07-18-2010, 10:49 PM
(07-18-2010, 09:42 PM)Questioner Wrote: The Enneagram circle is like a clock, but instead of numbers 1 through 12 around the outside, it has just numbers 1 through 9 spread evenly around the outside.
Think of a clock with a smoothly moving hour hand. Before 2 o'clock, the hour hand will gradually move from 1 to 2. After 2 o'clock, the hour hand will move from 2 to 3. Between 1:30 and 2, the hour hand points to the area the could be rounded off to 2 o'clock but it's still partially in the area of 1 o'clock. Between 2 and 2:30, you could round off the time to the 2 o'clock hour, but the time is starting to get influenced by the approach to 3 o'clock.
Great explanation with a very lucid analogy. I think I have now grasped the point. You are strong in clarifying concepts. I also found your explanation with pictures of pyramids on another post very limpid.
From what you have said so far, it appears as if the Enneagram is another way of trying to approach the archetypal mind, at least with respect to our experiences in the current planetary episodic density. I look forward towards your elucidation on the personality types that you alluded to earlier.