Nicholas Reitter

Higher Qualities and Further Contrasts

Having laid out the bare bones of the type-distinction, I would like now to make at least some brief references to the higher aspects of the types involved, for the Enneagram is more than a basically descriptive theory of human nature, with arrows pointing vaguely toward a direction for each type’s growth. In the ideas of the types’ essence-qualities, and several related notions among different authors and traditions, are hints t...

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