Dear cj,
Here's a couple articles I just added to cyberlib.
rkm
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o Non-Political-Articles/
Folder with some stuff I've written about other things. I think they'd be
useful if published in the right venue, but haven't managed to find such
yet.
o Unravelling-the-Enneagram -- "Unravelling The Enneagram --
applying Gurdjieff's principles to
personality development"
Have you ever heard of the Enneagram? It's popular these days as
the basis of a personality typology -- another way to ask "What
sign are you?". The difference from astrology is that the
Enneagram seems to be based on some real underlying forces.
I learned the system years ago and found it useful, but always
wondered what made it tick. That took a while to figure out.
The Enneagram symbol itself isn't about personality, it's a kind
of "slide rule" which describes dynamic intereactions between certain
kinds of force fields. Thus, the personality Enneagram must be based
on some kind of interacting psychological forces. This article
offers a model which purports to identify those forces, and shows how
they might result in the observed personality types.
o LifeCycle-of-Endeavors -- "The Life Cycle of Creative Endeavors --
following the natural rhythms of the creative
process"
As part of "unravelling" the Enneagram, it was necessary to "apply"
the Enneagram to more than one situation, to separate the general
from the particular. Since my career has been one of carrying out
creative projects, and I had identified nine primary project phases
based on that experience, I tried mapping those phases onto the
Enneagram symbol.
The result was remarkable indeed. The mapping worked perfectly, and
in fact it led, after considerable research, into a much clearer
understanding of the "creative flow" during innovative endeavors,
and greater insight into the nature of the different phases.
The resulting system, described in the article, is incredibly
useful. Each of the principles may seem familiar, but taken
together as a system they can clear up blockages and confusion
in projects, and get things back on track. Best of course, is
to use the system from the beginning.
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Posted by Richard K. Moore - •••@••.••• - Wexford, Ireland
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