Announcement New Course "The Soul of the Enneagram"

Веретенников Сергей · Sep 23, 2022

Today is the Autumnal Equinox. This is a time for learning and discovering something new—the best period to begin studying... And today I am opening the “Soul of the Enneagram” course.

Course description — HERE.

The Enneagram is a unique Tool that can be used in any area of a person’s life. And the Enneagram helps everywhere.

The ultimate meaning of the Enneagram is not to discover your type, but to grow to spiritual heights. The Enneagram shows this step by step.
It literally uses arrows to show where you need to move in order to evolve.

How to become your true, original self—that is the Enneagram’s main function.

It is important for me to speak about the four Paths of development described by Gurdjieff. The First Path is the path of the body, or the path of the fakir, when a person strives to develop the Spirit through the development of the body—for example, attaining the ability to walk on coals, go without food for long periods, or stop breathing and even the heart without harming oneself. These are ancient forms of exercise, such as Hatha Yoga, Qigong, and so on. The Second Path is the path of the monk: renunciation of various worldly pleasures, chiefly sexual abstinence. It is a religious path in which there are good qualities in a person that need to be cultivated, and bad ones that need to be suppressed. The Third Path is the path of the true Yogi, in which a person exercises the mind and consciousness. The aim of such exercises is to enter samadhi, the higher levels of Cosmic Consciousness. And the Fourth Path is the Path that unites all the previous ones, while not imposing such rigid dependence on external circumstances. In other words, it is a path available to anyone, including a layperson, when ordinary life itself becomes such a Path.

Purchase for foreign citizens:

Buy the Soul of the Enneagram course
(instructions for foreign citizens on how to purchase — HERE)

Веретенников Сергей · Sep 23, 2022

The Enneagram is a tool for personal development that you can turn to every day and throughout your life to find answers to your questions. It is like a personal Guru, like a personal psychologist whom you do not need to pay for appointments.

In the course, you will discover your Enneatype, learn how to build an evolutionary path specifically for your Enneatype and stop degenerating, and also learn to determine other people’s Enneatypes.

Moreover, you will know exactly what to do to move toward Enlightenment in ordinary life.

Веретенников Сергей · Sep 23, 2022

RELATIONSHIPS
in the Enneagram

Relationships concern many people.

Relationships can be very different. Relationships with relatives are a special kind of relationship—whether with children or parents. Relationships between husband and wife, or what are known as romantic relationships.
Relationships in society, at work, with friends, simply with neighbors...

Our entire life is woven from relationships.

Can the Enneagram help here?

The answer is yes.

Many people can say that, for “inexplicable” reasons, some people literally drive us crazy. Some people, of course, meditate and develop their emotional qualities, so it is less noticeable, but we react calmly to some people, while others can upset us merely by their presence.

Moreover, after such contact, we feel completely exhausted. It takes tremendous effort to keep ourselves under control.

Let’s look at the Enneagram.

In Figure 1 of my course, using Type Four as an example.

You can see that Four falls to Two in the negative direction.

So Two will be the person who drives Four crazy.

For Five, it will be Seven.

And so on—you can find the rest by following the arrows.

That is, you need to be more careful with these Enneagram types. For you, this is an area of conflict. And, of course, it is also an area for growth and inner work. But first and foremost, you understand why everything triggers you with this Enneagram type.

If there is a Seven in a workplace collective of Fives, the Seven will drive the Fives crazy. But this does not work in reverse!

Look again at Figure 1 of my course.

One will drive Seven crazy.

Do you know why now? Because Seven is so positive and active, with long-term plans, eager to experience more and more pleasures in life... And then One appears before them—with their self-control, discipline, and criticism...

It is much more difficult when such relationships arise among relatives, for example, between a brother and sister.

Relationships between husband and wife are much more difficult. It would even be strange if they managed to get married at all.

This is how you can see very deep things by using the Enneagram.

It can literally save you a lot of money by giving you what only a psychologist and many sessions with one can provide.

Why your daughter “hates” you, why your father was constantly like a stranger, why you are wholeheartedly kind to your colleague Kolya while he snorts at you and argues with you...

These and many other questions will simply fall away.

And the point is not to avoid these Enneagram types that are “conflictual” specifically for you. It is that everything can be developed and improved. This is the essence of the Enneagram—not to run away from the world, but to live in it and achieve perfection.

And conflictual Enneagram types can become a blessing.

