The enneagram was introduced to the West by G.I. Gurdjieff in 1916 as a symbol of the harmonic structure and inner dynamic of the cosmos. In the early 1970s, Oscar Ichazo’s Enneagram of Fixations, an application of the enneagram quite distinct from Gurdjieff’s original diagram of the “Laws of 3 and 7,” began its evolution in Claudio Naranjo’s Seekers After Truth groups in Berkeley.
Gurdjieff never explicitly divulged the sources of his teachings and the origin of the en...
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