The Great Updraft

How the Enneagram Illuminated Humans For Me

The Enneagram is the personality typology that has shown me the most about myself and others. Here's how.This is a snippet from my 26/8 episode, Making Sense of Personality Typology Systems, Part 2/2 (#159).

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Making Sense of Personality Typology Systems - Part 2/2 (#159)

In this mini-series, we’re going to look at the main personality typology systems and how to use them.Knowing your personality type helps you achieve a reliable snapshot of your personality and tendencies, boosting your self-understanding and ability...

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Intro to the Myers-Briggs System

Here are the keys to the Myers-Briggs system, among the most popular personality typology systems out there.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 19/8 episode, Making Sense of Personality Typology Systems - Part 2/2 (#158)

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Exploring the Masculine-Feminine Typology

The masculine describes qualities typically embodied by biological males, and the feminine describes those embodied by biological females.But anyone – regardless of biological sex or gender identification – embodies both the masculine and the feminine...

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Are You An Introvert?

Are you an introvert? Use these key markers of introversion to find out.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 19/8 episode, Making Sense of Personality Typology Systems - Part 1/2 (#158)

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Making Sense of Personality Typology Systems - Part 1/2 (#158)

In this mini-series, we’re going to look at the main personality typology systems and how to use them.Knowing your personality type helps you achieve a reliable snapshot of your personality and tendencies, boosting your self-understanding and ability...

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When Identity Decouples from the Conventional Self

One of the key markers of transpersonal development is that our identity becomes permanently decoupled from the limited sense of personal self.This is a snippet from my 12/8 episode, The Transpersonal 3rd-tier Levels of Consciousness (#157)

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The Mystery of Transpersonal Levels of Consciousness

When it comes to the transpersonal, 3rd-tier levels of human consciousness, we're operating mostly on speculation rather than hard research data.This is a snippet from my 12/8 episode, The Transpersonal 3rd-tier Levels of Consciousness (#157)

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Transpersonal, 3rd-Tier Levels of Consciousness (#157)

Today we discuss the 3rd tier of consciousness development, or the Transpersonal levels. These are very rare levels beyond Turquoise Construct-Aware that few reach..Spirit Quest Tours: Save $500 on your next trip with discount code ROSS:...

Transpersonal, 3rd-Tier Levels of Consciousness (#157)

Today we discuss the 3rd tier of consciousness development, or the Transpersonal levels. These are very rare levels beyond Turquoise Construct-Aware that few reach..Spirit Quest Tours: Save $500 on your next trip with discount code ROSS:...

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The Collapse of the Enlightenment Project

At Turquoise Construct-Aware, enlightenment or spiritual awakening loses its mythic glow and starts to become ordinary, direct, immediate. You stop making spirit an object to be pursued.That is, the enlightenment project collapses.This is a snippet...

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When You Finally Stop Delaying Fulfillment

The move to Turquoise Construct-Aware heralds the end of teleological living, or goal-oriented living. Every single prior level of consciousness is organised around goals and outcomes, essentially delaying fulfillment until later - until we finally...

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Key Features of Turquoise Construct-Aware Level

These are the key features of the Turquoise Construct-Aware level in outline.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 5/8 episode, Postconventional Levels of Consciousness - 3/3 (#156)

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The Post-Conventional Levels of Consciousness - 3/3 (#156) [Turquoise Construct-Aware]

Today we discuss the 3rd postconventional level of consciousness, Turquoise Construct-Aware.This level sits on the verge of the Transpersonal levels and is starkly different to the Yellow/Teal Integral level that precedes it.Spirit Quest Tours: Save...

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The Power of Systems Thinking

At the Yellow/Teal level of consciousness, we begin to tap into systems thinking. Let's explore what it means and why it's powerful.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 29/7 episode, The Postconventional Levels of Consciousness - 2/3 (#155)

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The Birth of Multiple Perspectives

At Integral, we become multiperspectival for the first time. This is a radical shift in cognitive development and worldview, and here we explore its implications through practical examples.This is a snippet from my 29/7 episode, The Postconventional...

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When The World Becomes Developmental

The shift to Integral consciousness marks the first stage at which you see yourself, others and humanity developmentally. Here, we explore just what that means.This is a snippet from my 29/7 episode, The Postconventional Levels of Consciousness - 2/3...

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1st Tier v 2nd Tier Development: The Monumental Leap

Let's discuss "the monumental leap in meaning" that occurs when we transition from 1st tier to 2nd tier in our development.This is a snippet from my 29/7 episode, The Postconventional Levels of Consciousness - 2/3 (#155).

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Key Features of Yellow/Teal Integral Stage

A bitesize overview of the Yellow/Teal Integral stage of development or level of consciousness, which Graves called "a monumental leap in meaning".This is a snippet from my 29/7 episode, The Postconventional Levels of Consciousness - 2/3 (#155).

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The Post-Conventional Levels of Consciousness - 2/3 (#155)

We continue our Levels of Consciousness series by looking at the Post-Conventional levels of consciousness, the leading edge of human development that discloses our future.Today we focus on the second such level, Yellow Integral (also given the colour...

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