The Purpose of Marketing
Somik on “Bring your daughter to Work Day” “You need to understand the purpose of marketing,” said a successful CEO mentor of mine, with...
Letters of Light, Letters of Type: The Hebrew Letters and the Enneagram
“The magic behind magic is pattern.” Douglas Hofstadter (1979). Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid It looks like magic. Those well-versed in the...
Architectural Styles and Enneagram Part 1
Tim Vreeland Every age in history establishes its fundamental character by means of its social order, its aspirations and what it values most –...
General Considerations about Subtypes
A lot of material about subtypes and instincts has appeared in these pages and, as is frequently the case in matters psychological or philosophical,...
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...