October 2025
Forward to the Alchemy of the Enneagram by Russ Hudson
ForewordBY RUSS HUDSONThe popular Enneagram has become familiar to millions ofpeople, and it is no longer a surprise to learn that a newfriend or acquaintance knows his or her Enneagram type. Manyare reading online threads and watching podcasts to learn their“number.” But even as the popularity of the Enneagram expands,the understanding of its true purpose
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The Alchemy of the Enneagram: Acknowledgments
AcknowledgmentsI want to thank Russ Hudson and Don Riso, my teachers at the Enneagram Institute, who laid the foundation for my understandingof the Enneagram through my certification and faculty process. My first serendipitous encounter was in 2006 at a Part One Trainingat the Mercy Center in Burlingame, San Francisco, when, minutes after Russ had started
Praise for The Alchemy of the Enneagram by Michael Naylor
Praise forThe Alchemy of the Enneagram in Transforming Addiction\ “The Alchemy of the Enneagram in Transforming Addiction is inspiring, informative, deeply personal, and uplifting, offering objective hope without denying the heavy work and self-responsibility of recovery, and self-realization. Michael imparts the invaluable teachings of the Enneagram in a way that is personal, passionate, engages the
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Discovering My Enneagram Four Map, 1996
Discovering My Enneagram Map, 1996 Amidst a time of great turmoil, I sought counseling with my future Gurdjieff guide. I was fifteen years sober (the blessing of AA) as my life as I knew it had dissolved through some Type Four Trap of Death and Most-Unlikely Redemption and I was dragging my aching soul through