The Enneagram (or Enneagon) is a nine-pointed diametric figure which is used to indicate the dynamic ways that aspects of things and processes are connected and change. These days the Enneagram figure's most well-known use is in indicating a dynamic model of nine distinct yet interconnected psychological types (usually called 'personality types' or 'character types'). These types can be understood as unconsciously de ...

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• Enneagram - The diametric figure
• Enneagram - Historical development
• Enneagram - The nine types
• Enneagram - Wings
• Enneagram - Stress & security points
• Enneagram - Instinctual subtypes
• Enneagram - Ego-fixations & deadly sins
• Enneagram - Research issues
• Enneagram - Criticism

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Enneagram

an ancient system of spiritual psychology used for centuries to understand the development of the soul. Although the familiar symbol was devised by Pythagoras, the Enneagram system originated in the Middle East in 2500BC.

Similar to the Meyers-Briggs personality test, the Enneagram can be used to identify one's strengths and weaknesses among nine major characteristics. As a tool for personal growth and transformation, it goes beyond simple personality "types" by providing compensatory strategies to balance these facets of personality.

(See also: Enneagram, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

Enneagram

The Enneagram symbol is a nine-pointed star. The nine lines comprise a perfect triangle and a twisted hexagon contained within a circle.

It forms the basis for an exploration of human evolution, including the evolution of consciousness and self-development.

The actual ancient origin of the symbol is unknown. References to an Enneagram-like figure exist in many spiritual traditions. Recently, many have come to believe that it was known to the Sufis.

(See also: Enneagram, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

Enneagram: The Sufi Enneagram explored as a way of becoming aware of how the pains of the heart can blurr out the reality of our essence and how our disorders themselves are the raw material of our recovery.

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The Enneagram is a good system of self-assessment because it provides insight into our main unconscious thinking and acting strategies. The word Enneagram literally means nine points. It is a cosmological and psychological system represented by a nine-edged star-like picture that touches a circle at nine equidistant points. Each of these nine points represents nine types of human beings. This system was used by groups of initiates of ancient Greek and Sufi cultures.

The Enneagram system was kept secret for thousands of years. It was revealed to the public in the last century through Gurdjieffs work. Since then it has been unfolded and adjusted to modern times by many researchers.

Read more here: » Sufi Enneagram: Overcoming the Knowledge Paradox with the Enneagram

Phillipe de Vos is a Sufi Master who visited India and shared the Sufi way at the Oneness Festival February 2004. "Open your eyes – you where never enemies!" That is the call for peace from Phillipe De Vos.

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According to Don Richard Riso, the Helper is the second personality type of the Enneagram, and is also known as a Two. Two Enneagram - Basic Description. When Helpers are at their healthiest, they are the most genuinely helpful of all the types. The are the parent that everyone wishes they had: Someone who accepts them, is compassionate, is encouraging and helpful.When they are less healthy, they like to see themselves as being helpful, but really, they have a shadow side of pride and manipulation. They fee ...

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• Two Enneagram - Basic Description
• Two Enneagram - Childhood
• Two Enneagram - Wings
• Two Enneagram - Two With A One Wing: The Servant
• Two Enneagram - Two With A Three Wing: The Host/Hostess
• Two Enneagram - Instincts
• Two Enneagram - Self-Preservational Instinct
• Two Enneagram - Social Instinct
• Two Enneagram - Sexual Instinct
• Two Enneagram - Issues Helpers Will Face in Their Lives
• Two Enneagram - Levels of Development
• Two Enneagram - Self-Development
• Two Enneagram - Gifts
• Two Enneagram - Other interesting facts

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A happy relationship is a universal ideal. Yet, few among us can claim to have perfect relationships. Worldwide, divorce rates are going up. Even most couples who do stay together for a considerable length of time allow their relationship to turn mechanical - there is little room for romance, intimacy or joy. Such couples end up transforming a beautiful partnership into a mere social institution, no more than a familial commitment empty of true love.

