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  • The Nine Types
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Spirituality

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
Latest Research Spirituality Understanding the Enneagram

Archetypes of the Enneagram – part 2

Coming home to ourselves is what we do on the Hero’s Journey, the journey where we set forth into the Great Unknown, experience many...

by Susan Rhodes March 1, 2010October 18, 2023
Comparative Systems Spirituality Understanding the Enneagram

The Enneagram: A Course in Liberation

Among the goods of life, we seek few things more ardently than personal freedom and the power to establish that freedom. Freedom and power:...

by Thomas Isham February 23, 2010September 12, 2023
Holy Ideas Spirituality Understanding the Enneagram Virtues

Sacred Ideas of Type Nine

Sacred Backdrop, Sacred Self-Forgetting, Sacred Bliss Nines are generally the most grounding, peaceful and content of all the Enneagram types. They can merge with...

by Stephen Hatch October 28, 2009October 18, 2023
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