PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT: Enneagram
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With the enneagrams, Ichazo presents "a proposition for a new theory of the psyche, a theory for Self–realization".

These lectures give an overview of some of the basic maps of the Integral teachings about the human organism — the body, the psyche, the Spirit — and our lives. Much the same material is covered in each of the five lectures, along with a comparison of Formal Logic and Dialectics, and their historical context, and introducing Ichazo's exegesis of a third logic, Trialectics, the logic of cycles. The opportunity to learn from five similar but different iterations of this material is immensely useful, expanded my understanding and made me want to know more. This is how we must understand our world and ourselves if we are to adequately respond to the crises of our times.

Ichazo's new tradition of Integral Philosophy reveals a complete teaching of the enneagram for those interested in clarifying the relative nature of the lower manifestations of the human process. We can use this knowledge for discovering our true purpose as human beings.

Ichazo presents the major perspective of our time and opens a new point of view, along with a synthesis of significant aspects of history, which have brought us to where we are. He formulates what questions are relevant at this moment in human development to gain clarity about the human condition and our way forward.

With Ichazo’s new propositions about identity, we have an overview of what makes human beings human. By using the enneagram, we have a map for meaningful clarification and Self-realization.

When Ichazo introduces what reason is, and how our mind is able to perceive Reality as it is.

CONTENTS
Chapter 1   Lincoln Center Lecture
Chapter 2   Seabury Hall Lecture
Chapter 3   University of London Lecture
Chapter 4   Wrekin Trust Lecture One
Chapter 5   Wrekin Trust Lecture Two

EXCERPTS

"We have three instincts, one for each aspect of our survival." —Oscar Ichazo

Three Living Questions
"In Integral Philosophy, we will qualify these Instincts as living questions with which we permanently interrogate ourselves. If we fail to answer positively we are dead. The first question will be,'How am I?' If I do not answer this question in a satisfactory manner, I will be made aware by pain that I am dying. Since I cannot maintain life except as a member of a group, the next question appears, 'Who am I with?' But for human beings, life and existence require still another question,'What am I doing?' "

Defining Our Existence
"Survival is not the principal concern of human beings. The real question is, 'What am I here for?' Survival is not our main obsession, but rather what are we doing with the life that we have." "Again the interrogation is not only, 'Who am I?' but rather, 'What am I here for?' That is how human beings define their own existence: as a matter of destiny and accomplishment." "Life itself then is this: the longing for the transcendental."

The Spirit
"More and more, psychology understands the Spirit as containing the final explanation for our sickness, and for its treatment and cure. From the primitive medicine man to the most sophisticated theories, everything confirms that indeed the Spirit is what supports us."

Common Understanding
"We must understand one another if we are to survive. We've got to understand that we are all interrelated. And if we are interrelated, no one has a big spirit as compared to someone else's small spirit; we are all interrelated. And more than that, the only possible solution is for us to have a common language, a common understanding. And that common understanding can come only with a new logic, with the new logic speaking in other terms."

"Here at this moment in history, humanity requires practical tools for understanding since life and survival depend on our understanding of movement and change."

Logic of Cycles
"There has to be a logic of cycles if we are going to understand the world in which we live."

Reason
"Reason is not linear and unique, it is triple–rooted as this Integral theory establishes. We would like to believe that reason consists only of analysis, but reason also involves analogy (comparison and classification), and we also understand by direct empathy."

Meditation as Fundamental
"Meditation is absolutely fundamental for us, since it causes us to touch and recognize that emptiness which is our Consciousness; meaning by Consciousness here, that which is eternal, unchangeable and which will produce in us the State of Enlightenment."

A New Theory of the Psyche
"Protoanalysis is a proposition for a new theory of the psyche, a theory for Self–realization, and also a theory for addressing psychic and physical illness, with enormous precision in diagnosis and precision in treatment leading to cure." "The richness of life is internal. And the more internalized life becomes, the richer will be the life for all of us and for society."

A United Society
"With all these Integral Teachings, what we try to do fundamentally is one thing: We try to go to a united society. No need to panic that you will lose your individuality. On the contrary, you will gain a different type of individuality, an individuality full of understanding, full of love and capable of doing things in the world."