Enneagram wisdom frameworks: a tool for tending the sacred
Six Enneagram Wisdom Frameworks express the universality of patterns operative in nine groupings of general characteristics of human behaviour, feelings, and motivations. While the element of universality is absolutely true, the element of personal uniqueness is also absolutely true, e.g. facial features, fingerprints, DNA structure. Enneagram Wisdom Frameworks, considered metaphorically, name the "facial features, fingerprints, DNA structures" in general of human behaviour, feeling, and motivational patterns. The individuality emerges through the unique responses and choices of the person within these patterns.
Another universal human experience is that deepening
"spirituality/sacred" invitations constantly present themselves even
when we are not aware of inner journeying as a call of life. These
"spirituality/sacred" invitations are, as well, the content of
deliberately engaging in the unique evolution of personal inner
journeying. Each one of these invitations flags the beginning of an epic
journey cycle - the stuff of fairy tales at the coal-face of our living
into growth.
In this presentation, six epic journeying stages will be named and
juxtaposed with five basic Enneagram Wisdom Frameworks.
Life doesn't begin with the naming of Enneagram Wisdom Frameworks
or insight into the existence of epic journeying cycles in life
journeying patterns. Both these universal wisdom naming systems provide
enlightenment about patterns already present and lived out. As well,
there are many clues in both wisdom systems that help us know the
flavour and direction of personally unique invitations to "tend the
sacred" with awareness and freedom as deepening inner journeying
invitations present themselves.
Patricia Lucy Tierney, RSJ, co-ordinates Virginia Waters Self-Care -
an inner wisdom consultancy service.
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