Re: E.gr controversies: an inquiry

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: : In a recent posting, Geenius made reference to Enneagram failure possibilities. : : I wonder if this is a topic for discussion. Perhaps to include limitations : : or controversies. For example. I think that there exists some disagreement : : about wing theory, Riso's nine levels, arrow theory, triad arrow theory,Sufi-ism, : : salvation vocabulary, integration versus disintegration. So the question : : I am posing is, ' what do you personally or anecdotely hold as questionable : : or confusing about Enneagram?' The issue might be specific to type or just a : : general observation made by a specific type. In short, where do you : : personally scratch your head or get annoyed with the 'experts." : I agree with almost everything in Riso (or, more to the point, Riso sold : me on his theory with almost everything he wrote), but I think so many of : his celebrity identifications are so far off base that they're worse than : useless. Also, there's a gaping hole in his "childhood origins/parental : orientations" theory: It totally fails to explain how a Three with a Four : wing can be both positively oriented toward his mother/nurturing figure : while also being negatively oriented toward both parents, or how a Two : with a One wing can be simultaneously ambivalent and negative toward his : father/authority figure. : For my part, though, when I run into that, I just cut it out of the theory : and work with the rest. I only bought into enneagram theory to the extent : that it was internally and empirically consistent. Whatever isn't (which : unfortunately includes most of the work of other enneagram authors), I : disregard. So for me it isn't so much a flaw in the theory as something : that shouldn't have been part of the theory in the first place -- and, for : me, isn't.

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