Here’s a real-life experience of bridging an interval. Just as there are two intervals in the musical scale, there are intervals in a process. These intervals are key to staying on track. In my case, the intervals involve two seemingly unrelated events.
The first is the period following the writing of my memoir, Real People. An important time when authors make concentrated efforts to get their book known to the public. Something I haven’t been very pro-active with.
The second event involves The Claymont Society for Continuous Education’s Course of Study, which I’ll call the COS. This was a three-month program studying the ideas and putting into practice exercises developed by G.I. Gurdjieff regarding inner growth.
Here’s what’s interesting. Seemingly without my participation, circumstances unfolded moving the book forward. To understand the energetics of how this occurred, I’ve drawn an Enneagram that I’ve labeled Moving Forward. (See above.)
The Enneagram with Intervals
If points 1 and 2 represent the first event with my book, the second event began at point 3, the Mi – Fa interval, or first “shock” point. Here I said “yes” to What is Being Asked? Not knowing what that was, but that it had something to do with a program at Claymont, which became the Course of Study.
The period of active involvement with the COS takes place between points 4 and 5. This is the point of “no return” in terms of transformation.
Point 6, is where the second shock comes, propelling the process towards completion. I see this as the COS itself. The planning, the working together, the inner efforts allowing it to “happen” to us—staff and participants alike.
Point 7, represents a shift in me that occurred during the writing of my book as well as during the COS, connecting the two events.
From SI to Do
And here comes the SI – Do interval and what has caught my attention:
Just the other day, I became aware that 1) I’ve sold enough books to start getting royalties, something I’d given up on. 2) A first step to translate the book into a foreign language occurred. 3) I’m going to do an interview for a new podcast, Faith Without Borders. How did this happen while I was putting all my energy into the COS?
I think the answer is, an energetic bridging of the Si – Do interval. Gurdjieff saw this as necessary to keep a process on track, like the interval that keeps the musical scale from sounding dissonant.
The shock points at 3 and 6 are like the wind that keeps a pin-wheel spinning. An unexpected event needed to keep things moving.
So even though expanding my outreach of Real People doesn’t seem related to becoming involved with the COS, the inner work invested in one helped bridge an interval in the other, keeping things moving forward.
The universe finds a way to speak to us when we act in good faith to become an agent of help. I think this is lawful because Help is a reservoir that needs us to tap into its current. It’s what we are here to do.
Yes, I totally agree, thanks James.
Interesting you brought the two events together. I would have had an enneagram of the book and another one for the COS. Did you complete the enneagram of the COS? I don’t know. The enneagram of the book is more readily available in my view.
Hi Sam, I know. Normally that is what I would think too. In this case, I’d had in mind to write my blog about the COS. But that morning what came up was the convergence of the events around my book, which I hadn’t been pro-actively promoting while working with the COS. So it left me wondering WHY? I felt like it had to do with an interval, which is a detail of the Enneagram I’ve never looked at or experienced directly. So I started mapping it out, and this is what appeared and wanted to be written about. I love the unveiling aspect the Enneagram can bring.