Spiritual Awakening Through the Enneagram and Expanded States of Consciousness

In this mind-bending, heart-opening conversation, Harmony and Russell welcome back author, former Benedictine monk, financial advisor, and Enneagram educator Doug Lynam. What begins as a discussion about money and spirituality quickly expands into psychedelics, ego structures, ancient Christian history, mystical experiences, and why our deepest personal wounds shape both our financial lives and our spiritual paths.

Doug unpacks how his monastic vows, his monastery’s bankruptcy, and years of guiding others through financial distress led him to explore the emotional and psychological roots of money. He explains why money acts as “stored energy,” why it absorbs our intention, and why integrating spirituality with finance is essential for living a whole, aligned life.

From there, the episode rolls into the psychedelic origins of the Enneagram, how different types experience altered states, and why Doug believes psychedelic journeys can reveal the deepest architecture of the ego. Harmony and Russell share their own recent experiences with 5-MeO-DMT, exploring consciousness, connection, lineage healing, and the dissolution of the self.

This is one of the most surprising, expansive, and spiritually charged conversations ever recorded for the Finding Harmony podcast.

In this episode: Setting the Stage: Who Is Doug Lynam Today?

• Harmony introduces Doug as a “monk, a money manager, and a mystic” wrapped into one.
• Doug’s backstory: 20 years as a Benedictine monk, vow of poverty, monastery bankruptcy. How reconciling money and spirituality became his life’s work.

Money as Spiritual Energy

• Doug reframes money as “stored work energy.”
• Why separating spirituality and money leads to fragmentation.
• Russell shares his discomfort about mixing spirituality and money, prompting a rich dialogue about cultural conditioning and internal conflict.

Psychedelics in Early Christianity

• Doug shares research from The Immortality Key.
• Evidence of psychedelic sacraments in early Christian rituals.
• Greek, Roman, and pagan traditions that shaped early Christianity.

Understanding the Enneagram from a Psychological Lens

• Doug explains the Enneagram as nine ego-structures shaped by childhood stressors.
• The three emotional roots: anger, sadness, fear.
• Russell identifies strongly with Type Nine.
• How the Enneagram predicts emotional triggers and core wounds.

Psychedelics and the Enneagram

• Doug’s theory: psychedelic experiences mirror your type’s greatest fear and greatest hope.
• Anger-triad types often benefit from dissociatives like ketamine.
• Shame-triad types often benefit from MDMA.
• Fear-triad types often resonate with psilocybin or LSD.

The Untold Psychedelic History of the Enneagram

• The Enneagram’s modern lineage through Oscar Ichazo and Claudio Naranjo.
• Naranjo’s psychedelic clinic and collaborations with Alexander Shulgin.
• How psychedelic history was stripped out when the Enneagram entered Christian communities.

Five-MeO-DMT, Ego Dissolution, and the Mystical Experience

• Doug outlines safe, trauma-informed approaches to 5-MeO facilitation.
• Why slow, intentional dosing may be safer than single “breakthrough” hits.
• How the Enneagram enriches psychedelic integration.
• Harmony and Russell share their own recent journeys, including lineage healing and somatic release.

Trauma, Healing, and Union with the Divine

• Doug shares his own intense 5-MeO experience involving collective suffering and infinite love.
• Philosophical reflections on consciousness, non-duality, pain, and interconnectedness.
• A powerful closing on how expanded states reveal the architecture of the ego and the nature of reality.

Guest Bio: Doug Lynam

Doug Lynam is a former Benedictine monk turned financial advisor, author, and expert on the intersection of money, psychology, and spirituality. After spending two decades in monastic life, Doug unexpectedly became responsible for navigating his monastery through bankruptcy. This launched his mission to help others heal their relationship with money. He