Sinsomnia

Kaisa and Kristen recount a very recent story that is relevant to the discussion on anger in the body. We’ve had a lot of internal reactions to the topics we talk about on the podcast, and we were fortunate enough this time to be able to share personal observations on anger as a teacher; the projection, the internal reflections, and the repair. Kaisa also shares a dream that came right after the e...

Kristen and Kaisa explore the topic of anger and rage in the body center. We discuss how anger can initially be projected, but the real work is within undergoing an internal process that requires contemplation of the source and direction of energy. Anger can be a creative process and actually regenerate modes of energy stuck within the body. Through uncovering our own relationship to anger in drea...

We talk about what the ‘container’ is and how it relates to the body center. The container is important in understanding emotions and sensations and allowing them to be felt, known, acknowledged, and understood. We talk about what it’s like to set up a container to allow these experiences to be explored, and how that could impact the connection to your body center.  We also discuss topics such as...

Kaisa takes the stage in this episode as she describes her recent experiences in developing a relationship to her body center. As she works to transform her external life, we also explore how that’s being reflected in her internal life. The other two hosts chime in with ideas and abilities to relate to how deep and complex the body center can operate daily and within the realm of dreams.  They als...

The hosts begin to discuss where their minds are going when looking at the Enneagram Centers of Intelligence. The team explores how they feel the centers both as a concept and how they’re operating in their lives. They briefly discuss what the centers are and their first impressions of how they operate in the unconscious versus the personality. The conversation mainly starts to dive into the body...

As we start to wrap up our exploration of the sexual instinct, the hosts share their personal journey over the past couple of months. They go back to the starting point, discovering how each person had a different psychic place where this material impacted them. The conversation unfolds into the nooks and crannies of the middle part as themes of body, matter, spirit, and social complexes take form...

For part two of sex in dreams, we explore the more spiritual and archetypal connections of the sexual instinct and the act of sex. Kaisa brings in concepts revolving around Pan, Eros, the culture’s projections and current struggles, love and creation, sexual energy transfer, and emotional connections. A lot of the topics discussed evoke personal emotions, dreams, and stories that we can relate to...

The trio is back to revisit the mysterious concept of Anima/Animus. The concept is discussed more abstractly this time, exploring the ‘third’ element’s role and energetic component when working with dreams. We talk about how the Anima/Animus wants to challenge who we think we are and how we think we should operate in the world based on our unconscious, habitual patterns in our instincts and type....

Continuing our previous conversation, Kristen and Kaisa dive into the dream symbols of sexual blinds’ dreams. We pull from examples of themes in many sexual blinds, including Kristen’s own personal reflections. The inner ‘Other’ is talked about as it could ‘clothe’ itself in a distant, unobtainable figure, which sparks a conversation about sexual blinds desiring comfort and validation rather than...

With our Princess Sammy missing, Kaisa and Kristen discuss the symbols that could appear in sexual types’ dreams. We first discuss some general, archetypal symbols that might be commenting on the sexual instinct.  We thought it was best to separate the symbols in dreams by sexual types and sexual blinds, since the feelings and energies are usually hiding more within the sexual instinct rather than...

It’s finally here; we’re talking about sex in dreams and how it relates to the sexual instinct. In this unplanned, spontaneous episode, we discuss anything that comes to mind with sex in dreams and what it could mean. We talk about a few of our own dreams and make interesting distinctions of what’s ‘missing’ based on our instinct stacking.  We ‘let go’ of our usual, informative banter in this one;...

In this episode we enter through the triangle and discover what 1+1 really is, and why the magic number 3 could be a portal through transcending our usual suffering of jealousy and anger. We break apart the tension of polarities and how to use that tension for accessing a third perspective. Understanding how the ‘third’ element is showing up in an unconscious way, and how to cultivate a more authe...

A second mythological theme we look at in this episode is dismembering and reassembling. This theme is shown through shamanic traditions and the myths of Dionysus, Osiris, Ymir, etc. We discuss why dismembering and reassembling would be important in the sexual instinct, and also how it might show up in an egoic way. We bring in some of our own dreams where this theme shows up.  Along with this myt...