(See also: Love and Happiness, Life and Beyond, Body Mind and Soul)

The nine Enneagram types are often given names that indicate some distinctive behavioral aspect, though these labels are insufficient to capture the nuances of the type concerned. Some examples are as follows. (For convenience, the corresponding deadly sin is indicated in square brackets: see below). One: Reformer, Critic, Perfectionist [Anger]. This type focuses on integrity. Ones can be wise, discerning and inspiring in their quest for the truth. They also tend to dissociate themselves from t ...

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Enneagram, Enneagram - The diametric figure, Enneagram - Historical development, Enneagram - The nine types, Enneagram - Wings, Enneagram - Stress & security points, Enneagram - Instinctual subtypes, Enneagram - Ego-fixations & deadly sins, Enneagram - Research issues, Enneagram - Criticism

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The Fourth Way has come to be used as a general descriptive term for the body of ideas and teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff, which are also sometimes called "The Work" or "The Gurdjieff Work". The Fourth Way - The Teachings. When asked about the teaching he was setting forth, Gurdjieff said, "The teaching whose theory is here being set out is completely self supporting and independent of other lines and it has been completely unknown up to the present time." However, as with so much of what Gurdjieff sai ...

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• The Fourth Way - The Teachings
• The Fourth Way - The Ways
• The Fourth Way - The Fourth Way
• The Fourth Way - Teaching Methods
• The Fourth Way - Symbolism
• The Fourth Way - Conditions
• The Fourth Way - After Gurdjieff

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In psychology, motivation is the driving force (desire) behind all actions of human beings, animals, and lower organisms. Many textbooks define it as an internal state or condition that activates behavior and gives it direction, desire or want that energizes and directs goal-oriented behavior, or an influence of needs and desires on the intensity and direction of behavior. Motivation is often based on emotions, specifically, on the search for positive emotional experiences and the avoidance of negative ones, where positi ...

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• Motivation - Types of motivation
• Motivation - Physiological needs
• Motivation - Other biological motivations
• Motivation - Secondary goals
• Motivation - Coercion
• Motivation - Self control
• Motivation - Controlling motivation
• Motivation - Early programming
• Motivation - Organization
• Motivation - Drugs
• Motivation - In Education
• Motivation - Is Money a Motivator?
• Motivation - Reference

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Archetype is defined as an original model of which all other similar persons, objects, or concepts are merely derivative, copied, patterned, or emulated. The term is often used in literature, architecture, and to refer to something that goes back to the fundamental origins of style, method, gold standard, or physical construct. Shakespeare, for example, is epitomized for popularizing many archetypal characters, not because he was the first that we know of to write them, but because he defined those roles amongst the backdrop of a comp ...

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• Archetype - Jungian archetypes
• Archetype - Cultural archetypes analysis
• Archetype - Enneagram character archetypes

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Claudio Naranjo is a Chilean-born anthropologist and psychiatrist who is noted for his inter-disciplinary work with mind-altering substances, as well as the Enneagram and Gestalt psychotherapy. He is considered a major figure in the Human Potential Movement and the Fourth Way movement. Category: Chilean people Other related archivesChilean, Chilean people, Enneagram, Fourth Way, Gestalt psychotherapy, Human Potential Movement

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The Arica School (also known as the Arica Institute, which is its incorporated educational organization, or simply as Arica) is a human potential movement group founded in 1968 by Bolivian-born philosopher Oscar Ichazo (born in 1931). It is named for the city of Arica, Chile, where Ichazo once lived and where he led an intensive months-long training in 1970 and 1971 before settling in the United States, where the Arica Institute ( ...

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The zodiac (from Greek zoon, "animal") is an imaginary belt in the heavens extending approximately 8 degrees on either side of the Sun's apparent path (the ecliptic), that includes the apparent paths of the Moon and the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn. There is a zodiac in western astrology, a different one in Vedic astrology, and a very different one in Chinese astrology. Zodiac - Historical origin. The origins of the zodiac lie in Sumer in Mesopotamia. See the History of astrol ...

