Author : A. H. Almaas
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 28,88 MB
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0834843943
More than just a tool to diagnose your personality type, the Enneagram was originally developed to help people find the ultimate freedom of consciousness and achieve spiritual liberation. A. H. Almaas brings us back to this original mission as he shares the essential keys that will help readers break free from the limitations and distortions of each type’s fixation—and to express their true spiritual nature in everyday life.
Author : A. H. Almaas
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 28,38 MB
Release : 2000-09-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0834824035
A “heartily recommend[ed]” text for “Enneagram enthusiasts . . . and followers of every spiritual tradition”—by the creator of the Diamond Approach to Self-Realization (Helen Palmer, author of The Enneagram) Facets of Unity presents the Enneagram of Holy Ideas as a crystal clear window on the true reality experienced in enlightened consciousness. Here we are not directed toward the psychological types but the higher spiritual realities they reflect. We discover how the disconnection from each Holy Idea—defined as an unconditioned, objective understanding of reality—leads to the development of its corresponding fixation, thus recognizing each types deeper psychological core. Understanding this core brings each Holy Idea within reach, so its spiritual perspective can serve as a key for unlocking the fixation and freeing us from its limitations.
Author : Eli Jaxon-Bear
Publisher : H J Kramer
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 20,28 MB
Release : 2009-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1932073353
Author : Sandra Goldmark
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 19,93 MB
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 1642830453
Our massive, global system of consumption is broken. Our individual relationship with our stuff is broken. In each of our homes, some stuff is broken. And the strain of rampant consumerism and manufacturing is breaking our planet. We need big, systemic changes, from public policy to global economic systems. But we don’t need to wait for them. Since founding Fixup, a pop-up repair shop that brought her coverage in The New York Times, Salon, New York Public Radio, and more, Sandra Goldmark has become a leader in the movement to demand better “stuff.” She doesn’t just want to help us clear clutter—she aims to move us away from throwaway culture, to teach us to reuse and repurpose more thoughtfully, and to urge companies to produce better stuff. Although her goal is ambitious, the solution to getting there is surprisingly simple and involves all of us: have good stuff, not too much, mostly reclaimed, care for it, and pass it on. Fixation charts the path to the next frontier in the health, wellness, and environmental movements—learning how to value stewardship over waste. We can choose quality items designed for a long lifecycle, commit to repairing them when they break, and shift our perspective on reuse and “preowned” goods. Together, we can demand that companies get on board. Goldmark shares examples of forward-thinking companies that are thriving by conducting their businesses sustainably and responsibly. Passionate, wise, and practical, Fixation offers us a new understanding of stuff by building a value chain where good design, reuse, and repair are the status quo.
Author : Eli Jaxon-Bear
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 28,8 MB
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781732952348
Your true nature is happiness and bliss. Everyone wants to be happy. This is a universal component of the human condition and may seem so self-evident that it does not bear noting. So why is it that so few people are truly happy? If it is true that our nature is happiness and bliss, why has it been so rare for people to realize this? Why has it been so rare for people to live their lives in gratitude and love? There is a living intelligence in all people that seeks ultimately to discover its true identity and source. It is a fortunate and mysterious moment when the desire for happiness leads to the investigation into personal identity, also known as self-inquiry. In the light of direct self-inquiry, limitations that once seemed to define oneself are discovered to be more like transparent lines drawn on water. They exist only on the surface of consciousness in one's imagination. When these illusions of mind are clearly exposed, true limitless being reveals itself. The Enneagram has appeared in our time as an illusory medicine to cure an imaginary disease. The disease is the egoic idea of separation from God, from one s true source. The cure is to look in the wisdom mirror of the Enneagram to see past all false identification to the truth of being. Eli Jaxon-Bear presents a radically new model of the ego and the psyche. Bringing together his background in Buddhism with the Sufi work on essence, he presents a fresh approach to awakening by using the Enneagram's nine fixated structures of ego to clearly describe who you are not. You will see how habits of egoic identification continuously appear to veil the pure, pristine consciousness that you truly are. When these habits of mind are exposed, there is a clear choice to end the bondage of ego-based suffering and to realize the vast, inherent freedom of one' s true nature. In this book, Eli gives us the map of the prison of mind and the keys to freedom.
Author : Jessica Millward
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,67 MB
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0820348791
Finding Charity’s Folk highlights the experiences of enslaved Maryland women who negotiated for their own freedom, many of whom have been largely lost to historical records. Based on more than fifteen hundred manumission records and numerous manuscript documents from a diversity of archives, Jessica Millward skillfully brings together African American social and gender history to provide a new means of using biography as a historical genre. Millward opens with a striking discussion about how researching the life of a single enslaved woman, Charity Folks, transforms our understanding of slavery and freedom in Revolutionary America. For African American women such as Folks, freedom, like enslavement, was tied to a bondwoman’s reproductive capacities. Their offspring were used to perpetuate the slave economy. Finding loopholes in the law meant that enslaved women could give birth to and raise free children. For Millward, Folks demonstrates the fluidity of the boundaries between slavery and freedom, which was due largely to the gendered space occupied by enslaved women. The gendering of freedom influenced notions of liberty, equality, and race in what became the new nation and had profound implications for African American women’s future interactions with the state.
