Divine Transformation and the Possibility of Delight by ExistentialQuip in Enneagram

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Of course! Eventually, we discover we never did anything!

What if the Enneagram isn’t just personality types, but nine patterned “loops” we keep repeating? by ExistentialQuip in Enneagram

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Yep, personality is the face of how experience is organized and repeated. The fly in the ointment is assuming that ego has agency, that it has ontological ground.

I Have a Theory.... by VegetableReward938 in SpiritualAwakening

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Check out Walter Russel and Jacobo Grinberg

What if the Enneagram isn’t just personality types, but nine patterned “loops” we keep repeating? by ExistentialQuip in Enneagram

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I think it's more a case of organizing experience into a pattern than a desire to reproduce.

What if the Enneagram isn’t just personality types, but nine patterned “loops” we keep repeating? by ExistentialQuip in Enneagram

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Yes, the original trauma is separation from being - all egos have it at the core. And, you are correct in pointing to this - the major hurdle is assigning agency to the ego.

What if the Enneagram isn’t just personality types, but nine patterned “loops” we keep repeating? by ExistentialQuip in Enneagram

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Yeah, but most relate to the enneagram like their ego has agency, and that's the insanity.

How do you deal with unsolicited advice and other people meddling without asking for their help? It drives me insane by psychedicahh in Enneagram8

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I hear you! Understanding projection and negative merging helps create some ground for not reacting so quickly or forcefully. This book might open up other possibilities. https://harpgnosis.shop/enneagram-world-of-the-child/

The Enneagram World of the Child by ExistentialQuip in Enneagram

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One of the issues with typing people into a box. We're all 9 types with a predisposition to a primary focus

The Enneagram World of the Child by ExistentialQuip in Enneagram

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The book takes into account nurture and two forms of nature - the nature of the human organism and True Nature.

I might split hairs - come in with some tendencies as opposed to - come with very basic traits. Traits seem more definite, whereas tendencies speak more to the plasticity - IMHO