Unit 8: The Lower and Higher States

Understand the unconscious patterns shaping your reactions

How do you bring the unconscious into awareness?

This unit helps you recognize the lower states of your type in real time and develop the capacity to move toward greater awareness, presence, and choice.

ENNEAGRAM BOOKS

Complex concepts difficult to grasp

Passive learning through reading

Auditory or intellectual learning

Concepts read but not embodied

ENNEAGRAM EXPERIENCES

Complex ideas become clear and accessible

Interactive, experiential learning

Visual, reflective, and kinesthetic engagement

Activities deepen understanding and retention

What’s Inside: 4 engaging, gamified activities designed to help you understand and shift your mental and emotional patterns

Self-observation practice
Lower mental states of each type: 9 fixations
Lower emotional states of each type: 9 passions
Movement from the lower to the higher states: holy ideas and virtues

Plus
A 30-minute ‘candid conversations’ video with Enneagram teachers Ginger Lapid-Bogda, Jerry Wagner, and Peter O’Hanrahan

$27 per unit or $180 for all 8 units 
One-year access

Enneagram Experiences works on computers, tablets, and smartphones. For the best experience, we recommend using a computer or tablet. If using a smartphone, we recommend turning it sideways, in the landscape position.

Learn more about the other units

Unit 1: Discover Your Type
The Enneagram Typing Process

Unit 2: Understand the System
The 9 Enneagram Types

Unit 3: Learn the Ego Structures
Ego Ideals and Defense Mechanisms

Unit 4: Explore Wings
Enneagram Wings

Unit 5: Understand Arrows
Enneagram Arrows

Unit 6: Work with the Centers
Centers of Intelligence

Unit 7: Explore the Deep Drivers
Instincts, Passions, and Subtypes

Unit 8: Transform Your Patterns
The Lower and Higher States