Sinsomnia

Today we focus on the “soul purpose” or “soul perspective” of having an Enneagram type and instinct stacking. We talk about systems like the Akashic records and astrological natal charts and how it mirrors our personal type structure. All aspects of personality like our dominant functions and blindspots are looked at as a sort of contraction and expansion of the human experience. The tension of personality and soul are explored in archetypal and personal ways as we question our purpose, our suffering, and our creative expression as human beings.

Resources;

Find Valeria - https://linktr.ee/ValeriaKechichian?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=e51b0c92-ce96-4c3c-91e8-de763a3eff73

James Hillman - ‘The Soul’s Code’

David’s Bhavachakra - https://enneasite.com/2022/12/01/the-bhavachakra-of-the-spatial-psyche/

The three dream girls are back for a new ‘season’, ready to explore the realms of the personality, the unconscious, and other strange things we experience as humans. Kaisa brings in her recent experiences with her life and dreams while on a break from the podcast, and the girls reflect on what they’ve enjoyed about the past ‘seasons’. They begin to dream up new ideas going forward with the pod, including other worlds, spiritual traditions, and forms of creative expression. Each host offers two of their favorite topics to start diving into in the new year, spiraling into many different thoughts and ideas that feel energizing and activating.

Kristen and Sammy discuss the results of their head center dream incubations, asking the question "What am I using to conceal my own personal void?” They discuss the enneagram and instincts as well as Jung’s cognitive functions to understand where their fears are originating and revealing themselves through the symbols of the dreams.

Resources;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_(mind_game)

After a brief pause on recording and releasing episodes, Sammy and Kristen are back in the new year with a refreshing idea on the head center to help them dive back into the theoretical podcast game. Kristen talks about an experience she had that allowed her to have a personal resonance with the head center and the conversation inspires the hosts to discuss similar concepts or realizations on what head types or our own head centers are trying to avoid while simultaneously creating.

Today’s discussion is on the possible symbols relating to the head center in dreams. We go through themes like the physical head, swords, medication, air, birds, video games, and more. Each idea is met with references to external resources, personal experiences, dreams, or examples to highlight where these symbols live in the head center. These dream symbols are not to be taken literally or be fully attributed to ‘the head center’; this is a way for us to be thinking creatively about our enneagram type and dreams.

To continue the topic of the head center, we discuss how metaphor can be a way to ‘open’ us up to different narratives or perspectives. When bringing in the aspect of ‘play’ to dreams, symbols can feel more autonomous and alive, giving us a chance to be impacted and moved by them. Kristen and Sammy talk about their own experiences ‘playing’ and being fascinated by metaphor, tying in previous topics from the head center. Kristen also talks about a recent experience with a shift from looking at a dream in a flat way as opposed to a creative and metaphorical way.

Resources;

‘The Ravaged Bridegroom’ - Marion Woodman

This week we discuss Rudolf Otto’s piece ‘The Idea of the Holy’. We use this written work as a way to talk about the limits of the head center, what could exist outside of those limits, and our human experience of glimpsing beyond those limits. We talk about personal examples of spiritual experiences or ego-awakenings to the rigid structure we keep ourselves under. Sometimes we feel fear, sometimes bliss, sometimes a mix of the two when a mental structure of reality falls and some unknown version of ‘truth’ reveals itself. The process can be painful but rewarding.

Kristen & Sammy are back to tinker with the ideas of the head center. They talk about what constitutes a conscious or unconscious choice and how the ego might be ‘getting in the way’ of its connection to the head center, animal nature, and divinity. They bring in different ‘maps’ such as astrology, tarot, and philosophy to understand the depths of these topics like fate and free will.

Resources;

‘The Tarot: A Key to the Wisdom of the Ages’ by Paul Foster Case

‘Magic, White and Black’ by Franz Hartmann

Astrology Podcasts - ‘Nightlight Astrology’ and ‘The Astrology Podcast’

Kristen & Sammy explore the idea of narratives and inner constructs created by the head center. They question what kinds of needs might fuel certain patterns of narratives and how early in life our constructs of reality even started to build themselves. The other centers are discussed as well, showing how these types of realizations don’t happen in isolation. They bring in their own experiences, dreams, symbols, and ideas to try and understand the unconscious and conscious power of the creative mind when stuck in a narrative trance.

Resources;

‘The Mind of God’ by Paul Davies 

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It’s spooky season, so the team decided to talk about nightmares since it correlates synchronistically with the head center. Kristen mainly takes the stage here with her history of nightmares and how it could have been helping her experience repressed fear and regulating her emotional health. They discuss how nightmares could be a direct way to experience all three instinctual centers.

Resources;

‘The Twenty Four Hour Mind’ Article;

https://www.themarginalian.org/index.php/2012/08/13/the-twenty-four-hour-mind-rosalind-cartwright/

James Hillman; ‘Pan and the Nightmare’

James Hillman lecture; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qRRPBAx_CQ