Conversation | Ego & Essence

Diving right in, Abram, Creek, and Drew talk about the often used, but rarely understood concepts of “ego” and “essence” in the enneagram system. In this episode, they explore:

• What is an ego? What is essence?  How can we understand these important but confusing concepts?
• What roles do ego and essence play in the enneagram?
• Resources to dig deeper

 

“Navigating our inner depths…one fathom at a time.”

 

Links:

• Oscar Ichazo
• Claudio Naranjo
• Sigmund Freud’s Id, Ego, and Superego
• David Benner (Check out his trilogy, Surrender to Love, The Gift of Being Yourself, and Desiring God’s Will)
• Marilyn Vancil (“The adapted self” in her book Self to Lose, Self to Find)
• James Hollis - “The protections of the past are the prisons of today”
• Cognitive Bias
• Fr. Richard Rohr – “The true self is unoffendable”
• Helen Palmer – The Enneagram: Understanding Yourself and Others in Your Life
• Parker Palmer – A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life
• Creekmore’s music on Spotify.
• The Nine Dimensions of the Soul: Essence and the Enneagram, by David Hey
• Dissolving the Ego, Realizing the Self, edited by Scott Jeffrey
• Reclaiming Your Real Self, by Rick Johnson
• http://www.enneagramokc.com/
• Leslie Hershberger – “Your enneagram type is both your opening to love and your obstacle to love.

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Editing/Production: Seth Creekmore

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• Abram--Insta: @integratedenneagram
• Creek—Web: www.creekmoremusic.com; Insta: @creekmoremusic
• Drew—Web: www.drewmoser.com; Insta: @enneagrammers; Twitter: @drewmoser