Big Hormone Enneagram
by John Luckovich, Emeka Okorafor, David Gray, Alexandra Arroyo-Acevedo
⚠️DISCLAIMER: This enneagram podcast contains highly charged elements. Contents may cause unexpected states of psychological depth and trigger unconventional insight. Listener discretion is advised. Hosted by John Luckovich, Emeka Okorafor, David Gray, Alexandra Arroyo-Acevedo.
Episodes
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Outro
HERE LIES THE REMAINS OF THE BIG HORMONE ENNEAGRAM PODCAST, 2020-2025 RIP
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BHE 199 - THE ENNEAGRAM INSTINCTS OF CHAKRAS - DAVIDXKRISTEN
Special episode with DG and Kristen of the Sinsomnia podcast on the instincts in chakras. Link for the Chakra/Instinct Correlation Diagram to follow along in our conversation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RBqzLoZ5X0JEqE_LlVlYVqOkzg61bL-c/view?usp=sharing —(1:27) - The archetypal sexual...
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BHE 198 - 2024 END OF YEAR WRAP PARTY
Join us with libations and preferred substances as we look back on the beautiful dumpster fire that was 2024. —(1:27) 4-wings episode postpartum —(9:39) “This podcast used to be good” —(14:48) More Alexandra vs Emeka shit talk —(21:28) Welcome to our end of year 5 drunk pod —(24:10) What we’ve...
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BHE 197 - WE GIVE YOU 4-WINGS
After an unfathomable delay we’ve returned to the wings series. **send in your questions and comments for episode #200 bonanza** —(1:27) Alexandra gaslighting us about why she gave up on the wing series —(12:25) 4-wings intro —(17:53) 9 vs 4 differences / 4’s off-putting emotional aggression...
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BHE 196 - ESOTERIC STAR WARS [PART II]: THE PATH OF PRINCESS LEIA - JOHNXKRISTEN
Continuing where we left off with John and Kristen of the Sinsomnia podcast on the archetypal feminine/masculine myths in Star Wars. **start sending in your questions and comments for episode #200** —(1:27) Couples that look like siblings —(5:50) The different splits in masculine/feminine psyche...
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BHE 195 - ESOTERIC STAR WARS: THE PATH OF PRINCESS LEIA [PART I] - JOHNXKRISTEN
Special episode with John and Kristen of the Sinsomnia podcast on the archetypal feminine/masculine myths in Star Wars. **start sending in your questions and comments for episode #200** — (1:27) Plugs — (5:53) Salome & Star Wars intro — (7:00) Conditions of existence, Masculine/Feminine, and the...
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BHE 194 - BALTASAR EBANGS A LOT
Diving into the shadow sex scandal putting equatorial guinea on the map. — (1:27) New formats for the pod / send in questions for episode #200 — (5:15) The African gov’t official sex tapes scandal — (12:51) He’s a smooth criminal 9 — (27:09) Sexual blind conservatism in African culture — (36:26)...
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BHE 193 - CONTRASYNS
— (1:27) The Big Hormone Self-Pres podcast — (3:37) Psychedelics as anti-depressants (correction: serotonin is a neurotransmitter not a hormone) — (11:26) COVID stories and launching the pod — (16:31) The great disillusionment — (19:51) Trump and elon dork — (21:52) Synflow vs contraflow in...
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BHE 192 - a near death experience
— (1:27) the john stream from the void — (5:22) consciousness experiencing itself and letting go — (8:45) complicated relationship to brotherhood — (18:10) a zone is always happening — (22:08) energy around male connection — (35:10) self-pres nerd out — (40:52) bhe guide to crashing out /…
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BHE 191 - INSTINCT ZONE LORE
what it do babyyy: https://www.enneagrammer.com/instinct-zones — (1:27) We watched Bone Tomahawk — (5:06) Instinct Zone updates / Emeka’s 1-3 flame burnout — (10:09) The Play Zones and nailing down long term relationship — (15:23) Stackings within the stackings made a comeback / syn vs contra…
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BHE 190 - ZEZONE EXTERRAS
Spilling more instinct zone insights: https://www.enneagrammer.com/instinct-zones — (1:27) souuuunddd check — (4:18) Instinct Zone updates and DG’s SX2-3 game — (9:43) SX2 game vs SX1 froth — (14:44) SX3-2 and John’s meats sexual bias — (19:08) Emeka SX3-1 feeding the fetish — (23:12) John’s...
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BHE 189 - INSTINCT ZONE STEMS
New juice to wet your beaks. To follow along check out the intro blogs and videos here: https://www.enneagrammer.com/instinct-zones — (3:29) What are the instinct zone stems? — (9:51) Why Alexandra feels like others are doing social wrong / SO2-1 the gossip flake — (13:48) The Social Zones —...
