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The problem centers in the mind…
Until you can free yourself from the gripping power of your mind, you cannot experience true liberation. You will always be in a box that you don’t even realize you’re in.
Even with an understanding of your Enneagram type, and gaining insight into your personality patterns — habitual ways of thinking, feeling, and acting —you’re still bound by your mind.
These mental patterns (known as the fixation of each type) negatively influence your perceptions of yourself, others, and the world.
You may relate to this fixation as an internal chatterbox or “monkey” mind…
Russ Hudson, master Enneagram depth teacher, refers to the fixation as “the box you don’t even know you’re in…”
Yet, when you learn how to bring presence and awareness to your mental activities, you begin to liberate yourself from this box, and discover new perspectives of Higher Mind…
Higher Mind is the transformation from “inner chatter and dull states of consciousness, to bright, peaceful, and spacious qualities of presence,” Russ teaches.
These qualities are also referred to as the Holy Ideas of the Enneagram, nine perspectives or vantage points of nondual awareness.
The Holy Ideas are the antidote to the fixations… and your way out of the box.
For example, Holy Faith alleviates the paralyzing fear of point Six…
Holy Origin transforms the melancholy of point Four into a direct awareness of the beauty and mystery of life…
And the resentment of point One yields to the goodness inherent in nondual awareness…
While you may have experienced fleeting moments of these qualities of Higher Mind, the challenge is making them a part of your daily human experience.
This integration is what truly connects you with your essence, your soul, and others — to relate to life from your wholeness — rather than from mental constructs and emotional wounds.
Join Russ for a deep dive into the most under-taught — and least understood — aspect of the Enneagram, the Holy Ideas.
These core Enneagram teachings can help you break through the mental patterns and emotional traps of your personality — so that you can readily access powerful qualities of presence, nondual awareness, and freedom.
A powerful tool for personal and collective transformation, the 9-pointed Enneagram symbol represents nine distinct strategies for relating to yourself, others, and the world. Each of these Enneagram types has a different pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting that arises from a deeper inner motivation and worldview.
These types or styles are not who you are, but show you the patterns that tend to dominate your experience.
The Enneagram illuminates nine ways we leave presence, nine ways we forget who we really are, nine unconscious patterns that can lead us away from all we truly care about — and also nine direct pathways to awakening back to your essential nature.
When you understand it in depth, the Enneagram reveals the inherent strengths or gifts that each type wants to bring to the world.
Each of these nine gifts is truly needed for human beings to evolve, and to create a world in which we can all thrive — personally and collectively.
In this 8-part transformational intensive, Russ will guide you through each of the nine Holy Ideas — sharing powerful, type-specific teachings to expedite your spiritual journey. You’ll receive video teachings, training sessions, and experiential practices. Each class builds harmoniously upon the previous ones so that you can fully integrate what you learn into daily life.
The capacities and freedoms that tend to arise with the perspectives of Higher Mind are extraordinary — and often life-changing.
How can you live with these mind-opening insights, which can challenge your perceptions of reality, and not just hold the experience as an interesting memory?
This is where the Enneagram can help you, and where the real inner work lies…
The concept of Higher Mind is based on many centuries of people discovering and rediscovering the capacities of a deeper part of human experience than you visit in your ordinary consciousness.
Your ordinary mind and type fixation reduce your world and perceptions. The Holy Ideas, whose qualities you’ll experience through practices Russ will share with you through this training, are the antidote that can open you to more expansive perceptions, and therefore a bigger life.
In this module, you’ll discover:
In this module, you’ll discover the first two Holy Ideas corresponding with points Eight and Nine. Along the way, you’ll discover more about the fabric of the universe.
You’ll explore point Eight as a window to experiencing “living truth” — which has more to do with your contact with dynamic reality than it does with a particular formula you might see as true.
You’ll discover that the more your mind touches the dynamic field of presence, the more you’ll see reality as a living dance.
In point Nine, you’ll see not only that reality is unity, you’ll discover something kind and holding in the heart of that reality — the direct perception which can give you a sense of hope for human destiny, and an awareness of the presence of love as part of the fundamental fabric of the universe.
You’ll learn about the particular relationship between the fixated view of types 8 and 9, and the expanded perspective of each type’s Holy Idea. You’ll also engage in exercises to explore our own direct experience of these concepts.
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When you look beyond your opinions about yourself and the world, what do you see? What happens in your consciousness when you’re not busy reconstituting old views about “how things are”?
The Holy Ideas of points One and Two are partial answers to those questions, and Russ will walk you through their profound wisdom.
