Trinity and Enneagram: some thoughts

Originally written elsewhere in November, 2005.

• Enneagram is a system of personalities based primarily on genetics, secondarily on attachment.
• Each point on the Enneagram represents a different response to the type of attachment and very early childhood experience (0-3 yrs) with PCG.
• Each point also illustrates the best way (for that point) to reconnect with the Trinitarian flow, by awareness of that point’s level of manifestation of the personality.
• The healthier the “2” the less the “2ness” gets in the way of the person in self-transcendence; entering into relationship; and therefore participating in and with the Trinity.
• If there was no attachment with the PCG, then a person may be in the unhealthy area of all of the points which also may represent the area of personality disorders.
• Knowing our point helps us know how we attach to others (the type of attachment) and therefore how we form relationships and finally how we participate in the Trinitarian flow. We also know from our point how we “detach” from the flow throught the “shadow side of the point.”
• Awareness of our point and dealing with the shadow side increases our availability to participate in the flow.
• The freer we are from ourselves, the freer we are to live the flow.
• The more stuck we are in ourselves, the less we are able to participate in the flow. Although God does not love us any less. We are less able to love God.
• The freer we are from ourselves, the freer we are for God.