Posted by Tiggy on January 04, 1900 at 01:32:49:
In Reply to: Re: Enneagram and Christianity. posted by BlueLamp on January 03, 1900 at 13:52:28:
> 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.
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