Dear Lissa, 

I read with interest your article the last issue of the EM, “The Truth About Fixation and Beyond,” because of its focus on enneatype as something innate (with which we are born) as opposed to type fixation, which is characterized as something that develops after birth in response to conditioning:

For the most part we believe that we are born with the Enneatype and then as we go thorough life’s conditioning we become more and more fixated. We feel more and more separate (p. 1...

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