12.10.14 Adam News, New Tat, What Do You Think It Means?
Dec 10, 2014 0:12:56 GMT -5
Post by tinafea on Dec 10, 2014 0:12:56 GMT -5
New Tattoo!!!!
We now know one thing Adam's been doing while in London. He's gotten a new tattoo for his left arm. Adam's tattoos are never simple, what do you think the meaning is? The center of the tattoo is an enneagram, Q3 provided some information in yesterday's thread that I'm including. And I freely admit, I am totally ignorant on this topic so I'm going to rely on Q3 here.
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About the Enneagram
By Q3, a large portion from Gurdjieff Foundation chapters www.gurdjieff.org/foundation.htm
Adam's tattoo incorporates an enneagram. An enneagram is a symbol for a system of spiritual psychology typology of nine personality types or primary roles with the recognition of one's type tantamount to a spiritual awakening. It is reinterpreted in many ways. One reinterpretation use the findings of modern psychology regarding personality.
The origin of the Enneagram
The enneagram was introduced by George Ivanovich Gurdjieff /ˈɡɜrdʒiˌɛf/ also know as Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff and G. I. Gurdjieff, a spiritual teacher of the early to mid-20th century. The origin is unknown.
An aspect of Gurdjieff's teachings which has come into prominence in recent decades is the enneagram geometric figure. For many students of the Gurdjieff tradition, the enneagram remains a koan, challenging and never fully explained. There have been many attempts to trace the origins of this version of the enneagram; some similarities to other figures have been found, but it seems that Gurdjieff was the first person to make the enneagram figure publicly known and that only he knew its true source.[citation needed] Others have used the enneagram figure in connection with personality analysis, principally in the Enneagram of Personality as developed by Oscar Ichazo, Claudio Naranjo, Helen Palmer and others. Most aspects of this application are not directly connected to Gurdjieff's teaching or to his explanations of the enneagram.
The Fourth Way Enneagram
The enneagram might have been used by George Gurdjieff to his study groups in St Petersburg and Moscow in 1916. It was certainly is use for a long time before The Fourth Way enneagram was published in 1949 in In Search of the Miraculous by P.D. Ouspensky. It is an integral part of the Fourth Way esoteric system associated with George Gurdjieff. The term "enneagram" derives from two Greek words, ennea (nine) and gramma (something written or drawn).
Although no earlier record of the Fourth Way version of the enneagram can be cited, it has been proposed that it may derive from the Jewish Tree of Life (Kabbalah) as used in Renaissance Hermeticism (which used an enneagram of three interlocking triangles, also called a nonagram), a nine-pointed figure used by the Christian medieval philosopher Ramon Llull, have a Sufi provenance, or of Orthodox Christian origin.
The Enneagram is closely associated with music
Within the Enneagram there are 9 point numbers and octave designations for octave beginning at point 9. Points 3 and 6 show "shock points" at which a new Do may enter and develop alongside the existing octave.
The enneagram is a nine-pointed figure usually inscribed within a circle. Within the circle is a triangle connecting points 9, 3 and 6. The inscribed figure resembling a web connects the other six points in a cyclic figure 1-4-2-8-5-7. This number is derived from or corresponds to the recurring decimal .142857 = 1/7. These six points together with the point numbered 9 are said to represent the main stages of any complete process, and can be related to the notes of a musical octave, 9 being equivalent to "Do" and 1 to "Re" etc. The points numbered 3 and 6 are said to represent "shock points" which affect the way a process develops. The internal lines between the points; that is, the three-point figure and the six-point figure, are said to show certain non-obvious connections, although here very little elucidation is offered.
Enneagram in Gurdjieff's cosmology
The enneagram according to Gurdjieff shows the "Law of Seven" and the "Law of Three" united and so some explanation of these laws is necessary here.
The Law of Seven or law of octaves, according to which phenomena evolves in seven steps; and the Law of Three, according to which phenomena are produced by three forces, are presented by Gurdjieff as global laws appearing on all scales and essential to his cosmology. This cosmology offers a view of how the world operates said to derive from alchemy and more ancient sources, and to complement or complete modern experimental science rather than to contradict it. According to this cosmology everything is material, including consciousness and spirit, and all matter can be assigned a "density"; consciousness and spirit for example having lower "densities" (and therefore higher "vibrations") than for example water while for example rock has a higher "density" and lower "vibration" than water and so on.
The diatonic musical scale is said to be an ancient application of the Law of Seven and a convenient way to study it. The major musical scale is used with short intervals at mi-fa and ti-do (Ouspensky refers to Ti as "Si" and So as "Sol" and the diagrams on this page reflect his usage). In other words if one thinks of a standard keyboard and takes for example middle C as Do then the following six white keys, DEFGAB will represent the rest of the octave, and the next white key will be the higher C. There will be black keys between each of the white keys, except between E and F (the mi-fa interval) and between B and the higher C (the ti-do interval)
In any process described in terms of the Law of Seven the Mi-Fa interval and the Ti-Do interval are said to be shock points where outside help is needed if the octave is to continue to develop as intended. A failure to recognize this in terms of human projects is said to be a major reason why things go wrong in general. The octave of electromagnetic radiation that appears as visible light, and the Periodic Table of the Elements are said to be examples of physical phenomena where the underlying Law of Seven can be detected (although no detail is offered here). It should be noted that the musical scale Gurdjieff is quoted as using is not the modern standard musical scale but Ptolemy's intense diatonic scale associated with the Renaissance composer and musical theorist Zarlino.
The Law of Three holds that three forces act on any event, which can be called Active, Passive, and Neutralizing forces, or simply First, Second, and Third forces respectively. Humanity is said to be "third force blind", to have difficulty recognizing the third force, which may appear to us in the guise of a result or of a background environment. In terms of the Law of Seven one of the three forces appears as the "do" of the octave and the other two appear as the "shocks" (which also function as the do of new octaves) The explanation of these laws in In Search of the Miraculous is largely in abstract terms, with some detail given for the so-called "food diagram" described below and the cosmic octave, the Ray of Creation.
The enneagram shows the Law of Seven and the Law of Three in a single symbol with the three forces joined in a triangle at the 3,6 and 9 points, and in addition seven inner lines following the 142... sequence. The meaning of these seven inner lines is not by Ouspensky's account made clear by Gurdjieff. One shock point is shown on the enneagram at point 3, which is the Mi-Fa interval where it might be expected. However the other is at point 6, at the So-La interval. It might have been expected to be at the Ti-Do interval, and Gurdjieff is presented as offering this apparent mistake as a mystery to be solved. Ouspensky offers the solution that the shock at point 3 itself develops as an octave to point 6, where its own Mi-Fa interval occurs. This second octave cannot develop unless it has a shock at its own Mi-Fa, and this is the shock which in fact occurs at point 6.
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Enneagram's are used for many purposes. Here is one example....
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The center pyramid/triangle is also referred to as dharma.
Another common use of this symbol is the Enneagram of Personality which does not seem to work with the Pyramid image in the center as in Adam's tattoo. There are many, many enneagrams and associated meanings, here is one more:
What does it mean?
In considering the symbol and after doing a bit of reading, I think that Adam may have incorporated it into the design because of the early 20th century meaning. I also think it is related to A3.
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