I’m writing from my grandparents-in-law’s living room. We just finished watching the Ohio-Michigan game, now we’re watching the Minnesota-Wisconsin game, and my wife and I will soon be driving to the airport to fly home. It was a cozy Thanksgiving, even if about half the family has come down with a cold, and I got to see my first snowfall in several years.
I initially made good book progress this month, finishing up revisions on Chapter 6. Then I got sick and did nothing for a week. The following week I was busy catching up at work, and then I got obsessed with a special project that I’ll be posting about soon, so needless to say I didn’t make as much progress on Chapter 7 as I would have liked.
And December is shaping up to be a busy month! There’s a sesshin. There’s holiday plans. And there’s the aforementioned special project (and another special project you won’t be hearing about for a little longer). So, in the hopes that I can make any progress on book revisions at all, I’m not going to hold myself to posting weekly until after the new year.
In the meantime, in addition to, as always, plugging my Twitter, you might read some interesting posts from other folks, including:
’s series on the Enneagram (last post with links to them all)
(I still owe you all a post about Buddhism and the Enneagram inspired by Michael’s posts when I can finally get to it!)
’s series on consciousness (last post with links to them all)
’s excellent post detailing a personal story of a stage transition.
More of us should write more things like this. I think they create a record of incredibly useful evidence and supply examples that can help those struggling to break through from one stage to the next. I wrote a short comment on his post with my own Kegan 3→4 story, but I should put my money where my mouth is and write up all my phase transition stories.
LessWrong ran an event called Inkhaven during November. If you don’t usually read LessWrong, there’s an unusually high volume of new, interesting posts from the past month that you might enjoy, and even more at the Inkhaven link.