HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT:
The Origins of the Enneagram

A research report from Virginia Wiltse, PhD and Helen Palmer

Why just nine? Why the peculiar star shape with a hole at the bottom? Why that order of the passions around the star? And what does the matrix of arrows, lines, triads and wings actually signify?

This exciting pre-conference program with Helen Palmer offers new research about the Enneagram's origins while also bringing that research alive during periods of spiritual practice that illuminate the Diagram's timeless value as a contemplative object. This vibrant format of Power Point presentation and contemplation begins with "clues" left in the work of Evagrius of Pontus, the 4th century monaste who attracts the attention of today's Enneagram community. His map of cognitive/emotional barriers that impede spiritual progress is essential to the Diagram, and the clues suggest that a number pattern guided his discoveries. Our history timeline follows the numerics to the root cosmology of the ancient world, its people alive in a state of mind where time recedes and awareness participates with its objects of attention instead of being separate from them.

Cost: Free admission for AET conference attendees who register by May 31; $50 for conference attendees who register after May 31

Schedule: 8:30 am until noon Thursday, June 9

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