But people who do not know about the Enneagram will suffer all their lives, asking themselves: “Lord, what is wrong with me? Why am I different from others? Why do these particular people attack me as if they were crazy, and why do I react SO strongly to some people when they are kind and good...”

Веретенников Сергей · Sep 23, 2022

You can now specify your Enneatype in your profile.
Here: https://www.youryoga.ru/school/en/account/account-details

It looks like this:

Knowing your own Enneatype and that of another person significantly simplifies communication. You can avoid taking unnecessary actions toward them and, conversely, knowing their Enneatype, immediately give them what will help them.
Life becomes clearly more productive and more harmonious.

I think that soon, students of Mahapurna School will indicate their Enneatype in their profiles after completing the Enneagram course.

But you can indicate your Enneatype without taking my course. Perhaps you completed some other course or studied it from a book. I also taught a simplified version at my Ashram.

However, I processed a great deal of literature and information before creating my course. That is precisely what makes it simple, clear, and effective.

As you have already understood, my Enneatype is Five.

When you find yourself next to a representative of this type, you may decide that they are the greatest silent person in the world. However, if you show sincere interest, then you may discover that your acquaintance is literally a “walking encyclopedia,” a person who seems to know the answers to every question. For most of their lives, representatives of Type Five collect and analyze information about the world around them, which is why they are called Observers, Sages, or Thinkers.
Mystics, yogis, gurus, teachers, esotericists, shamans, monks, hermits, and people of Knowledge are born among this Enneatype...
Fives spend their entire lives accumulating, analyzing, and processing a sea of information, so that they can then structure it and present it to Humanity in an accessible, clear, and maximally practical form. That is how their minds are устроены. Their detached way of life gives them plenty of time to do this work.
Their tendency to spend most of their lives in contemplation is driven by the belief that the world is dangerous. That one needs to know a great deal to protect oneself from the world’s many manifestations, such as illness, old age, natural phenomena, and even death. Fives want to overcome all of this. That is why they can often be found in fields connected with mysticism, yoga, healing, and so on.
These people are literally made for hermit life. They live with little and practically need nothing, like yogis in ancient times. The only thing that truly interests them is Knowledge— as much as possibleKnowledge.

Веретенников Сергей · Sep 24, 2022

Why shouldn't you trust so-called online Enneagram type tests?

You will most likely get it wrong. Tests do not do what should be done when determining your Enneagram type.
And most importantly, it requires analysis—analysis according to a specific method. By simply answering a few questions, you are practically guaranteed to get it wrong.

There is a great deal that you should preferably work through within yourself in order to understand with absolute certainty: yes, this is my Enneagram type.

It is not as simple as online tests make it seem. Of course, you can play around with the tests, but if you are truly interested in the full power of the Enneagram, you need to study it.

Tests alone will not help.

By the way, many people wonder whether the science of the Enneagram is similar, for example, to astrology.

The main distinguishing feature of the Enneagram is that you do not need to know your date and time of birth. Nothing of the kind is used at all. Astrology has a problem: you need to know the exact time of birth. If you do not know it or get it wrong, everything else will be incorrect.

With the Enneagram, you are completely free from such errors.

You only need to determine your Enneagram type correctly. In my course, if you do not determine your Enneagram type yourself, we do it together.

You are guaranteed to discover it.

And after that, everything is even simpler than in astrology. But simpler does not mean worse.

The Enneagram also makes predictions. Since, by knowing a person, you know how they may act—or may not act.

In fact, it is an even more powerful predictive system than astrology. First, it is free from errors related to the time of birth. Second, you can predict a person's behavior when you know exactly who they are.

Веретенников Сергей · Sep 24, 2022

Why is knowledge of the Enneagram still so important in our modern times?

Gurdjieff said that achieving high results requires a lot of energy.
Where can we get it? Gurdjieff asks us.
He himself explains that, as human beings, we cannot produce more energy than Nature has allotted to us.
And he answers himself: to have more energy, human beings must spend less of it on unnecessary things.
Not only unnecessary, but, as it turns out, harmful things as well!
Things that lead to our problems, illnesses, and even an early death.

Can you imagine how interesting that is?

So let us find out where our energy is going, so that we do not waste it on unnecessary things and can have it in abundance.

Gurdjieff said that the greatest drain on anyone’s energy is:

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That is, if you stop doing this, you will instantly feel a tremendous surge of energy in your body.

This is a disease of our civilization. Yes, it existed in ancient times too, but now it has reached extreme proportions.