To begin our dive into some of the mythology of the sexual instinct, Sammy presents a dream she’s had on this journey so far. It has a strange connection with the story of Hephaestus, so we discuss the similarities and differences, and how it all relates to Sammy’s process and the sexual instinct itself. Sammy’s story mirrors Hephaestus, going all the way back to her birth and the medicine the dre...

The large and complex topic of Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus is broken down in relation to the sexual instinct in dreams. Sammy starts out relaying a dream she had that transitions the conversation into how our inner Other shows up in a dream and why. We talk about the relationship to our unconscious material, the passion for longing, devotion, self-expression, our wholeness, and even more of a mix...

In this episode, we discuss our personal relationship to working with feminine & masculine energies. These energies are simplified in this discussion to see just how much they influence daily life. We talk about the sexual blind perspective, and the sexual type perspective. A small conversation is also made around the Anima and Animus, and what it’s like to be possessed by the inner Other. htt...

We talk about how we’ve personally observed our own inauthentic sexuality and what that might mean in our daily lives. Understanding these experiences within ourselves can help with the first step of allowing our current association with sexuality to crumble and plant the seed for new growth. The discussion goes from dreams about our high school crushes to the social shadows that hide in the sexua...

Continuing the conversation of the last episode, Kristen and Kaisa talk about the ‘loss of self’ that happens in a person symbolically. As the topic is explored, they discover how sexual types might long for that feeling outside of themselves, but in doing so it creates a pattern of personality rather than acting as a spontaneous occurrence of the Self.  To have a dream interpreted by Kristen, vis...

Diving into the sexual instinct, Kristen and Kaisa talk about what sexual projection is and/or looks like. Kaisa gives insights into the symbolic view of her dominant instinct and how that translates into the dream realm. Kristen also breaks down a tentative object relations theory to put the instincts into perspective and what these ‘objects’ are that we’re all projecting onto.  To have a dream i...

The social instinct has given us plenty of gifts and ‘real heroes’ to work with in our dreams in order to get a fuller picture of ourselves. We talk a bit about the importance of accepting these social roles playing out in the inner world before transitioning into understanding the sexual instinct. All three instincts are happening simultaneously, especially as we see them through the images of ou...

For this episode, we decided to wrap up our impressions of the social instinct and our journey with it in dreams. Kristen and Kaisa share dreams and experiences that came up for them within the timeframe of exploring this instinct. They both describe how personal this work has been for them, and how they’ve been impacted both externally and internally. Even though it is unbelievably helpful to exp...

Our first guest joins us for this episode; Maggie is a SP/SX 7w6 794. Maggie shares a dream she had that illustrates how social blindness might appear in the unconscious. We discuss the ways in which she views the social instinct, both with neglecting it but also having a different impact based on her family upbringing.  The evidence of her instinctual stacking, core type, and trifix also come int...

We explore Sammy’s progression as a SP/SO 9 in this ‘outtakes’ from the social middle episode. Sammy’s dream could be showing just how toxic she’s becoming around the social instinct (joking). Kaisa also learns about the meaning of postcards. To have a dream interpreted by Kristen, visit - https://www.inkstoryrebel.com To get Instinctual Drives of the Enneagram by John Luckovich, visit - https://w...

Sammy and Kaisa both have the social instinct in the middle of their instinct stacking. They both share their dreams that have been conjured up in their psyche during our social journey. These dreams illuminate just how rich and powerful the middle instinct can be, even in a secondary position. Kaisa also explains her new discoveries of the masculine and feminine polarities embedded in the instinc...

We had two dreamers allow us to break down what the social instinct looks like in their social-dominant dreams. The dreams illuminate how social vulnerability can create images that may be helping a dreamer understand what they’re giving a lot of attention to through their instincts. We make general speculations about the two dreams. Because the dreamers weren’t there to give input, the actual int...