The Passion of the Types

ForewordBY RUSS HUDSON The 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 […]

Acknowledgments I want to thank Russ Hudson and Don Riso, my teachers at theEnneagram Institute, who laid the foundation for my understandingof the Enneagram through my certification and faculty process. Myfirst serendipitous encounter was in 2006 at a Part One Trainingat the Mercy Center in Burlingame, San Francisco, when, minutesafter Russ had started in on

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We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. And this has been based on the even flimsier assumption that we could know with any certainty what was good even for us. We have fulfilled the danger of this by making our personal pride and greed

Mary Oliver–When Death Comes When death comeslike the hungry bear in autumn;when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy me, and snaps the purse shut;when death comeslike the measle-pox when death comeslike an iceberg between the shoulder blades, I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering:what

Observing oneself without judging what one sees: Thus, to observe without judgment means to hold the attention steadily on bodily-sensation,* stay steady and unmoved in the body, relax the body, and allow the process to dissolve. When the intellectual-emotional complex triggers any movement not called for by the situation at hand, let that movement of

Resources The resources here are offered as additional sources of information. Books On the Enneagram In Search of the Miraculous by P. D. Ouspensky. London: Paul H. Crompton Ltd, 2004. Meetings with Remarkable Men: All and Everything, 2nd Series by G. I. Gurdjieff. London: Penguin Group, 1991. Personality Types: Using the Enneagram for Self-Discovery by