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July 17, 2024February 7, 2024

The Musical Scale

Gurdjieff applied the octave of the musical scale to the Enneagram. He used a diagram similar to the one below: In the Western musical...

by Bill Gamard

Business/Workplace Fourth way Leadership and Management Process Enneagram

The Process Enneagram A Tool to Help in the Transformation of Organizations

Richard N. Knowles, Ph.D. I created this version of the “Process Enneagram” while I was a plant manager in 1992 in West Virginia working...

by Richard N. Knowles, Ph.D. July 4, 2024July 18, 2024

Comparative Systems Fourth way History Understanding the Enneagram

Hermetic Qabalah

Western Occultism adopted many terms and concepts from a type of Jewish mysticism called Kabbalah, resulting in what is called Hermetic Qabalah or Cabala....

by Bill Gamard June 17, 2024June 13, 2024

Comparative Systems Fourth way History Process Enneagram

nine types in search of their existence

New Research shows basic misconceptions in Oscar Ichazo’s teaching Ahmad Isa C. Wagner and Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar I was contacted last December, via email,...

by Ahmad Isa C. Wagner and Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar May 18, 2024May 22, 2024

Education Fourth way Personal Growth/Self-Development Process Enneagram Spirituality

The “Harmonies” of the Types

Anthony Blake In this essay I experiment with a different way of looking at the enneagram of fixations, drawing on the ideas of Gurdjieff....

by Anthony Blake April 7, 2024April 8, 2024

Fourth way History Latest Research Understanding the Enneagram

Claims of Sufi Origins

The symbol of the Enneagram was first used by Gurdjieff when he began teaching esoteric subjects in Russia a hundred years ago. He claimed...

by Bill Gamard March 17, 2024February 7, 2024

Comparative Systems Fourth way History

Gurdjieff, Bennett and Enneagrams

Gurdjieff1 said that we can “put everything we know” onto the enneagram and I have taken this seriously. In this article, I want to...

by Anthony Blake August 1, 2021October 6, 2023

Fourth way

The Fourth Way

(Excerpted from the Annual Retreat of the Perennial Foundation 5-6 July 2019) The first thing to understand is the meaning of “fourth”. And to...

by James S. Cutsinger January 1, 2020July 4, 2024

Biological Markers Fourth way History Latest Research

Gurdjieff’s Best Kept Secret

Gurdjieff’s Best Kept Secret During George Gurdjieff’s 1928-1932 visit to New York he worked closely with a dedicated group of followers, including Edwin Wolfe,...

by F. Oliver Nicklin November 1, 2019September 12, 2023