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  Modern Man lives his life in sleep [. . .] and in sleep he dies.    — George Ivanovich Gurdjieff. To begin one's journey through the Enneagram of Personality is to understand that a person doesn't know who they are, and what their true motivations are...

The Triads are important for transformational work because they specify where our chief imbalance lies. The Triads represent the three main clusters of issues and defenses of the ego self, and they reveal the principal ways in which we contract our awareness...

Feel free to fill this page out Claudio Naranjo's types Anger | Lust They are similar to the E8 in this regard, who has coarsened themselves to affect in order to freely act according to impulse. But while the E8 is a cynical and anti-intellectual character...

Feel free to fill this page out Claudio Naranjo's types Pride | Vanity E2 is free and spontaneous; E3 is controlled, fearful of letting-go.[1] E2 tends to be invasive; E3 more mindful of limits.[1] E2 sells itself as great and expresses its generosity wit...

Introverted Feeling (Fi) is: A Subjective, Rational, Feeling cognitive function. Introverted Feeling seeks to judge the value of objects based on subjective factors, while completely suppressing the influence of the object. That means assigning value to obje...

Is fed from subjective and unconscious roots—archetypes. Depends upon the abstract idea as the decisive factor, and values facts chiefly as illustrative proofs of the idea. Relies on the thinker's powers of observation and appreciation and use of the inner...

Superior Function Extraverted Sensing (Se) is: An objective, irrational, sensing cognitive function. The perception of the object's immediate concrete qualities, removed from the influence of the subject; thus perceiving and highlighting every concrete expe...

Superior Function Extroverted Intuition (Ne) is: An Objective, Irrational, Intuitive cognitive function. Ne doesn't perceive what the object's concrete qualities are, but instead, what the object's inherent abstract implications are; focusing on the potenti...

Superior Function   Uses the objective situation in the interests of the inner understanding. Regards the immediate situation as a prison from which escape is urgently necessary and aims to escape through some sweeping change in the subjective understandi...

Superior Function   Suppresses as far as possible the objective element of the sense impression. Values the subjective impression released by the object rather than the object itself, of which the individual may hardly be aware. Sees things highly colore...

Superior Function   Is fed from objective data—facts and borrowed ideas. Depends upon the facts of experience and regards the abstract idea as unsubstantial and of negligible importance. Relies on facts outside of the thinker, which are more decisive tha...

Superior Function   Extroverted Feeling (Fe) is: A Rational, Objective, Feeling cognitive function. Extraverted Feeling seeks to judge the value of objects based on objective factors, while completely suppressing the subject. That means assigning value to ...

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Superior Attitude 1. Complaisance 2. Trusting 3. Warm 4. Friendly 5. Enthusiastic 6. Optimistic 7. Erratic 8. Impulsive 9. Willing to reveal oneself 10. Extravagant 11. Flexible mimicry 12. A good mixer...

Rational Rationality refers to that which accords with criteria. The rational is the reasonable, that which accords with reason. I conceive reason as an attitude whose principle is to shape thought, feeling, and action in accordance with objective values. ...

Thinking and feeling are rational functions in so far as they are decisively influenced by the motive of reflection. They attain their fullest significance when in fullest possible accord with the laws of reason. The irrational functions, on the contrary, ar...

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According to John Beebe The senex is an archetype that shadows the good father that I consciously aspire to be when I try to help people. Senex is the Latin word for ‘old man’ and the root word for ‘senator,’ and it takes on the quality of everything that h...

According to John Beebe A third archetype that not infrequently makes its appearance in the psychotherapist’s consulting room is the trickster. It is one that is problematic for analytical work, because the very ethos of this kind of psychotherapy is a comm...

According to John Beebe I often use the term demonic/daimonic personality to convey that the archetype associated with the most unconscious of regions of the mind can deliver insights that are of the highest value, as well as depreciating and undermining on...