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BHE 188 - CHANNELING THE AKASHIC RECORDS - Valeria Kechichian
Valeria, our akashic channel, is here to talk about channeling. To get your akashic reading with Valeria DM her on IG: https://www.instagram.com/valeriakechichian — (7:55) Welcome Valeria — (12:34) What is channeling? — (17:22) Importance of channels being clean vessels / perceiving things with...
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BHE 187 - THE AKASHIC RECORDS - IKRAM
Full on mystical woo. To book your akashic reading with Valeria DM her on IG: https://www.instagram.com/valeriakechichian — (3:29) What are the akashic records? and what’s a reading like? — (11:49) DG’s a russian doll earth man — (20:35) Alexandra’s a forest fairy warrior — (37:45) John’s a…
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BHE 186 - FUZZCITYROAD
Got your head on a swivel. — (1:27) How major the Bermuda Overlays are — (4:23) No Diddy and creepy 3w2s — (8:16) Why do people hate Teal Swan so much? / BHE Suicide Hotline — (16:46) DG’s metallurgy analogy for how a wing transforms a fix — (23:22) Are the attachment wings harder to see? —…
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BHE 185 - SEVENTYSEVEN FUSSTRATIONS - IKRAM
Psychedelic 7 frustration with Ikram. — (4:00) The overwhelming depths of 7 disappointment and self-hatred / giving yourself what you didn’t get in childhood — (9:50) The psychic aural fixation of 7 — (13:35) Frustration as the engine to go out into the world / constant bust-boom cycle — (17:03)…
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BHE 184 - #nota4 fusstration
Continuing our series on frustration and type 4. — (2:23) 3w2 interpersonal availability / we’re reacting to 3w2 not bashing it — (9:17) Aesthetic preferences for 4 as an expression of hidden personal selfhood — (14:40) 4 staying in the realm where things can only be seen in the dark — (18:12)…
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BHE 183 - #FFFUSTRATIONNN cuts and slices
it’s the spice of life. — (1:25) Frustration is the aesthetic of each center — (6:10) Frustration as the basis of human suffering and expression of personality — (7:56) Bermuda Overlays and frustration as personalized flavor / rejection as the elemental substrate of each center — (14:25)...
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BHE 182 - AN INNER JOURNEY TO EGYPT
Alejohndra are back with tales of their Egypt trip. — (1:25) John and Alexandra recap their retreat to Egypt — (9:05) What about the aliens? / the construction of the pyramids had to be an exercise in presence and intention — (16:23) The femininity of Egypt — (21:04) Egypt peaked early and then...
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BHE 181 - 333w222vs333w444 - JOSHXLOUIS
In this episode of WILTBY Josh interviews Louis. — (4:50) Josh processing his 2-wing and meeting Louis at the zone / the team love vs team truth confrontation — (11:45) 3w2 facilitating and orchestrating connection vs 3w4 distant excellence — (16:35) The philosophy of truth vs love in…
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BHE 180 - POOR THINGS - Al & Ikram
We watched Poor things right before recording our impressions and thoughts. Call the nota4 hotline at (323) 696-0647. — (2:40) Overview of Poor Things and its ode to the head center — (8:40) The surgeon is a 5 — (13:22) 6 reactivity leveling the playing field with negativity — (16:30) hexad vs...
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BHE 179 - FORBIDDEN TIPS AND TRICKS 1 - DGXSTJ
They don’t want you to know. — (3:10) Nines are everyone’s least favorite mud cattle — (6:38) Sixes are annoying cult maintainers — (11:13) Sevens are the slutty surprise suicide Enneagrammer — Become dangerously perceptive and skilled at seeing types clearly. Watch recent classes on Josh Brolin,...
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BHE 178 - THE DOGVILLE PRINCIPLE - IKRAM
A must-watch for every 9 and 9-fixer. Watch Dogville and then come back to this. — (8:42) Why we’re talking about Dogville / Plot overview — (19:53) The hope of attachment vs the leverage of rejection — (24:30) How things went from bad to worse — (30:04) The arrogance of 9 — (37:32) Grace...
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BHE 177 - [LIVE POD] HARLEM HEARTS
Live from Harlem tunneling thru the catacombs of the heart. Watch here: https://youtu.be/tnkHm0LCX_c — (2:18) Alright.. the heart center live — (6:45) The value of shame / heart-2nd impresisons — (13:15) Josh’s core 3 image and sensitivity to self-abandonment — (16:07) Decoupling emotion from the...
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BHE 176 - THE LAST HEART
New insights emerging on having your heart center last. — (4:22) Alexandra’s new insights about heart-last and image being a cultivated sense of identity — (12:27) Being a social-blind image type / reinforcing who you are to yourself — (16:28) Painting your self-portrait and updating how things...
