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In this free excerpt from Witt & Wisdom, Dr. Keith Witt, Nomali Perera, and Corey deVos explore why the Enneagram is much more than a personality typing system. Rather than reducing us to one of nine boxes, the Enneagram can help reveal the deeper patterns, defenses, gifts, fixations, and longings that shape our lives.
Keith explains why the Enneagram stands out among typologies: it includes psychology, development, relationship, pathology, and spirituality in a single dynamic map. Corey raises the skeptical question of whether systems like the Enneagram work partly because we project ourselves into them, while Keith and Nomali explore how that “mirror” can become a powerful tool for self-knowledge.
Together, they show how the Enneagram helps us see through our personality — not to reject it, but to hold it more lightly, understand our patterns more clearly, and reconnect with the deeper wholeness beneath the type.
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Excerpted from Holy Fools: The Enneagram Beyond Personality
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In this free excerpt from Witt & Wisdom, Dr. Keith Witt, Nomali Perera, and Corey deVos explore why the Enneagram is much more than a personality typing system. Rather than reducing us to one of nine boxes, the Enneagram can help reveal the deeper patterns, defenses, gifts, fixations, and longings that shape our lives.
Keith explains why the Enneagram stands out among typologies: it includes psychology, development, relationship, pathology, and spirituality in a single dynamic map. Corey raises the skeptical question of whether systems like the Enneagram work partly because we project ourselves into them, while Keith and Nomali explore how that “mirror” can become a powerful tool for self-knowledge.
Together, they show how the Enneagram helps us see through our personality — not to reject it, but to hold it more lightly, understand our patterns more clearly, and reconnect with the deeper wholeness beneath the type.
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Excerpted from Holy Fools: The Enneagram Beyond Personality
integrallife.com/holy-fools-the-enneagram-beyond-personality
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Free Email Course on Building Your Integral Life: integrl.link/course
Our website: integrl.link/site
Participate in our daily Integral Life Practice sessions: integrl.link/calendar
Follow our news on Facebook: integrl.link/fb
Integral thoughts on Twitter: integrl.link/tw
