Kara and John introduce the concept of the instinctual blindspot and define some key terms around “The Work”

2:00  – Why we can’t we always type ourselves?

4:00 – What do we mean by “identity”? How is this different from consciousness? What’s the role of attention?

8:00 – What is self preservation, social, and sexual instincts and what do we mean by a stack?

9:30 – Is our Enneatype and our instinctual stack nature or nurture? What’s the relationship between the two?

15:30 – How do we work with the personality, our identity, ego, and increase levels of consciousness?

17:00 – What do we mean by “spiritual”?

19:00 – Humans as unconscious machines

21:30 – What’s the difference between spiritual work and upgrading the circumstances of the personality?

23:45 – What do we mean by “presence” vs ”an attitude” vs “awareness” vs “rejecting our experience”?

26 – What do we mean by “sensation”, “emotion”, “thoughts”, “perception”, “feelings”, and “essence”?