Recordings for Updated Online Zoom Workshop Series: The Enneagram of Cosmic Laws
Discovering the ancient wisdom symbolised in the Enneagram and how understanding it can help us grow to become the person we have the potential to become.
Facilitator: Ken Webb.
Event Description: This course is for all who want to grow into the best person they can be and is an updated version of an earlier course entitled ‘Fourth Way Enneagram’.
The teaching I share is based on the ancient understanding and wisdom of three fundamental cosmic laws that are symbolised in the Enneagram.
This was rediscovered and handed down to a small number of devotees by George Gurdjieff, who first introduced the Enneagram to the West in 1915.
The change in title reflects the fact that in this course I focus more on understanding and applying the three cosmic laws than on Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way, which can be practiced without any reference to the Enneagram.
I have added additional material based on an exploration of these laws by John G Bennett in the four volumes of J G Bennett’s ‘The Dramatic Universe, and on Maurice Nicoll’s commentary on the teachings of Ouspensky and Gurdjieff (Vol.2).
Course Content:
Module 1:
In this module Introducing key concepts concerning the way humans function and the psycho-spiritual structures of the human personality and a foundational practice that will be the key to all progress.
Part 1: The Human Machine—how humans function in normal life: The unconscious mind and the observing self, the difference between essence and personality, a three-brained-being and the centres of intelligence.
Part 2: The elements of human experience and how they relate to centres of intelligence—Consciousness, Will and Function; the tendency to identify oneself with ones senses, feelings and thoughts; the illusion of being a single ‘I’ and how to start becoming aware of our multiple selves; the practice of self-observation and self remembering.
Appendix: The centres and their components, an aid to self observation.
Module 2:
Part 1—The Circle and the Law of One: The Law of Unity and interconnectedness; the continually recurring and uninterruptedly flowing process of involution and evolution within any individual unit or entity within the cosmos; the boundary between what can be known within the sphere of reality and that which is unknowable in the transcendent and infinite reality.
Part 2—The Triangle and the Law of Three: The Law of World Creation; examples of the Law of Three in natural life; the way the Law of Three operates; the Law of Three in an unawakened and in an awakened human being; the Law of Three and the Holy Trinity.
Part 3—The Law of Three (Octaves) and the creation of Worlds and in the creation of a three brained being; will, being and function in our experience of life; function time, Being Time and Will time; the six principles of World VI; flows of energy in Will time and the Enneagram hexad.
Module 3:
Part 1—An introduction to the Law of Seven, the law that governs how anything that exists in the universe evolves and is transformed; hazards and the dramatic universe; three kinds of time and how these relate through the flow of energy that connects the numbers of the hexad.
Part 2—Examples of how the Law of Seven applies: Providing a meal for a community; producing a ceramic vase; a recovering alcoholic or anyone wishing to embark on the process of transformation of their life.
Module 4:
Part 1—How we lost touch with real consciousness: How the flow of energy Energy connecting points 1,4,2,8,5 &7 was meant to function; buffers—what they are and what they do; the subconscious but Real Consciousness as opposed to ordinary waking consciousness; the Enneagram of an unawakened human being.
Part 2—Consciousness, Conscience and Morality: Conscience and consciousness; how to destroy buffers; three foundational practices; morality and buffers; intentional as opposed to unintentional suffering.
Module 5:
Part 1—Developing Consciousness: Levels of consciousness; developing consciousness in our centres; media of communication for each centre and level of consciousness; the importance of the moving centre for development of consciousness; objective versus subjective knowledge; levels of human development; seven categories of humans.
Part 2—Discovering our Human Purpose—Integrating Facts and values to create a more harmonious World: Function, Fact and Subjective Knowledge; Being, Value and Objective Knowledge; Will and Harmony; levels of selfhood and levels of awareness and how they influence our perception of reality; levels of eternal values; will, harmony and the realisation of values.
Module 6:
Part 1—Energy & Energy Bodies: What is energy? Gurdjieff’s Hydrogen scale of energies; the Enneagram of energies; J Bennett’s levels of energy; energy bodies; the centres and chakras; three kinds of food for three kinds of body.
Part 2—From Dust to Gold Dust—The Alchemy of the Law of Seven: deals with the alchemical process of transforming the base substances of one’e ego personality into the gold of one’s true essence. This is where we look at the details of how energy functions in the three different Octaves of the Law of Seven and how the Law of Three interacts with the Law of Seven to enable us to get past the hazard points represented by the 3, 6 and 9 of the Enneagram triangle.
Module 7:
Part 1—The Enneagram and Human Experience: Worlds; levels of Will; levels of selfhood; the structure of human will; the structure of human selfhood; our psycho-spiritual DNA and epigenetic factors that influence it.
Part 2—The Enneagram and the Development of Humanity: The Enneagram of a developing self; ways in which Human Beings Function in Life; the development of a full and flowering life in an healthy individual; a two phased process; the development of fully awakened humanity.
Meet your guide:
Born in China and brought up in Burma, Ken Webb graduated from St Bartholomew’s Hospital, University of London to practice medicine first in the UK and then, for many years, in Thailand. He went on to study theology at Trinity College Bristol, graduating in 1992, and was ordained into Anglican ministry after a further year of post graduate study. He spent the last five years before retiring in 2017 overseeing the training of those preparing for authorised ministry in the diocese of Edinburgh. Ken was introduced to the Enneagram in 1995 and began to delve more deeply into it in 2014, undertaking a number of courses put on by the Shift Network and Enneagram Institute. Since retiring he has offered a number of taster days, courses and retreats. At the same time he has read and researched the original writings of Gurdjieff, and it is on these that his current work is based.
Testimonials from participants in my previous course:
“I highly recommend the Fourth Way Enneagram course to anyone interested in delving deeper into the Enneagram. This transformative journey offers a unique blend of wisdom, knowledge, and spiritual practice that will greatly enhance your understanding of this powerful tool for self-discovery. Don't miss out on this opportunity to embark on a truly enlightening experience.” (Grace)
“Ken’s Fourth Way Enneagram course is a top notch learning experience. He has provided pre-class outlines, great lectures and visuals, creative and relevant meditations, and questions for reflection. Stories from your own personal experience and other examples he presented made the complexity of the enneagram applicable to daily life.” (George)
The Fourth Way Enneagram has been a truly wonderful experience, and I greatly appreciate the well-structured nature of the course. Considering the vast amount of information related to this topic. I am incredibly grateful to Ken as the course facilitator and to the EICSP for offering this course. If there's ever a chance for an expansion course in the future, count me in!” (J.J.B.)
Cost: £80. £20 (to those who attended the previous series live)
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