Author : Eli Jaxon-Bear
Publisher : Hampton Roads Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 21,65 MB
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1612833411
Everybody wants to be happy. Unfortunately, relatively few achieve bliss. Eli Jaxon-Bear explores how it is possible to achieve lives filled with gratitude and love. True happiness and meaning are achieved, he asserts, when we wake up, stop our minds, and open our hearts. It is then that we discover our true selves; our core identity that is part of the ultimate living intelligence of the universe; our true source. Like Gangaji, Jaxon-Bear uses a method of self-investigation called “self-inquiry.” In the light of direct self-inquiry, limitations that once seemed to define ourselves are discovered to be more like transparent lines drawn on water. They exist only on the surface of consciousness in one’s imagination. When these illusions of mind are clearly exposed, true limitless being reveals itself. This is a book that will appeal to those who are fans of Gangaji, Byron Katie, and Eckart Tolle. It is an articulate and helpful expression of a path to fulfillment for those wrestling with questions of identity and meaning.
Author : Eli Jaxon-Bear
Publisher :
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 18,76 MB
Release : 2020-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781732952379
A revolutionary hands-on manual for helping professionals addressing all levels of therapy from symptom removal to ego strengthening and finally ego transcendence. Blending Clinical Hypnosis, Neurolinguistics, The Enneagram of Character Fixation with non-dual insights to create a new model of the psyche and the possibility of being a True Friend. By mapping the client's reality and then altering it, Jaxon-Bear shows us how to then take away the map and reveal reality. This is a revolutionary use of therapeutic techniques. We can at last transcend the ego, the holy grail of therapy since Jung. -Dr. Murray Korngold Founder of Los Angeles Society of Clinical Psychologists The skillful means . . . in The Awakened Guide transcends its use for the amelioration of symptomatology in order to address the fundamental roots of suffering. -Dr. Yigal Joseph Former Director of the NYC Psychologist-In-Training Program
Author : Eli Jaxon-Bear
Publisher :
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 23,27 MB
Release : 2018-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780692599877
An Outlaw Makes it Home: The Awakening of a Spiritual Revolutionary by Eli Jaxon-Bear is a candid, compelling and raucous spiritual adventure story, with an element of danger when he goes underground as a federal fugitive during the Vietnam War. This audacious memoir offers a powerful window into the making of a modern day spiritual revolutionary.In his search for freedom, Eli actively participated in many of the mile-stone events of the 60¿s, leading him to his spiritual activism today. From underground revolutionary to spiritual awakening and his quest for a final teacher, he takes us with him to a monastery in Japan, an initiation into a Sufi clan in Marrakesh, and the uncharted outback of Peru. This fascinating page turner leads readers around the globe with Eli on his eighteen year spiritual quest. He eventually found (a then largely unknown teacher) in India now known as Papaji. He takes us with him as he vividly describes being a freshman in college joining the civil rights movement in Montgomery, Alabama ¿during the violent protests that resulted in the Selma to Montgomery March. We are with him as he is beaten by KKK posse men and got to hear Dr. Martin Luther King preach his freedom sermon as they marched out of the church to demand one man/one vote. As horsemen with clubs cantered down the middle of the street, bearing down on his group, he thought, ¿This is America. This is happening in America in 1965.¿ It forever changed his life.His experience in Montgomery led to his working for VISTA in the ghettos of Chicago and Detroit and his being arrested during the Democratic Convention in the summer of 1968. It was at this time that he first experienced LSD, and the life-changing quality of his inward journey took him beyond the boundaries of his known universe.
Author : Papaji H. W. L Poonja
Publisher :
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 44,18 MB
Release : 2010-05-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780369321176
H.W.L. Poonja - affectionately known as Papaji - was only nine years old when he experienced his first samadhi, an altered state of consciousness where observer and object merge. As an adult, he sat in devotion with Sri Ramana Maharshi, and went on to become a master teacher in his own right, whose followers trekked across the world to sit in his presence. Wake Up and Roar is a collector's edition of teachings delivered throughout his life, edited by Eli Jaxon-Bear, a longtime student of Papaji. Originally published in two volumes, here is Papaji's landmark work bound in one elegant book with previously unreleased photographs and a new foreword from Gangaji, his best-known student. Presented in a question-and-answer format, Wake Up and Roar offers you an opportunity to awaken, here and now, regardless of background, practice, or personal circumstance. ''The Self contains everything, '' teaches Papaji. ''There is nothing apart from it. This is why you can call it emptiness. There is nothing beyond emptiness.'' Blending humor, logic, and eye-opening storytelling, Papaji extends a gracious wisdom that speaks to the earnest seeker investigating the nature of mind, enlightenment, and ''how to be in the world.'' In Wake up and Roar, he brings comfort and encouragement to practitioners from all traditions, at any stage of their inquiry into awakening