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Do not think that I am telling you that a person is so weak that they have little energy.
I am saying that they initially have a sea of energy. Look at unrestrained children.
Although children are already being “infected” with this adult “disease” too.

You all have a sea of energy. Moreover, those who knew Gurdjieff said that he was a man of tremendous energy.

So what he said and who he was completely coincided.

And you can learn this too.

The Enneagram helps and teaches us to do this.

This cause that steals our energy is so enormous that there is no point in listing the other causes, since they are insignificant compared with it.

Веретенников Сергей · Sep 24, 2022

If the video gets blocked somewhere, I am posting a duplicate here:

Веретенников Сергей · Sep 25, 2022

Can the Enneagram symbol itself be considered a working tool?

In other words, can we say that the graphic image of the Enneagram itself can work like the Sri Yantra, Ankh, Christian Cross, Tibetan Mandalas, or other similar graphic symbols?

The answer is unequivocally YES.

Gurdjieff said that this Sign contains two Laws of the Universe: the Law of Three and the Law of Seven (the Law of Vibrations, the Law of Octaves).

This means that certain high-level universal Energies are contained in this Symbol.

Gurdjieff’s Letter to His Daughter

At the age of 70, Gurdjieff’s daughter Havarth learned to use a computer in order to publish a book of memoirs about him.
Throughout her life, Gurdjieff’s advice helped her.
63 short instructions that can change anyone’s life when applied correctly:

Focus your attention on yourself.
Be aware at every moment of what you think, feel, desire, or do.
Always finish what you have started.
Do whatever you do as well as possible.
Do not become attached to anything that may later destroy you.
Show your generosity without witnesses.
Treat every person as your closest relative.
Put right everything you have damaged.
Learn to receive and give thanks for every gift.
Stop your self-protective behavior.
Do not deceive or steal—in doing so, you will deceive and steal from yourself.
Help those near you, without making them dependent on you.
Do not occupy too much space.
Do not make noise or use excessive gestures.
If you do not yet have faith, imitate it.
Do not be easily impressed by the influence of strong personalities.
Do not grab anything or anyone.
Distribute fairly.
Do not seduce.
Eat and sleep only as much as necessary.
Do not talk about your personal problems.
Do not judge or discriminate until you know all the essential facts.
Do not form useless friendships.
Do not follow general trends.
Do not sell yourself.
Respect the agreements you have signed.
Be punctual.
Do not envy other people’s property or achievements.
Speak only about what is necessary.
Do not think about the benefits your actions may bring you.
Do not threaten.
Keep your promises.
In an argument, always put yourself in the other person’s place.
Acknowledge when someone surpasses you.
Overcome your fears.
Help others become capable of helping themselves.
Overcome your feeling of aversion and stay close to those you wish to reject.
Transform your pride into self-respect.
Transform your anger into creativity and constructive activity.
Transform your greed into reverence for beauty.
Transform your envy into admiration for the merits of others.
Transform your hatred into compassion.
Do not praise or insult yourself.
Take care of what does not belong to you as you would your own property.
Do not lament or complain to yourself.
Develop your imagination.
Do not give others instructions merely for the pleasure of having them obey.
Pay for the work and services provided to you.
Do not promote your work or ideas.
Do not try to awaken feelings toward yourself in others, such as pity, sympathy, admiration, or complicity.
Do not try to stand out through your appearance.
Never contradict; simply remain silent.
Do not get into debt; buy and pay immediately.
If you insult someone publicly, apologize publicly.
When you notice your mistake in a conversation, do not insist on being right out of pride, and immediately abandon your previous intentions.
Do not defend your previous ideas merely because you have already proclaimed them.
Do not keep useless things.
Do not adorn yourself with other people’s ideas.
Do not take photographs with celebrities.
Be your own judge.
Do not define yourself by what you possess.
Be aware that everything belongs to you.
If you meditate and the Devil appears to you, make the Devil meditate too.

Веретенников Сергей · Sep 27, 2022

Gurdjieff said that a human being cannot stop moving along the line of evolution.
It moves either upward or downward.
Today, someone may say that they have achieved something, reached a certain point in their development, but tomorrow everything may change. And if a person is not moving toward evolution, they are regressing. A static state does not exist.

It is like in sports. Stop training, and your performance starts to decline.

In the Symbol of the Enneagram, arrows literally indicate where one needs to move in order to evolve.
This is precisely what we learn first on my course.
Everything is so simple, as if it were drawn on this symbol for children.

