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 About
the Enneagram
There is an organization called The
Flat Earth Society whose purpose I assume is tongue-in-cheek. Through
its literature and newsletter, it advocates a medieval view of the
world and promotes an elaborate thesis that “proves” the world is flat.
The Society claims, for instance, that photographs of the round earth
shot from space are trick photoshopped and part of a sinister worldwide
conspiracy to contradict common sense. After all, any fool who can see
the horizon knows that the world is flat. Read More
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Fine Distinctions: Nines
• Often preoccupied with physical comfort, maintaining routines and satisfying appetites.
• Exceptionally good receivers and appreciators; the best things in life are free.
• Grateful for what they have and treasure it.
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The backwards bombing film; Rapid pain control; Enneagram videos Read More
Poland: Auschwitz
Today a visit to Auschwitz and Birkenau. Grueling, but then it’s
supposed to be. The train trip began in forest but gradually yielded to
rolling farm land and marshy patches of woods. I kept flashing on the
iconic image of the train tracks Read More
Fine Distinctions: Eights
Self-Preservation Eights are strongly focused on physical security; very hard workers.
When healthy they are exceptionally self-reliant, independent and responsible.
Self-preservation Eights can be implacably determined to prosper.
Momma Bear or Poppa Bear; both fiercely protective and tenderly nurturing.
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Quotes By, For and About Eights
Fine Distinctions: Sevens
Self-Preservation Sevens are confusing since they tend to be
highly sociable and gravitate toward groups like Social Subtypes do.
They specialize in “chosen family” in that they tend to create a network
of people around them.
They enjoy sharing on a circuit of interesting or like-minded
people. Other people are a source of information and stimulation;
interested in the latest gossip and everyone’s news. Read More
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Quotes By, For and About Sevens
Fine Distinctions: Sixes
Self-preservation Sixes can be warm and ingratiating; have a graceful, diplomatic sociability.
Try to bring out the best in others and speak well of most people.
Good communication skills; can tell people hard truths in a skillful or funny way. Read More
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The backwards bombing film; Rapid pain control; $47,000 Paper Sculptures; Wonders of the Natural World; 83 Uses for Baking Soda; Everything you know is wrong? "The greatest dance number ever filmed." Read More
Change and the Enneagram
Swiss therapist Marie Louise Von Franz was once lecturing about
applications of Jungian psychology. She was saying that most women have
an imaginary little devil that sits on their right shoulder and talks to
them all day long in a negative way. Whenever the woman tries to take
action, to assert herself, or do something new, the little devil says, Read More
Fine Distinctions: Fives
Self Preservation Fives are often exceptionally knowledgeable, possibly about obscure subjects.
Use their knowledge to contribute to the world.
Sensitive to being saturated, feel overwhelmed by people’s expectations.
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Personality Trances: Hypnosis and the Enneagram
When
people are hypnotized, they demonstrate capacities called hypnotic
phenomena. For instance, trance subjects will frequently forget the
experience they had while hypnotized much like the rest of us forget
our dreams when we awaken in the morning. This is the hypnotic
phenomenon of amnesia. Read More
Fine Distinctions: Fours
Self-Preservation Fours are often risk takers.
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They take chances to stir up emotional intensity, collect new experiences, play out inner dramas or learn about themselves.
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Open advocates of the passionate life.
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Social and artistic courage; the high side of this subtype brings daring.
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Spiritual Goals and the Enneagram
The
world’s religious literature is full of instructions and techniques for
transcending ego and detaching from our limited identities. The purpose
of most of these practices is to help us waken from the trance-like
dream of our lives and open to realms beyond our personality and
worldview. But getting to such realms and staying in them are two
different tasks, because we keep putting our defenses in the way. Read More
Slovakia,
Part 1
Brataslava is an interesting though not scintillating city,
housing about a tenth of Slovakia's five million people. It's a
hodgepodge of Slavic and Austro-Hungarian influences plus residual
Communist architecture. Advertised as one of Europe's youngest
capitals, Bratislava is certainly on an upswing. The road from the
airport Read More
Fine Distinctions: Threes
Self Preservation Threes are unusually capable, organized and efficient.
Especially
good at discovering the best strategy for getting a job done, getting
from point A to point B as effectively as possible.
Think of Olympic athletes who are utterly focused on goals and make themselves into achievement machines. Read More
Fine Distinctions: Twos
Healthy Self-preservation Twos are often more in touch with how they feel and what they want.
Have the courage and social skills to express their preferences.
Appropriately “self-referenced” – know what they want and yet include the wishes of others.
Can be unusually materialistic. Read More
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Why Study the Enneagram?
At first glance, the Enneagram seems to be just another system for
pigeon-holing people. But look twice and you see it’s describing
something central: your core strategy for making sense of reality, your
basic life stance, the axis of your flat earth. As you investigate the
system and compare its insights with your own experience, you may be
amazed at its depth and accuracy.
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Slovakia, Part 2
The Novy Most (New Bridge) was built by the Communists in 1972 when I was
in college and events in this part of the world were an outright
mystery. It too has a distinctive show-off design, this time like an
alien envisioned by HG Wells. A huge silver saucer with windows perched
on giant stilts above the bridge extends cables to the bridge's middle.
From one angle it looks like the figure is dominating and possessing
the bridge; from another it is shooting death rays. Read More
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Fine Distinctions: Twos
Healthy Self-preservation Twos are often more in touch with how they feel and what they want.
Have the courage and social skills to express their preferences.
Appropriately “self-referenced” – know what they want and yet include the wishes of others.
Can be unusually materialistic. Read More
The Enneagram's Fine Distinctions
Subtypes, Stress/Security Points, Wings
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