Your true nature is happiness and bliss. Everyone wants to be happy. This is a universal component of the human condition and may seem so self-evident that it does not bear noting. So why is it that so few people are truly happy? If it is true that our nature is happiness and bliss, why has it been so rare for people to realize this? Why has it been so rare for people to live their lives in gratitude and love? There is a living intelligence in all people that seeks ultimately to discover its true identity and source. It is a fortunate and mysterious moment when the desire for happiness leads to the investigation into personal identity, also known as self-inquiry. In the light of direct self-inquiry, limitations that once seemed to define oneself are discovered to be more like transparent lines drawn on water. They exist only on the surface of consciousness in one's imagination. When these illusions of mind are clearly exposed, true limitless being reveals itself. The Enneagram has appeared in our time as an illusory medicine to cure an imaginary disease. The disease is the egoic idea of separation from God, from one s true source. The cure is to look in the wisdom mirror of the Enneagram to see past all false identification to the truth of being. Eli Jaxon-Bear presents a radically new model of the ego and the psyche. Bringing together his background in Buddhism with the Sufi work on essence, he presents a fresh approach to awakening by using the Enneagram's nine fixated structures of ego to clearly describe who you are not. You will see how habits of egoic identification continuously appear to veil the pure, pristine consciousness that you truly are. When these habits of mind are exposed, there is a clear choice to end the bondage of ego-based suffering and to realize the vast, inherent freedom of one' s true nature. In this book, Eli gives us the map of the prison of mind and the keys to freedom.

A “heartily recommend[ed]” text for “Enneagram enthusiasts . . . and followers of every spiritual tradition”—by the creator of the Diamond Approach to Self-Realization (Helen Palmer, author of The Enneagram) Facets of Unity presents the Enneagram of Holy Ideas as a crystal clear window on the true reality experienced in enlightened consciousness. Here we are not directed toward the psychological types but the higher spiritual realities they reflect. We discover how the disconnection from each Holy Idea—defined as an unconditioned, objective understanding of reality—leads to the development of its corresponding fixation, thus recognizing each types deeper psychological core. Understanding this core brings each Holy Idea within reach, so its spiritual perspective can serve as a key for unlocking the fixation and freeing us from its limitations.

More than just a tool to diagnose your personality type, the Enneagram was originally developed to help people find the ultimate freedom of consciousness and achieve spiritual liberation. A. H. Almaas brings us back to this original mission as he shares the essential keys that will help readers break free from the limitations and distortions of each type’s fixation—and to express their true spiritual nature in everyday life.

A revolutionary hands-on manual for helping professionals addressing all levels of therapy from symptom removal to ego strengthening and finally ego transcendence. Blending Clinical Hypnosis, Neurolinguistics, The Enneagram of Character Fixation with non-dual insights to create a new model of the psyche and the possibility of being a True Friend. By mapping the client's reality and then altering it, Jaxon-Bear shows us how to then take away the map and reveal reality. This is a revolutionary use of therapeutic techniques. We can at last transcend the ego, the holy grail of therapy since Jung. -Dr. Murray Korngold Founder of Los Angeles Society of Clinical Psychologists The skillful means . . . in The Awakened Guide transcends its use for the amelioration of symptomatology in order to address the fundamental roots of suffering. -Dr. Yigal Joseph Former Director of the NYC Psychologist-In-Training Program

An Outlaw Makes it Home: The Awakening of a Spiritual Revolutionary by Eli Jaxon-Bear is a candid, compelling and raucous spiritual adventure story, with an element of danger when he goes underground as a federal fugitive during the Vietnam War. This audacious memoir offers a powerful window into the making of a modern day spiritual revolutionary.In his search for freedom, Eli actively participated in many of the mile-stone events of the 60¿s, leading him to his spiritual activism today. From underground revolutionary to spiritual awakening and his quest for a final teacher, he takes us with him to a monastery in Japan, an initiation into a Sufi clan in Marrakesh, and the uncharted outback of Peru. This fascinating page turner leads readers around the globe with Eli on his eighteen year spiritual quest. He eventually found (a then largely unknown teacher) in India now known as Papaji. He takes us with him as he vividly describes being a freshman in college joining the civil rights movement in Montgomery, Alabama ¿during the violent protests that resulted in the Selma to Montgomery March. We are with him as he is beaten by KKK posse men and got to hear Dr. Martin Luther King preach his freedom sermon as they marched out of the church to demand one man/one vote. As horsemen with clubs cantered down the middle of the street, bearing down on his group, he thought, ¿This is America. This is happening in America in 1965.¿ It forever changed his life.His experience in Montgomery led to his working for VISTA in the ghettos of Chicago and Detroit and his being arrested during the Democratic Convention in the summer of 1968. It was at this time that he first experienced LSD, and the life-changing quality of his inward journey took him beyond the boundaries of his known universe.

Your true nature is happiness and bliss. Everyone wants to be happy. This is a universal component of the human condition and may seem so self-evident that it does not bear noting. So why is it that so few people are truly happy? If it is true that our nature is happiness and bliss, why has it been so rare for people to realize this? Why has it been so rare for people to live their lives in gratitude and love? There is a living intelligence in all people that seeks ultimately to discover its true identity and source. It is a fortunate and mysterious moment when the desire for happiness leads to the investigation into personal identity, also known as self-inquiry. In the light of direct self-inquiry, limitations that once seemed to define oneself are discovered to be more like transparent lines drawn on water. They exist only on the surface of consciousness in one's imagination. When these illusions of mind are clearly exposed, true limitless being reveals itself. The Enneagram has appeared in our time as an illusory medicine to cure an imaginary disease. The disease is the egoic idea of separation from God, from one s true source. The cure is to look in the wisdom mirror of the Enneagram to see past all false identification to the truth of being. Eli Jaxon-Bear presents a radically new model of the ego and the psyche. Bringing together his background in Buddhism with the Sufi work on essence, he presents a fresh approach to awakening by using the Enneagram's nine fixated structures of ego to clearly describe who you are not. You will see how habits of egoic identification continuously appear to veil the pure, pristine consciousness that you truly are. When these habits of mind are exposed, there is a clear choice to end the bondage of ego-based suffering and to realize the vast, inherent freedom of one' s true nature. In this book, Eli gives us the map of the prison of mind and the keys to freedom.