Posted by BlueLamp on January 03, 1900 at 13:52:28:
In Reply to: Enneagram and Christianity. posted by Morgan on January 03, 19100 at 01:03:45:
The Enneagram does match up nicely with Christianity. The first quaternity
of the Enneagram matches with the Christian quaternity that Carl Jung
played with. The conventional Enneagram of Process (Vine thru Life I call
it) is a form to spirit transformation that has more to do with an
openness to the "Word of God" so to speak than with "Love thy neigbor".
Using Timothy Leary circumplexes one can rearrange the points to form an
Enneagram of Development (Sowing the Seeds) which is a democracy to
harmony transformation which I think matches better with "Love thy
neighbor". There's also an Enneagram of Consulting (Fruit of the Vine)
with a mediator to protege transformation. The Enneagram matches with the
Buddhist Wheel of Life also. The Wheel of Life has Law of 7 and Law of 3
patterns just like the Enneagram but the Wheel of Life has 12 points
instead of 9. The Enneagram is kind of a "phase transformation" subset of
the Wheel of Life. The Enneagram & MBTI tests both I believe measure innate
personality biases. Enneagram users tend to be more aware of the need to
optimize traits they are biased towards and against but the MBTI has
levels of maturity for its traits too. I actually think there's a better
Enneagram personality model than the RHETI. I prefer an Enneagram with no
extraversion or introversion biases for example since I don't think
extraversion/introversion effects the form to spirit transformation. My
model also has three "unused" Enneagram points to match with the three
extra points for the Wheel of Life. The Enneagram also fits nicely with
quaternionic algebra/physics geometries & dimensions.