Posted by Tiggy on February 25, 2000 at 18:39:17:
In Reply to: Re: Enneagram Circumplex (for Tiggy & Cory & all) posted by Perciever on February 25, 2000 at 17:57:12:
> How did you get that on the screen?
> At least we have one 5 theorist on the board. Good.
>
> That sums and integrates many things. I still hate being
> categorized into SJ'ism when my thinking defientely is not.
> Which types are opposite?
> 4-8
> 1-6
> 2-5
> 9-3
>
> > In response to a request from Tiggy seconded by Cory here is an
> > Enneagram circumplex. The difference between an Enneagram
> > circumplex and the conventional Enneagram is that opposite
> > personality types are actually placed 180 degrees apart on a
> > circumplex. What this does is actually create two paths from
> > type 1 to type 9... one path goes 1-2-8-9 and the other one goes
> > 1-4-3-7-5-9. Making the 2nd path 1-3-4-5-7-9 is the initial reason
> > I'd like to have types 3 & 4 and types 5 & 7 swap numbers.
> > Swapping 3 & 4 also creates a 3-6-9 equilateral triangle, a nicer
> > 1-4-2-8-5-7 pattern and puts the "mystical twins" 7 and 9 next
> > to each other... it also does nice things for the triads but I'll
> > get to that at some future time... This circumplex matches with
> > one used by a Canadian personality test called the Capability
> > Snapshot. The Capabilty Snapshot uses Present & Future in
> > place of my Care and Discover axes names and uses Inward and
> > Outward in place of my Perfection and Growth (companies into
> > perfection look inward while companies into growth look
> > outward). The Enneagram is thus a path to get from a
> > perfectionistic ego to an open "egolessness" looking to grow.
> > This does not mean NJ or TJ are bad or that SP and FP are
> > good... the personality types of the Enneagram are like math
> > is to physics, the personality types just relate to what is
> > actually a spiritual journey that can be described using Jungian
> > Christian quaternities or the Buddhist Wheel of Life.
> > No one ever says from a personality point of view that one
> > should change their personality according to the order of the
> > Enneagram numbers, the Enneagram is not numbered for
> > personality change just a spiritual change. I'll get into
> > spirituality (and physics) later... for pure personality one just
> > wants to "mature" in all the Enneagram types... this maturity
> > won't cause your test scores to change, the test measures a
> > bias that is not supposed to change. The bias makes it
> > easier to mature in types you are biased towards and harder
> > to mature in ones you are biased against. The environment
> > can also make it easier or harder to mature for a given type.
> > What is it like to be totally mature in a type?... well
> > supposedly one comes to the realization that everything is
> > one big connected something... the different types have
> > different ways of seeing this though. This circumplex is
> > one of three circumplexes... one can actually use the other
> > two circumplexes to do two more 9 point "Enneagrams"...
> > The conventional Enneagram is known as the Enneagram
> > of Process... the two new ones I call the Enneagram of
> > Consulting and the Enneagram of Development and I'll
> > get into them later... John