Big Hormone Enneagram

This week we’re joined by Curtis, an actor, jungian dreamworker, and therapist who leads John’s jungian men’s group. Curtis takes us on a journey of masculine issues from an archetypal and mythological lens, as a continuation of the discussion we had on the serial killer pod. The individuation process and why leaving mother and integrating the feminine is important for the masculine. How men unconsciously self-sabotage as way to instigate in the ritual of individuation. How men cling to archetypal insecure masculinity in the absence of an individuation process. The relationship between rage and intimacy in men. The “death mother” and the encounter with the shadow. What should men do? And finally, How dream work can be a gateway to accessing the unconscious.

This week our friend Corinna, a sexual 5, is joining us to roast the worst parts of dating the head types. Don’t forget to sign up for John’s session on the centers at this week’s Global Enneagram Summit using his link:https://shiftnetwork.infusionsoft.com/go/egs20/JohnL . We start off where we left off roasting type 4. Then we get into it with Corinna with 5 (26:27), 6 (52:50), finishing off with 7 (71:11). Remember to hit up our BHE Love Line voicemail with your comments and/or questions to be featured in a future episode. Call (323) 696-0647 today.

Episode Art [Lambis Stratoudakis]

This week we’re roasting the worst parts of dating each type. Everything that sucks about dealing with each type romantically. But first, be sure to sign up for John’s session on the centers coming up at the Global Enneagram Summit using his link: https://shiftnetwork.infusionsoft.com/go/egs20/JohnL . We start off with the gut types. 8, 9 (18:50), 1 (25:20) and finish off with 2 (33:56) and 3 (42:01). We’ll continue with 4 and the head types in Part II of this series. Don’t forget to send in your BHE Love Line questions and comments to be featured in a future episode. Leave us a voicemail at (323) 696-0647.

Od's back in da house for a very hormonal episode on astrological compatibility and chemistry. Why he thinks the sign of your mars placement can determine sexual chemistry. The difference between the attraction compatibility of mars vs venus. How the north node and south nodes reveal how our life purposes intersect and what you might be learning from a partner. The Juno astroid and what we deeply desire for long term relationships. The Pattern vs Co-Star astrology apps. And finally, Od demonstrates these ideas by showing us the hormonal chemistry dynamics of the BHE crew. 

Courtney’s back to finish off the pain thots who didn't feel the 6 and 9 Object Relations in our previous pods got the adequate TLC. We start off with a refresh on what attachment type object relations are. And each of the ‘misses’ and O.R. dynamics for 3, 6 (17:28), and 9 (50:42). Is ‘authority figure’ the best way to describe how 6s externally look for support? The 9 responses to #nota4 on the forums. How the attachment types each represent the archetypal human. And we wrap up interviewing DG on the 9’s O.R. dynamics and rage. How to get our 9 babies to show up.

Back at it with another juicy episode on attraction and sexual display from the point of view of the different instincts. What are the instinctual love languages? The role gender plays and other factors. The way each instinct is framing how an attraction is going. We each take a look at this for ourselves in the context of dating and all the games we play. The reciprocity and contextualizing of social. The provocative hooking and spilling of sexual. And the grounded sensuality and consummation of self-pres.

We gotta vent about this damn election y’all. We talk about what might happen in the coming weeks. Riots and violence in the streets depending on who wins. How mercury retrograde might influence the election. Why Trump commands such a cult following. How Trump’s Michael Teachings King archetype plays a role in his ability to galvanize a following. And how things could still get worse even if Biden wins. 

Courtney’s back with us to dive into the mind’s eye of the head center. How the mind is how we frame things and what generates the stories we tell ourselves. How each head type uses narratives to distort reality. What is it about 6s and head types that people identify with and like? How the center perspective of spiritual teachers influences their teachings. Gurdjieff’s gut center style vs that of his students. The verbal/language orientation of the head center making head types great teachers and dissectors. How COVID is making us all 6. We wrap up with our experience of what head types bring to each of us.  

This week we’re diving into the ocean of the heart center. How heart types frame things within an emotional landscape. Starting out with 3s and how, contrary to popular belief, they’re a very emotional type. Emeka falling in love with a 3. How heart types give emotional context. John and Nancy’s romantic heart-centered approach to the enneagram. Symbols representing an eternal beating heart. How the heart space is about allowing something or someone to transform and change your sense of who you are. What it means to fall in love and why that’s central to heart types. Wrapping up with collective experiences of the heart in concerts, church, and protests. Music as entry point to open up the heart. 

How do we learn the enneagram? This week the boys start off with modes of learning and motivations for getting into the enneagram. And from there, a freeform dive into the archetypal energy of the gut center. How David and Emeka learned the enneagram as gut types. Gut types channelling power and autonomy at the root level of existence. Channeling zeitgeist change and using the non-verbal energy of the body to create transformative experiences. Finally, David tells the story of his interesting gut experience with a Sexual 8, Amma the hugging saint.