Integral and the use of Enneagram

 Where does the enneagram come from originally?  Who is the creator of personality types using the enneagram? 

These are some important questions that brings up alot of dirt on the history of the enneagram. Right now those that use the enneagram for personality types are using a plagiarized form that is very (very very) incomplete. 

Click on link for the original source of this material 

http://www.arica.org/articles/trletter.cfm

For those who do not want to read the full article,basically Oscar Ichazo took Helen Palmer to court and won , from article.

"As we can see, it is completely unjustified for Mrs. Palmer to insist that "it (the theory) was transmitted to an enlightened being (myself) through the divine intercession (Archangel Metatron or some other), and so there is no question," and she also says, "He has moved the Enneagram from a Sufi context, from a Christian esoteric context, from the Gurdjieff context, and couched his 'new discovery' in an eclectic, new age spiritual growth context." Frankly this is a gross and insidious way to discredit Arica and myself. For instance Mrs. Palmer informs us that the paid advertising of Arica in the New Age magazine was made in order "to make people think that Ichazo had won a victory." She insists that this was not so because "no money changed hands." This just shows the materialistic preoccupation of Mrs. Palmer because Arica sued the priests and nuns for not acknowledging Arica as the source of the enneagrams they were using liberally in their own endless rationalizations and profit. When they acknowledged clearly in front of the Honorable Judge Miriam G. Cedarbaum, in Federal Court, Arica considered that it had won the case completely and unconditionally for anyone who has eyes for reading. But not Mrs. Palmer who says that the Arica Institute "have sued for huge sums of money." This is an absolute lie. What Arica wants Mrs. Palmer to do is to acknowledge, like the priests and nuns, the source of the material with which she plays like conducting free association sessions. From the point of view of Arica, the lawsuit in front of the Honorable Judge Robert P. Patterson, Jr. was won by Arica totally and completely in the moment that "Palmer did not dispute the ownership and validity of Arica's copyright". To say it clearly in a few words, the origin of the ideas is not disputed by Mrs. Palmer but she affirms with Judge Patterson that they are unprotected and consequently can be copied or directly plagiarized or closely paraphrased by arguing that they are common terms of language and cliches. This decision is being appealed by Arica because copyright laws state differently. For instance we can see in the recent ruling of Judge Robert F. Kelly of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in respect to a book and a subsequent television docu-drama: "The copyright laws were not enacted to inhibit creativity." Judge Kelly wrote in his ruling, "But it is one thing to inhibit creativity and another to use the idea-versus-expression distinction as something akin to an absolute defense - to maintain that the protection of copyright law is negated by any small amount of tinkering with another writer's idea that results in a different expression." (See Arica Institute's comparative information displayed on page 118 of The Arican: International Journal of Arica Institute, Autumn 1991.) "

My wish is that Integrals use of the enneagram, come from the complete theory and not a postmodern plagiarized version. You all deserve the real work.