practice of mindfulness that is a blend of Sufi Muraqaba Meditation,  Jewish Merkaba mysticism, Buddhism, Hinduism and his own spin on things . It was especially created for the western mind and lifestyle. The idea being that one didn't have to become an ascetic, monk or fakir in order to become enlightened or reach the highest heaven - in fact - that was probably a hinderance as it tended to disconnect from reality. It is about a Fourth Way, a kind of 'mind hacking' that enables us to fast-track our development of awareness and consciousness.

self-awareness and the fourth way

This video goes into more information about what Ouspensky referred to as Self-Remembering which is the development of awareness and attention through his practice. 

---

enneagram emergent patterns

I have noted some of the emergent patterns of the enneagram here and this might help you follow along on the podcast, but as mentioned, I don't want you to get too bogged down on this stuff, when the real gold is found in the practice of self-observation and awareness. Gurdjieff/Ouspensky added tones to their enneagram which I have noted on some of these slides. I have added colour progression through the spectrum since the numbers also seem to correspond to the visible spectra and relate in 'opposite ways to their 'opposite (complementary) colours. 

The ways which lead to the cognition of unity approach like the radii of a circle moving towards the
center; the closer the come to the center, the closer they approach one another.  P.D. Ouspensky