An Enneagram-based Model of Integral Transformation
Sometimes, to fix something, you have to go backwards. Robert Irvine, Restaurant Impossible Note to EM readers: The following article was prepared with two...
Editorial 188 June/July 2012
Seeing migrating Canada geese always puts me in a nostalgic mood—the seasons, passage of time and cycles. Every year, no matter where I am,...
Beyond Chance Trance Formations
In the study of the Enneagram we encounter an intriguing pattern that repeats in cycles or circulations described by Gurdjieff as “perpetual motion.” This...
On Typing: Steve Jobs, Heuristics, and Other Observations
Last month, Enneagram Monthly published an article comprised of two blog posts I wrote about Steve Jobs’s Ennea-type. Of course, I’m not the only...
Editorial 186 April 2012
Two themes this month are based on articles in last month’s issue. One is in form of a letter by Susan Rhodes’ commenting on...
Understanding the Body Center
Judith Searle Judith Searle I read with great interest Susan Rhodes’s astute article “The Missing Body Center (or Making the Invisible Visible).” The problems...
Sex, Love & Your Personality. Type Eight: The Challenger in Love
Eights are one of the easier Enneagram types to identify because they are often aggressive, comfortable with confrontation and apparently spoiling for a fight....
Dear Lissa: A Reply to Lissa Friedman’s Article. “The Truth about Fixation and Beyond.”
Dear Lissa, I read with interest your article the last issue of the EM, “The Truth About Fixation and Beyond,” because of its focus...