Posted by Perciever on September 21, 1998 at 09:42:47:
In Reply to: E.gr controversies: an inquiry posted by Brian C. on September 18, 1998 at 01:04:20:
>>ONe of the great things about the enneagram is it is a wide open field.
>>It can be used and expanded in many ways. I really hope it never gets
>>so set in stone that it becomes one of the prescribed topics to be
>>superficially treated in our SJ dictated educational system.
>>There are certain rules to the enneagram. It has a definate structure.
>>The way I see it, though many different theories and pieces of the
>>enneagram pie are being put together into a whole. Riso, Palmer, Rohr,
>>Enneagram of the body, etc. Its a topic to be widely explored!
>>
>>There is absolutely nothing wrong with attempting to integrate the
>>enneagram and Myers-Briggs types. INtuitives look for patterns and
>>similies, so its a natural tendency to try and intergrate them. The only
>>problem is no-one has listed absolute similarities everyone agrees with.
>>
>>Geenius maybe feels we should all be enneagram purists on this site. After
>>all this IS an enneagram board so I see his point. However, MBTI can be a
>>useful tool for distinguishing Enneagram types and should not be ignored.