[Buddha-l] Enneagram and Buddhism

[Vicente Gonzalez]

Richard wrote:

RH> There is an informal logical fallacy known as the genetic fallacy. It
RH> consists in dismissing something because of its origins. The reason it
RH> is fallacious, of course, is that things tend to evolve after they are
RH> originated, and evolution sometimes brings improvements.

there is not a dismissing intention in the attempt to trace the
origins of any thing. As you says, the Enneagram can be a  valid tool
in Psychoterapy, and of course it can have his own evolution, etc...

Just I pointed a real thing. From some decades ago, in South-America
appeared a lot of groups, names and ideas dealing with spiritual
matters. Some of these groups and names arise in a fresh and
spontaneous way, while others  have appeared in connection with
ultra-righ politicians, catholic fundamentalism even foreign secret
services. Of course there is a big distance between names like
Jodorowsky and the Silo's humanism, the Alien contacted people or the
so-called Maitreya cult. The point is inside what we call "new-age"
there are not only free-thinkers and  spontaneous movements but also
international networks with a quite defined sociological goal.