The enneagram’s roots are deep and its basic principles affect almost every process in the universe.  But the perceptions involved in deeply understanding it are subtle, and most people have to work at understanding.  People sometimes become impatient (and discount the system) when their first attempts to make sense of it result in confusion.  Is it some kind of magic bullet?  Can it be reduced to a set of easily learned formulas?

It doesn’t work that way.  Perso...

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