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• Zodiac - Historical origin
• Zodiac - Astronomy
• Zodiac - Astrology
• Zodiac - Zodiacal Constellations
• Zodiac - Angels of the zodiac
• Zodiac - The zodiac as a calendar

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A. H. Almaas is the pen name of A. Hameed Ali, an author who writes about a mystical approach to psychology and therapy that he calls the Diamond Approach. Almaas is the spiritual head of the Ridhwan School. Depending on one's perspective, he might be termed, among other things, a New Age writer, or a exponent of the Perennial Philosophy. Almaas' books were for years published through the Ridwan School under the publishing title Diamond Books, but are currently published by Shambhala. A. H. Almaas - The Dia ...

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• A. H. Almaas - The Diamond Approach
• A. H. Almaas - The Ridhwan School
• A. H. Almaas - Bibliography

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Anthony Blake (A.G.E) (1939 – ) is a philosophical thinker and author, dealing primarily in the fields of Intelligence, LogoVisual thinking (LVT), the Philosophy of Thought and the works of G. I. Gurdjieff. He is also a founding member of, and the Director of Studies at the DuVersity. A.G.E. Blake - Biography. Anthony Blake was born in the UK in the city of Bristol in 1939. With interests in physics, mathematics, philosophy and the arts he went on to study for an Honours Degree in Physics at Brist ...

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• A.G.E. Blake - Biography
• A.G.E. Blake - Short Bibliography

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Enneagram system (Enneagram, Enneatype system): System of spiritual psychology based on an ancient Sufi typology of nine (ennea in Greek) personality types or primary roles:

(1)           the achiever (reformer) - orderly, rational, and self-righteous;

(2)           the helper - generous, manipulative, and possessive;

(3)           the succeeder (motivator, status-seeker) - ambitious, hostile, and pragmatic;

(4)           the individualist (artist) - intuitive, self-absorbed, and sensitive;

(5)           the observer (thinker) - analytic, original, and provocative;

(6)           the guardian (loyalist) - defensive, engaging, and responsible;

(7)           the dreamer (generalist) - accomplished and manic;

(8)           the confronter (leader) - combative, dominating, and self-confident; and

(9)           the preservationist (peacemaker) - easygoing and receptive.

Each type has a prime psychological addiction (fixation or blind spot), respectively: anger, pride, deceit, envy, greed, fear, gluttony, lust for life and power, and laziness. These addictions include Christianity's seven deadly sins.

(a)           Recognition of one's type is tantamount to spiritual awakening. in the process of neutralizing the prime addiction:

(b)          achievers become pathfinders,

(c)           helpers become partners, succeeders become motivators,

(d)           individualists become builders,

(e)           observers become explorers,

(f)             guardians become stabilizers,

(g)           dreamers become illuminators,

(h)           confronters become philanthropists, and

(i)             preservationists become universalists.

(See also: Enneagram system, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

enneagram

A symbol first introduced by G.I. Gurdjieff that is created by dividing a circle into 9 parts numbered 1-9 with 9 at the top. The division of 1/7 yields a periodic decimal .142857. By connecting these numbers in that order yields the first symbol. Also by connecting 9,3, and 6 gives a triangle. This symbol represents the law of three inside of the law of seven

(See also: Enneagram, Body Mind and Soul)

Enneagram: The Enneagram describes nine personality types, each with its own motivations, concerns, and unique way of viewing life. In centuries past this nine-pointed diagram was used by religious groups for inner work and spiritual growth. Beginning in the 70’s, the Enneagram was developed by psychologists as a way of organizing a wealth of information about people and their patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. It is a valuable tool for individuals, therapists, educators, and business consultants.

(See also: Enneagram, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)