Connections with European Occultism
It is in Western Occult literature that one encounters terms such as “esoteric schools.” Ouspensky mentions the term quite often and quotes what Gurdjieff...
The Achiever-Adventurer (3-7) Couple
Jennifer P. Schneider & Ron Corn From Understand Yourself, Understand Your Partner: The Essential Enneagram Guide to a Better Relationship. Tina and Tom met...
the flowering of consciousness
Michael Damian Sanity means the wholeness of consciousness. -- D. H. Lawrence When and how does the realization of consciousness occur? We can think of...
Gnosis, the Enneagram, and a special knowledge
Is the enneagram gnostic? It all depends. As always, definition is key. So let’s start with a generic definition of gnosis, the feminine Greek...
Our World View: The Stories We Tell Ourselves as kids
The stories we tell ourselves as kids are the partial, somewhat distorted worldview we adopted when we were young based on our dominant Enneagram...
October Letter from the Editor: Navigating Turbulence—Personality, Politics, and the Path to Inner Reflection
Dear Friends of the Monthly, October 2024 marks a pivotal moment in what has already been an extraordinary year, a time shaped by a confluence...
going for the gold — alchemy of coaching
Mary Bast Ph.d. “Our collective predicament depends much on individual human transformation and… we cannot afford not arousing the potential and motivation of individuals...
the wonderful wizard of oz, Part 1
Martina Lauria The eternal power of fairy tales is their ability to speak to the heart of a Child, even when they are being...
The Achiever-Romantic (3-4) Couple
Jennifer P. Schneider M.D. & Ron Corn From Understand Yourself, Understand Your Partner: The Essential Enneagram Guide to a Better Relationship. When we travel,...
World’s Problems (and yours)
Michael Damian, Ph.D. Stop with the historical determinism. Everything that happened in the past, either to you or to any group of people, does...
Philosophy and Personality, part 1
Nature of Investigation, Material, Sources Nicholas Reitter This series of articles will attempt to address the implications of the Enneagram for the study of...
Suffering and Blaming—In and Out
Defending an image is a major cause of suffering for all of us, regardless of our personality type. Each of the nine personality patterns...
The Romantic-Observer (Four-Five) Couple
Jennifer P. Schneider M.D., and Ron Corn Here is another chapter from our reference book, Understand Yourself, Understand Your Partner: The Essential Enneagram Guide...
The enneagram for teens
Elizabeth Wagele Excerpt of the chapter on Enneagram Ones from the just published The Enneagram For Teens by Elizabeth Wagele. Available as Kindle edition...
Unlocking the Divine Mind: Revealing the Nine Faces of Divine Reality
You may remember that the Holy Ideas were among the first four Enneagons taught by Óscar Ichazo, and of those, perhaps the most misunderstood....
The Enneagram Prison Project…Update
Susan Olesek It’s been a running joke at EPP: Until people “on the inside” actually do their internal work, I’m just a white lady with a...
