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Friday Feb 15, 2019
Friday Feb 15, 2019
New song debut: "Eight" - the 24th song (of 25) in my Atlas: Year Two series, and the 8th song in the Enneagram chapter - a song for each of the nine unique and beautiful Enneagram types.
In this episode, I tell the birth story of "Eight" - piece by piece, I explain the heart, intention and inspiration behind each lyric and sound in this song, and discuss who these secretly soft and incredibly powerful Enneagram Type Eights are with resident Enneagram master (and a type Eight!), Chris Heuertz.
Show Notes:
Get the song: "Eight" everywhere music is! fanlink.to/AtlasEight
Chris Heuertz' "The Sacred Enneagram" Book: amzn.to/2Dl4MBS
Phileena Heuertz' "Mindful Silence" Book: amzn.to/2taf17x
Phileena Heuertz' "Pilgrimage of the Soul" Book: amzn.to/2terIxX
Sleeping At Last songs referenced:
"October 30th, 2018: Kepler - Goodnight": fanlink.to/Kepler
"When We're Together" Cover: fanlink.to/WWT
"December 17th, 2018: Farout": fanlink.to/Farout
"It Don't Come Easy" Cover: fanlink.to/EasySAL
Subscribe to the Atlas: Year Two: www.sleepingatlast.com/atlas/
Comments (14)
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Might be me😳
Wednesday Apr 06, 2022
And this is one of your enneagram album song that made me cry..
Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
This just explains my whole life
Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
My husband identifies as an eight (I as a nine) and listening to those songs together moved us both to tears. I feel the songwriting decisions you made were so powerful! I'm thankful and proud to be married to an eight, despite all the flak they catch from us enneagram geeks. I feel this song really captured the active tenderness of eights. Thank you for making all your sensitive insights available to the rest of us through your art.
Monday Oct 28, 2019
I was in seventh grade... on a loooong road trip with my large family... when I learned about the enneagram. My mom was listening to Richard Rohr tapes on the drive. The hour before, I punched my sister in the face. I was lying down on top of the luggage piled high in the trunk, against the direction of my parents, when the description of the enneagram 8 began. When the description came through on the speaker near my head, I remember feeling exposed and shocked. My mom kept saying my name, as she saw me too in the description, and she wanted to know I was hearing it with her. It seems many people feel negative feelings about the enneagram type 8, but I’ve always been proud to identify as an 8. The eight is the most badass enneagram type, in my opinion. Finding this podcast, twenty years later while snuggling with my own teen daughter, was fun. She identifies as an enneagram four, and listening to your recording of the four with her was powerful. I loved this podcast and your song(s). Thank you.
Tuesday Oct 22, 2019
I may be sharing more than y’all would want to know, and honestly more than I am comfortable but I really need to speak to this. I am an 8, and this song spoke to me more than you could know. When I was young, I was growing up with a single mom, only seeing my dad occasionally. I felt the need to step into that role as the man of the house, grew rabidly protective of my mother, and did indeed feel I had grown up too fast. I had to move across the country after my freshman year of high school and made a conscious decision that in my new life, I was going to put up walls, don an armor, push people away, and make people work to earn my trust because I had been hurt by people I trusted blindsiding me with what I felt was betrayals and fucking me over. I subconsciously tested people and prodded to actively try to make them leave so I could trust they weren’t going to. After heading to college I went through a depression and it made me feel weak and alone, and truth be told it took me 6 months to get over my ego and my feelings of weakness and failure and get the help I needed, but through that I was able to open up to my closest friends and family and grow closer to them than ever before. Going through that experience changed my whole life goal and trajectory, and I now am planning on being a close air support pilot pilot for the USAF, quite literally putting myself on the front lines for the vulnerable and the ones that need it most, so that line absolutely blindsided me as well, but in a much more perfect way. You will never know how much this song hit me and moved me, but I hope I gave you some insight to that. (PS I rage punch my car too)
Friday Aug 16, 2019
I have been a long time lover of the Ghosts Album. I actually remember messaging you back in ‘03/‘04 about a show you guys played in Chicago. I lost touch with Sleeping at Last over the last dozen years and so many friends have recommended I take a listen to you once again as I’m exploring the enneagram. Wow! To say I’m happy I did is an understatement. Being an 8 wasn’t exactly an easy thing to discover... but you have so beautifully reached in and helped me discover myself further in the sweetest and most tender way... thank you for sharing your gifts with us. ❤️ my heart is happy hearing your music once more ✌🏼
Thursday May 16, 2019
The final verse gave me goosebumps! It's like you took my 8'ness and made it "feel-able". Thank you
Monday Feb 18, 2019
oh my word! As a 8 this was the most therapeutic, inward look at myself I have had in a long time! Thank you... it was so long though so I had to break up the podcast into smaller chunks over a couple days. I couldn't process it all at once.
Saturday Feb 16, 2019
Thanks I love these podcasts. I'm a four btw
Friday Feb 15, 2019
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