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November 18, 2025October 26, 2025

Personality vs. Process: The Missing Link

Susan Rhodes There are two influential models of the enneagram, the “process” enneagram of George Gurdjieff and the enneagram of individual differences by Oscar...

by Susan Rhodes

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Type, State, and Process in the Enneagram

Burton Voorhees Last Fall I posted an Enneagram of the Path in the Facebook group Enneagram Openings. I developed this enneagram pre-Covid to map...

by Burton Voorhees August 23, 2025August 8, 2025

Fourth way History Spirituality

The Enneagram and Spiritual Materialism

Lynn Quirolo “Think how many turns the line of development of forces must have taken to come from the Gospel preaching of love to...

by Lynn Quirolo July 1, 2025June 13, 2025

Fourth way History Personal Growth/Self-Development Spirituality Understanding the Enneagram

Personal Transformation in Three Modes

Thomas Garrett Isham G.I. Gurdjieff called the enneagram an alchemy of the soul. As such, he viewed the enneagram as a means of transforming...

by Thomas Garrett Isham January 11, 2025December 14, 2024

Fourth way History Understanding the Enneagram

Towards the Origin of Gurdjieff’s Symbol

Laleh Bakhtiar Having devoted much of my life for the past twenty-five years on uncovering the Sufi origins or integration of the Enneagram, I...

by Laleh Bakhtiar January 1, 2025January 18, 2025

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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 July 17, 2024September 14, 2025

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