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"All and Everything Enneagram"

I was a student of Claudio Naranjo, one of the pioneers in the human potential movement, in the early days of his Seekers After Truth. I have written several pieces about my experience. I've also included several other critical pieces that I found interesting.

Claudio Benjamín Naranjo Cohen (24 November 1932 – 12 July 2019)


you can't you can never be sure

you die without knowing

whether anything you wrote was any good

if you have to be sure don't write



The Enneagram +


The Enneagram — “Histoire de Jour”

Short Notes on the Enneagram Teaching


Why choose to work with the Enneagram?

Connecting G.I. Gurdjieff with Naranjo’s Enneagram

Claudio Naranjo’s first SAT Groups in Berkeley

The Jesuit Transmission of the Enneagram

Helen Palmer and Claudio Naranjo in Berkeley

The Enneagram, the Final Reckoning, Banishment to the Darkness of Ignorance


Food for the Moon

The Jesuit Transmission of the Enneagram, Bob Ochs, S.J.

gobbledygook /ˈɡɒb(ə)ldɪˌɡuːk/

What is the "Real Work" of the Enneagram?

Muddied Roots, Psychobabble, Inoculation

How I moved from Point 7 to 9

SAT, Naranjo, the Enneagram, the beginnings, and “the Work”

The Cosmic Coincidental Control Center may be at work.


The Stray Dog, Wandering with Gurdjieff

Mr. Gurdjieff was a misogynist. Period. I brought receipts.


Other Sources:

Naranjo, Ichazo, and the School

The Tantric Shamanism of Claudio Naranjo

APPROACHES TO GROWTH: EAST AND WEST with CLAUDIO NARANJO, M.D.

The Enneagram: A Developmental Study

The Enneagram Rhapsody

The Enneagram Wars


Enneagram Bibliography