A Look at The Enneagram with Jeanine Siler Jones
Pam is talking joy with, Jeanine Siler Jones, a practicing therapist who has been an Enneagram teacher for over 15 years and member of the Northeast Wisdom, soon to be Wisdom Waypoints Council. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina, where she has been engaged with Wisdom work since 2009 and has been one of the primary igniters of Wisdom School Southeast. Since her deep dive into Wisdom work with Cynthia Bourgeault she has been playing with the Wisdom roots Gurdjieff brought to the west.
—The Talking Joy Podcast Interview with host Pam Rotelle Robertson
“This work calls me to be fully alive myself. Through the years I have sought out my own therapy and spiritual direction. The past thirty years, I have engaged in the Enneagram as a path to a deep connection with myself, others, and God. I have studied with Cynthia Bourgeault in her Wisdom Schools and have a daily contemplative practice.” ~Jeanine
Siler Jones Counseling: https://silerjonescounseling.com
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JEANINE’S FAVORITE QUOTES:
Quote 1:
“If you are willing to bear serenely the trial of being displeasing to yourself, then you will be a pleasant place of shelter for Spirit” ~St. Thérèse of Lisieux
Quote 2:
“It's true that the ego-self can only work through separation, division, comparison; it's built right into the operating system. Identification and the ego-self are joined at the hip. But as we move beyond this limited selfhood toward what Gurdjieff calls "Real I," a whole new vista opens up, which spiritual masters of all times and places have alluded to as the very essence of awakening. We begin to see through the eyes of a deeper selfhood that does not run the "perception through differentiation" program, but can find its bearings within a single, flowing field of reality whose nature can be directly perceived as coherent and compassionate. In this larger and more vibrant reality it is not only possible, but in fact effortless, to work without investment in self-image and outcome; we simply flow in the river of compassion. “ ~Cynthia Bourgeault
Quote 3: Part of a Rumi poem
Part 1
The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you
Don’t go back to sleep
You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth
Across the doors where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don’t go back to sleep.
Quote 4: Part of a Rumi poem
Part 2
Out beyond the ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing, there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is
too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
No longer makes sense.
Quote 5:
"When I am not present to myself,
then I am only aware of that half of me,
that mode of my being which turns outward to created things.
And then it is possible for me to lose myself among them.
Then I no longer feel the deep secret pull
of the gravitation of love which draws my inward self toward God.
My will and my intelligence lose their command of the other faculties. My senses, my imagination, my emotions, scatter to pursue their various quarries all over the face of the earth.
Recollection brings them home.
It brings the outward self into line with the inward spirit,
and makes my whole being answer the deep pull of love
that reaches down into the mystery of God."
—Thomas Merton from "No Man is an Island," (Shambhala, Boston) 2005
ENNEAGRAM RESOURCES
THE TALKING JOY BLOG:
BOOKS:
The Essential Enneagram by David Daniels is a good place to start reading.
The Enneagram in Love & Work by Helen Palmer
The Complete Enneagram by Beatrice Chestnut
The Wisdom of the Enneagram by Don Riso and Russ Hudson
The Sacred Enneagram by Chris Heuertz
The Enneagram of Passions and Virtues by Sandra Maitri
WEBSITES: