Warning

This program can make you go mad. Use with caution.

It has been shown, that usage of this program easily makes you an enemy of everyone, by its nature, because using it is considered witchcraft.

Disclaimer

I am not a specialist in this field. This project is highly speculative and requires magical thinking/suspension of belief in order to function. It is not intended to be a serious tool for psychology, only a curiousity. I've found the mathematical coherence of the enneagram to be somewhat fascinating, and therefore conceptualized this absurd piece of software.

Introduction to the enneagram

Although you can often find it in fiction, i don't think i've ever met a real person in my life who is persistantly found at one of the arms of the nonagon at all times. We all move around in it from day to day or hour to hour. I would imagine that you'd agree to some extent. You mentioned several times how it can be repurposed as a lens to view momentary motivations or strategies. The whole thing seems like an emergant combinatoric pattern that takes form when one takes personality and describe it as the composition of [internal suffering/frame] + [external means/action] + [internal means/fault] + [external suffering/need], and define the system as consisting of two free variables where each variable (dependent or independent) has three possible states.

Schopenhauer would say that all experience is derivative of suffering (right or not).

To be clear: all of this describes the mind, so it's all internal, but by "internal" i mean more internal than the internal.

We can take the axiom of suffering = thesis, means = anti-thesis, personality = synthesis, in Hegel's model of: thesis + anti-thesis = synthesis, but modified to separate the internal and the external, and it starts to look familiar.

The room of possibilities contains two free variables. So identifying two of the four triads is enough to narrow down a specific personality type within this system (accurate or not). So supposedly, knowing only two of these should be enough to predict the two other. I'm not sure if that's the case.

If not, we'd have 3^4 = 27 personality types instead of 9.

Humonculus of the self/internalization of self/frame of judgement/meta-objective/"Who am i?": 891 - Gut/"i am my urges, my concience hurts me" 567 - Head/"i am my thoughts, my fear hurts me" 234 - Heart/"i am my emotions, my feelings hurt me"

External strategy towards suffering: 378 - Assertive/"i can change it" 612 - Compliant/"i can tolerate it" 945 - Withdrawn/"i can avoid it"

Internal strategy for one's (meta-)suffering/"who to blame?": 792 - Positive/"Everything is fine" 135 - Competent/"I take responsibility" 468 - Reactive/"it's their fault"

Need/object of desire/"what hole do you have in your soul?" 369 - Attachment/"i need freedom" 147 - Frustration/"i need control" 258 - Rejection/"i need love"

There's a few things that are still a bit unclear to me. Are there combinations of the above that are not covered by the enneagram's 9 personality types? (could there in fact be 27 in total?) What's the deal with the interconnections/lines? Do they describe structural or dynamic pathways or relations between the types?

On causality

Enneagram triad pairs: IN = External dissonance - Thesis: need - Anti-thesis: fault EN = External conflict - Thesis: need - Anti-thesis: action EI = Behaviour - Introverted: fault - Extroverted: action HN = Suffering - Introverted: frame - Extroverted: need HI = Internal conflict - Thesis: frame - Anti-thesis: fault HE = Internal dissonance - Thesis: frame - Anti-thesis: action

Cause and effect: HE->IN = Internal dissonance predicts external dissonance HI->EN = Internal conflict predicts external conflict HN->EI = Suffering predicts behaviour EI->HN = Behaviour indicates suffering EN->HI = External conflict indicates internal conflict IN->HE = External dissonance indicates internal dissonance

1. Recovery / Gradient H = I am my urges, my concience hurts me E = I can tolerate it I = I take responsibility N = I need control

2. Association / Superego H = I am my emotions, my feelings hurt me E = I can tolerate it I = Everything is fine N = I need love

3. Repression / Ego H = I am my emotions, my feelings hurt me E = I can change it I = I take responsibility N = I need freedom

4. Rejection / Id H = I am my emotions, my feelings hurt me E = I can avoid it I = It's their fault N = I need control

5. Catatonia H = I am my thoughts, my fear hurts me E = I can avoid it I = I take responsibility N = I need love

6. Paranoia / H = I am my thoughts, my fear hurts me E = I can tolerate it I = It's their fault N = I need freedom

7. Disorganization / H = I am my thoughts, my fear hurts me E = I can change it I = Everything is fine N = I need control

8. Action / H = I am my urges, my conscience hurts me E = I can change it I = It's their fault N = I need love

9. Rest / H = I am my urges, my conscience hurts me E = I can avoid it I = Everything is fine N = I need freedom

Enneagram, the computer program

I'm writing a computer program that's essentially like a magic 8 ball but with basis on the enneagram/schizogram.

The combinatorics of it all makes it possible to determine one's placement on the enneagram if a pair of triads are given. The two other triads are then dependent. Looking at all the combinations, i've come to find that this combinatoric dependence between the triads (two degrees of freedom) makes emergent sense. It's interesting how the supposed answers for each question (consisting of two triads) results in a mostly reasonable assumption about someone's inner and outer spiritual conflict. A pair of triads can be referred to as either: a cause, or an effect. The other cause, consisting of another pair, can be determined from any effect and vice versa. Both pairs are dependent variables. If you have defined one pair, the other is pre-determined. Each cause/effect consists of a pair of triads of the enneagram.

So by having a computer program ask three questions, you can, (surprisingly enough!) get a reasonably useful answer from it:

1. Which kind of inferrence will we make?

• Internal dissonance (humonculus + external strategy)
• internal conflict (humonculus + internal strategy)
• suffering (humonculus + need)
• behaviour (external and internal strategy)
• external conflict (external strategy + need)
• external dissonance (internal strategy + need)

2. Select first triad
3. Select second triad Voilla: an answer will be produced! That's the idea at least.

The conflicts are congruant while the dissonances are incongruant. Often, two triads reside in the conscious and the other two reside in the subconscious.

Interconnections

I've figured out by now that the lines between each state make perfect sense. They'd point to the other state you would get if you were to change one of the two known triads. I could allow the user/caster to make a choice after their placement has been determined, to change one triad and thereby move between the enneagram's edges.

The zeroth enmeatype

What i dub the zeroth enneatype, due to its parallel counterpart with the zeroth numagram-type, is the precondition itself. The axiom, so to speak, from which all the other types emerge from. In this case, it was Schopenhauer's statement of all experience stemming from suffering (as far as i can remember, from reading 'On Pessimism').

Turns out this assumption may not always be correct. If incorrect, it has the unfortunate consequence of creating a desire to make said precondition correct.

In a way, the zeroth becomes the price which you pay for each use of the program, inflicted upon the subject which it is used on if not already present.

On The Holy Mountain

I just watched Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain. The enneagram seems to reappear a lot in that movie as a symbol. There are interesting connections between the characters' plot points across the movie and the enneagram. The movie mainly focuses on sin, and how to conquer it in order to climb The Holy Mountain.

Experimental results

I tried to use this enneagram program for self-evaluation for a month or so, and only occationally using it on others to better understand their inner turmoil. Turns out, with the current setup, it only works given the axiom that emotional turmoil is present to begin with.

If used on other people, this has the unfortunate unintended side-effect that emotional turmoil is wished on others in order to be able to understand them through the enneagram. A truly mischevious consequence, whose ramifications i realized far too late for my own good.

Experiments are not conclusive, but so far, points towards the model being too simplistic, taking each archetype to the extreme, without accounding for neuances, and often being axiomatically wrong, which has grave consequenses.

I occationally used it on others, mostly with their awareness. It did function to make me more charismatic towards women, but it also have made me a more suspicious and malevolent towards people i previously considered friends, and once seen-through (the curtain being revealed), it made me appear as creepy, dishonest and manipulative. I suppose it's only prøven purpose, then, is to effectively scare people.

Effect on the self

It can be assumed, that, as if by wish-fulfillment, one becomes more as one described onself when making the enneagram, except only a simplistic charicature of the logical extremes of each archetype. This is an effective way to achieve a rapid mental breakdown.

Using this program made me selfish, lonely, destructive, highly-emotional (turns out it created disregulation, not regulation.) and unable to think in neuances.

Eventually, i lost the sense of self entirely, and only became what others saw in me.

This may have been affected by the fact that i was going through a breakup at the time, from a semi-imaginary relationship in my head with a woman who is by far more troubled than i am. She recommended me a book, which i will read in order to better figure out how to live with our disorder, which we share. Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus was her recomendation to me. Turns out she was right all along, and i didn't listen, because i was stubborn. But that's no use, because i now see after finally getting to read said book that being in love with her affects me negatively, because i become whoever people want from me, and she wants me to leave her alone. If i have to be destroyed in order to leave her alone, then, in her mind; so be it. I cannot help her, and i need to stop deluding myself into thinking that i'm doing anything but making it worse for the both of us.

This might have tainted the test results of this experiment somewhat, but she was the one who gave me the idea to make this program, after all, so in a way, this software is a monument to the relationship we had.

Effect on others

This program made me untrustworthy, and hated by everyone around me. It caused great fear and distress to everyone in my vicinity.

The idea of some esoteric magical spell computer program used to influence others is inherantly creepy and unhinged, and no basis for any good relationship.

Due to the inherant design flaw of being based on the axiom of emotional suffering, clearly it creates a need for that precondition to be in place to begin with. One therefore becomes desiring of that very precondition in others, subconciously guiding the caster of the program to want that very precondition to occur, in order to effectively use their tool of desire-reaching.

Therefore, it made me subconsciously become distressfull, so that everyone who were to be studied using the enneagram were caused distress.

Clearly there is an urgent need for the use of multiple enneagrams. The one i made, which was created at a very strange time of my life, was not ideal and caused grief in others.

Written apology

To those i've caused distress, i'm deeply sorry. I didn't know what i was doing.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to CyberYamu for her informative videos on the enneagram.

Installation on Arch-Linux

This program is available as a PKGBUILD on the AUR.

yay -S enneagram

Installation via Cargo

You need the rust toolchain installed on your computer. Run the command cargo install enneagram.