Spiritual Cataracts and New Horizons: The Holy Ideas of the Enneagram - on demand

On Demand Programs from Cranaleith:

Purchase a copy of Nicholas Collura’s presentations for this program, presented online in September-October, 2023.  You will receive a pdf of links to the videos from each of four sessions.  You may then watch the videos at your leisure.

In this third part of Cranaleith’s Enneagram series, regain the direct perception of the divine reality you have lost.

The fulfillment that is being in love with God is not the product of our knowledge and choice.  It is God’s gift.  So far from resulting from our knowledge and choice, it dismantles and abolishes the horizon in which our knowing and choosing went on.  It sets up a new horizon in which the love of God will transvalue our values and the eyes of that love will transform our knowing.

Bernard Lonergan

When the experience of suffering and pain convinces us that God cannot or will not provide relief, our ego believes it must provide for itself.  According to the Enneagram, a powerful map of nine archetypal patterns of the human psyche, our ego’s particular pattern creates a specific “cataract” that clouds our vision of the divine nature.  While a new vision — a new horizon — can only be the free gift of grace, understanding the connection between our spiritual journey and our personality structure can illuminate the graced process of self-knowledge and growth.

This workshop will explore each personality type’s “Holy Idea,” the direct perception of or insight into the divine reality that has been lost. You will be invited to inquire gently into your own behavioral patterns and motivations as well as into their own spiritual experience and relationship with the God of their understanding.

We shall draw on the spiritual wisdom of such Enneagram teachers as Sandra Maitri and A.H. Almaas, connecting them to the Catholic Christian tradition in ways that are mutually illuminating but accessible to people of every theological background.

By the end of this course, participants will:

• Gain appreciation for the spiritual dimensions of a personality system that is often considered purely psychologically;
• Gain insight into the relationship between ego activity and the loss of a direct or unconditioned perception of the divine;
• Experience and practice concrete methods for personal growth and integration; and
• Feel more comfortable accompanying spiritual directees of a variety of type structures.

Learn more about the Enneagram and how it can help you: Enneagram Series 22-23

Stay Tuned for more of The Enneagram as a Spiritual Resource: An Online Series.