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The enneagram of Gurdjieff describes structured process in any natural whole or cosmos. It was illustrated through the concept of three types of ‘food’ necessary for a man: ordinary food, air and impressions. The three were described as independently arising processes that needed to be blended together in order to realize a transformation. Each process was seen as an octave, which concept came from Gurdjieff’s idea of the law of seven. In an octave, the developing process comes to a critical point at which help from outside is needed for it to rightly continue. The enneagram symbol is first of all a circle of the nine points. Inscribed in this circle is a triangle taking in points 9 (or 0), 3 and 6. A further inscribed figure links the other six points in a cyclic figure 1-4-2-8-5-7. In the enneagram, the first process is depicted as going right round the circle starting at 0. The second process enters at point 3 and the third at point 6. This entrances mark a corrective or ‘help’. If the enneagram circle is seen in three segments, then the first contains only the first process, the second both the first and the second process, and the third segment all three processes. It depicts an accumulative integration that is realized at the final point – 0 transformed as 9. The inner cyclic figure is given the role of balancing the interplay of the three processes. It represents the practical intelligence and self-regulation of the system. The enneagram anticipates much of the Autopoiesis or ‘self-producing’ concept of Varela but is far more concrete in dealing with three ways in which an organic whole is coupled with its environment. The enneagram as structured process was studied by John G. Bennett and his associates. Bennett showed how it applied to something as mundane as a restaurant as well as to something as spiritual as the Beatitudes. It is currently being used to explicate the idea of self-organization in management. |
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