Most parts of the enneagram doctrine remain unchallenged, are largely accepted and continue to ring true to thousands of practitioners — the sequence and proper placement of the types around the circle, the connecting lines, the characteristics that distinguish one type from another etc.  But often type and fixation are used interchangeably as if they were one and the same and the term essence is, shall we say, “flexible?”  

It all started with the early works of Gurdjieff...

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