It’s time to come home! This is the call we received as children, outside at play. It’s time to come home! is also the call of the spiritual life…

The unique shape of the Enneagram symbol uses sacred geometry to encode four spiritual pathways. These pathways move us from overwhelmed and reactive to our true nature and the experience of Presence that is our human-spiritual home…

You are walking outside and it starts to rain. You grumble, hunch your shoulders, and start walking faster. The rain is falling harder. You are losing the battle to stay protected and dry. Now it’s pouring and you are drenched. And then a shift happens…

Lao Tzu says, This is a path of letting go, so there will be room to live. This wisdom operates from the spiritual truth that freedom comes from subtraction more than addition…

Fear and overwhelm muddy our minds and hearts. When pond water gets muddied, eventually the silt settles and the water becomes clear. Similarly, when fear and overwhelm hit, here’s a way for the thoughts to settle, and the heart and mind to become clearer…

FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) has become a buzz word, but it’s all-too-relevant for most of us. The problem is that FOMO transmutes into spinning in too many directions. Pretty soon we find our time, energy, and creativity drained. If you are subject to the FOMO syndrome, check out JOMO: the Joy Of Missing Out…

On one level our souls enter this life to do hard things. To learn from challenges. To grow capacities and awareness through them…

What happens to us beyond this life? What unfolds, or doesn’t unfold, after we die? It may be that the greatest mystery that confronts us human beings…

There are two forms of emptiness. One is psychological emptiness, and this is more of a problem. The other is spiritual emptiness, and this is full of promise…

The personal spirituality of the Enneagram and our world religions can work in tandem, to help us live more vitally and authentically in the world. I have an upcoming 3-part online course that explores the fascinating ways Enneagram types and world religions overlap and point to a shared goal…

There is a simple practice you can use to wake you up from the typical trance that we commonly inhabit…

A spiritual way of knowing steps out of the either-or box. Beyond the dualist default is a spiritual part of the brain, that takes the either-or and transmutes it into a both-and…

My deepest hope for the people I work with in spiritual direction is this:

that they develop a tried-and-true capacity to call upon higher spiritual guidance, whether in difficult or ordinary times.

What does this look like? Let me illustrate by way of example…

Recently there have been groundbreaking studies on the brain and spiritual experience. In her book, The Awakened Brain, Dr. Lisa Miller shares three key findings on how and why the brain thrives on deep spiritual experiences…

As we work with the Enneagram, we grow our capacity for awareness. One of its most powerful gifts is this…

I’m often asked about what happens in the 4th Way Groups I offer. In this video, I share a brief overview of the the 4th Way Group and what happens in Session #5. The title of this session is: The Journey into Subtle Perception: Sovereignty & Opening to Spirit-World Guidance.

When meeting with a client, I often think about their spirituality as inhabiting a “spiritual location.” Where does your spirituality live right now? On the never-ending spiritual journey, where do you feel most at home these days? I’m often asking myself these same questions. I’ve learned to see our spiritual locations in four categories: dwelling, seeking, practicing, and experiencing…

Nothing lights us up like living spiritually, together. I consider some of my most meaningful professional work to be leading this togetherness practice. This is what inspires what I call Sojourners Institute’s 4th Way Groups.

Spirituality and fun go hand-in-hand. The most enlightened people among us all know this - the true sages, our pets, and our young kids (the kids we ourselves once were). But the rest of us seem to forget, or are sold a stereotype that spirituality is…

The Enneagram guides us on a downward journey that leads to an ascent into our best self, into our wholeness. A key challenge to this journey is…