Abstract: Using the diagram as its integrating device, this article embeds the framework in its ancient lineage and offers a broad synthesis of its rich and multidisciplinary heritage. This article's basic premise is that the Enneagram diagram concentrates and communicates meaning above and beyond its psychological application. The article focuses on understanding and interpreting the mathematical elements of the [...]
When Gurdjieff referred to the Enneagram diagram as the `fundamental hieroglyph of a universal language' he had good reason to do so: encoded within it is a comprehensive understanding of the universe and the place of human beings within it. Considered by him to be the `philosopher's stone', Gurdjieff maintained that, like the Rosetta Stone, unless its meaning was [...]
Bring your magnifying glasses and decoding devices to thisintriguing inquiry into the once rich but now lost philosophy of the Enneagram. In the pre-scientific age, numbers were used not simply to measure, weigh and calculate, but were woven seamlessly into philosophy, art, religion, myth, science, technology, astronomy, music, harmony and everyday life in general. Mathematicians and philosophers sought and [...]
[NO RECORDING] In antiquity Geometry and Arithmetic constituted two of the four major intellectual disciplines that comprised a classical education (The other two disciplines were Astronomy and Music/Harmony). They were considered by philosophers to be a bridge between the visible and invisible worlds and the study of mathematics a way of turning the mind from the physical world, which [...]
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