We learn who we are and where to move in order to evolve, as well as what not to do so as not to regress—all in accordance with our Enneatype.
It is not a matter of telling everyone, “Pray,” as though that should help everyone...
Each Enneatype has its own clearly defined individual nuances and characteristics. What is good for one person may be bad for another.
That is why the Enneagram works individually, rather than treating everyone alike.

Веретенников Сергей · Sep 28, 2022

Studying Gurdjieff is like opening up a new world. He is interesting to many people because Gurdjieff accumulated enormous amounts of knowledge in his System, mostly Eastern, yogic, and mystical. At the same time, his system did not become something reserved for the chosen few. On the contrary, it became accessible to ordinary people—people who want to evolve in everyday life.
And the results are often greater than those of yogis who now go off to meditate alone in the Himalayas.
In a sense, this is Raja Yoga. But not the modern kind—the original kind, when Yoga takes place in consciousness, within a person.

By the way, all you need to do is register at my Ashram to watch unique films about Raja Yoga and meditation:

HERE

We also hold readings of Gurdjieff's book in the Ashram, and I have posted more information about him there as well.
Soon I plan to create a practice in my School based on one of Gurdjieff's practices. It is considered one of the most powerful practices carried out by Gurdjieff's students. It changed many of them very deeply and quickly on their path of evolution.
So I am thinking of posting my version of this practice soon.

An excerpt from Gurdjieff's book:

...I was still, as they say, a chubby little boy. My beloved late grandmother was still alive at that time. She was already more than a hundred years old.

When my grandmother was dying, my mother, as was customary at the time, brought me to her deathbed and, while I kissed the dying woman's right hand, placed her weakening left hand on my head and whispered clearly: “My eldest grandson! Listen and remember my strict injunction: Never in your life act like everyone else.” After that, she fixed her gaze on the bridge of my nose and, evidently noticing that I was stunned and had understood almost nothing, added angrily and unequivocally: “Either do nothing—or simply go to school—or do what no one has ever done before.” After which she immediately, without hesitation and clearly despising those around her, with commendable self-control, surrendered her soul directly into the hands of His Faithfulness, the Archangel Gabriel. I think it will be interesting and even instructive for you to learn that all this made a very powerful impression on me, and I suddenly felt a sharp aversion to everything around me; and when we left the room where the dead ‘planetary body’ of the one who was the cause of the cause of my coming into the world remained...

After that, the child Gurdjieff literally stopped doing what others did. He began doing EVERYTHING at least a little differently.
He thought about ALL the automatic things that no one gives any thought to, and did them differently.
Where everyone was sad, he rejoiced. Where everyone did things with one hand, he used the other hand... And so on.

Веретенников Сергей · Oct 3, 2022

After completing the “Soul of the Enneagram” course, you will become almost a psychologist—both for yourself and for others.

I must say that there are currently many people in esotericism who are psychologically troubled to one degree or another. Not mentally ill, but psychologically troubled—which, as you understand, is a solvable problem, provided one actually addresses it. I have already told you about this on the Your Yoga website.

People with psychological deviations can be found both among those who study esotericism and spirituality and among those who TEACH them.

They somehow successfully find one another based on the signs of these very psychological deviations.

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By taking the “Soul of the Enneagram” course, you will begin to understand a great deal about yourself from a psychological perspective—without any psychologists. Many people even say, “Now everything has become clear to me, as clear as day!” And it is very valuable to understand why “I have behaved THIS way all my life and suffered because of it”...
Or “why do I constantly come across some fraudulent Teachers”...

It is very, even EXTREMELY important to become a psychologically healthy person first, before embarking on esotericism and spirituality.

Because, as I have already written to you on the Your Yoga website, many people turn to esotericism and spirituality precisely in order to JUSTIFY this psychological abnormality of theirs. In particular, I wrote to you about it, for example, here, in the summer of 2016.
I also wrote a little about my own path of interacting with various Teachers and “teachers.” Among them were literally not only people with psychological problems, but also mental illnesses. None of us can avoid this, because it is not so easy to recognize all of this at once. And the Enneagram course helps you understand people. You may avoid making similar mistakes on the Path.

Of course, the term “abnormality” is somewhat harsh. One could, naturally, say “individual trait.”

However, I choose the term “abnormality” because this “trait” prevents such a person from LIVING—and often makes life difficult for those around them as well.
So whether one likes it or not, it is still an abnormality, and resolving it makes life easier. That is a fact.

And by resolving it, you pursue spirituality and esotericism for other purposes: to grow and develop, rather than to solve your psychological problems while tormenting yourself and those who teach you this very spirituality and esotericism.

