Posted by Dave on April 28, 1998 at 07:32:04:
In Reply to: Re: Myers-Briggs posted by Geenius at Wrok on April 27, 1998 at 22:08:13:
: Er, I don't think enneagram theory embraces "no-type-ness" the same way
: Myers-Briggs typology does. Even if you believe going all the way around
: the diagram to be the ultimate goal of self-development, leaving one's
: original type completely behind would be like having climbing to the top
: of a ladder only to find that the bottom of it has come unstuck from the
: ground and bent around to meet you. You're always rooted somewhere.
On the contrary, many enneagram authors point to a point 0, here you are free from the Chaacter Fixation core of your enneatype and are free to move dynamically to all points of attention. This is liberation and freedom. The enneagram is secondarily about personality, it is primarily about its antecedents (ie. focus of attention, paradigm, worldview, motivation, etc.). We are born or develop certain tendencies and preferences, and that is the "base of the ladder". But, to use a biblical analogy, it's the mystical Jacob's ladder reaching to heaven, which is a higher state of being. The "angels" going up and down the ladder signify our atention and thoughts which are free to be earthbound ( ie. grounded in our type) or free to move into a higher point of view.