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Virtues

Fixations Personal Growth/Self-Development Understanding the Enneagram Virtues
March 9, 2025December 30, 2024

The Delusion of ‘Inner Work’ with the Enneagram

Frederik Coene Our 4-year old daughter wants to be an adult, especially to be different from her 10-month baby sister. She imitates grown-up behaviour...

by Frederik Coene
Holy Ideas Personal Growth/Self-Development Understanding the Enneagram Virtues

Breaking the Illusions, Embracing Your True Self with Compassion: The Sacred Enneagram Workbook

By our divine nature, each and every one of us is beautiful and beloved. But when it comes to recognizing the truth of our...

by Chris Heuertz February 18, 2025February 27, 2025
Holy Ideas Instincts and Subtypes Passions Virtues

subtypes revisited part 2

Gloria Davenport Instinctual Subtypes in Relation to Essence In Ennea-type Structures, (1990, p.5.), Naranjo presents an intriguing diagram of his perception of how we...

by Gloria Davenport August 22, 2024August 21, 2024
Centers of Intelligence History Holy Ideas Passions Understanding the Enneagram Virtues

Unlocking the Enneagram

Arthur Kranz, MD G. I. Gurdjieff distilled his “science of the harmonious development of man” into a simple formula: “To Know – To Understand...

by Arthur Kranz, MD July 6, 2024March 29, 2025
Passions Triads Understanding the Enneagram Virtues

Integrating Enneagram’s Inner Polarities

by Practicing the 4 R’s: Recognize, Reframe, Reown, Recycle Jerry Wagner When we over-identify or over-idealize certain aspects of our personality, we tend to...

by Jerry Wagner June 7, 2024June 13, 2024
Type 9 Virtues

The Virtue of Continuous Right Action

The Virtue of Continuous Right Action Right Action, [the virtue of Type Nine], describes the activation of higher being that knows (in a new...

by Jennifer Joss, Ph.D. May 10, 2024May 10, 2024
History Passions Virtues

A Quote from Evagrius of Pontus

Submitted by Frederic Schmitt Evagrius of Pontus, one of the fathers of Christian monasticism is also in a certain way one of the “fathers”...

by Frederic Schmitt April 25, 2024April 25, 2024
Centers of Intelligence Fixations History Holy Ideas Passions Understanding the Enneagram Virtues

Two alternative Types of Type-Definition (part 1)

Enneagram Polarities Nicholas Reitter But the old oracle said, “All things have two handles: beware of the wrong one.” – Emerson1 It is an...

by Nicholas Reitter April 10, 2024July 16, 2024
Arica Institute Fixations History Holy Ideas Instincts and Subtypes Passions The Nine Types Triads Understanding the Enneagram Virtues

How Oscar Ichazo Learned and Taught the Enneagram Typology (part 1 of 4) Revised

Oscar Ichazo (1931 – 2020) learned the Enneagram typology from a man whose name he never revealed. When I was his roommate, Naranjo told...

by Bill Gamard February 17, 2024March 30, 2025
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