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BHE 175 - why so reactive ???
We’re back at it looking at reactive harmonics. — (3:22) Reactive vs frustration / harmonics is how we resolve a situation — (7:16) ‘Hopeful’ better describes what positive outlook is up to / reactive aims to uncover where the other is located under duress — (9:51) Katt Williams and 6 exposing…
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BHE 174 - 2023 END OF YEAR WRAP PARTY
Looking back on 2023 with libations. Happy new year you filthy animals. — (2:20) Our impressions of BHE year IV / shifts in the business of the enneagram — (8:31) Why interest in the enneagram is taking a dip — (14:27) Do people know about BHE or nah — (20:06) Enneagram reddit thinks Naranjo is…
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BHE 173 - BIG WINTER FLICKS
Chatting the enneagram in the movies. — (2:48) Non-romantic sexual instinct in Suspiria / sx-middle teases / Twin Peaks’ weird sp/sx — (10:32) Holy Mountain and Enter the Void as sexual instinct movies — (14:39) Paul Thomas Anderson and attachment stories — (16:38) How rare sexual is in the...
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BHE 172 - ASTROCARTOGRAPHY - ODINAKA
Od’s with us this week to dive into the interesting world of astrocartography. — (10:12) What is astrocartography and how’d we get into this? — (16:08) Moving to significant areas on your astro map — (21:17) How to create your astrocartography map / what the circles on the map mean — (25:25)…
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BHE 171 - PART2.OPS SOCIAL ROLES - IKRAM
Continuing where we left off with Ikram and the Objective Personality Social Types. We’ve been typed #3 for DG, Alexandra, and John. #2 for Emeka. #4 for Ikram. — (6:16) The sp/so framing of the social roles concept makes it smaller / does social roles have any implications for the sexual…
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BHE 170 - OPS SOCIAL ROLES - IKRAM
We’re talking about the Objective Personality Social Types this week with Ikram. We’ve been typed #3 for DG, Alexandra, and John. #2 for Emeka. #4 for Ikram. — (7:55) *Gasp* John is taking responsibility / intro to OPS social roles — (14:18) What does flex mean? — (20:03) Flex vs friends —…
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BHE 169 - [LIVE POD] GOATS AND MODELS IN THE BACKROOMS
Live from Brooklyn backrooms answering your questions. Watch here: https://youtu.be/WlHQcWEglks — (2:32) How important is trifix order? — (12:10) What feels like boring chores to the sexual instinct? — (17:31) How DG experiences his lines of connection as a 9 with no attachment fixes — (25:26)…
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BHE 168 - THE SHAME
The wet heart types. Live pod this weekend. Be on the lookout for details. — (4:35) Assertive hexad types being out of touch with their shame — (6:26) Shame is not a great word for what the heart types are experiencing / identity needing to feel special — (12:57) Heart types needing to…
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BHE 167 - THE RAGE
The fuming and stewing gut types. — (4:03) Alexandra wants to be led when she’s in the mood — (9:05) David is very angry at the sun — (16:49) And the plague of bread people — (20:35) Alexandra finally admits she has a rage problem — (30:30) Emeka’s rage is the fuel that keeps the car running…
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BHE 166 - THE FEAR
Delving into the fear and anxiety of the head types. — (3:57) 5 fear of being contaminated — (10:40) Avarice is a sense that personhood isn’t robust enough to be fully exposed in the world — (11:30) The 8 line to 5 and the 2 line to 8 — (16:30) Ways to work on 5 avarice — (19:18) 5 fear as one…
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BHE 165 - S O C I A L Instincity
— (8:25) Riffing on new terms for social / resonance and frequency — (15:08) Social as a 3D matrix / What is the big deal with what social types are looking for? — (20:15) We feel social chemistry with those who we feel regulated by — (23:17) Social boners and turn ons / the sensation of social…
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BHE 164 - ** FOURFOURSTRATION INTENSIFIES ** - JOHNXJOSEPH
A sexual 4w5 and a social 4w3 walk into a bar. — (4:21) Vulnerability and sensitivity as a 4 — (7:21) The difference between 9 sensitivity and 4 sensitivity — (10:55) Type 4 is over-individuating to express singular identity — (13:30) Joseph won’t laugh at your jokes / 4 image ego self-editing…
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BHE 163 - THE SP/SX & SX/SP ROASTATHON - Courtney Joseph & Kristen
A horde of social types attempt a roast of the social-blind legends. — (7:55) Let the roasts begin — (10:50) Creeps and Homewreckers — (13:19) The limited personas and channels of engagement of social blinds — (14:33) Joseph’s social 4 impressions of working with social blinds / social blinds…
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BHE 162 - SOCIAL PAIN AND HEARTBREAKS - Ikram & Kristen
We’re joined by two social types, Ikram & Kristen, to explore the pain and suffering of the social instinct. — (12:33) Post-zone reflections on social pain and longing — (16:44) Potential dangers in social space — (22:48) The naivety of social-blinds with the social game — (26:50) Why people tear...
