Category: Editorial
October 2010, Issue 174
Now that the hubbub of the election season is winding down and many citizens of the U.S. of A. are mopping up tears or confetti, depending on whether their side won or lost, attention is slowly turning towards the holiday season. It was refreshing to see the emergence of more substantial differences between the opposing [...]
August 2010, Issue 172
After reflecting on the nature and origins of terms such as type, essence, instincts, subtypes and what have you, it’s pretty clear to me that there is more than one version of each definition circulating around. Mind you, we are speaking here of “relative” concepts that by nature are unfathomable and tend to play quantum [...]
June/July 2010, Issue 171
I suppose being a head type involves noodling about this or that and one of my obsessions is understanding what affects us as individuals and how that translates in creating the type of society we live in. The theme that keeps returning goes something like this: a. Some personality traits are hard-wired into our nature [...]
May 2010, Issue 170
Business is not a subject I have held in high esteem most of my life. Having drunk the kool aid of the 60’s; it took a long time before I came around to see flaws in my hierarchical way of ranking different arenas of human endeavor — poo pooing obligations, money and hedonistic pursuits as inferior [...]
April 2010, Issue 169
Last month, I was musing in the editorial about two questions: is type caused by nature or nurture (or both), and about the importance of finding a way to factor in the effect of time on our enneagram configuration (including wings, subtype etc.). I’d like to expand a little bit on that with a thought [...]
March 2010, Issue 168
In last month’s editorial I bit off an ambitious chunk of theory about what constitutes hard-wired (“the inner”) type, and that which is added on later by living and learning (“the outer”). The inner and the outer are in constant motion?attracting, repelling or just coexisting with no particular charge. Try as I may, I can’t [...]
February 2010, Issue 167
Most parts of the enneagram doctrine remain unchallenged, are largely accepted and continue to ring true to thousands of practitioners ? the sequence and proper placement of the types around the circle, the connecting lines, the characteristics that distinguish one type from another etc. But often type and fixation are used interchangeably as if they [...]
January 2010, Issue 166
I have to hand it to the Chinese, they have an interesting way of packing deep wisdom into innocent-sounding aphorisms. For example, “May you live in interesting times,” or “May you come to the attention of those in authority,” or, “May you find what you are looking for.” On the surface, they sound like perfectly [...]
September 2010, Issue 173
Learning is an ongoing process that happens regardless whether it’s through painful or pleasant experiences as long as it leaves a lasting impression, the kind that is capable of altering our world view. For example, the depth of an impression may depend on how radically different and yet convincing or unsettling a new insight is. [...]
April 2010, Issue 169
Last month, I was musing in the editorial about two questions: is type caused by nature or nurture (or both), and about the importance of finding a way to factor in the effect of time on our enneagram configuration (including wings, subtype etc.). I’d like to expand a little bit on that with a thought about destiny and [...]
