Logan Hurley. Redeemed in Christ. Recovering academic, competitive debater, ideological conservative and pop culture devotee. Avid theology nerd, Calvinist, and lover of sentence fragments. Definitely a work in progress.
This ended up being relatively well received elsewhere, so I figured this would be the first post in my pseudo-blog revival.
The way 9 has been understood throughout the varying iterations of the enneagram has heavily developed as we’ve come into into the modern enneagram system (which I assure you is not just Riso Hudson or Enneagram institute). Naranjo made his assessments, enneagram institute made theirs, and while they each got part of the picture the whole is missing in both. Here I’ll address common misunderstandings about type 9, why they are made, and what aspects of the theory are being misinterpreted. As a warning I’m not shitting on 9 or Naranjo. Some of my examples are fairly negative because those are just what I happened to think of as an example and of course some of them kind of point out that the one of many enneagram books that Naranjo wrote that people focus on exclusively has a very limited description of type 9.
