Sources & credits.

This site is an independent educational project. It draws on letting-go practice, Enneagram traditions, and related contemplative and therapeutic models to offer a practical analytic frame. It does not reproduce proprietary charts, calibration scales, or trademarked materials, and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any publisher, estate, teacher, or Enneagram organization. Readers interested in the source material are encouraged to read the original works directly. See the sources page for the full reading list and credits.

The work itself is in the original books. This site is a synthesis and a navigable reference; it is not a substitute for reading them.

• David R. Hawkins

  Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender
  The most direct source for the handling vocabulary used throughout this site (suppressing, expressing, escaping). Readers interested in the practice itself should read Hawkins's own work.

• Don Richard Riso & Russ Hudson

  The Wisdom of the Enneagram
  A central modern Enneagram reference, accessible and clinically grounded. Pairs well with their Personality Types for deeper structural detail.

• Claudio Naranjo

  Character and Neurosis
  Depth-psychology Enneagram source. Dense and clinical, but the structural source for much of how the modern Enneagram literature talks about the types.

• Sandra Maitri

  The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram
  The contemplative-tradition treatment. Useful for readers interested in how type structure relates to essential states and to spiritual practice.

• Beatrice Chestnut

  The Complete Enneagram
  Detailed treatment of the 27 instinctual subtypes. Useful when type alone doesn't quite fit.

• David Daniels

  The Essential Enneagram
  Clinical and accessible, with a well-tested type-finder. A reasonable starting point for readers new to the system.

The handling vocabulary (suppressing, expressing, escaping) and the underlying practice premise — stay with the felt charge until it releases — are most directly drawn from Hawkins's Letting Go. The site adapts these into a cross-cutting analytic frame combined with Enneagram type patterns. The framing, the matrix structure, the per-type cell content, the trap names, the central correction lines, and the cross-vocabulary tables are this project's synthesis.

This site does not reproduce Hawkins's Map of Consciousness®, calibration scales, calibrated levels, charts, or proprietary diagrams. It does not include trademarked Enneagram materials from any specific school. Readers wanting these source materials should go to the original works.

This project is not affiliated with Veritas Publishing, the Hawkins estate, or any Enneagram school or teacher. It is not a successor project, not an authorized presentation, and not a representative of any of the source traditions. Use of source vocabulary is for analytic and educational purposes only.

There is meaningful overlap between letting-go practice and the Enneagram, but no single existing reference cross-tabulates them. Readers who know one frame typically have to infer how it connects to the other. This site does the cross-tabulation explicitly: nine types by eight emotional states, showing how each type tends to hold each state, and what letting-go work specifically asks for at each intersection. It exists to make that mapping navigable.