Erratum: The article “Hidden in Plain Sight: Observations on the Origin of the Enneagram” by Virginia Wiltse and Helen Palmer was first published in the 2009 edition of…

Nine Lenses on the World is an excellent compilation and arrangement of a master teacher’s work, clearly written from the high side of Lens Five, the Perspective of…

“The Enneagram is easy to learn but difficult to master.” — Tom Condon

Last year’s Enneagram Journal featured a particularly interesting and provocative essay by Tom Condon entitled…

Dr. Margaret Smith has written an engaging and ambitious book that goes far beyond the subject of money management to look at how people with different personality types…

Power is a topic that many people find uncomfortable to discuss, yet the appropriate use of power affects all relationships, especially those between leaders and followers in the…

Introduction

I have been gratified by the number of members who have approached me about writing something for Nine Points and look forward to receiving some really interesting pieces over…

Have you ever tried being left with the feeling that nobody understands you –…

Abstract: The title “When a Five wants to grow” documents the author’s path of inner work, resulting in an awareness of his inner motivations and his effect on…

“Levels of Consciousness In speaking of evolution it is necessary to understand from the outset that no mechanical evolution is possible. The evolution of man is the evolution…

Abstract: This article presents a snapshot of a family in crisis and the author’s spontaneous intervention. It deconstructs the intervention and the father’s perceived personality type through the…

“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.” Chinese proverb

“Say not, `I have found the truth,’ but rather, `I have found a truth.'”…

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.…

Abstract: This study examined the validity of an integrated typology that combines the nine Enneagram types with the four attachment styles. Attachment styles are derived from research on…

Abstract: This article reports on a research study that investigated the Enneagram through the lens of depth psychology. A review of the literature on archetypes, which are universal,…

“The first duty of love is to listen.” — Paul Tillich

Intrapersonal listening is about listening to ourselves. When we learn to listen to ourselves from a non-judgmental,…

“Love the child in front of you, not the one in your mind.”

I don’t remember where or when I first saw this quote, but I have never…

The title of Susan Rhodes’s book clearly announces both the focus and the scope of her project. The author is taking aim at what she perceives to be…

“The first mistake is to believe that there is a self; the second mistake is to believe that there is not.”

Sunryu Suzuki Roshi

Wth The Career Within…

“What Gurdjieff calls `Objective science’ uses the musical analogy to depict a universe composed of a chain of energies that stretches from the lowest octave to the highest:…