The New Age & The Enneagram | Marcia Montenegro | Ep. 112
Kindled Podcast | Truth and Grace, Boldly
Haley Williams
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🗓️ 30 March 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Today I'm airing the second part of my conversation with Marcia Montenegro. We're diving headfirst into the New Age and tackling some big topics like naturopathy, mindfulness, the enneagram.
Marcia explains the origins of these ideas, concepts and the enneagram itself, which may surprise you. To be fair, I have long loved the enneagram and how it felt like it explained me so accurately, helped me understand more about myself and others, but as I've learned more about its origins, I've taken a more critical approach to it.
But Marcia's biggest beef isn't that you identify as a "three" or an "achiever" but that the enneagram is teaching people to value experience over truth, a foundational teaching of the new age.
While I think there's plenty of room for believers to disagree on whether the enneagram can be "redeemed" (which tends to be the point of argumentation), it's important for us to take a look at the origins of what we engage with so we can rightly understand how we interact with them today.
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| 0:30.1 | Welcome to Kindled Podcast. |
| 0:32.2 | I'm your host, Haley Williams, and this is the show where we talk about truth and grace boldly. I'm so glad you're here. |
| 0:40.3 | Hello, it's Haley, and this is episode 111 of Kindled. Today I'm talking again with |
| 0:47.0 | Marcia Montenegro. Last week, she shared her testimony and her story with us here on |
| 0:51.5 | Kindled, so if you have not heard her testimony yet, I would |
| 0:54.8 | definitely encourage you to go back and listen to that first before listening to this episode. |
| 0:59.9 | Now, this part of the conversation, I wanted to talk with Marcia about the specifics and the |
| 1:06.1 | particulars when it came to a new wage worldview and how so much of what we see today in pop culture, |
| 1:13.3 | really a lot of it has been borrowed from Eastern religions and from the new age. |
| 1:20.1 | So the thing that I was hesitant about was really getting into what I knew would be a hot topic, |
| 1:26.7 | which is the Enneagram, and even at the very |
| 1:30.1 | end, a little bit yoga. Having myself practiced yoga for years, and when I say practice, I don't mean |
| 1:36.1 | truly, I guess I just mean gone to yoga classes. I didn't want to get into it because I knew |
| 1:41.6 | it would be controversial, and I knew there'd be a lot of people |
| 1:44.8 | who disagree and a lot of people who might dismiss everything that she shared just because |
| 1:50.9 | they disagreed with those two or three, you know, kind of issues. So what I want to say in regards |
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