[Buddha-l] Enneagram and Buddhism

[Timothy Smith]

Thanks for stating what should have been obvious here, Richard.   
Sometimes scholarly skepticism looks
a bit like old fashioned prejudice.


On Jan 10, 2009, at 9:45 AM, Richard Hayes wrote:
>>
> There is an informal logical fallacy known as the genetic  
> fallacy........
>
> It may be worth noting that Riso and Hudson and Helen Palmer present  
> the
> enneagram almost entirely as a tool for better self-understanding (of
> the sort that Socrates, the Stoics and the academic skeptics would
> admire). One will find nothing at all in their work that makes the
> enneagram resemble astrology, numerology, necromancy, geomancy or
> oneiromancy or anything having to do with the occult or oracles.