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An Ancient Spirituality
But
What is it?
what
is it
for?
▪ Myers-Briggs ▪ Process Communication Model
▪ Strengths Finder ▪ Holtzman Inkblot Technique
▪ Five Love Languages ▪ Hexaco Personality Inventory
▪ Highly sensitive people ▪ Neo Personality Inventory
▪ Strengths Finder ▪ Personality Assessment
▪ Keirsey temperament sorter
System
▪ Birkman Method
▪ Disc Assessment
▪ Hornevian Type
▪ Winslow Personality Profile
“The Enneagram does
not have the intention of
flattering or stroking the
‘empirical ego.’ Rather it
aims to support efforts
to let go of or render
unnecessary what
Thomas Merton calls the
false self.’”
SIN
—Richard Rohr, OFM
“Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person:
a false self.
This is the [person] I want myself to be but who
cannot exist, because God does not know anything
about [this person]. And to be unknown of God is
altogether too much privacy.
My false and private self is the one who wants to
exist outside the reach of God’s will and God’s love—
outside of reality and outside of life. And such a self
cannot help but be an illusion.
We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least
of all the ones we cherish about ourselves—the ones
we are born with and which feed the roots of sin. For
most of the people in the world, there is no greater
subjective reality than this false self of theirs, which
cannot exist. A life devoted to the cult of this shadow
is what is called a life of sin.”
THOMAS MERTON
“missing the mark”
▪ Logismoi DEFINITIION= “thoughts” from logos: “word” ▪ Logismoi CONNOTATION= evil thoughts, little things, distractions, cracks in the heart that lead us from an awareness of spiritual presence (God’s, ours, others’) and cause us to focus on absence. ▪ Logismoi EXAMPLES=“Seven Deadly Sins.”
“When the unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he passes through waterless places seeking rest, but he finds none. Then he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came,’ And when he comes he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. Then the goes and brings with him seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first.”
Logismoi = sin that generates “false self” ▪ “We stand condemned not because logismoi come into us but for putting the logismoi to bad use. It is possible to be shipwrecked as a result of logismoi, and it is possible to be crowned as a result of logismoi.” ▪ “If you do not have logismoi, you do not have hope. If you do not have logismoi, you have the act. This means that he wo does not battle sin in his mind nor contradict it physically indulges in it. For he who does the deeds is not troubled by logismoi.” ▪ “It is good not to hide the logismoi but to declare them to spiritual and discerning elders, not to those who have only gone white with time…”
▪ “Shall the axe boast without him that hews with it?” [Isa. 10:!5]. As for you, see that you neither lend your hand to the logismoi nor take pleasure in them, and they are impotent.” ▪ “Just as with a chest filled with clothes, they rot away in time if a person abandons it, so it is with the logismoi. If we do not physically perform them, they rot away in time and disappear.” ▪ “Just as if somebody puts a snake and a scorpion into a jar and seals up the mouth, they die completely in the course of time, likewise evil logismoi also expire with patient endurance.”
“If one of the monks should wish to acquire
experience with the cruel demons and
become familiar with their skill, let him
observe the logismoi and let him note their
observe
intensity and their relaxation, their
interrelationships, their occasions…and
interrelationships, occasions…and let
him seek from Christ the reasons
reasons for these
things. For the demons become quite
infuriated with those who partake more
infuriated
gnostically
gnostically in the practical
practical life…”
“Wherever evil enters, there is also ignorance;
“Wherever ignorance;
the hearts of the holy will be filled with
knowledge."
knowledge."LOGISMOI ENNEAGRAM VICES BY TYPE ▪ 1. anger ONE: anger ▪ 2. pride TWO: pride ▪ 3. thirst for self-glory THREE: vanity ▪ 4. sadness, self-pity FOUR: envy ▪ 5. avarice FIVE: avarice ▪ 6. SIX: ▪ 7. gluttony SEVEN: gluttony ▪ 8. lust EIGHT: lust ▪ 9. acedia, spiritual apathy NINE: sloth
▪ Evagrius Ponticus’ Skemmata: “the irascibles” attack on the soul:
▪ Anger and sadness join in the attack on the soul and shape a logismoi
that:
“emerges as intertwining streams of
violence, fear, and frustration that lurk
in the depths of the human heart.”
▪ “When rightly ordered, the irascibles energy can produce certain
virtues: namely, courage and endurance.”
▪ “When used rightly, the irascible is a power of the soul capable of
destroying Logismoi.”EVIL SPIRITS/THOUGHTS ENNEAGRAM VICES ▪ 1. anger ONE: anger ▪ 2. pride TWO: pride ▪ 3. vanity, thirst for self-glory THREE: vanity ▪ 4. sadness, self-pity FOUR: envy ▪ 5. avarice FIVE: avarice ▪ 6. (violent) fear and frustration SIX: fear (phobic & counter-phobic) ▪ 7. gluttony SEVEN: gluttony ▪ 8. lust EIGHT: lust ▪ 9. acedia, spiritual apathy NINE: sloth
EGO VICE VIRTUE HOLY IDEA WOUND ▪ 1. Perfectionist anger serenity Perfection “There is something wrong; I am flawed.” ▪ 2. Giver pride humility Freedom of Will “I will never get my needs met; I have no needs.” ▪ 3. Performer vanity authenticity Hope “There is no support; it’s not safe to feel.” ▪ 4. Idealist envy equanimity Origin/ Identity “There is no center; there’s been a tragedy.” ▪ 5. Observer avarice non-attachment Omniscience “There is no connection; I am small and deficient.” ▪ 6. Skeptic fear courage Faith “There is no one to trust; I am terrified.” ▪ 7. Epicure gluttony sobriety Wisdom “There’s no divine plan; I must make one.” ▪ 8. Protector lust innocence Truth “Something terrible happened; I did it.” ▪ 9. Mediator sloth right action Love “There is no unconditional love; I am inferior.”
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