As you’ll discover, one of the most fundamental features of ego consciousness is the ongoing tendency to have positions about whatever is happening — and to have agendas about what you believe should be happening.
The fixations of points One and Two highlight these normal tendencies — and also invite you to see what you might discover when you’re able to relax these habits of mind.
These fixations aren’t exactly wrong. They’re simply very limited compared to what your consciousness is capable of…
In this module, you’ll discover:
In this module, you’ll discover just how much your perception of reality changes the sense of who and what you are.
Points Three and Four are about your sense of yourself and your identity — and also help you live in the amazing paradox of being both consciousness AND a particular human being.
In Point Three, ego-consciousness is invested in seeing itself as the “doer” of deeds, and therefore worthy of credit (or blame) for what happens.
Yet, some of your most satisfying moments of life are likely those in which the sense of this “doer” relaxes and you’re simply flowing with whatever you’re doing…
In Point Four, you’ll encounter the ego’s endless search for self, and experience the many ways that you’re likely trying to “be yourself” even when you’re not at all sure what that self is.
Point Four is clearly about the search for your true identity, and the gradual realization that your identity is not something you CAN construct or create…
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It’s one of the basic questions we confront when exploring the nature of mind — and you’ll discover how points Five and Six deal with this question in profound ways.
At some point, you probably learned that knowing something means memorizing facts about it — like how to swim, or what a strawberry tastes like. This may have diminished the importance of real knowing as a necessary part of your spiritual growth.
As you’ll see in this module, the deeper understandings that the Holy Ideas represent always include the heart.
You’ll learn how a growing awareness of your mind can serve as a constant ground of clear presence — always here, and always supporting your journey. In the language of the Holy Ideas, this is Holy Faith, a form of direct knowing that’s likely a complete departure from what you believe…
In this module, you’ll discover:
How can you best deal with suffering and loss in life without escaping from yourself or getting stuck in patterns? It’s one of the biggest questions human beings face.
Russ will guide you to explore the aspects of Higher Mind that relate to point Seven, revealing wisdom about what truly brings humans satisfaction and fulfilment — and what helps you tune into the aspect of direct knowing, enabling you to recognize your best path.
Point Seven reveals a quality of boundless and unconditional positivity that gives you the inner resilience needed to move through challenges.
Like the knowing in points Six and Five, this quality becomes more steady and reliable as you work through your identification with ego patterns and live with greater presence.
This quality first appears as a simple and beautiful appreciation of what is here right now. There’s no need to flee from any experience. Authentic positivity empowers us to meet our difficulties with maximum kindness…
In this module, you’ll discover:
Without adequate integration, these nondual levels of perception you’re beginning to master can become vehicles for “Spiritual Bypass” — the tendency to use spiritual states to move away from your humanity and your real life, rather than as a means to embrace them.
The Enneagram provides a number of solutions to help you avoid this pitfall — including the teachings of the centers and the way they work together, either for your liberation or to keep old patterns in place.
Other Enneagram elements, such as the teachings of the Virtues and the Passions, or of the Three Instinctual Drives, can work in tandem with the teachings of the fixations and the Holy Ideas.
The idea is not merely to produce some interesting states, but to shift the ways in which our centers operate individually and with each other…
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In this final module, you’ll explore with Russ how to customize what you’ve learned and apply it to your inner work, focusing on the areas that have the greatest impact — and on the specific teachings on Higher Mind that will bring you the most growth in your daily life.
This class will include an extended Q&A with Russ, so he can guide you and fellow students to try new tools and methods to support ongoing inner work.
In this module, you’ll discover:
In addition to Russ’ transformative 8-part virtual course, you’ll receive these powerful training sessions with leading visionaries and teachers. These bonus sessions complement the course and promise to take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
Russ and Jessica Dibb will guide you through this original meditation designed to support and illuminate each type. These meditations will highlight the most important growth areas for your personal journey and help you better understand and relate to others.
Jessica Dibb is founder, spiritual director, and principal teacher of the Inspiration Community School, an integral consciousness school dedicated to promoting personal, relational, and planetary wellness. Over the last 20 years, she has designed and facilitated unique workshops, classes, and ongoing breath-centered trainings that are grounded in a highly integrated model of psychospiritual healing and development to support self-actualization. Her teachings assist people in cultivating consciousness through all stages of life, from conception onward.
Russ and Cynthia Bourgeault share a deep background in the Gurdjieff work, and in the original ideas behind the Enneagram symbol and its teachin