Episodes

  • Exposed vs. Shielded - Wings on Attachment Types
    Feb 21 2024

    Jack and Jessica share the difference in their findings between Attachment fixes with Frustration wings and Attachment fixes with Rejection wings.


    0:56 - Attachment Types have either a Frustration wing or a Rejection wing

    2:34 - Introduction of Eugene

    3:05 - Commonality of Attachment fixes

    3:45 - Shielded types - Attachment with Rejection wings

    4:32 - Exposed types - Attachment with Frustration wings

    5:27 - Eye contact

    6:12 - Why Frustration types are not exposed

    9:32 - 3w4 appearing self-conscious

    10:23 - Jessica's experience being double exposed

    13:20 - Single vs. double exposure

    13:40 - Social-blindness ruining eye contact

    15:44 - Exposed types feeling uncomfortable

    16:51 - Jack being obsessed with eye contact

    20:34 - Contrasting exposed and shielded iterations of the same type


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    25 mins
  • Object Relations - Heads or Tails?
    Feb 14 2024

    Jack and Jessica discuss a model of Object Relations manifesting on a quarter.


    0:40 - Overview / review of Object Relations

    3:00 - Assertive Types (3, 7, 8) and the Nurturing Object

    4:09 - Compliant Types (1, 2, 6) and the Protecting Object

    6:08 - Withdrawn Types (4, 5, 9) and the Belonging Object

    7:53 - Hexad vs. Triangle

    9:27 - Using a quarter as an "object" lesson: Frustration and Rejection as two sides of the same coin

    13:53 - Attachment Types continuing connection to their Objects

    15:54 - 7 and 8 having opposite affects toward the Nurturing Object

    17:13 - Hexads per Center of Intelligence as inversions of each other

    20:56 - Jack vocalizing his opinions

    22:15 - Triangle types ending up somewhere they didn't intend to be

    24:46 - Hexad types having already toppled / landed

    25:37 - Attachment Types refusing to individuate

    27:49 - Difference between the life journeys of triangle types and hexad types

    30:36 - Jessica's real-time Frustration

    33:40 - Sample of a past argument


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    37 mins
  • Saltburn - Enneagram Analysis
    Jan 31 2024

    Jack and Jessica discuss the movie Saltburn, unpacking the type structures of the characters and overall Enneagram themes throughout the film.


    0:40 - How actors' types distort the intended types of the characters they play

    2:06 - Overall themes of Saltburn

    3:11 - Summary of the film

    4:28 - Emerald Fennell (director / screenwriter)

    6:25 - Oliver

    9:00 - Felix

    12:40 - Elspeth

    16:00 - Venetia

    18:20 - Sir James

    18:55 - Duncan

    19:45 - Farleigh

    23:36 - Michael

    24:50 - Pamela

    27:00 - sx-blind audience's reactions to Saltburn's shocking scenes

    28:35 - Mythological imagery

    29:57 - Attachment types in crisis

    31:25 - Emerald's 7-1 link incorporating long-game foreshadowing

    32:37 - Ignorance of British aristocracy

    33:45 - Elspeth being double positive

    34:53 - sp-blind's world being highly external / relational

    35:30 - Oliver's unbelonging

    36:25 - Felix's tour of Saltburn

    38:08 - sx/so's singular attention in making a new friend


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    41 mins
  • The Instinctual Cycle - Waxing and Waning (Pt. 2)
    Jan 24 2024

    Melea, Jack, and Jessica unpack the five remaining portions of the instinctual cycle, picking up from where they left off with sx/sp.

    Be sure to view the diagram of the ⁠instinctual cycle⁠ while you listen!


    2:02 - Overview of the terms "waxing" and "waning"

    3:04 - sp/so as a singular form maturing into a broader world

    6:34 - so/sx as multiplicious procreation

    9:10 - How do the waxing stackings show up behaviorally?

    12:15 - sx/so as advertisement of remaining fertility

    16:15 - Contrasting sx/so with sx/sp

    18:37 - so/sp as the mature symbol of its kind

    21:05 - sp/sx as decay / death

    23:20 - Contrasting sp/sx with sp/so

    24:55 - Jessica leaving traces for others in the future

    27:06 - How our dominant instinct feels life/death to our psyche

    28:45 - GIFs for the sexual instinct as secondary vs. dominant

    30:20 - Melea measuring her energy by meaningful interactions

    32:05 - Jessica thinks a lot about food


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    35 mins
  • The Instinctual Cycle - Waxing and Waning (Pt. 1)
    Jan 17 2024

    Melea, Jack, and Jessica explore NMT's discovery of the instinctual cycle, building from David Gray's original concepts of "synflow" and "contraflow."

    Be sure to view the diagram of the instinctual cycle while you listen!


    1:35 - Overview of the three instincts

    9:30 - Wondering how the instincts relate to Maslow's hierarchy of needs

    10:33 - Overview of instinctual cycle as life and death processes

    13:00 - Jack failing at the self-preservation instinct

    14:55 - Jessica failing at the social instinct

    18:10 - David Gray's "flows"

    23:09 - Why is knowing about "flow" helpful?

    24:35 - Finding the sexual instinct's location in a vertical diagram

    27:20 - sx/sp as conception / creation

    30:32 - Self-preservation reinforcing sexual's agenda

    34:35 - Renaming "synflow" as "waxing" and "contraflow" as "waning"


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    36 mins
  • Your Enneagram Typing Service Announcement
    Jan 10 2024

    Jack, Melea, and Jessica announce their long-awaited project: newly public typing services. Go visit our site to have your type identified behaviorally!

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    33 mins
  • You’ve Been So Blind [To the Instincts] (Pt. 3)
    Sep 5 2022
    Melea and Jack discuss social blindness with Jessica Visher.
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • You’ve Been So Blind [To the Instincts] (Pt. 2)
    Dec 6 2021
    Melea and Jack dive deeper into what sexual blindness looks and feels like, as well as why we bother pursuing to strengthen the instinct to which we are blind.
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    48 mins