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Spirituality

Applications Holy Ideas Recovery and Addiction Spirituality The Nine Types

The Twelve Steps, the Enneagram and Contemplative Prayer Part 1&2

We all crave the kind of peace that can never come from a bottle, a drug, or a false self, but only from understanding...

by Robert Tallon April 7, 2011January 24, 2026
Applications Spirituality

Falling Into the Looking Glass

The Perils and Pitfalls of Teaching the Enneagram to Younger People The majority of students and clients in my Enneagram workshops, presentations, study groups...

by Carl Marsak April 1, 2011January 24, 2026
Applications Personal Growth/Self-Development Recovery and Addiction Spirituality

A Stroke of Insight: Using the Insights of Brain Science to Inform Our Understanding of the Enneagram

One day in 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor woke up and began to get ready for work. A busy neuroanatomist, she was accustomed to a...

by Susan Rhodes December 17, 2010September 17, 2023
Personal Growth/Self-Development Spirituality Type Insights

Retro-romantic Ideal and the Enneagram

Ego is not the extreme point of alienation and loss, but halfway back to the Source. The ego is a major increase in Essence,...

by Susan Rhodes September 21, 2010September 26, 2023
Personal Growth/Self-Development Spirituality Understanding the Enneagram

no self, universal self

No self (anatta) is one of the three characteristics of existence in the dharma, or Buddhist philosophy. Here is an exploration of this concept...

by Alan Tower September 21, 2010September 26, 2023
Personal Growth/Self-Development Spirituality

The One thing

Chapter 1, excerpted from Archetypes of the Enneagram: Exploring the Life themes of the 27 Subtypes from the Perspective of Soul. — available at...

by Susan Rhodes June 21, 2010September 26, 2023
Applications Education Personal Growth/Self-Development Spirituality Understanding the Enneagram

A Symbol Worth a Thousand Words

Thomas Isham As with a picture, so too a symbol: it is worth a thousand words. That is, if it is an authentic symbol....

by Thomas Isham June 21, 2010January 21, 2026
Personal Growth/Self-Development Spirituality Understanding the Enneagram

The Three Domains of the Psyche: Spirit, Ego and Soul

“Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes...

by Susan Rhodes May 21, 2010September 26, 2023
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