Ronald Elam
As it is important not to lose the metaphoric flavor of the enneagram, care must be taken to avoid letting the system be reduced to chaotic and/or merely concrete descriptions of the types (or triads). The basic principles of the enneagram per se are embedded within its metaphoric structure.
It is important to maintain these principles as they act as a structure which keeps the enneagram from “falling apart,” reducing to a chaos of descriptions, by relating it to cultural metaphors, ...
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