In my years studying the enneagram, I have noticed that there is extreme resistance to questioning the ideas of other teachers. It’s somehow considered blasphemous to say, “I don’t think that idea written in Wisdom of the Enneagram is fully correct,” for example.
Read MoreI see people sometimes using the “core fears” as their primary way of self-typing. “I relate to the core fear of 4,” for example. They have learned that enneagram is about “motivation rather than behaviour” and this is not wrong. However, the core fears, passions, and fixations are not necessarily conscious processes. They are automatic.
Read MoreThe online zeitgeist sense of Type 4 ('written' mainly by 6s and 9) refers significantly to a very universal human need/desire to be directly acknowledged for being a distinct and specially-regarded individual.
Read MoreThe energy of SO/SX can be described as "7ish" in the sense that it is sparkly. This doesn’t necessarily mean happy sparkly, but could also mean lightening shooting out in different directions, the energy of a "spray."
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People asked why I'm not upset about being typed a Sp/So 6. Here is the short answer:
First of all, I am upset.
People seem to equate self-revealing honesty about trauma to 4. I'm seeing lots of people talk about trauma they've suffered and typing as 4. Or I'm seeing people try to use said brutal honesty as proof that they are 4 or 4-fixed.
Read MoreOne truism I've noticed for the contraflows is that they weirdly somewhat work against their dominant instinct, unconsciously/intstinctually or subtly.... like sp/sx actually has this slow downward suck/attrition into 'death & decay'
Read MoreEven though no one was watching, I felt that everyone was watching. I was crippled from even being able to enjoy my natural response to music because of the onslaught of questions I had to answer for in order to even do this alone
Read MoreOn some level, I see 9-ness as hypersensitivity disorder -- I'm absorbing people at the level of my body, I'm sensing *too much* about them, I'm in some danger of being 'possessed'
Read MoreIn Character and Neurosis, Claudio Naranjo talks about the relationship between the types on the Hexad of the Enneagram as being antipodes.
Read MoreZak was willing to allow us to type him in the Enneagram Universe Facebook group. After much discussion and discovery, we have put him at: SP/SO 5w6 528 (full tritype 5w6 2w1 8w7)
Read MoreI realized that at some young age, I drew a sweeping, likely inaccurate conclusion that my mom paid the most attention to me or really, what I deemed, 'loved me' the most when I performed well.
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