For most of us, the Enneagram appears as it does on countless book covers and workshop flyers: a circle, nine points, intersecting lines. It is usually framed as a psychological map, a way to classify personality, motivations, and defensive styles. Useful perhaps. Marketable certainly. But also strangely diminished. Recently, I read a scholarly paper that … Continue reading When the Gurdjieff Enneagram Refuses to Stay Flat: Tradition, Vision, and a Living Symbol