PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT: Fixations
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Teachings that open a higher perspective

The Enneagrams of The Fixations, The Original Teachings includes Oscar Ichazo's Theory of Protoanalysis,® the introduction of the Theory of the Enneagram, and the doctrine of the Fixations.

Behavioral Patterns

This publication has an in–depth description of the Fixations to clarify and illuminate their dynamic process and show panoramically the mechanisms of each Fixation, revealing the behavioral patterns of our life. Included in the presentation are the enneagrams of the basic structure of the ego–Fixations that are essential for understanding the Fixations.

The Fixations produce strategies and schemes that become deeply ingrained in our ego–personality, manifesting as habitual patterns of conduct and behavior.

A Map of Understanding

The enneagrams in this book provide a map of the Fixations which include:
• The Fixations
• The Existential Attitudes and the Instincts
• The Three Centers, Instincts and Points of View
• The Divine Forms and the Integral Virtues
• The Divine Principles, Domains and Fixations
• The Passions and the Immoral Force

Self–Observation

Self–observation is necessary for any internal and spiritual growth as recognized in all real spiritual traditions. Oscar Ichazo's Teachings and practices direct us to witness our behavioral patterns, a proven way to dissolve the structures of the artificial lower ego.

Compassion

The Teaching of the Fixations is profoundly human and inevitably promotes the State of Compassion, meaning mutual comprehension and understanding. Thus, it becomes possible to open and connect with an objective communication with others once the Fixations have been recognized and understood for what they are.

"Knowledge and discovery of the Fixations are determinants for our internal growth."
– Oscar Ichazo

CONTENTS
Chapter 1     Protoanalysis
Chapter 2    The Central Teachings of Protoanalysis
Chapter 3    The Three Centers and the Nine Fixations
Chapter 4    The Nine Fixations
Chapter 5    The Instincts and Fixations
Chapter 6    Establishing The Fixations
Chapter 7    The Fixations of the Conservation Instinct
Chapter 8    The Fixations of the Relation Instinct
Chapter 9    The Fixations of the Adaptation Instinct
Chapter 10   Discovering Your Trifix
Chapter 11   The Autodiagnosis Method

EXCERPTS

The False Self
"In the Protoanalytical Teachings, 'ego' is the term to designate the false self because it consists of nothing but belief structures and illusions that we have naively accepted. We become attached to the lower points of view of the fixated, automatic and mechanical ego–personality."

Suffering
"Integral Philosophy observes the main problems of life from the point of view of the entity who suffers — an ego–personality that recognizes itself as an individual."

"The human psyche is not an endless territory impossible to know."—Oscar Ichazo Protoanalysis
"Protoanalysis is a method to transcend the cycle of personal suffering and instead engage in a process of internal growth that ends in final liberation and the State of Enlightenment."

Self–observation
"It is possible to transcend the Fixations with the practice of Self–observation by the Witness. Protoanalysis proposes Self–observation by the Witness as the method of clarification for psychic dysfunction and the awakening of Self–knowledge as the antidote to our ego–self. Witnessing the Fixations is of primordial importance for liberating ourselves from the control and manipulation of the mechanical ego–personality which inhabits our psyche like a con artist full of false propositions."

Internal and Spiritual Growth
"The demand for Self–observation in order to aspire to any internal and spiritual growth has been recognized by all real spiritual traditions. Protoanalysis directs the Witness to our attachment to egocentric processes and our Witness becomes the conducer of Self–observation. The only way to dissolve the structure of the artificial lower ego whose root foundations are the three Fixations of the Trifix.

"The Ultimate Purpose of the process with the Fixations and the Teaching of Protoanalysis is to enter, realize and stabilize the Higher States of Mind."—Oscar Ichazo

Awakened Perspective
"Protoanalysis inevitably awakens us as we come to observe our internal ego–realities in depth, producing an integrated and organized Self that is free to continue the path of total Self–realization. We first have to recognize our suffering. The breakthrough comes by facing the reality of our ego–structure from an awakened perspective."

Mapping the Psyche
"The modern mapping of the psyche makes Protoanalysis the most advanced, direct and complete Teaching of Self–observation by the Witness because it enables us to discover the precise pivotal points upon which the axis and cycle of our robotic ego–personality develop.

"Once we start a process of Self–observation from the state of 'Mind-only,' we discover there is a purpose in our life."–Oscar Ichazo