🧩 Philosophy 6h ago · Gordon Seidoh Worley

Enneagram Epicycles

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The core insights of Enneagram theory appear to me to be useful, but people have laden that core theory with epicycles. They’ve done it in an attempt to explain everything about personality, and I think this does a disservice to the strength of core Enneagram theory. But, I want to be fair. These epicycles are not completely useless. They often point to real patterns in the data, and it can sometimes be useful to identify these patterns to make sense of the core theory. The problems arise when t

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