Blog up and running. Facebook too... Let’s go back
in time to about 2 years ago. I have always been a questioner, and when a friend
said there was a weekend seminar about Enneagram personality types, I went. I
knew something about the Enneagram, originally brought from esoteric sources to
the West by Gurdjieff, and later developed for personalities by Riso-Hudson.
For me the workshop was an eye-opener. And an ego-pounder. I thought I “knew
myself” a little, what with so many introspections, self-help books and study.
I suddenly saw why my personality was what it was, there was no escaping it.
The explanation for so many things was all there. And the explanation of other
people’s sometimes strange ways and confusing behaviour as well. It was a wonderful
way to initiate new relationships with people with a different idea – we are
all trapped by our basic personalities, but we have to remember that behind the
mask, the persona, we are all united by our essential nature as human beings. This
is a great way to forgive others and forgive oneself for things that we say and
do. There is nothing like actually doing something about oneself instead of
just reading about and dreaming about self-development! Friends and
acquaintances started getting interested, and personality types became one of our
favourite subjects of conversation, and observation. That was another new
beginning after many beginnings in the life that has been given to me. More
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