Posted by Tiggy on February 27, 2000 at 18:05:47:
In Reply to: Enneagram Circumplex (for Tiggy & Cory & all) posted by BlueLamp on February 25, 2000 at 16:42:06:
> 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