Episode 3

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.