The Enneagram’s Ceiling Problem

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Why Personality Insight Alone Eventually Stops Working Seeing More Without Being More The Enneagram of Personality Types is remarkably effective at revealing patterns. It points to how identity forms, how defenses organize, and how suffering is maintained. For many, this brings real relief and real change. But for those who stay with the work, a … Read more

THE ENNEAGRAM’S HOMUNCULUS PROBLEM

THE ENNEAGRAM’S HOMUNCULUS PROBLEM

Why the Enneagram Still Imagines a Little Self Running the Show Much of modern Enneagram teaching still assumes there is a little manager inside each type—a miniature operator who decides how to grow, integrate, shift patterns, and “do the work.” It’s an invisible assumption, rarely named, but woven into nearly every instruction: your Type must … Read more

THE TRIANGLE OF EMERGENCE, RECESSION, AND THE FIELD

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FORCE, DYNAMISM, AND THE BREATH OF BEING Most contemporary interpretations of the inner Enneagram triangle imagine it as a circuit—subtle energy moving along the lines, tracing a path from Nine to Three to Six and looping endlessly, like a mystical electrical grid. This has become the default picture: a flow, a current, a rotation. But … Read more