the enneagram, loss and grief
The Inspiring Path to Transformation, Freedom and Living Love Dr. David Daniels The ways we deal with the dying process or loss and with...
the double perfectionist (One – One) couple
Jennifer P. Schneider M.D. and Ron Corn M.S.W Logically, you might think that same-Type pairings would be ideal. Most relationship experts, as well as...
philosophy and personality part 2
Nicholas Reitter In this second chapter of a projected twelve-part series, I will explore three basic dichotomies that philosophers in the Western tradition have...
Essential self: a simpler enneagram
Kathy Hurley and Theodorre Donson Why hasn’t the Enneagram broken into the main enneagram-stream? It’s a good question and one that has crossed the...
Submodalities & Age Re/Pro-gressions
Tom Condon Each Enneagram trance has specific sensory qualities. NLP calls these Submodalities– the “senses within our senses,” the finer aspects of seeing, hearing,...
Deconstructing the Enneagram
Steve Romer AIA This article was first published in the December 2000 EM issue #68 and offered profound insights that deserved more attention, but...
the achiever – leader (3 – 8) couple
Jennifer P. Schneider M.D. and Ron Corn M.S.W. Here is another chapter from our reference book, Understand Yourself, Understand Your Partner: The Essential Enneagram...
Realizing transparency
Michael Damian Self-realization is a matter of clarifying the relationship between experience and truth, which in our habitual, conventional view is entirely clouded. In...
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 perfectionist – detective (1 – 6) couple
Jennifer P. Schneider M.D. and Ron Corn A chapter from Understand Yourself, Understand Your Partner: The Essential Enneagram Guide to a Better Relationship. We...
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...
