Enneagram & Transformation E-Book

Wolfgang W. Liebelt

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

This Essay follows Gurdjieff's challenge: "Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West - and then seek!"

"Enneagram & Transformation" is dedicated to the knowledge/science of the West, by examining and describing the systemic and processual foundations of the Enneagram. The result is the acknowledgement of the Enneagram as a universal Metamodel whose rules can be applied to analyze the most complex issues. The explanations presented in "Enneagram & Transformation" confirm what Gurdjieff taught his students in St. Petersburg:

"Generally speaking, one must understand that the Enneagram is a universal symbol. All knowledge can be summarized in the Enneagram and interpreted with the help of the Enneagram. And so you can say that you only know, or understand, what you can insert into the Enneagram. What you can not fit into the Enneagram is not understood. "

An additional way for further model creation is the extended form of the Enneagram based on relevant Gurdjieff's quotes - the EN-Cosmogram©.

Leseprobe

Wolfgang W. Liebelt

Enneagram & Transformation

The systemic and processual Foundations of Gurdjieff's Enneagram

For Georg I. Gurdjieff, whose Life, Teachings and Work fascinated and inspired me for more than 20 Years BookRix GmbH & Co. KG81371 Munich

1 My first encounter with the Enneagram

It was in 1995, when I was the instructor of a one-week project management seminar in Bad Godesberg (Germany). During one of my evening walks I discovered the Enneagram book by Rohr and Ebert, one of the first German book publications concerning the Enneagram.

Just riffling through the book in the shop intrigued me. So I bought the book and had to force myself at midnight to put the book aside, because I had a strenuous seminar to complete the next day.

If I was already fascinated in the bookstore, this feeling increased even more when I came across my personality type while reading in my hotel. What I read was so unquestionably correct and spot on that I was electrified.

Why do I remember the exact place, time, and circumstances of my first encounter with the Enneagram, and describe this more than 20 years later in 2017? Well, it was one of these key experiences influencing your way of life.

For me it was the beginning of an intense occupation with the Enneagram and, at first, with its psychological type theory.

So far in the book of Rohr and Ebert and later on in other books on the typology of the Enneagram, references to its mysterious origin, Gurdjieff, the Fourth Way and the Enneagram as a universal symbol could be found. Thus, through books by Klaus-Bernd Vollmar, Anthony Blake, P. Ouspensky, and Bruno Martin, I dug deeper and deeper into Gurdjieff's teachings and his central icon, the Enneagram.

Because of my professions as an organizer and project manager, which have a lot to do with creation of graphic models, I finally understood the Enneagram as a systemic-processual (even universal) model of representation, explanation, and learning.

2 Systemic and processual Foundations of the Enneagramm

2.1 Introduction

"Generally speaking, one must understand that the Enneagram is a universal symbol.All knowledge can be summarized in the Enneagram and interpreted with the help of the Enneagram.And so you can say that you only know, or understand, what you can insert into the Enneagramm.What you can not fit into the Enneagram is not understood. "

This quote from Gurdjieff, delivered by Ouspensky in his book "In Search of the Miraculous", expresses the intention of this and other essays around the Enneagram. The Enneagram has indeed attained a great degree of familiarity by its typology; But this is only one of the many possible applications of the Enneagram.

I have set myself the task of exploring the logic respectively the grammar of the Enneagram as a systemic-processual model and make it applicable.

I started with some insights I already gained while studying the Enneagram very intensely for more than 20 years.