Instinctual Types: Self Preserving, Social and Sexual

Marika Dentai
Introduction
I studied the enneagram in the 70s over a period of several years at Claudio Naranjo’s SAT Institute in Berkeley, as one of many tools used to facilitate our spiritual work. My teachers included Naranjo, Hameed Ali, Kathy Speeth, and Marie Ali. Over the years, the enneagram has been for me a secret, magic, uniquely expressive language I’ve shared with family and a few close friends, and a lens through which I glimpse human reality, through a glass, clearly, and more a...