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BHE 161 - THE ATTACHMENT SUPPORT GROUP - Josh Lavine
Introducing the attachment support group, brought to you by Alexandra and Josh. — (12:36) Why do attachment types need support? — (14:18) A brief overview on what attachment types are — (20:17) What accountability means for attachment types / waking up from self-abandonment — (29:00) Attaching vs...
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BHE 160 - THE SO/SX & SX/SO ROASTATHON
We’re back roasting the crackhead and lovebomb babies of the enneagram. — (22:17) Why do we call self-pres blinds babies? / Overly dependent on the attention of other people — (26:24) Self-pres is self-regulation and self-containment. Not just paying your bills and taking care of yourself —…
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BHE 159 - [LIVE POD] AN ORAL HISTORY OF BHE/EU
Watch the live pod on youtube: https://youtu.be/lhaDNCSuwW4 — (18:41) What we’ve contributed to the enneagram as a group — (23:18) Josh leads us through piecing together the history of the group — (37:44) DG’s instinct cards and the birth of the collage exercise — (44:34) How Alexandra found the...
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BHE 158 - THE INSTINCT STACKING ROASTATHON - SP/SO & SO/SP
— (10:40) Welcome to our roast of the sx-blinds — (15:52) so/sp are way too serious and stuck-up about relational categories and context — (21:40) so/sp’s do it with their gloves on in the museum — (25:57) The power drive of so/sp / lineage and geneology?! — (30:35) What we like about so/sp...
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BHE 157 - THE CATFISH ABYSS
— (6:30) Peering into the catfish void and the starvation of connection — (13:10) The failure of social in the west and the nuclear family / catfish as an internet age phenomenon — (19:50) Soft white underbelly and the horrors that arise from a lack of community — (23:42) What’s in it for the...
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BHE 156 - WE GIVE YOU 3-WINGS
Our reluctant cult leader finally decided to pick up where she left off. — (12:24) Alexandra’s intro to 3w2 vs 3w4 — (16:06) 3w4 self as exemplary object vs 3w2 self as interpersonal star — (18:07) 3w4 bitchy frustration vs 3w2 schmoozy rejection — (32:00) Are 3w2’s better manipulators than…
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BHE 155 - THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST
— (4:16) What it’s like to have frustration, rejection, or attachment last — (14:26) Emeka’s rejection/frustration refined border freakouts — (23:16) DG & Alexandra are rejection last ghostly 9s — (25:22) John’s frustration/rejection locked down non-personhood — (32:54) What 4s with more…
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BHE 154 - LOVELINE BLINDERS
— (1:27) Am I just attracted to 9s because they’re soft? — (12:41) ♫ The softest place on earth ♫ — (16:53) What do people like about hooking up with 8s or 1s? — (25:33) How do I help my 7 process grief? — (34:08) The fixated 9 crusade around healing — (39:38) Why are people so obsessed with…
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BHE 153 - S E X U A L instincity
— (13:24) Noticing people from an attraction lens / sexual blind weird algebra — (18:32) Trying to describe what attraction is without using social signifiers — (25:09) The chemical infection of the sexual instinct and the drug analogy — (28:03) What happens after the merging of sexual? — (30:55)...
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BHE 152 - SPRING HORMONES BE MOANING
Super spreader hormoan instinct talks. — (7:47) Nancy chimes in on instinct love languages and what men really want but won’t say they want — (13:01) Sex work revealing missing needs and desires / strip club talk — (20:28) What’s up with America’s hyper-sexuality vs sexual conservatism — (25:52)...
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BHE 151 - INSTINCT RELIGION ＜=＞ LOVE LANGUAGES
Dearly beloved / we’re gathered here today / to love through this thing called instinct — (2:59) We make our dominant instinct a religion / how we manipulate what love is through our dominant instinct — (5:47) Integrating the social instinct’s verbal-contextual expressions of love / Alexandra’s...
About this show
⚠️DISCLAIMER: This enneagram podcast contains highly charged elements. Contents may cause unexpected states of psychological depth and trigger unconventional insight. Listener discretion is advised. Hosted by John Luckovich, Emeka Okorafor, David Gray, Alexandra Arroyo-Acevedo.
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John Luckovich, Emeka Okorafor, David Gray, Alexandra Arroyo-Acevedo
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