The Enneagram literally shows you almost instantly who you are and why you need to take this into account so that the psychological problems that have tormented you all your life can disappear.

Веретенников Сергей · Oct 5, 2022

Added information about the health of each Enneatype to the “Soul of the Enneagram” course

Quite rare information.

It allows you to know, based on your Enneatype, which areas of your body need special attention so that health problems do not arise in a vulnerable area.

This can be done preventively, as well as psychologically.

For example, Nines are observed to have more throat problems than other people. Nines tend to hold back their emotions and suppress anger. This leads to throat problems (the thyroid gland, bronchi, laryngitis, etc.)—unexpressed emotions.

And this is just one example. The more you study the Enneagram, the better you understand why a person has a particular health problem. Most importantly, you learn how to resolve it quickly.

Or, for example, someone may be an Eight and have practically no health problems because this is the Enneatype that has been very active since childhood in developing and strengthening the body through physical activity... And so on.

Веретенников Сергей · Oct 8, 2022

A Gurdjieff practice has been added: Freedom from the Matrix

A disc featuring music composed by Gurdjieff and performed by contemporary musicians is also provided for listening, with a description of each composition. It is very beautiful music played on exactly the instruments that accompanied Gurdjieff during his travels around the world.
You can often find his music played on the piano online. However, this disc contains very rich and diverse music, featuring different instruments such as the duduk and others.
You can simply meditate to it, as well as practice this technique.

Gurdjieff taught this practice specifically in the context of the Enneagram.

Because it harmonizes the Enneacenters wonderfully. There are three of them in the Enneagram. When they are fully harmonized and balanced, a person becomes perfect. This practice fulfills this function and many others.

I will soon add another Gurdjieff practice to the Esoteric Shop, and most likely I will add more later.

They are remarkably simple and effective.

Веретенников Сергей · Oct 12, 2022

Веретенников Сергей · Oct 13, 2022

The second module of the “Soul of the Enneagram” course has been created.

To access it, you need to complete the homework assignment.

In the second module, I present original material on the correspondence between each Enneatype and the Ayurvedic Doshas, as well as much more.

Essentially, thanks to this, if you know your Dosha—which is very easy to determine—you can easily identify your Enneatype, or that of another person.

In other words, I have combined Ayurveda and the Enneagram, since I am a specialist in both.

And this Knowledge of the Enneagram has become even more astonishing. Ayurveda fit into the Enneagram literally like a puzzle, as if it had always been there.

Essentially, the second module is devoted to how to determine a person’s Enneatype simply by looking at them. Previously, only those who had practiced the Enneagram for half their lives possessed such abilities. So you can appreciate the importance of this module, which makes it possible to acquire this ability in literally a couple of weeks.

Веретенников Сергей · Oct 13, 2022

I could hardly have bypassed the Enneagram with its nine Enneatypes, especially since, according to numerology, I myself am a Nine—here.

Therefore, I was interested in distributing the nine Ayurvedic Doshas among the nine Enneatypes.

Which is exactly what I successfully did.

The nine planets of Jyotish—Vedic Astrology—are next. Jyotish specifically, since I have seen some attempts to do this from the perspective of Western Astrology, which in my view is incorrect.

Some of you may have already guessed that Type Eight in the Enneagram is Mars... Eight more Enneatypes remain to be identified...

Therefore, this will soon be made available to those who purchased my “Soul of the Enneagram” course—more knowledge and even more possibilities.

Веретенников Сергей · Dec 8, 2022

I uploaded material on astrology and the planets of the Enneatypes to the second module of my “Soul of the Enneagram” course.
I also included a description of the Tenth Enneatype. Often, no one knows about it. But it exists. It is the Sun.
The Sun, or the Tenth Enneatype, shines on all nine Enneatypes, just as there are nine planets.
Moreover, I developed this from both the perspective of Jyotish and that of ordinary Astrology, which is more familiar to us.

Веретенников Сергей · Apr 1, 2023

The Enneagames have begun in the Enneagram course.

Веретенников Сергей · Apr 20, 2023

“For every person who knows how to use the Enneagram, books and libraries become completely unnecessary...
A person isolated from the entire world, in an endless desert, can draw the Enneagram in the sand and read the eternal laws of the Universe. And every time he looks at it, he will be able to learn something new—something he had not noticed before.”

Georgy Ivanovich Gurdjieff.

Веретенников Сергей · Jun 10, 2023

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