“The World Would Be Okay If….”
(Integral Politics in a Less-than-Integral Age) Susan Rhodes As a cognitive psychologist with an ongoing research interest in individual differences, psychospiritual systems, and transformational...
Philosophy and Personality, part 2.3B: Russell and Wittgenstein – as Philosophers
Nicholas Reitter Ludwig Wittgenstein: Searching for Absolute Clarity of Expression The career of Ludwig Wittgenstein bears some rough resemblance to Russell’s: both had distinct...
Understanding the Goal is Vital, but
Understanding Challenges on the Path even more Narasimha Rao There are several brilliant scriptures on Adwaita Vedanta (non-duality), such as Upanishads, Yoga Vaasishtha, Avadhoota...
The Enneagram and Spiritual Goals
Tom Condon The world’s religious literature is full of instructions and techniques for transcending ego and detaching from our limited identities. The purpose of...
Couples’ Relationships (Focus on Type 3)
This month, let’s look at some common patterns of Type 3 in relationship. Just like the rest of us, a Type 3 desires for...
The Giver-Adventurer (Two-Seven) Couple
Jennifer P. Schneider M.D. and Ron Corn M.S.W Here is another chapter from our forthcoming book on using the enneagram to understand and improve...
It was as though Somebody Knew Me
Shilpa Jhingan I was pleasantly surprised to read the description of Type 1 in class. It was as though somebody knew me since childhood...
Believable characters
Every writer wants the same thing. Or maybe several of the same things, like a spot on the New York Times best-seller list or...
Growing Awareness and Deepening Love: How The Enneagram Helps Couples
Gillian and I had written and re-written her dating profile now for almost two sessions together. We started as you might think, with an...
The Enneagram: Morphing
Tom Condon The difference between personality functioning and malfunctioning is completely one of degree. The higher potentials of our Enneagram style include ideals, skills,...
Story-Telling and types
Sheela Word Enneagram type descriptions are abundant and various, but they tend to have one thing in common: they tell a story. They describe...
I Celebrate Myself and Sing Myself
Shelia Katasia “Tasia” Watkins “I celebrate myself, and sing myself … Do I contradict myself? / Very well then I contradict myself / (I...
Odysseus Among the Lotus-Eaters: Enneagram Nine and the Temptation to Drift
Odysseus Among the Lotus-Eaters: Enneagram Nine and the Temptation to Drift Homer’s The Odyssey is one of the most enduring stories of human struggle...
The Nine Rivers of Hades and the Enneagram: Emotional Undercurrents and Transformations
There are some rivers you choose to cross, and others that pull you under before you realize you’re drowning. The nine rivers of Hades—like...
Freedom from Your Inner Critic
The inner critic is the voice that tends to shame and blame us into acting one way and not another. It might tell us...
Book Review: Take Care of Your Friends by Christina Wilcox
Christina Wilcox’s Take Care of Your Friends is a compassionate guide that merges Enneagram wisdom with the practical goal of becoming a better friend....
